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June 26, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
Enhanced SpringerLink Offers eBook Collection Springer, which claims to be the world's largest scientific, technical and medical book publisher, has announced it will offer its complete publishing program online and on one integrated platform.   |
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September 15, 2011 |
Springer Releases New Download Tool for MARC Records or Ebook Title Lists This new tool is easy to use and allows librarians to download a batch of records to a library's Springer eBook Collection. The new tool is available through Springer's MARC portal. |
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November 29, 2010 |
Springer Launches SpringerBriefs as Ebooks SpringerBriefs will cover a wide range of content from professional to academic across a variety of subject areas including business and economics, computer science, human and behavioral sciences, life sciences, mathematics and physical sciences. |
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April 2, 2012 |
Springer for R&D Platform Launched for Corporate Sector Springer Science+Business Media launched a new corporate platform, Springer for R&D, which provides access to more than 5.6 million research documents, all optimized for specific corporate markets. |
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August 7, 2014 |
Springer Provides Journal Access to Chile's Researchers Researchers, students, and faculty at all major institutions in Chile can now access the 1,500-plus journals in Springer's Americas Collection. |
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June 27, 2013 |
Springer Introduces French and Italian Ebook Collections There are about 330 ebooks in the three French collections and more than 400 titles in the two Italian collections, all published in 2005 or later. |
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October 20, 2015 |
Palgrave Connect Ebooks Come to Springer Platforms Springer will add all Palgrave Connect ebooks from Palgrave Macmillan to SpringerLink -- and include thousands of ebooks in the Springer Book Archives. |
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September 29, 2011
Dan Tonkery |
Amazon Launches Library Ebook Lending Support for Kindle and an All-New Kindle Family Support for ebook lending is a major departure for Amazon and is an important milestone for libraries. Previously, Amazon only sold ebooks and did not support ebook lending for libraries even though there has been significant demand from libraries. |
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November 28, 2011 |
OverDrive Announces Ebook Device 'Test Drive' Program for Libraries The program includes device recommendations and guidelines for setup, maintenance, and support, as well as best practices for institutions that want to stock and lend ebook readers and tablets to patrons. |
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October 16, 2008
Susanne Bjorner |
Open Access Moves Into the Mainstream: BioMed Central Purchased by Springer STM publishing giant Springer Science+Business Media announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase BioMed Central Group, the leading global open access publisher, for an undisclosed price. |
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March 2009
Marji McClure |
Turning a New Page in Ebooks Amazon brought renewed attention to ebooks, especially in the consumer market, with its 2007 launch of the Amazon Kindle and, most recently, the February release of the Amazon Kindle 2. |
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February 19, 2015 |
Springer Packages German Psychology Ebooks; Debuts New Journal Springer Science+Business Media added a dedicated package of German-language psychology titles into its ebooks collection. |
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Springer and Ex Libris Partner to Offer Content via Primo Central Springer, a premier global scientific publisher, is the latest to join the rapidly expanding group of publishers and aggregators who have chosen to make their content accessible to library users via Primo Central |
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February 4, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases eBook Public Library Collection eBook Public Library Collection includes more than 25,000 general reference ebook titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature, and science and technology. |
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November 12, 2013 |
Springer Partners With Qatar National Library Springer Science+Business Media signed an agreement with the Qatar National Library granting Qatar residents access to ebooks and ejournals on SpringerLink, Springer's database of electronic scientific content. |
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April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
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January 28, 2013
Barbara Brynko |
Springer Book Archives Makes Its Debut This new online book collection from Springer Business+Science Media represents Springer's ongoing commitment to the scientific research community by digitizing about 100,000 books dating from the 1840s. |
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July 9, 2012
Paula J. Hane |
The Challenging Landscape of Ebooks in Libraries The overall growth in digital content of all kinds, and in particular, the growing importance and acceptance of ebooks, has clearly presented great opportunities for libraries, as well as plenty of challenges. |
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February 17, 2011 |
Springer eBooks Now Available in the Google eBookstore Google currently holds the biggest collection of Springer ebooks with more than 52,000, which is a combination of physically scanned books published prior to 2006 and PDF file submissions since 2006. |
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June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library. |
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October 13, 2011
Barbara Quint |
SpringerLink Expanding Ebook Collection to Cover All Titles Dating From 1846 Since 2005, all new Springer books have been available as ebooks. After completion of the just announced Springer Book Archives digitization project, that number should grow to more than 100,000. |
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January 31, 2008 |
TDNet Launches New eBook Manager The eBook Manager is designed to provide libraries with a tool for accessing, resolving, and managing ebooks. |
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November 19, 2012 |
New Findings Reaffirm Library Borrowers Are Also Buyers An extensive online poll of library ebook readers finds that these patrons purchase an average of 3.2 books (both print and ebooks) each month, and a majority would consider purchasing books discovered on a library website. |
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October 27, 2015 |
Springer Nature Debuts Related Content Service Springer Nature released an interactive Related Content service on SpringerLink -- first to articles in the biotechnology collection and soon to the rest of the collections. |
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April 22, 2010 |
Springer Expands its Service on AuthorMapper.com AuthorMapper was launched a year ago offering searchable content from all Springer and BioMed Central journals. The platform now offers ebook data as well. |
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February 10, 2011 |
Ebooks From Springer Archived by CLOCKSS A not-for-profit joint venture between the scholarly publishers and research libraries, CLOCKSS's mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive for the benefit of the greater global research community. |
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October 8, 2015 |
Springer Unveils Addition to Ebook and Journal Licensing Terms Springer introduced Online Learning Language, a new set of licensing terms for its ebooks and journals on noncommercial, educational platforms. |
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May 2012
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Percentages The arrival of ebooks has left pbooks the last man standing when it comes to library collections. Now books are going the way of full-text journals and reference works. A library's primary collection is no longer primarily print. |
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July 25, 2011 |
NetLibrary Ebooks Now Integrated on EBSCOhost Platform EBSCO Publishing's collection of more than 300,000 ebook and audiobook titles (formerly from NetLibrary) is now integrated on EBSCOhost. |
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November 28, 2013 |
OverDrive Launches Streaming Video Service Pilot Patrons of the Los Angeles Public Library can borrow videos from the library's website and view them on any computer, tablet, or mobile device with an internet connection. |
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July 16, 2013 |
Springer Renews Its Commitment to Open Access Springer Science+Business Media announced that the influence of its open access journals has increased over the past year. |
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Sony Announces Inaugural Participants in Reader Library Program The program will provide participating libraries with in-house training on digital reading devices, educational materials to help librarians and patrons learn more about ebooks, and digital reading devices for library staff use and patron demonstrations. |
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April 30, 2012
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Look for Circulating Law Ebooks at a Library Near You LexisNexis and OverDrive announced that they have agreed to create customized ebook lending and management services, offering "the largest collection of authoritative legal ebook content on all major mobile devices and desktop platforms." |
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July 25, 2013 |
Springer Extends Partnership With CAPES A 5-year agreement with Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, allowing students, researchers, and professionals access to Springer content. |
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January 3, 2013 |
OverDrive Announces Record Ebook Traffic and Next Gen Services Public libraries using OverDrive's Next Generation digital lending platform served a record number of ebook, audiobook, music, and video titles to patrons on Christmas Day. |
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August 28, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Outsell Acquires EPS, Expands Globally... Knovel Partners with Synapse Information Resources... SpringerLink Adds Rightslink Licensing... |
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March 12, 2012 |
3M Cloud Library Announces Integration With Polaris ILS The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service will now be integrated with the Polaris Integrated Library System, allowing patrons at participating libraries to discover both physical and digital collections from wherever they are browsing. |
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October 17, 2011
Nancy K. Herther |
Kansas Leading the Fight for Fair Ebook Access in Libraries The Kansas case brings up a variety of important issues and problems with ebooks today: The issues of platform, buyers rights, and the very structure of the ebook industry. |
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April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
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December 2011
Charles Hamaker |
FEATURE: Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries While it might not matter to the occasional or recreational reader, the ebook presents a host of challenges for the role of the book as transmitter, carrier, and shaper of our written word cultural heritage. |
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April 29, 2013 |
collectionHQ Expands Collection Development Tools to Ebook Titles The addition of these tools, called the ebook module, means that for the first time, librarians can easily access data that compare ebook and print holdings. |
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January 19, 2012 |
Springer Open Choice Adopts Creative Commons Attribution License In 2004, the hybrid OA option Open Choice was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer's Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles with OA for the majority of its subscription-based journals. |
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August 26, 2010 |
SpringerLink Relaunched With Semantic Linking and Content Previews Springer has relaunched its online platform SpringerLink, which hosts nearly 5 million documents, including ebooks, journals, and reference works. |
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September 17, 2015 |
Springer Provides Austrian Researchers With OA Options Springer and the Austrian Academic Consortium finalized a 2-year Springer Compact agreement to combine reading and open access publishing in one annual fee. |
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August 6, 2015 |
Springer Nature Stacks Its Humanities Portfolio Springer Nature acquired German humanities publisher J.B. Metzler. |
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July 26, 2012
Barbara Brynko |
Springer for Research & Development Caters to Corporate Markets When researchers speak, Springer Science+Business Media listens. That's the core philosophy behind Springer's latest platform designed to serve the needs of corporate researchers. |
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November 14, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest RLG Partners with LookSmart... Dialog Offers Unlimited Access Plan to Academics... Springer Acquires the Current Medicine Group... etc. |
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December 3, 2009 |
Springer Collaborates With Amazon's CreateSpace for POD Springer Science+Business Media has signed an agreement with CreateSpace to make Springer's paperback book catalog, frontlist, midlist, and backlist, available via print on demand (POD) in the U.S. |
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October 2002
Montgomery & King |
Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections The results suggest that, when all costs are considered, electronic journals are more cost effective on a per use basis. |
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February 11, 2014 |
SpringerLink Articles Add Altmetrics Springer Science+Business Media now offers altmetrics information on all of its SpringerLink articles. |
