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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 […]
Library Ebooks: Towards a Cooperative Business Model will be the topic of next week’s DBW (Digital Book World) Roundtable webcast beginning at 1pm EST on Thursday, March 24th. Digital Book World is an online publishing industry info resources and community. The DBW Roundtable is a live, interactive webcast featuring some of the most outspoken industry […]
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 […]
From a PC World Magazine Article: TomTom said Thursday that it will provide a live traffic map of its HD Traffic service via the Web, allowing drivers to get a sense for the roads before they start on their journey. [Clip] Unfortunately, the new TomTom map only provides real-time data for Europe and South Africa […]
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 […]
New Report from ARL: "Digital Curation for Preservation"
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Preservation
From an ARL Announcement: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published “Digital Curation for Preservation,” the first report in its new series, New Roles for New Times. Authored by Tyler Walters and Katherine Skinner, the report looks at how libraries are developing new roles and services in the arena of digital curation for preservation. […]
Yes, that’s the actual headline. Cool! (-: From an Article by Phoebe Connelly, TheAtlantic.com: I kept coming back to the librarians as I talked to people at SXSWi because this micro-track mirrored what I saw tweeted and written about the conference as a whole. Interactive didn’t feel blindly focused on discovering the killer app. Tech […]
HathiTrust: "Pays to Share"
| Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
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 […]
In Search of the Perfect Search: Can Google Beat Attempts to Game the System? Under fire after a series of well-publicized schemes revealed flaws in the effectiveness of its search results, Google is taking action. The search giant recently overhauled its ranking procedures in what company executives called an effort to favor “high quality” sites […]
