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JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT)
I recently learned through a colleague of this wonderful database comparison tool from JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) in the UK – the Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT). “This site from JISC Collections aims to help libraries to make informed decisions about future subscriptions to bibliographic and full text databases.” You can use it to…
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Sol on Discovering Discovery Services
Over at the Federated Search Blog, Sol has a great post called Discovering discovery services, where he explains what these new search products are, how they work, and how they differ from Federated Search. I’ll be including a link to this post when I introduce and open up our beta of Summon to our full…
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RenewBot vs Library Elf
Fight! (I looked, but couldn't find a picture of a robot fighting an elf) I just discovered RenewBot, which will automatically renew your library books X # of days before they come due, where X is set by you. First two months are free, then if you want to continue it'll cost $2.99 per year…
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No place for state in our hard drives?
U of Calgary affiliate Kris Kotarski has a thought-provoking op-ed in the Calgary Herald about the Copyright/DRM debate that’s about to be reborn here in Canada. “Simply put, if society settles on laws enforcing copyright provisions such as a ban on breaking DRM locks on CDs and DVDs, or taking down SIM locks on cellular…