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Thursday, January 19, 2012
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A Year of Exceptional Budget Challenges: USGS Shutters NBII
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by Peggy Garvin
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"As you are likely aware, this is a year of exceptional budget challenges." This may not be the first or last time U.S. government information users hear such words. In this case, the words introduce the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) [www.usgs.gov/] announcement of the decision to terminate funding of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) program. USGS had managed and funded the NBII program, which the website described as "a broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources," since the late 1990s.
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Springer Open Choice Adopts Creative Commons Attribution License
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Springer is bringing Open Choice, its hybrid open access (OA) option, into line with the fully OA journals published by BioMed Central and SpringerOpen. As a result, all OA content at Springer will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.
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OverDrive Adds Non-English Ebooks to Library Catalog
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OverDrive, a global digital distributor of ebooks and audiobooks to libraries and schools, added thousands of foreign-language materials in dozens of genres to its catalog of more than 700,000 digital titles. OverDrive's online catalog, Content Reserve, which contains digital books in more than 50 languages, recently added popular and bestselling titles in Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Italian, and Turkish, with thousands of Spanish ebooks coming soon.
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Article Exchange Integrated Into WorldCat Resource Sharing Service
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OCLC announced that, following a successful 5-month trial, the Article Exchange feature is now available within the WorldCat Resource Sharing service and, where available, through an ILLiad add-on. This new feature is available at no charge to OCLC libraries that use WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad Resource Sharing Management Software and will be offered in WorldCat Navigator, in regions where available, and VDX later this year.
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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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