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The Factiva Evolution—Global, Mobile, More Accessible
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by Paula J. Hane
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Factiva has earned a reputation over the years as one of our leading business news and research resources. It has consistently enhanced its content, functionality, and tools to accommodate our increasingly complex and demanding information access requirements. Now, Dow Jones is announcing a series of enhancements to Factiva coming out over the next few weeks that will make the service more global, mobile, and even more accessible. The focus is on helping people get more value out of information. Enhancements include a new look and feel, new global content, and a new app for the iPad.
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Critical Mention to Monitor BBC TV and Radio Content
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Critical Mention has expanded into the U.K. with the addition of monitoring of BBC News TV and radio content. The search platform already ingests content from more than 1,000 media sources around the world, including from all 210 U.S. television markets, Canada, and the Middle East. The addition of the BBC is designed to position the platform as the world's most powerful and comprehensive capture network in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., digitizing and indexing in real-time more than 30 hours of TV and radio content from around the world every 60 seconds.
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Boopsie Launches BookCheck—Mobile Check-Out for Libraries
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Mobile technology provider, Boopsie, announced the availability of BookCheck, a new feature that allows library patrons to check out books and other materials using a mobile phone. Cuyahoga County Public Library is the first to offer Boopsie BookCheck. BookCheck is available for Android device users. Support for iPhone and select BlackBerry devices will follow shortly.
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Elsevier Discontinuing 2collab Service
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Elsevier has discontinued its 2collab research and collaboration service as of April 15. Users are being advised to export their bookmarks and are given specific instructions on how to do so.
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Library Ebook Lending Under Attack
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by Paula J. Hane
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Libraries are getting the short end of the stick in the ebook market. The options libraries have are poor and our customers are frustrated. There are numerous restrictions on lending, device incompatibilities, proprietary systems, interface issues, privacy issues, and more. How can librarians work with publishers to build a sustainable ebook model that works for libraries? With the world moving increasingly digital, libraries need to find a way to continue to provide services to their constituencies, to ensure equitable access to information, and to work to develop new electronic content access solutions. There's a growing rift between librarians and publishers—at the very time that we should be sitting down at the table together to work on these issues.
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