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SearchTeam: Collaborative Asynchronous Searching
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by Greg R. Notess
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Zakta launched a new collaborative search site, SearchTeam.com, on July 12. Proposing to "search the web together with people you trust," SearchTeam lets groups of searchers save results, add notes, modify results, "like" specific hits, and share results with others. Rather than requiring that the entire team (or group of collaborators) be online at the same time, SearchTeam is asynchronous, letting each team member save results, annotate them, and even upload files to share with others. As described in the SearchTeam FAQ, searchers can create a SearchSpace for gathering and organizing search results for each topic. "You can find and save only what you want while you are searching and throw away what you don't want or find irrelevant. You can automatically organize what you save, into folders of your choosing."
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The Hastings Center Partners With Wiley-Blackwell
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Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly (STMS) publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced a new partnership with The Hastings Center, to publish the Hastings Center Report, one of the leading journals in the field of bioethics. The partnership is designed to broaden the reach of the Hastings Center Report, particularly by expanded access to libraries.
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ProQuest Acquires U.K.’s Expert Information
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ProQuest acquired U.K.-based Expert Information, publishers of Index to Theses and Theses.com, premier sources of hundreds of thousands of citations and abstracts for British and Irish dissertations and master's theses. The addition of Expert Information will continue expanding the global impact of ProQuest's acclaimed dissertations publishing program, which includes ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, a widely consulted resource for graduate research.
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Cancer Research Portals Launch on HighWire Platform
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HighWire Press announced the launch of a suite of themed portals for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the professional organization representing physicians who care for people with cancer. The subject-specific cancer portals are a one-stop resource for readers seeking scientific abstracts, videos, links, and other materials. For publishers, the portals offer a glimpse into the flexibility of HighWire's Open Platform to repurpose, integrate, and monetize content within and beyond their HighWire-hosted publications.
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Inmagic’s New Idea Management System for Collaborative Innovation
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by Paula J. Hane
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Idea management systems are one way to approach innovation and product development. They provide a structured and disciplined approach for managing idea generation, capture, collaboration, assessment, implementation, and outcome monitoring. In 2010, Gartner's Emerging Tech Hype Cycle put the technology as being 2-5 years from mainstream adoption. I hadn't really paid much attention to this category until the recent announcement by Inmagic of IdeaNet, its "next-generation innovation application," powered by Inmagic Presto.
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