Another DHUG in the Bag

A lot goes into putting on programs and services of all kinds, whether it is a simple story time at the local library, a rock concert the size of Coachella, or a musical on Broadway. Planning, organizing, and possibly blood, sweat, and tears go into planning any event. Speakers need to be recruited, tickets need…

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Industry Giants Are Going All In On Graphic Databases

Graph databases are no longer the new guy on the block. They continue to move into mainstream enterprise operations and some big name vendors are making their mark. This interesting news came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Enterprises Move to Graph Databases.” Oracle and Teradata are both examples of major companies that have implemented…

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What’s Ahead for 2017?

It is not really possible to say what will happen for everyone everywhere, but we can predict within our own spheres of influence. Semantic Cross Searching as a Service Employees are the most valuable assets in any organization. The 1994 Chen study determined that 24% of employee time was spent looking for information. In 2016…

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Weeding Out the Frauds

The removal of a website flagging up journals with questionable publishing practices leave some wondering how this will impact credible publishers. Times Higher Education brought this to our attention in their article, “Beall’s list closure a ‘boon for predatory publishers’.” Yes, the list of “potential, possible or probably” predatory publishers was controversial, with some publishers threatening legal action…

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Webinar Addresses Creative Commons

Association of American Publisher’s Professional & Scholar’s Publishing Books Committee is bringing guest speakers Terence P. Keegan and David S. Korzenik from the law firm of Miller Korzenik Sommers LLP to discuss When Creative Commons Licenses Create Headaches. This interesting educational event is scheduled for Friday, October 21st from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the AAP/NY office and via the webinar. Many online publishers…

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Fall Educational Series Looks Into Metrics

The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Committee for Digital Innovation (CDI) is once again offering a fall seminar series, this time on Metrics, New Metrics and Their Significance. The next part of the series is scheduled for October 19, 2016 at 12:00-1:30 p.m. The title of this webinar is “Altmetrics.”…

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Worldwide Business with kathy ireland® Interviews Access Innovations and Discusses Their Unique Solution for Finding Relevant Information Quickly and Easily

Tune in to Fox Business Network as sponsored programming on Sunday, October 9, 2016. See market-by-market listings below. Los Angeles, CA – Access Innovations President Marjorie M.K. Hlava and Vice President of Marketing and Communications Heather Kotula are featured on the award-winning, global TV show, Worldwide Business with kathy ireland®. The segment’s topic is how businesses can…

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Learning Opportunity Around Document Delivery

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is bringing an interesting webinar titled, “Document Delivery in the Information Ecosystem” available on October 11, 2016. With scholarly output continuing to increase with new journals introduced each year and simultaneous shrinking of library acquisition budgets and increasing journal subscription prices, scholarly content buyers must learn to do more…

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Being Relevant

Building the proper content strategy is not an easy or short task for any organization. However, it is key to enabling findability for users. Tech Target brought this interesting news to us in their article,”Context-aware technology draws customers closer, but not too close.” Companies must demonstrate that they know their customers, and be able to anticipate…

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