MORE 'INFO-INDUSTRY' POSTS
ON A RELATED NOTE: SOPA: Judiciary Committee schedules markup of online piracy bill for Thursday (via The Hill) Here’s the full text of a new letter written by ARL’s Brandon Butler (on behalf of the LCA) re: the draft of the OPEN Act (Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act) that was released last […]
More than 1.4 Mllion Marquis Who’s Who Biographies Will Soon Be Searchable in EBSCO Discovery Service
| EBSCO, Publishing
From an EBSCO Announcement: (.doc) Marquis Who’s Who content will soon be available via EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) for mutual customers. The new agreement will add metadata from the Marquis Who’s Who database into the Base Index of EDS and provide seamless access and full text searching for mutual customers, enabling […]
From the Book Industry Study Group: The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) announced today the publication of a new Policy Statement detailing best practices for assigning ISBNs to digital products. Developed over the past 18 months within BISG’s Identification Committee, BISG Policy Statement POL-1101 addresses the critical need to reduce product identification confusion in the […]
Humanities and Social Science Content From OpenEdition Will Be Searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), EBSCO, Journal Articles, Open Access, Publishing
From EBSCO, via PR Web: Content from the French open access publishing platform openedition.org (OpenEdition) will be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service from EBSCO Publishing. OpenEdition is made up of three community publishing platforms dedicated to the humanities and social sciences. The complementary platforms represent a complete electronic publishing system dedicated to promoting research and […]
More Collaboration: OCLC Announces Launch of WorldShare Platform and Brand
| Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users
UPDATE: New Discussion Document from OCLC: Libraries at Webscale The document examines some of the ways in which the Web has impacted information seeking, and how new cloud-based, Webscale services are now at the center of many users’ educational and learning lives. This document contains views of library leaders and insights from trend watchers* who […]
From a TR Announcement: The new organizational structure and leadership it will adopt as of January 1, 2012. This new, integrated structure aligns our business with our key customer segments and will consist of the following business units: Financial & Risk: David Craig, president Legal: Mike Suchsland, president Intellectual Property & Science: Chris Kibarian, president […]
From a Reuters Report: Arnaud Nourry, the CEO of Hachette Books Group, predicted that e-books would take off in France this year and that the market would benefit from the relatively late adoption of digital reading because it would benefit from lessons learned elsewhere. Strict rules that prevent booksellers from cutting prices, and a love […]
Industry News Briefs from EBSCO, Biomed Central, ebrary, Pubget, Wolper, and Others
| EBSCO, Libraries, News, Publishing
Saarland University and State Library in Germany Selects EBSCO Discovery Service ebrary Announces Partnership with DA Information Services (PDF) BioMed Central journals committed to publishing breakthrough AIDS Research Wolper Delivers PaperStats Technology to WOLPERweb Customers
Publishing Technology Announces Deal To Build 1st Ever Digital Content Delivery Platform for Chinese Library Market
| Libraries, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing
From the Announcement (PDF): Following the launch of Publishing Technology plc in China last August, [the company] is partnering with the China National Publications Import and Export Corporation (CNPIEC) to deliver the first ever digital publishing platform to supply content to Chinese libraries. As the largest company fully licensed by the Chinese government to import […]
UPDATE: Some New Kindle Fire News: Kindle Fire Auto-Update Scorches Roots and Potentially Shutters Android Marketplace (via Gizmodo) Info and tools to re-root your device. From Computerworld (IDG News Service): Amazon told a Massachusetts congressman that the Silk browser in its Kindle Fire tablet doesn’t pose a privacy threat to consumers, but the lawmaker wasn’t […]
