Search Engines & Research Tools

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D-Lib May/Jun 2012 Natasha Simons	Implementing DOIs for Research Data The Digital Object Identifier system provides a means of persistent identification of research data collections and datasets that is global, standardized and widely used.
D-Lib May/Jun 2012 Westbrook et al.	Metadata Clean Sweep: A Digital Library Audit Project This paper discusses the pilot of an ongoing digital library metadata audit project that was collaboratively launched by library school interns and full-time staff to alleviate poor recall, poor precision and metadata inconsistencies across digital collections.
D-Lib May/Jun 2012 Lee et al.	BitCurator: Tools and Techniques for Digital Forensics in Collecting Institutions This paper describes current efforts, ongoing work, and implications for future development of forensic-based, analytic software for born-digital materials.
D-Lib May/Jun 2012 Andras Holl	Information Bulletin on Variable Stars -- Rich Content and Novel Services for an Enhanced Publication Technically skilled authors, freely available bibliographic services and discipline-wide standardization -- all characteristic of astronomy -- form the foundation on which this uniquely enhanced journal is built, enabling it to provide quality services to its research community.
Information Today May 14, 2012	Ex Libris Announces the Launch of Rosetta 3.0 Rosetta is a digital preservation system, which provides a new user interface, advanced search options, a collection management module, and other management and preservation features.
Information Today May 14, 2012	Mendeley Institutional Edition Powered by Swets Goes Live It combines a premium version of the Mendeley research worktool that gives the most productive integrated combination of reference management, research content discovery, and collaboration.
Information Today May 14, 2012	Cengage Learning and Blackboard Introduce Digital Content Integration An integrated solution gives instructors and students streamlined access to Cengage Learning's digital learning solutions and core curriculum content directly through the Blackboard Learn learning management system.
Information Today Abby Clobridge	'Academic Spring' Continues With Commentary on Open Access in the U.K. David Willetts, the U.K. Minister of State for Universities and Science, contributed to the dialogue with a speech presented on May 2 at the Publishers Association's annual meeting.
Information Today May 10, 2012 Nancy K. Herther	Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Form `Newco' -- A New Chapter for Ebooks On April 30, 2012, Microsoft and Barnes & Noble announced the end of their ongoing litigation and a joint partnership to further develop the NOOK and ebooks lines.
Information Today May 10, 2012	EBSCO Releases Ebook Subscription Collection for Business Professionals BusinessCore is designed to support the learning and research needs of business professionals. The collection is available as an annual subscription with unlimited access to the content.
Information Today May 10, 2012	Thomson CompuMark Launches 136 New Trademark Databases The company says the addition of this content will make Thomson CompuMark the world's largest provider of trademark screening data.
Information Today May 10, 2012	ProQuest Joins 1940 U.S. Census Community Project ProQuest's participation in the project provides major financial support to the indexing effort, which enables all its partners to ingest content more affordably, providing timely delivery to their users.
Information Today May 7, 2012 Theresa Cramer	IBM, Vivisimo, and the `Big Data' Buzz IDC estimates the market for big data technology and services will grow at an annual rate of nearly 40% to reach $16.9 billion by 2015. But no one is exactly sure what big data is.
Information Today May 7, 2012 Barbara Quint	ProQuest for Everyone: The Udini Service Officially Launches ProQuest has officially launched Udini, an end-user service that is open to all web users.
Information Today May 7, 2012	CrossRef Announces FundRef Pilot CrossRef has announced FundRef, a pilot collaboration between scholarly publishers and funding agencies that will standardize the names of research funders and add grant numbers attributed in journal articles or other scholarly documents.
Information Today May 7, 2012	Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset Now Available via EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCO Publishing made the newly released Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset available through EBSCO Discovery Service. The dataset contains 12 million open-access catalog records from Harvard's 73 libraries.
Information Today May 3, 2012	CrossRef Launches CrossMark Update Identification Service The CrossMark system will alert researchers to important changes that may occur to published scholarly content and will highlight important publication record information.
Information Today May 3, 2012	Ancestry.com Inc. to Acquire Archives.com This transaction will enable Ancestry.com to add a differentiated service targeted to a complementary segment of the growing family history category.
Information Today May 3, 2012	Ebook Consumers Say Yes to Tablets, Says BISG Study Ebook consumers' preference for tablets is accelerating rapidly as dedicated e-readers drop in popularity, according to the Book Industry Study Group's closely watched "Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading" survey.
Information Today May 3, 2012 Paula J. Hane	Online Consumer Privacy in the Spotlight Choose Privacy Week is being held May 1-7, 2012. The theme is "Freedom from Surveillance." The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom established Choose Privacy Week to deepen public awareness about this issue. The event is timely with many privacy issues like CISPA in the news.
ONLINE May/Jun 2012 Chris Belter	Feature: Visualizing Networks of Scientific Research Bibliometric mapping is one of the many applications of network science. To better understand bibliometric maps, it is useful to have a general understanding of network science.
ONLINE May/Jun 2012 Marydee Ojala	HomePage: Thinking About Search Research doesn't start when you enter words into a search box. It begins with conceptualizing the project. What is the intent of the search? What are you trying to accomplish? And why?
Searcher May 2012 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Percentages The arrival of ebooks has left pbooks the last man standing when it comes to library collections. Now books are going the way of full-text journals and reference works. A library's primary collection is no longer primarily print.
Searcher May 2012 Nancy K. Herther	Feature: The Ebook Wars - Amazon Versus the Rest The move to electronic publication of books is creating some of the same issues and problems for publishers and distributors that the music industry -- not to mention, the information industry -- has been dealing with for years now: disintermediation.
Information Today April 30, 2012 Carol Ebbinghouse	Look for Circulating Law Ebooks at a Library Near You LexisNexis and OverDrive announced that they have agreed to create customized ebook lending and management services, offering "the largest collection of authoritative legal ebook content on all major mobile devices and desktop platforms."
Information Today April 30, 2012	Scout -- A New Free Alert System for Government Information Sunlight Labs introduced Scout, a free alert system for the things you care about in state and national government. It covers Congress, regulations across the whole executive branch, and legislation in all 50 states.
Information Today April 30, 2012	ebrary Announces New Ebook Solution for Medical Libraries The new, discounted packs include essential ebooks from publishers such as Informa Healthcare, F.A. Davis Company, and Oxford University Press that are purchased outright under a perpetual archive model.
Information Today April 30, 2012	EBSCO Releases 39 New Ebook Subject Sets These sets provide libraries with convenient ways to begin or expand their ebook collections with current, reputable content from leading publishers.
Information Today April 26, 2012 Theresa Cramer	Making Sense of Business Intelligence With FirstTweets Using Twitter as a business intelligence tool, however, has presented a lengthy list of challenges. The sheer volume of information being shared via Twitter is daunting to say the least, especially when all you have to battle the tide of information is a few keywords and hashtag searches.
Information Today April 26, 2012	Bilbary Announces Ebook Partnerships With The State Library of Kansas and Taylor & Francis Both partnerships will help Bilbary build its competitive platform, as well as add a number of titles to its growing ebook catalog.
Information Today April 26, 2012	Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available The Harvard Library announced it would make more than 12 million catalog records from Harvard's 73 libraries publicly available.
Information Today April 26, 2012	Serials Solutions Announces Intota Development Partners Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business unit, announced the institutions that are collaborating with the company to develop Intota, a Software-as-a-Service solution that supports the entire resource lifecycle for libraries.
Information Today April 23, 2012 Miriam A. Drake	Federal Depository Library Program: Legislative Issues The program is the subject of a report released by the Congressional Research Service: "Federal Depository Library Program: Issues for Congress" that includes a brief history of the program and a discussion on some key issues.
Information Today April 23, 2012	Academic Video Database Coming to EBSCO Discovery Service The agreement adds metadata for all videos from INTELECOM's academic video database to the Base Index of EDS and allows mutual customers to access the full video database.
Information Today April 23, 2012	OCLC and Credo Reference Extend Partnership OCLC and Credo Reference announced a special collaboration project designed to increase collection visibility and usage with library users.
Information Today April 23, 2012	CABI Re-Indexing Improves Search and Retrieval Seamless searching and one-click retrieval are now realities for customers of life sciences publisher CABI's abstracts databases, thanks to a major re-indexing project.
Information Today April 19, 2012 Marydee Ojala	Opening Up the World Bank's Data In its ongoing trajectory toward transparency, the World Bank announced on April 10, 2012, that it would make its publications open access under Creative Commons licenses.
Information Today April 19, 2012	Baker & Taylor and Findaway World to Launch Audiobook Platform Baker & Taylor and Findaway World, LLC announced plans to launch a robust digital audiobook platform for public libraries and retailers later this year.
Information Today April 19, 2012	OAPEN Launches Beta Version of Directory of Open Access Books OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) announced the launch of the beta version of Directory of Open Access Books, a discovery service for peer-reviewed books published under an open access license.
Information Today April 19, 2012	New Multimedia Tools Help Museums, Libraries Support 21st Century Skills The Institute of Museum and Library Services revamped the webpage for its Museums, Libraries, and 21 st Century Skills initiative. Museums and libraries visiting the page will now be able organize 21 st-century skills workshops in their communities.
Information Today April 16, 2012 Phil Britt	Yahoo! Reorganization Doesn't Address Company Problems: Analysts Yahoo! is reorganizing the company's management structure in an attempt to put the company back on track and to stop the decline in the company's business, but analysts don't think the changes will mean much.
Information Today April 16, 2012	EBSCO Publishing Introduces The African American Historical Serials Collection Developed in conjunction with the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), this digital collection includes African-American periodicals, annuals and reports published from 1829-1922, including materials from African-American religious organizations and social service agencies.
Information Today April 16, 2012	World War I Film Footage in Cyberspace The European Film Gateway 1914 plans to digitize up to 650 hours of footage and make it freely accessible via europeana.eu, Europe's digital library, museum and archive.
Information Today April 16, 2012	OverDrive to Preview Library Ebook Data at London Book Fair Data from OverDrive's global library network to be made available to participating libraries and publishers includes information about ebook and digital audiobook title circulation, book demand and holds, as well as web traffic and general demographics.
Information Today April 12, 2012 Nancy K. Herther	Ebook Tsunami -- From Antitrust to Burgeoning Sales The ebook tsunami is still in play; new issues, problems, and possibilities occur almost daily. We can do little more than watch, wonder, and improvise as the forces of innovation and commercialism work through this time of change in publishing.
Information Today April 12, 2012	SPIE Digital Library Extends Archiving SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, this year will add conference proceedings and journal articles under its imprint that are currently available only in print to its SPIE Digital Library.
Information Today April 12, 2012	New EBSCOhost Collection Manager to Help Libraries With Ebooks and Audiobooks EBSCO Publishing is making it easier for library staff to search for ebooks and audiobooks and add them to their collections with the new EBSCOhost Collection Manager.
Information Today April 12, 2012	More Than 30,000 Spanish Language Titles in eBooks Kindle en Espanol Amazon.com, Inc. has a new Spanish-language ebook store within the Amazon.com Kindle Store entitled, "eBooks Kindle en Espanol."
Information Today April 9, 2012 Laura Gordon-Murnane	Big Data: The Future Is Now Big Data is transforming competitive opportunities in just about every industry sector and savvy companies are jumping on the bandwagon.
Information Today April 9, 2012	BioMed Central, LabArchives to Link Data Sets With Journal Articles Through a new collaboration, authors submitting articles to selected BioMed Central journals will be provided with complimentary subscriptions to an enhanced version of the popular LabArchives Electronic Laboratory Notebook software.
Information Today April 9, 2012	International Name Authority Project Moves to OCLC VIAF, a project that virtually combines multiple name authority files into a single name authority service, has transitioned to become an OCLC service.
Information Today April 5, 2012 Marydee Ojala	Northern Light Introduces Discovery Portals The discovery portals use the sophisticated search capabilities developed by Northern Light over the past decade, with full Boolean capabilities, field limitations, and faceted navigation.
Information Today April 5, 2012	Ex Libris' Primo Central Adds 78 A&I Sources Ex Libris Ltd., provider of library automation solutions, announced that RMIT Publishing has made additional scholarly content from its diverse collections searchable in the Primo Central Index.
Information Today April 5, 2012	Android Etextbook App Available From Ingram's Vital Source As students look for more ways to interact with digital textbooks, they are increasingly turning to smartphones and tablets powered by the Android operating system.
Information Today April 2, 2012	Complete 1000 Human Genomes Data Free on the Web Amazon Web Services, LLC and the U.S. National Institutes of Health released the largest catalog of human genetics to the cloud.
Information Today April 2, 2012	Bowker's Global eBook Monitor Generates Usage Statistics Bowker Market Research's Global eBook Monitor studies the rate of adoption and buyer demographics of ebooks in 10 major markets.
Information Today April 2, 2012	Springer for R&D Platform Launched for Corporate Sector Springer Science+Business Media launched a new corporate platform, Springer for R&D, which provides access to more than 5.6 million research documents, all optimized for specific corporate markets.
Information Today April 2, 2012 Paula J. Hane	Expanding Options for Ebooks Here are some of the recently launched services that are aiming to redefine the book experience.
Chemistry World April 2012	Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online?
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2012 Greg R. Notess	On the Net: Advanced Search in Retreat Google's many databases and frequent user interface changes show a variety of approaches to advanced searching. Google often leads the way in search design.
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2012 Marydee Ojala	HomePage: An Abstract Concept Abstracts are one antidote to information overload. Indexing is another. Major information aggregators -- EBSCO, Factiva, LexisNexis, ProQuest -- have invested significant resources in their indexing and taxonomies.
HHMI Bulletin February 2012	New Open Access Journal Gets Name and Editorial Team Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust are a step closer to launching a top-tier journal with the recent announcement of the publication's editorial team and name.
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