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Weekly News Digest
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October 28, 2010 — 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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Springer’s Major Reference Works Now Linked Via Paratext’s Reference Universe
Paratext announced that thousands of links to more than 150 major reference works from Springer will be integrated into Paratext’s Reference Universe service. Springer’s electronic and print major reference works are a mainstay of specialist research, serving a broad spectrum of scientific, technical, and medical disciplines, and routinely winning awards for their authoritative and detailed coverage.Paratext’s Reference Universe is a cross-searchable database that supports article and index-level discovery of major reference works from more than 750 imprints. The service focuses exclusively on subject encyclopedias and scholarly compendia—the authoritative introductory material that research librarians consistently identify as the key starting point for better quality research. All Reference Universe searches are dynamically matched to each library’s existing electronic and print holdings. “Through this association with Paratext, we know our major reference titles will be discovered even more quickly, allowing library patrons to access SpringerLink and take advantage of the full range of our scholarly resources,” added Thomas Mager, executive vice president publishing product development at Springe Source: Paratext
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