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Thursday, October 13, 2011
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SpringerLink Expanding Ebook Collection to Cover All Titles Dating From 1846
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by Barbara Quint
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In 1842, Julius Springer opened a bookshop in Berlin. Four years later, he published a book. The company he founded, Springer, is now one of the world's largest sci-tech publishers. Since the 1980s, book production has accelerated, now averaging about 7,000 books a year. The SpringerLink service to libraries now carries more than 48,000 ebooks. Since 2005, all new Springer books have been available as ebooks. After completion of the just announced Springer Book Archives (SBA) digitization project, that number should grow to more than 100,000. Digitizing all the books ever published by Springer or its imprints is the goal.
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Thomson Reuters Launches Book Citation Index
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Thomson Reuters announced the launch of the Book Citation Index, a new resource within the Web of Knowledge platform covering 25,000 books in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The Book Citation Index is designed to enhance the powerful discovery and analysis capabilities of Web of Knowledge by incorporating comprehensive book citation data.
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Digital Science Announces Investment in Labtiva; Launch of ReadCube
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Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., announced an investment in Boston-based start-up Labtiva. The company was founded by two Harvard alumni, Robert McGrath and Siniša Hrvatin, to help researchers manage their information collections more efficiently, starting with content. The company also announced the public launch of Labtiva's flagship product ReadCube, a free, cross-platform software application that enables researchers to create and manage their personal content library on their desktop and intuitively discover new literature in their fields through a recommendation system.
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CCC Introduces New Content Licensing Services
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Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and provider of licensing solutions, launched a suite of new services to simplify the licensing of content between rightsholders and enable republication: the Permissions Acquisition Service and the Republication License.
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Mine the Web Like a Journalist
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by Paula J. Hane
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I recently had the opportunity to sit in on two webinars aimed at journalists. One was sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, titled "Beyond Google: Mining the Web for Company Intelligence." The other was a "LinkedIn for Journalists" training session, which is offered frequently by Krista Canfield, senior manager of corporate communications at LinkedIn. Both proved to be well worth my time. I thought I might share some of the best suggestions I picked up that are applicable for many researchers, journalists or not.
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