Category: Ideas
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Bye-bye Live Search Books and Live Search Academic
Roy Tennant points out that as of next week(!) Microsoft is switching off Live Search Books and Live Search Academic. Wow. I didn't go there first (ever), but it was good to have some competition for Google Book Search and Google Scholar. Interesting, definitely.
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Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution
SPARC and Science Commons have released “Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution.” The new white paper assists institutions in adopting policies that ensure the widest practical exposure for scholarly works produced, such as that adopted by the Harvard Faculty of Arts…
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Boolify
Nothing earthshattering, but an Boolify is interesting little site that might help some conceptualize the concept of boolean operators. Librarians, teachers and parents have told us how hard it is for students to understand web searching. Boolify makes it easier to for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search,…
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The evolution of my original outboard brain
Many many years ago I acquired a small digital voice recorder that soon became indispensable to me. It was a low-capacity Voice-it, and I think I had three over the years, each with more capacity than the last. For some reason VXI stopped making them, and now the VT-300 goes for a small fortune on…
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SUNY Press allows you to choose – $75 or $20
Sue Polanka at No Shelf Required notes that SUNY Press is now allowing customers to download frontlist titles as PDFs for only $20. Check her link for more details.
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My piled-up reading list
Getting pretty far behind on my reading list, but here are some recent titles that may also be of interest to you: Personality traits of individuals in different specialties of librarianship DOI: 10.1108/00220410810858056Journal of DocumentationVolume 64, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 273-286 Abstract This paper aims to investigate whether academic reference librarians, archivists, catalogers, distance education…
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One tough CAPTCHA!
Wow, here’s one of the tougher CAPTCHAs I’ve seen…: http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2008-04-07-what-hath-captcha-wrought.html Technorati Tags: captcha