CAS and Obiter Research collaborate to provide SciFinder to scientists at Obiter Research; Three Scholarly Publishers implement CCC’s RightsLink; MyHeritage partners with EBSCO Information Services; Self-Publishing Maturing, Up 17% Last Year in the U.S.; Four centuries of Dutch cultural heritage added to WorldCat; Elsevier Adds Five New Subject Areas to Legacy eBook Collection; FDLP Web Sites: Status Updates; 3M and NOOK Create New Hardware Lending Program for Libraries; Gale Signs New Publishers, Increases STEM Content in Virtual Reference Library; HarperCollins Publishers Forms HarperCollins Germany.
CAS and Obiter Research collaborate to provide SciFinder to scientists at Obiter Research
According to KnowledgeSpeak Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), … has announced a collaboration with Obiter Research, a custom contract chemical research and manufacturing company. Under the deal, CAS will provide SciFinder, the choice for chemistry research, for the Obiter research staff, resuming their access to the most accurate, comprehensive and current source of chemical and related scientific information…
Three Scholarly Publishers implement CCC’s RightsLink for OA platform and Aries Systems’ Editorial Manager
KnowledgeSpeak also reports that Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that scholarly publishers De Gruyter, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Publishing, and Maney Publishing have chosen to automate the collection and management of author charges by leveraging the integration between RightsLink for Open Access and Aries Systems’ Editorial Manager. The integration of Aries Systems’ Editorial Manager and RightsLink for Open Access provides scholarly publishers with a seamless way to collect article processing charges (APCs) from within the Editorial Manager workflow.
MyHeritage partners with EBSCO Information Services to bring MyHeritage to libraries and educational institutions worldwide
In addition, KnowledgeSpeak notes that MyHeritage, the popular family history network, has announced a significant expansion into the institutional education market, with the launch of a dedicated, high-performance family history service for institutions and the signing of a strategic partnership with EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) to distribute it exclusively. The new, state-of-the-art MyHeritage Library Edition empowers people to discover more about their family history and the lives led by their ancestors.
Preservation Survey Results Released by ATLA
According to Library Technology Guides “the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded the American Theological Library Association and its partners the Catholic Library Association and the Association of Jewish Libraries a National Leadership Grant for the project ”In Good Faith: Collection Care, Preservation, and Access is Small Theological and Religious Studies Libraries.” A report on the project’s main activity, a survey on preservation and collections care issues at small libraries and archives based at theological and religious studies organizations, has just been published…”
Self-Publishing Maturing, Up 17% Last Year in the U.S.
According to Digital Book World “the self-publishing market is entering a new stage of maturity after an initial boom several years ago, according to Bowker’s latest analysis of ISBN registrations in the U.S. from 2008 through 2013.
To be sure, not all self-published authors obtain ISBNs for their work, but among those that have done so to date, their output of titles is increasing. The number of ISBNs registered in 2013 rose nearly 17% from the previous year.
That growth comes not from ebooks, which actually dropped 1.6% during that period, but from print titles, which rose 29%…”
Four centuries of Dutch cultural heritage added to WorldCat
The National Library of the Netherlands, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), has entered into an agreement with OCLC to add four important collections of digitized resources from Dutch-speaking countries to WorldCat for discovery of these valuable resources worldwide.
The extensive and historically significant data comprise large numbers of digitized books, journals, newspapers and parliamentary papers, aggregated from libraries across the Netherlands…”
Elsevier Adds Five New Subject Areas to Legacy eBook Collection
Elsevier, … announced its Legacy eBook Collection on ScienceDirect now includes five new subject areas. The Legacy Collection consists of digitized, classic scholarly book content, now including nearly 13,000 books.
FDLP Web Sites: Status Updates
Recently, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) informed the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) community of an internal review to enhance the security of the GPO Web sites that support the FDLP. During this review, the following sites were made unavailable: The FDLP Community site; Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids; Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government (beta version); Digitization Projects Registry; Browse Topics…
3M and NOOK Create New Hardware Lending Program for Libraries
According to Library Technology Guides “3M Library Systems announced the addition of a new lendable eReader for its 3M Cloud Library–the NOOK GlowLight from Barnes and Noble. With this new compatibility, libraries can purchase NOOK GlowLight eReaders directly from Barnes & Noble stores for lending to patrons. The offering enables libraries to provide access to eBooks from the 3M Cloud Library catalog to patrons who do not have their own eReader, computer or smartphone…”
Gale Signs New Publishers, Increases STEM Content in Virtual Reference Library
Library Technology Guides also notes that “new content covering popular healthcare and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) topics is now available on Gale Virtual Reference Library, the e-book platform offered by Gale, part of Cengage Learning. The signing of publishers Taylor & Francis, Mitchell Lane, HCPro and World Scientific combined will add approximately 750 e-books to GVRL, bringing the total number of available titles on the platform to 15,000 from over 150 publishing partners.
HarperCollins Publishers Forms HarperCollins Germany
Digital Book World reports that “HarperCollins Publishers today announced the creation of HarperCollins Germany, an expansion of the existing Harlequin publishing program in Hamburg. The operation will launch its first list of approximately 50 HarperCollins branded books in Fall 2015. The existing Harlequin program will continue as usual…”