News Roundup

1. Open Textbooks: University of California Berkeley Library Joins Open Textbook Network (OTN)
About one month ago the University of Maryland Libraries also joined the OTN.
2. Atypon’s Literatum Online Publishing Platform Now Supports CHORUS
4. Coming Soon: A New Illustrated History of the National Library of Medicine (via NLM)

Co-edited by Jeffrey S. Reznick, PhD, and Kenneth M. Koyle, chief and deputy chief of the NLM History of Medicine Division, and made possible through the research, writing, and technical expertise of staff from across the Library, this new book will appear in the popular series Images of America, by Arcadia Publishing. A hardback version of the book will be available from booksellers, and an electronic version of the complete book, including the 170+ black-and-white images which appear in it, will be freely available via NLM Digital Collections beginning June 26.

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