E-textbook platform VitalSource witnesses significant increase in usage - March 11, 2009
Digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, has announced a significant increase in the student and faculty adoption of VitalSource, its interactive e-textbook platform. In January 2009, the platform saw more than a 600 percent rise over the same period in 2008. VitalSource allows publishers to… Read More
SwetsWise Online Content now available on Apple iPhone and Apple iPod Touch - March 2, 2009
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that SwetsWise Online Content can be accessed through the Apple iPhone and Apple iPod Touch. Powered by SwetsWise Subscriptions, SwetsWise Online Content is a single point of contact to one of the most extensive collections of electronic journals currently… Read More
VHA selects Clinical Xpert for mobile clinical improvement systems - March 2, 2009
The Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, US, has been selected by VHA, Inc., the national healthcare alliance, as its preferred vendor for mobile clinical quality improvement solutions. With this preferred vendor designation, Thomson Reuters is authorised to sell its Clinical Xpert suite of products to VHA… Read More
Google unveils mobile-friendly version of Book Search service - February 9, 2009
Internet search services provider Google, US, has reportedly announced the release of a mobile-friendly version of its Book Search service. Using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, Google has scanned page images from about 1.5 million public domain books and converted them to screen-friendly text. The new website makes these pages… Read More
Unbound Platform powers online and mobile editions of F.A. Davis’ Taber’s 21 Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary - February 9, 2009
Healthcare knowledge management solutions provider Unbound Medicine, US, and health care publisher F.A. Davis Company have announced the release of the new Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary for Mobile and Web. Powered by the Unbound Platform, Taber's content is delivered from a single XML repository to students,… Read More
BioSpace partners with Journal of Visualized Experiments - February 2, 2009
BioSpace.com, an online source for life sciences, has added scientific research videos to its online community for life science careers and industry resources. Video content is paired with advertising options and made available through a partnership with the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). JoVE is a… Read More
McGraw-Hill Professional, JAMA launch new digital resource, JAMAevidence - January 30, 2009
Scientific and medical information resources provider McGraw-Hill Professional, US, and medical journal JAMA have announced the joint development and launch of a new state-of-the-art digital resource, JAMAevidence (http://www.jamaevidence.com). Updated monthly, the learning tool is designed to meet the needs of students, educators,… Read More
OCLC launches WorldCat Mobile pilot - January 28, 2009
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has launched a pilot programme to make collections from libraries visible through mobile devices. The WorldCat Mobile pilot allows users to search for and find books and other materials available in libraries near them through a… Read More
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. selects Entriq to package and distribute content to new digital channels - January 19, 2009
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that it has selected Entriq as the video provider for a variety of Wiley's websites, including its soon-to-be-released "For Dummies" video content library across its branded online properties and other syndicated destinations. As… Read More
Cleveland Public Library offer EPUB e-book downloads - January 19, 2009
OverDrive, a US-based digital distributor of e-books, audio books, music and video, has announced that Cleveland Public Library has become the first public library to offer e-book downloads in the industry standard EPUB format. More than 8,500 libraries powered by OverDrive will also soon be able… Read More
