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R.R. Donnelley Acquires LibreDigital
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by Paula J. Hane
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R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Co. (RRD), a "global provider of integrated communications" that is best known as a traditional printing company, announced it has acquired LibreDigital, which has been a pioneer of digital replicas for books and periodicals. With the acquisition, RRD solidifies its expansion into the digital arena and gains a solid company and some interesting products that extend digital content across multiple channels. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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OCLC to Offer Atlas Systems’ Free Electronic Document Delivery Software
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Atlas Systems announced that OCLC will extend its suite of resource sharing services with Odyssey 2.0, the new version of Atlas' free stand-alone electronic delivery software. Odyssey complements the OCLC ILLiad Resource Sharing Management Software that was developed by Atlas Systems and is now distributed by OCLC.
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University of California Libraries Expand Access to Orphan Works
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The University of California Libraries will join the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, and University of Florida in a groundbreaking initiative to identify and make available digital versions of orphan works within the holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library.
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Pubget Announces PaperStream Beta for Local and Online Document Search and Management
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Pubget, a provider of tools for scientific research, announced the beta launch of PaperStream, a cloud app for accessing, managing, and sharing research papers across teams. The product is projected to streamline research in the enterprise and lab environment by combining local (desktop) and web search in one cloud platform.
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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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Common Records Management Roadblocks
Enterprise knowledge consultant Angela Pitts discusses access, technology, and other barriers to effective records management in this clip from her presentation at KMWorld 2022.
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