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EZproxy acquired by OCLC
Wow! http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200690.htm
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EZProxy Find and Replace: when the vendor says they can’t…
Earlier this week we switched to the new interface for OvidSP (an attempt, I believe, at integrating the Silver Platter (SP) platform into Ovid). It’s nice, but the default configuration includes a Basic Search table, an Ovid Syntax tab, and a SilverPlatter Syntax tab. Ovid Syntax and SilverPlatter Syntax don’t mean anything to our users,…
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NewsGator now free
“…NewsGator also announced that all of its client RSS reader products are now available free of charge and include free synchronization along with other services.” Full press release here. Might have to give them a looksee – I seem to recall that one of our databases only allows RSS feeds to work within Newsgator –…
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Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Students
Posted to the Web4Lib mailing group: Primary Research Group (http://www.primaryreserch.com/) is planning to publish a survey of college libraries that provide library services to distance learning students. This survey is open to accredited colleges from all countries. Participants receive a free PDF copy of the estimated 100-page report. Data is broken out by type and…
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Followup on Facebook Advertising
A month ago I offered my initial thoughts on the University of Calgary’s experiment with placing social ads within Facebook. Here are the results of our second round of advertising, where we switched the content of the ads to see if students seemed to be responding more to the type of ad or the content…