February 8, 2010 – 7:38 am
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crljournal/preprints/crl-088.pdf
Libraries, in the past few years, have begun to examine the possibilities available to them through social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook as a tool for library awareness and marketing. As Facebook has come to dominate the social networking site arena, more libraries have created their own library pages on Facebook to create library awareness and to function as a marketing tool. This has spurred a large amount of how-to articles about the uses for Facebook in libraries as well as research about how librarians and libraries use Facebook. This paper examines reported versus actual use of Facebook in libraries to identify discrepancies between intended goals and actual use. The results of the 2009 study by Hendrix, Chiarella, Hasman, Murphy and Zafron, about the use of Facebook in libraries, is used as a guide to gauge the perceived and actual uses for Facebook in this study
February 8, 2010 – 7:10 am
http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/2743
“We have updated the “Journals Using Open Journal Systems by Continent” map for January 2010, with over 5000 known journals included.
It provides an interesting look at where the software is being used. The work of African Journals Online has had a strong influence in Africa, and we’re looking forward to continued growth through our ongoing partnerships in Asia, Latin America, and the rest of the world.”
February 8, 2010 – 6:45 am
http://www.epj-conferences.org/
Publisher: EDP Sciences
EPJ Web of Conferences is an open-access publishing service dedicated to archiving conference proceedings in physics and related sciences. The fields of publication are those covered by the aims and scope of the EPJ journals (the publishers reserve the right to reject proposals that they consider not fitting on these grounds).
Proceedings are published under the scientific responsibility of the conference organisers.
EPJ Web of Conferences aims to make conference proceedings citable and widely usable by the scientific community. It offers versatile and highly flexible publishing solutions suited to any conference, whatever the number and the type of documents supplied.
February 8, 2010 – 6:44 am
http://www.la-press.com/journal.php?journal_id=98
Publisher: Libertas Academica
Medical Equipment Insights aims to keep its readers at the forefront of developments in medical technology. This includes work on the use, development and evaluation of technologies, techniques and resources for diagnosis and care of patients, as well as for medical research purposes.
Articles on telemedicine equipment and issues relating to development, funding and supply are also welcome. Technological innovation and change occur quickly today, and rapid publishing means readers can learn of breakthroughs and developments that much sooner.
ISSN: 1178-637X
Editor-in-Chief:
Dr Irfan Ahmed
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
University of Aberdeen
Medical Equipment Insights is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet.
February 8, 2010 – 6:38 am
http://spie.org/x38996.xml
BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA — SPIE Reviews, a new open-access journal published by SPIE, has launched on the SPIE Digital Library. The journal is edited by William T. Rhodes, professor of electrical engineering and associate director of the Imaging Technology Center at Florida Atlantic University, and emeritus professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The new journal publishes original, in-depth review articles on emerging and evolving fields in applied optics and photonics of use to researchers as well as industry innovators.
