The path to discovery
Sarah Hickman Auger, product manager, Innovative Interfaces Good discovery tools are important to provide efficient access to the constantly expanding collection of research information…
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Organisational transformation paves way for improved discovery
Over the past few decades there has been a huge shift towards information in electronic form and this has placed new demands on libraries.…
Dynamic data presents a world of possibilities
OCLC’s two-day conference in Strasbourg at the end of February explored the opportunities that today’s huge data aggregations open up for libraries.One presenter who…
Libraries learn to love e-books
For many years students and researchers used computers to access journals but still had to make the journey to their institution library to search…
The state of scholarly e-books today and tomorrow: Katrin Siems, De Gruyter
Katrin Siems, vice president marketing sales, De GruyterAll our publications are available as e-books and we have over 10,000 e-books live on our platform.Our…
The state of scholarly e-books today and tomorrow: Marie Turek, Swets
Marie Turek, product manager, e-books and Mendeley at SwetsThere can be quite a bit of variety between publishers, and restrictions in functionality vary enormously.…
The state of scholarly e-books today and tomorrow: Annika Bennett, Taylor & Francis
Annika Bennett, eBooks & online sales manager, Taylor & FrancisWe have more than 30,000 e-books and two e-book platforms, one for HSS and one…
The state of scholarly e-books today and tomorrow: Lisa Nachtigall, Wiley
Lisa Nachtigall, director, digital books sales development, Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly, Wiley Within the academic library environment, the availability of an e-book has…
The state of scholarly e-books today and tomorrow: Stephen Hawthorne, Royal Society of Chemistry
Stephen Hawthorne, executive director, sales, marketing and strategic partnerships, Royal Society of ChemistryThe Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has a long history as a…
The state of scholarly e-books today and tomorrow: Olaf Ernst, IOP Publishing
Olaf Ernst, commercial director of IOP Publishing, which launched a new e-book programme at the Frankfurt Book FairThere is a huge demand for e-books.…
The state of scholarly e-books today and tomorrow: David Whitehair, OCLC
David Whitehair, senior product manager, OCLCThe first challenge for libraries that is routinely mentioned is the rapidly-growing investment required for e-books. From a staff…
The state of scholarly e-books today and tomorrow: Constance Malpas, OCLC Research
Constance Malpas, program officer, OCLC ResearchE-books are a significant concern for academic libraries. Recent research found e-books to be the number-one priority of academic…