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Library News & Notes —
June 12, 2009
Internet Sites of the Week
All For Good
(Source: Huffington Post)
Automotive bailout may affect research
See also: Quantifying success of science stimulus spend is challenging
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Berners-Lee: We no longer fully understand the web
(Shortened url)
(Source: phystwits)
The Best Online Tools for Personal Finance
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Blurred Out: 51 Things You Aren't Allowed to See on Google Maps
(Shortened url)
(Source: digg)
Collaboration eyes computing boost for New England
Current Issues in Scholarly Publishing
(Source: oa.new)
Data Center Overload
(Source: kowalskibob)
Elsevier tweaks custom pub rules
(Source: oa.new)
Ethics Education and Scientific and Engineering Research:
What's Been Learned? What Should be Done?
(Source: National Academy of Engineering Spotlight on Engineering, Technology, and Policy)
Extracting Meaning from Millions of Pages
The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S.
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(Source: amcafee)
Fighting Confidentiality in Library Contracts
The Future of Newspapers and Libraries
See also: A Perfect Storm for the Demise of Journalism.... or for the Rebirth of the Journalist
The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules
(Source: kowalskibob)
Google Wave in Research - the slightly more sober view - Part I
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(Source: Open Access News)
The Hardest Jobs to Fill in America
(Shortened url)
See also: How Young Engineers Can Annoy Hiring Managers Less - Study
(Shortened url)
(Source: National Academy of Engineering Spotlight on Engineering, Technology, and Policy)
Harvard Study Suggests Twitter Users Are Self-Obsessed, Says Harvard's Own Tweet
(Shortened url)
(Source: amcafee)
Hazardous Health Plans
The Hidden Digital Revolution in Scholarly Publishing
(Source: LIBLICENSE-L)
The Hope Chest
"Bad news from the past"
(Source: Boing Boing)
Libraries lend a hand in tough times
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
Ma Bell and Its Vanishing Phone Lines
A Manifesto for Scholarly Publishing
Mathematicians take aim at 'phantom' traffic jams
Medicine in the Age of Twitter
(Source: gabinator)
See also: Using Twitter for EZ-HIT: Accessible, Fast Platform Has Much To Offer
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OA publisher accepts fake paper
See also: Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars
(Source: Randy Reichardt)
The Occasional Pamphlet
Stuart Shieber's blog on scholarly communication, featuring posts such
as "The death of scholarly journals?', "Are the Harvard open-access policies unfair to publishers?"
and more.
(Source: Open Access News)
Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS)
(Source: American Scientist Forum)
Plan a Vacation Using Social Media
(Source: ErikJHeels)
Post-PhD in an economic downturn
Quantifying the value of peer review
(Source: LIBLICENSE-L)
Raising Kids to Thrive Amid Career Chaos
(Source: Sloan Work and Family Network)
Report: kids' use of tech growing exponentially
Research Methods for Comprehensive Science Literature Reviews
(Source: Science Intelligence and InfoPros)
Rock Stars of Science: Will it hype scientific celebrity and increase research funding?
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(Source: ScienceTweets)
Science Intelligence and InfoPros
Science, the Extravaganza
ScienceBlogs: Information Science
(Source: SciTopics)
Scientists gather in Seattle to discuss the science of sleep
Search engine comparisons
(Source: OPL Plus)
Secret Found to Flight of 'Helicopter Seeds'
Sick but at work? Study finds it's worse in the long-run
The Social Life of Health Information
(Source: beSpacific)
Thinking about Blogging 2: Why We Blog
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
Top 20 websites every scientist (or engineer) ought to know
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(Source: Randy Reichardt)
Top 50 Health 2.0 Blogs
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)
Unconference Uncovers Latest Tech Trends
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
Universities as publishers?
(Source: oa.new)
A users' guide to personalizing your Facebook URL
See also: 10 Facebook apps that teach you something
Utilizing Social Media to Find your Next Job
(Source: BostonTechHub)
What the government doesn't understand about the Internet, and what to do about it
(Shortened url)
(Source: Boing Boing)
Why E-Books Are Stuck in a Black-and-White World
(Source: Library Web)
Why or why not cite blog posts in scientific papers?
Wordnik
(Source: Candy Schwartz)
See also: Why your brain just can't remember that word
World Privacy Forum: Top Ten Opt Outs
(Source: Internet Scout Project Weblog)
11 Affordable Father's Day Gifts Dads Will Want
(Source: digg)
19 Unintentional Discoveries That Changed The World
(Source: AboutPhysics)
50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
100 Best Science Twitterers
(Source: sciencebase)
100 Awesome Open Source Tools for Writers, Journalists, and Bloggers
NEW BOOKS
Received June 6 - June 12, 2009
| Title |
Author/Editor |
(Publisher, Year) |
To be Shelved at: |
Requested by |
| Matter and Interactions II: Electric and Magnetic Interactions, 2nd ed. |
Chabay, Ruth W. and Bruce A. Sherwood |
(Wiley, 2007) |
QC 23.2 .C43 2007 |
M. Burns |
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