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When the cost of scientific journals skyrocketed in the 1990s, no one academic institution could afford the annual 20 percent plus increases in cost for print journals. As a result, […]

Every year of business in every sector is punctuated by those companies that are making an impact on the industry that surrounds them. NMA has picked 10 companies to watch […]

Custom publishers need new services to win and keep clients. But is electronic publishing an opportunity--or trouble--for them? Custom publishing is undergoing an identity crisis. As online and print publishing [...]

Grolier Online [Content] The New Book of Knowledge (NBK) Online is published by Grolier and derives from The New Book of Knowledge print edition (published since 1911 for the home [...]

You might be surprised to learn that the very first library conference I attended was the Second International Conference on Grey Literature. I was a special collections student (like most […]

The publicity surrounding the launch of Microsoft's Slate has been so great that no matter how successful it might be, it is almost certain to be seen as a disappointment. […]

Cinnamonteal Publishing was established by Queenie Fernandes and Leonard Fernandes with a capital of Rs40,000 in Aug 2007. The company provides online publishing services including design and printing to self-publishing [...]

The player: Adam Erlebacher and Greg Neichin, co-founders of PlaceVine, an Internet service that connects content creators with advertisers for brand integration opportunities. The play: PlaceVine is like an online [...]

Games and music distribution firm Softwrap is to team up with publishing portal eBook.com to help authors sell books online. Softwrap, which virtually shrink-wraps digital content into small secure files [...]

BT has launched its service for low-cost items, click&buy, through a range of retail partners including handbag.com, Rivals Digital Media and women's portal iVillage. The service allows consumers to buy [...]

Capitalizing on the increasing popularity of handheld computers, Edmunds.com, a vehicle information Web site, is selling advertising attached to downloads from its site. And most of the ads aim to [...]

Alasdair Reid writes on the prospect of net publishers being paid for information. You get what you pay for in this life, everybody knows that. Do you expect penetrating insight [...]

Women's portal iVillage UK is teaming up with Primary Education Helpdesk to provide tuition for primary school kids. From this week, children will be able to access live lessons at [...]

Cricket web site CricInfo (www.cricinfo.com) is launching a travel channel with partners including British Airways, Malaysian Airlines and package holiday operator Travelcare. It will be accessible through CricInfo's home page [...]

Women's portal iVillage UK is expanding its range of content areas with a parenting channel. The area (www.ivillage.co.uk/parenting) is being introduced following the popularity of the portal's pregnancy and baby [...]

ediThe Department for Education and Skills (DfES) is backing a new online version of the BCS Disability Group's magazine by distributing the paper version to its public online centres across […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new Best Value guide - focussed on providing information and guidance for council planners - has been launched online by the UK Government. […]

TelecomWeb has launched a new section to help busy executives identify the reports that best meet their immediate research needs. The Reports & Studies Store offers editors' selections of quality, […]

Supercomm, widely viewed as the most important trade show in the global telecommunications arena, is about to move warp speed into the future. More than 800 exhibitors are poised for […]

TelecomWeb has launched a new section to help busy executives identify the reports that best meet their immediate research needs. The Reports & Studies Store offers editors' selections of quality, […]

Supercomm, widely viewed as the most important trade show in the global telecommunications arena, is about to move warp speed into the future. More than 800 exhibitors are poised for […]

TelecomWeb has launched a new section to help busy executives identify the reports that best meet their immediate research needs. The Reports & Studies Store offers editors' selections of quality, […]

n More than 250,000 pages of text, 20 high-tech publications and nine years of conference proceedings are now available to BCS members through an exclusive deal on the digital library […]

Women's portal iVillage UK is teaming up with Rank Interactive Gaming to offer online gaming for the first time. Rank.com will be the exclusive games channel provider for iVillage UK, [...]

TelecomWeb has launched a new section to help busy executives identify the reports that best meet their immediate research needs. The Reports & Studies Store offers editors' selections of quality, […]

Ziff Davis Media folded two magazines last week, Interactive Week and Smart Partner. Interactive Week will be merged into e Week as a regular section, and the magazine will combine [...]

Culinary Software Services, Inc. has made an enhanced range of electronic recipe books available to ChefTec ™ users. Downloaded directly from the Internet into ChefTec ™, recipes can be modified [...]

Site to offer free e-books; properties eyed for TV, film franchises Jean Chalopin has created some of the best-rated animated properties on television. He also has produced a couple of [...]

Ebrary.com, an electronic library of sorts that has been under development since 1999 and is expected to launch very soon, holds significant promise for academic presses that typically struggle to [...]

The California Digital Library (CDL; http://www.cdlip.org) and the University of California Press (UC Press; http://www.ucpress.edu) have announced that more than 60 UC Press books are now available for free on […]

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) has announced that GeoRef in Process, published by the American Geological Institute (AGI), is now available through its Internet Database Service (IDS). The database contains records […]

Grolier Educational has announced America the Beautiful--State-by-State, its latest addition to Grolier Online. Based on the America the Beautiful book series, America the Beautiful--State-by-State is a tool for grades 4 […]

Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. has announced the availability of ENCompass 1.1, the second release of the ENCompass digital management, searching, and linking tool. Endeavor has also announced that it recently […]

3M Library Systems has announced that 15 academic and public institutions have recently selected 3M Digital ID Collection Management for their libraries--with locations in the U.S., Italy, Singapore, the U.K., […]

ScienceDirect has announced that it will offer MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database, to all ScienceDirect customers free of charge. Both MEDLINE and pre-MEDLINE will be included […]

This service aims to distribute an enterprise's information where it's needed It used to be that information professionals dealt with things like Boolean connectors, field searching, nesting, and proximity operators. […]

Those who research a vehicle on the Edmunds.com Web site may see an animated banner ad or slide-show commercial for that vehicle alongside its price and horsepower rating. Edmunds, the [...]

Riverdeep Interactive Learning and the Internet Learning Network (ILN) are teaming up to give kids a boost in math and science by introducing Riverdeep's 'mywave' e-zine, designed for middle school […]

Online tax libraries are gaining en print and disk versions. What hat hath the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 wrought? For tax research publishers, it represents […]

Who among us has not dreamed of writing The Great American Novel? Just ask anyone who has ever expressed himself or herself by putting words on paper, or for that [...]

Snags ingenta's 4500 journals, Ancestry.com's genealogical info Gale Group, which has been sucking up content as readily as it has been buying companies, came to ALA with word that it [...]

NORTH KINGSTOWN - Readers can get a preview of upcoming mfg. Magazine issues online. With mfg. Online, e-mail subscribers can read summaries of application stories, news, product profiles and technical [...]

SLASHING, NOT BURNING: Aiming to conserve cash, women's media network iVillage has sharpened its cost-cutting blade, raising layoffs, following its merger with Women.com, to about 220 people, from 70 planned [...]

Corbis, Seattle, and Wam!Net, Eagan, Minn., have announced the commercial availability of a subscription-based service enabling on-line, global access to Corbis's royalty-free disk collection of more than 25,000 photo images [...]

Automotive Industries Magazine is re-tooling the AI-Online site to better serve you. Along with our new owners, Randall Publishing Co., we're adding features, beefing up content and making the site [...]

CSI is pleased to announce the successful launch of CSI E-News, a series of seven newsletter topics providing valuable technical updates and case history and application information to the industrial [...]

Lexis-Nexis has announced that it has added The New York Observer, Salon.com, and Access to Presidential Studies to its service. The company also announced that it will enter into an […]

Factiva has announced the release of Factiva Select, a new current awareness tool; Andersen Business Radar; and Web Parts. The company also announced that it has entered into agreements with […]

Zden, a supplier of products for content providers and content aggregators, has announced the next step of its international rollout plan. According to the announcement, this will consist of offering […]

Company: Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Ill. Agency: Ogilvy Interactive, New York Market: Personal digital assistant users and chip buyers Chase: The new, larger embedded ads pioneered on CNET Networks Inc.'s News.com [...]