Do open access articles have more impact?
From the E-LIS e-prints archive.
-from ResourceShelf
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Website---->INFO CONNECT: Union Catalogs of the World.
INFO CONNECT: Union Catalogs of the World.
Listing of union catalogues worldwide.
-from ResourceShelf
Listing of union catalogues worldwide.
-from ResourceShelf
Search Engine update--->Clusty the Clustering Engine
Clusty the Clustering Engine
Try searching the term bears in Google and then in Clusty. Illustrates how clustering can be a great alternative to Googles page ranking system. Clustering may become an option we see more of in databases, and with big full text databases may be very useful.
-from ResourceShelf
Try searching the term bears in Google and then in Clusty. Illustrates how clustering can be a great alternative to Googles page ranking system. Clustering may become an option we see more of in databases, and with big full text databases may be very useful.
-from ResourceShelf
Report--->Canada's Ecological Footrpint Report
Also does breakdowns by municipality.
-from Docuticker
-from Docuticker
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Report--->Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet’s First Decade of Public Use
Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet’s First Decade of Public Use
An excerpt of findings re trust in internet based information.
• Although the Internet has become the most important source of current information for users, the initially high level of credibility of information on the Internet began to drop in the third year of the study, and declined even further in Year Four.
• The number of users who believe that only about half of the information on the Internet is accurate and reliable is growing and has now passed 40 percent of users for the first time.
• The study showed that most users trust information on the websites they visit regularly, and on pages created by established media and the government.
• Information pages posted by individuals have the lowest credibility: only 9.5 percent of users say information on those sites is reliable and accurate.
-from ResourceShelf
An excerpt of findings re trust in internet based information.
• Although the Internet has become the most important source of current information for users, the initially high level of credibility of information on the Internet began to drop in the third year of the study, and declined even further in Year Four.
• The number of users who believe that only about half of the information on the Internet is accurate and reliable is growing and has now passed 40 percent of users for the first time.
• The study showed that most users trust information on the websites they visit regularly, and on pages created by established media and the government.
• Information pages posted by individuals have the lowest credibility: only 9.5 percent of users say information on those sites is reliable and accurate.
-from ResourceShelf
Web Site--->Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
"This bibliographic essay originally appeared as "Canadian Studies: A Core Collection," CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 35 (September 1997): 71-84, and since June 1999 has been regularly updated for the International Council for Canadian Studies World Wide Web Service. Reprinted with permission from CHOICE. Copyright © 1997-2004 by the American Library Association and the authors. All rights reserved. Comments and suggestions are welcome. [Latest update: 16 September 2004.]"
-from ResourceShelf
"This bibliographic essay originally appeared as "Canadian Studies: A Core Collection," CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 35 (September 1997): 71-84, and since June 1999 has been regularly updated for the International Council for Canadian Studies World Wide Web Service. Reprinted with permission from CHOICE. Copyright © 1997-2004 by the American Library Association and the authors. All rights reserved. Comments and suggestions are welcome. [Latest update: 16 September 2004.]"
-from ResourceShelf
Web Site--->Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, Volume XXXI, South and Central America; Mexico
Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, Volume XXXI, South and Central America; Mexico
"The volume features eleven bilateral and two regional compilations, demonstrating the breadth of the U.S. Government’s relations with the countries of South and Central America...."
-from ResourceShelf
"The volume features eleven bilateral and two regional compilations, demonstrating the breadth of the U.S. Government’s relations with the countries of South and Central America...."
-from ResourceShelf
Blog--->ResourceShelf's DocuTicker
ResourceShelf's DocuTicker
Blog that announces new documents, reports etc. available on the web.
-from ResourceShelf
Blog that announces new documents, reports etc. available on the web.
-from ResourceShelf
Article----> Canada's Innovation Deficit
Canada's Innovation Deficit
I haven't read this yet, but though it might interest some.
"Michael Geist, Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, has written a through-provoking and timely article in the Toronto Star about the innovation deficit in Canada
from STQL
I haven't read this yet, but though it might interest some.
"Michael Geist, Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, has written a through-provoking and timely article in the Toronto Star about the innovation deficit in Canada
from STQL
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
30 second bunny movies (humour)
Angry Alien Productions
In case you need entertainment and only have 30 seconds. Not related to libraries in any way.
In case you need entertainment and only have 30 seconds. Not related to libraries in any way.
OCLC report on Information Format Trends
2004 Information Format Trends
A short update of the 2003 report. Looks at emerging trends including:
Social publishing (blogs)
Micro-content
Person to person exchange
Impact on academics
Contextual searching
Basic premise is that libraries need to pay attention to changing user behaviour, authenticity and provenance, tools for synthesizing knowledge.
A short update of the 2003 report. Looks at emerging trends including:
Social publishing (blogs)
Micro-content
Person to person exchange
Impact on academics
Contextual searching
Basic premise is that libraries need to pay attention to changing user behaviour, authenticity and provenance, tools for synthesizing knowledge.
New web site for employers and job seekers in the life sciences
Welcome to Adsumo: Your source for biotech, pharmaceutical, medical & academic research jobs
A joint venture of BioMed Central and The Scientist.
-from ResourceShelf
A joint venture of BioMed Central and The Scientist.
-from ResourceShelf
ARLStatistics 2002-03: Research Library Trends
ARLStatistics 2002-03: Research Library Trends
A good read if you are interested in trends in measuring library quality.
-from ResourceShelf
A good read if you are interested in trends in measuring library quality.
-from ResourceShelf
Pick up a Portal - Lorcan Dempsey
CILIP | Pick up a Portal - Lorcan Dempsey
Dempsey looks at the different meanings of portal, and how libraries may need to change their approach to accomodate user behaviours.
-from ResouceShelf
Dempsey looks at the different meanings of portal, and how libraries may need to change their approach to accomodate user behaviours.
-from ResouceShelf
Friday, September 17, 2004
New JSTOR Titles
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
Folklore
The Journal of Marketing
Journal of Marketing Research
The Journal of Religion
Religion and American Culture
Folklore
The Journal of Marketing
Journal of Marketing Research
The Journal of Religion
Religion and American Culture
NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server
NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server
The NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS) and provides students, educators, and the public access to NASA's technical literature.
NTRS also collects scientific and technical information from sites external to NASA to broaden the scope of information available to users.
The NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS) and provides students, educators, and the public access to NASA's technical literature.
NTRS also collects scientific and technical information from sites external to NASA to broaden the scope of information available to users.
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
July August New books Report
I'm testing two new formats. Let me know if you have any comments.
HTML Version
This version has a navigation bar at the bottom, so you can click through different subjects. Use the scroll bar to move left and right so you can see all the different topics.
You can copy and paste the url to send this version to researchers.
Excel sortable by fund number
This is an Excel version of the entire file. You can use this one to sort by call number, title or fund. The Title, Call Number, and Location information is preformatted for easy cut and paste.
HTML Version
This version has a navigation bar at the bottom, so you can click through different subjects. Use the scroll bar to move left and right so you can see all the different topics.
You can copy and paste the url to send this version to researchers.
Excel sortable by fund number
This is an Excel version of the entire file. You can use this one to sort by call number, title or fund. The Title, Call Number, and Location information is preformatted for easy cut and paste.
Changes to Grove Art Online
EXPLORE
Allows users to customize searches with combinations from five major subject categories:
Art and Art Forms
Geography
People
Time Periods
Styles and Cultures.
For example, users can create a list of all articles in Grove Art Online related to Italian sculptors of the Renaissance, or view all articles pertaining to photography in the twentieth-century
ART IMAGE PROGRAM
Grove Art Online begins a new art image program to illustrate important
articles with key images in art history.
Users can find illustrations for major works of art in articles such as: African
American Art, Cassatt, Delacroix, Michelangelo, and more. The integrated
images will be accessible from within the body of the article and from the
Illustrations tab in the relevant articles.
Grove Art Online will continue to direct users to a variety of online image
resources including Art Resource, Bridgeman Art Library, and links to museums
and galleries.
Allows users to customize searches with combinations from five major subject categories:
Art and Art Forms
Geography
People
Time Periods
Styles and Cultures.
For example, users can create a list of all articles in Grove Art Online related to Italian sculptors of the Renaissance, or view all articles pertaining to photography in the twentieth-century
ART IMAGE PROGRAM
Grove Art Online begins a new art image program to illustrate important
articles with key images in art history.
Users can find illustrations for major works of art in articles such as: African
American Art, Cassatt, Delacroix, Michelangelo, and more. The integrated
images will be accessible from within the body of the article and from the
Illustrations tab in the relevant articles.
Grove Art Online will continue to direct users to a variety of online image
resources including Art Resource, Bridgeman Art Library, and links to museums
and galleries.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Reminder of YBP selection lists
YBP selection lists
Reminder that YBP does many different subject specific selection lists. The link above will take you to the Academic Essentials page, but other tools are listed in the left hand column.
Reminder that YBP does many different subject specific selection lists. The link above will take you to the Academic Essentials page, but other tools are listed in the left hand column.
Article: Medical journals to require clinical trial registration
Medical journals to require clinical trial registration
Eleven prestigious medical journals around the world have announced a new strategy intended to force drug companies to disclose more information about clinical trials.
Eleven prestigious medical journals around the world have announced a new strategy intended to force drug companies to disclose more information about clinical trials.
Monday, September 13, 2004
Automated Web Cataloging
Short outline of LC's automated cataloguing assistant.
Web Cataloging Assistant (the "webcat assistant") is an outgrowth of BEAT’s Web Access to Publications in Series project and evolved from the experiences the team gained in providing access at the individual monograph level for selected series. BEAT has now started to use a more automated approach to this work. Using programming developed by a team member it is now possible for a cataloger to effect the creation of a MARC record that is automatically added to the LC database. A cataloger subsequently enhances the cataloging data. The capability greatly reduces manual aspects of the project and allows catalogers to concentrate on the intellectual work.
Web Cataloging Assistant (the "webcat assistant") is an outgrowth of BEAT’s Web Access to Publications in Series project and evolved from the experiences the team gained in providing access at the individual monograph level for selected series. BEAT has now started to use a more automated approach to this work. Using programming developed by a team member it is now possible for a cataloger to effect the creation of a MARC record that is automatically added to the LC database. A cataloger subsequently enhances the cataloging data. The capability greatly reduces manual aspects of the project and allows catalogers to concentrate on the intellectual work.
Friday, September 10, 2004
New Product---> Clase and Periodica
Clase and Periodica
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Combines CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades), which indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities (over 1,200 sources) and PERIODICA, which covers journals specializing in science and technology (over 1,400 sources).
Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Combines CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades), which indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities (over 1,200 sources) and PERIODICA, which covers journals specializing in science and technology (over 1,400 sources).
Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
Life as a library researcher
Short article by a researcher for the Oxford English Dictionary.
-from ResourceShelf
-from ResourceShelf
New Product--->Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Health and Psychosocial Instruments features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques.
Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation.
Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation.
Economic Intelligence Unit Information added to ABI Inform Global
EIU ViewsWire covers the critical aspects of global business.
* Country alerts offering briefings on key market developments around the world
* Country views for timely assessments and forecasts of changing market country updates, consensus currency, interest and equity forecasts, country forecast and risk summaries
* Country background covering facts and figures on local market and regulatory environments, including country fact sheets, economic indicators, trade, tax and foreign exchange regulations, and weekly interest rates.
* Country alerts offering briefings on key market developments around the world
* Country views for timely assessments and forecasts of changing market country updates, consensus currency, interest and equity forecasts, country forecast and risk summaries
* Country background covering facts and figures on local market and regulatory environments, including country fact sheets, economic indicators, trade, tax and foreign exchange regulations, and weekly interest rates.
Project Muse-->Steinbeck Studies Journal
Steinbeck Studies is the authorized publication on the life and works fo John Steinbeck.
It publishes scholarly articles, essays, photographs, notes, book and performance review, and contemporary references about the author.
Manuscripts are subject to blind peer review. Steinbeck Studies is issued twice yearly and includes a membership in the Steinbeck Society. Members will be informed of panels at the American Literature Association as well as events sponsored by the Center for Steinbeck Studies and the National Steinbeck Center.
It publishes scholarly articles, essays, photographs, notes, book and performance review, and contemporary references about the author.
Manuscripts are subject to blind peer review. Steinbeck Studies is issued twice yearly and includes a membership in the Steinbeck Society. Members will be informed of panels at the American Literature Association as well as events sponsored by the Center for Steinbeck Studies and the National Steinbeck Center.
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Part 1
by David Mattison
Access Archivist, British Columbia Archives, Royal BC Museum Corporation
Access Archivist, British Columbia Archives, Royal BC Museum Corporation
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)