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Information use by researchers in the life sciences
Be openly accessible or be obscure —
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Life scientists’ information use – one size does not fit all , posted by Sarah Gentleman on Nature Network , November 2, 2009. Excerpt: Key findings from the report include Researchers use informal and trusted sources of advice from colleagues, rather than institutional service teams, to help identify ...1 day ago -
Make it a pub
spreadingscience —
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[Crossposted at A Man with a PhD ] by gailf548 Participation Value and Shelf-Life for Journal Articles : [Via The Scholarly Kitchen ] Discussion forums built around academic journal articles haven’t seen much usage from readers. Lessons learned from the behavior of sports fans may provide some ...1 day ago -
Staying up to date with twitter services
spreadingscience —
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Part 1: What are Twitter Lists? : [Via Pistachio Consulting Inc. ] This is Part 1 of a 3-part series cross-posted from adelemcalear.com WHAT IS IT? Back on September 30th, Twitter announced on their blog that they would be launching their new Lists feature to a small group of users to beta test. ...1 day ago -
Make it a pub
A Man With A Ph.D. —
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by gailf548 Participation Value and Shelf-Life for Journal Articles : [Via The Scholarly Kitchen ] Discussion forums built around academic journal articles haven’t seen much usage from readers. Lessons learned from the behavior of sports fans may provide some insight into the reasons why. [ More ] ...1 day ago -
The eBook revolution
A Man With A Ph.D. —
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[Crossposted at Path to Sustainable ] by goXunuReviews Kindle readers beware – big Amazon is watching you read 1984 : [Via LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News ] John Naughton says The ebook reader may have advantages over unwieldy printed tomes, but it has unexpected drawbacks. ...1 day ago -
Open Access Memberships: Are Libraries Paying Too Much?
The Scholarly Kitchen —
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Columbia University drops BioMed Central membership after it discovers it was paying way too much.2 days ago -
Ericssons CTO finds new home in Silicon Valley
Telecom Industry News —
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Ericssons CTO Hakan Eriksson will soon have a new set of digs as he relocates to Silicon Valley to oversee the Swedish companys Internet Protocol business in addition to continuing his role as CTO. Erikssons move to the U.S. reflects the growing momentum Ericsson is seeing in two key wireless and wireline segments: ...2 days ago -
Inappropriate clothing prevents children from playing outside (Re-issue)
Thaindian News —
Authority: 715
Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): A new study has revealed that inadequate or inappropriate clothing might restrict kids’ physical activity in child care centres.A research team, led by Dr Kristen Copeland from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, undertook a qualitative study of 53 child-care providers from 34 ...3 days ago -
Towards a DFID Research policy on open access
AgInfo News from IAALD —
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The UKs Department for International Development (DFID) is a major funder of agricultural and development research. A recent news item in R4D reposrts that DFID "supports Open Access as a core component of its research commitment to ensure that research knowledge can be accessed, built upon and used in support of ...3 days ago -
Google plays the openness card
Joho the Blog —
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While Apple has blocked the Someecards app because some of the cards have made fun of public figures, Google has asked the app to port on over to Android phones. (BTW, I got a Droid today.)3 days ago -
Open Access Law with Malamud and Others.
Slaw —
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Following on our comments this week on law and access, a show on BlogTalkRadio called The Law Librarian has a podcast available of today’s discussion on OA legal resources with Carl Malamud and others. They talk about his Law.gov initiative, the Obama admin., and others. A good listen.4 days ago -
Bob Berring and Tom Bruce – Twin sons of different mothers
Legal Research Plus —
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A couple of weeks ago our friend and hero Tim Stanley from Justia gave his terrific free-resources presentation at our Advanced Legal Research class. As an in-class exercise the next class session, we asked the students to briefly share some aspect of what they learned from Tim’s talk. One student wrote:I ...4 days ago -
Open Access: Taxpayers Denied Access to Public Funded Research Materials
ResourcesForLife.com —
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Activism Summary . Because education and the free exchange of information are central to a stable democracy, open access is an essential part of national security. Open Access Week is an initiative to increase public awareness about the importance of open access. “Open Access is a growing international ...4 days ago -
Inappropriate clothing prevents children from playing outside
Thaindian News —
Authority: 715
Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): A new study has revealed that inadequate or inappropriate clothing might restrict kids’ physical activity in child care centres.A research team, led by Dr Kristen Copeland from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, undertook a qualitative study of 53 child-care providers from 34 ...5 days ago -
Throwing Open the Doors
Digging Digitally —
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I’d like to draw attention to an Educause Live! double presentation which can be heard with slides online : Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access (Oct. 13). “In the past decade, the proliferation of Web 2.0 tools for sharing and creating knowledge, coupled with the creation of ...5 days ago -
Organizations Write President Obama Regarding ACTA
Public Policy Connections —
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Several organizations, including SLA, sent a letter on 5 November 2009 to President Obama expressing concerns about the lack of transparency and openness surrounding the negotiations on a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (“ACTA”). In the letter, the organizations applaud President Obama’s promise of a ...5 days ago -
Obessed + Intelligent + Socially Adequate = Geek
Legal Geekery —
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Introduction - Yay, swine flu!! And how your law school is helping you prepare for the epidemic by making you bathe in hand sanitizer. - I don’t know what to call this, but it’s awesome: http://adactio.com/journal/1623 (a.k.a Perfect Pitch and the tale of possibly fraudulent DMCA takedown requests). In The ...5 days ago -
Tomorrow’s Giants 1 – Big Data
Semantic Science —
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I recently spent an afternoon at a meeting entitled “Tomorrow’s Giants”, which was jointly organized by the Royal Society and Nature and took place here in Cambridge. The meeting was in preparation for a larger meeting, also entitled “ Tomorrow’s Giants ” which is to be held on the 1st July 2010 as ...6 days ago -
Academic Journal Publisher Brill Launches Brill Open
DigitalKoans —
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Brill , an international academic publisher located in Leiden and Boston, has launched Brill Open . Heres an excerpt from the press release : This new author service offers the option of making articles freely available upon publication. Brill Open enables authors to comply with research funding bodies and ...6 days ago -
Utah State University Press Merges with Library, Goes Open Access
DigitalKoans —
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The Utah State University Press will merge with the Merrill-Cazier Library, and it will "adopt a new publication model, with open access as a central component." Heres an excerpt from the press release Joining a growing national trend, Utah State University Press will merge with the administrative structure of ...6 days ago
