Category: Document Delivery
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Demand for E-books in an Academic Library – Ellen Safley, U of T at Dallas
My penultimate post from last week’s Off Campus Library Services Conference. Ellen Safley took us on a tour of her institution’s exploration of E-book usage. Apparently there will be four new ebook appliances on the market in 06/07: iRex Technologies (Philips Electronics) Jinke (China) Polymer Vision (Philips spin-off) Plastic Logic (UK) One or more of…
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Australian Tome Raiders
See this article about a project to connect all Australian libraries and their collections of 40 million items on the internet will allow readers to find books, copy them or EVEN buy them from online stores. Technorati Tags: Libraries, Australia
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European Digital Library announced
Any readers in Europe should be pleased about the just announced European Digital Library: The European Commissions’ plan to promote digital access to Europe’s heritage is rapidly taking shape. At least six million books, documents and other cultural works will be made available to anyone with a Web connection through the European Digital Library over…
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New Journal Portal “Open J-Gate” Launches
Another story picked up from LISNews; the announcement of “the world’s biggest Open Access English Language Journals Portal – Open J-Gate. From the website, “Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of…
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Free Full Text
The Librarian in Black posted about an interesting resource called Free Full Text, which has a tagline of “A supplement to every library catalogue on the planet!” Basically this is a non-searchable directory of “over 7,000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by anyone…” Here at the…
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Thoughts on textbook use in distance education
Rebecca has a good post with lots of links and thoughts about whether textbooks are the best way to go in higher education.
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Useful Tools – blog software comparison and file sharing
Lifehacker points to these two useful posts today. The first is a blog software comparison chart from the Online Journalism Review. If you’re thinking about starting a blog as your New Year’s resolution, this chart may be helpful in deciding which software to use. One thing it doesn’t include is the cost though, so you’ll…
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Busy Day for Digital Books: News from Amazon and Google
Search Engine Watch reports that Amazon will begin allowing customers to purchase individual pages from certain books: Busy Day for Digital Books: News from Amazon and Google. Another press release had a great quote showing to whom this is going to be of interest (hint – it’s our students): "For scholars and people who are…
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Journal Cost-Effectiveness Search
Hmm, here’s an interesting tool for those of you with any collection development responsibilities… Journal Cost-Effectiveness Search.
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New Interlibrary Loan Feature for WilsonWeb 2.5
I don’t see this feature in our version of WilsonWeb, so it obviously needs to be "switched on", which makes sense since it would need to be married to your local ILL system. We’re eventually going to offer one-click ILL through our SFX menu, but if you don’t have SFX or similar, and if you…