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InternetNews
February 4, 2010 |
Microsoft Offers Free Use of Azure to NSF National Science Foundation to oversee project grants.   |
Information Today
February 4, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Thomson Reuters Launches WestlawNext--The Next Chapter in Legal Research The goal is to make legal professionals more efficient and give them the confidence that they've explored every relevant document. |
Information Today
February 4, 2010 |
Stanford Signs Google Book Search Agreement, Endorses Court Settlement Stanford University has affirmed its support for the recently amended Google Book Search settlement agreement by expanding its earlier agreement with Google to digitize its library materials. |
Information Today
February 4, 2010 |
mk Sorting Systems Announces LibDispenser--A Stand-Alone Library Branch Operating as a stand-alone branch, LibDispenser is a 24-hour, 365-days-a-year service solution that handles books, holds, CDs, and DVDs, borrowed or returned, at any branch location. |
The Motley Fool
February 4, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Google a Monster? The never-shy entrepreneur Mark Cuban published a "Why Google is Bad for the Newspaper Business" rant on his Blog Maverick site, taking more shots at Google News. |
Humanities
Jan/Feb 2010
Andrew Lawler |
Karnak Where the digital age meets ancient Egypt. Digital Karnak is already being used by professors across the country. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2010
Tim Beyers |
Will This Finally Take a Bite Out of Microsoft? Reports say Google will introduce its own app store. |
Information Today
February 1, 2010 |
National Archives Releases New Data Sets on Data.gov The National Archives is creating a plan that lays out what it needs to do to further meet the goals of Open Government and how it will get there. |
Information Today
February 1, 2010 |
ProQuest Launches AtmosPeer -- New Social Network for Atmospheric Scientists AtmosPeer, which was launched by ProQuest, connects atmospheric scientists to not only their colleagues but also to emerging research trends, current news feeds, conference information, and funding opportunities. |
Information Today
February 1, 2010 |
CERN Library Publishes Its Book Catalog as Open Data Librarians are, in general, very favorable to the principles of Open Access. But surprisingly few libraries have so far set free the data they produce themselves. |
Information Today
February 1, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Gale Reaches for More End Users With Questia Acquisition Questia's book content is a clear attraction for Gale, adding scholarly content from leading publishers to support learning in high school and college -- a great complement to Gale's extensive reference content. |
Search Engine Watch
February 1, 2010
Ron Jones |
Universal Search 101 Optimizing for universal search offers new opportunities to develop richer content, explore new marketing channels, and sets you up for future success. |
TIME Asia
February 8, 2010
Bill Powell |
Searching Questions Baidu's flaws would mean more if Google were sticking around. If it's not, Baidu will have the world's most populous country almost to itself. And that won't be a good thing for anybody. |
Searcher
February 2010
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Homecoming What drove me into severing my long membership with the Special Libraries Association was its decision to launch its second century by joining the opposition to Google Books. |
Information Today
January 28, 2010
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO Exclusives Trigger Turmoil Major among the listings were the magazines produced by Time, Inc. as well as Forbes. The contracts for these acquisitions were exclusive to EBSCO for the library "marketspace." |
Information Today
January 28, 2010 |
Elsevier Launches Digital Learning Platform for Health Science Education: Pageburst The Pageburst platform is designed specifically for nursing and health professions students in North America who require anytime/anywhere access to course material and utilize texts as reference guides throughout their careers. |
InternetNews
January 27, 2010 |
Semantic Web Already Having an Impact Microsoft Bing head Scott Prevost said search engines are getting smarter thanks to Semantic Web technology. |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2010
Eric Jhonsa |
Google's China Stand Might Not Be That Costly ComScore's latest data shows that Google's hit might not be as bad as feared if it is banned in China. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2010
Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Creative Commons: Copyright Tools for the 21st Century Copyright laws in the U.S. have been around since 1790, but two 20th-century revisions, coupled with the internet's fostering of a read/write culture, have had a significant impact on the use, reuse, and distribution of digital media and content in this century. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2010
Marydee Ojala |
Ghost Authors, Teachable Moments What impact do Google Scholar's algorithmic misunderstandings have on actual research? Do they provide teachable moments for librarians? |
Information Today
January 25, 2010 |
EOS International Offers Electronic Resource Management Module It provides a single solution to control how electronic resources are found by patrons and how the information is presented through the web OPAC. |
Information Today
January 25, 2010 |
Open Book Alliance Urges a Public Guardian for Digital Book Database--Not Google The Open Book Alliance has asked Congress to help establish a digital book database that provides greater access to books, respects the rights of authors and publishers, and doesn't grant undue power to any single company. |
InternetNews
January 22, 2010 |
Google Talks China Plans, iPhone Loss Rumors Schmidt and others respond to talk that Microsoft's Bing might replace Google on the iPhone, and what the search leader thinks about its future in China. |
The Motley Fool
January 22, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google Will Eat You Alive The search king keeps outpacing the competition. |
Fast Company
February 2010
Stephanie Schomer |
Tag, You're It: 17 Museum Admissions Buttons From Around the World Part ticket, part souvenir, the admission button has become a part of the museum experience. |
Information Today
January 21, 2010
Marydee Ojala |
PTFS Acquires LibLime, Expands Its Open Source Capabilities Just prior to the American Library Association's Midwinter meeting, an acquisition announcement stirred up the library open source community. |
Information Today
January 21, 2010 |
Encore Discovery Offers New Article Integration Capabilities Innovative Interfaces, Inc. announced that Encore Discovery now offers deep article integration to promote the most relevant article content alongside library catalog results, making articles more findable through facets and other discovery tools. |
Information Today
January 21, 2010 |
Ex Libris Announces the Beta Launch of Primo Central When searching in their institution's Primo interface, users in partner libraries will have seamless access to the Primo Central mega-aggregate of scholarly econtent. Primo Central is planned for general release in mid-2010. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2010 |
Letters To the Editor A reader writes in response to the article on "Measuring Citation Advantages of Open Accessibility," by Samsoon C. Soong. Also included in the author's response. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2010
Reilly & Tupelo-Schneck |
Digital Object Repository Server: A Component of the Digital Object Architecture This paper introduces the Digital Object Repository Server, the most recent instantiation of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives' repository work. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2010
Eschenfelder & Agnew |
Technologies Employed to Control Access to or Use of Digital Cultural Collections: Controlled Online Collections This article describes the results of a survey investigating the use of technological protection measure tools to control patron access to or use of digital cultural materials made accessible by U.S. archives, libraries and museums. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2010
Hillmann et al. |
RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use The Resource Description and Access standard, due to be released this coming summer, has included since May 2007 a parallel effort to build Semantic Web enabled vocabularies. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2010
Rose Holley |
Tagging Full Text Searchable Articles: An Overview of Social Tagging Activity in Historic Australian Newspapers August 2008 - August 2009 This article gives an overview of the public reaction to and utilization of the tagging facility in a full-text searchable collection, and provides statistics over a year's duration, observations on the use of tagging and suggestions for future developments. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2010
Ramirez & McMillan |
FERPA and Student Work: Considerations for Electronic Theses and Dissertations This article explores several campus approaches to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and electronic student work. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2010
Cyburt et al. |
The Virtual Journals of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics A virtual journal (VJ) has been developed that collects and distributes weekly articles of interest to researchers in nuclear astrophysics. |
D-Lib
an/Feb 2010
Koutsomitropoulos et al. |
The Use of Metadata for Educational Resources in Digital Repositories: Practices and Perspectives In this article we focus on the use of learning-object specific metadata in digital repositories, as they are primarily incarnated in the learning object metadata standard. |
Information Today
January 19, 2010 |
Cambridge University Press Launches New Ebook Platform More than 10,000 titles are expected to be available by spring 2010. With the launch of Cambridge Books Online, both frontlist and backlist content is now available to purchase for a single, one-off access fee, offering even more flexibility. |
Information Today
January 19, 2010 |
Paratext Adds Millions More Full-Text Links Paratext, an independent information company serving the global library market, has added more than 12 million links from its core research products, 19th Century Masterfile and Public Documents Masterfile, to full-text resources, many in the public domain. |
Information Today
January 19, 2010 |
Crowley Debuts Table-Top Robotic Scanner in the U.S. The company showed the scanner at the recent ALA Midwinter meeting and will be showing it at upcoming trade shows in the spring and summer |
D-Lib
Taemin Kim Park |
D-Lib Magazine: Its First 13 Years By the use of bibliometric techniques, authorship characteristics of D-Lib Magazine are studied. |
Information Today
January 14, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Fast Data Sharing With ebrary's DASH! The Academic Complete digital content collection from ebrary has proven to be a valued resource in many academic settings. |
Information Today
January 14, 2010
Marydee Ojala |
DeepDyve Partners With De Gruyter, CiteULike DeepDyve is expanding its publisher relationships by adding more than 160,000 scholarly and professional journal articles from De Gruyter to the 30 million it presently has available. |
Information Today
January 14, 2010 |
New Interface for LexisNexis Academic and New LexisNexis Statistical Insight The enhanced interface now provides simpler and faster access to content. Updates include transformation of the Easy Search form to a widget-based interface, simplified navigation. |
Information Today
January 14, 2010 |
Ex Libris Announces the Beta Release of Rosetta Version 2.0 The system enables institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access to documents for perpetuity-institutional documents, research output in digital formats, digital images, websites, and other digitally born and digitized materials. |
Information Today
January 14, 2010 |
TDNet Announces TERMS--Core E-Resource Management System The first phase of TERMS is built on a knowledgebase of more than 390,000 e-resource titles and will include modules for recording bibliographic data, batch and individual updates, access and authorization information, acquisitions and subscription details and more. |
Information Today
January 11, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Publishing Releases Its EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCO is going head to head with the Summon service from Serials Solutions, which has content agreements with ProQuest, Gale, LexisNexis, and others. |
Information Today
January 11, 2010 |
Serials Solutions Partners With Springshare LibGuides Together, they will provide the first ERAMS-based LibGuides integration, enabling common subscribers to create LibGuides A-Z lists powered by the e-resource data of Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase. |
Information Today
January 11, 2010 |
DMC Worldwide Introduces New Content Platform and E-Readers DMC Worldwide introduced COPIA, an open platform that combines content, social networking, and ecommerce with an array of wireless e-readers. |
Information Today
January 11, 2010 |
Thomson Reuters Announces Global Institutional Profiles Project This initiative, the Global Institutional Profiles Project, will create data-driven portraits of globally significant research institutions-combining peer review, scholarly outputs, citation patterns, funding levels, and faculty characteristics in one comprehensive database. |
Information Today
January 7, 2010 |
Kaleido Search Adds Faceted Searching Built on dtSearch APIs Faceted search provides end users the ability to dynamically filter search results by attributes, letting users browse through results selecting criteria relevant to their search. |
Information Today
January 7, 2010 |
EBSCO to Launch EBSCONET ERM Essentials Following successful beta testing by library customers, EBSCO is planning for the launch of EBSCONET ERM Essentials, which offers key features that librarians need to simplify management of their e-resources. |
Information Today
January 7, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Review of the Year 2009 and Trends Watch--Part 2 Trends for 2010 that are expected to have an impact on libraries and the information industry. |
Humanities
Jan/Feb 2010
Francis Morrone |
Museum of Morgan At the recently expanded Morgan Library, visitors encounter architectural treasures and a peerless collection of manuscripts and art. |
Information Today
January 4, 2010 |
Thomson Reuters Links Drug Discovery and Literature Citation Databases Thomson Reuters announced it has connected its drug discovery database, Prous Science Integrity, to Web of Knowledge, its research platform. |
Information Today
January 4, 2010 |
RIPM Enhances Access to Historical Music Periodicals A new interface for the RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1950) is now available directly from RIPM Publications. The interface makes it possible to view search results and journals pages simultaneously. |
Search Engine Watch
January 4, 2010
Ron Jones |
Duplicate Content 101 What duplicate content is, how search engines deal with it, and how to avoid the pitfalls. |
Information Today
December 28, 2009 |
MLC and INCOLSA Members Approve Merger Effective Feb. 15, 2010, Randy Dykhuis, MLC executive director, will become the executive director of the new organization, Midwest Collaborative for Library Services. |
Information Today
December 28, 2009 |
Selected Content From West Now Available as PDF Downloads The PDF products provide immediate access to popular American Law Reports entries and sections from Aspatore Books and Andrews Publications. |
HHMI Bulletin
November 2009
Aaron Levin |
Where Past Meets Future Winston Anderson filled his garage with objects and documents tracing the history of African slaves and their American descendants. Now anyone can see his collection at the Sandy Spring Slave Museum and African Art Gallery |
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