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Thursday, October 11, 2012
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Google’s Settlement With Publishers Does Not Resolve All Library Project Issues
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by George H. Pike
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After more than 7 years of litigation, Google and The Association of American Publishers (AAP) reached a settlement over Google's ongoing Library Project to scan books from public and academic libraries and make the content available over Google. The settlement permits the project to continue, but it gives U.S. publishers the power to choose whether to make their books available through Google or to have them removed. However, the settlement does not resolve the claims made by The Authors Guild and individual authors that the project violates their copyrights. Those claims remain tied up in litigation, notwithstanding previous efforts at reaching a settlement.
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EBSCO Adds Health Economic Evaluations Database
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The Health Economic Evaluations Database (HEED), containing information on studies of cost-effectiveness and other forms of economic evaluation of medicines, is now available from EBSCO Publishing. Initially developed as a joint initiative between the Office of Health Economics (OHE) and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA), HEED provides comparative analysis of costs and consequences about medicines and other healthcare interventions from around the world for informed decision making.
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Presidential Documents App Available From GPO, National Archives
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The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the National Archives' Office of the Federal Register (OFR) released a mobile web app on the daily public activities of the President of the United States. The app is part of both agencies' efforts to support The White House's digital strategy for the federal government by ensuring the American people have access to government information on any device. The Presidential Documents app includes executive orders, speeches, communications to Congress and federal agencies, as well as White House announcements.
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Chemical Abstracts Service Upgrades SciFinder
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CAS, the American Chemical Society division and leading authority for chemical information, announced significant improvements to SciFinder, the search software for chemistry research. The latest enhancements improve evaluation of reaction answer sets and allow easier collaboration with other SciFinder users. Scientists can now group reactions in answer sets according to more than 500 commonly known reaction types (e.g., reduction of nitro compounds to amines), which will help in examining the diversity of a large set of reactions quickly.
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Pew Research Center Provides Research and Data on Campaign 2012
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by Paula J. Hane
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As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney prepared for their first debate on Oct. 3, 2012, the issues at the top of the voters' agenda have changed little since 2008, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Conducted Sept. 12-16 among 3,019 adults, including 2,424 registered voters, the results show that 87% of registered voters say that the economy will be very important to their vote, while 83% say jobs will be very important to their vote.
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How KM Is Redefining Federal Records Management
GSA KM specialist and senior records officer Dave Simmons discusses the role of KM in the future of federal records management in this clip from his presentation at KMWorld 2022.
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