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Tuesday, December 03, 2013
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The News of 2013: The Year in Review
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by Brandi Scardilli
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As another year comes to a close, it's time to reflect on the major information industry happenings that NewsBreaks covered in 2013. Here's an overview of the newsworthy trends, events, and topics from the past year.
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Search Engine Adds Context to Web Queries
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The Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE) launched EPI-Search, a service it calls the internet's first virtual reference librarian. EPI-Search is designed to provide the contextual expertise of reference librarians who have been replaced by internet searches.
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Intota Assessment Streamlines Library Analytics
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Serials Solutions, a ProQuest company, released the first production service from its Intota cloud-based library services platform: Intota Assessment gives libraries a total picture of their monographs and serials in electronic and print formats so they can make data-driven decisions about collection development.
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LexisNexis Increases Legal Ebook Access
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LexisNexis signed an agreement with Follett Higher Education Group to offer more ebook access to law students and professors. Follett joins LexisNexis' stable of ebookstore partners in offering students codes for LexisNexis ebooks in Follett's brick-and-mortar stores and online at efollett.com.
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HathiTrust Doesn’t Monkey Around With Metadata Management
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by Brandi Scardilli
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HathiTrust recently launched Zephir, its new system for managing bibliographic metadata. The University of California's CDL (California Digital Library), one of the founding institutions of HathiTrust, developed Zephir to store, manage, and export metadata to bibliographic records that accompany digital items in HathiTrust's repository of about 11 million volumes.
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