for University of Wolverhampton Learning and Information Services
Bowker offer staff complimentary online training for Global Books in Print. Sign up here.
The sessions cover:
A range of business models for e-textbooks will be evaluated through four different trials at 13 higher education institutions. The trials will involve the participation of eight major textbook publishers and three e-book aggregators, and the overall objective is to identify realistic and sustainable business models.
The trials start this month and, in order to reflect the real live environment as far as possible, they will run until the end of the 2009/10 academic year.
http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/archives/211
We have a trial of EBSCO’s Humanities International Complete which provides full text of hundreds of journals and books in the humanities from around the world.
The trial runs from 6th October to the 6th November. You’ll find a link to the trial on our Current database trials page too.
We’d be grateful for feedback please.
A recent survey carried out for the prestigious Frankfurt Book Fair, which consulted 840 experts in the international publishing industry, concluded that digital publishing sales will overtake print sales, in 2018. Presently, however, the proportion of digital sales is comparatively low. These conclusion were reported in a recent post of the Bookseller.com and the views probably represent publishing as a whole; developments within academic/research publishing are likely to be quicker.
We have a very short three-day trial to WGSN - the ‘world’s leading fashion and style forecaster’. The trial starts … now.
Please contact us for the username and password.
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The JISC national e-books observatory project has come to an end now.
The ebooks which were part of the project which we didn’t already have in stock, will no longer be available to us. Their OPAC records will be removed from OPAC.
Here’s a list of all the titles. If you want to retain access to any of them you’ll need to purchase them in the usual way. If you want usage statistics, please contact us.
A Times Higher Education article reports on some of the project’s findings.
A new resource called Dance in Video is now available from the Databases A-Z.
It features videos of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
Proquest are able to offer us training sessions for any of their services. The sessions can be delivered on-campus or online.
The Proquest services include: UK Newsstand, Nursing and Allied Health Source, The Economist, Literature Online, Art Bibliographies Modern, ASSIA, British Humanities Index, Design & Applied Arts Index, and Design Abstracts Retrospective.
Contact John, Toby or Mark for more information.
NESLI2 are offering a number of deals for e-journals from small and medium sized publishers for 2010. The deals are for:
Electronic Resources Newsletter