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$19.1 million for new Canadian desktop access
Yesterday “the Canada Foundation for Innovation announced a $19.1 million investment to support the development of a new infrastructure for social sciences and humanities research. The funds were awarded to the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) — a consortium of Canadian universities that provides its members with desktop access to a wide range of research…
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Research behind the news
The Auraria Library (CU Denver) Research Behind the News weblog was mentioned the other day on Web4Lib; what a great idea! I usually read the paper during breakfast and at least once a week read the AP sanitized version of some breaking research and wonder about the full paper. In fact that’s where I originally…
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One of these things is not like the others
SDI Originally uploaded by ppival. So I get an alert from Ingenta whenever they’ve got new content that matches the string distance and librar* – you may be interested to know that the proceedings from last year’s OffCamp conference have now all been republished in the Journal of Library Administration (as per this screen shot).…
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Show off Vista with a Library example
I’m not planning on installing Vista anytime soon, but if you happen to have access to a new Vista machine you should take a look at the updated version of British Library Turning The Pages. The application developer, Tim Sneath, makes it sound like a pretty nice thing to behold! (btw, the WPF mentioned by…
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How to export citations from Google Scholar
Speaking of remembering to cite your sources, there’s actually some useful content at the Google Librarian Central Blog! Ben Bunnell, Library Partnerships Manager, has a post about how to make sure you see the option to export citations from Google Scholar (not a new feature, but new to me). Also interesting to me is that…