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Weekly News Digest
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November 4, 2014 — 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. For other up-to-the-minute news, check out ITI’s Twitter account: @ITINewsBreaks.
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EBSCO Rolls Out Digital Magazine Reader
EBSCO Information Services introduced the Flipster digital magazine solution for libraries, allowing patrons to access issues of periodicals via Flipster’s browser-based desktop reader or mobile app while at the library. Libraries can also choose to give patrons remote access to the content and the ability to download magazines to their mobile devices for offline reading.Flipster’s features include browsing by category, a carousel of most recent issues, linked tables of contents in the magazines, and zooming in and out on articles for easy readability. “By providing a high quality digital reading experience for library patrons … Flipster offers a unique approach for experiencing content in popular magazines as well as extending library services in an exciting new way,” says Michael Laddin, EBSCO’s SVP for product management. “Flipster complements EBSCO’s full-text databases (e.g., MasterFILE, MAS, Business Source, etc.) which enable patrons to research topics of interest to them.” Source: EBSCO Information Services
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