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Product update
Taylor & Francis announces new e-book packages
Taylor & Francis has introduced eFocus, a series of four e-book subscription packages for research libraries. The packages cover four subject areas. Development Studies is
said to provide scholars and development practitioners with a comprehensive view of the nature, scope and impact of changes taking place in developing and transition countries.
The second package, which is titled Routledge/ ECPR Studies in European Political Science, is said to present high-quality edited volumes on topics at the leading edge of current interest in political science and related fields.
The other two packages focus on China and globalisation.
www.ebooksubscriptions.com
AIP launches e-book site for SEG
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has launched an e-books website for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). The SEG eBooks site, hosted on AIP’s Scitation platform, offers 35 books – including the option to purchase individual book chapters – with an additional 15 books planned for inclusion by May 2010. The e-books are said to
be fully integrated with the SEG Digital Library, so that researchers and students can search and access journals, books, and papers from SEG meetings on a single site. Institutions may gain access to SEG eBooks by annual subscription to the entire collection or by perpetual-access purchases of individual titles.
segdl.org/ebooks
Infobase books join Gale platform
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, will distribute more than 250 titles from Infobase Publishing’s e-book collection through Gale Virtual Reference Library, Gale’s e-book platform.
The titles have been chosen primarily from the Facts On File and Ferguson Publishing imprints at the middle school level and
above, including titles in the areas of careers, teen health and issues, global warming and science. A library’s Gale Virtual Reference Library eBook collection is cross-searchable with its other Gale resources, including many periodical solutions and resource centres.
www.cengage.com
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Paratext titles on Blackwell reference platform
Paratext has added links to some 450 e-titles in Blackwell Reference Online to its Reference Universe platform.
This cross-searchable library database supports article- and index-level discovery-of-reference materials from more than 750 publishers and imprints. Blackwell Reference
Online brings together Wiley-Blackwell’s Blackwell Companions and Handbooks, as well as a range of major encyclopedias, including the Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Sociology
and the International
Encyclopedia of Communication.
www.paratext.com
ScienceDirect links with PANGAEA
The data library PANGAEA (Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data) and Elsevier have implemented reciprocal linking between their content in earth system research. Research data sets deposited at PANGAEA are now automatically linked to the corresponding articles in Elsevier journals on its electronic platform ScienceDirect and vice versa. This linking functionality also
provides a credit mechanism for research data sets deposited in this data library. Working with the scientific community to preserve scientific research data is also an objective of the Elsevier Content Innovation programme. Through this agreement and development, Elsevier supports the long-term storage, wide availability and preservation of large research data sets.
www.elsevier.com
Semantico Access Management System gets new release
Semantico has released the Semantico Access Management System (SAMS) version 3.9. The new version is compatible with Shibboleth 2.
The release of this latest version of SAMS promises to enable publishers to upgrade to Shibboleth 2 well in advance of the 30 June end-of-life
date for Shibboleth 1.3. Implementing SAMS 3.9 before June will help publishers avoid disruptive unplanned upgrades after this date, says Semantico. Shibboleth allows users to identify which institution they would like to use to authenticate their access to online resources.
www.semantico.com
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