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Mon, January 2nd, 2012
App of the Month: Flipboard
Posted by: Christine Bulson
Flipboard began as an app for the iPad and now is available free for the iPhone and iPod touch. It changes Facebook, Twitter and other social network services into pages similar to those in a magazine. The pages “flip” from bottom to top and the content is presented in a visual pleasing format. A number [...]
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Mon, November 7th, 2011
Web Site of the Week: TheWirecutter.com
Posted by: Christine Bulson
The Wirecutter.com is a new site with the sub-title “the list of best gadgets.” Brian Lam launched the site in September after stepping down from Gizmodo.com in June where he had been editorial director. The site has evaluations and recommendations of smart phones, cameras, laptops, televisions, tablets, wireless speakers, e-book readers, etc. that are all [...]
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Fri, September 16th, 2011
App of the Month: Battery Go! Plus
Posted by: Christine Bulson
Battery Go! Plus is an updated version of Battery Go. It was free, but at the present time is $1.99. It is well worth the money for those who worry about battery life of their iPhone, iPad, etc. The app has questions about the device and usage habits of the owner – type of devise [...]
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Thu, May 12th, 2011
EBSCO’s New iPhone App
Posted by: Rebecca Vnuk
Got apps? EBSCO Publishing does. They just released one that is available free from the iTunes App Store and provides easy authentication for users via a library’s EBSCOhost profile. Here’s the information they sent me: The iPhone app introduces new features including the ability to view content in visual landscape mode and the option to [...]
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Thu, January 20th, 2011
New enhancements for WilsonWeb Services
Posted by: Sue Polanka
H. W. Wilson’s WilsonWeb Service has a variety of new enhancements. Highlights include: • Record previews. Users can preview individual records without navigating away from the “brief display” search results screen, by mousing over the new “quick view” icon. The pop-up “quick view” includes important fields such as Abstracts, Title, Author, Source, Publication Year, and Subject. [...]
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Fri, January 7th, 2011
Reference Extract Project receives $350,000
Posted by: Sue Polanka
DUBLIN, Ohio, January 6, 2011—The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $350,000 to fund researchers and developers from OCLC, the information schools of Syracuse University and the University of Washington and Zepheira LLC to continue work creating a more credible Web search experience based on the unique expertise, services and input from [...]
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Mon, November 8th, 2010
OCLC and EBSCO Partner to Enhance Discovery
Posted by: Sue Polanka
From an OCLC Press Release: OCLC and EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) have expanded their partnership to enhance the discovery experience for users of WorldCat Local and the EBSCO Discovery Service through an expanded data exchange agreement. The new agreement will create more value for libraries that subscribe to services from OCLC and EBSCO. WorldCat Local libraries [...]
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Mon, November 8th, 2010
Gale’s ECCO Partners with 18thConnect to improve searchability
Posted by: Sue Polanka
From a Gale/Cengage Learning Press Release: Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and 18thConnect, a scholarly organization dedicated to forging links between eighteenth-century archives and today’s digital research environment, today announced a partnership to share scholarly content and improve the searchability of documents within Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online(ECCO) archive. Gale’s ECCO archive, one of the largest [...]
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Thu, October 28th, 2010
Gale expands accessmylibrary apps for college and android users
Posted by: Sue Polanka
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, today announced the availability of the first AccessMyLibrary Public Edition Android application and the first AccessMyLibrary College Edition application for iOS devices (iPhone, iTouch and iPad). The AML Public Edition Android app allows researchers using an Android device to access Gale resources through public libraries within a 10-mile radius, similar [...]
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Thu, October 7th, 2010
Alexander Street Press offers Send-to-Mobile functionality
Posted by: Sue Polanka
ASP just announced new functionality for their video products. The following is from an email from ASP: I am pleased to let you know that we now have “Send-to-Mobile” functionality for our video collections as well as our streaming music collections. Videos in Dance in Video and Opera in Video can now be sent to [...]
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Thu, October 7th, 2010
Gale adds college version of Access my library app
Posted by: Sue Polanka
Gale released a college version of the Access My Library iPhone app. Using a college email address, students can gain access to Gale resources using their mobile device. The public library version, which was released a while back, offers apple and android apps, the school library and college versions are for apple products only right [...]
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Tue, September 21st, 2010
Serials Solutions Summon integrates Web of Science content
Posted by: Sue Polanka
Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, today announced the integration of content from the Thomson Reuters subscription-based Web of Science service with its Summon web-scale discovery service. This integration enables display of cited-by counts in Summon search results for ISI Web of Knowledge SM subscribers to highlight the highest impact articles for researchers. [...]
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Fri, August 27th, 2010
After the Web, What’s Next?
Posted by: Rebecca Vnuk
The September issue of Wired has an interesting cover story called The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet. According to the authors, we are now living in a post-HTML, apps-dominated environment, and they describe this as “one of the most important shifts in the digital world” over the past few years. A number of reference [...]
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Thu, August 26th, 2010
EBSCO databases now offering text-to-speech
Posted by: Sue Polanka
EBSCO Publishing recently announced the added feature of text-to-speech support for all EBSCOhost® databases. The read aloud function is available at no cost through technology from Texthelp Systems. The functionality allows users to read along while a human-sounding voice speaks the text on the screen. Users have the ability to read-aloud by selected text, sentence, [...]
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Sat, August 14th, 2010
App of the Month: Public Radio Player
Posted by: Christine Bulson
Smartphones, the iPad or other handheld devices appear to be replacing computers for some people so we’ve decided to add an “App of the Month” to the blog. Please let us know if you think this is a good addition to Points of Reference. Public Radio Player is available for the iPhone, iPad or iPad touch. The player is [...]
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Fri, July 9th, 2010
Results of survey on interactive features in online reference products
Posted by: Sue Polanka
During the RBB webinar on June 1st, Power to the User, we discussed and demonstrated a variety of interactive features available in online reference products. At the end of the webinar, everyone had the opportunity to take a survey on these features. The survey listed over 30 interactive features and provided responses of no value, [...]
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Tue, May 18th, 2010
Gale offers iPhone app for School Libraries
Posted by: Sue Polanka
Last December Gale release an iPhone app for the public library market based on their AccessMyLibrary service. They are now releasing this same iPhone app for the school library market called, AccessMyLibrary School Edition. The new K-12 version allows students to find their local school library – (grade schools, middle schools and high schools) and [...]
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Mon, May 17th, 2010
Should we index reference content in journal databases?
Posted by: Sue Polanka
Last week I participated in a webinar about the discovery of reference content. We identified several of the challenges to locating reference content – print only, reference indexed in only one place (Reference Universe), changing research habits of students (only using search engines/Wikipedia), online reference content in multiple vendor interfaces, and content not available in [...]
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Tue, April 27th, 2010
Alexander Street Press Ethnographic Video Online – Free Access
Posted by: Sue Polanka
Alexander Street Press is offering free access to it’s Ethnographic Video Online collection. The collection contains more than 1,000 of the most frequently used films in anthropology courses. Classic works from the pioneers of ethnographic film, including Robert Flaherty, Timothy Asch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, Jean Rouch, and many more—together [...]
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Thu, April 1st, 2010
American History in Video – Open Access During April
Posted by: Sue Polanka
Alexander Street Press is offering open access to their highly acclaimed American History in Video product during the month of April. The collection contains over 4,000 video newsreels and documentaries from PBS, the History Channel, California Newsreel, and more. The collection was awarded a 2009 Booklist Editors Choice and given a starred review in Booklist, [...]
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