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• RefSeek Recommended

  
  Internet News — Authority: 436
  , press release, Altsearchengines (Dec 2, 2009) RefSeek is a search engine expressly for students and researchers that launched in late 2008 This new version offers document search, definitions, natural language math calculations, and an expanded reference directory. It claims...
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• Scopus Now Available in Research4Life for Scientists in the Developing World

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 666
  From the Announcement: Elsevier today announced that Scopus will be added to Research4Life. Scopus contains abstracts and references from nearly 18,000 peer reviewed journals from more than 5,000 international publishers. Research4Life is the collective name given to HINARI, AGORA and OARE, the three public-private ...
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• Cornell University Library Releases DSpace Repository Deposit and Storage Policies

  
  DuraSpace Blog — Authority: 465
  This announcement is forwarded from David Ruddy, Director, E-Publishing Technologies, Division of Library Information Technologies, Cornell University Library (CUL) . Ithaca, NY Since 2003, CUL has offered and maintained a Cornell-wide institutional repository based on the DSpace software. This service was named ...
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  Lex Communis — Authority: 136
  Trust us, were scientistsOur motives are pure. We have nothing to gain from fudging the data...NASA climate scientist pleads guilty to contract fraud.A former top climate scientist who had become of one the scientific worlds most cited authorities on the human effect on Earths atmosphere was sentenced to probation ...
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  Lex Communis — Authority: 136
  Hide the DeclineHere is an explanation for "Mikes Nature trick to hide the decline":First, the data games: the data manipulation that has been most seized upon by bloggers involves the choice of which sources of temperature data should be used to reflect climate trends after 1960. Because thermometer-based ...
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• A few thoughts on FRPAA

  
  Uncommon Ground — Authority: 426
  Havent heard of FRPAA? Im not surprised. If you dont follow the business of scholarly publishing, I wouldnt expect you to have heard of it. FRPAA is the Federal Research Public Access Act ( S. 1373 ): "A bill to provide for Federal agencies to develop public access policies relating to research conducted by employees ...
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• The Scholars’ Catalog Project

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 526
  A new initiative for a unifying online catalog of resources is underway. Can it provide a substrate for future innovation?
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• OACIS: A Joint Project Led by Yale University Aims to Create a Massive Collection of Middle Eastern Scholarly Journals

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 666
  From the Article: The first project, Online Access for Consolidated Information about Serials (OACIS), is a searchable list of catalogue information compiled from the 20 participating libraries around the world, including the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) and that of the American University in Cairo. The OACIS list ...
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• Roddy MacLeod says goodbye

  
  Internet News — Authority: 436
  Internet Resources Newsletter - the final issue. Roddy MacLeod at Heriot-Watt University Library is retiring and says thanks to all his readers. Each month the Internet Resources Newsletter featured the best of the web for those with interests in educational...
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• Next Generation Connectivity: A Review of Broadband Internet Transitions and Policy from Around the World.

  
  Watching YouTube — Authority: 429
  Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Next Generation Connectivity: A Review of Broadband Internet Transitions and Policy from Around the World . Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Boston, MA., October 2009. Abstract: Commonly known as the “Broadband Study”, the purpose of this report was to ...
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• Call for Papers: 2009 Joint ENOHE/ACCUO Conference

  
  The Ombuds Blog — Authority: 130
  The organizers of the joint conference of the European Network for Ombudsmen in Higher Education and the Association of Canadian College and University Ombudspersons in Vienna on May 19-21, 2010, have issued a call for papers. They have provided the following suggestions corresponding to the organization of the ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Lex Communis — Authority: 136
  Speaking of ParadigmsAs a historian - and I have the Bachelors degree to prove it - Global Warming hysteria never made any sense to me because of an undoubted scientific fact called the "Medieval Warm Period" ("MWP") during which Vikings set up agricultural colonies in Greenland.  Since the Polar Bears did not die ...
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• Open Access and the Google Book Settlement

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 666
  Open Access expert Peter Suber, offers his well documented take on OA issues in the Google Book Search Settlement 2.0. “OA was never an issue in the lawsuit. Google wasn’t scanning copyrighted books in order to make them OA, and the plaintiff groups didn’t sue Google because they thought it was making them ...
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• SPARC-ACRL forum to examine open-access monographs

  
  ACRL Insider — Authority: 494
  Three ambitious initiatives to deliver free online access to scholarly monographs will be featured at the next installment of the SPARC-ACRL forum, ‘The ebook transition: Collaborations and innovations behind open-access monographs.’ The forum, co-sponsored by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Lex Communis — Authority: 136
  More Climate FraudDouglas Keenans research was one of the reports that the CRU tried to silence.  The reason,  apparently, was that one of the leaders of the CRU - Phil Jones - was found to have committed fraud in one of his pro-AGW reports.According to Keenan:In 2007, I published a peer-reviewed paper alleging that ...
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• One Post About HighWire Press Deserves Another: HighWire’s Web Site Gets a Makeover

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 666
  We just posted about ACRL and Stanford’s HighWire Press (HP) announcing a partnership where HP will host several ACRL publications. SInce we’re talking HighWire Press (see the post below this one) it’s also worth mentioning that their web site as a new look and feel. Very nicely done, in our view. HighWire ...
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• ACRL Partners With HighWire Press; Several Publications Moving to HighWire Platform

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 666
  From the Announcement: ACRL is pleased to announce a new partnership with HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, to provide online hosting of College & Research Libraries (C&RL), College & Research Libraries News (C&RL News), and RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, ...
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• ProQuest - Deep Indexing

  
  Internet News — Authority: 436
  ProQuest Adds Deep Indexing for SciTech Databases, Newsbreaks (Nov 30) "ProQuest (www.proquest.com) has incorporated its patent-pending Deep Indexing technology, pioneered with the companys Illustrata offerings, into selected natural science, technology, and engineering subject-oriented databases. Deep Indexing will ...
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• Citation Briefs: Top 20 Countries in ALL FIELDS, 1999-August 31, 2009

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 666
  From the Article: For the eighth year, ScienceWatch.com presents its annual “Top 20″ listings of the countries which, as of the latest bimonthly update of Essential Science Indicators, achieved particular distinction based on their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals from January 1999 ...
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• CMAJ to Cease Being an Open Access Journal in January 2010

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 136
  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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