MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2011
This article appears in the September 2011 issue of Research Trends, published by Scopus (Elsevier). Title: “Heading for Success: or How Not to Title Your Paper” Author: Sarah Huggett From the Introduction: The title of a paper acts as a gateway to its content. It’s the first thing potential readers of the paper see, before […]
From Semantic Universe: Ruben Verborgh and Seth van Hooland have launched Free Your Metadata, “a demonstrator site for showing how even irregular metadata can have valued to others and how, if it is released rather than clutched tightly onto (until that mythical day when it is ‘perfect’), it can be cleaned up and improved using […]
Cataloging: SkyRiver Announces Six New Academic Library Customers
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Resources
|From SkyRiver: Recent additions to the SkyRiver customer base include Alma College (MI), Cameron University (OK), Rhode Island College (RI), San Francisco State University (CA), Utah State University (UT), as well as ARL member, the Kelvin Smith Library of Case Western Reserve University (OH). Read the Complete Announcement
The article appears in the September 2011 Issue of Information Research. Title: “Research: An Examination of Semantic Relationships Between Professionally Assigned Metadata and User-Generated Tags for Popular Literature in Complementary and Alternative Medicine” Authors: Hemalata Iyer and Lucy Bungo University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Information Studies, College of Computing and […]
ProQuest Expands Historical Newspaper Collection With American Jewish Newspapers
Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, News
|Just in time for Rosh Hashanah!*** (-: From a ProQuest Announcement: The world’s largest digital newspaper archive is expanding to provide researchers with access to unique, targeted perspectives on the news as ProQuest digitizes collections of historic American Jewish and regional newspapers. The papers, dating from 1841 and covering regions such as Boston, the Ohio […]
NSF Launches Science360 Radio for Web, iPhone and Android The National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched Science360 Radio, the first Internet radio stream dedicated to programming about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Science360 Radio offers 24/7 programming, with more than 100 radio shows and podcasts produced in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom […]
Here’s a new blog post by Peter Brantley on the Publisher’s Weekly site. Title: “Lending E-Books is about B-2-C” By: Peter Brantley From the Blog Post: Eric Hellman writes that Macmillan CEO John Sargent has said, “You get the book, read it, return it and get another, all without paying a thing. ‘It’s like Netflix, […]
From EPA HQ: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is observing Pollution Prevention (P2) Week (September 19-25, 2011) by launching a new tool designed to provide Americans easy access to information about everyday products like home appliances, electronics and cleaning products that can save money, prevent pollution and protect people’s health. The new green products […]
From a U.S. Census Bureau Summary: The U.S. Census Bureau released today new statistics on same-sex married couple and unmarried partner households. According to revised estimates from the 2010 Census, there were 131,729 same-sex married couple households and 514,735 same-sex unmarried partner households in the United States. The results of the 2010 Census revised estimates […]
New Article from EDUCAUSE: "Digging into Archaeological Data"
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From an EDUCAUSE Review Article by Elizabeth A. Waraksa: Among the various types of electronic resources for the study of the ancient world, open access collections of primary archaeological data—for example, the Archaeology Data Service (http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/) and the Archaeobotanical Database (http://www.cuminum.de/archaeobotany/)—are a particular boon for researchers, especially those for whom annual fieldwork may not always […]