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Thursday, November 18, 2010
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New Image Search from Elsevier’s SciVerse ScienceDirect
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by Sue Polanka
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Searching for images in SciVerse ScienceDirect is now as simple as the point and shoot camera. With the launch of its new Image Search functionality, Elsevier provides STM researchers a visual entry way into millions of journal articles and ebooks. Available to subscribers at no additional charge, Image Search spans more than 15 million figures, including 5 million tables, and several thousand videos from trusted peer-reviewed full-text sources in ScienceDirect.
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U.S. GPO Content Available Through EBSCO Discovery Service
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Metadata from the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) will soon be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing. EDS Customers will be able to search for federal records from the Government Printing Office's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications.
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FT Press Launches 200 Titles on Apple’s iBookstore
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FT Press, an imprint of Pearson, announced the availability of more than 200 titles on Apple's iBookstore, with more to follow. The iBookstore is accessible via the free iBooks app in the App Store, and available for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
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Palgrave Macmillan Updates The Statesman’s Yearbook
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Palgrave Macmillan released an update to The Statesman's Yearbook online resource in partnership with Semantico, a provider of services and technology for online publishing. The Statesman's Yearbook is an authoritative and accessible resource; it remains the first point of reference for anyone needing reliable, concise information on any country in the world.
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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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