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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

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USA FREEDOM Act: Protector of Civil Liberties or Window Dressing?

by George H. Pike

For the first time since the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Congress has scaled back the scope of its provisions. On June 2, 2015, Congress enacted and President Barack Obama signed the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015, which renewed several of the USA PATRIOT Act's provisions but added restraints to government surveillance activities, particularly the controversial bulk collection of telephone metadata. In the month since Congress' action, however, debate has continued about whether the USA FREEDOM Act actually curtailed government surveillance programs or whether it is mere window dressing.

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Amazon Web Services Announces New Solutions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a solution for mobile app developers, AWS Device Farm, which helps them upload and test their apps on actual devices that run Android and Fire OS.

Elsevier Promotes Data Sharing With Reciprocal Linking

Elsevier partnered with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to implement two-way linking between ScienceDirect's articles and publicly accessible datasets from NCI's cancer Nanotechnology Laboratory (caNanoLab) portal.

Blackboard Adopts Analytics-Focused Technology for Its Applications

Blackboard acquired X-Ray Analytics, a research-based, predictive analytics technology for the education community. It will be integrated first into Blackboard's Moodlerooms and Enterprise Moodle, then expand to other Blackboard applications and analytics solutions.

Nature Publishing Group Will Add Phenomics Journal to Its Portfolio

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Fudan University in Shanghai agreed to co-publish a new interdisciplinary, open access (OA) journal, npj Molecular Phenomics. It will be open for submissions in October 2015. ...

BioMed Central Teams With European Institutions to Release Physiotherapy Journal

BioMed Central, the Italian Society of Physiotherapy, and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland introduced the open access (OA) Archives of Physiotherapy journal.

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Digital Magazine Services for Your Library This Summer

by Brandi Scardilli

This summer's beachgoers will probably be bringing along paper magazines to help them relax on the sand. But for other lazy days this season--lying in a hammock in the shade, lying on the couch in the air-conditioning--it's undeniably cheaper to get digital magazines from local libraries to read on a mobile device. The following services help libraries offer e-magazines to their patrons. Read on to compare their features and for a sneak peek of what they're doing next.

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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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