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Information With A Twist
Carol Tenopir, Gayle Baker, & Jill E. Grogg write about vendors who are incorporating 2.0 features to enhance their products and services in the May 15th issue of Library Journal. The article explores new Web offerings from publishers and service providers from OCLC to JSTOR who are rolling out everything from search widgets, Ebooks, RSS feeds, and social networking initiatives to multiple language support and mobile access.
“Although information companies continue to worry about competition from free search engines and user-generated services, many are adapting or fighting back by expanding content and features to make their products stand above the competition. In a year when Newsweek highlighted “The Revenge of the Experts” (www.newsweek.com/id/119091/output/print), authoritative high-quality information enhanced with multimedia content, mobile access, social collaboration, and prepackaged searches all made this year’s information industry party on.”
