Professional Reading Shelf
Privacy
Information Industry–LexisNexis
Reed Elsevier’s LexisNexis Hacked
“Reed Elsevier PLC said LexisNexis, its global legal and business information business, has identified several incidents of potentially fraudulent access to information about U.S. individuals at its recently acquired Seisint unit.”
See Also: Full Text of LN News Release
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Reference Reviews
Peter’s Digital Reference Shelf, March 2005 Is Now Online
This month Dr. Jacso reviews:
Gale Virtual Reference Library 2.0
“The largest digital collection of unabridged encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, almanacs and other references features a new interface, intuitive searching and � la carte choices of more than 310 volumes of information-rich eBooks (as of mid-February).”
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ITI Info Central
“This archive of articles, reviews, columns, commentaries, letters to the editors and other materials from widely circulating professional journals offers various options from pay-as-you-go to yearly subscription packages.”
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Scholarly Publishing
American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles
“The American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society, is broadening access to research articles published in its 33 scholarly journals. The Society is introducing two new experimental policies that define how readers can view free digital versions of ACS articles beginning one year after publication.”

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