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Library News & Notes —
November 14, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

Book Samplers
http://blog.dailylit.com/2008/11/06/ (Shortened url)
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Citation Machine
http://citationmachine.net
Source: Andrew Pacilli)

Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/current-models-report.pdf
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)

Defining and Debating 'Double Dipping'
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/11/10/dipping

Defrosting the Digital Library:
Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/ (Shortened url)
(Source: PAMNET)

Genome Technology
The November issue has a special section on open access
http://www.genome-technology.com/Nov08.html
(Source: SPARC E-News)

GPS: More Features, At Lower Prices
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ (Shortened url)

A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries & the Google Library Project Settlement
http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/google/index.shtml
(Source: Chronicle of Higher Education)

A History of Microsoft Windows
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/pcs/multimedia/ (Shortened url)

IHEs Will Aggresively Recruit Chinese Students For Science And Math
http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2008/ (Shortened url)

The Internet vs. books: Peaceful coexistence
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/ (Shortened url)
(Source: Library Web)

Nature Blogs
http://blogs.nature.com
Source: Science Library Pad)

Pervasive Media: Delivering 'the right thing for the moment'
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2008/HPL-2008-124.pdf
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Reference Extract
http://referencextract.org
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Revolutionary Minds: the Game Changers
http://revminds.seedmagazine.com/ (Shortened url)
(Source: SPARC E-News)

Save Ink and Paper Every Time You Print
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ (Shortened url)

A Science Lover's Kind of Town
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/travel/escapes/14american.html (Shortened url)
(Source: Harvard in the News)

Suffering Souls
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/ (Shortened url)

The Tech Static
http://www.thetechstatic.com
Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Top 25 Most Important Rules of Email Etiquette
http://email.about.com/od/emailnetiquette/ (Shortened url)

Updating a Reference Site on the Fly
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/technology/internet/10link.html

Why I Copyfight
http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/ (Shortened url)
(Source: Slashdot)

With new Web services, more companies are working in the 'cloud'
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/ (Shortened url)

Z factor: a new index for measuring academic research output
http://www.molecularpain.com/content/4/1/53

10 Online Photo Editors That You Definitely Need to Bookmark
http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/ (Shortened url)
(Source: Library Stuff)

 

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Received November 8 - 14, 2008