May 2012 Issue
Academia is YBP's online collection development resource for all academic libraries. Published twelve times per year, Academia includes selection lists of new books, publishing industry news, award-winning titles, and other features to aid collection development in academic libraries of every size and type.
What's New
- Academic Essentials: Public Policy
- AP Plus Titles
- Area/Ethnic Studies: Chicano-Hispanic Studies
- Best-selling eBooks
- Colcord's Popular Music Books
- eBooks: European Union
- Forthcoming Law
- Literary Essentials
- Medical Selections (Nicki's Picks)
- Spotlight On Science and Technology in Society
- UK Core Titles - Quarter 1
- U.S. Core Titles - Quarter 1
Publisher Profiles
- World Scientific
World Scientific Publishing is one of the leading scientific publishers in the world, and the largest international scientific publisher in the Asia-Pacific region. Our mission is to develop the highest-quality knowledge-based products and services for the academic, professional, research and student communities worldwide. We publish more than 550 books and 125 journals a year in various fields of science, technology, medicine, and business and economics. We are also on the cutting-edge of electronic publishing as all of our journals and most of books are available in electronic format.
Featured eContent

ebrary's Academic Complete
Libraries can now subscribe to this comprehensive collection of eBooks, which offers simultaneous, multi-user access to nearly 44,000 titles. Subscribe to the entire collection to build an instant eBook library, or to one or more of the 16 subject collections that comprise Academic Complete. For more information, contact your YBP representative, or click here.















