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Library News & Notes —
September 19, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

Data on display
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080915/full/455273a.html

Don't Buy That Text, Download It Free
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/technology/(Shortened url)
(Source: The Kept Up Academic Librarian)

The End
"The book business as we know it will not be living happily ever after."
http://www.printthis.clickability.com(Shortened url)
(Source: Arts & Letters Daily)

End of the book?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news(Shortened url)
(Source: Library Web)

In Digital Age, Federal Files Blip Into Oblivion
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13(Shortened url)
(Source: PAMNET)

Lawmakers See Challenges for TV Transition
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn(Shortened url)

New Social Network Hopes to Catalog All Researchers and Their Interests
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3319(Shortened url)

Podcasts, Webcasts & Other Digital Media Files
(Science Reference Guides)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/SciRefGuides/podcasting.html

sciencestage.com
"increasing knowledge transfer"
http://www.sciencestage.com
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Smithsonian to put its 137 million-object collection online
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/16(Shortened url)
(Source: Open Access News)

Studying the Internet to Protect Our Future
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm(Shortened url)

Talk Like a Pirate
http://www.talklikeapirate.com
(Source: Alan Stern)

Umbrella Today?
http://www.umbrellatoday.com
(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)

U-M at forefront of new era in publishing
http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6735
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)

 

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Received September 12 - 19, 2008