Michael Habib-
A libertarian institute offering dozens of out of print books for sale through Lulu. This is just how academia and libraries should be embracing print on demand technology.
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Mises Institute Print on Demand’s Storefront – Lulu.comThe list of books they are publishing. Worth noting, is that it kind of makes sense that libertarians are the ones who thought to embrace a free and open marketplace like Lulu. Librarians as supporters of free and open marketplaces of ideas should take note.
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“Welcome to the first issue of Talis Platform News, a new way for you to find out how we are continuing to develop the Talis Platform, and to share your own stories on putting it to use in powering the Web applications that matter to you.”
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“The Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control wants to know the viewpoints of all parties interested in this topic… written testimony will be accepted by the Working Group until July 31st, 2007.”
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Highly recommended. I think a lot of Web 2.0 types in the profession argue for much the same, only expanded to include contributions from our patrons.
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.
BLOGROLL
- 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
