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A New Science Tracer Bullet from Library of Congress: Economic Botany: Useful Plants and Products
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|New From the Science Reference Section at LC. This guide offers a systematic approach to the wide variety of published materials on the use of plants by people. Economic plants are defined as being useful either directly, as in food, or indirectly, as products we use or that enhance the environment. Plants are essential to […]
Hot Articles in Library and Information Science (via Hot Articles bX)
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|New from Ex Libris. Hot Articles from bX is a new free usage-based service that shows you immediately, based on real usage data, what is hot in your subject. Similar to the other bX Usage-Based Services, the bX Recommender, Most Popular Articles, and Journal Popularity Report services, Hot Articles is based on usage data from millions […]
From WBUR (Boston): The highest court in Massachusetts has rejected two challenges to a pilot project that continuously streams live, unedited court proceedings from one of the busiest courtrooms in Massachusetts. The OpenCourt project, run by WBUR, began in May with cameras recording and streaming live over the Internet from Quincy District Court. Direct to […]
Congrats and kudos to the HighWire Press Team. From a HighWire Press Announcement (PDF): HighWire Press is pleased to announce the launch of its one thousandth mobile website. This milestone was achieved in just over a year from the initial deployment of the HighWire Mobile Web product. “Since the introduction of the iPhone 3G, it […]
From an Engineering Information Announcement: Compendex has hit the 14 million mark in February. This demonstrates the steep increase in the number of articles that have been indexed in the last few years. In 2011 alone, we have added over 1 million records. Since 2007 Compendex has grown more than 45%, from both journals and […]
OCLC Announces New Agreements With Publishers, Adds More Content and Collections to WorldCat Local
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|via OCLC OCLC has signed new agreements with leading publishers around the world and has added important new content and collections to WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery and delivery service that offers users integrated access to more than 922 million items. WorldCat Local offers access to books, journals and databases from a variety of publishers […]
From Dan Schuman at the Sunlight Foundation: Making good on part of the House of Representative’s commitment to increase congressional transparency, today the House Clerk’s office launched http://docs.house.gov/, a one stop website where the public can access all House bills, amendments, resolutions for floor consideration, and conference reports in XML, as well as information on […]
New Issue of "Focus on Global Resources" Spotlights Human Rights Documentation
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|The Winter 2012 issue (Volume 31, Number 2) of Focus on Global Resources from the Center for Research Libraries is now available online. Articles: In This Issue This FOCUS revolves around the theme of human rights documentation and the issues surrounding the survival and integrity of evidence of human rights violations. Human Rights and Electronic Media: a CRL […]
Title: Predicting Searcher Frustration Authors: Henry Feild, James Allan, Rosie Jones Date: 2010 Source: The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2010) Abstract: When search engine users have trouble finding information, they may become frustrated, possibly resulting in a bad experience (even if they are […]
The complete earnings announcement can be found here. A Few Noteworthy Items: “The slowdown in education continued to weigh on overall results” said Stephen Smith, President and CEO. “A year-to-date decline in for-profit enrollments and the impact of rental ordering patterns, which benefited last year’s numbers, have had a larger than expected impact on the […]