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Thursday, January 12, 2012
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NewsRight to License News Content
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by Barbara Quint
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Traditional news publishers have struggled throughout the Age of the Web with the conflict involved in having to use the web to reach readers while still having to maintain at least enough revenue to support operations. Now 29 major news and information companies have signed on as initial investors and participants in NewsRight, an independent digital rights and content licensing organization. It's in the early days, but NewsRight is working on two fronts to build content licensing services. On one hand, it is dealing with its publisher community to set licensing details for specific content. On the other, it is designing licenses for target businesses.
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Copyright Clearance Center Acquires Pubget
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Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and source of licensing solutions, acquired Mass.-based Pubget, a solutions provider focused on expediting the acquisition and analysis of content. Pubget offers search, retrieval and browse capabilities for content. Its solutions make research more efficient by simplifying the process of finding, managing, and analyzing information. Pubget served more than 5 million researchers and 500 research centers in 2011.
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OCLC Working With SkillSoft to Add Records for Books24x7 Digital Book Catalog to WorldCat
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OCLC is working with SkillSoft, an SaaS provider of elearning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, and education, to add records for the Books24x7 digital book catalog to WorldCat. SkillSoft's growing selection of more than 30,000 titles in a variety of subject areas will be represented in WorldCat with a link to the Books24x7 platform.
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Credo Reference and Swets Announce New Partnership
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Credo Reference announced a new partnership with Swets, an information services company. Under the agreement, Swets will incorporate Credo Reference with more than 1,500 reference works from more than 80 of the world's best reference publishers into the SwetsWise eBook catalog. Collections and titles are thoughtfully selected to offer broad coverage of subjects such as psychology, history, business, education, environmental studies, and more.
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Review of 2011 and Trends Watch 2012
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by Paula J. Hane
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What will you remember from 2011? Techies will no doubt focus on the iPad 2, iPhone 4S, the Kindle Fire, and the rest of the new Kindle family, and all the new apps for smartphones. Folks in the information industry will likely remember 2011 as one of adapting new technologies and testing viable business models for the new emerging information landscape. Librarians will likely remember it as a year of intense pressure to squeeze more eresources and services from their (shrinking) budgets.
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