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Thursday, December 15, 2011
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Lexis Advance: Legal Research for the 99%
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by Carol Ebbinghouse
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LexisNexis announced that Lexis Advance is to be released to all current Lexis.com users at no extra charge over the next several months. Legal columnist for Searcher, Carol Ebbinghouse, was part of the final beta test and calls the new Lexis Advance "a giant leap forward" from Lexis.com. Lexis Advance is so much more than a Google-ized version of LexisNexis. The new links and relationships, the additional out-of-contract resources, and novel presentation graphics that illuminate your findings are truly dynamic.
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Thomson Reuters Launches Interactive Tool Covering U.S. Supreme Court
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Thomson Reuters announced that it has launched a dynamic interactive online tool offering comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2011-12 term. Case by Case: The U.S. Supreme Court combines original reporting from Thomson Reuters News & Insights with links to an extensive collection of analysis and legal materials, including motions, briefs and opinions, all sourced from Westlaw.
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CAS and InfoChem to Collaborate in ChemInformatics
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Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) announced a long-term collaboration with InfoChem, GmbH (InfoChem), a provider of chemical structure and reaction technology as well as data mining in chemical science documents. Under the new collaboration, research teams at CAS and InfoChem will work together to explore the technology frontiers in the field of cheminformatics.
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Springer API Challenge 2.0 Now Open
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Springer announced the Springer API (Application Programming Interface) Challenge 2.0, its second competition for original, noncommercial applications using its freely available metadata and content APIs. The Springer API Challenge 2.0 is a goal-directed competition.
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Tablet News Reader Space Heats Up
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by Paula J. Hane
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People who like to read news on their iPads or other tablets have plenty to choose from lately. All the big players and a number of upstarts are diving into the aggregated news reader space. The Apple Newsstand launched in mid-October, Yahoo! announced its Livestand earlier this year that it just launched in early November, and Google is reportedly ready to unveil an HTML5-based news reader app, code named either Propeller or Current.
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