Category: Linking
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OCLSC presentations now available online
Not every single one, but many of the presentations (mostly ppt) from last week’s Off Campus Library Services Conference are now available online. Technorati Tags: OCLSC06
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Microsoft Academic Search launches
Well it was supposed to launch yesterday, and I guess it did sometime late last night, but Microsoft’s Academic Search (beta!) is now live. I’m on vacation for the next week so really won’t have a chance to run through it until then, but you can get up to speed with Steven, Dean and Gary.
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An Article on integrating library information into Course Management Systems
The most recent issue of Innovate, the Journal of Online Education, has an article by John Shank and Steven Bell called A_FLIP to Courseware: A Strategic Alliance for Improving Student Learning Outcomes (you’ll need to register with the site to be able to read it – it’s free). Basically this brief article discusses ways librarians…
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Squeet – best RSS to email yet?
OK, it’s definitely too soon to proclaim Squeet the winner of the RSS to Email services, especially since I just started playing with it this AM, but on first look it’s very impressive! Here are the highlights: You can choose the frequency with which you will receive posts (as they become available, once per day,…
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Statistics Canada to make all electronic publications available for free
I couldn’t find this announcement on the StatsCan website, but this press release was sent to the Data Liberation Initiative listserv on Monday: As of April 24, 2006, all electronic publications available on the Statistics Canada website will become free of charge. The purpose of this message is to inform you about this change in…
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Creating RSS feeds where none exist
Is there something magic about the number 20? Why don’t individual wiki pages offer RSS feeds? These are two of the questions I’ve been forced to ponder this week. Here’s my story. A month ago I blogged about the launch of the COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing (ANTS) Project. We’re using a wiki (MediaWiki) to track…
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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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Meredith rolls another wiki – Computers in Libraries 2006
Meredith Farkas, who first appeared on many radar screens last year after starting up the first Unofficial ALA Conference Wiki, has produced another conference-related wiki, this time for Computers in Libraries, 2006, held in the DC area March 22-24. She’s investing just a little less of her soul in this one, opting for a PBWiki…
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Federated Search Symposium wrap-up
Warning: long post! I’ve just spent the last day and a half at a federated search symposium sponsored by The Alberta Library. I went in with some preconceived ideas about the state of federated search, and while they weren’t totally assuaged, I think I feel a little more confident about the future of this idea. …