Yahoo! Clues In Today's ITI Newslink

The challenge of change continues to affect all those in K-12 education. All this change is, of course, affecting those very areas where you, the library media and technology specialists, are practicing your craft … teaching, learning, advising, supporting, collaborating. Your efforts and your programs must remain at the forefront as the education community ramps up in these difficult and fluid times to equip all students for life in the 21st century. What a challenge!

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NewsBreaks

Yahoo! Clues: A New Source for Search Data

by Greg R. Notess

Yes, Yahoo! now uses Microsoft's Bing to power its web searching, but the company continues to make the case that it will continue to innovate in web search. Yahoo! has been adding new features and interfaces to a variety of its search products. One recent example is Yahoo! Clues, which launched in mid-November 2010. While it is just in beta and in its early stages, Clues offer unique information not readily available from other sources.

Weekly News Digests

Springer Launches SpringerBriefs as Ebooks

Springer launched SpringerBriefs, a product line for works between 50 and 125 pages that are not quite long enough to be books, yet they are too long to be journal articles. These works will be available as ebooks on Springer's online platform SpringerLink.com and in print.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds Records to WorldCat

The Biodiversity Heritage Library, the world's largest repository of full-text digitized legacy biodiversity literature, added more than 14,000 records of digitized materials from 12 prestigious institutions to WorldCat.

University of Pittsburgh Library System Offers Free Ejournal Publishing Service

The University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) is now offering free ejournal publishing services to help academic journals make their content available to a global audience while eliminating the cost of print production.

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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