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Thursday, November 11, 2010

 APA Handbook

New from the American Psychological Association, the APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology is a reference tool for the intersection of business, management, and science with psychology. Electronic and print versions available now.

Learn more at www.apa.org/pubs/books/IO

NewsBreaks
New Search Engine Blekko Invites You to Slash the Web
by Marydee Ojala
Blekko launched a new search engine at the beginning of November 2010 after being in private beta for months. The search engine was available for those who liked Blekko on Facebook, followed it on Twitter, or sent it a tweet. Although Blekko remains in beta but in a public beta, it's a great improvement over the initial teaser landing page that greeted people for years with a simple search box with the words, "Coming soon." Blekko's slogan, "Slash the Web," refers to its unique method of search refinement.

Weekly News Digests
EBSCO Discovery Service Expands With Content from ingentaconnect
A recent agreement between EBSCO Publishing and ingentaconnect further expands the resources discoverable through EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The agreement allows selected scholarly journals from ingentaconnect to be indexed in EDS, EBSCO's comprehensive discovery service.
Elsevier Announces SciVal Spotlight Country Maps
Elsevier announced the availability of SciVal Spotlight country maps, a new option for academic and governmental decision makers seeking to understand national research strengths against the increasingly interdisciplinary backdrop of global research. They are an extension of the SciVal Spotlight solution, which uses an analytical algorithm to reveal customized graphical representations of research performance over time and across scientific fields.
Continuum Titles Join Oxford University Press Digital Reference Shelf
Titles from Continuum have been released to the Oxford University Press Digital Reference Shelf, powered by Semantico, a provider of services and technology for online publishing. As part of a new distribution partnership, Continuum is making a critical selection of its high-quality scholarly reference titles available through the Digital Reference Shelf platform, providing students and scholars with a single online source for reliable reference content.

NewsLink Spotlight
HTML5-Powered E-Readers for the Browser
by Paula J. Hane
Starbucks recently announced the launch of its Starbucks Digital Network, in partnership with Yahoo! The offer of free Wi-Fi in its U.S. stores caught my eye, but I was even more interested in the free content (some normally subscription-based), which was billed as a "collection of hand-picked premium news, entertainment, and lifestyle content along with local insights and events." But wait, there was even more hidden in the press release: There were free ebooks from major publishers, courtesy of the Bookish Reading Club and New Word City. But here's the sentence that propelled me to investigate this matter further for this article: "A new HTML5 reader, powered by SkyShelf from LibreDigital, allows customers to read books in the browser on their laptops, tablets and many smartphones."

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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


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