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FCC Approves Net Neutrality
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by George H. Pike
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave a huge victory to Net Neutrality advocates by voting in favor of sweeping new rules that change the way internet services are regulated. The rules would allow the FCC to regulate ISPs in a similar manner to telecommunication companies, including by restricting their ability to prioritize or give favorable treatment to certain categories of content. Opponents of Net Neutrality, however, have vowed to block the FCC action in either the courts or in Congress.
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LexisNexis Will Help Support Postgraduate Development Programs
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LexisNexis Legal & Professional made an alliance with the International Justice Center for Postgraduate Development (IJCPD) to allow postgraduate development programs to offer free access to essential legal research tools and services to new attorneys as they start their first pro bono activities and establish their practices.
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GDELT Adds New Features for Interacting With Global News
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GDELT, one of the largest platforms for monitoring global news, launched a variety of new capabilities in version 2.0. Among other functions, it offers real-time translation of news into English from 65 languages, measures 2,000-plus emotions and themes from articles using sentiment analysis, and houses a high-resolution inventory of media systems around the world.
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e-Libro Facilitates Information Literacy Instruction in Spanish
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Spanish-language ebooks solution e-Libro will offer free information literacy tools in Spanish and English for libraries of all types. These include mini-lessons in finding, using, and evaluating information and citing sources, which will be available as free PDF files.
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Monster Makes It Easier for Employers to Find Job Seekers
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Monster Social Job Ads is now commercially available for customers in the U.S. after a successful November 2014 beta launch with companies such as eBay, GEICO, and T-Mobile USA, Inc. Monster's next-generation social recruitment advertising solution gives employers an automated way to distribute selected jobs to targeted candidates on Twitter.
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Adam Matthew Grants Free Access to American History Documents
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Adam Matthew made part of its The History of America in 50 Documents collection free until March 31, 2015. Fifty hand-picked documents and their associated analyses from the collection's first module (covering 1493-1859) are available on Adam Matthew's website.
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University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Maybe you're a professor who has an idea for a journal you'd like to start at your university. Or maybe you're a graduate student looking to prove yourself by publishing your research. Or maybe you're a college librarian hoping to start a newsletter that will raise your library's visibility on campus. No matter the reason, you're writing something that needs to find an audience. Why not publish it at the library? As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities.
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Download Our February Editorial Sampler
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Want to review some articles from our library publications? Download the free February content sampler (PDF) of recent articles and an exclusive subscription offer for Computers in Libraries.
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