November 19, 2009 – 11:55 am
Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access, ISBN 1-57440-137-8.
The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access (ISBN 1-57440-137-8) presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the growing digital [...]
November 19, 2009 – 11:53 am
nbsp;http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/013/downlo…
contents include
The Ripple Effect – extending the library’s reach
Web scale for libraries: a sea change for the 21st century
The first cooperative management service for libraries is an unparalleled effort guided by members
November 19, 2009 – 9:16 am
nbsp;http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:…
November 19, 2009 – 8:50 am
nbsp;http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/p…
This article discusses findings from a longitudinal research study that examined the way graduate students carry out the literature review and how they were impacted by attending a library literature review workshop. The literature review research process serves as an important gateway for graduate students’ into their scholarly communities’ practices, and can be a logical [...]
November 18, 2009 – 1:53 pm
nbsp;http://www.quartos.org/
For the first time, digitized copies of rare early editions of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet have been compiled into a single online collection. The Shakespeare Quartos Archive www.quartos.org) makes digitized versions of the play drawn from libraries in the US and the UK freely available to researchers worldwide.
source: DigitalKoans
November 18, 2009 – 1:42 pm
nbsp;http://aobpla.oxfordjournals.org/
Publisher: Oxford Journals on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company
AoB PLANTS is an online, internationally peer reviewed open access journal publishing high quality papers on most aspects of plant biology.
AoB PLANTS welcomes submissions on all aspects of plant biology including palaeobotany. Coverage extends to micro-organisms and animals where their impact on plants is central. [...]
November 18, 2009 – 1:39 pm
nbsp;http://oerconsortium.org/2009/11/15/new-…
The Student PIRGs recently launched their new Open Textbook Catalog to help faculty find high quality open textbooks.
Open textbooks listed by subject:
Accounting
Business
Computer Science
Earth Science
Economics
Mathematics
Physics
November 18, 2009 – 1:33 pm
nbsp;http://chronicle.com/blogPost/New-Web-Si…
Time traveling is coming to an Internet browser near you.
A new Web site called Memento Web will allow anyone curious about what the Internet used to look like to plug in a date and then browse the World Wide Web as it was on that day.
The site is already live with limited use. ….
source: Chronicle [...]
November 18, 2009 – 1:26 pm
nbsp;http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/mmproc…
contents:
New Models for the Federal Depository Library Program; Roger Schonfeld, Manager of Research, Ithaka S+R
Documents for a Digital Democracy: A Model for the Federal Depository Library Program in the 21st Century, Interim Summary by Ithaka S+R
A Scientist’s View of Open Access; Bernard Schutz, Director, Max PlanCK Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany
A River [...]
November 18, 2009 – 1:21 pm
Washington, DC–The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) E-Science Working Group surveyed ARL member libraries in the fall of 2009 to gather data on the state of engagement with e-science issues. An overview of initial survey findings was presented by E-Science Working Group Chair Wendy Lougee, University Librarian, McKnight Presidential Professor, University of Minnesota Libraries, at [...]
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