EBSCO adds eBook collections ITCore and EngineeringCore

Hi class,

This is an interesting news about EBSCO adding eBook collections:

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/EBSCO-Adds-New-Ebook-Subscription-Collections-87596.asp

Rong

e textbook not taking on

Hi class,

This is an interesting article on students not using e-textbooks:

http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/students-still-not-taking-to-e-textbooks-new-data-show/

Best,
Rong

New electronic resources librarian position

Hi class,

You might be interested in this new open position at The Boston Athenæum:


http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/39

Deadline to apply is 3/15/13.

Best,
Rong

A cyber war is brewing

Hi class,

Read the following blog by Paula Hanes on cyber security on scholarly contents

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/A-Cyber-War-is-Brewing-87505.asp

Rong

Publishers "double-dipping"

Hi class,

You will be interested in reading this posting on "double-dipping" by publishers:

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/01/29/in-praise-of-double-dipping-fairness-affordability-vitality-and-sustainability/

Best,
Rong

Ten Bold Predictions for Ebooks and Digital Publishing in 2013

Hi class,

You will be interested in this posting about Ebook predictions for 2013:

http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/ten-bold-predictions-for-ebooks-and-digital-publishing-in-2013/

Best,
Rong

Review of 2012 and Trends Watch 2013 by Paula J. Hane

Hi class,

You will be interested in reading this posting on 2013 trends watch:

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Review-of--and-Trends-Watch--86926.asp

The 2013 trends are:

• Apple versus Google versus Facebook versus Amazon—battling on hardware and search (“The Lines Between Software and Hardware Continue to Blur”)
• Battle of the mobile devices (Apple iOS, Google’s Android, Microsoft Windows)
• Intelligent objects—The Internet of Things
• More predictive personalization
• Expansion of peer power
• Growth in open source innovation/problem solving (e.g., more installations of Solr)
• Expansion of cloud computing and thus a greater need for security and data center redundancy (outages are much more a problem than data breaches)
• Work anywhere
• More Big Data (as one search technologies expert said, “There’s plenty of hype around big data, but underneath there are compelling applications to be implemented which combine the best of enterprise search and business insight technologies.")
• Publishers will use metadata in more sophisticated ways
• Publishers will still grapple with testing new business models—library pricing, subscription models, DRM-free sales, etc.
• Companies will increasingly have to deal with Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) issues
• Looking forward to Microsoft Surface Pro with full version of Windows 8
• Enterprises may choose to bypass Windows 8 (because of interface issues) and wait for “Windows 9”
• Anticipated launch of “iPad 5” and “iPhone 6”
• Anticipated next Android launch—“Key Lime Pie”
• More sales of near-field-communication (NFC) enabled mobile devices—and adoption of customizable NFC tags
• Biometric security becoming more prevalent
• T-Mobile targets AT&T customers
• More publisher consolidation
• Consumers with content stored in the cloud may encounter problems when they want to move to another provider

Best,

Rong