Elsevier to provide four key e-textbooks for UC Irvine School of Medicine’s new iPad programme - August 27, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will provide four key electronic textbook titles for UC Irvine School of Medicine's new programme that gives Apple iPads to its first-year medical students. Elsevier will provide UCI's incoming medical students with access to Netter: Atlas of Human… Read More
New Generation Kindles seen to be best-selling products on Amazon - August 26, 2010
Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, has announced that more new generation Kindles were ordered in the first four weeks of availability than in the same timeframe following any other Kindle launch, making the new Kindles the fastest-selling ever. In addition, in the four weeks since… Read More
Google takes visual search application Goggles to Apple’s iOS platform - August 25, 2010
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has announced plans to bring its visual search application Google Goggles to Apple's iOS platform. With this move, the company seeks to make the application available for iPad and iPhone users. Google Goggles retrieves useful information from a picture… Read More
Nature Education unveils mobile version of open-access science library, Scitable - August 25, 2010
Nature Education, the educational wing of scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, UK, has announced the launch of the mobile version of the open-access science library Scitable. Scitable's free library of scientist-authored overviews of key concepts in the life sciences is now accessible… Read More
ebrary offers free e-book collection on cyber bullying - August 17, 2010
Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that it is subsidising a collection of open access e-books on cyber bullying and will enable other organisations to contribute materials as long as they have copyrights. With this move, ebrary seeks to help parents, educators,… Read More
Scope launches SCOOPE STM Mobile with iPhone, iPad compatibility - August 16, 2010
Content enhancement and knowledge services provider Scope e-Knowledge Center, a Quatrro Group Company, has announced the launch of its SCOOPE STM Mobile (beta) to access the company's daily news alert service, Knowledgespeak. For subscribers on the move, this latest innovation takes knowledge sharing to the next… Read More
Modality expands content offering for modalityBODY iPad App - August 12, 2010
Interactive learning apps developer Modality, Inc., US, has announced the release of three new premium content sets for use in the modalityBODY App for iPad. Clemente's Anatomy Flash Cards, Moore's Clinical Anatomy Flash Cards, and Rohen's Photographic Anatomy Flash Cards, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,… Read More
Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills now optimised for Apple web-enabled devices - August 5, 2010
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills is now optimised for Apple web-enabled devices, offering nurses convenient and efficient access to nearly 1,000 essential nursing procedures. Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills gives… Read More
US state launches antitrust probe of Apple, Amazon e-book deals - August 3, 2010
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating agreements between the country's largest e-book publishers and two leading digital retailers - Amazon.com, Inc. and Apple, Inc. The probe follows a similar examination opened in June by the attorney general of Texas. According to the Attorney General, both… Read More
SAGE launches exclusive study skills titles with Amazon - August 2, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that two new SAGE study skills titles will be available for purchase exclusively from Amazon's print-on-demand facility in the UK from August 6, 2010. The publications, Study Skills: The Essential Guide for Students and University Life: The Essential Guide for Students,… Read More
