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‘Abortion’ is a stop word!
Holy crap! Article from The Chronicle of Higher Ed describing how the word ‘abortion’ is now a stopword in the Popline database. Meaning you can’t search for it. That’s insane! oooh, except if you go now, you CAN search on that word. Yay for the interwebs! Technorati Tags: censorship
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Why Copyright? Michael Geist at the University of Calgary
Earlier this week, Dr. Michael Geist spoke here at the University of Calgary, on copyright, of course. The title of his talk was Why Copyright? and was a discussion of both why copyright is a hot topic in Canada right now, and why it should be a hot topic. With his permission, I recorded the…
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OvidSP Platform Enhancements
The Krafty Librarian reports that in response to customer feedback, OvidSP will be introducing some platform enhancements on Monday, March 31. Looks like some good tweaks, though no mention of the ability to tweak the OvidSP Tip box. Technorati Tags: OvidSP
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The Sub Prime meltdown explained (twice)
Two different ways to explain the same weird situation – which one works better for you? PBS NewsHour (thanks for the link Dad)The Subprime Primer, explained by Stick Men (contains potentially offensive language) Hope not too many of you are directly caught in this mess :-/