Search Engines & Research Tools

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Information Today May 9, 2013	Baker & Taylor Releases New App for Axis 360 The new, free application for tablets and smartphones called axisReader allows patrons of libraries with the Axis 360 digital media platform to discover, checkout, and read ebooks in EPUB and PDF formats on their mobile devices.
Information Today May 9, 2013	BioOne Online Journals Now Searchable Via EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCO Discovery Service users are able to search more than 100,000 scholarly articles from bioscience research journals in the Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service.
Information Today May 9, 2013	Credo Titles Now Available Through GOBI3 Credo, a provider of information skills solutions -- in partnership with YBP Library Services, the academic division of Baker & Taylor -- made its titles available for purchase through GOBI 3, YBP's acquisition and collection management database.
Information Today May 6, 2013 Abby Clobridge	Open Access Theses & Dissertations: Launch of a New OA Discovery Tool As the body of open access literature continues to grow, figuring out how to access OA-specific material has remained a challenge for researchers.
Information Today May 6, 2013	ebrary Adds Titles From Wiley to Academic Complete Academic Complete serves as a foundational, growing collection with more than 86,300 scholarly titles from which libraries can pinpoint patron needs and drive strategic ebook acquisition.
Information Today May 6, 2013	EBSCO Releases Social Work Reference Center Social Work Reference Center is a comprehensive reference tool that provides evidence-based information to social workers and other mental health professionals directly at the point-of-care.
Information Today May 6, 2013	Wolters Kluwer Expands Daily Reporting Suite Wolters Kluwer Law & Business announced the expansion of the Wolters Kluwer Daily Reporting Suite, the company's tool for tracking daily developments in the law's fastest-changing and most complex practice areas.
Information Today May 2, 2013	Alexander Street Debuts Contemporary Documentary Collection Alexander Street Press's newest collection Filmakers Library Online: Volume II will feature 100 issue-based documentaries produced from 2009 to the present, adding perspective to virtually any academic program.
Information Today May 2, 2013	Polaris and Baker & Taylor Announce Axis 360 Integration The two firms are working together to integrate Baker & Taylor's digital media circulation platform, Axis 360, into the Polaris integrated library system.
Information Today May 2, 2013	Thomson Reuters' Techstreet Launches Redesigned Website The website features enhanced usability and navigation that easily connects engineers, librarians, and technical professionals to mission critical industry codes and standards from the world`s leading Standards Developing Organizations.
Information Today April 29, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser	Survey on U.S. Faculty Use of Scholarly Resources -- and the Academic Library The results provide "libraries, learned societies, and academic publishers with insight into the evolving attitudes and practices of faculty members in the context of substantial environmental change for higher education."
Information Today April 29, 2013	OverDrive and III Announce Plans for Deep API Integration Building on the success of the first round of OverDrive APIs, the coming API updates will include the ability to check out and place a hold on ebooks from a library's online catalog.
Information Today April 29, 2013	collectionHQ Expands Collection Development Tools to Ebook Titles The addition of these tools, called the ebook module, means that for the first time, librarians can easily access data that compare ebook and print holdings.
Chemistry World April 25, 2013 Andreas Barth	Chemical bibliometrics Counting compounds instead of publications and citations opens new perspectives for data-based scientific discovery and it can complement and stimulate both experimental and theoretical research.
Information Today April 25, 2013 Nancy K. Herther	Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries.
Information Today April 25, 2013	Silobreaker Releases Mobile App for Silobreaker Premium Silobreaker announced the release of its mobile app for subscribers of Silobreaker Premium, the online intelligence tool for cybersecurity, competitive intelligence, incident management, risk analysis, and government/military OSINT.
Information Today April 25, 2013	Thomson Reuters Offers New EndNote Basic -- Aimed at Mendeley Users The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters announced an enhanced version of its EndNote Basic online offering, with more features and functionality for users looking for a free alternative reference management tool.
Information Today April 25, 2013	New Data Mining and Analytics Tools for the HathiTrust Digital Library The HathiTrust Research Center announced the availability of data mining and analytics tools for the HathiTrust Digital Library, a collection of digital texts from more than 70 research libraries worldwide.
Information Today April 22, 2013 Paula J. Hane	Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Makes Its Debut The Digital Public Library of America will now begin to assemble the riches of our country's libraries, archives, and museums, and connect them with the public.
Information Today April 22, 2013	Ingram Expands OASIS Library Platform Through EBL Collaboration Through the alliance with EBL, Ingram will add more than 325,000 EBL ebook titles to the OASIS platform, substantially growing the selection of econtent available to libraries.
Information Today April 22, 2013	Expanded Public Access to Federally Funded Research -- A Call to Action The Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and Association of Research Libraries have called on the research university community to provide input to the U.S. government for increasing access to the results of federally funded research.
Information Today April 22, 2013	World Scientific Publishing Signs Ebook Agreement With YBP Library Services Customers will be able to access the publisher's 2012-2013 Front List Full Collection of ebooks that will be available for purchase from World Scientific Publishing through GOBI 3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information), YBP's acquisition and collection management interface.
Information Today April 18, 2013	New OCLC Registry Service Shines a Spotlight on Libraries OCLC announced that libraries can increase their visibility on the web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program, a free service that works with popular web services to promote libraries.
Information Today April 18, 2013	Elsevier and O'Reilly Media Sign New Ebook Distribution Deal This expands the depth of ebooks available from O'Reilly in areas such as computer security and networking, and includes leading imprints such as Morgan Kaufmann, Syngress, Academic Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, Newnes, and Elsevier with more than 1,200 individual titles.
Information Today April 15, 2013 Abby Clobridge	The Wild West of MOOCs Massive Open Online Courses are the subject of many recent headlines. The issues cover everything from the future of higher education to using technology to deliver courses and textbooks on a global scale.
Information Today April 15, 2013 Barbara Brynko	Elsevier Acquires Mendeley For some industry onlookers, the news that Elsevier acquired Mendeley in early April came as no surprise. But the initial rumors in late December/early January about the possible sale shook the foundations of the research community.
Information Today April 15, 2013	Credo Integrates Topic Pages With EBSCO Discovery Service Students who search EDS will now see Topic Pages, which provide a gateway through Credo's trusted multimedia-rich reference content to other library resources.
Information Today April 15, 2013	ProQuest Launches RefWorks Flow Flow was created to provide a better solution for the changing workflow of researchers, who are increasingly working in team environments and want seamless access to full-text documents, rather than citations alone.
Information Today April 15, 2013	Wolters Kluwer Health Partners With CCC's Pubget Solutions Wolters Kluwer Health and Copyright Clearance Center, a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing and content solutions, announced a partnership to make available CCC's suite of Pubget document management solutions.
Information Today April 11, 2013 Nancy K. Herther	Amazon Buys Goodreads to Bolster Its Advice Portfolio With links to more than 68,000 authors and more than 30,000 book clubs, Goodreads has become the clear leader for peer recommendations and social cataloging in its 6 years of existence.
Information Today April 11, 2013	Bowker, ebrary, and Choice Enhance Access to Resources for College Libraries Choice and Bowker, whose unique partnership created RCL, have launched a variety of enhancements which are used by academic libraries to identify core titles for scores of academic subject areas.
Information Today April 11, 2013	Wiley Selects TEMIS for Semantic Big Data Initiative Wiley will use TEMIS's Luxid Platform to enhance its STMS content, providing more sophisticated search and discovery tools to professional and academic researchers.
Information Today April 11, 2013	Stanford and edX Collaborate on Development of Open Source Learning Platform edX is a not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. edX will release the source code for its entire online learning platform on June 1, 2013.
Information Today April 8, 2013 George H. Pike	Court Finds No Fair Use by Meltwater in News Aggregator Case The Associated Press won a major victory against online news aggregator Meltwater when a Federal District Court in New York declared that Meltwater's "scraping" of AP news articles from the internet infringed on AP's copyrights.
Information Today April 8, 2013	SAGE Launches Social Science Literature Review Tool Hosted on the SAGE Knowledge platform, SAGE Navigator provides students, faculty and researchers with access to the resources they need to kick start their literature search and review.
Information Today April 8, 2013	Wolters Kluwer Health and Wiley Extend Partnership Wolters Kluwer Health announced an extension of its long-term partnership with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to provide more than 460 premier journals on the Ovid medical research platform.
Information Today April 8, 2013	New York Public Library Announces Digital Collections API For the first time, significant portions of the library's digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: more than 1 million objects and records for anyone to search, crawl, and compute.
Information Today April 4, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser	Performance Reporting 2.0 Using Socrata's GovStat GovStat is a new performance measurement platform for government where every goal set by a team, agency, or department (short-term, intermediate, and long-term) has metrics against which it is measured.
Information Today April 4, 2013	ACS Introduces ACS ChemWorx, a New Research Collaboration System Every step of the research process can now be performed within the secure and interoperable ACS ChemWorx environment.
Information Today April 4, 2013	New ACRL White Paper: 'Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy' This white paper explores and articulates three intersections among scholarly communication and information literacy.
Information Today April 4, 2013	De Gruyter to Offer 100 Titles for Open Access Through Unglue.it Unglue.it is making ebooks free and universally accessible to libraries and book lovers alike. It works by users contributing an amount of their choosing to the book titles offered at the platform by publishers.
Information Today April 1, 2013 Barbara Quint	Serials Solutions' Summon 2.0 Coming in June One of the most popular discovery engines -- Summon from Serials Solutions, a ProQuest company -- should be getting even more popular this summer. A new, substantially enhanced version will begin replacing the current version.
Information Today April 1, 2013	Credo Adds Text-to-Speech Through Partnership With ReadSpeaker ReadSpeaker's text-to-speech technology is one of many recent additions to the innovative learning technologies that Literati combines with authoritative scholarly content and customizable services to help libraries do more.
Information Today April 1, 2013	NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on Ejournals This practice was developed to provide guidance on the presentation of ejournals -- particularly in the areas of title presentation, accurate use of ISSN, and citation practices -- to publishers and platform providers, as well as to solve some long-standing concerns of librarians.
Information Today April 1, 2013	Springer and Chemical Abstracts Service Collaborate to Accelerate Chemistry Research This collaboration will increase the visibility of articles with experimental procedures published in 165 Springer chemistry journals from 1985 to the present.
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