Digital Science Adds Extra Dimensions to Scholarly Research Data

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NewsLink Spotlight

A Day in the Life of Five Librarians, Part 1

by Justin Hoenke

Here's a look at Hoenke's columns from September 2017 to January/February 2018 (originally published Jan. 9, 2018).

Weekly News Digests

G2 Crowd Unveils Top 100 Software Companies List

G2 Crowd published its annual list of 100 software companies that best met their customers' needs (based on customer reviews collected from Jan. 7, 2017, to Jan. 7, 2018). Slack took first place on Best Software Companies 2018, and Shopify and Google were numbers two and three, respectively.

Thomson Reuters Rolls Out Top 100 Technology Companies List

Thomson Reuters put out its inaugural Top 100 Global Tech Leaders list, which identifies the most operationally sound and financially successful companies from a holistic assessment. ...

Armed Services Members Can Now Use Demco's BrainHQ

Demco Software partnered with the Department of Defense to give Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marine library users 24/7 access to Demco's BrainHQ online brain training program.

SAGE Acquires Data-Planet

SAGE has bought Data-Planet as a way to expand its data offerings, which include SAGE Stats and U.S. Political Stats. The Data-Planet statistical, multidisciplinary data repository is used by a variety of library markets. ...

Apple Joins Forces With Malala Fund

Apple became the first Laureate partner of Malala Yousafzai's Malala Fund as a commitment to expanding support for free, safe girls' education and advocating for equal opportunities.

NewsBreaks

Digital Science Adds Extra Dimensions to Scholarly Research Data

by Terry Ballard

London-based technology company Digital Science announced the launch of Dimensions, a new platform that aims to transform scholarly search, making previously hidden information available to researchers. The service went live on Jan. 15 with an offering of more than 9 million OA articles, 124 million formerly siloed documents (i.e., those hidden from view in universities and other research organizations), 86 million articles and books, and 34 million patents.

ITI Conferences

Upcoming conferences include the following:

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2024 (Oct. 9; virtual)
Internet Librarian Connect 2024 (Oct. 22-24; virtual)
Taxonomy Boot Camp 2024 (Nov. 18-19; Washington, D.C.)
Enterprise Search & Discovery 2024 (Nov. 19-21; Washington, D.C.)
KMWorld 2024 (Nov. 19-21; Washington, D.C.)
Enterprise AI World 2024 (Nov. 20-21; Washington, D.C.)
Text Analytics Forum 2024 (Nov. 20-21; Washington, D.C.)

Visit the Conference Schedule for more information. For other industry events, visit the Events Calendar.

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