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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
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| Unglue.it Builds a Supply Chain for Free Ebooks |
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by Corilee Christou
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| Contrary to the Big Five publishers' declarations of shrinking ebook sales, Technavio just released a report, "E-book Market in the US 2016-2020," which "predicts the e-book market in the US to grow at an impressive CAGR [compound annual growth rate] of approximately 14% until 2020" and reach a striking $13 billion. It is obvious that ebooks are here to stay (at a variety of price points, including free). One of the most innovative ebook sites is Unglue.it. |
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| RightsStatements.org Provides Standardized Copyright Statements |
| The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Europeana launched RightsStatements.org, which offers rights statements that can be used to explain the copyright statuses of "cultural objects." |
| eLife Announces New Platform |
| eLife built an open source publishing platform, Continuum, to replace its previous platform, which was hosted by HighWire Press. |
| CIGI Survey Looks at Online Security and Privacy |
| The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) released the results of its latest study, "2016 CIGI-Ipsos Global Survey on Internet Security and Trust." |
| ProQuest Enables Automatic Ingestion From ORCID to Pivot |
| ProQuest updated its Pivot research solution to include automated updates from ORCID to scholar profiles--citations added to or updated in an ORCID profile will cascade into the scholar's Pivot profile. |
| SirsiDynix Support Center Gets Improvements |
| SirsiDynix introduced Mentor 2.0, the SirsiDynix Support Center's new learning management system. All SirsiDynix customers can access this new version, which has an updated user interface and simplified access to educational resources. |
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| A Do-It-Yourself Approach to STEM Education for Girls |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| A new initiative from the Los Angeles-based nonprofit DIY Girls helps organizations across the country adopt its mission of providing education programs that allow girls and women to be creative with technology. |
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How to Fix Facebook's Fake News Problem (4:16) The Accidental Data Scientist author Amy Affelt discusses leading technology experts' recommended remedies for fixing Facebook's fake news problem in this clip from Computers in Libraries 2018. |
| ITI Blogs |
If you regularly read blogs, add these to your reader: ITI Conference Blog – libconf.com – covering ITI's library conferences worldwide. ILI365/InfoToday Europe Blog – infotoday.eu – news and ideas for, and by, innovative info pros from around the world, throughout the year. SpeechTech Blog – speechtechblog.com – updates on speech technology and its applications in daily life, covering everything from ASR to VUI, with lots of links, threads, and even a few pictures thrown in for good measure. |
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Edited by Robert Berkman, The Information Advisor’s Guide to Internet Research explores, evaluates, and provides critical analysis of free and fee-based information resources, web-based services, and search strategies to help you maximize your time and keep you up-to-date on the internet's role in research.
In addition to at least one feature by business specialist Berkman, each issue of The Information Advisor’s Guide to Internet Research includes an in-depth article by Ran Hock, author of The Extreme Searcher book series and well-known seminar speaker, who checks out a major web resource. Four regular columns are rotated; two appear each issue and give readers suggestions for cool internet tools to check out (Brian Smith McCallum, M.L.S., public and academic librarian); sites to turn to for more scholarly research needs (Briana McGuckin, reference and instructional librarian); sites to go to that provide information for the common good (Susan Fingerman, retired librarian instructor, STEM); and sites that give you “big data” facts and figures on a range of topics (Jackie Shane, former reference librarian). Download your free copy of the June 2018 issue now!
Computers in Libraries magazine has posted its 2019 editorial calendar and has issued a call for article proposals at infotoday.com/cilmag/contrib.shtml#themes. |
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This newsletter is published by Information Today, Inc. Editor: Brandi Scardilli Website: http://www.infotoday.com/NewsLink Email: bscardilli@infotoday.com |
