| NEWS BRIEFS |
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Springer Science+Business
Media Changes Hands, Signs Agreement 
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Thomson
Reuters Acquires Discovery Logic, Inc. |
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EU
Ends Microsoft Antitrust Case |
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Twitter
Tests Business Features |
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Swets
Partners With OHIONET  |
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NewsMakers
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| FEATURES |
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A
Prophet Whose Time Has Come  
Richard Poynder chats with Stevan Harnad, one of the founding fathers
of the open access movement.
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OA Highlights in 2009 
by Richard Poynder
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A Happy Medium: Ebooks, Licensing, and DRM 
Piracy, copyright, and licensing
issues are making ebook ownership more perilous than we may think.
by Kurt Schiller
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Intel Lawsuit Tests
Competition Limits
The noted microprocessor manufacturer may pay the price for reportedly
trying to blur the distinction between competition and monopolization.
by George H. Pike
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Cablevision
Case Promises New Copyright Battles Over Technology 
Cablevision has won its remote DVR lawsuit on appeal, but is the ruling
a harbinger of a new set of
digital rights court battles for the future?
by Scott Bain |
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Life
at the Financial Times: A Chat With Caspar de Bono 
by Barbara Brynko
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Outsell
Scout Analytics: A Strategic Partnership 
by Barbara Brynko
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| NEWS |
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NewsBytes
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NewsBreak Update
Experiments in Content
Distribution—News, Ebooks, POD, and Legal Resources
by Paula J. Hane
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NewsMakers
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Product
News & Reviews
35 - Amazon Unveils Variable
Cloud Pricing Scheme 
36 - Thomson Reuters: Perfecting
the Profile 
37 - SciVal Spotlight Illuminates
Research Strengths |
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| COLUMNS |
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Focus on Publishing
Open Government = Open
Access? 
Robin Peek examines whether the
Obama administration’s move toward government transparency will provide
a boost for the OA movement.
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Internet
Waves
Falling in Love With
Technology Once Again 
Shirley Duglin Kennedy gives 20
reasons why getting an iPhone is much the same as a second honeymoon
with technology.
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Legal Issues
The FTC Looks at the
News 
George H. Pike explores the
Federal Trade Commission’s view about copyright and aggregation.
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Intellectual Property
Citizens Now Are Copyright
Stakeholders 
K. Matthew Dames explains why
copyright, which was once only a commercial issue, now concerns the
public at large.
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Insider’s
Perspective
Moving Target: Understanding
Customer Demand 
Matthew Shanahan, senior vice
president of strategy at Scout Analytics, explains how a
service-oriented market changes how companies must measure demand.
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Database
Review
BUDDIE Turns Over the Rocks 
Mick O’Leary reveals the winner
of the 2009 BUDDIE award for best unknown database.
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| DEPARTMENTS |
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Up Front
With Barbara Quint
Data Erosion:
Librarians on the Lookout 
bq predicts the future for
content vendors in “the Mother of All Tough Times.”
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IT Spotlight
SambaStream Ready to
Push Content Management Into the Cloud 
Marji McClure takes a look at a
company with a content management system that gets back to the basics.
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Editorial
Va-Va-Va-Video: Thinking Like
Jose 
by Dick Kaser
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Letter from the Editor
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International
Report
Tracing 350 Years of Discovery 
Our global correspondent tracks
the history of human information exchange dating from the 17th century.
by Jim Ashling
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| CONFERENCE
CIRCUIT |
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Library and Information
Science Conferences Prominent in March 
Donald T. Hawkins provides a
sneak preview of the industry’s upcoming conferences.
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| Conferences
Around the World |
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Information
Today, Inc.’s Conference Dates
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| LinkUp@Home |
| Visit Link-Up
Digital for additional Web-only content! |
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Visit This Site
for Questions or Answers 
by Thomas Pack
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Cybersports
Tiger Not Out
of Woods or Our Computer Screens
by David King
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| COVER NOTES |
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Book Review
Taking a Bite Out of
Marketing 
Bite-Sized Marketing:
Realistic Solutions for the Overworked Librarian
by Nancy Dowd, Mary Evangeliste, and Jonathan Silberman
reviewed by Gwen M. Gregory
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Words at Work
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The ITI Chronicles
Linking Up and Out 
Lauree Padgett traces the
history of ITI as the company celebrates its 30th anniversary.
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