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The Latest Pew Report on The State of the News Media
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by Paula J. Hane
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Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism published "The State of the News Media 2013," a study that concluded the U.S. has a "news industry that is more undermanned and unprepared to uncover stories, dig deep into emerging ones, or to question information put into its hands." Overall, "Online was the only category of news that showed growth." I'd say that's a fairly dreary and pessimistic outlook, as did many of the media outlets reporting the results of the study. Thankfully, there were actually some bright spots in the report that highlighted some of the evolutionary changes occurring. But, Matthew Yglesias, writing in Slate, says, "Ignore the doomsayers: The news-reading public has never had more and better information at their fingertips."
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Credo Adds Text-to-Speech Through Partnership With ReadSpeaker
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Credo announced it is integrating technology from ReadSpeaker, a provider of online text to speech, into its Literati solutions. ReadSpeaker's text-to-speech technology is one of many recent additions to the innovative learning technologies that Literati combines with authoritative scholarly content and customizable services to help libraries do more.
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NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on Ejournals
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The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced the publication of a new Recommended Practice: "PIE-J: Presentation & Identification of E-Journals" (NISO RP-16-2013). This recommended practice was developed to provide guidance on the presentation of ejournals—particularly in the areas of title presentation, accurate use of ISSN, and citation practices—to publishers and platform providers, as well as to solve some long-standing concerns of serials, collections, and electronic resources librarians.
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Springer and Chemical Abstracts Service Collaborate to Accelerate Chemistry Research
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Springer Science+Business Media and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) will collaborate on a project to include thousands of new experimental procedures for chemical reactions reported in Springer journals in the CAS databases. This collaboration will increase the visibility of articles with experimental procedures published in 165 Springer chemistry journals from 1985 to the present.
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Serials Solutions’ Summon 2.0 Coming in June
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by Barbara Quint
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One of the most popular discovery engines—Summon from Serials Solutions, a ProQuest company—should be getting even more popular this summer. A new, substantially enhanced version will begin replacing the current version—and at no extra charge. Most of the major changes focus on enriching the searching experience by adding contextual guidance through such services as Topic Explorer, Scholars Profiles, automatic addition of supplementary search terms, etc. Librarians using Summon play a role in improving the service both directly through contributions for their particular patron communities and indirectly by sharing input with the Summon user community. The mammoth size of Summon (now more than 1.1 billion items, usually full text) and its breadth of coverage as a unified index not only provides a major service for libraries seeking to retain their hold on patrons, it also provides ProQuest with a centralized, core database around which to build future products and service improvements.
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