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Monday, September 17, 2012
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Apple-Samsung Case Highlights America’s Troubled Patent System
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by Paula J. Hane
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It's clear that Apple scored a major victory over Samsung in its recent and highly publicized patent dispute. A jury found that a number of Samsung's mobile devices infringed on Apple's patented designs and awarded damages of $1.05 billion to Apple. The jury also found that Apple had not violated any of the five patents Samsung asserted in the case. Apple then requested a ban on the sale of eight models of Samsung smartphones. Both companies are considering their next steps, while the media and blogosphere continue to buzz with reactions.
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Thomson Reuters Launches Sustainability Website
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Thomson Reuters launched a new website called Sustainability. The site brings together relevant resources from across Thomson Reuters, combined with valuable partner content, into a single space. The website will enable dialogue and support customers and engaged citizens in their efforts to find a more sustainable pathway for their businesses and communities.
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EBSCO Releases 2013 Serials Price Projections Report
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Each year, EBSCO releases its Serials Price Projections. This report, based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data, provides serials price projections that will assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for the upcoming renewal season. EBSCO anticipates the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic/medical libraries for 2013 (before currency impact) to be in the range of 5% to 7%. Most library budgets are not expected to rise by the same annual percentage as publisher price increases.
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Diverse OA Coalition Issues New Guidelines to Make Research Freely Available
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In response to the growing demand to make research free and available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection, a diverse coalition issued new guidelines that could usher in huge advances in the sciences, medicine, and health. The recommendations were developed by leaders of the open access (OA) movement, which has worked for the past decade to provide the public with unrestricted, free access to scholarly research—much of which is publicly funded.
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Literary Scholarship and More From Oxford
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by Barbara Quint
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Authoritative sourcing is critical in humanities scholarship, and few institutions in the world are more respected than Oxford University. Now the Oxford University Press (OUP) has launched a new service, Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO). The initial launch taps into 171 volumes from the more than 2,000 produced. Embedded in the critical editions are some 12,000 texts covering the period 1485-1660. A freely available master index called the Oxford Index will be available as a discovery service on the open web. This month OUP also launched significantly re-engineered versions of the Oxford Handbooks Online and Oxford Reference.
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