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Tuesday, February 13, 2018
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Clarivate Analytics Brings Back the Institute for Scientific Information
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Clarivate Analytics announced that the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) ... will be re-established in its Scientific and Academic Research group. This incarnation ... will develop bibliometric and analytical approaches by leveraging Web of Science data and patent data from the Derwent World Patent Index.
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The Library of Congress Promotes Free-to-Use Content Sets
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The Library of Congress (LC) rolled out Free to Use and Reuse Sets to help improve the visibility and availability of public domain and rights-clear content. This collection features themed sets of materials, such as travel posters, presidential portraits, and Civil War drawings. ...
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SAGE Studies Educational Video Usage
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SAGE published a white paper, "Assessing the Impact of Educational Video on Student Engagement, Critical Thinking and Learning: The Current State of Play," which explores the following questions. ...
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eLife Becomes a Member of NPRC (Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium)
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eLife, which receives a substantial number of neuroscience-related submissions, joined NPRC (Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium), an alliance of journal publishers that is working to reduce the time and effort involved in the peer review process of publishing neuroscience research.
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Presidential Budget Request for FY2019 Still Gives IMLS Short Shrift
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Kathryn K. Matthew, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), released a statement on the president's proposed FY2019 budget. He released a budget request to Congress on Feb. 12 that calls for the "orderly closure" of IMLS.
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Semantic Enrichment and the Information Manager: Turning Content into Insight
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"Information managers must balance the needs of multiple internal constituencies to support information discovery and manage subscription usage and budgets," according to Copyright Clearance Center's new white paper. "The challenge is that more than 90% of organizational data is unstructured, as is nearly all the peer-reviewed scientific research." Download the white paper to find out how semantic enrichment can help structure that data.
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