If you are a subscriber to CourseSmart, a provider of e-textbooks  (for more information about CourseSmart and other digital textbook publishers, see High textbook prices + Web 2.0 leads to alternative publishing models), you will be happy to know that books from the service are now available on the Iphone/Ipod Touch. Digital editions of textbooks […]

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Quantum Nanoelectronics: An introduction to electronic nanotechnology and quantum computing, is the first textbook to handle profitable new directions for nanotechnology, such as nanoelectronic aspects of ink-printed thin film solar cells and convenient hydrogen storage.

From the publisher:
The march of Moore’s Law takes electronics to the molecular level, and indeed molecules are likely to be […]

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Great collections have always been vulnerable, but recent disasters are fueling a race to digitize and preserve cultural relics.  It is well known that in ancient times, the famous library in Alexandria burned down resulting in the loss of its irreplaceable collection. But cultural relics are just as vulnerable today, perhaps more so in an […]

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For those of you who are tired of having to lug heavy  textbooks around, and also happen to be gadget oriented,  reprieve may be just around the corner.
Amazon plans to unveil on Wednesday a new  Kindle designed  especially for textbooks. The current Kindle e-reader has a  screen that is too small to display the photographs, […]

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MIT faculty voted unanimously to approve a resolution that allows MIT to freely and publicly distribute research articles they write. This makes MIT the first university to commit to making its faculty’s research papers available online to the public. Though the School of Education at Stanford and several departments at Harvard have already adopted these […]

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The new SciTopics is a free, online expert-generated knowledge-sharing service for the research community that offers scientific, technical, and medical knowledge on a variety of subjects. Designed to complement the traditional peer-review process, the site allows invited experts to develop topic pages offering research summaries with the content moderated through 14 subject editors to ensure […]

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This month ScienceWatch.com released the highest-cited papers from 20 countries spanning the globe.  The countries featured were selected based on their papers published in […]

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At a few select campuses, you can now place an order and have a machine convert digital files into books. This represents a new model for the publishing industry: instead of publishers printing thousands of copies and hoping someone purchases it, an item is only printed when it already has a buyer.
You cannot print any […]

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A new open access journal of interest to the bioinformatics community, DATABASE - The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, will be released in January, 2009 . The online-only journal is now accepting submissions for publication.
The journal seeks to provide a platform for novel ideas in database research surrounding biological information and will reportedly cover […]

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You may be aware that a settlement was announced between Google and several publishers  and authors.  The agreement will allow Google to sell electronic versions of books that are still under copyright protection, but which are currently out of print. Many books are available for free online viewing and downloading, and many are being formatted […]

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