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<title>Twitter Content Incorporated into Factiva</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68822</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release : 
 
 The curated Twitter content in Factiva covers 31 industries, including energy, financial services and technology, with a focus on the most influential tweeters from around the globe. The real time content is available via Factiva Snapshot, a business search tool with news dashboards that help businesses to [...]]]></description>
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<title>Battle for the Internet</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Source: Guardian (UK)&nbsp; 
 This is an excellent series of highly topical articles on the current state and possible future directions of the Internet. In-depth pieces cover such subjects as social media, privacy, Big Data, intellectual property and the political use of the Net by both governments and activists. 
 The week of articles [...]]]></description>
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<title>Harvard Releases Metadata Into Public Domain</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68656</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the Digital Shift : 
 
 Harvard is making more than 12 million catalog records from its 73 libraries publicly available under a Creative Commons public domain license. 
 The records contain bibliographic information about books, videos, audio recordings, images, manuscripts, maps, and more, including creator, title, publisher, date, language, and subject headings, [...]]]></description>
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<title>LexisNexis Adds MailOnline to Boost Web News Sources on Nexis</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68649</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release : 
 
 LexisNexis ( www.lexisnexis.com ) announced that it boosted content on its Nexis &reg; service with the addition of popular online news site MailOnline. With an average monthly audience of 98.7 million, MailOnline is recognised as the world&rsquo;s number one newspaper site, pulling all the latest news, sport, [...]]]></description>
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<title>LexisNexis Announces LexisNexis Digital Library</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68644</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release : 
 
 LexisNexis Digital Library is an innovative new service that offers legal professionals access to the largest collection of authoritative legal eBook content on all major mobile devices and desktop platforms. It also enables organizations to share individual eBook titles among multiple users, purchase eBooks centrally and manage [...]]]></description>
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<title>Academic Video Database Available Through EBSCO Discovery Service</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68643</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release : 
 
 Mutual customers of EBSCO Discovery Service&trade; (EDS) and the INTELECOM Online Resources Network&reg; will soon benefit from a recent agreement between EBSCO Publishing and INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications. The agreement adds metadata for all videos from INTELECOM&rsquo;s academic video database to the Base Index of EDS and also [...]]]></description>
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<title>Oxford University, Vatican Libraries to Digitize Works</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68599</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From Reuters : 
 
 The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) said on Thursday they intended to digitize 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and make them freely available online. 
 The libraries said the digitized collections will centre on three subject areas: Greek manuscripts, 15th-century [...]]]></description>
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<title>Google Expected to Launch 5G Cloud Storage</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68598</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From AppNewser : 
 
 The Next Web is reporting that Google Drive is likely to launch next Tuesday where it will be joining Dropbox, Amazon, Apple, and others in a very crowded market. Like its competitors, Google Drive will offer a free entry level service with 5GB of storage. That&rsquo;s more than Dropbox&rsquo;s [...]]]></description>
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<title>Sony Launches Reader Store UK</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68597</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the Inquirer : 
 
 Sony has announced the launch of its Reader Store UK, an online ebook library, six years after its US debut. 
 In a bid to compete against Amazon\'s similar Kindle offering, Sony\'s store offers a range of downloadable titles including classics, bestsellers and international publications. Newspapers including The [...]]]></description>
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<title>Directory of Open Access Books Launches</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68582</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release : 
 
 OAPEN is pleased to announce the launch of the&nbsp; Directory of Open Access Books (www.doabooks.org), a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the [...]]]></description>
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<title>Calling All Learning Resource Providers</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68569</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release: 
 
 I n order to better gauge educational content providers&rsquo; interest in implementing a new system of metadata tagging that will make their products, programs, and resources more accessible and available to users, the LRMI has crafted a survey and is asking for participants. Your input could help shape [...]]]></description>
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<title>Library of Congress Updates Website</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68555</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the Library of Congress : 
 
 The Library&rsquo;s main web search function has been improved. A new feature allows users to narrow their search results by language and location. In addition, the homepage and search-results pages have updated search boxes that allow users to refine their search by format, such as books, [...]]]></description>
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<title>World Bank Announces Open Access Policy</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68554</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the World Bank : 
 
 The World Bank today announced that it will implement a new Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products, effective July 1, 2012. The new policy builds on recent efforts to increase access to information at the World Bank and to make its research as [...]]]></description>
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<title>The Google Art Project Expands Virtual Collection</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68524</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From beSpacific : 
 
 The Art Project is a collaboration between Google and 151 acclaimed art partners from across 40 countries. Using a combination of various Google technologies and expert information provided by our museum partners, we have created a unique online art experience....Few people will ever be lucky enough to be able [...]]]></description>
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<title>Nature Publishing Group Releases Linked Data Platform</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68523</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From Nature Publishing Group : 
 
 The platform includes more than 20 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements, including primary metadata for more than 450,000 articles published by NPG since 1869. In this first release, the datasets include basic citation information (title, author, publication date, etc) as well as NPG specific ontologies. These [...]]]></description>
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<title>UK Public Libraries Database Now Available</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68461</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From Information World Review : 
 
 The UK&rsquo;s first openly-available public libraries contact database has been launched, listing the UK&rsquo;s 4,040 public libraries. 
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 The initiative is part of a major data development project initiated by not-for-profit organisation the Collections Trust, whose Find A Library website encouraged users to find the [...]]]></description>
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<title>OCLC Research Launches ArchiveGrid Blog</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68404</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From OCLC : 
 
 The ArchiveGrid Blog is part of OCLC Research\'s beta ArchiveGrid discovery system , now freely available and providing access to primary source materials held in archives throughout the world. 
 Anyone seeking historical collections can use ArchiveGrid\'s powerful search engine and user-friendly interface to retrieve results that include the [...]]]></description>
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<title>Internet Archive's ETree Celebrates Milestone</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68403</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From Internet Archive : 
 
 We just hit a milestone:&nbsp; 100,000 free concert recordings from over 5,200 bands ! 
 The Internet Archive offered to the ETree community to provide &ldquo;unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, forever, for free&rdquo; in an email in 2002. 
 These concerts have been downloaded or listened to almost 800,000,000 [...]]]></description>
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<title>Bowker Releases Results of Global eBook Research</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68402</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release : 
 
 The study tracks consumer attitudes to and purchasing of e-books in major world markets. Bowker Market Research is a service of Bowker, an affiliated business of ProQuest. 
 Research for Bowker&rsquo;s Global e-book Monitor was conducted among the online population in 10 countries &ndash; Australia, Brazil, France, [...]]]></description>
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<title>Census Bureau Adds Research Gateway to Website</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68399</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the Census Bureau : 
 
 This new Web page is a gateway to the world of research at the Census Bureau. Visit the site to learn about innovations to measure and understand America through improved statistics, statistical products and analysis. The new blog &mdash; &ldquo;Research Matters&rdquo; &mdash; features the work of researchers [...]]]></description>
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