Altmetric has launched Badges for Books, enabling publishers to provide an at-a-glance summary of the online attention a published book and its individual chapters have received
Project Muse has announced a partnership with UNEbook.es to offer ebooks from publishers based in Spain and Latin America to the Project Muse library market worldwide
More than 1,250 formerly out-of-print works from the University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press) will be available again for purchase as ebooks and print-on-demand editions
Are you building your eBook collection? Are you looking for flexibility in title selection? Our recently expanded eBooks programme now offers greater flexibility for libraries, ensuring you get the eBooks you require.
ProQuest ebooks company ebrary has created a new version of its award-winning Academic Complete subscription collection
EBSCO Information Services has released eBook Education Collection, a subscription e-book collection that features more than 2,800 titles supporting students and faculty in education studies
From November 2014, more than 130 titles from the architectural book series Bauwelt Fundamente will be made available for the first time in an online version
Elsevier has added five new subject areas to its Legacy eBook Collection on ScienceDirect. The Legacy Collection consists of digitised, classic scholarly book content, now including nearly 13,000 books
E-book tools serve visually impaired users
Credo adds to publisher and subject collections
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
From bypassing aggregators to the influx of new university presses, the world of library-based publishing is changing fast, reports Rebecca Pool
Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
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Chris Smith explains why they matter, and how publishers and universities can benefit
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Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
Nandita Quaderi – editor-in-chief of the Web of Science – champions objectivity, selectivity, and data integrity
This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli
