Category Archives: Periodicals

Blue Books

Posted on 7 February 2007 by Rick Mason

Wouldn’t it be nice if there existed a web page containing links to all the Blue Books for the states? There are two: ALA’s GODORT Wiki Bradley University’s Wiki If you look under the history tab for each of the … Continue reading →

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Google Scholar Citations

Posted on 1 February 2007 by Rick Mason

Apparently this has been around for a while, but there is a nifty feature in Google Scholar that is turned off by default. If you follow the Scholar preferences link, you can find an option to export citations into one … Continue reading →

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Universal Author Identifier System

Posted on 11 January 2007 by Rick Mason

The purpose of this proposal is to provide the means to differentiate between authors with the same or similar names.  One thing I really like about it is that it would be able to be updated and maintained by authors, … Continue reading →

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Abolish the Periodicals Department

Posted on 3 January 2007 by Rick Mason

The text of this article makes it clear that this isn’t a case of a library eliminating periodicals, even print volumes (they are however, eliminating it as a technical services department and spreading the duties among other areas), but a … Continue reading →

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