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Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution
SPARC and Science Commons have released “Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution.” The new white paper assists institutions in adopting policies that ensure the widest practical exposure for scholarly works produced, such as that adopted by the Harvard Faculty of Arts…
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Library Use of E-books, 2008-09 Edition
From their press release: Primary Research Group has published Library Use of E-books, 2008-09 Edition, (isbn 1-57440-101-7). Data in the report is based on a survey of 75 academic, public and special libraries. Librarians detail their plans on how they plan to develop their e-book collections, what they think of e-book readers and software, and…
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Boolify
Nothing earthshattering, but an Boolify is interesting little site that might help some conceptualize the concept of boolean operators. Librarians, teachers and parents have told us how hard it is for students to understand web searching. Boolify makes it easier to for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search,…