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Print Books vs. Ebooks: Who's Up, Who's Down, and Where Are We Headed?
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by Dave Shumaker
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A roundup of recent news and data shows that print is still going strong and provides a few hints about how marketplace developments and librarians' collection development plans are evolving.
For more on ebooks, read the Ebooks Revisited articles in the June issue of Computers in Libraries magazine. "Ebook ROI: A Longitudinal Study of Patron-Driven Acquisition Models" is available here for free.
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Clarivate Analytics Rolls Out 2017 Journal Citation Reports
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Clarivate Analytics published the 2017 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), its "annual update of the world's most influential and comprehensive resource for information on highly cited, peer-reviewed publications and the source of Journal Impact Factor (JIF) scores."
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JoVE Science Education Adds New Series and Updates Others
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JoVE introduced a new physics series to its catalog of video resources for scientific research and education. This series, along with updated clinical skills and psychology series, are available in the JoVE Science Education database.
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Demco Creates Discovery Tool for Libraries
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Demco Software launched DiscoverLocal, a tool that helps public and academic libraries get higher rankings in search results. This gives their collections, programs, and events more visibility, which could translate to more usage of the library's resources and facilities, as well as help librarians with marketing initiatives.
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W3C Announces Publishing Summit for This Fall
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In San Francisco, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is hosting its first publishing summit, Nov. 9-10, 2017.
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Note Hound Study Companion Gets Enhancements
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The Note Hound highlight manager is now easier to use and includes two new features. ...
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The Avengers in the Stacks
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Which comic book adaptations are you planning to see at the movies this summer? There's usually at least one, and this year, you've got DC's Wonder Woman and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 and Spider-Man: Homecoming. If any of those options appeal to you, you're the perfect candidate to get hooked on comic books--if you aren't already, that is. After all, comics are a mainstream form of entertainment these days, and libraries have taken notice.
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