Friday, August 10, 2012

Springer is digitising its out of print books

From Research Information:The anticipated demand for older book titles is based partly on the publishers’ experience with its journal archive. ‘For customers who’ve purchased the journal archive, 20-25 per cent of usage on SpringerLink is of journal content from before 1997,’ noted Willems. ‘And the value of older books is even higher than for old journals so we believe that demand will be high.’

The majority of the books will be available as searchable PDFs, with an accompanying XML file that contains bibliographic information and references. ‘

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