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February 13, 2012
Robin Peek |
The Cost of Knowledge Versus Elsevier: 5,600 Signatures and Growing Timothy Gowers, a Cambridge mathematician and winner of the coveted Fields medal in mathematics, began The Cost of Knowledge website petition to publicize his own personal boycott of Elsevier, thus encouraging others to do the same.   |
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February 13, 2012 |
Factiva Adds More Global Sources, Blogs, and Images In the last year, Factiva's content has increased by more than 20%, totaling more than 35,000 sources and furthering its position as one of the largest global digital business aggregators and archives. |
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February 13, 2012 |
ALA Reaches Out to Ebook Publishers; Penguin Terminates OverDrive Contract American Library Association president Molly Raphael led an ALA delegation to New York recently to meet separately with representatives from publishers Penguin, Macmillan, Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Perseus. |
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February 13, 2012 |
Elsevier Launches TargetInsights for Early Drug Discovery This online decision support tool enables scientists to search, monitor, and stay up-to-date with the latest biological insights reported in the scientific literature. |
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February 9, 2012 |
International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) Approves Indexes Working Group The Indexes Working Group is now identifying additional participants and setting its meeting calendar and agenda. |
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February 9, 2012 |
Amigos and Missouri Library Network Announce Agreement to Explore Merger If the organizations merge, Amigos will be the largest library consortium west of the Mississippi River, comprising about 1,000 libraries and cultural heritage institutions in 22 states. |
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February 9, 2012 |
EPA Releases New Tool With Information About U.S. Water Pollution Developed under President Barack Obama's transparency initiative, the Discharge Monitoring Report Pollutant Loading Tool brings together millions of records and allows for easy searching and mapping of water pollution by local area. |
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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February 6, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Social Review Site Goodreads Dumps Amazon's Metadata Goodreads is now using metadata from Ingram, "the largest wholesaler of books in the U.S.," according to Goodreads founder and CEO Otis Chandler. "Our agreement with them will ensure accurate and reliable information for the foreseeable future." |
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February 6, 2012 |
SAGE Journals Available Via Mobile Devices SAGE announced that its entire online journal collection is now available in a mobile-optimized format with the help of HighWire Press' Mobile Web Interface. |
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