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  • SerialsSolutions Summon

    Got a press release from SerialsSolutions yesterday about a new product they're announcing – Summon Unified Discovery Service.  A list of features can be found here.  Sounds an awful lot like their current Federated Search product, 360 Search; I wonder if this product is the result of their acquisition of WebFeat early last year? From…

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  • Hot or Not Librarians

    Ha!  My Google rank's going to go up with a headline like that!  Dave Pattern of the University of Huddersfield recently launched a new library blog-monitoring tool called HotStuff 2.0.  HotStuff 2.0 monitors the RSS feeds of over 800 library related blogs, and analyzes the content in an attempt to discover new and/or interesting topics… …

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  • Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content

    EDUCAUSE Live is offering a free one-hour presentation titled Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content. Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Mark Marino and Susan Metros, and the topic will be “Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content.” Educators have been searching for ways…

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  • Nature launches open collaborative space for Undergrads

    From boingboing comes word that Nature has launched a collaborative learning space for science Undergraduates called Scitable. "Scitable brings together a library of scientific overviews with a worldwide community of scientists, researchers, teachers, and students.  Use Scitable to: Learn about a range of scientific subjects Collaborate online with other students and teachers Publish your activities…

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  • Recommended Reading from portal: Libraries and the Academy

    Well I guess I can't actually recommend them since I haven't read them yet, but the latest issue of portal: Libraries and the Academy just came out and here are the articles I plan to read (almost the whole issue!): Google Scholar Search Performance: Comparative Recall and Precision William H. Walters pp. 5-24 HTML Version…

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