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Who’s Who in Ebooks
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Just as books don't magically appear on library shelves, ebooks don't automatically pop up in a library's online catalog. Librarians work with ebook vendors to get econtent into the hands, or rather, onto the e-readers, of their patrons. With the many e-lending options now on the market, here are five of the big ones with a few of their major features for cross comparison.
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VitalSource Bookshelf Opens British E-Store
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Vital Source Technologies, Inc., Ingram Content Group, Inc.'s etextbook solution, recently launched an e-store in the U.K. for VitalSource Bookshelf ebooks. Key features in the new e-store include a selection of free trial books, collections organized by category (ranging from antiques and collectibles to true crime), a best-seller list, recently viewed items, and featured titles.
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Government WNC Feed Shuts Down
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The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) announced the termination of the World News Connection (WNC) newsfeed effective Dec. 31, 2013. The Open Source Center, the U.S. government agency that provides the feed's content, reached an agreement with NTIS to forgo an immediate shutdown and instead enter into a transition period until Dec. 31.
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Royal Society of Chemistry Acquires MarinLit Database
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The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) completed its acquisition of MarinLit, a cloud-based marine natural product (MNP) database designed to help scientists find a starting point for MNP research. John Blunt, Murray Munro, and others at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand developed MarinLit 25 years ago as a support system for chemists.
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‘Plum’ming the Depths of Altmetrics: OCLC and Plum Analytics Strike a Deal
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by Marydee Ojala
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OCLC and Plum Analytics announced a partnership to integrate the WorldCat Search API into the PlumX analytics dashboard. Access to the data is enabled by OCLC WorldShare applications, and OCLC confirmed that this is the first deal of its kind that the nonprofit membership organization has implemented. It sees the deal as a way to "define how collections are being used and to provide researchers and libraries with an extended range of applications that take advantage of the same core data."
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