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Thursday, August 12, 2010
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Digital Lending Goes into OverDrive
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by Paula J. Hane
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I'd been hearing some buzz this summer about various improvements made by OverDrive to its services for libraries—more content, mobile apps, simplified procedures, etc. OverDrive is a full-service digital distributor of ebooks, audiobooks, music, and video that first launched its online digital warehouse in 2000. So, I caught up with the company's vice president of marketing, David Burleigh, for an extended conversation on what's new and what's coming. While OverDrive offers publishers a secure, web-based, wholesale distribution service for the sale and delivery of digital media, I didn't get into the details of that side of the business. Our discussion focused on what OverDrive offers libraries and their patrons.
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LibraryThing Announces New Feature For Publishers
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LibraryThing, an online service to help people catalog their books easily, has announced (http://www.librarything.com/blogs/librarything/2010/08/librarything-for-publishers/), a new feature for publishers called "LibraryThing for Publishers." Like LibraryThing Local, Local Book Search, LibraryThing for Libraries, and LibraryThing Authors, LibraryThing for Publishers is about linking arms with another important player in the book world for everyone's benefit. LibraryThing for Publishers is free and open to any legitimate publisher. It's simple to upload titles. The service has launched with five publishers, covering eight imprints.
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OCLC Issues Statement on SkyRiver Lawsuit
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OCLC has issued a formal statement in response to the lawsuit filed by SkyRiver Technology Solutions and Innovative Interfaces, Inc., alleging antitrust violations and anticompetitive practices. Calling it a "regrettable action," the company warns that the process will likely drag on for "months or even years." For our NewsBreak coverage of the lawsuit, see: http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Digital-Lending-Goes-into-OverDrive-68676.asp.
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Ex Libris Announces Econtent Collaboration with Thomson Reuters
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Ex Libris Group (http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/) announced that Thomson Reuters (http:// www.thomsonreuters.com) is to make its important collections directly accessible to Web of Knowledge subscribers via the Primo Central mega-aggregate of scholarly econtent. With Primo Central, users simultaneously search locally managed collections and global econtent and receive search results that are blended into a single relevance-ranked list. Web of Science, part of the Web of Knowledge platform, claims to be the largest and most comprehensive database of research citations available. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content in Web of Science covers more than 11,000 journals worldwide, including open access journals and more than 110,000 conference proceedings spanning the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
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Wiley Online Library Replaces Wiley InterScience
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by Paula J. Hane
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The year 2010 may go down in history for the most new platform launches in the information industry. Under increasing pressures from new web technologies and user expectations of simplicity and easy access, content providers have taken on reengineering and rebuilding their services from the ground up. Last weekend (Aug. 7-8), John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (www.wiley.com) officially switched off its aging Wiley InterScience platform and launched the all new Wiley Online Library (www.wileyonlinelibrary.com). William J. Pesce, Wiley's president and CEO, calls the launch of Wiley Online Library "a milestone event in Wiley's 203-year history. It enables us to provide more access to more content by more people around the world than ever before."
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