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The National Library of Israel Tracks Down Hebrew Manuscripts
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by John Charlton
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Cooperation is the name of the game for the National Library of Israel as it seeks to meet its ambitious goal of digitizing all of the known Hebrew manuscripts in the world. This project, Ktiv: The International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts, is a 6-year undertaking that is currently in its second year.
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Stanford Shows Private Information Is Accessible via Phone Metadata
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Stanford University announced the official release of a study, "Evaluating the Privacy Properties of Telephone Metadata," which shows that telephone metadata (e.g., numbers, times, and lengths of phone communications) can reveal "a surprising amount of personal detail."
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Crossref Links Articles With Clinical Trial Data
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Crossref now offers the ability to link all published articles related to individual clinical trials from the CrossMark dialogue box with the Linked Clinical Trials feature. People who read an article can view a list of clinical trials related to it as well as all other articles related to those clinical trials (found using the trial's registration number).
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LearningExpress Rolls Out Resource for High School Students
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EBSCO Information Services' LearningExpress released PrepSTEP High School Edition to help students improve their college and career readiness. This collection of academic, college-preparation, and career-related resources includes interactive tutorials, practice tests, articles, and ebooks.
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New Magazines Come to ZINIO for Libraries
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ZINIO added nearly 4,000 titles from Bauer Media Group, including Woman's World, In Touch, Life & Style, and J-14, for its U.S. and Canadian library customers. ZINIO will be the exclusive delivery channel for these magazines.
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dtSearch Engine Is Embedded in E-Discovery Tool
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ONE Discovery, Inc.'s e-discovery and trial preparation platform integrated dtSearch Corp.'s dtSearch Engine to give its customers full-text search capabilities. The engine can index large datasets and do quick text retrieval, making the ONE Discovery platform more accurate and efficient.
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Zepheira Helps Libraries Tell Their Stories on the Web
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Zepheira, a professional services turned product company, started working on unlocking data to reach new audiences, not only to attract new customers, but also to correct a problem its team was seeing: Not everyone's data was visible on the web. This was especially true for libraries and other cultural heritage institutions. Today, its main goal is to help libraries gain more visibility on the web through the use of linked data.
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