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Thursday, September 27, 2012
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Congress.gov Beta: An Early Look at a New THOMAS
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by Peggy Garvin
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The U.S. Congress and the Law Library of Congress launched the beta version of a new public legislative information system, Congress.gov (temporarily beta.congress.gov). Congress.gov eventually will replace the current official legislative information system, THOMAS. In a press release on Sept. 19, 2012, the Library of Congress noted that "the [current] system has been updated over the years, but [its] foundation can no longer support the capabilities that today's Internet users have come to expect, including access on mobile devices."
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Elsevier to Provide Free Content Through edX
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Elsevier announced its plan to provide free content through edX, the online learning initiative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched in May. Students who enroll in edX's course 6.002X: Circuits and Electronics will have free access to an online version of the course textbook, Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits, written by Anant Agarwal and Jeffrey Lang and published under Elsevier's Morgan Kaufmann imprint.
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Project MUSE and Portico Partner to Preserve UPCC Ebooks
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Portico and Project MUSE announced that they are partnering to secure the long-term preservation of ebooks published online in MUSE through the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC). Working together, Project MUSE and Portico will ensure that the ebook offerings of the UPCC—73 presses and more than 15,000 books at the time of signing—will remain available for future scholars, researchers, and students.
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Two Centuries Later, The Annual Register Is an Ebook
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The 253rd edition of ProQuest's Annual Register is now available as an ebook through ebrary, making this classic reference to world events as mobile as a smartphone. For more than 2 centuries, The Annual Register has been a "go-to" for librarians who value its year-by-year record of both major and minor world events. The complete archive of the reference became available as an online tool through ProQuest in 2007, enabling researchers to scan the full text of every edition in a single search. Now ebrary, a business unit of ProQuest, will enable libraries to make contents of the past 10 editions available as ebooks, supported by its rich features and functionality, such as notes, highlights, and shareable bookshelves.
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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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