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Market research from Bowker on e-reading habits; OASPA members report increase in CC-BY licenses; Ex Libris Primo Central covers SwetsWise content; ARL’s Balanced Scorecard initiative;  new WorldShare interlibrary loan service; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins content to be indexed by Summon; and EQT presses ahead with IPO or sale of Springer Science

New Research From Bowker: e-Reading Habits Drive Market Share Growth of e-Retailers

Citing new market research from Bowker, InfoDOCKET reports “the rise in e-book reading in the U.S. and U.K. over the last three years has been a key driver in the market share gains of e-retailers… In the U.S., e-retailers accounted for 44 percent of book purchases by volume in 2012, up from 25 percent in 2010. In the U.K. the rise has been somewhat less dramatic but still significant, up from 25 percent in January-November 2010, to 38 percent in the same period in 2012…”

Growth in Use of the CC-BY License by Selected Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Members

InfoDOCKET also reports that according to “data supplied by … members of OASPA … a total of 252,418 articles were published with the CC-BY license during the period shown.  In addition a chart is provided showing that steep increase in growth of CC-BY licensed articles since 2000.

Ex Libris Primo Central Index to cover SwetsWise online content catalog

According to Library Technology Guides “Ex Libris announced that following an agreement with Swets, a leading developer of innovative content management services for libraries and publishers, mutual customers will be able to search the SwetsWise Online Content e-journal gateway via the Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic materials…”

Balanced Scorecard Initiative: ARL Issues Call for Participation

“ARL has issued a call for participation in the third Balanced Scorecard (BSC) Initiative cohort. The year-long initiative will engage a small number of research libraries in a systematic way to consider the benefits of applying a locally developed library scorecard. Libraries with a keen interest in continuous improvement and strategic assessment are invited to apply…”

New WorldShare Interlibrary Loan service simplifies library workflows, expands delivery options

The new OCLC WorldShareInterlibrary Loan service, designed to simplify workflows and expand fulfillment options beyond traditional interlibrary loan, is now available for use by libraries in the United States.

WorldShare^™ Interlibrary Loan will provide an integrated delivery solution with new and expanded features for libraries. The service will combine discovery and delivery of electronic, digital and print materials within a single interface. It will also support evolving workflow changes in libraries, such as the option to purchase needed items rather than borrow them.

 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins content to be indexed in Serials Solutions’ Summon service

Serials Solutions and Wolters Kluwer Health, US, have announced “that Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) content available on the Ovid institutional research platform will be indexed in the Summon discovery service. Researchers will now be able to search the abstract and full reference (metadata) details of LWW’s 280 journals in the fields of medicine, nursing and allied health professionals…”

 EQT Said to Press Ahead With IPO or Sale of Springer Science

“EQT Partners AB is pressing ahead with plans to sell or hold an initial public offering for Springer Science & Business Media in a transaction that could value the German academic publisher at as much as 4 billion euros ($5.2 billion), said people familiar with the matter…”