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Information Today February 25, 2008 Marydee Ojala |
Reed Elsevier Chooses ChoicePoint, Rejects Business Publications It plans to add the ChoicePoint products to the Risk & Information Analytics subsidiary of LexisNexis. |
ONLINE May/Jun 2010 Marydee Ojala |
Ownership, Access, and Innovation No longer tethered to shelves, or even hard drives, electronic information's widespread availability creates a new level of perception about the chronic library debates of ownership versus access. |
Information Today November 19, 2009 Katherine Allen |
Reed Elsevier's CEO Quits After 8 Months Ian Smith will be replaced by Erik Engstrom, CEO of Elsevier, effective immediately. Engstrom had previously been ruled out of the running for the position following the departure of Crispin Davis. |
Information Today March 5, 2001 Barbara Quint |
Bowker for Sale, All or in Parts Reed Elsevier plans to sell off several of its major reference publishing operations, specifically Bowker... |
Information Today April 30, 2001 Richard Poynder |
The Debate Heats Up Are Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. Monopolists? |
Information Today January 28, 2010 Barbara Quint |
EBSCO Exclusives Trigger Turmoil Major among the listings were the magazines produced by Time, Inc. as well as Forbes. The contracts for these acquisitions were exclusive to EBSCO for the library "marketspace." |
Information Today August 15, 2013 |
Elsevier Acquires Woodhead Publishing Titles Woodhead's book program is designed to enhance Elsevier's publications portfolio, offering quality content to researchers to improve productivity. |
Searcher August 2001 Larry Krumenaker |
A Tempest in a Librarian's Teapot EBSCO, ProQuest, Gale Exclusive, and Unique Titles... |
Information Today July 22, 2002 Barbie E. Keiser |
Sage Publications Withdraws Titles from EBSCOhost, ProQuest Access to electronic journals is in a state of flux. There are many options on the customer side and just as many avenues for the publisher. The appropriate mix, with adequate compensation for publishers' efforts and access provided by intermediaries, is a continuing experiment. |
D-Lib April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
D-Lib July 2001 Steven J. Bell |
The New Digital Divide Dissecting Aggregator Exclusivity Deals... |
Information Today December 2002 Richard Poynder |
A True Market Failure Professor Mark McCabe, an expert in mergers and anticompetitive practices at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talks about problems in the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing industry. |
Searcher 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. |
Information Today January 15, 2007 Barbara Quint |
An Infotainment News Portal: ContentAgenda.com from Reed Business Information Reed Business Information has initiated a beta service called ContentAgenda that can help eliminate some of the time spent immersed in news flows. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today June 2, 2003 Barbara Quint |
EBSCO A-to-Z Service Tracks Journal Access EBSCO, the world's largest subscription agency, has introduced a gateway service that helps librarians and their patrons identify titles to which a library's patrons have full-text access. |
Information Today November 6, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
Reed Elsevier, Thomson Negotiate Two-Step Deal to Buy Harcourt General Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier will buy U.S. rival Harcourt General, Inc. for $4.5 billion, and then will sell the college textbook division and other assets---including a large part of the corporate and professional division---to Canadian publishing rival The Thomson Corp... |
Information Today December 10, 2009 Anne Mintz |
Clarification of Factiva Announcement Concerning BusinessWeek Removal On Monday, Dec. 9, 2009, Factiva announced that it would be removing the entire archive of BusinessWeek from its service in February 2010, and that the Dec. 7, 2009, issue would be the last |
Information Today December 2003 |
NewsBytes Taylor & Francis Buys Swets & Zeitlinger... Openly Informatics Partners with Sirsi... State of Ohio Recognizes LexisNexis U.S.... Swets Blackwell Achieves COUNTER Level 2 Compliance... etc. |
D-Lib June 2004 |
The Use of Consortially Purchased Electronic Journals by the CBUC (2000-2003) The data obtained at the Consortium of University Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) make a highly interesting empirical contribution to a major international discussion on the models for acquisition of scientific journals in the university libraries of the future. |
Information Today November 17, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident. |
D-Lib October 2000 Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
Information Today January 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest Developments in Open Access, E-Books, and More Because of Online Information, it was a busy several weeks for news, despite the lull during the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. |
Information Today June 30, 2003 |
News Digest Proquest expands Canadian newspaper coverage... Project MUSE adds titles, announces pricing... LexisNexis acquires public records businesses |
Information Today March 3, 2008 |
Zinio Launches Global Initiatives The online publishing, distribution, and retail services company has announced two global initiatives: The launch of an online Global Newsstand and an international marketing partnership with Acceso Group. |
Information Today April 2002 Richard Poynder |
Not Pleading Poverty Elsevier Science chairman Derk Haank addresses industry and end-user issues... |
Information Today March 2004 Barbara Quint |
The Horse's Mouth Even when publishers make archives available, they often provide very limited collections, especially back issues. |
D-Lib October 2004 Gatten & Sanville |
An Orderly Retreat from the Big Deal: Is It Possible for Consortia? The struggle to find cost-effective alternative approaches to scholarly publishing resulting in a meaningful change to funding models--as opposed to simply reshuffling the funding deck--continues in full force. |
Information Today May 23, 2011 |
Print Isn't Dead, Says Bowker's Annual Book Production Report Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that despite the popularity of ebooks, traditional U.S. print title output in 2010 increased 5%. |
Information Today July 1, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Libraries Continue to Battle for Fair Access to Ebooks Academic and special libraries have found comparatively fewer problems in gaining access to ebooks for their clients than school and public libraries. |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today March 2004 |
NewsBytes Thomson Delphion Enhances European Patent Data Analysis... Ingenta, EBSCO Launch Subscription Initiative... EBSCO Celebrates 60 Years of Business... etc. |
Information Today April 2004 Paula Hane |
EBSCO Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary If you haven't noticed, EBSCO is no longer just a journal-subscription company. |
Searcher March 2010 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Rats!! Search services are losing not just individual items but archives of whole titles -- in some cases, of whole publishers. |
Information Today April 14, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Sage Licenses Titles to ProQuest's ABI/INFORM Marking somewhat of a corporate turnaround, Sage Publications has agreed to license 21 business titles for full-text inclusion in ProQuest's ABI/INFORM database. |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
BusinessWeek July 25, 2005 Stephen H. Wildstrom |
The Web Hits the Stacks The bulk of human knowledge represented by printed material -- especially that more than 25 years old -- does not exist in digital form. But Yahoo! and Google are are leading the way in efforts to open the world of print and proprietary material to browsing. |
ONLINE May/Jun 2003 |
Industry News Microsoft Recognizes Research... Google Acquires Pyra Labs, Creator of Blogger... The acquisition of Hoover's by D&B became final in March... EBSCO announced it would acquire the U.S. operations of RoweCom Inc.... LoisLaw released LoisLaw Public Records... etc. |
Information Today September 18, 2008 |
Time, Inc. Subsidiary Launches New Magazine Membership Service On the MAGHOUND website, members can select up to 15 magazines from a broad range of titles represented by dozens of major publishers for one set monthly fee, with the ability to switch titles at any time |
Information Today December 18, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Cambridge Information Group to Acquire ProQuest Information and Learning... EBSCO Snags Exclusive with The Paris Review... Thomson Gale Adds Publishing Partners to Virtual Reference Library... etc. |
Information Today October 1, 2013 Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in Ebooks Just as books don't magically appear on library shelves, ebooks don't automatically pop up in a library's online catalog. Librarians work with ebook vendors to get econtent into the hands, or rather, onto the e-readers, of their patrons. |
Information Today December 6, 2010 Barbie E. Keiser |
ProQuest Acquires Congressional Information Service (CIS) and University Publications of America (UPA) from LexisNexis According to Rodrigue (Rod) E. Gauvin, senior vice president of publishing at ProQuest, CIS has long been on its acquisition wish list. |
Information Today October 2003 Paula Hane |
What's New in Linking, Archiving, and More Industry news seemed to slow a bit in August and early September while people squeezed in their last days of summertime enjoyment and students headed back to classrooms. But then the pace surged as companies rolled out projects and announced products that they planned to showcase. |
Information Today February 2003 Paula J. Hane |
What's Ahead? 15 information industry executives talk about their companies' health in the current economy, their plans on how to ride out the turbulence, and their priorities for 2003. |
Information Today December 11, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest H.W. Wilson to Introduce Retrospective Indexes... EBSCO Adds Music and Video Content to Review Resource... New Legal Content for HeinOnline... |
Information Today March 11, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook Clinical Collection eBook Clinical Collection features more than 1,700 titles in medical specialties, nursing, allied health, and general practice. |
Information Today November 4, 2010 |
ebrary Launches Ebook Ordering System To help libraries more affordably and efficiently acquire, manage, and distribute e-books from leading publishers, ebrary announced it has launched a new ordering system with instant fulfillment and real-time collection management. |
Information Today March 2003 |
NewsBytes NLII, MERLOT Announce Alliance... Four Major Publishers Sue for Copyright Infringement... EBSCO Streamlines Consortia Purchasing... Ingenta Announces Signings, Will Create OUP Web Site... etc. |
D-Lib December 1999 |
Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend... |