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Weekly News Digest
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July 19, 2012 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Elsevier Health Science Titles Now Available via eBooks on EBSCOhost
An agreement between EBSCO Publishing and Elsevier has significantly enhanced the ebook medical collection available through eBooks on EBSCOhost. The agreement adds 965 health science titles to EBSCO’s medical ebook collection with more than 580 of the titles representing coverage from 2010 to the present.eBooks on EBSCOhost offers a variety of ebook and audiobook collections for medical research, containing high-quality titles ensuring that researchers find the right material for their healthcare needs. The titles from Elsevier further expand the variety of medical specialties covered in the medical collection including topical areas such as, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, Nursing, Anesthesia, Anatomy/Physiology, Cardiology, Orthopedics, Oncology, Veterinary Medicine, Allied Health, Dentistry, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Surgery, Radiology, and others. The Elsevier titles are available in Subject Sets, which provide convenient, prepackaged sets of titles chosen to meet libraries’ needs for new content on popular, in-demand topics. The titles are also available via selection through EBSCOhost Collection Manager (ECM). ECM can be used to search or browse for ebooks and audiobooks by title, author, publisher, and more, or make selections from the Subject Sets or Featured Collections created by EBSCO’s collection development experts. ECM can also help libraries create and manage lists of titles they want to expose to patron drive acquisition (PDA), manage deposits, and determine which ownership models to apply to the various ebooks and audiobooks in their collections. Source: EBSCO Publishing
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