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Weekly News Digest
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December 9, 2010 — In addition to this week's NewsBreak(s), the editors have compiled the Weekly News Digest, featuring stories from the week just past that you should know about. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Springer Introduces Free Analytics Tool—Realtime.springer.com
Springer has launched a free analytics tool that allows users to analyze use of Springer’s online content. Realtime.springer.com aggregates the raw data on downloads of Springer journal articles and book chapters in real time from all over the world, and displays them in a variety of interactive visualizations such as, a map showing where the downloads are coming from, a constantly updating keyword tag cloud, and a visualization of total downloads. In addition, a search feature shows a chart of the downloads and the ‘Top Five Most Downloaded’ list for every journal or book.The results provide book authors and journal editors with information on how intensively their content is used. They gain insight into what topics are trending at the moment, and which areas of the world are currently looking at what type of topics in Springer books and journals. Librarians get a clear overview of where Springer content is used in the many fields. Realtime.springer.com currently receives input from the information platform SpringerLink with nearly five million documents from about 41,000 ebooks, 1,160 book series, 2,524 journals, and 173 e-reference works. Additionally, the tool receives feeds from the SpringerImages database with more than 2.7 million images and from SpringerProtocols, the database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the life and biomedical sciences. Source: Springer
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