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EBSCO Opens Masses of Content to Third-Party Discovery Services
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by Barbara Quint
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As academic libraries commit more of their budgets to digital resources and as students and faculty continue to arrive from a Google universe, single-box, Google-like discovery services have become more important. Content not retrievable through those user-friendly discovery routes may even become difficult to justify from a curricular standpoint. Librarians have become more vocal in urging library vendors to connect their content to whatever discovery system they have chosen. EBSCO Information Services, a leading supplier of aggregated content to libraries, has at last opened up its metadata and, if contractually possible, most of its full-text content to outside discovery services.
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ProQuest Acquires Pi2
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ProQuest announced its acquisition of the U.K.-based Pi2, which provides information and literature management to biopharmaceutical companies. By aligning Pi2's systems with the Dialog service, ProQuest can create a single solution for pharmacovigilance and streamline the drug safety workflow.
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Gale's New Technology Boosts Research Relevance
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Gale, part of Cengage Learning, launched a new technology that links current newspaper, magazine, and journal articles with contextual references from within ebooks on Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL). This InterLink technology connects Gale's resources via document-level hyperlinking so researchers can find content without knowing a specific source.
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OCLC Adds Art History Resources to WorldCat
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OCLC introduced the Art Discovery Group Catalogue to bring together information from global art libraries into a single, searchable database in WorldCat. WorldCat users can also search for art library items alongside additional online journals and databases.
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Free Language Learning Tools at the Library
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Learning a second language can be a challenge, especially for people who only need to get by on a business trip or family vacation—it's difficult to decide whether a standard translation dictionary will be enough or if online education is the way to go. Even people who want to become fluent in a new language may think twice about investing in expensive language-learning tools. That's where the library comes in.
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Download Our May Editorial Sampler
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Want to review some articles from our library publications? Download the free May content sampler (PDF) of recent articles and an exclusive subscription offer.
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How KM Is Redefining Federal Records Management
GSA KM specialist and senior records officer Dave Simmons discusses the role of KM in the future of federal records management in this clip from his presentation at KMWorld 2022.
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