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Tuesday, February 18, 2014
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Microfilm Still Matters in the Digital Age
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Difficult as it may be to believe in this digital world, the microfilm business is still going strong. ProQuest, which has the largest commercially available microform collection in the world, adds millions of microfilm images each year. The New York Public Library and other institutions continue to house microfilm for their patrons. And companies such as ST Imaging create new products that make microfilm viewing a simple, easy-to-use process for researchers.
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Publishing Technology Enhances AIP Publishing's Scitation Platform
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Publishing Technology, PLC partnered with AIP Publishing, part of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), to provide a new custom platform for AIP Publishing's Scitation digital content database, which uses Publishing Technology's hosting solution pub2web.
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LexisNexis Boosts E-Discovery Management
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By packaging LAW PreDiscovery and Concordance Evolution with the Vblock Systems portfolio from VCE, a converged cloud infrastructure systems company, LexisNexis Legal & Professional helps litigation service bureaus and large law firms deploy cloud-based systems for their large-scale e-discovery projects.
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EDP Open Promotes Gold OA
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Publisher EDP Sciences introduced EDP Open, a new open access (OA) imprint for its scientific titles that offers OA journals, books, and conference proceedings all published exclusively online. There are now more than 70,000 OA scientific articles on the EDP Open platform.
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Making the Most of QR Codes
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by Brandi Scardilli
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You've surely seen those black-and-white graphical squares in your favorite magazine or even at the grocery store. They're QR (quick response) codes, 2D bar codes that hold a large amount of data in a small space. ... They may be best-known as mobile marketing tools thanks to the widespread use of smartphones—QR code reader apps scan the code and link users to websites, coupons, and other special features. However, information professionals can use them on anything from their business cards (to link to a curriculum vitae) or library shelves (to link to the library's catalog). Today QR codes have moved beyond advertising—here are some current uses for the technology.
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