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With digital distribution, the rules are still emerging and, like publishing business models, will continue to do so. Some things remain almost constant, though, such as the free versus fee debate. From B2B magazine and daily paper models to newsstand sales and high-value subscription content, the publishing business has always demanded a range of formulas for feeding the bottom line.
Posted Apr 18, 2008
CABI's book collection can now be purchased digitally with the launch of CAB eBooks.
Posted Apr 15, 2008
ProQuest has annouced the addition of two bibliographic records, the American State Papers and the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, to C19: The Nineteenth Century Index, from LexisNexis, a global provider of business information solutions.
Posted Apr 08, 2008
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) will offer web access to SciFinder chemistry research tool.
Posted Apr 08, 2008
Thomson Scientific, a provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, announced that 162 regional social science journals have been added to Web of Science.
Posted Apr 04, 2008
OCLC, a nonprofit library service and research organization, has released a new version of EZproxy, a software solution for serving library patrons remotely, that offers new features as well as support from OCLC, which acquired EZproxy in January.
Posted Apr 04, 2008
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announced an exclusive agreement with VoiceCorp to implement ReadSpeaker, a service for speech enabled web, to provide text-to-speech capability to Gale online databases.
Posted Apr 01, 2008
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Elsevier announced an agreement on March 7 to make available figures and text selections from any of Elsevier's more than 2,000 journal titles for use on OCW.
Posted Mar 25, 2008
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services announced the availability of the Rule Archives library.
Posted Mar 25, 2008
ProQuest will be adding a collection of one hundred oral history videos from The HistoryMakers, an African American video oral history archive to its Black Studies Center.
Posted Mar 21, 2008
Ex Libris Group, a provider of automation solutions for academic libraries, announced the integration of "About this book" pages from Google Book Search service into Ex Libris products.
Posted Mar 18, 2008
Credo Reference, an online reference library, has signed an agreement with Harvard University Press (HUP) to integrate seven additional titles into the Credo General Reference collection.
Posted Mar 14, 2008
CrossRef, a multi-publisher linking platform, announced that Mekentosj, creator of Papers, had signed on as a CrossRef affiliate in order to integrate DOIs and CrossRef metadata into its services.
Posted Mar 14, 2008
The American Institute of Physics announced the release of a new web service that provides AIP journal subscribers with cited-by article counts and links to the more than 33 million records in the Scopus database.
Posted Mar 14, 2008
Elsevier, a publisher of science, technical, and health information, announced that it has acquired Windhover Information Inc.
Posted Mar 14, 2008
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has recently broadened the offerings of EBSCONET, the Company's e-service platform, to provide detailed information about publisher license agreements.
Posted Mar 04, 2008
Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation and a provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, announced the launch of ScienceWatch.com, a free, open web resource for science metrics and analysis.
Posted Mar 04, 2008
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a provider of text-licensing solutions, announced that it is expanding the availability of its Annual Copyright License for academic institutions to colleges and universities of all sizes.
Posted Feb 29, 2008
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) announced that it will provide Express Content for subscriptions and publications as part of the Express Content program offered by Ariba, Inc., a management solutions provider.
Posted Feb 29, 2008
365 Media, Inc has announced the launch of a new, real-time research service targeted at enabling business media and premium information companies to augment their current data gathering strategies.
Posted Feb 26, 2008
Northern Light has launched its second major release of MI Analyst, an automated "meaning extraction" application designed specifically for market intelligence, market research, and product research.
Posted Feb 26, 2008
Outbrain Inc. has announced the closing of a $5M A-round investment led by Gemini Israel Funds and Lightspeed Venture Partners .
Posted Feb 26, 2008
Elsevier, a publisher of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) information, has announced the launch of illumin8, the first web-based research tool that integrates natural language search technology with content from Elsevier's full-text scientific articles
Posted Feb 26, 2008
The Thomson Corporation and Reuters announced that the European Commission, US Department of Justice, and Canadian Competition Bureau have given approval for Thomson's proposed acquisition of Reuters.
Posted Feb 22, 2008
Reed Elsevier Group plc announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with ChoicePoint.
Posted Feb 22, 2008