Search Engines & Research Tools

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Information Today February 2, 2012	WorldCat Local Users to Search SciVerse ScienceDirect Journals and Ebooks With this collaboration, Elsevier is strengthening its commitment to the library community, simplifying research for library patrons and enhancing usage of its scientific publications.
Information Today February 2, 2012	Infotrieve Launches New Features for Mobile Library Infotrieve, Inc. announced a new release of its cloud-based Mobile Library, updated with an improved search function, additional features for Personal & Shared Libraries and general user interface enhancements.
Information Today February 2, 2012	McGraw-Hill Announces Enhancements to AccessEngineering Platform McGraw-Hill announced the launch of its new AccessEngineering platform, featuring technological and user interface improvements designed to raise the bar for learning and accessibility of engineering content.
Information Today February 2, 2012 Paula J. Hane	ProQuest Works to Integrate Assets and Services Last summer, ProQuest welcomed Kurt Sanford as its new CEO. He has now had 6 months leading the company and has already made his mark with a reorganization of leadership, new customer focus, and product migrations and integrations.
Searcher February 2012 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Leverage I was talking with a colleague recently about what fixes we information professionals should be pressing the information industry to provide these days. He kept talking about finding the pressure points, and I kept mentioning leverage.
Searcher February 2012 Nancy K. Herther	Feature: Language Translation in the Internet Age - 'my Hovercraft is Full of Eels' Webpages are designed to attract users and to keep them coming back. Along with poor design and typos, issues of unclear messages plague many websites today.
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2012	EBook Buzz: University Presses and Ebooks: A New Horizon What's the buzz about? EBook Buzz, ONLINE's newest column, will discuss and debate the advances of ebooks in libraries and scholarly publishing.
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2012 Marydee Ojala	HomePage: Weathering the Storms of Filters and Walled Gardens Professional research requires professional tools. It's up to information professionals to provide search filters that match the information needs of clients but do not algorithmically create unnecessary filter bubbles.
Information Today January 30, 2012 Paula J. Hane	New Crowdfunding Initiative to `Unglue' Ebooks Launches in Alpha Imagine this: a site that wants people to donate money for a book they love so others can read and enjoy it. It's an altruistic public-broadcasting kind of model that its founder says can work for making ebooks more accessible.
Information Today January 30, 2012	NAACP Archives Go Digital ProQuest History Vault's NAACP Papers 1 will provide the first electronic access to files from the group's Board of Directors and Annual Conferences, as well as text of major speeches and national staff records.
Information Today January 30, 2012	Credo Reference Introduces Literati by Credo Literati by Credo is a collaborative research platform that promotes research effectiveness and information literacy by combining Credo's content with innovative library-centric technology.
Information Today January 30, 2012	CCC and MPLC Partner for New Corporate Movie License The Motion Picture License is a companion to CCC's Annual Copyright License, which gives knowledge workers the freedom to legally share content with each other while respecting the rights of copyright holders.
Information Today January 26, 2012 Nancy K. Herther	Apple Announces Efforts to `Reinvent' Textbooks In an effort to "reinvent" textbooks, Apple unveiled a suite of tools and resources geared to the K-12 education market on Jan. 19 at New York's Guggenheim Museum.
Information Today January 26, 2012	ebrary Ships New Mobile App; Integrates with Baker & Taylor's Title Source 3 With ebrary's new app, researchers can access content on the ebrary platform, including ebooks that their librarians acquire from leading publishers and documents uploaded and integrated by librarians with DASH! or Data Sharing, Fast.
Information Today January 26, 2012	EBSCO News From ALA Midwinter EBSCO Discovery Service is set to benefit from the formal merging of EBSCO A-to-Z and LinkSource into EBSCO's overall discovery solution. The two resources are relied upon by thousands of universities.
Information Today January 26, 2012	Gale Outlines First Archives for Nineteenth Century Collections Online Gale announced the source libraries, collections, and plans for the first four modules of Nineteenth Century Collections Online, its global digitization and publishing program that brings together rare 19th-century primary source content.
Information Today January 23, 2012	Gale Signs Agreement for National Geographic Magazine Archive Gale, part of Cengage Learning, signed an agreement with the National Geographic Society to archive more than 100 years of National Geographic Magazine.
Information Today January 23, 2012	Deep Web Technologies Releases WorldWideScience.org Application for SciVerse Hub Deep Web Technologies, a provider of federated search technologies, announced that working in close cooperation with OSTI and Elsevier, it released a WorldWideScience.org application for SciVerse Applications.
Information Today January 19, 2012 Peggy Garvin	A Year of Exceptional Budget Challenges: USGS Shutters NBII The U.S. Geological Survey has announced the decision to terminate funding of the National Biological Information Infrastructure program.
Information Today January 19, 2012	Springer Open Choice Adopts Creative Commons Attribution License In 2004, the hybrid OA option Open Choice was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer's Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles with OA for the majority of its subscription-based journals.
Information Today January 19, 2012	OverDrive Adds Non-English Ebooks to Library Catalog OverDrive's online catalog, Content Reserve, which contains digital books in more than 50 languages, recently added popular and bestselling titles in Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Italian, and Turkish, with thousands of Spanish ebooks coming soon.
Information Today January 19, 2012	Article Exchange Integrated Into WorldCat Resource Sharing Service Article Exchange provides a single, secure location where lending libraries can place and borrowing libraries and their users can retrieve requested articles obtained through interlibrary loan.
Information Today January 17, 2012 Robin Peek	Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research This act is designed to thwart activities such as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central.
Information Today January 17, 2012	PsycTESTS Will Be Available Via EBSCOhost PsycTESTS provides academic institutions, mental health centers, hospitals, and government agencies access to descriptive summaries, full text, and relevant citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures.
Information Today January 17, 2012	Introducing Mendeley Institutional Edition Powered by Swets It provides an operating place within the Mendeley platform from which librarians can guide, support, and facilitate the research undertaken across their institution.
Information Today January 17, 2012	Springer Launches Interdisciplinary Open Access Journal SpringerPlus It is the publisher's first open access journal with a broad interdisciplinary approach covering the entire scientific spectrum. Papers from emerging areas of research are welcome.
The Motley Fool January 16, 2012 Anders Bylund	Google Gets a Boardroom Upgrade Get the right people to run the show and everything else falls into place.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 Laurence Lannom	Continuing Change Most early digital library projects focused on digitizing existing printed material and making it available over the Internet, generally on a collection by collection basis from servers run by the institutions that originally held the physical documents.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 David Shotton	The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles -- a Framework for Article Evaluation I propose five factors -- peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata -- as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 Mitchell & Suchy	Developing Mobile Access to Digital Collections The latest challenge for libraries and museums is to adapt and grow our digital collections to meet the needs of an increasingly mobile user.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 Caroli et al.	ARROW: Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works Towards Europeana The "i2010 Digital Library Initiative" is an initiative of the European Union's digital libraries that aims to make accessible to all, and preserve for future generations, the European cultural and scientific resources: books, periodicals, films, maps, photographs, music.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 Lewis et al.	SWORD: Facilitating Deposit Scenarios Digital Repositories have the ability to be integrated into the life blood of research. They can collect, manage, preserve, and make available research outputs.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 Tomasz Neugebauer	A Report from the 2011 ICSTI Workshop on Multimedia and Visualization Innovations for Science Innovations in science oriented web multimedia, large-scale data exploration and visualization, speech recognition, and video and image indexing and analysis, offer opportunities for accelerating scientific discovery.
Information Today January 12, 2012 Barbara Quint	NewsRight to License News Content Traditional news publishers have struggled throughout the Age of the Web with the conflict involved in having to use the web to reach readers while still having to maintain at least enough revenue to support operations.
Information Today January 12, 2012	Copyright Clearance Center Acquires Pubget Pubget offers search, retrieval and browse capabilities for content. Its solutions make research more efficient by simplifying the process of finding, managing, and analyzing information. Pubget served more than 5 million researchers and 500 research centers in 2011.
Information Today January 12, 2012	OCLC Working With SkillSoft to Add Records for Books24x7 Digital Book Catalog to WorldCat SkillSoft's growing selection of more than 30,000 titles in a variety of subject areas will be represented in WorldCat with a link to the Books24x7 platform.
Information Today January 12, 2012	Credo Reference and Swets Announce New Partnership Under the agreement, Swets will incorporate Credo Reference with more than 1,500 reference works from more than 80 of the world's best reference publishers into the SwetsWise eBook catalog.
Information Today January 9, 2012 Barbie E. Kaiser	New IMLS Strategic Plan 2012-2016 Every 5 years, federal government agencies create a roadmap for themselves, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services is no exception.
Information Today January 9, 2012	NISO Releases Updated Draft of SERU The National Information Standards Organization announced the availability of a draft update of SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding for public comment through Feb. 19, 2012.
Information Today January 9, 2012	'Yes We Scan' Petition Sent to President Individual agencies have thought about the problem in terms of prototypes and pilots. Only the White House can bring these efforts together under one roof and begin to think in terms of a national digitization strategy for our federal government.
Information Today January 9, 2012	NewspaperDirect Delivers New Replica Editions for The New York Times Company NewspaperDirect, Inc. announced that The New York Times has selected its SmartEdition platform as the technology for delivering the Replica Editions of The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and the International Herald Tribune.
Information Today January 15, 2012 Paula J. Hane	Review of 2011 and Trends Watch 2012 Folks in the information industry will remember 2011 as one of adapting new technologies and testing viable business models for the new emerging information landscape. Librarians will likely remember it as a year of intense pressure to squeeze more from their budgets.
Information Today January 5, 2012	Alexander Street Press Launches Two New Collections Classical Scores Library is composed mostly of in-copyright classical scores from major composers and Anthropology Online, is a resource that at completion will contain more than 100,000 pages of written ethnographies and more.
Information Today January 5, 2012	EOS International Debuts Entry-Level ILS Product: EOS.Web Essentials EOS International announced EOS.Web Essentials, an entry-level product for small libraries and solo librarians.
CRM January 2012 Leonard Klie	Yahoo! Search Yields a Better Sales Tool The Internet search firm's new sales portal is built around Salesforce's Force.com and Chatter platforms.
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