The press release is here. This is possibly the nicest library catalog I have seen they use a database/search company instead of a typical opac vendor and appear to have tweaked it extensively. AMong other things, it clusters results based off subject headings, has advanced relavency rankings, and allows browsing of the full collection. It also facilitates browsing in other innovative ways.
ANNOTATED BOOKMARKS
- Shaun Hare - I got excited and made things happen with science.
Congratulations to Shaun for winning the Hack challenge. It was great seeing him use our APIs to create a useful tool in 24hrs. - VIVO Utilizing Scopus Custom Data -- AMSTERDAM, June 24, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Watch this space - "Elsevier...announced today that VIVO has begun a pilot project to evaluate the process by which Scopus Custom Data can be used to populate institutional VIVO instances. " - Recording of Scholarly Perspectives Webinar on research literacy for early career researchers
My portion of the presentation begins on slide 25 - Research literacy primer: Equipping early career researchers with the skills they require to create high quality papers | Scholarly Perspectives Resource Library
4 external speakers + "Michael Habib, Scopus product manager and former Reference Librarian presents on how early career researchers can use specialist research tools to discern quality and authority in a sea of information." - Tue, 25/05/2010 - 13:00; Host: Penn State University Library - Is Facebook Eroding Privacy? Or Does Social Media Require Us to Lower Our Expectations? « The Scholarly Kitchen
Nice summary article of the issue.
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- ACRLog
- blyberg.net
- claimID blog
- davidrothman.net/
- easternblot
- FactoryCity
- jackflaps.net
- Jeff Pomerantz
- Library Garden
- Library Science and the World Around Us
- Library Web Chic
- Life as I Know It
- omg tuna is kewl
- Pattern Recognition
- Really Simple Sidi (RSS)
- Science in the Open
- Tame The Web
- Terrell Russell: This Old Network
- The Folks’ Web
- The Real Paul Jones
- Unit Structures
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