Nov 03
During the Frankfurt Book Fair, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) released a research report authored by Mark Ware and Michael Mabe, entitled The STM Report: An overview of scientific, and scholarly journals publishing. An update of an initial industry benchmark report done in 2006, the report delivers a positive p... Read more »
Oct 27
The University of Michigan Press blog links today to an extensive outline of their new MPublishing initiative. With a mission of being the primary academic publishing unit of the institution, MPublishing will c... Read more »
Oct 26
In looking over the RSS feeds this morning, I noted an entry from the Law Librarian Blog relating to the usability of a particular information resource (see The Witches ... Read more »
Oct 20
When discussing mobile access and delivery of content within the context of scholarly communication, many providers of scholarly and scientific information do not see an immediate relevance to their products and services. As a result, they choose to delay any further consideration of this new delivery channel. They just don't see the potential for now. In hindsight, this may prove to be a mi... Read more »
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Oct 15
Joan Lippincott of CNI gave a wonderful opening keynote in early October at the LITA National Forum, discussing the opportunities and challenges represented by mobile devices for those in the information community. A brief report of her comments is available here. Equally knowledgeable, L... Read more »
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Oct 12
In his talk last week at the RSuite User Conference, Jason Monberg, VP of Product Management, Mark Logic, referenced three areas where publishers might further derive value from their content, specifically delivery, agility, and conversation.
With regard to de... Read more »
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Oct 08
Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, OCLC Programs and Research and Chief Strategist, OCLC, points today to a report from the Libraries of University of Minnesota. It pertains to discoverability of authoritative content. (Download the full 160 page PDF,Read more »
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Sep 24
I recently came across the synthesize-specialize-mobilize blog, authored by Mark Dahl, Associate Director of Digital Initiatives and Collection Management, Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College. Dahl had written an article entitled The Evolution of Library Discovery Systems which ... Read more »
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Sep 23
Today Google introduced a new element to their Google Toolbar, Google Sidewiki. It's a very simple and easy-to-use annotation tool for knowledge workers who use and refer to Web-based resources. It's got a social element to it in that annotations may be shared with others who visit t... Read more »
Aug 05
I just saw this new initiative from Nature Publishing Group. From the preview site: "Streamosphere tracks thousands of scientists over half a dozen social media sites and analyzes their links, likes and conversations. This page visualizes what the most popular discussions are in a particular time period". Very ... Read more »
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Jul 13
Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow, a report sponsored by NISO and OCLC, has been released just in time for ALA in Chicago later this week. The report provides interesting insights into the various ways that bibliographic metadata is being utilized and the ramifi... Read more »
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Jul 13
Information Today drew my attention to Abe Lederman's talk at SLA and the re-launch of Deep Web Technologies' federated science portal, ScienceResearch.com. Lederman is President of Deep Web Technologies, which is also the company be... Read more »
Jul 13
Google has announced new features for usability in Google Books. Some changes are oriented towards navigation and others deal with supplemental material supplied on a book's "About" page. But most interesting (from the perspective of actual usage) is the way in which user tools are handled... Read more »
Jul 13
I recently saw someone send out a message on Twitter, the gist of which was that she was refusing to read any more articles about that ubiquitous microblogging tool. I sympathize with her irritation; recent coverage has been overwhelming.
That said, if you are already addicted to the service, you may find that Tweetree offers some us... Read more »
