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Library News & Notes —
July 3, 2009
Internet Sites of the Week
Apollo 40 Years On
Beyond Institutional Repositories
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)
Books Aren't Everything
Boxee vs. Zinc vs. Hulu
(Source: Andrew Pacilli)
Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists Fight for Relevance
(Source: ALATechSource)
Collecta
"Collecta monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, so we can show you results as they happen."
(Source: Phil Bradley's weblog)
See also: Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google
Deciphering Journal Abbreviations with JAbbr
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
Digital Generation
(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)
Discoveries
"a panoply of discoveries and innovations that began with NSF support"
(Source: The Scout Report)
Do We Need a Scientific Literature?
(Shortened url)
(Source: srharris19)
DocMazy - The Future of Document Search
(Source: Xuemei Li)
Dramatic Growth of Open Access
access-june-30.html
(Source: American Scientist Open Access Forum)
The Evidence on Online Education
From Whirlwind Vacations to "Staycations:" Summer Travel Plans
(Shortened url)
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Network)
GDGT
"a social gadget platform that enables you to connect with the community through your gadgets"
(Source: Boing Boing)
Genomes In Newsweek: Futures Near and Far
(Shortened url)
Getting a Job in a Tough Economy toolkit
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
Google, the toothless Big Brother
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
See also: Google Books, Scholar, and Good Enough
(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)
Google Voice Is Cool, But Do You Need It?
Google Wave in Science and Medicine
(Source: Next Generation Science)
Harvard Layoffs Update, and More "Reshaping" to Come
See also: Harvard Libraries Cuts Jobs, Hours
See also: What they don't teach about cash at Harvard
(Source: Harvard in the News)
How Facebook Could Create a Revolution, Do Good, and Make Billions
(Shortened url)
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
How physics can inspire biology
See also: Do cells care about physics?
See also: Darwin's impact on physics and cosmology
The Impending Demise of the University
(Source: Current Cites via Peter Scott's Library Blog)
See also: What Is a Master's Degree Worth?
(Source: Sung Kim)
See also: Ten Simple Rules for Choosing between Industry and Academia
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(Source: drkiki)
Industrial R&D in transition
Inside Social Media
A collection of articles from Mass High Tech
See also: Demystifying the Social Medianess - Unselfish Communication
(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)
Is a Book the New Business Card?
(Source: Molly White)
Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?
(Source: materion)
Is Twitter Becoming a Victim of Its Own Popularity?
See also: Is Twitter the news outlet for the 21st century?
(Source: BostonTechHub)
Landing your next job: It's not about the economy, it's about you
See also: Seven Great Questions to Ask at a Job Interview
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(Source: Bill Romanos)
The library that never closes
(Source: David Viner)
New Literacy in the Web 2.0 World
(Source: Xuemei Li)
New Tool Compares Scholars' Research Strengths
OneRiot
"What's happening on the realtime web?"
(Source: Phil Bradley's weblog)
Open Access and the A-Bomb
(Source: Open Access News)
Peerless Pathways to Find Peer Reviewers
(Source: ResourceShelf)
People Sometimes Seek the Truth, but Most Prefer Like-minded Views
Physician Rating Web Sites Create Quite a Stir Among Doctors
(Shortened url)
A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures
Reading machine to snoop on Web
(Source: Shamsha Damani)
Real-time systems hurting long-term knowledge?
Remarkable Women in Science
Revenge by Being Louder
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)
Self-confidence is built into our genes, say scientists
(Shortened url)
(Source: newswise)
Slow Science
(Source: Condensed Concepts)
Students join access debate
(Source: Open Access News)
Study concludes Wikipedians are a bunch of grumpy introverts
(Shortened url)
Talking Tech: Explaining Technical Topics to a Non-Technical Audience
Taking control of fair use
(Shortened url)
Top 5 Killer Features in Firefox 3.5
(Source: guardiantech)
See also: 10 Useful Firefox Add-ons for Almost Everybody
The Web 2.0 Social Networking Revolution: Q&A With Author Matthew Fraser
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
What Is a Master's Degree Worth?
(Source: Sung Kim)
What is the future of the library?
(Shortened url)
(Source: Vicki Owen)
What You Need to Upgrade to Windows 7
When There's No Print Edition, Do Readers Flock to the Web?
(Source: beSpacific)
Why 1.5 Is Greater Than 2.0
(Source: Bill Ives)
Women in the Archives
A conference at the University of New England held in June 2009, features "Observed in Another Context: Some Issues in Digitizing Women's Collections" by Harvard archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff (abstract on p.10) and "'Dear Diary, no one will ever see these words but you': Issues of Privacy in Women's Materials and their Impact on Collecting, Access, and Scholarship" by Kathryn Allamong Jacob, Curator of Manuscripts, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute (abstract on p.8)
(Source: Kathryn Allamong Jacob)
20 years as an Open Access publisher
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)
50 Successful Open Source Projects That Are Changing Medicine
(Source: Tim O'Reilly)
NEW BOOKS
Received June 27 - July 3, 2009
No new books received this week
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