There is No Hiding

Are all journals vulnerable to harm from piracy? Are open access (OA) journals immune to the threat? The Scholarly Kitchen brought this news to us in their article, “Are Open Access Journals Immune from Piracy?” Authors choose to pay to publish in OA journals because of the increased visibility/citations and fund requirements. It is normal for an…

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Digging Through Data

The volume of papers emerging from the world’s universities is increasing on a daily basis. Estimates are as high as 10,000 new papers being published every day. This information came to us from the DZone in their article, “How Automation Can Help Us Deal With the Data Deluge.” A number of tools have been developed to help…

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First Time Conference Offers Unique Educational Opportunities

Mark your calendars and make plans now to attend the first annual Data Architecture Summit in Chicago, Illinois on November 13-16, 2017. This will be a unique opportunity for in-depth education from leading experts in the world of data architecture. A few of the workshop titles include: Introduction to Graph Data Management, Designing Data Governance, Metadata and Quality…

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Digging Through the Data

Unstructured data is ordinary information not in a formal structure. The rate of growth is not ordinary. Unstructured data is growing at an unprecedented rate resulting in new approaches being considered in managing massive amounts of digital data. Forbes brought this news to our attention in their article, “Artificial Intelligence In Digital Storage.” There are several…

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The Same and Not

Semantic technology and machine learning have many possibilities as the technologies continue to grow and evolve. This interesting topic came to us from Blasting News in their article, “Flickr presents visual ‘similarities’ in search results.” The online photo sharing app, Flickr, has been experimenting with many new features over the years and the most recent involves…

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Up Close with Taxonomies

Recently, our own Bob Kasenchak, Director of Product Development at Access Innovations, was interviewed by PLOS Staff Researcher, Elizabeth Seiver, on her podcast in the episode titled, Building Taxonomies: An interview featuring Bob Kasenchak. In today’s digital age, it’s important to be able to sift through a lot of content and find what you’re looking for. With…

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Search Landscape Educational Opportunity

The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Journals Committee will be offering a two-part educational opportunity live and via webinar titled, The Changing Discovery Landscape – Part 1: Librarians and Researchers, with the first part scheduled for Wednesday, July 26th from 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. There seems to be new technology and…

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Changing Semantic Search

The public beta release of spot.my by RowAnalytics Ltd could change the landscape of search platforms for open access life science literature. PR Newswire brought this information to our attention in their article, “RowAnalytics Launches Public Beta of spot.my, its New Deep Semantic Search Tool for Life Science Research.” spot.my is intuitive, and its deep semantic search engine…

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Information Architecture Brings Order

We have all had experiences where we couldn’t find information on a website or in an application. Most blame that on poor search optimization, but maybe it was poor information architecture (IA). A great experience with a site or application is only possible with solid IA under the hood. CMS Wire brought this news to us…

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