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Etextbook Update
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by Paula J. Hane
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I've been regularly covering news of digital textbooks for several years. It is now a market in such flux, with so many developments, startup launches, reports of research, publishing company restructuring and mergers, and more, that it warrants revisiting frequently. This is a review of some recent noteworthy developments and a discussion of a report on student acceptance.
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Ex Libris Primo Central to Search SwetsWise Online Content
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Ex Libris Group, a library automation vendor, announced that following an agreement with Swets, a developer of content management services for libraries and publishers, mutual customers will be able to search the SwetsWise Online Content ejournal gateway via the Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic materials.
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Reprints Desk Launches Document Delivery Service for Academic Institutions
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Reprints Desk, Inc., a Research Solutions company, announced the launch of A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection, a new single-article document delivery retrieval service for academic libraries that provide literature acquisition services to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. University of Washington Libraries was among the first users of this new service, which Reprints Desk initially launched to a limited number of academic institutions in 2012.
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Serials Solutions Partners With Wolters Kluwer Health
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Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, and Wolters Kluwer Health announced that Lippincott Williams & Wilkins content available on the Ovid institutional research platform will be indexed in the Summon discovery service. Researchers will be able to search the abstract and full reference (metadata) details of LWW's 280 journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, and allied health professionals.
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ProQuest Takes Over Library Marketing for NewspaperARCHIVE.com: Turmoil and Tumult
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by Barbara Quint
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NewspaperARCHIVE.com provides a massive searchable database of local newspapers (more than 5,000 titles) with content dating from 1607. It runs more than 130 million pages with new ones added at the rate of one a second. A consumer version of the complete file has the usual attractive prices of a Net product—from free but inconvenient to full-featured and unlimited usage versions with prices starting at $19.95 a month. Library sales have grown over the years; they now have some 250 libraries contracting for the database. Now the company has signed an exclusive worldwide distribution agreement with ProQuest. ProQuest will not provide any of its own newspaper coverage, but it does plan to re-package the NewspaperARCHIVE.com content and re-price it. In the course of gathering information on the new arrangement, ProQuest changed product plans dramatically in just a few days. However, one thing was clear: Prices for libraries will really change.
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