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Total Boox Emerges as a Major Player in the Library Ebook Market

Total Boox’ ebook collection has grown rapidly in recent months, and its new agreements with libraries across the U.S. help position it as a major contender in the library ebook marketplace January 5,...

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NYPL Digital Collections, download 180,000 images in the public domain

NYPL Public Domain Collections – http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain From the site: Did you know that more than 180,000 of the items in our Digital Collections...

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OCLC adds new publisher metadata to WorldCat Discovery Services, including...

DUBLIN, Ohio, January 6, 2016—OCLC has signed agreements with leading publishers to add metadata for books, e-books, journals, databases and other materials that will make their content discoverable...

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Gale demos new science products with 3D models at the ALAMW conference

According to Gale, these new products have not yet been named, but see the info below about this new partnership with CyberScience to bring interactive 3D models to Gale science content for anatomy,...

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BiblioBoard’s Public Access Curated Platform Launch Set For Early 2016

CHARLESTON, South Carolina—In advance of the 2016 ALA Midwinter Conference, BiblioBoard has made a number of announcements about their 2015 growth and business direction for 2016. Most recently they...

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eShelf℠ Service e-book platform from Amigos

Back in November, 2015, Amigos Library Services announced the launch of their new eShelf℠ Service e-book platform as an affordable, flexible option for libraries seeking to capitalize on their patrons’...

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Follett and EBSCO partner; 600,000 titles available for ordering through...

McHENRY, Ill., Feb. 1, 2016 –Follett announced it is partnering with EBSCO Information Services to make approximately 600,000 EBSCO-hosted eBooks available for ordering through Titlewave, Follett’s...

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Open eBooks Opens World of Digital Reading to Children for Free

Major publishers contribute thousands of titles to benefit students in need February 24, 2016 – Open eBooks, a new initiative and e-reader app that will make thousands of popular, top-selling eBooks...

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New ‘Managed Services’ Offering From Follett Designed to Help K-12...

McHENRY, Ill., Oct. 5, 2015 –Follett announced this week it is unveiling a new offering – Managed Services – directed at administrators and designed to help districts eliminate both routine and...

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University of Toronto Press and De Gruyter partner for electronic content...

Berlin, 12 October 2015- University of Toronto Press and De Gruyter are proud to announce that they have formed a partnership for the worldwide sales of electronic publications. These include selected...

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Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians and Users

Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon are the editors of a forthcoming book from Purdue University Press. The description of the book is below.  I got a look at the pre-pub copy and...

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YBP adds Al Manhal ebooks

IPSWICH, Mass. — October 14, 2015 — E-books from Al Manhal are now available in GOBI, the primary tool for the discovery and acquisition of digital and print monographic content from YBP Library...

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Odilo powers digital library in Spain

(Denver, CO) October 19, 2015: Odilo has been awarded a contract with the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports, to bring digital content to the entire network of public libraries in Spain. Over...

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New database content added to EBSCO EDS

From an EBSCO blog post: Recent Content Additions to EBSCO Discovery Service: ASM Medical Materials Database Published by ASM International, ASM Medical Materials Database is the only comprehensive,...

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94% of public libraries offer ebooks says the 2015 LJ/SLJ report

Library Journal/School Library Journal conducted the 6th annual survey of public libraries regarding ebooks.  The 2015 report is available for download here.  The report is made available courtesy of...

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Google Scholar Indexes Open Access Books

A press release from Knowledge Unlatched: The length of monographs and their level of treatment pose unique challenges in a search environment. Monographs generally describe mature work unlike journal...

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Follett announces key product integrations with OverDrive, Mackin

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2015 – Follett continues to expand its market-leading Destiny solution to be an open agnostic discovery tool for print and digital content that supports PreK-12 classroom and...

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Knowledge Unlatched establishes KU Research

From the KU website: The last month has been an especially busy time for KU. Not only are we in the middle of a library pledging round, but we are also very excited to be announcing the formal...

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Gale Expands Integration of Google Apps for Education into Popular Product Lines

Farmington Hills, Mich., Nov. 5, 2015 — Putting research technology directly into user workflow, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, has expanded the integration of Google Apps for Education – Gmail,...

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Open Access Week: Knowledge Unlatched launches institutional usage reports...

Great news during this Open Access Week – Knowledge Unlatched will partner with Language Science Press .  The full press release is below.  Additionally, KU announced today the launch of its...

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