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Pennsylvania Literary Journal: Google Websites as an Easy Publication Route

November 18, 2009 – 1:00 pm

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Contributed by:
Anna Faktorovich
Ph.D. Candidate at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA, USA
The Pennsylvania Literary Journal  http://sites.google.com/site/pennsylvani…) is a journal for academics and independent scholars. The first issue was published this summer, and was titled, “Experiments.” The second issue, “Politics and Literature” will be published this winter. The Pennsylvania Literary Journal is available through EBSCO and [...]

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New Blackboard Tool Connects With Google’s Free E-Mail and Applications

November 3, 2009 – 11:55 am

nbsp;http://chronicle.com/article/New-Blackbo…
A new Blackboard tool lets campuses connect the company’s course-management system to Google’s free e-mail and document-sharing services.
The connecting tool, which was developed by Northwestern University, is now available to other campuses as a “Building Block” plug-in for Blackboard. It allows students to access Google Apps within the Blackboard platform, meaning they don’t have to [...]

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GOOGLE SCHOLAR PRESENTS PROBLEMS FOR SCHOLARS

October 30, 2009 – 11:39 am

nbsp;http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA…
“A free tool, Google Scholar has become the most convenient resource to find a few good scholarly papers–often in free full-text format–on even the most esoteric topics. For topical keyword searches, GS is most valuable. But it cannot be used to analyze the publishing performance and impact of researchers.”
In “Google Scholar’s Ghost Authors, Lost Authors, [...]

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Could Google Wave Replace Course-Management Systems?

October 8, 2009 – 10:12 am

nbsp;http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Could-Goog…
Google argues that its new Google Wave system could replace e-mail by blending instant messaging, wikis, and image and document sharing into one seamless communication interface. But some college professors and administrators are more excited about Wave’s potential to be a course-management-system killer.
“Just from the initial look I think it will have all the features [...]

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The Google Books Settlement: Who Is Filing And What Are They Saying?

October 5, 2009 – 7:16 am

nbsp;http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/googlefilingch…
ARL, ALA and ACRL Release Report, “The Google Books Settlement: Who Is Filing And What Are They Saying?” by Brandon Butler (September 29, ‘09

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The University of Michigan Press and The Google Settlement

September 18, 2009 – 2:14 pm

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“University of Michigan Press has decided to opt in to the terms of the Settlement and is beginning the process of claiming books digitized by Google under its Book Search program. We will claim all titles under copyright on behalf of our authors.”
source: DigitalKoans

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Google Signs Print-on-Demand Deal for Two Million PublicDomain Titles

September 18, 2009 – 9:54 am

nbsp;http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA…
 
“Google and On Demand Books (ODB), the maker of the Espresso Book Machine® (EBM), have signed a deal to provide print-on-demand (PoD) access to more than two million public-domain titles (published before 1923) in the Google digital files.”
source: Bernie Sloan

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Google Buys Company That Helps Digitize Books While Protecting Web Sites

September 17, 2009 – 8:13 am

nbsp;http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Google-Buy…
Search giant Google Inc. announced today that it has purchased reCaptcha, a company that began as a research project at Carnegie Mellon University. ReCaptcha develops online word puzzles to serve both as Web-site security and to help digitize printed text, and Google says it will use it in projects like Google Books and Google News [...]

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Google Scholar Universal Gadget

September 16, 2009 – 8:25 am

nbsp;http://code.google.com/p/citations-gadge…
A Google Scholar Universal Gadget which enables users to search for the total number of citations of author(s). It provides a total citation count, total number of cited publications and Jorge E. Hirsch’s H-Index.
source: Eve Young

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Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 5

September 15, 2009 – 7:23 am

nbsp;http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/…

 http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/…

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