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Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Netvibes Acquired by Dassault Systèmes
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by Barbie E. Keiser
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On Feb. 9, 2012, Dassault Systèmes, a French engineering firm best known for 3D and computer-aided design (CAD) software, fully acquired Netvibes for an estimated $26 million. (Dassault Systèmes has had a stake in Netvibes since mid-2010.) Founded by Tariq Krim in 2005, Netvibes began as a personal start or homepage, but instead of getting current news from the feeds, as was the case with My Yahoo! and iGoogle, users could define the topics for which news would be retrieved and presented in a single view (dashboard). Tabs at the top allowed people to track several topics with feeds selected to deliver targeted news for each.
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New F1000 App Helps Researchers Explore Content in Elsevier’s SciVerse
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Faculty of 1000 (F1000), an online service that selects and evaluates articles based on the opinions of global leaders in biology and medicine, announced the launch of a new application that helps researchers explore the scientific content in biology and medicine included in Elsevier's SciVerse platform. Once a SciVerse user adds the app, the articles that have been highlighted by the F1000 faculty will display a badge that, when clicked, brings the user to the F1000 evaluation.
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Social Media Data Available for ebrary Student E-book Survey
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ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced that the social media data of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey is now publicly available at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/surveys along with the full report. More than 6,500 students worldwide participated in the survey, which was similar to a 2008 survey created by librarians. As part of the latest survey, ebrary added questions pertaining to social media, which has grown and changed significantly over the past 3 years.
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EBSCO Publishing and Isabel Healthcare Integrate Decision Support Tools
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Institutions using the clinical decision-support resources Isabel and DynaMed will benefit from tighter integration of the two tools. A new agreement between Isabel Healthcare and EBSCO Publishing allows direct linking between the Isabel diagnosis tool and the evidence-based point-of-care tool DynaMed, letting mutual customers link from one resource to the other. The agreement brings the evidence-based content from DynaMed into the diagnostic process and allows users easier access regardless of whether a search begins in Isabel or DynaMed.
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ProQuest Works to Integrate Assets and Services
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by Paula J. Hane
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Last summer, ProQuest welcomed Kurt Sanford as its new CEO. He has now had 6 months leading the company and has already made his mark with a reorganization of leadership, new customer focus, and product migrations and integrations. I had a chance to visit with him during ALA Midwinter in Dallas and get an update on the corporate strategy he is implementing and his thoughts on the industry.
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