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Library News & Notes —
September 7th, 2007

Internet Sites of the Week

CTWatch Quarterly
The theme of this issue is the “coming revolution in scholarly communications & cyberinfrastructure.”
http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/articles/2007/08/
(Source: American Scientist Forum)

Envisioning the Next Chapter for Electronic Books
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/technology/06amazon.html
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)

Eureka Science Journal Watch
http://www.eurekajournalwatch.org/index.php/Main_Page
(Source: Open Access News)

Infomania: Why We Can't Afford to Ignore It Any Longer
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/zeldes/index.html
(Source: PAMNET)

Introducing ‘Fantasy Journals’
http://chronicle.com/blogs/footnoted/index.php?id=463

Phishing Attacks: the Next Generation
http://netsecurity.about.com/od/secureyouremail/a/aa110504.htm

Scientists Create Their Own Web 2.0 Network with NanoHUB
http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/1743849.html
(Source: LIBLICENSE-L)

SciVee
http://www.scivee.tv/
(Source: PAMNET)

ticTOCs
“The aim of the ticTOCs project is to develop a freely available service which will transform journal current awareness by making it easy for academics and researchers to find, display, store, combine and reuse tables of contents from multiple publishers in a personalisable web based environment.”
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)

Top 5 Mainstream Desktop PCs
http://compreviews.about.com/od/maindesk/tp/MainDesktop.htm

Top 5 Performance Desktop PCs
http://compreviews.about.com/od/perfdesk/tp/PerfDesktops.htm

University Publishing in a Digital Age
http://scholarlypublishing.org/ithakareport/
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)

Zotero
Reference management Firefox extension.
http://www.zotero.org/
(Source: SOLOLIB-L)

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Received August 18 - September 7, 2007