PUBLISHING, DIGITAL libraries, PRESS, PREDATORY publishing
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The article offers news briefs concerning online media.. Founders of Kopernio, Mendeley, and Publons have joined forces to launch a new company called Cassyn. Axel Springer signed an agreement to acquire POLITICO.Acquia agreed to acquire Widen, a cloud-native maker of digital asset management (DAM) and product information management (PIM) software.
DIFFUSION of innovations, DIGITAL libraries, TECHNOLOGY, USER interfaces, VIRTUAL reality, AUGMENTED reality
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The article focuses on the immersive technologies that imitate or enhance physical world by digital simulations to give us the sense of being completely absorbed into something or having content extended over our own reality; and mentions that with YouTube and Facebook embracing 360° video and images, people are beginning to realize the full potential of this technology.
ARTIFICIAL intelligence, AUTOMATIC speech recognition, DIGITAL libraries, INFORMATION retrieval, MEDICAL ethics, PRIVACY, USER interfaces, SEARCH engines, ACCESS to information, INFORMATION-seeking behavior, PSYCHOLOGY of Research personnel, MOBILE apps
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The article focuses on the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistants introduced Alexa by Amazon, Siri by Apple, Cortanan by Microsoft, and Google Assistant by Google to ease searching for information in daily lives. It mentions AI assistants were developed as consumer products, not for librarians; and also mentions companies that provide databases must improve the search functions of their databases and make them easier for researchers to find what they are looking for more quickly.
LABOR laws, LIBRARY education, ARCHIVES, COURTS, EMPLOYMENT, ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc., COOPERATIVE cataloging databases, COMPUTER input-output equipment, MERGERS & acquisitions, DIGITAL libraries, ELECTRONIC books, INFORMATION services, MEDICAL information storage & retrieval systems, MEDICAL literature, CHINESE medicine, NEWSPAPERS, PUBLISHING, READING, SOCIAL sciences, MILITARY personnel, SEARCH engines
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The article offers world news briefs in 2018. SAGE Publishing has launched SAGE Ocean to aid researchers in developing computational social science skills. Elsevier works with Beijing University of Chinese Medicine to make a taxonomy for traditional Chinese medicine in Embase. Access Innovations Inc. revealed that the Library of Congress has assigned GEOTHES, a Classification Scheme Source Code to Access Innovations.
DIGITAL libraries, LIBRARIANS, ONLINE information services, SERIAL publications, OCCUPATIONAL roles, ACCESS to information
Abstract
In the article, the author discusses the challenges faced by librarians amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, like struggling with library reopenings and providing online services. Topics include the calls for librarians to educate people about racism, their duty to answer reference questions and make collection development decisions, and the connection between librarians' challenges and the 1969 Firesign Theater album "How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All."
Published
2020
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