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Thursday, December 19, 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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UNESCO Broadens OA Policy
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UNESCO introduced an open access (OA) repository that makes more than 300 online books, reports, and articles in about 12 languages freely available on UNESCO's website. It operates under a new Creative Commons open licensing system for intergovernmental agencies.
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National Library to Digitize Norway’s Books
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The National Library of Norway plans to digitize its entire collection. All content published in any medium in Norway is deposited with the National Library under the Norwegian Legal Deposit Act, so this digitization project represents all of the country's works from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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Research Portal Aggregates IT Analysts’ Posts
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Northern Light launched Listen… from Northern Light, a research portal that tracks information technology (IT) analysts' posts on blogs, Twitter, and SlideShare. It offers a single point of access to 1.5 million posts by more than 2,000 analysts at 200-plus IT industry research firms.
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Moving Toward an Ebook Standard
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Tell people you're reading a book, and they'll probably picture papers sewn together into a binding. Tell people you're reading an ebook, and it's not such a cut-and-dry mental picture. There are dozens of ways to make an ebook, but one format is emerging as the international standard: the EPUB. One day soon, the EPUB format may be the first ebook picture that comes to mind.
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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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