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Collaborate.org Generates Geospatial Data for the Masses
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by Barbie E. Keiser
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At this year's Future in Review conference (May 20-23 in Laguna Beach, Calif.), Intelesense Technologies CEO Kevin Montgomery, senior research engineer at the Center for Innovation and Global Health at Stanford University, demonstrated the beta version of Collaborate.org, "a tool to facilitate the exchange of information and resources through a global, interactive user community. This community is perpetuated by people who explore, create, and contribute ideas through advanced, built-in tools such as open portals and our 3-D GIS program InteleView. ..."
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DeepDyve, Inc. Offers Free, 5-Minute Preview of Journal Articles
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DeepDyve, Inc., an online rental service for scholarly and professional research articles, announced a new preview tool on June 5. The full text of any article on the site is now available free to users for 5 minutes each day. DeepDyve provides access to more than 8 million articles from 3,000 peer-reviewed journals. All of DeepDyve's more than 100 publishers have agreed to make their articles available as part of the 5-minute service. The service also allows DeepDyve users to share articles with their colleagues, which will increase recommendations within professional circles.
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CrossRef Launches FundRef to Track Scholarly Funding
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FundRef, CrossRef's funder identification service, is now available after the completion of a successful pilot phase in 2012. CrossRef, operated by the Publishers International Linking Association, Inc., provides reference linking services to scholarly books, articles, conference proceedings, and other reference materials. Publisher members can now add funders' names and grant or award numbers to the metadata they submit to CrossRef.
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Zoho Debuts Two Online Tools for Businesses
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Zoho Corp. Pvt. Ltd. recently introduced two new business productivity tools: Zoho Vault for managing passwords and Zoho Pulse for the social network. Zoho Vault stores businesses' passwords in a secure central repository. It features a one-click login to websites and password sharing between colleagues.
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Top Mobile Apps for Productivity
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by Paula J. Hane
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In last month's Spotlight article, I highlighted some browser extensions that I find to be very useful. The article has proven popular with readers, and I've even benefitted from readers' suggestions. So, now I'd like to cover some of the mobile apps that I've found to be the most helpful. I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone running Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean), and the apps I'm including here are available for Android devices (at the Google Play Store), and some are also available for Apple iOS at the Apple iTunes store. I trust you will find these to be handy and serve as a starting point to look for others. (If you have others in your toolkit that you'd like to share, let me know.)
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