Category: Web/Tech
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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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Microsoft’s Academic Search
Maybe it’s just me, but the impending launch of Microsoft’s version of Google Scholar, Academic Search, seems to be slipping up without much notice in the blogosphere. They’ve mentioned it at Search Engine Watch, but apparently a week or so ago three of our colleagues were invited to Redmond to give the product a spin…
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The Myth about Student Competency – “Our Students Are Technologically Competent.”
Educause Review has a short editorial called The Myth about Student Competency – “Our Students Are Technologically Competent.” The article seems to bounce back and forth a little between what I would call technology literacy and information literacy, but the overall points are the same; that while students coming in to higher education today are…
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Australian Tome Raiders
See this article about a project to connect all Australian libraries and their collections of 40 million items on the internet will allow readers to find books, copy them or EVEN buy them from online stores. Technorati Tags: Libraries, Australia
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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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Intuitive Revelations: The Ubiquitous Reference Model
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How’s that for an ear-catching title? Brian Mathews at Georgia Tech is working on a really interesting project. OK, so we know some libraries have created pages in places where patrons hang out, like MySpace. I use a Pubsub feed to look for anyone who’s blogged about the University of Calgary, and on rare occasions…
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A little more on EBSCO updates
Got an email from marketing at EBSCO on Friday; apparently I scooped their big announcement at PLA about the interface enhancements 😉 They weren’t upset, but did pass on the full press release, which I still don’t see up on their news site. There are a couple of additional enhancements I didn’t notice my first…
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EBSCO Updates – Visual Search and RSS Feeds
Two months ago I noted that EBSCO was going to offer a visual search interface to their products courtesy of Grokker. Either they just kind of slipped it in with a recent update, or I missed the big announcement, but Visual Search is now one of the tabs at the top of the EBSCO search…
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Learning without boundaries – Campus Calgary Digital Library
This press release was just sent to all staff at the U of Calgary (click for full size): I was trying to figure out if the marketing people created an entirely new planet for the model to gaze through, but then I figured out the camera is inside the globe – it’s just a different…
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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,…