Category: Linking
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KBPublisher FAQ database at our library
Today we launched our new FAQ database here at the U of Calgary. We’re now using KBPublisher, an open-source product introduced to me by Chad Boeninger at Ohio U. In addition to being searchable, and thus way better than one of those long lists with anchor tags, the neatest feature in the whole thing is…
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Alchemist author increases sales by pirating his own book
Neat stuff! “Paulo Coelho, the best-selling author of “The Alchemist”, is using BitTorrent and other filesharing networks as a way to promote his books. His publishers weren’t too keen on giving away free copies of his books, so he’s taken matters into his own hands. He’s convinced — and rightly so — that letting people…
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David’s Favorite RSS Resources and Tools
David Rothman just posted a wonderful list of his Favorite RSS Resources and Tools. You’ll get links on explaining RSS, Resources to help you choose a feed aggregator, RSS Plugins for Outlook, Google Reader Tips and Plug-ins, RSS-to-Email tools, Publishing RSS content on Web Pages, Web-Based RSS-to-Web-Page tools, Hosted RSS-to-Web-Page Tools, Feed mashing and filtering…
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NewsGator now free
“…NewsGator also announced that all of its client RSS reader products are now available free of charge and include free synchronization along with other services.” Full press release here. Might have to give them a looksee – I seem to recall that one of our databases only allows RSS feeds to work within Newsgator –…
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Followup on Facebook Advertising
A month ago I offered my initial thoughts on the University of Calgary’s experiment with placing social ads within Facebook. Here are the results of our second round of advertising, where we switched the content of the ads to see if students seemed to be responding more to the type of ad or the content…
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AAAS Says Science Will Remain in JSTOR
No real details, but Library Journal reports that: Under pressure from libraries for its 2007 decision to pull its flagship publication, Science, from JSTOR, the popular electronic journals database, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) said today that it has reversed course, and that Science will remain in JSTOR. Citing a confidentiality…
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MIT Lecture Browser
From Carolyn Kotlas at TL INFOBITS: This fall researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released the MIT Lecture Browser, “a web interface to video recordings of lectures and seminars that have been indexed using automatic speech recognition technology.” Users can search on terms or phrases and then play the video at the point(s) in…
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Improving the SFX menu
David Walker at Cal State has a really compelling presentation on why they’ve modified their SFX menu to look the way it does. It’s a 20-minute Captivate presentation. If you look after SFX at your school, you really should give this a look. (thanks for the tip, Jennifer)
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Two interesting developments from ProQuest re: Dissertations
A colleague passed along the following links you may also find of interest: ProQuest CSA has arranged with Google and Google Scholar to allow indexing and searching across bibliographic data for graduate works published in 2005 and forward. PQDT Open is an online repository of dissertations and theses published on an open access basis. The…
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MozBackup – for transferring Thunderbird and Firefox profiles
So I moved offices this weekend, and also moved to a new desktop machine. Used MozBackup to transfer my Thunderbird and Firefox profiles, which includes all bookmarks, preferences, extensions, cookies, etc. In a nutshell, after only about 10 minutes, I was fully functional w/o having to hunt down and reinstall anything – wonderful time saver!