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• Open access to electronic theses soon to be commonplace

  February 21, 2012 5:55 pm

• Wiley Acquires Inscape, a Leading Provider of DiSC®-Based Learning Solutions

  February 20, 2012 4:26 pm

• British Book Buyers are Switching to “e” from Print and Spending Less

  February 15, 2012 4:54 pm

• Elsevier Honored with Six PROSE Awards

  February 13, 2012 4:50 pm

• California Digital Library Joins PKP as Major Development Partner in Open Access Publishing

  February 8, 2012 4:49 pm

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  Open access to electronic theses soon to be commonplace

  February 21, 2012 5:55 pm - Featured

  Doctoral theses can attract significant attention when made openly accessible in electronic form according to the respondents of a sector-wide survey of information professionals. The JISC-funded survey gives a clearer picture of progress toward electronic thesis deposit in the UK, [...]

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  Wiley Acquires Inscape, a Leading Provider of DiSC®-Based Learning Solutions

  February 20, 2012 4:26 pm - Featured

  Wiley Acquires Inscape, a Leading Provider of DiSC®-Based Learning Solutions: Acquisition extends Wiley’s global reach and accelerates Wiley’s digital strategy in workplace learning John Wiley & Sons, announced today that it has acquired Inscape Holdings Inc., a leading provider of [...]

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  British Book Buyers are Switching to “e” from Print and Spending Less

  February 15, 2012 4:54 pm - Featured

  E-book sales are rising to offset a decline in physical book purchases, but only in volume. With the lower price points of e-books versus their print counterparts, the value of book sales is shrinking. That revelation is just one finding [...]

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  Elsevier Honored with Six PROSE Awards

  February 13, 2012 4:50 pm - Featured

  Elsevier today announced that it has garnered top honors and recognition at the 2011 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (the PROSE Awards). The annual PROSE Awards, established by the Association of American Publishers (AAP), recognizes high standards in [...]

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  California Digital Library Joins PKP as Major Development Partner in Open Access Publishing

  February 8, 2012 4:49 pm - Featured

  As the scholarly publishing landscape heats up with more talk of boycotts and Open Access mandates, research libraries increasingly find themselves at a crossroads between publishers and faculty — and eagerly working to provide new solutions to entrenched problems.  The [...]