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Followup: A preliminary assessment of Google Scholar as a source of EAP students’ research materials
Just a quick followup to my Jan 25 post about this article – it’s now in print, though still nowhere to be seen in the U of T Institutional Repository 🙁 Helms-Park, R., Radia, P., & Stapleton, P. (2007). A preliminary assessment of Google Scholar as a source of EAP students’ research materials. The Internet…
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Co-Browsing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide
Ahhh, how time flies. It was just about two years ago that my fellow bibliobloggers and I were agog over the co-browsing potential shown by a product called Jybe. Just visited their website and it’s all gone – hope the developers have moved on to other good things – they seemed like good guys. Anyhoo,…
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EBSCO to deliver blog content
Sorry I couldn’t come up with anything more original than David Rothman’s original title, but that pretty much spells it out. What an interesting idea. David posts about a press release in which EBSCO and Newstex announce that EBSCO databases will begin delivering selected blog content alongside standard search results. Sure hope one can easily…
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New York TimesSelect available to students and faculty in Canada too
I was mildly cheesed when I read the announcements last week that the NY TimesSelect service was going be offered for free to students and faculty with a .edu email address, ’cause here in Canada we don’t have that domain. But then I thought I’d check and see so at least I’d have proof when…
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She hearts ILL
LIS News points to a great piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education in which Professor Susanna Ashton tells the academic world how great ILL is in the US. In my limited experience, pretty much everything she says is true of ILL in Canada as well. A good read, and positive quotes from Michael Gorman…