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<title>Wolfram|Alpha Announces Pro Edition</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the Wolfram|Alpha blog : 
 The introduction of Wolfram|Alpha Pro in effect adds a whole new model for interacting with Wolfram|Alpha&mdash;and brings all sorts of fundamentally new and remarkable capabilities.
 Everyone has access to Wolfram|Alpha Pro at&nbsp;wolframalpha.com. Unlike the &ldquo;tourist&rdquo; version of Wolfram|Alpha, though, you have to log in, and, yes, to get [...]]]></description>
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<title>Publicly Accessible Portal to Search, Browse, and Read ECCO-TCP</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/66497</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the Text Creation Partnership blog: 
 
 In April 2011, we &nbsp; announced &nbsp; that restrictions had been lifted from around 2,200 TCP texts from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Within hours, we heard from many folks who were frustrated that our announcement didn&rsquo;t seem to have any teeth: Although we could (and [...]]]></description>
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<title>Recap of Recent Google Improvements</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the Google Search blog : 
 
 Here&rsquo;s the latest installment of our monthly series on &ldquo;search quality highlights,&rdquo; with 17 new quality improvements to read about for January. In addition to this month&rsquo;s big announcement of Search plus Your World, you&rsquo;ll find short summaries of other changes to our high-quality sites algorithm, [...]]]></description>
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<title>Yahoo! Discontinues Finance and News Apps</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the Yahoo! Search blog : 
 
 Our plan is to keep moving, to keep innovating, and to continuously measure and scrutinize what&rsquo;s working and what isn&rsquo;t &ndash; so we can make room for great new products. In that spirit, we&rsquo;re decommissioning several of our current mobile apps. We will be sending a [...]]]></description>
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<title>Google Maps Now Include Public Alerts</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/66402</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the Google blog : 
 
 The Google Crisis Response team works on providing critical emergency information during crises. Our goal is to surface emergency information through the online tools you use everyday, when that information is relevant and useful. With today&rsquo;s launch of Public Alerts on Google Maps, relevant weather, public safety, [...]]]></description>
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<title>Bing Introduces New &quot;Doing&quot; Campaign</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/66364</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the Bing Search blog : 
 
 This weekend, Bing will be premiering a new campaign featuring winter sports athletes doing amazing things. The campaign will launch with American snowboarder, Kevin Pearce, who was on the path to the 2010 Olympics before a tragic snowboarding accident left him with a traumatic brain injury. [...]]]></description>
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<title>Full-Text Search in Renowned HathiTrust Collection </title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/66357</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release: 
 
 Ex Libris Group, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that a new agreement with HathiTrust will enable library users to carry out full-text searches of the HathiTrust collection via the Primo Central Index of scholarly e-content. Users are already able [...]]]></description>
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<title>Google Launches Internet Security Campaign</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65998</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From NewsOK : 
 
 The Good to Know campaign, which launched Monday, is the company\'s largest consumer education effort. It offers a host of security and privacy tips meant to make the World Wide Web a safer and more comfortable place. 
 The tips were designed for users without a lot of technological [...]]]></description>
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<title>New Visual Design for DuckDuckGo</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65997</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From Search Engine Land : 
 
 DuckDuckGo has just relaunched with a new visual design across its home page and search results pages. 
 The home page (shown above) is clean and spartan, and the results pages are pretty similar to what they were before, with the noticeable exception that the default light [...]]]></description>
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<title>Credo Reference eBook Collections and Titles Offered via SwetsWise</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65961</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release: 
 
 Under the agreement, SWETS will incorporate Credo Reference with over 1,500 reference works from more than 80 of the world&rsquo;s best reference publishers into the Swets Wise eBook catalog. Collections and titles are thoughtfully selected to offer broad coverage of subjects such as psychology, history, business, education, environmental [...]]]></description>
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<title>Android App Available for EasyBib Researchers</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65923</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release: 
 
 The Android app is set up the same as the iPhone app. Once the new app is downloaded, writers can use their Android device to quickly scan the barcode of a book, or just type in the book&rsquo;s name and, within seconds, an accurate MLA, APA or Chicago [...]]]></description>
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<title>Updated: LLRX - Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65896</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From beSpacific : 
 
 Sabrina I. Pacifici\'s comprehensive, current awareness guide focuses on leveraging a wide but selected range of reliable, focused, predominantly free websites and resources to effectively track, monitor, analyze, background and review current and historical data, news, reports, and profiles on companies, markets, countries, people, and issues, from a global [...]]]></description>
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<title>Google Acquires More IBM Patents</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From PC World : 
 
 The latest set of IBM patents, transferred to Google on Dec. 30, 2011, includes 222 patents and covers a variety of technologies, including email management, server backup, tuning and recovery, e-commerce, advertising, mobile Web page display, instant messaging, online calendaring and database tuning. Google acquired about 1,000 IBM [...]]]></description>
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<title>Scholarly Publisher, Brill, Releases BrillOnline.com</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65833</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release : 
 
 Brill, the international scholarly publisher, is proud to announce the release of BrillOnline.com, the brand new resource center for study and research. BrillOnline.com provides the academic user access to Brill&rsquo;s wide collection of e-books, online journals, online reference works and online bibliographies. At launch BrillOnline.com contains more [...]]]></description>
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<title>Blekko Upgrades Site</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the blekko blog : 
 
 The new blekko has significant improvements to index quality and relevance. We are also now automatically applying slashtags for over 500 categories. That means users will get the benefit of curated search results (i.e. no spam!) for over 500 search categories, regardless of whether or not they [...]]]></description>
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<title>Oxford Biblical Studies Online Gets a Makeover</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65805</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release: 
 
 Now, as of December 2011, OBSO has just had a makeover.&nbsp; This site redesign will increase discoverability, making content easier for users to navigate.&nbsp; Some of the most frequently used content is now just one click away from the homepage. 
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<title>Yahoo! Extends Facebook Integration, Add Social Features</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65804</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release : 
 
 Yahoo! announced it has extended the Facebook integration launched at f8 in September, the news activity feature, to 26 additional Yahoo! sites worldwide, including U.S.-based entertainment experiences omg!, Yahoo! TV, Yahoo! Movies, and Yahoo! Games. A new social feature, Notifications, has also launched in the U.S., alerting [...]]]></description>
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<title>Google Adds Google+ Brand Pages to Search Results</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65801</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From CNET : 
 
 The page listings, which were noted today by researcher BrightEdge Technologies but previously reported by All About Content, include promotional messages from the brands, producing what is essentially an advertisement for the brand, as well as Google\'s social network. The search engine listings seem to be appearing for only [...]]]></description>
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<title>Google and Firefox Reach Agreement</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65799</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From PC Magazine : 
 Mozilla on Tuesday announced that it has reached a deal with Google that will keep the search engine giant as Firefox\'s default search engine for at least another three years.
 \"Under this multi-year agreement, Google Search will continue to be the default search provider for hundreds of millions of [...]]]></description>
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<title>ExPub Continues to Expand Environmental Hazard Data </title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65798</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ According to the press release: 
 
 Expert Publishing (ExPub), a division of EBSCO Publishing is expanding its collection of chemical hazard data with the addition of The Teratogen Information System (TERIS) and Shepard&rsquo;s Catalog of Teratogenic Agents. ExPub is the premier provider of up-to-date, decision-support chemical information for the global environmental health &amp; [...]]]></description>
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