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BCR, BiblioLife, and Ingram Digital announced a new program designed to help libraries improve access to their collections through digitization.
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Investors never stray very far from their favorite source of financial news. Whether it comes in over the internet, their BlackBerries, or even old-fashioned newspapers, getting business information from Bangladesh to Boston before it becomes old news is a big business in its own right.
"How does one quantify the cumulative impact and relevance of an individual’s scientific research output? In a world of not-unlimited resources, such quantification (even if potentially distasteful) is often needed for evaluation and comparison purposes (e.g., for university faculty recruitment and advancement, award of grants, etc.),” from An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output by J. E. Hirsch, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, September 2005. Hirsch's solution considers the publication record of an individual, the number (Np) of papers published over n years, the journals (j) where the papers were published, and the number of citations (Njc ) for each paper.
The peer-review process is part of the foundation on which academic publishing was built, and while Open Source publishing models are emerging along with alternative outlets for scholarly publication, it remains the most respected method for assessing the quality of published works. Venerable publisher Elsevier is no stranger to the traditions of scientific, medical, and technical publishing, but has not shied away from leveraging digital delivery options for its works. In November of last year, the company launched its Scopus project, which is a multidisciplinary navigation tool that contains records dating back to the mid 1960s.
While the market for business content remains strong, content providers are increasingly expanding their audience pool by offering wares in different packages and price points. Alacra’s announcement of its Alacra Store demonstrates an increasing trend of providing patrons with a variety of inroads to premium content.
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Take a closer look at ProQuest, one of the 12 companies that inspired the most banter among the EContent 100 judges during the voting process.
Above all, search is about finding information, be it about a product or a bit of data essential for closing a deal. Thus, content providers leverage dynamic navigation to better lead customers to what they are looking for.
A closer look at Newstex, which doesn't add just any old blog to its network.
These five case studies explore the day-to-day impact of digital content on the way people really work. They demonstrate the transformative power of econtent on the way we create, collaborate, and connect.
Like most professions, the advent of digital content has affected the legal profession. It has changed the means and methods by which law firms, their clients, and the courts themselves must use, manage, and discover content.
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I appreciate one of NoteScribe's taglines: Save a Forest, NoteScribe It! because it advocates saving paper by taking and storing notes online. But I'd add another phrase: Save your Sanity, NoteScribe It! because this excellent program allows you to organize your notes by categories, keywords, and sources; add files from a variety of formats; and find your notes quickly and painlessly.
The world is an oyster for Euromonitor Passport subscribers. Whether it is gauging the market potential for baby food in Greece, identifying acquisition targets in Poland, or evaluating Chile's suitability as a manufacturing location, Passport is the Mercedes of business intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers.
When I reviewed Referenceware by Books24x7, I felt like a kid in a candy store. As a former reference librarian and a lifelong knowledge junkie, I loved having quick access to a wide variety of quality reference material from my computer. On an enterprise level, Referenceware is a great way to provide employees with the information they need, when they need it and where they need it.
Hoover's deserves a round of applause for completing its tenth anniversary on the web. Since its debut as a business portal in 1995, Hoover's has been one of the first sites consulted for business information by thousands of searchers. With the "New Hoover's" recently launched in April 2006, Hoover's expands its range of products and enhances its search functionality, making it an even more valuable product.
For years, Factiva has been a favorite source of business and company news for many professional and casual researchers. It provides not only an extensive collection of news but also powerful searching and alert systems. With 2.0, Factiva is taking its search platform to a whole new level. But seasoned Factiva users, brace yourselves: Factiva 2.0 is completely different. The familiar Search Builder interface that allows you to construct a search by outlining your search parameters has been replaced with a Google-like search box. New Factiva customers, welcome to a fun, powerful, interactive source of business data and news.
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I don't want to sound ungrateful to our long-time econtent providers; I cannot imagine running my business without the value-added information I can find through them. However, I have taken a few new search interfaces out for a spin, and that familiar old search screen from my tried and true online service is starting to look a bit, well, dated.
It seems like everyone's talking about free information again: The old meme that "information wants to be free" appears to be recycling in the web's hive-mind. I am still not convinced that information cares one way or the other, but I do know that content owners and providers have widely divergent views on whether or how they should be compensated.
In my 4 years of college, I don't ever recall giving the authors of the books we were reading for class any thought. I vaguely recall Milton Somebody wrote my Economics 101 text, but I don't recall any other authors' names. I never met any authors of the textbooks I used, and they were not a part of my learning experience whatsoever. There is a new model for learning today, and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.
With digital distribution, the rules are still emerging and, like publishing business models, will continue to do so. Some things remain almost constant, though, such as the free versus fee debate. From B2B magazine and daily paper models to newsstand sales and high-value subscription content, the publishing business has always demanded a range of formulas for feeding the bottom line.
A colleague recently pointed me to ResearchBuy.com, a market research aggregator that promotes its free, short industry profiles as well as access to off-the-shelf market research reports and customized research. What I initially found interesting was that it had a real Web 2.0 feel. The free industry reports are in the MarketWikis area of the website, and they are, in fact, in a wiki format, complete with discussion and edit tabs.
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