Palgrave, Nautre Launch Ebook Program; Sage Partners with FedLink  

-- Library Journal, 11/13/2008 12:58:00 PM

This week, Palgrave Macmillan and its sister company, Nature Publishing Group (NPG), announced they will collaborate to create Palgrave Connect, billed as "a flexible approach" to building an eBook collection in the Humanities, Business and Social Sciences. In all, Palgrave Connect will offer libraries over 4000 ebooks, beginning in January 2009, alongside Palgrave journals content. It will be powered by NPG’s platform. 

The Palgrave, NPG partnership will allow librarians to manage their subscriptions to journal and ebook products from both publishers via one administration system and with a single point of contact for customer service. Ebook collections will be organized and sold by year of publication and discipline, and both the backlist and the 2009 collections will be available via a “one-time perpetual access” purchase model. Collections will also offer NPG’s library services, including institutional usage reports and promotional tools. MARC records will be included with all collections at the time of purchase.

Palgrave Macmillan will offer exclusive previews of Palgrave Connect at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, in Denver, CO. Visit Palgrave booth # 1113 this January 23-26, 2009 to request a brief demonstration or to register for a free trial. Librarians seeking a trial or more information should email: onlinesales@palgrave-usa.com …

 SAGE this week announced that it has partnered with FEDLINK Federal Library and Information Network), to provide its online products to participating U.S. federal libraries. Under the agreement, U.S. federal libraries can now access SAGE’s full-rext collections. More information on SAGE’s offerings to FEDLINK, is here ...

SOLINET (The Southeastern Library Network) has announced a partnership with Progressive Technology Federal Systems to offer its members training on ArchivalWare, a web-based, full-text search and retrieval system for digital libraries. SOLINET will develop a series of online classes, scheduled to begin this winter…

OverDrive is now offering downloadable videos from Starz Media, including anime material, more than 200 television series, and feature films. Additionally, 1000 Tantor Media audiobooks will be added to OverDrive’s catalog of 150,000 digital titles. Tantor offers both one-copy/one-user titles and always-available titles for simultaneous download, plus a collection of iPod-compatible MP3 audiobooks…more information is here... 

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