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Monday, September 13, 2010
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Free Collaborative Learning Tools for Science—Spotlight on Scitable
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by Paula J. Hane
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As Scott Merrill wrote on CrunchGear, "Social networks are a dime a dozen." He pointed out that many fail and many are just for specific niche audiences (though I don't think niches are a bad thing). So, he was as skeptical as I was about Scitable, a social network for science research and education from Nature Publishing Group, publishers of Nature and Scientific American. I was especially leery given the recent turmoil over licensing discussions between NPG and the University of California. (They recently issued a joint statement agreeing to work together to address the "mutual short- and long-term challenges.") Scitable is an educational website offered by Nature Education (a division of NPG) for biology and genetics educators and undergraduate students, and it provides a free library of high-quality, vetted content and tools. The company just announced the launch of the mobile version of Scitable.
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Ebook Collections Coming to Project MUSE Platform
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Project MUSE, a provider of humanities and social science periodical content for libraries, announced a new initiative to incorporate scholarly book content into its research platform and product offerings. Beginning in fall 2011, ebook collections will be available for purchase alongside MUSE journal collections, with an integrated discovery environment that allows for browsing and searching journal and book content side-by-side.
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H.W. Wilson Enhances WilsonWeb; Partners With OCLC’s WorldCat Local
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H.W. Wilson announced a new round of enhancements for WilsonWeb. The latest improvements include enhancements to the interface, to the ReadSpeaker text-to-speech converter, and to a number of databases—offering more versatile access and expanding the range of research available.
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SYSTRAN Mobile Translator for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Devices
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SYSTRAN, a leading provider of language translation technologies, announced the availability of SYSTRAN Mobile Translator English-French for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad devices. The company plans to release additional European languages, such as Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese, and Italian. SYSTRAN Mobile Translator for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad is available as a download for $3.99 from the iTunes store.
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The Promise of Integrated Drug Pipelines From InfoDesk: Will Multisearch Work?
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by Tara Breton
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The benefit to being cohorts with a popular editor: insight into potential new products. In this case, a new tool under development by InfoDesk promises to integrate pipeline data from multiple drug information sources into a single set of results. Think of it: searching three or four databases and only dealing with a single output.
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