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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Yahoo! Clues: A New Source for Search Data
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by Greg R. Notess
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Yes, Yahoo! now uses Microsoft's Bing to power its web searching, but the company continues to make the case that it will continue to innovate in web search. Yahoo! has been adding new features and interfaces to a variety of its search products. One recent example is Yahoo! Clues, which launched in mid-November 2010. While it is just in beta and in its early stages, Clues offer unique information not readily available from other sources.
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Springer Launches SpringerBriefs as Ebooks
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Springer launched SpringerBriefs, a product line for works between 50 and 125 pages that are not quite long enough to be books, yet they are too long to be journal articles. These works will be available as ebooks on Springer's online platform SpringerLink.com and in print.
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds Records to WorldCat
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library, the world's largest repository of full-text digitized legacy biodiversity literature, added more than 14,000 records of digitized materials from 12 prestigious institutions to WorldCat.
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University of Pittsburgh Library System Offers Free Ejournal Publishing Service
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The University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) is now offering free ejournal publishing services to help academic journals make their content available to a global audience while eliminating the cost of print production.
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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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