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EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has purchased NISC, Inc., provider of refined subject area databases.

The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and Google have announced a settlement agreement on behalf of authors and publishers worldwide that would expand online access to in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections of a number of U.S. libraries participating in Google Book Search.

Brightcove Inc. and AOL announced AOL will adopt Brightcove for online video content management, publishing, and video playback throughout the AOL Network.

LexisNexis, a global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions, announced that it has acquired IDEX, Inc., a provider of expert witness content to the legal market.

Open Text Corporation, a provider of enterprise content management (ECM), announced a new release of its Web Solutions that gives enterprises new capabilities to deploy intranets, extranets, and Enterprise 2.0 solutions.

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the release of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0.

Huddle.net has announced a team collaboration and project management application for the LinkedIn business social network.

Elsevier, a publisher of scientific, medical, and technical products and services, announced the newest upgrade to illumin8, a web-based semantic text-mining solution designed to help corporate research professionals answer R&D questions.