Category: Books
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OCLC’s Data Visualization Pilot with Antarctica Systems Inc.
This is pretty neat. I’ve seen other pilots of Antarctica’s visual catalogue interface before, but this is the first one I’ve seen that attempts to lead you to an online version of the book in question. The interface is really fast, which I appreciate. Maybe that’s because this is a small test set of data? …
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ebrary Introduces Isaac; Launches Custom Collections; Announces Perpetual Access Model; Distributes Via Blackwell’s; Partners with BookSurge
My library doesn’t subscribe to ebrary, but this is certainly news of interest to those supporting distance education… ebrary Introduces Isaac; Launches Custom Collections; Announces Perpetual Access Model; Distributes Via Blackwell’s; Partners with BookSurge [via EContent: Breaking News]
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Searching for Digital Books
Gary Price has a nice little annotated list of three sites where you can Search for Digital Books. The first site, Digital Book Index, while cumbersome, appears to hold the most academic content, so this is where I’ll be poking around for the next little bit. I entered fake registration info and got in, so…
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Free Online Books
An entry from Open Access News discusses free online books available from the U of California Press and National Academy Press. I knew about the latter, but not the former. Didn’t see much to recommend to my particular group of distance students, but you might find something relevant for yours. Apparently UC Press offers MARC…
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Web Search Garage
Distance students search the web, don’t they? Librarians search the web too…. This book will definitely be on my bookshelf once it’s released. Tara Calishain of ResearchBuzz has a new book called Web Search Garage coming out around August. In her most recent ResearchBuzz Extra newsletter she writes, Web Search Garage is my attempt to…
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SafariX Textbooks Online
SafariX Textbooks Online is to be launched this summer – no mention on the website that these titles will be available to libraries, but this might be a resource of interest to some of your students. The big draw is that the textbooks are available for about 50% of the price of the printed volumes,…