The Distant Librarian

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  • RSS Alerts in EBSCO Databases

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    Paul R. Pival
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    Earlier this week I got a mailing from EBSCO in which they claimed they were re-launching RSS alerts for searches.  I tried to follow their instructions but had no success, and assumed this must be a feature we had to manually enable in our admin module, but Ken Varnum at RSS4Lib pointed out that the…

  • New York TimesSelect – Do Over! (may not be free for YOU!)

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    Following up on last month’s announcement that the New York TimesSelect service was opened up to all educational institutions, The Chronicle of Higher Education is now reporting that NYT is backtracking and now “says that Times Select archives will be available only to students of colleges that subscribe to database companies that carry Times content.” …

  • Five non-liblogs

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    Rachel Singer-Gordon started a meme last week by posting about five non-library blogs, in the interest of promoting a little diversity.  Meredith tagged me, so here are five that give me some inspiration outside the library world: Jon Udell, by, um, Jon Udell – I’ve posted about content from this one many times before.  Jon…

  • EBSCO to deliver blog content

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    Sorry I couldn’t come up with anything more original than David Rothman’s original title, but that pretty much spells it out.  What an interesting idea.  David posts about a press release in which EBSCO and Newstex announce that EBSCO databases will begin delivering selected blog content alongside standard search results.  Sure hope one can easily…

  • LJ on Federated Searching

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    Jonathan Rochkind has a really good article in Library Journal on the current state of Federated (Meta) searching, with Google Scholar as the catalyst.  In it, he explains why Google Scholar seems more attractive than library solutions – they index information locally instead of searching it live each time.  Good examples of a couple of…

  • LibX – DOI for Dummies

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    Ok, right up front, the dummy is me.  It might be you too, but I’m only talking about me here. Earlier this year, David, our Integrated Systems Manager, put together a U of Calgary beta version of LibX, a Firefox Extension for Libraries.  LibX does all sorts of neat things, but I was finding it…

  • How to export citations from Google Scholar

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    Speaking of remembering to cite your sources, there’s actually some useful content at the Google Librarian Central Blog!  Ben Bunnell, Library Partnerships Manager, has a post about how to make sure you see the option to export citations from Google Scholar (not a new feature, but new to me).  Also interesting to me is that…

  • Rothman’s RSS to Web Page examples

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    Wow, I’ve played with these types of tools for a couple of years now, but I tend to stick with what works for me, and thus haven’t even heard of about half of these, but David Rothman put together a nice page showing default output for nine different tools that allow RSS to be output…

  • Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web

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    Continuing on the vein of their Research Beyond Google page, the Online Education Database has recently posted The Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web, which looks like a really good resource.  There you will find background on the concept of the invisible web, 9 reasons a web page is invisible, 10 ways to make invisible…

  • Google offers to digitize journal back runs!

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    Well this is interesting, and if you’re not a journal aggregator, good news. According to Peter Suber, Google is offering to digitize and provide OA to the back runs of scholarly journals!  Peter’s got all the details on his site, but I’ll jump right to one of his comments towards the bottom that says, "I…