Category: Document Delivery
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AAAS Says Science Will Remain in JSTOR
No real details, but Library Journal reports that: Under pressure from libraries for its 2007 decision to pull its flagship publication, Science, from JSTOR, the popular electronic journals database, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) said today that it has reversed course, and that Science will remain in JSTOR. Citing a confidentiality…
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Canadian universities’ resource sharing agreement extends from coast to coast
There are definitely advantages to working in a country with a smallish number of universities… Toronto, Ontario: Effective January 2, 2008, Canadian university faculty, students and staff will now be supported by one Resource Sharing Agreement amongst institutions. The new agreement will extend standardized reciprocal interlibrary loan / document delivery privileges across Canada. Read the…
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You think you’ve got it rough?
Going the Extra Mile: Supporting Distance Education at University of Alaska Fairbanks, Suzan Hahn, Lisa Lehman, Rheba Dupras Abstract:The Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has a long history of supporting distance education through state-of-the-art, remote access services. Harsh climate conditions (heavy snowfall and icing, high winds, and extreme temperatures), rugged…
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Sharing Files with FileUrls (beta)
Another possible document delivery service for very small operations. FileUrls allows you to simply browse to a file on your desktop (250 MB Max), set an expiry date (1-7 days) and choose whether or not to password protect the document. The file is then uploaded and a URL generated (very much like TinyURL) which you…
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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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Two interesting developments from ProQuest re: Dissertations
A colleague passed along the following links you may also find of interest: ProQuest CSA has arranged with Google and Google Scholar to allow indexing and searching across bibliographic data for graduate works published in 2005 and forward. PQDT Open is an online repository of dissertations and theses published on an open access basis. The…
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Self-destructing email
BigString Originally uploaded by ppival Saw this post at Ars Technica describing a service called BigString that allows one to send self-destructing email. They do it by sending an image of whatever text you type, and then depending on the parameters you set, make that image (still actually hosted at BigString) expire after…
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ARL White Paper on Interlibrary Loan
Stephen Abram points to a recently-released white paper on interlibrary loan, from ARL. You won’t find any actual numbers in this 4 (barely)-pager, but you will find some interesting trends. ILL for returnables (books) is generally up, according to statistics from several sources, but ILL for non-returnables is generally pretty far down. There are some…
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POD Friday!
Couple of really interesting developments in the print-on-demand world today: Amazon has partnered with four (soon to be more?) libraries to digitize public domain books and then sell them in paper to consumers.See coverage from: The Centered Librarian ACRLog Chronicle of Higher Education Original Press Release The New York Public Library appears to be the…
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Interview with BookSwim
I mentioned BookSwim a couple of months ago. Being sold as Netflix for books, it’s still not available to the public, but Joe Wikert has a brief interview with co-founder George Burke that you might find interesting. Technorati Tags: Books, NetFlix