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From Factiva : Factiva has expanded its aggregated content to offer more global sources, blogs and images. In the last year, Factiva’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 [...]

From Against the Grain : The Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing solutions, announces its  OnCopyright Education Certificate Program , comprised of industry-specific courses that target a variety of user communities and the challenges they face in managing copyright. The program is comprised of a [...]

From the Wolfram|Alpha blog : The introduction of Wolfram|Alpha Pro in effect adds a whole new model for interacting with Wolfram|Alpha—and brings all sorts of fundamentally new and remarkable capabilities. Everyone has access to Wolfram|Alpha Pro at wolframalpha.com. Unlike the “tourist” version of Wolfram|Alpha, though, you have to log in, and, yes, to get [...]

From the press release : The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a new tool that provides the public with important information about pollutants that are released into local waterways. A link to the new tool can be found on EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) website, [...]

From the press release: Oxford University Press is delighted to make the prestigious publications of the British Academy available online. At launch, British Academy Publications Online (BAPO) will offer readers access to the full text of 100 print titles, comprising both monographs and collections of essays.  Among those included are Vernon Bogdanor’s [...]

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 [...]

From the press release : The daily Economics Asia newsletter compiles news, data and in-depth analysis of macroeconomic trends from the Bloomberg Professional service, as well as commentary by Bloomberg Brief economists Michael McDonough and Tamara Henderson. McDonough and Henderson study global economic trends from Hong Kong and Singapore, respectively, while four [...]

From the Text Creation Partnership blog: In April 2011, we   announced   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’t seem to have any teeth: Although we could (and [...]

From Information World Review : The American Psychological Association’s (APA) research database is being made available online under a deal with Wolters Kluwer Health. The group’s Ovid unit will carry the APA’s PsycTESTS on its OvidSP platform, which already hosts five other APA databases: PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PyscBOOKS, PsycEXTRA and PsycCRITIQUES. [...]

From the Google Search blog : Here’s the latest installment of our monthly series on “search quality highlights,” with 17 new quality improvements to read about for January. In addition to this month’s big announcement of Search plus Your World, you’ll find short summaries of other changes to our high-quality sites algorithm, [...]

From the press release: Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced that   Evolutionary Applications   has joined the   Wiley Open Access   publishing program. All newly published articles in the journal will be open access and free to view, download [...]

From Media Bistro : Reuters on Thursday released Social Pulse , a social media dashboard that shows what’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, [...]

According to Pew Research : Most Facebook users receive more from their Facebook friends than they give, whether the measurement is the number of friend requests received, the use of the "like" button, the number of messages sent or tagging people in photos. The main factor driving this phenomenon is that [...]

From the press release: Oxford University Press is delighted to announce the publication of the world renowned Benezit Dictionary of Artists online for the first time on Oxford Art Online. .. The defining feature of Benezit is its outstanding coverage of obscure artists, and the inclusion of more than 11,000 images [...]

From the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Library : A showcase of books that have been burned, from antiquity to present day, is now on display. Included are texts from famous historical cases as well as contemporary incidents, photographs, and other information about book burning. A website companion to the exhibit, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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’ sites in the coming weeks. The “beta” gov.uk test site is the flagship project of the new Government Digital Services unit, which was [...]

From the Copyright Clearance Center : Copyright Clearance Center, in partnership with the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC), developed the Motion Picture License to meet the diverse needs of businesses and their employees and reduce the risk of unintended copyright infringement. The Motion Picture License allows you to show motion pictures [...]

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 — but when it comes to details like phone numbers, location, and email or physical address that might put their personal [...]