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Thursday, August 18, 2011
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Project Muse Beta Tests New Platform Integrating Ebooks With Journals
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by Barbara Quint
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Project Muse is a leading provider of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences serving millions of users through its subscription arrangements with some 2,500 libraries. Muse will add more than 12,000 ebooks to the 490 journals in its electronic collection. The launch of the new service will take place on Jan. 1, 2012. Until the end of 2011, Project Muse invites people to try out its new platform integrating searching for both content formats at a beta site. The beta site carries more than 300 ebooks from 27 publishers, plus all the Muse journals. For the journal content, visitors will be limited to what they may already access through Project Muse institutional subscriptions. The ebooks will have free full-text samples during the beta period.
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Subscription Model Introduced for MediaNews Group Online Newspapers in Five States
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MediaNews Group, Inc. announced that it is launching a digital subscription model for about two dozen of its affiliate newspapers in California (10 papers), Massachusetts (2), New Mexico (6), Pennsylvania (6), and Vermont (2). This digital paywall allows free access to a limited amount of content on a monthly basis, and then readers will be asked to subscribe to full access to their local news site. This digital subscription will be available in all markets starting Aug. 15, 2011.
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EBSCONET Offers Real-Time Access to EBSCO A-to-Z e-Holdings Data
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EBSCO announced that users of EBSCONET's Subscription Management service now have instant access to complete holdings details for titles in their EBSCO A-to-Z collections. When viewing a title on EBSCONET, librarians can now see the library's complete holdings for that title, as managed in the EBSCO A-to-Z listing service.
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Free iPad App Accesses IT White Papers on IDG Connect
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International Data Group (IDG) Connect created a new iPad app to give users full access to its global IT white paper library. This application is free to download through Apple's iTunes store and enables users to search more than 6,000 PDFs and save them to their own personal bookshelf.
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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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