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Information Today February 2001 Paula J. Hane |
IT Interview Questia Provides Digital Library, Research Tools... |
Information Today October 16, 2008 |
OCLC WorldCat Links Up With Questia eBooks OCLC and Questia Media America, Inc. are linking records in WorldCat.org to create previews of more than 67,000 ebook titles from Questia.com (a subscription service). |
Information Today February 11, 2014 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook Religion Collection The collection includes ebook selections for its religion-focused student and scholarly customers titled eBook Religion Collection, which debuted with more than 4,100 titles from 150-plus publishers. |
Information Today September 12, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook Business Collection EBSCO Information Services launched eBook Business Collection, a new assortment of ebooks for academic libraries from publishers such as Wiley and Cambridge University Press. |
Information Today November 26, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook History Collection EBSCO Information Services released eBook History Collection as its newest ebook subscription package integrated with EBSCOhost. |
Information Today March 18, 2013 |
Reprints Desk Launches Document Delivery Service for Academic Institutions Reprints Desk, Inc.announced the launch of A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection, a new single-article document delivery retrieval service for academic libraries that provide literature acquisition services to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. |
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 August 24, 2009 |
ProQuest Adds New Content to Periodicals Archive Online ProQuest, LLC announced that Periodicals Archive Online offers three more ways to build a library's research archive with the addition of The Spectator to Collection 7, the launch of Collection 8, and the development of 5 additional years of coverage for journals in Collections 1-5. |
Information Today February 1, 2010 Paula J. Hane |
Gale Reaches for More End Users With Questia Acquisition Questia's book content is a clear attraction for Gale, adding scholarly content from leading publishers to support learning in high school and college -- a great complement to Gale's extensive reference content. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2005 |
Questia Launches Course Management System Questia's online course management system provides access to supplemental classroom materials such as journal, magazine and newspaper articles. |
Information Today September 13, 2012 |
Summon Discovery Service Expands Coverage of Open Access Scholarly Content Making these resources accessible through the library discovery interface broadens the number of highly relevant and appropriate results returned to researchers, while further making the library the "go-to" resource for credible content. |
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 May 10, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases Ebook Subscription Collection for Business Professionals BusinessCore is designed to support the learning and research needs of business professionals. The collection is available as an annual subscription with unlimited access to the content. |
Information Today August 9, 2012 |
Questia Unveils New Website and Expanded Library Questia, part of Cengage Learning, announced its new website featuring an expanded library, improved navigation for finding research faster, and an interactive reader. |
Information Today October 29, 2013 |
Elsevier Rolls Out New Legacy Collection Content Elsevier is adding new titles to its Legacy Collection, which will offer more than 9,500 digitized books on the ScienceDirect full-text database by the end of the year. |
Information Today November 19, 2012 |
EBSCO Publishing Releases Legal Source Legal Source provides full-text coverage of the world's most respected scholarly journals making it a valuable resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals, and others involved with the law. |
Information Today May 14, 2015 |
ProQuest Digitizes Harper's Bazaar The collection, which will be available later in 2015, is designed to improve research in subjects such as fashion, design, women's studies, and marketing. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 Markey et al. |
The Benefits of Integrating an Information Literacy Skills Game into Academic Coursework: A Preliminary Evaluation BiblioBouts seeks to satisfy student requests for a gaming experience directly integrated into their current coursework. |
Information Today January 24, 2013 |
HighWire Press to Include e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection Beginning with the 2014 collection, e-Duke Books, an annual collection of at least 100 new electronic books published by Duke University Press as well as more than 1,500 backlist titles, will move from ebrary to HighWire's Open Platform and the newly developed Folio ebook solution. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today May 16, 2013 |
Credo Releases 12 New Perpetual Access and Subscription Collections Libraries now have even more options for enhancing their Literati solution or Credo Online Reference Service with essential titles. |
Chemistry World April 18, 2012 David Smith |
Teaching tiny technology Nanotechnology in Undergraduate Education edited by Kimberly Pacheo and others is a collection of nanotechnology-based activities which have been used in US universities. |
Information Today January 28, 2010 |
Elsevier Launches Digital Learning Platform for Health Science Education: Pageburst The Pageburst platform is designed specifically for nursing and health professions students in North America who require anytime/anywhere access to course material and utilize texts as reference guides throughout their careers. |
Information Today September 17, 2009 |
Thomson Reuters Launches Century of Social Sciences Culled from more than 300 prestigious journals, information dating from 1900 is now available to researchers, faculty, authors, and students. |
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. |
Fast Company November 2010 Stephanie Schomer |
Chegg: Saving College Kids Money Through Textbook Rental Aayush Phumbhra is reforming the dysfunctional world of college textbooks by renting them to students nationwide. |
Information Today June 2004 Mick O'Leary |
Learner's Library Dumbs Down This fee-based research service for students is a dumbed-down, error-ridden product that offers both haphazard content and inferior searching. |
Information Today March 2001 Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
Information Today September 2, 2010 |
SAGE Competes Migration to Next Generation SAGE Journals Online To mark the successful migration, SAGE is offering a 6 week free trial to SAGE Journals Online from Sept. 1 until Oct. 15. |
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 October 24, 2011 |
Open Access Week 2011 Opens Oct. 24 Coordinated by The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, the event provides an opportunity to learn about the benefits of Open Access, share new ideas and strategies, and inspire wider participation in establishing Open Access as the norm in scholarly communication. |
Information Today April 2001 Robin Peek |
The Tangled Scholarly Publishing Mess If the seemingly unending financial gravy train that's been the Internet really goes south, then how many resources will be available for further improvements in scholarly publishing? |
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. |
Information Today February 23, 2012 |
Social Media Data Available for ebrary Student E-book Survey ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced that the social media data of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey is now publicly available online along with the full report. |
Search Engine Watch April 12, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Academic Search The targeted search service is focused on connecting students and researchers with peer-reviewed scholarly information, and addresses two needs of the academic community that have traditionally been under-served. |
Information Today March 2004 |
Product News and Reviews Yahoo! Provides 2004 Election Information... NPG Launches Chinese Edition of Nature... MicroPatent Unveils MPI-INPADOC Plus... etc. |
Information Today August 30, 2010 |
ebrary Offers CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles Published annually, the CHOICE OAT list represents the top 10% of more than 7,000 academic books, electronic media, and internet resources reviewed by CHOICE that year. |
Information Today September 29, 2011 |
Gale Introduces Gale Business Insights: Global The resource is designed for undergraduate and graduate business school students, as well as academic faculty, librarians, and professional researchers. |
Chemistry World June 22, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
ACS compress print journals to favor online While changing habits among students and researchers have meant that online resources are increasingly popular, old-fashioned print journals are likely to linger for at least some time yet |
T.H.E. Journal August 27, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
Breaking Through Reading Barriers After using a tech-based reading program with struggling readers and special education students, fourth-grade inclusion teacher Ashlee Ritzko witnessed a new phenomenon: Students that were reluctant or resistant readers were suddenly excited about reading the novels. |
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 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. |
Information Today March 18, 2010 |
Credo Reference Links Up With EasyBib.com With all the databases, websites, and print sources available, compiling research, writing a paper, and citing resources can be difficult and time-consuming for many students. |
Bank Systems & Technology June 29, 2005 Katherine Burger |
Making the Grade Colleges, whether they are big universities or smaller liberal arts schools, should incorporate IT into the academic distribution requirements. That way the odds of building a skilled and flexible workforce would improve significantly. |
Information Today December 18, 2008 |
New Scholarly Journal ticTOCs Service Launches It's free, it's easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of more than 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. |
Information Today November 5, 2015 |
McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used. |
Chemistry World October 18, 2013 Peter Atkins |
Thermodynamics Although instructors might find some points of interest, I doubt whether any undergraduate would find this text by Peter Jacobs stimulating or illuminating enough to add it to their collection. |
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 May 2000 Richard K. Johnson |
A Question of Access SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing |
InternetNews April 13, 2006 David Miller |
Microsoft Searching in Academia Windows Live Academic Search, Microsoft's search service for scientists, scholars and other such studious folks, debuted on Tuesday with the noble aim of providing easy access to information tucked away in specialized pedagogic journals and conference notes. |