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Thursday, February 16, 2012
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Etextbooks Attracting Involvement of the FCC, Education Department, and Higher Ed
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by Nancy K. Herther
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The focus on etextbooks continues as even the federal government makes major strides into taking the school textbook into the 21st century. Apple promised a "revolution" in its January press conference, and we seem to be in the middle of a revolution; however, Apple isn't leading the charge this time. An ambitious plan "to help K-12 schools transition to digital textbooks" in the next 5 years is laid out in the Digital Textbook Collaborative.
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Wolters Kluwer Health Expands Distribution Agreement With NEJM
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Wolters Kluwer Health announced that it entered into an expanded distribution agreement with the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Under the terms of the agreement, Ovid will be the only medical research aggregator to distribute current, nonembargoed NEJM content to institutions and their clinicians, researchers, and students who need fast access to the latest medical and clinical literature.
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Ingram’s Vital Source Now Working With Blackboard
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Ingram's Vital Source is now providing access to its etextbook platform through Blackboard Learn, one of the most widely used learning management systems. The Blackboard Building Block for VitalSource gives institutions a comprehensive tool to implement digital textbooks for students in mobile, online, and offline environments.
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China/Asia on Demand Metadata Accessible via EBSCO Discovery Service
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A new partnership between EBSCO Publishing and Oriprobe Information Services Inc. will allow content from China/Asia On Demand (CAOD) to be accessible within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The agreement allows for metadata from this valuable collection of research literature from Asia to be added to the Base Index of EDS. The EDS Base Index represents content from about 20,000 providers (and growing) in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers.
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ProQuest Works to Integrate Assets and Services
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by Paula J. Hane
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Last summer, ProQuest welcomed Kurt Sanford as its new CEO. He has now had 6 months leading the company and has already made his mark with a reorganization of leadership, new customer focus, and product migrations and integrations. I had a chance to visit with him during ALA Midwinter in Dallas and get an update on the corporate strategy he is implementing and his thoughts on the industry.
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