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Barry Graubart is a familiar face in the information industry. Everyone who knows him (or knows of him) can acknowledge his deep understanding about the value of content. For years, [...]

Residents of urban, suburban, and rural communities consume books and ebooks a bit differently. Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project recently released a report titled 'Reading Habits in [...]

M&A activity rang in the new year with plenty of celebration after 2012 ended on a high note. Three factors contributed to the banner year: a big push in innovation, [...]

It's February, and we're tracking the vital signs of the information industry. The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.'s and Berkery, Noyes & Co.'s respective reports are out (see p. 8) covering [...]

It didn't take long for David Main, CEO of Swets Information Services, to act on what he saw as a great opportunity. The more that Main learned about Mendeley and [...]

Techstreet, part of the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, is starting to bring the information industry up to code. More than 35 industry experts participated in Techstreet's [...]

More than 2 decades ago, Neil Papworth sent a brief message via his personal computer to a colleague. Papworth, then a 22-year-old test engineer at the Sema Group in the [...]

Most people can't share enough of their lives on social media these days, according to Morrison & Foerster, LLC, host of the Socially Aware blog. To reach users on their [...]

As the new year begins, my thoughts keep turning to the old saying, 'May you live in interesting times.' The adage is rumored to be an ancient Chinese blessing or [...]

Although enterprises are eager to leverage their Big Data, chances are it won't be happening anytime soon if the data wasn't stored properly in the first place. 'I like to [...]

Jedidiah Yueh, president and CEO of Delphix, doesn't mince words. When he says his company's data synchronization and virtualization technologies can deliver the right data to the right teams at [...]

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has given researchers worldwide an easier way to discover, use, and attribute data sets and data studies. The recent rollout of [...]

Every enterprise strives to build a loyal customer base, but it's not easy. Ask Tom Cates, president of The Brookeside Group, about the 'deadly F word' in business. 'It's not [...]

Palgrave Macmillan opened a new chapter in publishing with Palgrave Pivot, a revolutionary new format for peer-reviewed research that fits comfortably between a monograph and an article. The e-first initiative [...]

For librarians who are pressed for time and resources, Credo Reference has come to the rescue with Literati by Credo and Literati Public. Considering that Literati by Credo was released [...]

More authors are turning to open access (OA) journals as a way to share their research, according to a recent survey by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Wiley tracked the [...]

Go ahead; impress someone with your knowledge of America's libraries. The American Library Association fired up the presses for a new 'Quotable Facts About America's Libraries' quote card, produced in [...]

It's that time again. It's time to bid a fond farewell to 2012 and ring in another new year. It's been a year of progress (lots of new products and [...]

Getting an answer to a query may seem to be a simple task, but efficiency and speed of delivery are important parts of the equation these days. Infosys Ltd., a [...]

To gather the latest facts and figures on information literacy, the team at EasyBib went right to the source: academic librarians. In fact, more than 300 college and K-12 librarians [...]

For researchers, finding new tools that can heighten output is a good thing. That's why Elsevier B.V. stepped in to provide a new digital format that is challenging the traditional [...]

Ask any marketing guru about today's business landscape, and you're bound to hear how much the playing field has changed in recent years. After all, 77% of professional services firms [...]

Data. It's the four-letter word that every industry wrestles with daily. Whether it's Big Data, structured data, or unstructured data, this hot commodity can certainly be monetized efficiently and effectively [...]

Sept. 20, 2012, wasn't an ordinary 9to-5 day. RSI Content Solutions sponsored its sixth annual RSuite User Conference in Philadelphia for a packed audience of more than 150 attendees. After [...]

Selecting this year's winner was a tough call for the panel judging the nominees for the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award. So the panel decided to honor two individuals: One [...]

Every autumn, David Pendlebury looks forward to hearing who has won the year's Nobel Prizes. Pendlebury isn't hoping to queue up for an award himself, but he still has a [...]

Google is one company that sticks to its mission: 'to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.' Google's latest foray into the enterprise arena showcases its [...]

It's amazing how time and resources have changed the information playing field. For one, the recent presidential debates proved to be a hotbed of contention for any political misspeak, any [...]

In this era when apps are king, Tiggzi rolled out the red carpet with an all-in-one platform for do-it-yourself app builders. 'Tiggzi is more than just a cloud-based app builder,' [...]

There are big changes afoot at MetaPress, a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc. In the bad news category, Springer Science+Business Media is officially leaving MetaPress to continue its publishing endeavors [...]

It's not every day that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues a patent protecting an innovative new technology in fewer than 15 months. But that's exactly what happened [...]

Big Data keeps making headlines everywhere ... online, in print, on billboards, in conversation. And big business has been finding plenty of ways to make sense out of Big Data [...]

When Google launched its Chrome browser in 2008, Koby Menachemi, a Firefox user, developed an extension and tweeted it to his followers. By the next morning, that tweet--and the extension--had [...]

It wasn't long ago that the public library was the go-to place for lifelong learning in communities across the U.S. But declining public funding, budget cuts, and the internet had [...]

When researchers speak, Springer Science+Business Media listens. That's the core philosophy behind Springer's latest platform designed to serve the needs of corporate researchers. Springer for Research & Development (http://rd.springer.com) joins [...]

Securing only part of your IT system is like leaving a sticky note with your password on your computer monitor. Dennis Amorosano, senior director of solutions marketing and business support [...]

The Special Libraries Association (SLA) rolled out the red carpet for attendees at the SLA 2012 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO. Despite the mid-July heat, attendees met and mingled at McCormick [...]