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Mike the Mad Biologist (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
One of the things I can't stand about non-open access publishers is that federally-funded scientific results ( federally subsidized in multiple ways ) are locked behind a publisher's for-profit firewall. Given the high prices of journals and universities' need to cut expenditures, library budgets are getting slashed. So what's a scientist to do? Have a colleague whose institution has a subscription...
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Uncertain Principles (Free subscription) | yesterday
We subscribe to Locus , the SF review and news magazine, and every month when it arrives, I flip through it quickly to look at the ads. This is a useful guide to what's coming out from various publishers, but it's also kind of fascinating to see how the different publishers market their stuff. In particular, it's interesting to see how Baen pitches their books, because they are aimed with laser-like...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
Access the Complete Issue (35.3) (PDF) This Issue includes: + Editorial: Reading, Information Literacy and Professional Development +Reading Sources and Reading Spaces in Honduras + Information Literacy and Scholarly Investigation: a British perspective + Our Space: professional development for new graduates and professionals in Australia + Open Access Repositories in Computer Science and Information...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
From the Announcement: Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm David Ferriero as the 10th Archivist of the United States. Mr. Ferriero was the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries and is a leader in the field of library science. Mr. Ferriero, who was nominated by President Obama on July 28, [...]
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A Blog Around The Clock (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference , but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what. There are three parent-child pairs coming to the conference in January and all three have been here before: John and Sam Dupuis are a father and son. John is the Head of...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at Illinois, says that comic books are just as sophisticated as other forms of literature, and children benefit from reading them at least as much as they do from reading other types of books.
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Do similar networks exist for other disciplines. Our guess, yes they do. Why do medical professionals and students have to swap articles illegally when they likely have access to them via a academic or public library? We wonder if ease of use (no searching required) and lack of awareness of what their library offers [...]
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Grey Noughts (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The great ones are slowly, but surely, fading away. Of course, new ones will come. They always do. But, most of them I will not know about. It takes time to achieve greatness. And, once achieved it may not be recognised until later. Sometimes much later. Could it be then that Claude Lévi-Strauss deliberately, and in a calculated way, set out to live to be 100? Or did he just want to add one...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Yesterday, we posted about the new blog from the Science, Technology, and Business Division (ST&B) at the Library of Congress. Its name, “Inside Adams”. Once again, congrats to all involved. Today, in a post post on the Library of Congress blog, Matt Raymond points out a new weblog aggregation page. Great idea! The aggregation page is [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
From the Announcement and Summary A report by the British Library and the Research Information Network (RIN) launched today provides unique insight into how information is used by researchers across life sciences. [Snip] The report, Patterns of Information Use and Exchange: Case Studies of Researchers in Life Sciences was developed using an innovative approach to capture the day-to-day [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The new blog is titled “Inside Adams.” LC’s Adams Building is the the Science, Technology, and Business Division (ST&B) is located. ResourceShelf welcome Inside Adams to the blogosphere. Kudos! From a News Release: The Science, Technology, and Business Division of the Library of Congress has launched a new blog, Inside Adams. Inside Adams will point readers to [...]
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
I was (as penance for my sins) reading back issues of the American Spectator in the Berkeley library, and I came across a marvelously funny column by its Washington correspondent, Tom Bethell: "Doubting Dada Physics," in the August 1993 issue (pp. 16-17). The column's subject is: ...[a] solitary genius [Petr Beckmann]... publish[ing] his own ideas and discoveries at a time of growing intellectual...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
( Public Library of Science ) Immunity to whooping cough lasts at least 30 years on average, much longer than previously thought, according to a new study by researchers based at the University of Michigan and the University of New Mexico. Details are published Oct. 30 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
From a Blog Post: As one of the founding members of the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition, the American Library Association’s (ALA) Washington Office has actively participated in communicating the role of anchor institutions in national broadband build-out to members of Congress, the National Telecommunications and Information Association (NTIA) and the Federal Communications...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Press release from PLoS MedicineThis week, the Public Library of Science, an open-access publisher, presents the "Genomics of Emerging Infectious Disease," a collection of essays, perspectives, and reviews that explores how genomics—with all its associated tools and techniques—can provide insights into our understanding of emerging infectious disease.As pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza...
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cricbytes | 02/11/2009
Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik and senior all-rounder Shahid Afridi were on Tuesday retained in the 22-member probables list for the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka.
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