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Some highlights from the ALA Midwinter meeting of the Lexis-Nexis Content
Advisory Committee meeting:<br><br>
1. <i>Le Monde</i> negotiations are still underway. The French branch of
LN is responsible for that. LN is planning to get the content back in
2006 and is optimistic about its return.<br>
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2<i>. FAZ</i> (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) mystery has been
unraveled. This title was taken down from LNA by mistake; there was
confusion about what could go into the US academic market versus the
German academic market. Work is underway within LN to get this
corrected.<br><br>
3. The October market research survey reached ~ 4,000 people and provided
a mandate for changing the product; the company will be hiring a product
manager who will be attending Content Advisory Committee meetings.
The intent of the company is to move forward with a redesign to address
as many of the customers’ needs as possible. 3 priorities have
emerged: open url/link resolver support; enabling searching against all
content, and federated searching. Having bibliographic or citation
manager functionality (like EndNote, Pro-Cite, RefWorks, or “EasyBib”) is
a priority.<br><br>
-Sue <br><br>
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Suzanne Lorimer<br>
Coordinator of Research Services<br>
Research Services and Collections Department<br>
226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
130 Wall Street<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
(phone) 203-432-8371 (fax) 203-432-8527<br>
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"In the Information Economy everything is plentiful - except
attention."<br>
<font size=2>Bruce Sterling, Speech to the Library Information
Technology Association, 1992<br>
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