Category: Linking
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Some thoughts on citations in the 21st Century
Colleagues at work pointed to this long read on Medium: Open Access Knowledge: Digital Style Guide. In it, Patrick Dunleavy makes the case that, whenever possible, academic citations should point to "free" online versions of resources rather than the archaic "dead tree" version seemingly favoured by traditional style guides. He also argues that in addition…
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Bookmarklet to convert open.canada.ca JSON to HTML
Somewhere along the line I subscribed to the JSON feed of the Govt. of Canada Open Data releases, so I get something that looks great in my Feedly list: But when I click through I get the JSON data instead of the actual HTML descriptive page with pretty separate download the CSV etc buttons. Too…
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Amazon.ca now supported by Library Extension for Chrome
Following up on a post from earlier this summer, the developer of this excellent extension for Chrome has now updated it to include Amazon.ca. (And the University of Calgary) Remember to choose your library(ies) from the Options menu in Tools / Extensions:
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OCLC’s Results from the International Linked Data Survey for Implementers
OCLC's Hanging Together blog has just concluded a really interesting series of posts analyzing the responses they got to a recent survey on implementation of linked data projects. If you're at all interested in the semantic web, you really should check out the series: Many thanks to all of you who participated in the international…
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ERIC Webinar: Restoring Access to ERIC’s PDFs
In August 2012, ERIC temporarily disabled access to its collection of full text documents due to personally identifiable information found in some of its older documents. Over the past two years, the ERIC team has worked to clear and re-release many of the documents. ERIC will be hosting a webinar on September 16, 2014 from 1:00–2:30 p.m.…
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Calgary Public Library now supported by Library Extension (Chrome)
Yay, the Chrome Library Extension now supports Calgary Public Library. When you're on Amazon.com (not Amazon.ca though), a small box will appear to the right to tell you whether you could borrow a book you're looking at from CPL, either in paper or via Overdrive. I've asked that the UofC be added as well, and…
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Open Sourcing the Wellcome Library
I've had this open in one of my tabs for weeks, and just haven't made the time to play with it further, but it's definitely worth checking out – so go do it! The Wellcome Library ("We are one of the world's major resources for the study of medical history. We also offer a growing…
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A short roundup of thoughts around Harvard Business School Press
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by a writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education for a brief comment on this excellent post by Joshua Gans, Harvard Business School Publishing crosses the ‘evil’ academic line. It seems Prof. Gans had found, among others, my post from 2009 raising an eyebrow over the practice of HBSP…