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Everything E: ebooks, electronics, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasm.
May 01, 2009; ... Years ago I ran into Jean Bedord at a conference. She was carrying a rather large, bulky, contraption that looked like a thick binder. It was an early ebook reader. Since then, readers have shrunk to the size of a thin paperback, more titles are available, and the term "ebook" is part of ...
Alacra pulses with company information.(industry news)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... Alacra introduced a new platform, Alacra Pulse, and its first product on the platform, Street Pulse. The platform is built on a proprietary technology called Applied Knowledge Extraction that uses a combination of semantic analysis and information already existing in Alacra's knowledgebase ...
Tasini resurrected.(industry news)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... In its 2001 Tasini decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of freelance writers wanting payment for articles republished in online databases. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York in November 2007 rejected a proposed settlement that had divided the freelance writers into three ...
Attributor gives its FairShare.(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... In a collaboration with Creative Commons, content monitoring and monetization company Attributor launched FairShare, a free service that allows bloggers and other individual content creators to understand how their work is shared across the web. FairShare allows anyone creating text ...
Atlantic Media Co.(appoints Matt Dunie as publisher)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... Matt Dunie joined Atlantic Media Co., publisher of The Atlantic, National Journal, ...
H.W. Wilson Co.(Peopleware)(appointment of John Regazzi )(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... H.W. Wilson Co. named John Regazzi to the newly created position of chief strategy officer, reporting to ...
The winds of change.(homepage)(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... 'Game changing" was the way the Serials Solutions publicist described its new Google-like search engine, Summon. It was announced at ALA Midwinter--too early to review for this issue of ONLINE. But we'll remedy that. Summon has the potential to change how end users perceive the searching ...
New dawns for Morningstar.(industry news)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Morningstar, a leading provider of independent investment research that is famous for its five-star ranking system, has been busily acquiring other companies. It began 2008 by buying Hemscott from Ipreo Holdings. Hemscott covers U.K. investment instruments. September saw the acquisition of ...
Revealing academicians and dons.(industry news)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... A new website for academic researchers launched in late 2008, with an opt-in listing aiming to capture "every academic in the world" as faculty members, postdocs, graduate students, and independent researchers. Created by a team from Oxford, Stanford, and Cambridge ...
Reed business information sale shut down.(industry news)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The sale by Reed Elsevier of its subsidiary, Reed Business Information (RBI), publisher of some 80 trade magazines, was halted mid-December. The plan to sell RBI, announced in February 2008, was scuttled by the tight credit market and a valuation that fell by more than half in the ...
LexisNexis.(Legal)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... LexisNexis acquired IDEX, Inc., a leading provider of expert witness content to the legal market. Its database of more than 1 million records on 200,000-plus experts includes expert profiles, testimonial histories, verdict awards, settlement amounts, authored content, and expert ...
HeinOnline.(Legal)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The U.S. Code was added to HeinOnline's core collection at no additional charge to subscribers. Coverage of the U.S. Code will date from its inception in the 1920s to the most current edition. Users will be able to search ...
Law School Exchange, a new online networking and content sharing site from West and Foundation Press, allows law school professors to publish and distribute articles, books, and other materials for research, teaching, and scholarly purposes.(Legal)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Law School Exchange, a new online networking and content sharing site from West and Foundation Press, allows law school professors to publish and distribute articles, ...
Credo Reference.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(University of Chicago Press )(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Credo Reference signed an agreement with the University of Chicago Press to integrate four titles into the Credo General Reference collection, including Critical Terms for Art ...
Readex, a division of NewsBank, announced the release of The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Readex, a division of NewsBank, announced the release of The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction. Drawn from the Archive of Americana, this digital resource includes ...
EBSCO Publishing will release three historical digital archive collections, bringing centuries-old content into an electronic format.(Social Sciences & Humanities)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... EBSCO Publishing will release three historical digital archive collections, bringing centuries-old content into an electronic format. These collections require new ways to view digitized content, which reproduce the ...
Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, announced two new interfaces.(Online Services)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, announced two new interfaces. Its main page (www.gale.com) has a new look. The center of the page, which highlights major product launches, sales, and news, is now animated, showing three revolving promotions. The left-hand navigation bar has been ...
OverDrive announced an agreement with Simon & Schuster to distribute more than 1,000 unabridged and abridged digital audiobook titles.(Online Services)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... OverDrive announced an agreement with Simon & Schuster to distribute more than 1,000 unabridged and abridged digital audiobook titles. Popular and best-selling works from David ...
Ingram Digital announced that it now offers more than 175,000 titles on its My-iLibrary aggregated ebook and econtent solution, which is more front-list content than any other institutional ebook aggregator offers.(Online Services)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Ingram Digital announced that it now offers more than 175,000 titles on its My-iLibrary aggregated ebook and econtent solution, which is more front-list content than any other ...
Serials Solutions.(Online Services)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Serials Solutions released Serials Solutions 360 Resource Manager Consortium Edition, a new e-resource management service for consortia, groups, and their member libraries. It helps consortia managers increase efficiency by consolidating e-resource metadata and ...