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Weekly News Digest
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November 6, 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.
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NTIS Document Library Goes OA
The National Technical Reports Library (NTRL), a service of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), is providing free public access to its searchable online database of about 3 million federal science and technology reports. The full texts of 800,000 documents are now available to download as PDF files for free; the rest of the NTRL’s reports are still on microfiche. They can be accessed as PDFs once scanned or in print for a fee. Each time one of these documents is digitized, however, NTRL will add the full-text PDF to its open repository.“Our mission is to collect and broadly disseminate federal science and technology information using a self-supporting business model,” says Bruce Borzino, NTIS’s director. “However, we also recognize that a number of the documents previously offered for a fee through our website were available for free from other sources. … We have continually updated our pricing and business models in response to changing times and we’ll continue to do so.” Source: National Technical Information Service
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