Info Industry Briefs: News from Credo Reference, Gale, and Portico

1.Credo Reference Launches Subject Collections

Credo Reference is pleased to announce the launch of Subject Collections. These convenient collections, designed to provide comprehensive coverage of key subjects, add to the rapidly growing reference e-book offerings on Credo Reference.
The eight new collections offer titles from 11 key reference publishers including Wiley-Blackwell, Elsevier, SAGE Reference and Berkshire Publishing Group. Additional Subject Collections are planned for Fall 2011.
The eight new Subject Collections cover the following key subject areas:
Psychology
Education
Environmental Studies
Gender and Women’s Studies
General Health and Wellness
Political Science
Criminal Justice
Contemporary Issues and Controversies

2. “Gale Commits Three More Collections to the Portico Archive”

Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and Portico, part of the not-for-profit organization ITHAKA, today announced Gale will be preserving three additional digital historical collections with Portico. This follows the completed ingest of 10 Gale Digital Collections—including 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, The Making of Modern Law: Primary Resources and Eighteenth Century Collections Online—and represents over 80 million files (75 million pages of content), which doubled the size of the Portico archive in just one year.

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