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Best Practices in Anti-Counterfeit Efforts

By |March 6th, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on Best Practices in Anti-Counterfeit Efforts

Several academic publishers have joined forces with distributors in order to have them adopt and implement a set of anti-counterfeit best practices designed to address the […]

Word Lovers Unite

By |March 3rd, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on Word Lovers Unite

I like words. I like how they make me feel. I like how they roll off my tongue. Words like filipendulous are phonetically fun to […]

New Collaboration Increases Access

By |February 28th, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on New Collaboration Increases Access

EBSCO Information Services has been chosen as an approved content provider for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) framework. This interesting […]

The Library for the People

By |February 24th, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on The Library for the People

One of President Obama’s final appointments was the new Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden. The first person of color and the first woman […]

Putting Textbooks in Their Place

By |February 24th, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on Putting Textbooks in Their Place

Textbooks are large in both size and cost. Add to that how fast they become outdated, and is easy to understand why other options are […]

Taxonomist Position Available in the Northwest

By |February 22nd, 2017|News, ontology, reference, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomist Position Available in the Northwest

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with […]

New State Archivist Hired

By |February 15th, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on New State Archivist Hired

A new state archivist has been hired to oversee records management services for state and local governments in Kentucky. Beth Shields will assume the position […]

Dictionaries in the World of Social Media

By |February 10th, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on Dictionaries in the World of Social Media

The days of encyclopedias may have been ended by Google and other search engines, but dictionaries are standing the test of time. This interesting […]

Copyrights in the Publisher’s World

By |February 9th, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on Copyrights in the Publisher’s World

Copyright discussions can send the fear of God into anyone in the publishing business with very little effort. The spirit of copyright protection is […]

New Acquisition, Greater Access

By |February 8th, 2017|News, reference, semantic|Comments Off on New 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 […]