Search Engines & Research Tools

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D-Lib Jan/Feb 2016 Herterich & Dallmeier-Tiessen	Data Citation Services in the High-Energy Physics Community Digital libraries are able to play a significant role in enabling Open Science by facilitating data sharing, discovery and re-use.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2016 Nash & Wheeler	Desktop Batch Import Workflow for Ingesting Heterogeneous Collections: A Case Study with DSpace 5 We describe a lightweight and easily adopted Python workflow for packaging heterogeneous collections in Simple Archive Format for batch ingest into DSpace.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2016 Brunelle et al.	Leveraging Heritrix and the Wayback Machine on a Corporate Intranet: A Case Study on Improving Corporate Archives We outline the challenges of Intranet web archiving, identify situations in which the open source tools are not well suited for the needs of the corporate archivists, and make recommendations for future use.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2016 Becker et al.	The Benchmarking Forum at IPRES 2015 The International Conference on Digital Preservation, brought practitioners to discuss opportunities and challenges in adopting software benchmarking as a systematic tool for evaluating digital preservation tools.
Information Today January 14, 2016	SirsiDynix Rolls Out Web-Visibility Product SirsiDynix released BLUEcloud Visibility, which helps libraries leverage the power of search engines to make their resources discoverable on the open web.
Information Today January 14, 2016	EBSCO Gives Libraries Incentives to Step Toward Solar EBSCO Information Services created a grant initiative (totaling $150,000) to help libraries adopt solar power.
Information Today January 14, 2016	Gale Offers Libraries Interactive Science Products for Students Gale launched three new science products for academic and school libraries that are designed to help students understand science beyond simply reading their textbooks.
Information Today January 14, 2016	CCC Integrates Altmetric Data Into RightFind Enterprise Copyright Clearance Center partnered with Altmetric to integrate Altmetric data into CCC's RightFind Enterprise content workflow solution, which provides access to STM content.
Information Today January 14, 2016	Alexander Street Introduces OA Resources Alexander Street announced three freely accessible online resources in the topics of video, anthropology, and music.
Information Today January 12, 2016 Nancy K. Herther	Mobile Forecast: 2016 Promises Major Advances for Info on the Go Today's smartphones combine communication, the ability to check the time, photography, calculation, address books, note-taking, and so many other functions.
Information Today January 12, 2016	ByWater Solutions and EBSCO Host Webinar ByWater Solutions and EBSCO Information Services will offer a free, 1-hour webinar, Why We Fit Your Library, on Jan. 21, 2016.
Information Today January 12, 2016	Gale Plans Launch of Gender and Sexuality Archives Gale created an advisory board of leading scholars and librarians in sexuality and gender studies for the upcoming three-part digital program Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity.
Information Today January 12, 2016	OCLC Partners With New Publishers for WorldCat Discovery Services OCLC has agreements with more than 200 publishers and information providers to receive their metadata.
Information Today January 7, 2016	Credo Updates Essentials Collections Credo introduced new content to its Essentials Collections and curated 10 of them by subject so libraries can offer foundational scholarly titles to their patrons.
Information Today January 7, 2016	Elsevier Adds to Knovel Interactive Equations The online Knovel platform makes the equations foundational to every engineering discipline easily discoverable.
Information Today January 7, 2016	Project Information Literacy Studies College Graduates The report is called, "Staying Smart: How Today's Graduates Continue to Learn Once They Complete College."
Information Today January 5, 2016 George H. Pike	The Year in Congress: Accomplishments in 2015 A review is offered of new laws that affect the library community and the information industry.
Information Today January 5, 2016	Alexander Street Offers New Round of Film Scripts This second volume is composed of 500 scripts and coincides with a platform upgrade for the original American Film Scripts Online Series.
Information Today January 5, 2016	Wikipedia Celebrates Its 15th Birthday With Librarian-Centric Campaign The Wikipedia Library team invites librarians to help Wikipedia celebrate its 15th birthday on Jan. 15, 2016, by adding one reference to any Wikipedia article.
Information Today January 5, 2016	Thomson Reuters Deepens Partnership With Ringgold Thomson Reuters' ScholarOne Manuscripts platform integrated Ringgold's Identify Database of more than 400,000 institutional records.
Information Today January 5, 2016	British Library Makes Digitization Progress on Historic Maps The British Library is a quarter of the way through its project to re-catalog, digitize, and conserve King George III's collection of 50,000 maps dating from around 1500 to 1824.
Information Today January 5, 2016 Brandi Scardilli	The News of 2015: The Year in Review We look forward to what is sure to be another eventful year for libraries, information professionals, and information services, it's time to reflect on the major industry happenings in 2015.
Chemistry World December 18, 2015 Ned Stafford	India maintains scientific edge despite static funding Researchers in India are increasingly authoring articles published in 'high-quality scientific publications' despite continued stagnation in Indian government spending for research, according to a new Nature Index analytics report.
Information Today December 17, 2015 Brandi Scardilli	libib Helps Small Libraries Manage Their Collections libib can keep track of books, movies, music, and video games in up to 100 separate library lists. It's available for personal or small organizational libraries as a website or app.
Information Today December 17, 2015	NPG Announces Results of Article-Sharing Trial The company will continue to offer on-platform sharing of full-text NPG articles using ReadCube's enhanced PDF technology.
Information Today December 17, 2015	Ingram Acquires Direct Sales Service Ingram Content Group acquired Aer.io, a service that helps publishers, retailers, and authors sell print books and ebooks directly via their websites, blogs, and social networks.
Information Today December 17, 2015	GPO Signs Up to Help Preserve Historical Government Technical Reports The U.S. Government Publishing Office became the first federal agency to join the Technical Report Archive & Image Library. The organizations will work together to advance free public access to government information
Information Today December 17, 2015	ODILO Reaches Nearly 1 Million Ebooks Ebook provider ODILO partnered with Gardners, a European wholesaler of English-language physical and digital products, to add more than 650,000 titles in January 2016.
Information Today December 17, 2015	EBSCO Donates Articles to Readers in Developing Countries EBSCO Information Services teamed up with the nonprofit Worldreader to bring nonfiction content to children and families in sub-Saharan Africa and India
Information Today December 15, 2015 Abby Clobridge	Introducing Meta: Where Big Science Meets Scientific Publishing All of Meta's services are created around its machine intelligence platform, which reads more than 19 million full-text articles, the entirety of PubMed, and continuously crawls the web to identify all of the people and entities mentioned in the literature.
Information Today December 15, 2015	Zimmerman's Research Guide to Shut Down Zimmerman decided to retire the encyclopedia after more than 15 years. It was first posted on LLRX.com and then moved to LexisNexis in 2003.
Information Today December 15, 2015	Reprints Desk Updates Article Galaxy Platform Reprints Desk released the fall 2015 version of its Article Galaxy platform, which features short-term article rentals, instant subscription content access, and a new add-on for the library portal.
Information Today December 15, 2015	Gale Debuts 19th-Century Crime and Punishment Collection Gale launched Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920, its new primary-source archive of more than 2 million pages of material on 19th-century history, literature, law, and criminal justice.
Fast Company Sean Captain	Just Search For "Groin Pain." How Google Data Is Helping Track STDs Google has now given four universities, including the University of Illinois and Columbia University, deep access to anonymized search data to better track the spread of STDs, according to an article by CNN and Kaiser Health News.
Information Today December 10, 2015	SAGE Publishes Economics and Society Textbook The SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society is a four-volume exploration of the economic processes behind contemporary issues and their impact on social and cultural life.
Information Today December 10, 2015	NLM Rolls Out Health Literacy Instrument Resource Researchers can use it to select a health literacy research instrument and learn background information, as well as compare various instruments.
Information Today December 10, 2015	JSTOR Works on Interdisciplinary Research Methods Teams from JSTOR Labs and the University of Washington's DataLab partnered to test and develop tools for improving interdisciplinary research practices.
Information Today December 10, 2015	Boopsie Adds Zinio Magazines to Library App Boopsie for Libraries integrated the ZINIO magazine service into its mobile platform as a service to give its library customers access to an additional 5,500 magazines
Information Today December 10, 2015	APA Reaches PsycINFO Milestone The American Psychological Association announced that it indexed the 4 millionth record in the PsycINFO database of scholarly psychology literature.
Information Today December 8, 2015	NFAIS Announces 2016 Miles Conrad Award Recipient Deanna Marcum will receive the 2016 Miles Conrad Award and give the annual Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture at the NFAIS Annual Conference in February 2016 for her accomplishments in librarianship.
Information Today December 8, 2015	HighWire Press Commits to Scholarly Annotation Initiative HighWire Press joined Annotating All Knowledge, an organization dedicated to exploring the benefits of building an open, common framework for scholarly annotation.
Information Today December 8, 2015	ST Imaging and nextScan Join Forces The mission and corporate direction of both ST Imaging and nextScan have historically been to lower the cost of microfilm and microfiche conversion and provide increased access to film libraries.
Information Today December 8, 2015	LexisNexis Produces Journal; Updates Lexis Practice Advisor LexisNexis Legal & Professional launched The Lexis Practice Advisor Journal, a quarterly publication for transactional lawyers on news, trends, and issues that impact their practice.
Information Today December 8, 2015	ScienceOpen Adds Altmetrics Functionality to Its Platform ScienceOpen joined forces with Altmetric to track the media, policy, and social media references for its more than 10 million article records.
Chemistry World December 7, 2015 Emma Stoye	Royal Society backs ORCID to identify researchers The UK's Royal Society has announced that from January 2016 it will require all researchers submitting papers to its journals to provide an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID).
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