Amazon Introduces Lending Library For Kindles
Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that it is starting a lending library for Kindle owners, letting them borrow one electronic book per month.
Borrowers have to subscribe to Amazon’s Prime service, which provides free two-day shipping and streaming movies for $79 per year.
Amazon says the library has more than 5,000 books, including current bestsellers such as Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games” trilogy.
The six biggest publishers — Random House, HarperColllins, Penguin, MacMillan, Simon & Schuster and Hachette — aren’t participating. The “Big Six” have fought with Amazon over whether the publisher or Amazon gets to set the retail price of books.
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Five New Publishers to Preserve E-Journals with Portico
Portico is pleased to announce the following publishers and associations are now preserving their e-journals through Portico’s E-Journal Preservation Service:
Alcohol Research Documentation to preserve e-journals
International Council for Traditional Music to preserve Yearbook for Traditional Music
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics to preserve e-journals
Paradigm Publishers to preserve Anthropology Now and The Black Scholar
SF-TH Inc. to preserve Science Fiction Studies
Swets attends the Friends of the National Library of Medicine 2011 Annual Awards Gala
Swets is honored to join the 175th anniversary commemoration of the National Library ofMedicine (NLM). Swets President of the Americas and member of the FNLM Board of Directors, Jose Luis Andrade and Mary Maslowski, Swets Customer Service Director, attended the Friends of the National Library of Medicine (FLNM) Awards Gala in celebration of this momentous event for leadership in health and medicine.
Held in the Great Hall of the Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress on November 3rd, the celebration recognized the NLM 175th anniversary, FNLM 25th anniversary, and a number of awardees in various categories…
The FNLM Annual Awards Gala is held to recognize elected officials, medical scientists, medical librarians and public figures that are demonstrated leaders in increasing awareness and support of important health issues. Swets is proud to provide products and services that enable health care professionals and researchers to effect the advancement of their field.
SAGE and Hindawi Partnership Concludes
The partnership between SAGE and Hindawi Publishing Corporation in publishing open access journals has now concluded. SAGE are pleased to announce that they will be bringing three of the SAGE-Hindawi journals in house and the further 33 journals will now be solely owned by Hindawi. The three journals migrating to SAGE will be Human Genomics and Proteomics, Journal of Tissue Engineering and the Journal of Dental Biomechanics. All of the titles from the SAGE-Hindawi partnership will remain fully open access.
The SAGE-Hindawi partnership was established 2007 to create a suite of fully open access journals. The collection of journals has to date grown to 36 titles. As both the collection and the number of submissions has grown, alongside SAGE and Hindawi’s own separate business growth, both agreed that it was not possible to expand this collection any further and therefore it was mutually agreeable to formally end the partnership.
For more information on the three new SAGE journals please visit:
Human Genomics and Proteomics http://hgp.sagepub.com
Journal of Tissue Engineering http://tej.sagepub.com
Journal of Dental Biomechanics http://dbm.sagepub.com
For more information on the 33 new Hindawi journals please follow the links to each journal’s website from the following page http://www.hindawi.com/journals/.
Cengage Learning Announces International Advisory Board for Nineteenth Century Collections Online – a Ground-Breaking Global Digitization and Publishing Program
Cengage Learning, a leading global provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions, today announced the international advisory board for Nineteenth Century Collections Online, a new global digitization and publishing program that brings together rare nineteenth century primary source content from around the world. The archive will include content from the “long” nineteenth century (1789-1914) – monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, maps and statistics – much of which is being digitized for the first time. The advisory board, which consists of leading international scholars and bibliographers of nineteenth century studies, will help select content for inclusion in the digital archive.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online is currently in development with the first modules expected to be available in spring 2012. For more information, please visit http://gdc.gale.com/products/nineteenth-century-collections-online/
NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on Single Sign-on Authentication Identifies Needed Improvements for Users Authenticating to Licensed Electronic Resources
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of a new Recommended Practice, ESPReSSO: Establishing Suggested Practices Regarding Single Sign-On (NISO RP-11-2011), that identifies practical solutions for improving the use of single sign-on authentication technologies to ensure a seamless experience for the user. This recommended practice is the result of the NISO Chair’s Initiative-a project of the chair of NISO’s Board of Directors, focusing on a specific issue that would benefit from study and the development of a recommended practice or standard. Oliver Pesch, Chief Strategist for E-Resource Access and Management Services at EBSCO Information Services and the 2008-2009 Chair of NISO’s Board of Directors, chose the issue of standardizing seamless, item-level linking through single sign-on (SSO) authentication technologies in a networked information environment, which resulted in the formation of the ESPReSSO Working Group.
The ESPReSSO Recommended Practice is available for free download from the NISO website at: www.niso.org/publications/rp.
ALPSP Endorses British Library and Publisher Agreed International Non-Commercial Document Supply Service (INCD) Licensing Framework.
Service to Commence 1st January 2012
ALPSP endorses the soon-to-be launched British Library INCD Service for the supply of copies of articles to non-commercial end users via not-for-profit libraries outside the UK. The INCD Service is underpinned by agreements with publishers, for which a framework licence agreement, to be entered into directly between individual publishers and the British Library, has been agreed with the British Library by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) in consultation with the Publishers Association (PA).
ALPSP recommends that its members sign up to licence agreements with the British Library based on this framework before 29th November.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced today that George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM), partnering with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC), has been chosen to help organize the 2012 WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital Age.
Since 2000, the WebWise conference has brought together representatives of museums, libraries, archives, systems science, education, and other fields interested in the future of high-quality online content for inquiry and learning. A signature initiative of IMLS, this annual conference highlights recent research and innovations in digital technology, explores their potential impacts on library and museum services, and promotes effective museum and library practices in the digital environment. It also provides recipients of technology-based grants from the Institute with an opportunity to showcase their exemplary projects.
The theme for the 2012 WebWise conference will be “Tradition and Innovation,” as panelists and presenters investigate the use of digital technologies in the humanities, especially history. A variety of IMLS-funded projects will be demonstrated during the conference. The conference will be preceded by a day-long “unconference.”
Oxford University Press to publish ICSID Review
Oxford University Press (OUP) is pleased to announce its partnership with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an independent facility within the World Bank for resolution of international investment disputes, for the publication of the ICSID Review—Foreign Investment Law Journal.
OUP will begin publishing articles in 2012, in addition to providing access to the journal’s full archive. The first issue published by OUP will be Volume 27, Issue 1.
Founded in 1986, the ICSID Review is a specialized periodical devoted exclusively to foreign investment law and international investment dispute settlement. The Review offers legal and business professionals an up-to-date review of the field and includes articles, case comments, documents, and book reviews on the law and practice relating to foreign investments as well as the procedural and substantive law governing investment dispute resolution.
For more information about the ICSID Review, including subscriptions, article submission guidelines, and how to register for free content alerting services, please visit http://icsidreview.oxfordjournals.org.
University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University Join ASERL
40 Members in 11 States, Largest Regional Research Library Consortium in US
ASERL members unanimously agreed to admit two new research libraries as members of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries. With the admission of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, ASERL now consists of 40 research libraries across 11 states, making it the nation’s largest regional research library consortium. They are the first new ASERL members since 2004.
“We are very excited to add these two outstanding institutions as our newest collaborators and partners,” commented Sarah Michalak, ASERL’s Board President and Dean of Libraries at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. “These libraries have programmatic interests that align with ASERL’s Strategic Plan. It’s a win-win for all involved.”
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