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Protecting the Copyright to a Fault
The American Association of Publishers (AAP) recently filed comments for the Copyright Office’s Study of Section 512 of the Copyright Act, the section of the law that Congress enacted in 1998 to facilitate cooperation between Internet service providers and copyright owners in combatting online infringement of copyrighted works. The American Association of Publishers shared this information…
Read MoreHealth Analytics Gain New Partner
IBM Watson Health has completed the acquisition of Truven Health Analytics. As the provider of cloud-based healthcare data, analytics and insights, Truven brings more than 8,500 clients to the Watson Health portfolio. In a recent announcement, “IBM Watson Health Closes Acquisition of Truven Health Analytics.” IBM and Truven data scientists will begin the process of using Watson Health’s…
Read MoreSearch and Find
An extensive, searchable digital archive of the design magazine Architectural Digest is now available from EBSCO Information Services. This interesting news came to us from Market Wired in their article, “EBSCO Information Services Introduces the Architectural Digest Magazine Archive.” The Architectural Digest Magazine Archive includes cover-to-cover access to issues of the design magazine from the 1920s to…
Read MoreCall for Science Journals to be More Accessible
Scientific journal publishers have long defended their convictions that subscriptions are necessary to finance their operations. However, efforts to extend free access to scientific and academic research papers received a big boost recently. Science Business brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Moedas: journal papers based on EU-funded science should be free to…
Read MoreSemantic Differences
A Bangor University expert believes the constant battle for prominence between words is a good example of the brain’s natural algorithms and architectures. This very interesting information came to us from BBC News in their article, “How does your brain pick one word from 50,000 in 0.6 seconds?“ Dr Gary Oppenheim, of the university’s Language Production…
Read MoreSame and Different
We talk a lot about semantic technology and artificial intelligence, and even cognitive computing. Often those words are used interchangeably, but should they be? What is artificial intelligence, exactly? This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence.” Artificial intelligence can be traced back to the classical philosophers…
Read MoreOther Duties As Assigned
There is never just one person whose responsibility it is to manage records. Regardless of the size of the organization, it is ultimately everyone’s responsibility since everyone is generating the data from the start. Business Management Daily brought this news to our attention in their forum titled, “Do you have a records management strategy in place?”…
Read MoreNew Publishing Tool Partnership
A new partnership between Unbound Concepts and Baker & Taylor will help teachers, librarians and curriculum buyers search, identify, and discover content to best serve students in the classroom and library. Knowledgespeak brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Unbound Concepts and Baker & Taylor partner to help publishers improve discoverability of K12 content in…
Read MoreImproving Productivity
BA Insight has introduced support for SharePoint 2016 and cloud hybrid search with SharePoint 2016. KM World brought this news to us in their article, “BA Insight Announces Support for SharePoint 2016.” Hybrid is a key part of SharePoint 2016 and taking advantage of the cloud experience is a strong benefit. BA is providing its existing customers…
Read MoreJoining the Game
Machine Zone is known as a top-ranked mobile game company, but now it has launched a platform that lets other companies license its cloud technology that will enable many millions of people to communicate and interact in real time. This interesting information came to us from Venture Beat in their article, “Machine Zone launches cloud platform to process…
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