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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Open Access
Wikipedia vs. Britannica – the e-mail debate
The Wall Street Journal set up an interesting and extremely enlightening e-mail debate between Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, and Dale Hoiberg, editor-in-chief of Britannica. I expected a polite statement of principles and strengths, and an establishment of the differences … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Open Access, Search
Tagged Britannica, Dale Hoiberg, editor-in-chief, founder, high speed internet connection, The
Wall Street Journal;, Wikipedia
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Life in the Commonwealth
While driving home today, I heard a commentary on NPR’s All Things Considered entitled Life in the Commonwealth which discusses the impact of a community’s commons, especially the library. It touches upon the question of whether the concept of the … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Open Access, Politics
Tagged Commonwealth Day
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Zotero, formerly known as Firefox Scholar
Zotero is a Firefox extension which will automatically detect when you are on a website that contains information related to citations (i.e. a library OPAC), and will collect this information for you. It will also let you save the web … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Open Source, Search, Software
Tagged research tool
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Libre Map Project is Liberated!
The Libre Map Project had a goal of raising $1600 to fund their project. Once that goal was met, they would open their collection of maps to the world. They met their goal… in less than 24 hours. Now the … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Open Access, Search
Tagged Internet Archive, USD
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More news from Google Book Search
Google Book Search announced today that they were making public domain materials available for download. In the Information Today article, it was stressed that the downloads were the pdf image files, and were not able to be keyword searched, as … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Google, Libraries, Open Access, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Michigan, the
University of Michigan, the
University of Michigan, U.S. government, United States
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Google Book Search
Google Book Search has been a large topic this week, with the fruits of their scanning projects starting to show up online, at least the books that are clearly public domain or for which permission has been granted. I definitely … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Libraries, Open Access, Search
Tagged Google, online info
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Convergence
Sometimes a topic comes at you from several different angles. Hopefully this allows one to see it in a broader fashion… The college where I work just finished the first week of classes. Many students have incredible financial pressures when … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Libraries, News, Open Access
Tagged California, textbook rental systems
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Jessamyn on WorldCat
I referred to Jessamyn West in a previous post, but this is an excellent example of why I have been reading her blog for years, and expect to do so for years to come. I am a big fan of … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Jessamyn West
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Calisphere
From the University of California, Calisphere is an archival collection of digitized images, maps, documents and more. from ResourceShelf
Posted in Libraries, Maps, Online Databases, Open Access, Search
Tagged California, University of California
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Library Success
Again, this is a site that I have known about (and even participated in) before starting this blog. However, it is worth a mention if only to encourage people to visit and participate. Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki is … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Training, Web Design
Tagged 3.11 Technology, Selling Your Library
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LivRe!
LivRe! is an open access journal portal. Need journal articles? LivRe! will help you locate the journals (they currently list 2,525 journals) for the topics you need. from ResourceShelf
Posted in Copyright, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search
Tagged LivRe!, LivRe! LivRe!, open access journal portal
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