"2006 has been called the "Year of OPML," and from the amount of attention it's been receiving lately in the blogosphere, that seems believable. OPML, which stands for Outline Processing Markup Language, is a way of describing collections of links to the Web as an outline".
6 Jun 2006
Year of OPML
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Cool on a Budget - Library 2.0?
Online Cool on a Budget by Rachel Singer Gordon and Michael Stephens explains how new online tools make it easy and cheap for letting your library show its best side and appear as dynamic. They suggest libraies to try blogs, Flickr, del.icio.us, Google Maps and building wikis. Further libraries can use social networking plateforms like MySpace or Facebook.
Well are they suggesting Library 2.0?
Well are they suggesting Library 2.0?
5 Jun 2006
BRICKS
BRICKS - Building resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services
The BRICKS Community is the aggregation of a large community of users, composed of content providers, art professionals, and art researchers, as well as students, citizens, tourists, etc. in order to build a consensus, sharing knowledge and service on Digital Content.
Congratulations NIT Rourkela (India) for having OA Archiving Policy
Congratulations NIT Rourkela (India) for OA Self-Archiving Policy.
"All research papers by faculty and students, MTech (Research) and Ph.D. thesis is to be self-archived in Dspace@nitr or it should be submitted to the librarian for archiving, so that others interested may benefit by referring to these documents. The Administration may
use this archive for assessment of faculty performance when needed."
"All research papers by faculty and students, MTech (Research) and Ph.D. thesis is to be self-archived in Dspace@nitr or it should be submitted to the librarian for archiving, so that others interested may benefit by referring to these documents. The Administration may
use this archive for assessment of faculty performance when needed."
Online journals publishing practices - ALPSP Survey
"The market for online journals is still in a process of development and experiment; it is only ten years old. Publishers are still grappling with the implications of migrating from a print to an online publishing environment." Academic journal publishers' policies and practices in online publishing - Second Survey, 2005. -ALPSP
2 Jun 2006
Consensus is difficult in open-access debate
OPEN ACCESS Special Issue of Research Information carries interviews of following experts on Open Access and its future:
- Martin Richardson, Oxford Journals
- Michael Mabe, formerly of Elsevier
- Robert Terry, The Wellcome Trust
- Steven Harnad, University of Quebec in Montreal and University of Southampton
- Tim Smith, Institute of Physics Publishing
- Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central
- Alma Swan, Key Perspectives
- Jens Vigen, CERN
- Leslie Carr, University of Southampton
Consensus is difficult in open-access debate it seems. Or the publishing industry fears lose of business?
1 Jun 2006
Come Xplore
Complore-Come Xplore.
Complore is a Social Research Collaboration Tool to connect the researchers in diverse fields around the world.
InstantFeed
InstantFeed - Feeds via your IM client can make you Big in Japan!
InstantFeed allows you to receive any web feed (RSS or Atom) via all major IM carriers including MSN Messenger, Jabber, AIM and ICQ.
Toolbar will also suggest bookmarks
Google Toolbar beta will now also suggest sites that you have bookmarked.
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