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Weekly News Digest
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April 23, 2012 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Academic Video Database Coming to EBSCO Discovery Service
Mutual customers of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and the INTELECOM Online Resources Network will soon benefit from a recent agreement between EBSCO Publishing and INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications. The agreement adds metadata for all videos from INTELECOM’s academic video database to the Base Index of EDS and allows mutual customers to access the full video database. With 3,500 video clips and growing, the INTELECOM collections add a wealth of rich media to EDS.The INTELECOM Online Resources Network, a hosted and supported digital repository and subscription database of academic video clips, is closed captioned and streamed on demand. It is used to support online, hybrid, and face-to-face classes. The video collections offer academic students and teachers a comprehensive selection of video clips covering a range of key concepts and topics within an academic discipline. Core collections include Anatomy and Physiology, Biological Sciences, Oceanography, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science, Sociology, Health, and Environmental Studies. INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. The EDS Base Index represents content from about 20,000 providers (and growing) in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers. Source: EBSCO Publishing
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