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Protecting Data and Users
Data breaches and security has never been more of a focus for most organizations. It’s not just hackers or rogue employees that are causing worries. Financial Planning brought this to our attention in their article, “Don’t let this data breach threat end your business.” Organizations are building processes and protocols for “when” they are victims of…
Read MoreNew Acquisition, Greater Access
Elsevier has announced their acquisition of Plum Analytics from EBSCO Information Services. What does this mean for users? PR Newswire brought this interesting tidbit to our attention in their article, “Elsevier Acquires Leading ‘Altmetrics’ Provider Plum Analytics.” The acquisition will enable Elsevier to significantly expand access to Plum Analytics’ altmetrics to more researchers and more institutions. Plum…
Read MoreThe Opportunity That is Social Media
According to a recent survey, 39% of all businesses participating said they do not do any form of social media tracking or monitoring in their organization. Considering how prevalent social media is these days, and not just for personal use, this number is surprising. This interesting information came to us from Open PR in their article,…
Read MoreMaintaining Access
Most readers have no idea of the long-term and collaborative efforts that are made by committed industry players to provide us access to literature, science publications, etc. from various sources and libraries. The good news is that access is increasing by the day. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Monographs, Transparency…
Read MoreIndustry 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…
Read MoreIllegal Metadata Program Revealed in Canada
According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), they don’t know the number of Canadians that were caught up in an illegal metadata program that operated for almost a decade. This interesting news came to us from The Star out of Toronto in their article, “CSIS doesn’t know how many Canadians were snared in unlawful data program.”…
Read MoreImproving the Semantic Search
Scientific papers just got a boost. Semantic Scholar is a search engine that reads the literature on its own, picking out topics and influences, ranking citations, and making it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for. TechCrunch brought this news to us in their article, “Scientists gain a versatile, modern search engine with the AI-powered Semantic…
Read MoreReturning Control to Librarians
A new independent provider of cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions has launched an online resource access management tool for libraries. Knowledgespeak brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “LibLynx to launch LibLynx Gateway – a new e-resource access solution for Libraries.” LibLynx Gateway uniquely combines an access and authentication infrastructure…
Read MoreTaxonomist Needed in D.C.
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, metadata, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are…
Read MorePublishing and Peer Review
Many articles have been written about the validity of published scientific papers, and not all are about Sci Hub. This problem affects many areas of science, such as medicine, psychology and global warming. It makes you wonder where peer review fits into the process. This interesting topic was brought to our attention by American Thinker in their article, “The…
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