In the news: Copyright Alert System launched; Europeana’s Newspapers begins its 2nd year; British National Formulary information available via DynaMed; Georgia Archives transfer to university system one step closer; Wolters Kluwer Health and AALTCN partner; OverDrive announces library eBook leaders for 2012 and LibLime Academic Koha 5.2 debuts.
Copyright Alert System to Warn, Then Punish, Peer-to-Peer File Sharing 
Information Today reports that “after months of delays, a coalition of content providers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) launched the Copyright Alert System, a “six strikes” structure that will notify, then potentially punish users for illegal file sharing. The system works through the monitoring of peer-to-peer file sharing services by content providers, who in turn will notify ISPs, who will send warnings to their account holders…
Europeana’s Newspaper Project Begins Its Second Year
Citing a Europeana-Newspapers.eu News Review of the First Year, InfoDOCKET reports that “Europeana Newspapers is planning to digitize more than 18 million newspaper pages. The project recently completed its first year of work and a meeting was held at the National Library of France (BNF)…”
Clinicians in the United Kingdom can now access authoritative and trusted guidance on the selection and use of medicines from the British National Formulary (BNF) directly from DynaMed … EBSCO Publishing announced that DynaMed drug topics now include links to the corresponding BNF topics which can be accessed by BNF subscribers…”
Georgia Archives Transfer to University System One Step Closer
InfoDOCKET also reports from an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that “the University System of Georgia moved closer to managing the Georgia Archives under a bill the Senate Higher Education Committee passed Wednesday. House Bill 287 would transfer the archives from the Secretary of State’s Office, where the program faced steep cuts because of lagging state revenue…”
Wolters Kluwer Health “announced a collaboration between Lippincott’s Nursing Solutions and the American Association of Long Term Care Nursing (AALTCN) to develop a new point-of-care support solution for nurses working in nursing homes and other long-term care settings. The collaboration is creating a new category of the Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills product designed to meet the needs of long-term care (LTC) nurses…”
OverDrive Announces Library eBook Leaders for 2012
OverDrive has “released data highlighting the libraries and schools within its worldwide network achieving the greatest growth and exposure for their eBook and audiobook catalogs. During 2012, hundreds of millions of online visitors turned to their libraries’ … eBook catalogs… These readers generated over 2.7 billion page views at 22,000 libraries and schools across the OverDrive network… OverDrive selected Library eBook Leaders based on data available to all partner schools and libraries in Content Reserve, the distributor’s collection development portal…”
LibLime announces the production release of LibLime Academic Koha 5.2. which was developed with “the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization (WALDO) group with whom LibLime enjoys working and with whom we look forward to a continued professional partnership in years to come. The arrival of Academic Koha 5.2 includes substantial changes to the application…”
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