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Monday, September 19, 2011
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Upstart Legal Services Gain Traction
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by Paula J. Hane
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What a lot of activity we've seen lately in online legal services—acquisitions, investments, new traction in the market, and even newly launched services. The traditional methods of practicing law have been challenged of late, with some of the work formerly done by lawyers now able to be performed by technology. And, the rise of free sources of legal information, such as Fastcase and Justia.com, continue to rock the market. Yes, we live in interesting and disruptive times.
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Gale Debuts Enhanced Career Transitions Resource
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Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announced major enhancements to Career Transitions, its online career service tool. The features include a new user interface, reporting tools for gauging user activity, and additional job-seeking and career exploration activities. These enhancements, which allow for easier and faster user access and career assessment, were implemented based on extensive customer and user feedback. These new features have been added to Career Transitions at no additional cost to customers.
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IDC Raises Shipment Forecast for Media Tablets
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Worldwide media tablet shipments rose by 88.9% on a sequential basis and 303.8% year over year in the second calendar quarter of 2011 (2Q11) to 13.6 million units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker. Based on this strong performance in 2Q and an improved outlook for the second half of the year, IDC raised its shipment forecast for 2011 to 62.5 million units, up from a previous projection of 53.5 million units.
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Elsevier Enhances SciVal Spotlight With Collaboration Analysis
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As a rising number of institutions shift their focus toward collaborative relationships to secure funding in a more competitive research landscape, analyzing current and potential partners has become increasingly important. To address this growing need, Elsevier has now launched a new enhancement to SciVal Spotlight: an integrated collaboration analysis enabling institutional decision makers to identify and evaluate partnerships at an institutional and author level.
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The British Library to Change Licensing for Noncommercial, Non-U.K. Document Delivery
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by Barbara Quint
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Starting in January 2012, The British Library (BL) will replace its current Overseas Library Privilege Service with the International Non-Commercial Document Supply (INCD) service. The new service stems from a new framework license agreement supported by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) and the Publishers Association. It still requires libraries to be authorized, but it also imposes increased compliance documentation on library patrons. End users will have to sign declaration forms before receiving ordered items as well as annual statements of noncommercial status, forms that libraries will have to maintain for 6 years plus current year.
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