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Tuesday, December 06, 2016
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Blockchain Roundup for Info Pros
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by Woody Evans
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Information professionals should note the shifts that are happening with the advent of blockchains. From smart contracts that do not require trust brokers (such as banks or lawyers) to broker-less authorities (such as governments obviated by direct democracies), blockchains promise the upheaval of tradition and staid, white-collar positions.
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CCC Updates RightFind XML for Mining
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Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) made improvements to its RightFind XML for Mining software, which helps organizations use text mining to gain insights from STM sources by providing XML-formatted subscribed content and purchase options for nonsubscribed content.
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Library of Congress Provides More Content to DPLA
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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) joined forces with the Library of Congress (LC) for a new collaboration: LC will become an official DPLA content hub.
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Federal Agencies at Varying Levels of Compliance With DATA Act
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The Data Coalition published a compilation of evaluations on the progress that federal agencies are making in complying with the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act).
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Reuters Distributes German News Agency Content
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Reuters and the German news agency dpa (Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH) partnered to distribute dpa's international content via the Reuters Connect platform.
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Digital Science Gives GRID a CC0 License
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Digital Science released its GRID (Global Research Identifier Database) dataset under a Creative Commons CC0 license. GRID, a free online database, has information on more than 66,000 global research organizations.
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This Year's Top 10 Books on Librarianship
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by Brandi Scardilli
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In each issue of Information Today, our resident reviewer Gwen M. Gregory writes about a book that library staffers can use to stay up-to-date and informed on how to do their jobs most effectively. Here are the 10 books she reviewed in 2016, along with her comments on why each one should be on every librarian's radar.
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