FREE ACCESS TO SCIENCE PAPERS FOUND NOT TO INCREASE CITATIONS:
Randomly selected papers that were made freely available
online were cited slightly less often than papers that were
not, a study described in "BMJ" found.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/08/4070n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medi
um=en
user name: rulibrary
password: ru2007
Friday, August 1, 2008
MICROSOFT ROLLS OUT PUBLISHING AND RESEARCH TOOLS FOR ACADEMICS
MICROSOFT ROLLS OUT PUBLISHING AND RESEARCH TOOLS FOR
ACADEMICS: Microsoft makes a bid to become a big player in
academic publishing with new tools that help scholars
collaborate, determine fair use, and format papers for online
databases.
http://chronicle.com/free/2008/07/4049n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_mediu
m=en
ACADEMICS: Microsoft makes a bid to become a big player in
academic publishing with new tools that help scholars
collaborate, determine fair use, and format papers for online
databases.
http://chronicle.com/free/2008/07/4049n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_mediu
m=en
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Information about LibGuides
"LibGuides is a popular content management and knowledge sharing system for Libraries. Over 4,100 librarians at 250 libraries use LibGuides every day to share information and connect with patrons, wherever they are." [http://www.springshare.com/]
At the staff meeting this morning we talked about LibGuides, to which the Library has just started subscribing.
The idea is for information services/faculty librarians/departmental librarians to develop subject guides to replace our present static Subject Gateways which are at:[http://www.ru.ac.za/library/electronic_resources/dept/index.html].
The new LibGuides will be dynamic and interactive (e.g. users can make comments, contact their subject librarian, link to webpages/site/videos/feeds, etc.). We hope that this new service will prove useful in connecting users with information and information sources.
We are presently in the process of setting up the access to LibGuides (with the IT Divisoin). Once this happens LibGuides will be linked to the Library webpage and we can start develooping the Guides. This will obviously be a learning process as we become familiar with the functionality and possibilities. Please have a look at the examples of what other libraries are doing with LibGuides and give us your suggestions for RUL.
See a collection of examples and more information about LibGuides at:
http://del.icio.us/aloeferox/LibGuides
At the staff meeting this morning we talked about LibGuides, to which the Library has just started subscribing.
The idea is for information services/faculty librarians/departmental librarians to develop subject guides to replace our present static Subject Gateways which are at:[http://www.ru.ac.za/library/electronic_resources/dept/index.html].
The new LibGuides will be dynamic and interactive (e.g. users can make comments, contact their subject librarian, link to webpages/site/videos/feeds, etc.). We hope that this new service will prove useful in connecting users with information and information sources.
We are presently in the process of setting up the access to LibGuides (with the IT Divisoin). Once this happens LibGuides will be linked to the Library webpage and we can start develooping the Guides. This will obviously be a learning process as we become familiar with the functionality and possibilities. Please have a look at the examples of what other libraries are doing with LibGuides and give us your suggestions for RUL.
See a collection of examples and more information about LibGuides at:
http://del.icio.us/aloeferox/LibGuides
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
How deep does Google go?
From the Chronicle of HE:
Does Google's Web Search Go Deep Enough Into Scholarly
Archives?
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3205&utm_source=at&utm
_medium=en
"Many scholarly archives on college and public Web sites don’t show up in Google because the search engine doesn’t index them — they’re in what many call the “deep Web,” below the level that most search engines look. A new study found that fewer than half — just 44 percent — of a sample group of deep-Web pages from scholarly archives showed up in Google searches."
Comments on a study http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/hagedorn/07hagedorn.html done by digital librarians at the University of Michigan who are also involved in the Open Archives Initiative, an effort to help search engines find items deep in Web archives.
Does Google's Web Search Go Deep Enough Into Scholarly
Archives?
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3205&utm_source=at&utm
_medium=en
"Many scholarly archives on college and public Web sites don’t show up in Google because the search engine doesn’t index them — they’re in what many call the “deep Web,” below the level that most search engines look. A new study found that fewer than half — just 44 percent — of a sample group of deep-Web pages from scholarly archives showed up in Google searches."
Comments on a study http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/hagedorn/07hagedorn.html done by digital librarians at the University of Michigan who are also involved in the Open Archives Initiative, an effort to help search engines find items deep in Web archives.
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