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Thursday, December 08, 2011
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NLMplus: Both Showcase and Useful Tool
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by Barbara Quint
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has played an historic role in the development of online technology and services. In a sense, it might almost be called the parent of online. It has performed this service using a wide array of resources—research budgets for innovative projects, lowered cost and high availability for world-class, high-use databases, operational budgets for new databases, and even publicity efforts like the Show Off Your Apps Challenge awards given in early November to innovative apps built around its services. One of the winners was WebLib for its semantic, metasearch offering, NLMplus. Intended to showcase the application of WebLib's software to NLM content, the product also offers real value to working searchers and end users.
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Gale’s Online Ebook Platform Gets a Facelift
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Gale, part of Cengage Learning, introduced a totally redesigned user interface for Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL), its online ebook platform. After extensive user analysis and market feedback, the interface has been overhauled with improved navigation and organization, and a vibrant and engaging display to draw in students, researchers, professionals, and general readers.
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EBSCO Discovery Service Offers New Open Access Humanities and Social Science Content
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Content from the French open access (OA) publishing platform openedition.org (OpenEdition) will be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service from EBSCO Publishing. OpenEdition is made up of three community publishing platforms dedicated to the humanities and social sciences. The complementary platforms represent a complete electronic publishing system dedicated to promoting research and open access publishing of tens of thousands of scientific papers.
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Reprints Desk Announces Journal Article Web App ‘Bibliogo’
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Reprints Desk, Inc., a Derycz Scientific company, announced the public availability of Bibliogo, the journal article web app that helps users do more with scientific papers. Bibliogo, available in free and paid versions, is built to scale using Google App Engine and is a productivity tool designed for professionals and workgroups in research, bioinformatics, engineering, information management, regulatory and medical affairs, medical marketing, and healthcare communications.
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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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