Category: Scholarship
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New York TimesSelect available to students and faculty in Canada too
I was mildly cheesed when I read the announcements last week that the NY TimesSelect service was going be offered for free to students and faculty with a .edu email address, ’cause here in Canada we don’t have that domain. But then I thought I’d check and see so at least I’d have proof when…
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She hearts ILL
LIS News points to a great piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education in which Professor Susanna Ashton tells the academic world how great ILL is in the US. In my limited experience, pretty much everything she says is true of ILL in Canada as well. A good read, and positive quotes from Michael Gorman…
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CFP: Internet Librarian 2007
I don’t think funding will allow me to go this year, but the Call for Presenters for Internet Librarian 2007 (Oct. 29-31) is out. The theme this year is 2.0: Info Pros, Library Communities, & Web Tools, and proposals are due by March 26th! I’ve spoken at IL the past two years and really enjoyed…
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Pre-Publication Review Draft: Special Sloan-C/Eduventures Report: Blending in
Keith from the Sloan Consortium wrote to let me know they’ve posted a pre-pub draft of a report called Blending In: The Extent and Promise of Blended Education in the United States and they’re looking for feedback before making it a final report. It’s a 35-page PDF that attempts to answer the following questions,…
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Intentional Design: Designing Effective Screencasts
Hey gang, if you missed my SirsiDynix session on Screencasting, or if you want another view, here’s your chance! ADETA says you all are invited too! The ADETA (Alberta Distance Education & Training Association) Online PD Committee would like to invite you and your colleagues to join us for another exciting Elluminate presentation! To sign…
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$19.1 million for new Canadian desktop access
Yesterday “the Canada Foundation for Innovation announced a $19.1 million investment to support the development of a new infrastructure for social sciences and humanities research. The funds were awarded to the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) — a consortium of Canadian universities that provides its members with desktop access to a wide range of research…
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Research behind the news
The Auraria Library (CU Denver) Research Behind the News weblog was mentioned the other day on Web4Lib; what a great idea! I usually read the paper during breakfast and at least once a week read the AP sanitized version of some breaking research and wonder about the full paper. In fact that’s where I originally…
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How to export citations from Google Scholar
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…
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I have to go to the Euphamism
My colleague Margy keeps a blog for students in a Journalism class she teaches, and just posted about a piece in The Globe and Mail about an author who got nailed for plagiarism, though the admission is only that his book contains “elements [that] . . . closely resemble or are indistinguishable from passages”… I…
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Huge list of Web Presentation Tools (ppt alternatives)
Read in passing earlier today that Google may be readying a PPT alternative, but in the meantime if you don’t care for the way PPT translates to the web, here are a gazillion alternatives for publishing presentations to the web. OK, it’s probably only a couple dozen; I was too lazy to count. "The key…