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<title>Factiva Expands Content</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ From Factiva : 
 
 Factiva has expanded its aggregated content to offer more global sources, blogs and images. In the last year, Factiva&rsquo;s content has increased by more than 20 percent, totaling more than 35,000 sources and furthering its position as one of the largest global digital business aggregators and archives. The new [...]]]></description>
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<title>OpenStax College Plans Free Textbooks</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release: 
 
 The Rice University-based open-education platform Connexions today unveiled a bold plan to shake up the $4 billion college textbook industry by providing free online publisher-quality textbooks for five of the country\'s most-attended college courses. 
 The OpenStax College textbook initiative, which is funded by the William and Flora [...]]]></description>
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<title>Publicly Accessible Portal to Search, Browse, and Read ECCO-TCP</title>
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<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>Evolutionary Applications to Publish Under Open Access Model</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release: 
 
 Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc., today announced that &nbsp; Evolutionary Applications &nbsp; has joined the &nbsp; Wiley Open Access &nbsp; publishing program. All newly published articles in the journal will be open access and free to view, download [...]]]></description>
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<title>Reuters Launches Social Pulse</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From Media Bistro : 
 
 Reuters on Thursday released Social Pulse , a social media dashboard that shows what&rsquo;s hot on social networks, with a focus on business news. 
 The site is divided into multiple sections: A top articles section, a social sentiment section, a section showing the Klout scores of CEOs, [...]]]></description>
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<title>Wall Street Journal Launches Video Channel for YouTube</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release : 
 
 The Wall Street Journal today launched a dedicated channel for YouTube, featuring on-demand content from the Journal\'s growing stable of video programming. In conjunction with the launch, the channel will showcase \"Off Duty,\" a daily lifestyle show debuting today based on the eponymous section of WSJ Weekend [...]]]></description>
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<title>LexisNexis Launches Social Media Visibility Service</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/66447</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release : 
 
 LexisNexis , a leading provider of content and technology solutions, announced today at LegalTech New York, the launch of the LexisNexis Social Media Visibility service that enables solo practitioners and lawyers at smaller law firms to establish a solid, comprehensive, and manageable social media presence. The service [...]]]></description>
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<title>UK Government Unveils New Website</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the Financial Times : 
 
 A new single government domain, at www.gov.uk , will replace Directgov , the portal which launched in 2004, before extending across Whitehall departments&rsquo; sites in the coming weeks. 
 The &ldquo;beta&rdquo; gov.uk test site is the flagship project of the new Government Digital Services unit, which was [...]]]></description>
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<title>Study and Infographic Reveal Gender Gap over Social Media Privacy </title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/66429</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From thte uSamp blog : 
 
 Most women using social media are just as willing to reveal personal information about their relationships, jobs, brand preferences and political and religious affiliations as men &mdash; but when it comes to details like phone numbers, location, and email or physical address that might put their personal [...]]]></description>
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<title>Goodreads Ends Amazon API Sourcing</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/66414</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From paidContent : 
 
 Saying Amazon&rsquo;s API terms have become &ldquo;more and more restrictive,&rdquo; Goodreads is switching data providers and entering an agreement with book wholesaler Ingram&mdash;alarming some users who fear their reading records will be lost. 
 The changes take place January 30. Goodreads&rsquo; new data source is book wholesaler Ingram. Goodreads [...]]]></description>
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<title>Cambridge University Press Adds Six Academic Presses to University Publishing Online Platform</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/66363</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release : 
 
 2012 will see the addition of content from Anthem Press , Boydell &amp; Brewer , Edinburgh University Press , Nottingham University Press , Pickering &amp; Chatto and the University of Adelaide Press . 
 Launched in October 2011, University Publishing Online provides access to thousands of titles [...]]]></description>
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<title>LYRASIS Launches Open Source Resource for Libraries</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/66346</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From Library Technology Guides: 
 
 LYRASIS is pleased to announce the launch of its FOSS4LIB (Free/Open Source Software for Libraries), a website dedicated to providing guidance about open source software for the library community. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, LYRASIS Technology Services is leveraging the expertise of its open source [...]]]></description>
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<title>Deep Web Technologies Releases SciVerse Hub App</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From Digital Journal : 
 
 Deep Web Technologies has announced that working in close cooperation with OSTI, the U.S. Department of Energy\'s Office of Scientific and Technical Information and the operating agent for WorldWideScience.org (WWS), and Elsevier, provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, it has released a WWS application [...]]]></description>
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<title>eBook Discovery and Sampling Skyrocketing at Public Libraries</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/66342</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release : 
 
 Due to the rapid expansion of device compatibility and consumer awareness, eBook discovery and online reader visits at libraries and schools worldwide experienced triple digit growth in 2011: OverDrive library website traffic more than doubled to 1.6 billion page views and visitor sessions also doubled to nearly [...]]]></description>
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<title>Google Launches Internet Security Campaign</title>
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<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>English Wikipedia To Go Dark Wednesday</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65996</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From the press release : 
 
 On January 18, 2012, in an unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed legislation in the United States &mdash; the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP [...]]]></description>
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<title>Chandos Launches eBook Platform</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65989</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From LIS Wire : 
 
 Chandos Publishing Online ( www.chandospublishingonline.com ) is a new electronic resource of library and information science, knowledge management and business information trends comprising over 200 e-books. Designed and created after thorough research amongst librarians and end users, the site is the first and only platform to offer the [...]]]></description>
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<title>LegiNation Publishes Info to Inform Voters</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65959</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ According to the press release: 
 
 Each night, new bills and amendments from that day are scraped from websites across the nation. To structure the data in a way that allows subjects to be tracked, the data is run through the Pingar API and content-specific keywords are automatically added into the metadata of [...]]]></description>
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<title>Harvard University Press Partners with DeGruyter for eBook Sales</title>
<link>http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65931</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From No Shelf Required : 
 
 Beginning in January, 2012, Harvard University Press will market its entire range of electronic products, including both new books and a back catalogue of more than 10,000 titles, through the Berlin-based independent publishing house De Gruyter. 
 
 Full story &gt;&gt; ]]></description>
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<title>29 News Organizations Launch NewsRight</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ From Bloomberg Businessweek : 
 
 The Associated Press newswire service has just launched a &ldquo;news registry&rdquo; and licensing service it calls NewsRight , together with a group of traditional media chains and outlets such as Hearst Newspapers and the New York Times. 
 NewsRight uses the AP&rsquo;s &ldquo;Beacon&rdquo; technology to track content, which [...]]]></description>
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