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Thursday, October 27, 2011
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Credo Reference Tests literati to Enhance Library Information Literacy
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by Barbara Quint
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How do you train today's and tomorrow's knowledge workers to use online content effectively? How do you teach them to evaluate content sites accurately? Credo Reference ha already massed a collection of high-quality digital reference tools from about 80 publishers worldwide. Now the company has begun beta testing a new service called literati by Credo that will improve the use of its own and non-Credo sources, educate users, and enhance the role as well as the image of librarians. Beta testing will extend through November, and a launch of the new service is scheduled for January 2012.
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Revised EndNote X5 for Windows and Mac OS X Launched
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Thomson Reuters announced a new version of EndNote, its bibliographic data manager. The software collects and organizes references and finds full text, collaborates using EndNote Web, and alters citations with its Cite While You Write feature covering more than 5,000 journal styles. Improvements in EndNote X5 include the ability to add and move file attachments between the computer and web account (requires registering with EndNote X5), attach files to an EndNote web record, store up to 25,000 references on the web with 1GB for file attachments, and update a reference automatically.
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HeyStaks 2.0 App Improves Social Searching
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HeyStaks announced new features to its recently launched social search tablet app to help consumers better view community recommended results and easily view results from multiple sources with one click. Powered by search communities of people who share a common interest, the app generates more relevant search results using highlighted results recommended by search communities, so users can easily differentiate between community and third-party results and one-stop search. Users can also toggle among search results from Google, Yahoo!, Twitter, and Flickr.
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HighWire Press Uses TEMIS to Enrich Content Semantically
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HighWire Press, Stanford University's provider of hosting and web publishing platforms to scholarly publishers, partnered with TEMIS, a leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment enterprise solutions. Under the strategic technology and business partnership, HighWire will integrate the full suite of Luxid software within its ePublishing Platform to provide automated content annotation, enrichment, and linking to its customers.
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Mine the Web Like a Journalist
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by Paula J. Hane
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I recently had the opportunity to sit in on two webinars aimed at journalists. One was sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, titled "Beyond Google: Mining the Web for Company Intelligence." The other was a "LinkedIn for Journalists" training session, which is offered frequently by Krista Canfield, senior manager of corporate communications at LinkedIn. Both proved to be well worth my time. I thought I might share some of the best suggestions I picked up that are applicable for many researchers, journalists or not.
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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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Paula Hane's New Chapter
Effective June 1, Paula J. Hane is giving up her assignment as News Bureau Chief at Information Today, Inc. (ITI), where she was engaged to provide editorial direction to the ITI NewsBreaks service hosted on infotoday.com. She also wrote for Information Today and the Cyberskeptic’s Guide to Internet Research. She has been associated with the company for 16½ years and was previously the Editor of Database magazine for Online, Inc. She will continue to accept freelance editorial and writing assignments.
The responsibility for producing news commentaries and in-depth analyses for the infotoday.com website will be integrated into the workflow of the Information Today newspaper, with Barbara Brynko as Editor-in-Chief/Editorial Director. Assisting Barbara will be Brandi Scardilli as Managing Editor.
Vendors should continue to send information industry and product news items to Information Today: Barbara Brynko (Editor-in-Chief/Editorial Director) at bbrynko@infotoday.com. Library technology news should continue to be sent to Computers in Libraries magazine at cilnews@infotoday.com. As always, freelance writers are encouraged to submit story ideas directly to the editors.
We wish Paula success in her new ventures and thank her for her many years of great work as News Bureau Chief at ITI. Paula can be reached at paulajeanhane@gmail.com.
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