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Publish, Not Perish: The Art & Craft of Publishing in Scholarly Journals
Awarded the August 2007 PRIMO Site of the Month, Publish, Not Perish is an online tutorial written by librarians at the University of Colorado, Boulder. “In this course you will learn to: Describe the role of scholarly publishing in an academic career List the essential steps of planning and writing a scholarly paper. Develop a…
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CFP: Special Innovate Issue on Multi-User Virtual Environments
No specific mention of library application in this CFP, but let’s hear from some of you Second Lifers: Innovate, published as a public service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services and sponsored, in part, by Microsoft is soliciting manuscripts for a special issue on academics in virtual environments. This issue focuses on…
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Survey on trends in document delivery for distance education
Michele D. Behr writes to the OFFCAMP list: For a presentation at the upcoming Off Campus Library Services Conference we are researching trends in document delivery fordistance learners. We are investigating factors that may impact use of document delivery services, i.e. level of automation, marketingefforts, number of electronic journal subscriptions and e-books, etc. We have…
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R-mail now SendMeRSS
R-mail, one of the first RSS to Email utilities I really liked, was acquired earlier this year by NBC, of all things. After quite a bit of development work, R-mail has now been re-introduced as SendMeRSS. Site looks really slick, and if you click on the banner at the top of the page (only later…
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WikipediaVision
Found a link to this on the ResearchBuzz blog: WikipediaVision allows you to see in almost real-time, random English-language edits to WikiPedia according to where they happen on Google Maps. When you watch it in real time it gives you about 5-8 seconds or so to read the title of the entry that’s being edited,…
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