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Thursday, February 10, 2011
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Ebooks From Springer Archived by CLOCKSS
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CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) has partnered with Springer Science+Business Media to preserve more than 32,000 ebooks in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. A not-for-profit joint venture between the scholarly publishers and research libraries, CLOCKSS's mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive for the benefit of the greater global research community.
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China Connect From BCMS International, BvD Identifies Acquisition Opportunities
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China Connect details transaction histories and acquisition opportunities in nonlisted Chinese companies. The data has been sourced through relationships and cooperation agreements with Chinese government departments, local equity exchanges, charitable foundations, professional service firms, and financiers. It is unique in that it comes directly from reliable sources on the ground in China who understand private Chinese businesses. Now, through BvD's (Bureau van Dijk's) Zephyr software, users can search for, and analyze, both the historical deals and current opportunities. China Connect is the latest significant addition to BvD's M&A portfolio, which includes the recent launches of its M&A Portal, Valuation Catalyst, and the new version of Zephyr.
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ARTstor Images Discoverable Through Serials Solutions’ Summon Service
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Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, LLC, announced an agreement with ARTstor to enable the discovery of its visual materials collections from the Summon web-scale discovery service. ARTstor Digital Library provides more than 1 million images in the areas of art, architecture, humanities, and sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
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Update on Gale—Mobile, Global, and In Context
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by Paula J. Hane
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At the recent ALA Midwinter meeting, I caught up with Nader Qaimari, senior vice president of marketing at Cengage Learning, to talk about recent developments at Gale and get a peek at some forthcoming products. Gale continues to be excited about the streamlined company structure implemented last summer—the integration of Gale and Cengage. Qaimari says it lets the company make content connections and help libraries serve as the conduit to information and textbooks. Other news he was eager to discuss included the company's mobile initiatives, its new Gale World Scholar product line, enhancements to PowerSearch, new administrative tools, and ongoing work on the In Context products.
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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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