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• [JoCI] Information Society Free Virtual library - first 5,000 texts

  
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  Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 6:24 AM To: joci-editorial@vancouvercommunity.net Subject: [JoCI] Information Society Free Virtual library - first 5,000 texts Dear colleague, I am glad to inform you that the Edelstein Center for Social Research has launched a virtual library on the Information Society: ...
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• Valuable and Convenient Guide: How to Research a Legal Problem

  
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  The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) has released an update to its valuable and convenient guide How to Research a Legal Problem.See the AALL’s Legal Information Services to the Public (LISP) Special Interest Section (SIS) webpage for more handy links to places on the web where one can obtain legal ...
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• Cannabis beneficial for multiple sclerosis, confirms study

  
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  Washington, Dec 4 (ANI): Cannabis can provide therapeutic benefits for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, says a new study.A systematic review, published in the open access journal BMC Neurology, found that five out six randomized controlled trials reported a reduction in spasticity and an improvement in ...
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• More about PMC Canada

  
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  The webpage entitled: Update on PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada) , at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) website, was modified on November 30, 2009. Excerpt: The first element of the PMC Canada system-the search interface-was launched in October 2009. It allows users to browse, search and ...
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• Chiltern rejects "streamlined fares"

  
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  This just in from Hymnody... As Eye has already noticed, NFM05 content has been uploaded to "The Manual" earlier in the week. One you may have missed, however, is a fare with a massive 46% increase! The 1st Anytime Day Single from London Terminals to Banbury (and vv), priced by Chiltern, is increasing ...
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• Open access: friend or foe?

  
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  Open access to scientific journals is a contentious issue in the sciences. A recent article in the (open-access) journal PLoS Biology makes the case that open access is the way of the future and is good for science, scientists and universities alike.In his essay, David Shulenburger of the Association of Public and ...
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• Will Comcast Join The NAB? And What That Question Tells Us About This Merger.

  
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  Few rivalries in the media world match those of cable operators and broadcasters. Since the first cable regulation by the FCC to prevent cable operators from importing blacked out sports events and “distant signals” that threatened local broadcast content back in the 1960s, broadcasters and cable operators have ...
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• Open Source, Open Development, Open Innovation

  
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  Start: 07/12/2009 - 09:30 End: 07/12/2009 - 16:00For more information and to register, please see: http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2009-12-07_business/progra... [read more...]e-Science
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• Scent signals make lemurs prevent incest

  
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  Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): Lemurs can avoid incest and nepotism, thanks to some specific scent signals secreted from the genital glands of others in the family, according to a new study.Researchers have identified chemicals signals used by both male and female ring-tailed lemurs to advertise their family ties.Christine ...
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• Raptors and their Talons

  
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  Raptors and their Talons are the subjects of a blog post on the DC Birding Blog called " How Raptor Talons Fit Their Prey " This post, which is quite excellent and that I highly recommend, on the November Plos Blog Post of the Month Award. We hope blog post author John Beetham will enjoy his trip around the world ...
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• Next-Gen Libraries Presentation

  
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  Today I presented a talk on Next-Generation Libraries at the Online Information Conference in London, England. Here’s a slidecast of my talk if you’d like to check it out. Next-Gen Libraries View more documents from Ellyssa Kroski .
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• When Less Is More: The Upside of Paywalls and Delisting from Google

  
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  Rupert Murdochs recent moves have challenged the widely held notion that Google and the traffic it generates are essential to a successful web publishing business. Is it better to have lots of freeloading readers or a much smaller group of paying customers? Could the rumored search engine subsidies help support ...
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• [SN09] Werner Vogels, Bradley Horowitz, and Jonathan Zittrain

  
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  I’m at Supernova. ( live stream ) I’ve come in a little late on an afternoon session. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other ...
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• A Library Card Under the Christmas Tree

  
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  Twas the month before Christmas, and by listening hard, you can hear Joe Esposito yearn for a library card. The reasons are simple, yet give publishers pause. No wonder Joes only hope is with Santa Claus.
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• Answer to booze problems may lie in cannabis

  
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  Washington, December 1 (ANI): Putting cannabis in place of more harmful drugs may help in winning the fight against substance abuse, say researchers.Amanda Reiman, University of California, Berkeley, USA, carried out the study at Berkeley Patient’s Group, and found that 40 per cent of the 350 cannabis users quizzed ...
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• CMAJ To Drop Open Access In January

  
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  The Canadian Medical Association Journal has announced that it will cease being an open access journal beginning in January 2010 with plans to restrict some content to subscribers. Canadian medical researchers who wish to publish in an open access journal can still publish in Open Medicine , a peer-reviewed, ...
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• CMAJ to Cease Being an Open Access Journal in January 2010

  
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  CMAJ , which has been an open access journal since 1995, will cease being so in January 2010, when some content will be restricted to subscribers. Heres an excerpt from the " No Longer Free for All ": The harsh economic reality is that CMAJ , like many others in the publishing industry, has experienced a ...
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• Net Neutrality Update

  
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  I’ve been held underwater by work lately and am just now catching up with this thing called “posting,” so forgive me if this post is light on links and details, but I want to give you all a heads up on what’s coming down the pipe in the Obama/Google administration. The big project after Net Neutrality is ...
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• Updates sent to Twitter, November 2009

  
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  Updates related to OA, sent to Twitter during November 2009 : Four ideal types of repositories [ November 30 ]: http://bit.ly/6CvyPd http://ssrn.com/abstract=1506905 RT @ mercpol : The academic journal racket … [ November 28 ]: http://tinyurl.com/y8cq97d Fwd: Giving Open Access a Bad Name « The ...
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• Where to now?

  
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  “What I really want to know is: are things getting better or are they getting worse?” – Laurie Anderson Driving back from the Lesotho border, my eye caught the last brilliant light of the day on a young man carrying wood he had gathered for the fire. I thought back to the teenagers who guard cows all day, ...
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