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From CUP:
Cambridge University Press’s new integrated eBook and digital content offering, University Publishing Online, launched yesterday.
University Publishing Online, at www.universitypublishingonline.org, provides aggregated content from the Mathematical Association of America (based in Washington D.C.), Liverpool University Press, Foundation Books (based in India), and Cambridge University Press. Access to content from Edinburgh University Press and Nottingham University Press
1356 readersSearching through academic texts has gotten easier, thanks to a new online database from Cambridge University Press.
University Publishing Online is a new digital database of aggregated content from the Mathematical Association of America (based in Washington D.C.), Liverpool University Press, Foundation Books (based in India) and Cambridge University Press. (Access to content from Edinburgh University
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2135 readersFrom a Portico Announcement:
Cambridge University Press will preserve its Cambridge Books Online content with Portico. Through this agreement, Cambridge extends its relationship with Portico, which began in 2006 with the publisher’s commitment to deposit its entire list of e-journals in the Portico archive. “As more users turn to online access for books, a digital preservation
1768 readersCambridge University Press took a step this past week towards becoming a digital content distributor. On Wednesday it officially announced University Publishing Online, a new way for libraries and schools to acquire content from academic publishers.
It’s due to launch in late October 2011, but Cambridge University Press has already announced several partners. Liverpool University
1880 readersThis October, Cambridge University Press will launch a new digital content platform called University Publishing Online, which is based on the existing digital platform Cambridge Books Online but open to outside academic publishers. Boydell & Brewer, Liverpool University Press, the Mathematical Association of America, and Foundation Books (based in India) have been named as early
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From The Chronicle of Higer Education comes an article about Cambridge University Press and its new rental program:
Will researchers pay for short-term access to journal articles? Cambridge University Press is about to find out. The publisher has just announced a rental program for articles from the more than 280 peer-reviewed journals it publishes.
“For just £3.99, $5.99
189 readersThe popular note-taking app Evernote has updated its Android app to Version 5, adding a few new features including a tool that lets users digitize physical notes.
The update, which hit the iOS version of the app earlier this month, includes a feature called page camera mode. This mode accesses the camera or tablet’s camera to
1232 readersCambridge University Press sent out an email this morning with a new offer of free access to one of its websites. For the next 6 weeks, all articles published in the Cambridge Journals in 2009 and 2010 will be free for everyone to use.
The site is offline at the moment, so it’s not clear how
1802 readersCambridge University Library, in partnership with the Darwin Manuscripts Project, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library announced today that the first part of Charles Darwin’s personal scientific library is now available online.
His collection, which spans over 1,400 titles, is in the process of being scanned and uploaded. 730 titles have margin notes written by Darwin,
884 readersHere’s the text of an unsolicited email I just received from Amazon. This sets the standard for all other ebook retailers to meet: We’re writing about your past Kindle purchase of ‘The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer’ by Philip Carlo. The version you received contained some errors that have been corrected. An