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Monday, December 19, 2011
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Class Action Filed in Google Books Case
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by George H. Pike
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The long-delayed lawsuit over the Google Book project took a significant step toward court action and potentially farther away from a settlement with the filing of a motion for Class Certification by The Authors Guild and several individual authors. With the filing, the authors are asking the court to move the case forward as a class action lawsuit, with the guild and authors representing a class of thousands or more individual authors. This could increase the possibility of significant damages against Google if they are found to have infringed on the authors' copyrights. Google is expected to oppose the motion to certify the class and is also expected to ask the court to dismiss the case outright.
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Oxford Digital Reference Shelf to Re-Launch in 2012
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Oxford University Press announced that it will re-launch Oxford Reference Online and the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf in the first half of 2012 as Oxford Reference. This will be the essential hub to all Oxford University Press reference content, re-launching with improved functionality and design.
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Ebook Download Survey From ebrary Now Freely Available
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ebrary, a ProQuest business and provider of ebooks and research technology, announced that the results of its survey of more than 1,000 librarians regarding ebook mobile and offline access is now publicly available online. Anyone may register to receive the full results along with a paper authored by Allen McKiel, Ph.D. and dean of library services at Western Oregon University.
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New Project MUSE Platform Goes Live Jan. 1, 2012
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Project MUSE's newly redesigned platform to include books along with its journals will go live on Jan. 1, 2012. A preview of the new platform is available on its beta site. More than 300 free sample books are accessible on the beta site through the end of 2011. At the launch of the new platform, more than 14,000 books from 66 university presses and related scholarly publishers will be available alongside MUSE's more than 500 electronic journals.
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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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