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Thursday, November 11, 2010
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New Search Engine Blekko Invites You to Slash the Web
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by Marydee Ojala
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Blekko launched a new search engine at the beginning of November 2010 after being in private beta for months. The search engine was available for those who liked Blekko on Facebook, followed it on Twitter, or sent it a tweet. Although Blekko remains in beta but in a public beta, it's a great improvement over the initial teaser landing page that greeted people for years with a simple search box with the words, "Coming soon." Blekko's slogan, "Slash the Web," refers to its unique method of search refinement.
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EBSCO Discovery Service Expands With Content from ingentaconnect
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A recent agreement between EBSCO Publishing and ingentaconnect further expands the resources discoverable through EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The agreement allows selected scholarly journals from ingentaconnect to be indexed in EDS, EBSCO's comprehensive discovery service.
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Elsevier Announces SciVal Spotlight Country Maps
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Elsevier announced the availability of SciVal Spotlight country maps, a new option for academic and governmental decision makers seeking to understand national research strengths against the increasingly interdisciplinary backdrop of global research. They are an extension of the SciVal Spotlight solution, which uses an analytical algorithm to reveal customized graphical representations of research performance over time and across scientific fields.
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Continuum Titles Join Oxford University Press Digital Reference Shelf
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Titles from Continuum have been released to the Oxford University Press Digital Reference Shelf, powered by Semantico, a provider of services and technology for online publishing. As part of a new distribution partnership, Continuum is making a critical selection of its high-quality scholarly reference titles available through the Digital Reference Shelf platform, providing students and scholars with a single online source for reliable reference content.
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HTML5-Powered E-Readers for the Browser
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by Paula J. Hane
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Starbucks recently announced the launch of its Starbucks Digital Network, in partnership with Yahoo! The offer of free Wi-Fi in its U.S. stores caught my eye, but I was even more interested in the free content (some normally subscription-based), which was billed as a "collection of hand-picked premium news, entertainment, and lifestyle content along with local insights and events." But wait, there was even more hidden in the press release: There were free ebooks from major publishers, courtesy of the Bookish Reading Club and New Word City. But here's the sentence that propelled me to investigate this matter further for this article: "A new HTML5 reader, powered by SkyShelf from LibreDigital, allows customers to read books in the browser on their laptops, tablets and many smartphones."
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If you regularly read blogs, add these to your reader:
ITI Books Blog – booksblog.infotoday.com – news, observations, and commentary from the authors, editors, and publishers of Information Today, Inc.'s many book offerings.
ITI Conference Blog – libconf.com – covering ITI's library conferences worldwide.
Library Stuff – librarystuff.net – the library blog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development, written by Steven M. Cohen.
InfoToday Europe Blog – infotodayeurope.com – The latest news, analysis and opinion on the information industry in Europe and the UK.
Business of Video blog – blog.streamingmedia.com – Daily posts about the online video industry, business trends and analysis, market data, and research as well as the online video business models in the media and entertainment, broadcast, publishing, advertising and enterprise industries.
destinationCRM Blog – destinationcrmblog.com – a blog from the editors of CRM magazine, dedicated to providing Customer Relationship Management information in a timely manner to connect decision makers and providers.
SpeechTech Blog – speechtechblog.com – updates on speech technology and its applications in daily life. Covers everything from ASR to VUI, with lots of links, threads, and even a few pictures thrown in for good measure.
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