Rhode Island Feeds

According to the Google blog : The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and more—and instantly get information that’s relevant to your query. This is a critical first step towards [...]

From the press release : The curated Twitter content in Factiva covers 31 industries, including energy, financial services and technology, with a focus on the most influential tweeters from around the globe. The real time content is available via Factiva Snapshot, a business search tool with news dashboards that help businesses to [...]

From the press release: For the first time, all of Brill’s content from 20 subject specialities across three imprints (BRILL, Global Oriental and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) is integrated within a single resource. At launch, the site includes 175 journals and 2,400 e-books, equating to over 150,000 distinct articles and chapters. The new [...]

From the press release : Academic publisher Versita announced today the launch of a new program of Open Access journals. 100 Emerging Science Journals are being launched in 2012. The program's focus is on young and rapidly developing fields of science, which have not yet been covered by a designated journal. The [...]

From the press release : D&B (NYSE:   DNB   -   News ), the world’s leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses, has made available enhanced data functionality for D&B360, including company financial data, competitor information and industry research. D&B360 seamlessly integrates D&B data and other essential business information [...]

From the press release: GovDelivery, the leading provider of government-to-citizen communications solutions, announces availability of its first comprehensive guide to best practices for digital communications, highlighting the critical role of email within an integrated communications strategy. Titled "Public Sector Digital Communication Management Best Practices: The Critical Role of Email," the guide shares [...]

From the press release: EBSCO Publishing has released its first e-book subscription collection for corporations. Business Core is designed to support the learning and research needs of business professionals. The collection is available as an annual subscription with unlimited access to the content.

From a makeuseof.com article : Google has launched a free tutorial website,   Search Education , which will help students learn how to better use   Google Search   for learning and academic research. The site is aimed at both at teachers and at individual users. The company knows that while [...]

From the press release: Ex LibrisGroup, a world leader in theprovision of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that it will include the Harvard Library’s catalog records in the Ex Libris Alma Community Catalog, and Harvard’s Digital Access to Scholarship ( DASH ) article repository in the Primo Central Index of [...]

From the press release: Knowledge powerhouse ProQuest is launching an inventive new research service that provides individuals with access to premium content and cutting edge tools. Instant and on-demand, Udini bundles an extraordinary range of information, including peer-reviewed and trade journal articles, dissertations, international newswires, newspapers, magazines and more from thousands of [...]

From the press release :  CrossRef has announced FundRef, a pilot collaboration between scholarly publishers and funding agencies that will standardize the names of research funders and add grant numbers attributed in journal articles or other scholarly documents. The collaboration would allow researchers, publishers, and funding agencies to track the published research [...]

According to a Pew Report : In a survey of 799 teens conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project between April 19 and July 14, 2011, the teens were asked about a number of online behaviors. The results for video-oriented activities are reported here. Among the findings: [...]

From the press release: LinkedIn , the world’s largest professional network with more than 150 million members worldwide, today released data about professionals’ attitudes toward career negotiations like asking for a raise or closing a business deal. LinkedIn surveyed more than 2,000 professionals globally for the study. The study shows a direct [...]

From the press release: LexisNexis ( www.lexisnexis.com ), a leading provider of content and technology solutions, announced today enhancements to its LexisNexis ®  CounselLink ®  legal software that make it easier for corporate legal teams to capture, organize and share critical case and matter details. Among these enhancements are a new matter [...]

From the press release: Factiva has significantly extended its reach in Asia with the launch of Korean-language coverage and the addition of several leading South Korean news publications. Factiva will now include content from Maeil Business Newspaper, The Herald Business and Korea Newswire.  Content from JoongAng Ilbo, JoongAng Sunday and Economist, [...]

From the press release: According to a new study released today by the Center for Women and Work (CWW) at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and the National Partnership for Women & Families, public policies can substantially increase workers’ utilization of paid leave as well as the duration of leave [...]

According to the Tapjoy website: In partnership with research firm Interpret, Tapjoy sought to generate insights about the value of advertising campaigns in apps and understand the attitudes, behaviors, engagement levels, motivations, psychographics and purchase intent of app users and smartphone gamers. The  Tapjoy APPitude Report found that consumers are embracing incentivized [...]

Source: Guardian (UK)  This is an excellent series of highly topical articles on the current state and possible future directions of the Internet. In-depth pieces cover such subjects as social media, privacy, Big Data, intellectual property and the political use of the Net by both governments and activists. The week of articles [...]

From the Digital Shift : Harvard is making more than 12 million catalog records from its 73 libraries publicly available under a Creative Commons public domain license. The records contain bibliographic information about books, videos, audio recordings, images, manuscripts, maps, and more, including creator, title, publisher, date, language, and subject headings, [...]

From the press release : LexisNexis ( www.lexisnexis.com ) announced that it boosted content on its Nexis ® service with the addition of popular online news site MailOnline. With an average monthly audience of 98.7 million, MailOnline is recognised as the world’s number one newspaper site, pulling all the latest news, sport, [...]