[%message:opentracker%]
ITI Newslink
Inside this Issue
NewsBreaks
Weekly News Digests
NewsLink Spotlight
Bookshelf
ITI Blogs


Other ITI Newsletters
CRM eWeekly
InfoToday Europe eNews
KMWorld Newslinks
Smart Customer Service eWeekly
Speech Technology eWeekly
Streaming Media Producer FOCUS
Streaming Media Xtra
Streaming Media Europe Xtra
Monday, September 20, 2010

Sponsored by APA

APA

Discover the past, present, and future of psychology with APA’s eBook resources, PsycBOOKS and APA Books E-Collections. APA books are written by distinguished researchers and practitioners whose work represents cutting-edge scholarship in the evolving field of psychology.

Visit our website at www.apa.org/pubs/green for more information.

NewsBreaks
Google Instant: Interactive Searching
by Greg R. Notess
Last week, Google held a "press event" to unveil the new, results-as-you-type Google Instant. Enabled by default for Google searchers in the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Russia (if using a modern browser and either logged in to their account or using Google.com), Google Instant starts showing results, not instantaneously but very soon after the first letter of a search is typed. With each subsequent letter typed, the results (and the search suggestions) change. Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, says, "Google Instant is a new way to search." Not only do the results appear shortly after just typing one letter, but the first search suggestion also often displays (in gray letters) within the search box itself. The actual results displayed are the ones for the full suggested search or, if none is displayed in the box, for the first listed suggested search.

Weekly News Digests
EBSCO and John Carter Brown Library Offer Free Historical Database
EBSCO Publishing and the John Carter Brown library have collaborated to bring a free historical database European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 to libraries, scholars, and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 is available online at www.europeanamericana.com.
SAGE Offers Trial of SciVee Video Platform
Academic journal publisher SAGE and SciVee, a video platform solutions provider to the STM market, announced a trial of the SciVee platform for three journals published by SAGE on behalf of the Association for Psychological Science. The 3-month trial is designed to evaluate if SciVee video PubCasts will increase article views, broaden reader interest, and promote authors.
AP Experiment With Windows Internet Explorer 9 Creates Timeline Reader
Working with Microsoft Corp., The Associated Press (AP) created a way of presenting news in a visual format that allows readers to scroll through a timeline of top stories in a range of categories. The Timeline Reader represents AP's first experimentation with HTML5 and is optimized for viewing on Windows Internet Explorer 9, the latest version of Internet Explorer that just launched in beta.

NewsLink Spotlight
Free Collaborative Learning Tools for Science—Spotlight on Scitable
by Paula J. Hane
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.

cover of the September issue of Information Today

Subscribe to Information Today newsmagazine for only $69.95 (personal subscription) or $99.95 (institutional subscription) per year. Available in print, PDF, or print-plus-PDF options.

Bookshelf
The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd edition
The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd edition
by Heather Hedden
Foreword by Stephanie Lemieux
The Accidental Taxonomist is the most comprehensive guide available to the art and science of building information taxonomies. Heather Hedden—a leading taxonomy expert and instructor—walks readers through the process, displaying her trademark ability to present highly technical information in straightforward, comprehensive English.

In this fully revised third edition, Hedden adds an entirely new chapter on ontologies, emphasizes the SKOS model of concepts over the traditional thesaurus model of terms, and provides new insights into taxonomy development techniques. She presents fresh survey data; new screenshots and examples; and updated information on software, career opportunities, and resources for taxonomists.

2022/502pp softbound/ISBN 978-1-57387-586-8 | $47.50


ITI Blogs

If you regularly read blogs, add these to your reader:

ITI Conferences (libconf.com): covering ITI’s library conferences worldwide

ILI365/InfoToday Europe (infotoday.eu): news and ideas for, and by, innovative info pros from around the world, throughout the year

Streaming Media (streamingmedia.com/Articles/Blog): the go-to destination for opinion, analysis, and insights into the entire online video ecosystem


This newsletter is published by Information Today, Inc.
Editor: Brandi Scardilli
Website: http://www.infotoday.com/NewsLink
Email: bscardilli@infotoday.com