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NewsBreaks
New Services to Alumni/ae: ProQuest’s Udini, SAGE, JSTOR
by Barbara Quint
Academic librarians reviewing their current licensing of databases and considering new subscription offerings have a new factor to consider. Several of the leading academic vendors in the information industry have begun opening their products to alumni/ae communities. This practice offers several advantages to vendors and librarians from enabling the library and its parent institution to strengthen ties with alumni who may become sources of future support to fortifying the curricular value of learning the types of databases offered by libraries. When it comes to reaching out to end users, ProQuest probably has the most aggressive package for an academic-oriented vendor in its Udini product. But SAGE Publications has a very promising arrangement for its product in 2013; EBSCOhost sells Academic editions for alumni; and JSTOR is rumored to be poised to bring its Pilot Alumni Project into prime time.

Weekly News Digests
Complete ReaxysFile Now Available on STN
FIZ Karlsruhe announced that the complete ReaxysFile is now available on STN. ReaxysFile now contains the full content from Reaxys, a leading source for chemical substance and reaction data produced by Elsevier. ReaxysFile is a major factual database containing fully searchable chemical structures and reactions, associated with a depth of chemical and physical properties—all experimentally measured.
Market Analyst Announces Launch of eBook Reports
Market Analyst, a value-added distributor of market research reports and business information, announced that it now offers market research reports in ebook formats from its web store www.MarketAnalyst.net. Three analyst firms have partnered with Market Analyst in the eBook Reports product launch: WinterGreen Research, Inc., Mind Commerce, and Objective Analysis.
Thomson Reuters Incorporates ORCID Identifiers
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters announced its initiative to incorporate ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) identifiers into its scientific and scholarly research offerings, ensuring that users of resources such as ResearcherID and ScholarOne Manuscripts are able to incorporate their unique IDs into the attribution and publishing process. The system provides a central registry of researchers across disciplines and geographic boundaries, connecting researchers to their research.

NewsLink Spotlight
Concrete Steps Toward a Digital Public Library of America
by Paula J. Hane
The dream of a national digital public library is inching closer to reality. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) initiative was launched in December 2010 with generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Since then it has been working to transition from a planning initiative to a fully independent 501(c)(3) organization and has crafted a draft job outline for DPLA Executive Director. The DPLA plans to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all via a large-scale digital library.

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