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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

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NewsBreaks
Google’s Fair Use Defense Prevails in Google Books Lawsuit
by George H. Pike
A federal court in New York gave Google a huge victory that may likely end its 9-year fight with the Authors Guild and individual authors over the Google Books scanning project. In a 30-page opinion, Judge Denny Chin determined that Google's practice of scanning copyrighted books from public and academic libraries and making "snippets" available as search results was a fair use of the books.

Weekly News Digests
F1000 Announces Data-Plotting Tool
Faculty of 1000 (F1000) launched a beta version of its data-plotting tool for the F1000Research open access life sciences journal. Referees and readers can now visualize and manipulate the raw data in the journal's articles using an instant first-pass view of the datasets. Anyone publishing an article in F1000Research is required to make research data publicly available with the article.
Ex Libris Group Collaborates on E-Resource Management
Ex Libris Group partnered with Jisc to enhance e-resource management for U.K. libraries. Their collaboration is designed to help academic libraries improve efficiency by continually updating data from Jisc's Knowledge Base+ (KB+) to Ex Libris Group's SFX OpenURL link resolver and KnowledgeBase and the Ex Libris Alma library services framework.
OverDrive Media Station Debuts
Patrons have a new way to browse a library's ebook, audiobook, music, and video collections: The OverDrive Media Station is available as a browsing and checkout terminal for all OverDrive member library systems. The launch comes after a successful pilot program conducted with 50 library systems in five countries.

NewsLink Spotlight
Anti-Malware Options in 2013
by Donovan Griffin
Viruses happen. So does being infected with spyware, scareware, rootkits, ransomware, keyloggers, and unintentionally being made part of a botnet. ... Luckily, there are solutions to almost any malware-related problem, provided you know what you're facing and what to download. In most cases, all it takes is a proper estimation of your situation and an internet connection (or, in the worst of scenarios, a flash drive and the use of another computer). With that in mind, here are the top anti-virus (AV) performers, sorted by their strengths and who they're useful for.

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