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June 9, 2011 |
Announcing the New PLoS Search API By opening up its content and data through this API, PLoS hopes to encourage the development of more tools that will improve the way PLoS users discover and interact with its content, as well as their own.   |
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June 9, 2011 |
Credo Reference and Ex Libris Agree to Partnership Content from Credo's General Reference, Publisher, and Subject Collections will now be accessible through the Ex Libris Primo Central Index of scholarly content. |
Information Today
June 6, 2011
Barbara Quint |
University of Michigan Libraries Target HathiTrust's Orphan Works Orphan works have been a thorn in the side of librarians, particularly academic librarians, forever. Orphans are in-copyright works for which current copyright holders are difficult or impossible to locate or perhaps even identify. |
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June 6, 2011 |
OCLC Web-scale Management Services on Target for July 1 Release In addition to the 32 committed libraries in the U.S., BIBSYS, the Norwegian library consortium signed an agreement with OCLC to base its new library management system on Web-scale Management Services, which will include management tools for more than 100 libraries in Norway. |
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June 6, 2011 |
More Publishers to Participate in UPCC eBook Collections on Project MUSE To date, a total of 64 university and scholarly presses have contracted to include their ebooks in the initiative. |
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June 6, 2011 |
Elsevier Enriches Online Articles with Google Maps Elsevier announced that Google Maps functionality is now available in its journals. |
BusinessWeek
June 2, 2011 |
Jimmy Wales's Wikipedia Balancing Act The Wikipedia founder speaks on empowering his army of volunteers while still maintaining control of the site -- and not selling out. |
Information Today
June 2, 2011 |
SPARC Introduces Open Access Journal Publishing Resource Index Materials in the index will help libraries, presses, and other academic units on campuses as they work together to make the work of their researchers more widely available. |
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June 2, 2011 |
ProQuest Acquires BNI -- Nursing Index to Be Expanded Indexing more than 240 English-language titles -- including essential international nursing and midwifery journals and selective content from medical, allied health, and management titles -- BNI is renowned for reliability and precision. |
Information Today
June 2, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Sources for Free Ebooks and Ereader Software The majority of the free ebooks available are older, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books. Some sites, such as Amazon, offer newer free ebooks on limited time promotional offers. Barnes & Noble offers a limited number of Free Nook Books. The Sony Reader Store also offers some free ebooks. |
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