Category: Document Delivery
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Canadian Electronic Reserves
A new blog with the following tagline: A forum for librarians implementing E-reserves in academic libraries across Canada: Canadian Electronic Reserves.
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The Case of the Missing Dissertation
The U of Calgary has the full-meal-deal with ProQuest Digital Dissertations, or I guess it’s now called "ProQuest Dissertations and Theses – Full Text". That means we’re supposed to have full access in PDF to pretty much everying in the database from 1997 to present. Yes, it is nice 🙂 The other day though, my…
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Amazon.ca Launches “Search Inside”
Amazon.ca Launches “Search Inside” Amazon.ca today announced the launch of its Search Inside! feature which allows consumers to find and discover books by searching the full text inside them, not just matches to author or title keywords. [via Digital Home Canada] Wow, this has been available so long (since 2003) on the main Amazon.com site…
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Canada Library Mail Rate update
Yes, I’ve been on vacation for the past two weeks – was actually completely offline for at least a week, which is the longest I’ve gone for 5 years – whew! It really wasn’t so bad 🙂 Here’s some document delivery-related news from the Canadian Library Association – there’s been some worry that we were…
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Library clips :: Document Delivery with Furl :: July :: 2005
Library Clips presents an interesting idea to use Furl to track document delivery requests. In the end the idea is discarded, but I like the thought process. Link: Library clips :: Document Delivery with Furl :: July :: 2005.
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Call for contributors #2 – J. of Lib & Info Services in Distance Learning
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It’s that time again – what may become my quarterly call to see if any gentle readers would like to contribute to the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning. I have several ideas for topics, but am also interested in you bringing your own ideas to…
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Google Scholar continues to expand (and listen to librarians, it seems)
Gary Price has a great writup called Direct Links to Articles: Be It Resolved that Google Scholar is Now Open to More Libraries on Resource Shelf today. Really exciting stuff. In a nutshell, now any library with link resolver software can now ensure that links to their content will appear along with Google Scholar results. …
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Amazon indexing and selling articles?
This may be old news that I missed, but I just happened by Amazon today to attempt a "search inside the book" and the first result I got was actually to an article I could buy for $5.95! Here’s some of the information that came along with the page: Editorial Reviews Excerpt. © Reprinted by…
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Orphan Works: Issues and Legislative Strategies
The Association of Research Libraries and the Medical Library Association are offering a free teleconference on Monday, May 2 that deals with orphaned works (details below and more in the link) What do you do if you can’t find the copyright holder of a work (say a photograph, article, or film clip) that you want…
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Legal Battle Brews Over Texts on Electronic Reserve at U. of California Libraries
Took me a couple of days to scare up a copy of this article (don’t worry if you don’t have a copy either, the interesting reading will come later when something actually happens as a result of this head-butting). There was a quote in there though that raised my eyebrows. Allan Adler, VP for legal…