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Florida: Online Databases: "Gov. Rick Scott Launches Website and Opens State Salary Database to the Public"
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From Florida Newswire: Governor Rick Scott [has] launched a new website that will serve the public by providing access to frequently requested public records and other information, including a state employee salary database. The new website is located at www.FloridaHasARightToKnow.com and contains the following information (and more): + Public access to state employee salary information. […]
From an Announcement: Europe’s first national e-program Digitalkoot (Digital Volunteers), launched by the National Library of Finland and Microtask, has broken the 25,000 visitors only after one month of launching. Digital volunteers from around the world have completed over 2 million individual tasks, totalling 100,000 minutes, or 1,700 hours, of work. [Clip] Digitalkoot is an […]
Zotero, one of our favorite and most used online research tools (citation management, locally archiving web pages, and much more) has just released an update. If you’ve never used Zotero you might want to take a look. This powerful tool is also free but it’s an example of a resource that we would very likely […]
From An Empire Center Press Release: New Yorkers today can search the complete 2010 state government payroll on SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s government transparency website. The database includes, names, titles, base pay rates and total pay received by the 273,983 people who worked in the state’s executive, legislative or judicial branches at any point last […]
From an Article in the Malaysia Star: Malaysians will have easier and cheaper access to books soon, thanks to a neat new means of selling them. Donald Kee, COO of the bookstore chain, explains how the idea came about: “We wanted to come up with a way in which we could reach our customers instead […]
From an iHealthBeat Post: The National Conference of State Legislatures has launched a searchable database that provides comprehensive information about the latest developments in the implementation of the federal health reform law at the state level, The Hill‘s “Healthwatch” reports (“Healthwatch,” The Hill, 3/15). The database, which is accessible at no cost, tracks various issues and provisions […]
Paul Biba at TeleRead reports that new numbers from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) show that E-book net sales increased by 115.8% vs January 2010 (from $32.4 Million to $69.9M). Paul also notes that downloadable audiobook by 8.8% vs the previous year ($6.0M to $6.5M). More January 2011 book sales numbers in this TeleRead […]
1. “Finally, A Smart Alternative To Those Goofy Mobile Barcodes” (by Dan Frommer, Silicon Alley Insider) Nothing to install or scan just text a few numbers. The pros and cons of Zoove. ||| A Few Zoove Demos. 2. “Many teenagers are clueless about QR Codes. Can they ever really take off? (by Martin Bryant, The […]
From NLM Tech Bulletin: The PubMed Mobile Beta provides a simplified mobile friendly Web interface to access PubMed. PubMed Mobile includes the same basic search functionality and content as Standard PubMed; that is, all search terms and fields work similarly. You can access the PubMed Mobile Web interface from the National Library of Medicine web […]
HathiTrust: "Pays to Share"
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From an Inside Higher Ed Article by Steve Kolowich: HathiTrust, a cooperative based at the University of Michigan, has taken steps to make sure that Google is not the only one putting together a comprehensive digital archive of academic library content. After only two and a half years, HathiTrust now counts more than 50 member […]
