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Library News & Notes —
June 20, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

Are Video Games the New Textbooks?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5063661&page=1


Cloud Computing: The Evolution of Software-as-a-Service
http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1614
(Source: ResourceShelf)


Developing Open Access Journals: A practical guide
http://www.developing-oa-journals.org/Guide_to_developing_oa_journals.pdf
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)


Drive Green
http://www.popularmechanics.com/drivegreen
(Source: Librarian's Internet Index)


Hands On Computing: How Multi-touch Screens Could Change The Way We Interact With Computers and Each Other
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=hands-on-computing
(Source: Science in the News)


Information Overload - The Problem and the Solution
http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2008/information-overload(Shortened url)
(Source: Library Web)


LaterLoop
"Read Webpages Later on Your Phone or Anywhere"
http://www.laterloop.com
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)


The next search frontier: Just ask your question
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/02/smallbusiness/ask_your_question.fsb/index.htm


Open Culture
"Free Online Courses from Great Universities"
http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
(Source: Chronicle of Higher Education)


OPEN DOORS AND OPEN MINDS: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution
http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/guides/opendoors_v1.shtml


Publish and Perish? Protecting Your Copyrights from Your Publisher
http://www.policybandwidth.com/doc/20080523-PublishANDPerishFinal.pdf
(Source: SPARC E-News)


Research Methods 'Beyond Google'
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/17/institute


Science Fraud at Universities Is Common - and Commonly Ignored
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=tr8pHptRKtRBVwpQhf6gxBkRskbqxtxQ
See also: Survey suggests research misconduct is common
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n18466264-usa-research-misconduct/
(Source: Science in the News)


Smithsonian Institution's Photostream
http://flickr.com/photos/smithsonian
(Source: Open Access News)


Some Facebook Applications Thrive, Others Flop
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121305687614859325.html?mod=djemSB'
(Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)


Surveillance: You can know too much
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/17/surveillance.database


The Web Time Forgot
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/(Shortened url)
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)

 

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Received June 7 - 13, 2008