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Information Today April 7, 2011 |
Alexander Street Press Announces Video Publishing Plan for 2011 Already the publisher of 10 distinct, discipline-specific streaming video collections containing more than 8,000 films, Alexander Street intends to expand its offerings rapidly -- to more than 10,000 titles in 2011 and to 20,000 by 2013 |
Information Today July 2, 2013 |
Academic Video Store From Alexander Street Press Opens Its Virtual Doors Alexander Street Press unveiled its online Academic Video Store offering academic DVDs and streaming videos for librarians and educators. |
Information Today November 7, 2013 |
Alexander Street Press Hosts Streaming Media Libraries have a new option for streaming their multimedia content: Alexander Street Press announced a single-platform hosting service for music and videos. |
Information Today June 14, 2012 |
EBSCO's New Medical Ebook Collections EBSCO Publishing released three new medical ebook collections featuring Doody's recommended content. Doody's is an authoritative medical book review service designed to assist medical libraries and institutions with their purchasing decisions. |
Information Today May 6, 2013 |
ebrary Adds Titles From Wiley to Academic Complete Academic Complete serves as a foundational, growing collection with more than 86,300 scholarly titles from which libraries can pinpoint patron needs and drive strategic ebook acquisition. |
Information Today April 11, 2013 |
Bowker, ebrary, and Choice Enhance Access to Resources for College Libraries Choice and Bowker, whose unique partnership created RCL, have launched a variety of enhancements which are used by academic libraries to identify core titles for scores of academic subject areas. |
Information Today March 8, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases First Subscription Ebook Collection eBook Academic Subscription Collection supplies full-text ebooks covering a broad spectrum of academic subjects from business to science and engineering to the humanities. Nearly 70,000 titles are included. |
Information Today June 18, 2012 |
ebrary Releases Extended Access Extended Access reduces up-front costs to the library, eliminates speculative purchases of multiple copies, and prevents turn-aways when titles are in use. |
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 May 9, 2013 |
Credo Titles Now Available Through GOBI3 Credo, a provider of information skills solutions -- in partnership with YBP Library Services, the academic division of Baker & Taylor -- made its titles available for purchase through GOBI 3, YBP's acquisition and collection management database. |
Information Today June 4, 2015 |
Credo Updates Its Collections Credo added content to its new Essentials Collections of curated, award-winning reference titles in subjects such as criminal justice, nursing, and psychology. |
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 May 20, 2014 |
EBSCO Adds Medical Ebook Collections EBSCO Information Services rolled out three new Medical Featured Collections on its EBSCO eBooks and Audiobooks platform that libraries can purchase individually or as a collection. |
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 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 July 18, 2011 |
Cambridge University Press to Launch Platform for Other Academic Publishers From October 2011, University Publishing Online will provide libraries with ebooks and related database products from a variety of academic publishers worldwide. |
Information Today August 6, 2012 |
Expanded Access to eBooks on EBSCOhost Now Available Through GOBI3 Librarians accustomed to selecting and managing their ebook collections through GOBI3 from YBP Library Services, now have additional access options for the more than 320,000 ebook titles from eBooks on EBSCOhost. |
Information Today April 4, 2013 |
De Gruyter to Offer 100 Titles for Open Access Through Unglue.it Unglue.it is making ebooks free and universally accessible to libraries and book lovers alike. It works by users contributing an amount of their choosing to the book titles offered at the platform by publishers. |
Information Today November 3, 2015 Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in E-Audiobooks Audiobooks have come a long way since books on tape. Most vendors now offer e-audiobooks as digital files that can be streamed online or downloaded for offline listening. |
Searcher August 2001 Larry Krumenaker |
A Tempest in a Librarian's Teapot EBSCO, ProQuest, Gale Exclusive, and Unique Titles... |
Information Today June 25, 2012 |
SAGE Releases SAGE Knowledge Platform for Ebook Delivery Launching with more than 2,500 titles, SAGE Knowledge includes a range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, including encyclopedias, handbooks, advanced textbooks, scholarly monographs, and professional development titles. |
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 September 4, 2007 |
ebrary Ebooks Now Available Through YBP Library Services The two companies have integrated ebrary's platform and its ebooks with the GOBI system, providing an easy and efficient way for libraries to preview, order, and manage ebrary titles along with their other print and digital holdings. |
Information Today January 20, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
Streaming Video and Music Developments at Alexander Street Press Alexander Street Press doesn't act like a company struggling in a tough content market and dealing with library budget cuts. |
Information Today July 30, 2013 |
Alexander Street Press Starts Patron-Driven Acquisition Program Alexander Street Press signed an agreement with Scotland's University of Dundee library to launch a patron-driven acquisition program. |
Information Today May 2, 2013 |
Alexander Street Debuts Contemporary Documentary Collection Alexander Street Press's newest collection Filmakers Library Online: Volume II will feature 100 issue-based documentaries produced from 2009 to the present, adding perspective to virtually any academic program. |
Information Today August 28, 2014 |
EBSCO Will Identify Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles in Ebook Collection EBSCO Information Services and Choice magazine entered into an agreement that allows EBSCO eBooks & Audiobooks to highlight ebooks that were named Outstanding Academic Titles. |
Information Today August 6, 2012 |
ebrary Enhances Strategic Ebook Acquisition Program for Public Libraries To enable public libraries to affordably and strategically meet the nonfiction ebook needs of patrons, ebrary, a ProQuest business, added more than 9,000 new titles from publishers including Bentham Science and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt across acquisition models. |
Information Today October 15, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces 15 New Ebook Subject Sets These sets of titles from leading publishers are designed to simplify collection development by helping librarians start or enhance their ebook programs with subject-specific ebooks. |
Information Today January 12, 2009 |
ebrary Announces On-Demand MARC Records ebrary announced that customers can now immediately upload free MARC records for individual titles they purchase as well as e-books and other documents added to the company's subscription databases. |
Information Today December 8, 2003 Barbara Quint |
HighWire Press Provides Open Packaging to Online Journal Subscribers Initiated by a group of scholarly society publishers participating in HighWire Press, the librarian-led journal aggregator, a new pricing/subscription model allows librarians to create their own packages using tiered pricing tied to library type. |
Information Today February 14, 2008 |
Scopus Adds 600 Titles at No Extra Charge The abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and web sources announced that it will add 600 titles to its database of 15,000 peer-reviewed journals. |
Information Today September 12, 2011 |
Filmakers Library Adds The Legacy Project Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announced the addition of The Dramatists Guild Fund's new interview series, The Legacy Project, to its catalogue of video titles. |
Information Today November 5, 2007 |
Safari Books Online to Add Wiley Titles The on-demand electronic reference and learning platform adds selected Wiley business and technology titles to the Safari Books Online Library. |
Information Today April 12, 2012 |
New EBSCOhost Collection Manager to Help Libraries With Ebooks and Audiobooks EBSCO Publishing is making it easier for library staff to search for ebooks and audiobooks and add them to their collections with the new EBSCOhost Collection Manager. |
Information Today January 29, 2007 |
ebrary Introduces New Online Ordering Platform ebrary announced the availability of eBOP, its new online ordering platform that lets librarians preview ebooks and other content, purchase and subscribe to individual titles, or create a custom collection on-the-fly. |
Information Today August 13, 2012 |
Elsevier Adds Ebooks to ebrary's Academic Complete This marks the first time that these Elsevier titles covering subjects such as mechanical engineering, chemical and process engineering, and civil engineering, as well as environmental energy and alternative energy, have ever been available under a subscription model. |
Information Today July 22, 2014 |
EBSCO Adds Arabic Publications to Its Ebook Platform EBSCO Information Services made titles from the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research available on its eBooks and Audiobooks platform. |
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 October 3, 2013 |
UPSO Rolls Out New Content University Press Scholarship Online updated its collection with more than 500 new titles from its 14 university press partners. |
Information Today March 8, 2012 |
Baker & Taylor Agreement With Smashwords to Bring Ebooks to Blio Using Blio, readers can sample and purchase Smashwords books, create digital libraries for purchased and sampled titles, publish text or YouTube video book reviews, and "favorite" their chosen authors, publishers, and titles. |
Information Today January 28, 2013 |
Ingram Adds Ebook Lending Model to MyiLibrary Ingram Content Group, Inc. announced that it has added a new content access model to its MyiLibrary econtent platform to provide libraries greater flexibility in ebook lending. |
D-Lib October 2004 John Cox |
E-Books: Challenges and Opportunities Where content matches need, e-books can support the academic mission effectively, saving time and adding value as a collective online reference resource rather than a set of individual titles. |
Information Today August 17, 2009 |
ebrary Announces Publisher Half-Off Sale Under the Publisher Half-Off Sale, institutions around the globe can save 50% off list price when they purchase as few as 15 to 25 backlist titles from a single participating publisher through Dec. 15, 2009. |
Information Today March 8, 2010 |
Alexander Street Press Jazzes Up Its Collections In 2011, Alexander Street's plan is for Music Online to hit the milestone of 1 million recordings. The company also promises no price increases. |
Information Today April 30, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 39 New Ebook Subject Sets These sets provide libraries with convenient ways to begin or expand their ebook collections with current, reputable content from leading publishers. |
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 July 9, 2015 |
Thomson Reuters Teams Up With SirsiDynix for Econtent Management This collaboration offers SirsiDynix discovery tool users faster and more convenient access to titles from ProView. |
D-Lib September 2003 Terry Reese |
Aggregate Record Management in Three Clicks The sheer volume of record sets tends to restrict a library's ability to customize the record sets to suit their individual needs. To meet these challenges, the Oregon State University (OSU) library developed an innovative aggregate record management application. |
D-Lib July 2001 Lucia Snowhill |
E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries: An Overview This article briefly summarizes task force findings, and outlines issues and recommendations for making e-books viable over the long term in the academic environment, based on the long-term goals of building strong research collections and providing high level services to its users... |