Axel Springer signed an agreement to acquire POLITICO, Nexstar acquired digital media platform The Hill, and Forbes merged with the special interest acquisition company Magnum Opus Acquisition Ltd.
Posted 07 September 2021
As part of a long-term strategy by Clarivate to remove friction from IP management processes by connecting the IP ecosystem, Clavivate Plc plans to integrate its trademark portfolio databases. It says this will reduce manual data entry efforts to help customers save time and increase data quality.
Posted 03 August 2021
Two Google initiatives over the past few months resonate particularly well with information professionals. Google Scholar added a "Public access" section to track and manage public access mandates and Google Search can now detect when a topic is rapidly evolving and warn people to check back late.
Posted 06 July 2021
DeepDyve announced the availability of the DeepDyve Digital Library, a fully integrated platform aimed at helping research organisations discover, access and manage research papers. The Digital Library is a one-stop platform designed for small to medium-sized teams and organizations needing easy and affordable solutions for reading and organizing scientific papers. Although the press release states that this product doesn't need information professionals or IT staff, it should be on the radar screen of librarians, particularly those in smaller, poorly-funded institutions and companies.
Posted 04 May 2021
Suite of solutions designed to improve patient-centered outcomes, increase patient engagement and support value-based care
Posted 05 January 2021
Yewno, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence solutions, announced the enhancement of the Yewno Discover research platform to include news content.
Posted 05 January 2021
The Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) Inspec database has reached over 20 million indexed records throughout its 50-year history.
Posted 01 December 2020
Law firms around the world can now expand their legal research by uploading their own documents to vLex Cloud and combine their knowledge with vLex's global collection of legal information to create a research resource personalised to the needs of the firm and their clients.
Posted 03 November 2020
Clarivate Plc launched the Arabic Citation Index (ARCI), the world's first local language citation index.
Posted 01 September 2020
Google's latest annual spam report said its preventative spam efforts resulted in over 99% of search results being spam-free and that it found 25 billion pages discovered every day are spammy.
Posted 07 July 2020
ProQuest's platform enhancements that make subscription and open access content readily searchable on the open web reveals a volume and variety of source material of benefit to students, teachers and the general public.
Posted 07 July 2020
In order to adapt the current strategy and organisational scheme to the priorities and realities of the Qwant search engine, a new leadership team is now in place.
Posted 04 June 2020
Authorities found Apple guilty of a series of anti-competitive practices.
Posted 17 March 2020
Marydee Ojala shares some search tips from the session she prepared for the (postponed) Computers in Libraries conference.
Posted 17 March 2020
Facebook will remove videos modified by AI and designed to deceive.
Posted 08 January 2020
NAISC-L (pronounced noshk) provides a four-step method for creating an Interlink. Information professionals are invited to participate in the final evaluation phase.
Posted 01 January 2020
New features added to enhance the Internet Archive music experience.
Posted 18 October 2019
The move means it won't be paying publishers for search results.
Posted 02 October 2019
UKeiG has announced the date and topic for the fifth annual Tony Strix Memorial Lecture.
Posted 02 October 2019
The Census Bureau's statistics and information search engine is being retired.
Posted 22 September 2019
Tens of thousands of apps and hundreds of developers affected.
Posted 22 September 2019
Nominations invited for 'Taxonomy Success of the Year' and 'Taxonomy Practitioner of the Year'
Posted 22 July 2019
3.5 billion people are using social media; half the world population watches online video; emoji usage continues to grow.
Posted 18 July 2019
Google has confirmed it has terminated development of its controversial censored Chinese search engine.
Posted 18 July 2019
Google is to appeal EU antitrust fine.
Posted 06 June 2019