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Library News & Notes —
June 19, 2009
Internet Sites of the Week
Absent at the eBook Revolution
Adobe challenges Google Docs with launch of Acrobat.com
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Are Engineers, Scientists And Mathematicians Enemies of Innovation?
(Source: Bill Romanos)
Atlas Obscura
(Source: Boing Boing)
Badhap: a place to share bad days and embarrassing stories
(Source: Ardis Francoeur)
Baking Transparency Into Government
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(Source: Jay Rosen)
Beyond PubMed
A paper on free biomedical databases
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Boston Project To Give Patients Online Access to Physicians' Notes
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Bridge To Science
(Source: sciencegeekgirl)
The Browser Is Dead - Long Live the Browser
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The Burden of Confidentiality
Campus-Based Publishing Partnerships
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Canadian Research Center Admits Plagiarism in 3 Reports on Intellectual Property
Carl Linnaeus Invented The Index Card
(Sources: Boing Boing; Judy Warnement)
Computing Now
An aggregation of computing articles in IEEE journals
(Source: Computing in Science & Engineering)
Conference Board: 43% of Internet users now in social networks
Couchsurfing
(Source: John Palfrey)
Crunch time
"The effect of the economic downturn on scholarly publishers"
Easy ways to speed up your Mac
(Source: digg)
See also: Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Mac Downloads
(Source: shravanmishra04)
The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service
(Source: beSpacific)
Facebook Starts Testing New Version Of Search
(Source: All Facebook)
Far too often, new media serves up popularity without accuracy
(Source: LIBLICENSE-L)
Future of Social Media: The Walls Come Crumbling Down
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
See also: 10 Golden Rules of Social Media
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
Get Smarter
"Is Google actually making us smarter?"
(Source: Open the Future)
Getting My Data From Anywhere
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Google Book Search Settlement: Foster Competition, Escrow the Scans
(Source: Open Access News)
See also: Google Books Mutilates the Printed Past
See also: Librarians vs. Google: Fighting the Web Giant's Book Deal
(Source: digg)
See also: Google's digital-book future hangs in the balance
See also: Bezos: We've got issues with Google Book Search
(Source: ALA TechSource)
See also: As US government closes in, Google eyes revenue streams for Book Search
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See also: Google Improves Book Search Service
(Source: LISNews)
Google Wave Questions and Answers
(Source: digg)
Harvard classrooms, labs feel pinch of budget cuts
(Source: Harvard in the News)
See also: For Colleges, Small Cuts Add Up to Big Savings
See also: Stanford University Libraries Cut 15%, Lose Staff, Hours, Materials Budget
Harvard Graduate School of Education Votes Open Access Policy
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(Source: Open Access News)
How the Media Frames "Open Access"
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)
How to close the digital divide among scientists
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(Source: John Dupuis)
Hunch
"Hunch helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it."
(Source: Danny Sullivan)
IET Discover
(Source: Christina Pikas)
Internet "C"rapshoot: How Internet Gatekeepers Stifle Progress
(Source: Boing Boing)
The Interdisciplinary Science Library
Is Ticket Scalping All That Bad?
(Source: ErikJHeels)
Journals and repositories: an evolving relationship?
Keeping the focus
Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication:
A Case Study of Engaging Liaison Librarians for Outreach to Faculty
(Source: SPARC E-News)
Libraries populate the Twitterverse
(Source: Phil Bradley)
See also: Twitter as Platform - 5 Essential Peripherals for Librarians
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(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)
Library Digital Collections? There's an App for That
(Source: PAMNET-L)
Newspaper Archive Hits Million-Page Milestone
Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent
(Source: Docuticker)
MIT Tops List of College Copyright Violators
Physics for the musical masses
Physics Papers and the arXiv
(Source: LIBLICENSE-L)
Program helps people forced into early retirement to rejoin work force
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Network)
Protecting Your Job While Chronically Ill
The psychology of being scammed
(Source: Bill Romanos)
Real-time search is the future of the Internet. Here's why.
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Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles
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Science Publisher Suggests It Played Along With Hoax
Scientia Pro Publica 6
(Source: Living the Scientific Life)
Scientists and Engineers in Congress
(Source: Bill Romanos)
Scienvironments
"Exploring the environments of science"
Social Networks and Financial Markets
The State of Music Online: Ten Years After Napster
(Source: msauers)
Streamosphere
"Streamosphere tracks thousands of scientists over half a dozen social media sites
and analyzes their links, likes and conversations. This page visualizes
what the most popular discussions are in a particular time period."
(Source: Nascent)
Study shows Americans' devotion to the Internet
(Source: BostonTechHub)
Talking your way out of library fines
(Source: Library Web)
There's No Such Thing as a Dumb Question but These Come Pretty Close
(Source: Dea DelCampo)
Twitter Business Success Stories
Web Sites That Lend a Hand in Moving
What a Culture of Candor Really Takes
Where the High Tech Jobs Are
Who Profits From For-Profit Journals?
(Source: MIT Libraries News)
Wikipedia and open access journals - now more compatible than ever
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
World Cab Fares
(Source: Blackstump)
Wrong Diagnosis
(Source: shamsha)
See also: Medical Errors: Tips to Help Prevent Them
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)
See also: 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors in Children
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)
See also: More are searching the Web for medical advice
(Source: Science in the News)
The 7 Most Impressive Libraries From Throughout History
(Source: roselovec)
25 Acts of Body Language to Avoid
(Source: Bill Romanos)
The 30 Washington Insiders You Should Follow on Twitter
60 Sites in 60 Minutes
(Source: SLA Blog)
100 best English-language novels (since 1923)
(Source: shamsha)
The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English
(Source: ScienceGoddess)
100+ Alternative Search Engines You Should Know
(Source: Bill Romanos)
NEW BOOKS
Received June 13 - June 19, 2009
| Title |
Author/Editor |
(Publisher, Year) |
To be Shelved at: |
Requested by |
| The Chemistry of Metal Enolates |
Zabicky, Jason, editor |
(Wiley, 2009) |
QD 411 .C46 2009 pt.1, pt.2 |
J. Foley |
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