News Roundup
1. MIT President Sends Letter to Faculty Regarding the Future of MIT OpenCourseWare (via MIT News)
2. Students Can Now Save on Their Student Loans with Amazon Prime (via Reuters) ||| Additional Details (via Wells Fargo)3
3. Google Play Books Launches “Bubble Zoom”, a New Way to Read Digital Comics on Phones and Tablets (via Official Android Blog) ||| Coverage via The Verge
4. Dictionary.com Updated with 300+ New Words, Revises Over 1,700 Entries (via Dictionary.com)
5. Oxford Dictionaries Adds Words: “Upstander, Turtle Island, and Tink: an Oxford Dictionaries Update” (via Oxford Dictionaries Blog)
6. Atypon Makes Significant Enhancements to Its Online Publishing Platform
7. Duke University Libraries Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Twentieth-Century Folk Music (via Duke Libraries Magazine)
Filed under: Funding, Libraries, News, Publishing, Roundup
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.
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