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Going Social: Top Apps for Best Recommended Reads
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by Brandi Scardilli
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When it's time to trade office paperwork for some good reads on vacation, there is certainly an app for that. In fact, there are quite a few of them, and the apps listed here are all free, whether you opt to find a title to enjoy on your own or want to join a reading community to share your thoughts about your favorite best-seller with a virtual book club.
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Wolters Kluwer Health Enhances OvidSP With Multimedia Content
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Wolters Kluwer Health rolled out enhancements for OvidSP, its medical research platform. Healthcare professionals and researchers are now able to search with improved functionality and download and export videos, images, and full-text and bibliographic content.
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Thomson Reuters CompuMark Promotes Trademark Best Practices in China
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Thomson Reuters CompuMark, a Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business that protects worldwide brands, released a white paper, "Best Practices for Brand Expansion in China: How to Navigate a Unique Intellectual Property Landscape," that discusses best practices for trademark protection in China and outlines strategies for brand protection.
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Alexander Street Press Starts Patron-Driven Acquisition Program
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Alexander Street Press signed an agreement with Scotland's University of Dundee to launch a patron-driven acquisition (PDA) program. Now the University of Dundee library has access to Alexander Street Press' academic videos for a period of 1 year. When the loan period ends, the university will use Alexander Street Press' metrics to decide which titles to keep in its permanent collection.
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Preserving Our Digital World (#digpres2013)
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by Barbie E. Keiser
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Last week, nearly 300 people gathered in Alexandria, VA, for the 9th annual meeting of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP) and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA). Organized by the Library of Congress (LC), #digpres2013 brought scores of archivists, librarians, and information specialists together to explore "solutions to the challenges of stewarding digital content over the long-term." The presentations represented an astounding array of ingenuity, displaying tools that were useful to all concerned with preserving the digital record, from high literature to news of the Kardashians.
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Last Seen in Sea Isle
by Jane Kelly (A Meg Daniels Mystery, #7)
Meg Daniels should know by now that wherever she goes, mystery follows. Her fiancé is taking classes at Stockton University and has befriended Grace Grant, a fellow later-in-life student. Under false pretenses, Grace asks Meg to visit her lavish beachfront house in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, on the same weekend she’s hosting a reunion of pals from the summer of 1969. Meg discovers that Grace is hoping she’ll track down Guy—last name unknown—who disappeared from Grace’s life on the day of the moon landing.
2026 | ISBN: 978-1-940091-16-7 | 226 pp/trade paperback | $16.95
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