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By Michael J. Kurtz, Johan Bollen From the arXchive Abstract: Scholarly usage data provides unique opportunities to address the known shortcomings of citation analysis. However, the collection, processing and analysis of usage data remains an area of active research. This article provides a review of the state-of-the-art in usage-based informetric, i.e. the use of usage data […]
Note: Don’t Forget, the National Library of Australia Also Provides a Wonderful “Must See” Metasearch Service named Trove. From a Marketing Vox Article: The Washington Post Co. is getting ready to roll out a website in which readers can customize the type of news they want to see. Called Trove, users will be able to build […]
"Students Scan Textbooks to Skirt Cost"
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Libraries, School Libraries
|From a Daily Oklahoman Article (University of Oklahoma): Bizzell Memorial Library owns two scanners — called Knowledge Imaging Centers — that allow students to scan pages and save them directly to an external hard drive, costing the user nothing. Some have been abusing the privilege though, scanning whole chapters and textbooks instead of buying them. […]
From a PC World Article: Buying e-books sounds so easy, and using them seems so effortless. The books are a breeze to purchase, and you can easily store great numbers of them, especially if your e-reader has a removable storage card. Not surprisingly, e-book sales are jumping. In fact, a report by Forrester Research predicts […]
Wow! The Lincoln Legal Papers documents Lincoln’s active and successful professional life as a lawyer before he moved to Washington, D.C. in 1861. The site’s editors [have selected], annotate[d], and transcribe[d] material from 96,386 documents related to the 5,669 legal cases and activities of Lincoln’s varied legal career (Description via FREE). Learn Much More Here […]
From the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative: Applications designed for the iPad offer interactive content that takes advantage of touch-screen navigation. The iPad combines robust computational functionality with a screen large enough to serve as a legitimate replacement for printed textbooks and other course materials. Where the iPad applications have led, other tablets and their attendant applications can be […]
From the OLAC Language Resource Page: [The] catalog, developed by the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), provides access to a wealth of information about thousands of languages, including details of text collections, audio recordings, dictionaries, and software, sourced from dozens of digital and traditional archives. (via Twitter)
Ujala Sehgal from Business Insider has compiled images of the front pages from 17 newspapers and has made them available on the BI web site. The collection includes newspapers from several countries. Sehgal writes: The front pages of newspapers in moments like this become part of history itself, so we went through the world’s newspapers today […]
From the NY Times Arts Beat Blog: This week’s Book Review introduces revamped best-seller lists, the result of many months of planning, research and design. On the Web, there are three entirely new lists. One consists of rankings for fiction and nonfiction that combine print and e-book sales; one is limited exclusively to e-book sales […]
From a Scientific American Article: Data are the common currency that unites all fields of science. As science progresses data proliferate, providing points of reference, revealing trends, and offering evidence to substantiate hypotheses. Decades into the digitization of science, however, data proliferate exponentially, at times threatening to drown knowledge and information in a sea of […]