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Monday, December 13, 2010
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News and Trends We Could Do Without
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by Paula J. Hane
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At this time of year, I watch closely for the usual year-end wrap-ups and trend watch articles, though I keep an eye open all year for evidence of emergent trends in the seemingly endless tide of industry news. As usual, the trends seem to present an interesting mix of opportunities and challenges. In this fast-paced, increasingly online world, things are certainly never dull. Lately, I've run across some news items and trends that I feel we could do without. Note that these are my personal comments—no reflection on Information Today, Inc.
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Answers.com Offers Random House Word Menu Online
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Answers.com announced its offering of an exclusive English language tool—access to the Random House Word Menu—helping people find the exact word at a moment's notice. Word Menu, created by the late esteemed lexicographer, Stephen Glazier, is the ultimate writer's reference source: a reverse-dictionary, thesaurus, almanac, and collection of glossaries divided into logical categories to help users find the word they need. Word Menu was originally published in 1992 but has never been available on the web until now.
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Serials Solutions Announces Hosted Proxy Service
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Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, announced the availability of the proxy service, 360 Access Control. It is the industry's first software-as-a-service (SaaS) proxy solution designed to help librarians streamline the management of their e-resource collections, as well as improve patron access to those collections with a single sign-on.
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Thomson Reuters Launches Custom Fields in Thomson Innovation
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The Intellectual Property (IP) Solutions business of Thomson Reuters launched its one-of-a-kind Custom Fields functionality in Thomson Innovation. IP professionals, innovators, researchers, attorneys, and patent portfolio managers can now create custom fields, allowing them to tag patent records with their own internal data, then search, analyze, and report on relationships between enterprise-specific and global patent information. The results and analyses can also be shared with others to enhance collaboration and streamline organizational workflow.
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National Archives and NTIS Agree on the Preservation of Digital Scientific and Technical Information
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by Miriam A. Drake
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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) concluded an agreement ensuring long-term access to the digital scientific, technical, and engineering information (STEI) collected by NTIS. Under the terms of the agreement, technical reports and material collected and maintained by NTIS will be preserved in accordance with NARA standards. Preservation of these materials will facilitate access to the historical records of federally funded research in the future.
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