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On the Pitfalls of Social Media: Learning from Clinical Reader
As a youth I remember intently studying the troubles of others -- what they did when they got into trouble and how they got out of it. If the saying "You Le...
On the Pitfalls of Social Media: The Case of Clinical Reader
As libraries feel the need to join the social media landscape to meet a segment of their user population already there, it is useful to step back and get acc...
Federal Research Public Access Act Reintroduced
New legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate last week to support the publication of federally-sponsored research results under open access terms. Sp...
Google Book Search Privacy, Orphan Works, and Monopoly
A few weeks ago, a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed Adam Smith, Google's director of product management, about the Google Book Searc...
OCLC Formally Withdraws Proposed Record Use Policy
OCLC has published the final report from the OCLC Review Board on Principles of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship and announced the formal withdrawal of t...
EBSCO in Cahoots With Harvard Business Press
A controversy is starting to pick up in the business librarian community -- primarily in the U.K. it would seem -- regarding the licensing demands of Harvard...
Two ways to learn about the OLE Project at ALA
Add this event to your desktop calendar program. There will be two programs at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago where aspects of the Open Library Environ...
Textbook Affordability at the Student Success Assessment Summit
I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at the Ohio Student Success Assessment Summit this morning on the topic of textbooks and open educational resourc...
| Three New Search Services: Wolfram | Alpha, Microsoft Bing, Google Squared |
It has been a wild few weeks in search engines -- or search-engine-like services. We've seen the introduction of no fewer than three high-profile tools ......
Drive-Thru Textbook Buy-Back
I continue to be astonished by how efficient the used textbook market has become. This week, at the end of the spring quarter at Ohio State University, a dr...
Flat World Knowledge and U.S. Gov’t on Open Access Course Materials
The sand is really starting to shift under the traditional textbook providers as the open course content movement shows signs of, well, movement. Already th...