Thursday, September 25, 2008

e-textbooks on demand

College Bookstores to Begin Selling eTextbooks on Demand
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3342&utm_source=at&utm
_medium=en
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3342&utm_source=at&utm

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Regional journals can boost science capacity

This week's issue of Sci.Dev.net has some interesting articles about scholarly publication including one by Wieland Gevers on the above topic

http://www.scidev.net/en/opinions/regional-journals-can-boost-science-capacity.html



Wieland Gevers was, until recently, the executive officer of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and is the chair of its Committee on Scholarly Publishing.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Excellent book for Academic Librarians

Just finished this very readable book
"The academic library and the Net Gen Student" / Susan Gibbons

Only 99 pages! Gives an excellent overview of the 'new' digital student and the types of technologies we need to get our heads around.

Dewey: 027.7 GIB