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The article focuses on credibility lent by the U.S. midterm election of 2022 to theory suggested for Polling data. Topics discussed include Grand Old Party (GOP) wave sweep of federal Senate and House race, consideration of the survey methodology being used by several organizations, and plus or minus margin of errors stated by several posts.

The article offers information on collaborations and initiatives in the education and academic sectors. TeachingBooks and The Library Corporation (TLC) have partnered to provide users of TLC's LS2 PAC or LS2 Kids catalogs within Library•Solution for Schools access to TeachingBooks' online resources, including video book trailers and author interviews.

This section offers news briefs pertaining to the information industry as of July 1, 2022. The Palace Project has added content from OverDrive to its application software. SAGE has signed its first open access agreement with Penn State University. The Digital Public Library of America has published the free electronic book "The Covid Archive:L A Finding Aid to Government Documents Related to the Covid19 Pandemic."

The article informs about several news sites including Beautiful News Daily, and the Upside. Topics include Beautiful News Daily, project of Information is Beautiful, which is a data visualization producer and consultancy, and was founded in 2008 by David McCandless, an author, and visualization software developer; and the Upside, a project of the British newspaper The Guardian, which covers world news from a progressive point of view.

The article presents news concerning information industry products. It states that information services company Gale, a part of Cengage Learning has released its Classroom in Context curriculum-based resources. It mentions that library customers will now be able to use information aggregator EBSCO Publishing to access millions of images from the Associated Press. It comments that online reference content company Credo Reference has expanded agreements with other publishers to offer more titles.

The article focuses on the use of user feedback in the development of agile workflow and platform products. President Karen Abramson of health sciences database company Ovid Technologies comments on the need for users to access content at the point of use and suggests customers are driving the product development process. Erik Lindberg, director of new product development at business data provider Thomson Reuters, talks about how the tablet computer iPad was embraced by attorneys.

The article discusses the benefits of customized workflows to scientific researchers, financial analysts and legal professionals. The strength of such workflow systems is attributed to its reliance on the feedback from industry-specific information professionals. One of the features of Factiva workflow modules is its customizable news alerts. It mentions the effort of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) software developer GenoLogics to improve its user interface.

This section provides news briefs on the information services industry as of December 2010. Serials Solutions has enhanced its 360 services suite for discovery. ISYS Search Software plans to update its text extraction, printing and viewing platform. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) plans to introduce its IEEE eLearning Library.

This section offers news briefs on the information services industry as of December 2010. Springer will start publishing the official journal of the Chinese Meteorological Society called "Acta Meteorologica Sinica." WikiLeaks released classified military documents known as "The Iraq War Logs." Credo Reference has decided to offer titles from Berg Publishers on its Credo Platform.

Presents an article about the professional issues faced by a journalists and at the same time a librarian. Comparison of the services provided by a journalist and a librarian; Advantages sought by information vendors in dealing with journalists; Disadvantages faced by information vendors; Ways for an information vendor to succeed when dealing with the press.

The article offers news briefs related to electronic devices as December 2013. It offers information on the partnership of Ingram Content Group Inc. with Chicago Public Library to develop patron-driven acquisition (PDA) program. It mentions that ByWater Solutions launched an OverDrive, search engine. It mentions that the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) focuses on the termination of the World News Connection.

This section offers news briefs related to the information services industry. Northern Light has been granted U.S. patent No. 7,877,344 for its meaning extraction technology embedded in its SinglePoint strategic research portals. AOL Inc. has purchased the online news site The Huffington Post for 315 million U.S. dollars. John Wiley & Sons Inc. has launched its Wiley Open Access publishing program for open access (OA) journals.

The article focuses on the activities and responsibilities of Scott Schulman as president of corporate markets at Dow Jones & Co. He manages all the business information services being offered by the company to outside enterprises. According to Schulman, he focuses on ensuring that the company delivers the right content to users in their preferred format to help businesspeople and consumers make good business decisions.

The article presents news briefs related to libraries. Topics discussed include information on licensing agreement of RBmedia with Princeton University to offer 120-plus titles as audiobooks; Food and Drink in History History, a new digital collection by Adam Matthew Digital; and AncestryHealth by Ancestry.

The article offers science news briefs. NISO (National Information Standards Organization) will host the NISO Plus Conference, an event scheduled for February 23-25, 2020. The Urban Libraries Council (ULC) rolled out a Leadership Brief, "Libraries Leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Citizenship." Thieme founded a joint venture with Area9, a learning technology specialist.

Statistics are presented regarding the number of U.S. adults who believe that fake news stories, percentage by which the newspaper workforce has contracted in the past 20 years and position of Pokémon GO in the list of the most downloaded apps worldwide from Apple's App Store.

The article reviews several web sites including News Deeply located at www.newsdeeply.com, Syria Deeply located at www.syriadeeply.org, and Ebola Deeply located at eboladeeply.org.

In the article, the author discusses how U.S. legacy media, print age news providers, are adapting by creating digital news called fact sites including "The Washington Post's" Wonkblog, "The New York Times'" The Upshot, and Bloomberg's Quicktake. It presents a description common to fact sites which include using quantitative data and interpretive graphics, having lots of link, and covering wide variety of subjects.

The article reviews the news web site Vox, located at www.vox.com.

The article reports that infrastructure of motivation for fakery is being challenged, and new sources for truth have emerged. Topics discussed include information on an article in the newspaper "USA Today" regarding developing technology and social incentives to reward legitimate aggregators and news publications; adverse impact of fake news over basic facts; and information on the social-media driven reverse boycott.

The author discusses Internet news services as of November 2013, arguing that although services such as FlipBook and Pulse provide news headlines for user browsing, it is more difficult to search for specific news stories than at any time since 2003. News services such as The Big Project news dashboard and the NewsNow aggregator are mentioned.

The article reports on an article by Roger Yu in the March 12, 2013 issue of "USA Today" which was concerned with a decision which Condé Nast made to develop an original web video series. A discussion of the web site LinkledIn's 2013 acquisition of the mobile device application Pulse and 2012 acquisition of the content sharing web site Slideshare.com is presented. In the article the author offers his opinions on slideshare.com and Pulse.

The article reviews the news databases Newsy and BreakingNews.

The article discusses the use of push technology in searching for content online. Push technology is linked to the notion of a standing query. The Google push system involves using information from the browser profile and the location profile of the user, formulating a query, obtaining the results and queuing those data before making them available automatically to the user.

The article reviews the National Public Radio web site, located at www.npr.org.

The article reports that CEO (chief executive officer) of SourceMedia Douglas J. Manoni has been awarded with the 30 McAllister Top Management Fellowship which helps an executive to become a teacher and 18 candidates were selected to attend HighWire Academy, a software engineering training program.

The article identifies fact-checking websites for the U.S. election 2016. It provides an overview of the journalism and research website PolitiFact, d FackCheck.org, a project of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center, and LivingVotersGuide.org, a partnership between the Seattle CityClub and a team of computer science and political science researchers at the University of Washington and librarians.

The article offers information on the LexisNexis Newsdesk media monitoring solution from computer-assisted legal research firm LexisNexis.

Focuses on licensing agreements of two companies with Ovid Technologies. Oxford University Press (OUP) to offer electronic full-text via Journals@Ovid online database; Deal with the British Library's Health Care Information Service to offer its AMED database; Details of the agreements.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports including an interview with ProQuest Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kurt Sanford and ITI VP of content Dick Kaser, a reports on the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and the highlights of VALA2014 conference and exhibition which took place in Melbourne, Victoria.

The article offers information on the Northern Light Business News portal from Northern Light, strategic research portal company.

The article discusses the Storify company the provides tools for the repackaging of information collected on social networks. Topics include the company founders Xavier Damman and Burt Herman, the pricing of Storify Business services, and the use of Storify services in the publication of news stories as of 2013.

The article profiles Delve, a company which has Sandeep Ayyappan as its chief executive officer and personalizes news to user needs by combining news feeds with social connections and recommendations for news stories related to several industries, including technology, energy and health care. A profile of each of the individuals who work for Delve is presented.

The article profiles the company NewsLook Inc, a company which supplies publishers with high quality video content to enhance the user experience and was created by entrepreneur Fred Silverman. A CODiE award which the company received in 2013 from the Software & Information Industry Association in the content division for the Best Video Platform for Media & Publishers is discussed.

The editor discusses the contributions of the periodical's writers and columnists, with particular focus on a report within the issue by K. Matthew Dames about intellectual property and copyright issues related to library digital content.

The article notes blog postings for March 1, 2013 which focus on Dysart & Jones consultancy's hiring of information professionals Juanita Richardson and Stephen Abram, a survey suggesting economic growth in the information industry, and a "bookless library" being built in Texas.

A calendar of events for information industry events in July, August and September of 2012 is presented, including the International Conference on Libraries in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia on July 2-4, the 2012 Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO in Chicago, Illinois on July 15-18, and the 23rd Annual DEXA Conference in Vienna, Austria on September 3-7.

The article evaluates the iSyndicate content delivery service by information delivery company YellowBrix Inc.

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the author discusses various reports published within the issue including one on the legal digitizing of content by a company, one on legal monitoring of an employee's email, and one on things to know about location-based services (LBS).

The article discusses the highlights of the Semantic Web Media Summit held in New York on September 14, 2011. An overview of the semantic web and its relationships with content was provided by Michael Dunn, vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) of Hearst Interactive Media. OpenAmplify co-founder and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Mike Petit noted the challenges of maximizing revenue opportunities. Information on the rNews digital standard is also provided.

The article presents an update on the technology industry as of September 2011. The social network Google+ has been launched by Google. Swedish streaming service Spotify entered into agreements with major music publishers in the U.S. and unveiled its operation in the country. CNN has decided to venture into the streaming video business by offering live video streams of CNN and Headline News (HLN) on CNN.com and video application software (apps).

The article examines developments in cloud computing in the U.S. as of September 2011. Customers were able to store music securely in the cloud following the launch of Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Player for Web and Amazon Cloud Player for Android smartphones. The free web services hub iCloud was unveiled by Apple. The DuraCloud open source platform was introduced by the nonprofit organization DuraSpace in May.

The article discusses two issues related to the information industry in July 2011. It includes the decision of the successful retail company Kathmandu to turn to Intranet DASHBOARD (iD) to enhance its overall operational efficiency in readiness for ongoing success and growth. It also mentions Susanne Bjørner's review of the background information provided by BBC News Country Profiles. The enormous value of Kathmandu's intranet is also discussed.

The article deals with how the U.S. press covers the increasingly important global intellectual property debate. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and Copyright Term Extension Act played a role in the increased coverage. The DMCA was the last major overhaul of domestic copyright law and, along with the Clinton administration's National Information Infrastructure White Paper (1995), helped frame intellectual property law as vital to the U.S. technological and commercial future. The press' failure to accurately report intellectual property issues has various repercussions.

This article presents updates about Project MUSE as of September 2005. Project MUSE is now compliant with Athens authentication. As a result, users affiliated with Great Britain institutions that subscribe to both Project MUSE and Athens can now access the full text of journals that MUSE hosts from a variety of locations. In other news, Project MUSE announced the development of a sixth journal collection, the Premium Collection. The collection, which is expected to be available in 2006, will offer more than 25 additional journals from both current and new publishers. Project MUSE also announced that it is depositing metadata into the CrossRef database. Project MUSE subscribers will be able to read full-text articles from the CrossRef site; nonsubscribers will be able to view citations only.

Reports that RoweCom has announced the addition of content from Oxford University Press, CABI Publishing, and the Nature Publishing Group into its Information Quest resource as of January, 2001. Addition of scientific and medical publications from Oxford; Abstracts of agriculture and bioscience articles from CABI; Increase in the number of journals available from the Nature Publishing Group.

Focuses on news relating to the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). Linking of references in American Chemical Society (ACS) journals to CAS databases; The announcement that Stanford University's High Wire Press is increasing the number of journals available in the ChemPort Connection; Details of the announcements.

Reports that COMTEX Scientific Corporation will distribute content from three Associated Press (AP) news products. Enhancement of COMTEX's categorized newswires; Services provided by COMTEX, and how the AP deal will affect them; Views of AP's Thomas R. Brettingen.

Focuses on LEXIS-NEXIS in October of 1998. The addition of the Associated Press (AP) State Wire archive to the LEXIS-NEXIS online service; What the AP State Wire archive contains; How LEXIS-NEXIS is the only service which includes the AP State Wire archive; The acquisition by the company of Matthew Bender & Co. and SHEPARD'S Co.; What LEXIS-NEXIS gains through its acquisitions.