Document "rental" service via DeepDyve, a deep web search engine

Posted by Celia Walter | 29 Oct, 2009

Document rental service brings “deep web” content to the mainstream

Between The Lines – “DeepDyve, a search engine that specializes in indexing the contents of documents published deep into a Web site, is announcing a Netflix-like service that allows users to “rent” documents such as medical journal articles on a per-use basis.”   

From Library Stuff blog
DeepDyve today unveiled the world's largest online rental service for scientific, technical and medical research. 
From a growing database spanning thousands of journals, DeepDyve now gives consumers and professionals access to more than 30 million articles for as
little as $0.99 per article...
From Reuters

Take a look at DeepDyve

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Top 10 Things Not to Share on Social Networks

Posted by Celia Walter | 26 Oct, 2009

Top 10 Things You Should Not Share on Social Networks

 

Charles W. Bryant writes for HowStuffWorks about the Top 10 Things You Should Not Share on Social Networks. Even if you think you’ve got social networking figured out, you will want to read through the author’s discussion and warnings for each item on the list. Here are items 10 through 5:

  • Personal Conversations
  • Social Plans
  • Linking Sites
  • Company Information
  • Photos of Your Kids
  • Your Address and Phone Number
October 23rd, 2009 iLibrarian blog

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Complete Guide to Twitter

Posted by Celia Walter | 26 Oct, 2009

The folks at MakeUseOf have published a 53-page Complete Guide to Twitter. If you want to get up to speed on how to effectively tweet, you’ll want to check out this guide which includes sections about:

  • Hashtags
  • ReTweeting
  • Searching for Twitter Trends
  • Managing Your Reputation on Twitter
  • Twitter Apps and Bots You Should Know About
  • Scheduling Your Tweets for Later
October 19th, 2009 iLibrarian blog

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State of the Blogosphere 2009 Report

Posted by Celia Walter | 26 Oct, 2009

Technorati has published their annual State of the Blogosphere Report for 2009. The entire report will be released this week over five consecutive days. For this year’s study, Technorati took a closeup look at professional blogging and conducted interviews with several successful bloggers. Here’s a summary of what’s new for the 2009 report:

  • “We took a deeper dive into the entire blogosphere, with a focus on professional bloggers
  • Professional blogging activities
  • Brands in the blogosphere
  • Monetization
  • Twitter & micro-blogging
  • Bloggers impact on US and World events
  • Our largest survey ever conducted by market research firm Penn Schoen and Berland: 2,900 bloggers
  • Interviews and profiles of some of the leading professional bloggers
  • In addition to Technorati index data, we’re also looking at data from search tool provider Lijit.”"
October 20th, 2009 iLibrarian blog

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Does the Brain Like E-Books?

Posted by Celia Walter | 16 Oct, 2009

Writing and reading — from newspapers to novels, academic reports to gossip magazines — are migrating ever faster to digital screens, like laptops, Kindles and cellphones. Traditional book publishers are putting out “vooks,” which place videos in electronic text that can be read online or on an iPhone. Others are republishing old books in electronic form. And libraries, responding to demand, are offering more e-books for download.

Is there a difference in the way the brain takes in or absorbs information when it is presented electronically versus on paper? Does the reading experience change, from retention to comprehension, depending on the medium?

  • Alan Liu, English professor: A New Metaphor for Reading
  • Sandra Aamodt, author, “Welcome to Your Brain”: A Test of Character
  • Maryanne Wolf, professor of child development: Beyond Decoding Words
  • Gloria Mark, professor of informatics: The Effects of Perpetual Distraction
From The New York Times

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H1N1 Flu. CDC

Posted by Celia Walter | 12 Oct, 2009
Center for Disease Control and Prevention: H1N1 Flu [pdf]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created this uniformly excellent site to help the general public learn about the H1N1 flu. The homepage is well-organized, and it contains helpful social networking buttons, along with direct links to email updates, and their RSS feed. Here, visitors can also read the "Situation Update" section, which includes a map of the United States showing the weekly flu activity estimate maps and a number of other charts and tables. The site is chock-full of other helpful resources, including a section dedicated to "General Info" about the flu, information about vaccinations for individuals and public health officials, and a "What's New" area. The site is rounded out by a selection of podcasts and video clips. [KMG] From Scout Report
http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1FLU/

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AcaWiki

Posted by Celia Walter | 9 Oct, 2009

AcaWiki is like "Wikipedia for academic research" designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online. AcaWiki turns research hidden in academic journals into something more dynamic and accessible. All content on the site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. To learn more about what AcaWiki can do for scholars, students, teachers and the public read the FAQ, or look at a sample summary. 
http://acawiki.org/

From Peter Scott's Library blog

 

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Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard

Posted by Celia Walter | 3 Oct, 2009

A central, open access repository for the scholarly output of faculty and the broader research community at Harvard.

http://dash.harvard.edu/

From Internet Resources Newsletter, October, 2009

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Confusing words

Posted by Celia Walter | 3 Oct, 2009

Confusing Words

http://www.confusingwords.com/

Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers.
From Internet Resources Newsletter, October, 2009

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Social.com: social networking directory

Posted by Celia Walter | 2 Oct, 2009

http://www.social.com/ "a directory to help ... keep track of and share the interesting sites"

Categories:

Aggregation
Blogging
Bookmarking
Business
Content
Ethnic
General
Industry Blogs
Microblogging
Mobile
Regional
Search
Services
Specialty Media
Specific Interest
Widgets etc

 

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Kontax, a teen m-novel [English and isiXhosa]

Posted by Celia Walter | 1 Oct, 2009

KONTAX character: Sbu

KONTAX character: Sbu (Source: Shuttleworth Foundation, CC-BY-SA-2.5-ZA)

m4Lit Project (South Africa)

"On 30 September 2009 Kontax – the m-novel created for the Shuttleworth Foundation's m4Lit project – launched in South Africa, making world history as the first of its kind to be offered in both English and isiXhosa. Kontax, a teen novel written by award-winning mobilist Sam Wilson about the adventures of a group of teenage graffiti writers, will unfold chapter by chapter over 21 days from 30 September" RSS Feed

From Peter Scott's Library blog

m4Lit project Shuttleworth Foundation press release

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