More than 3 million free e-books online as Google’s e-book store grows
(independent.co.uk): Within just six months of launching, Google has added over one million titles to its e-book store, Google eBooks, putting its total number of free e-books in excess of 3 million. Readers are voraciously consuming free e-books on line via the Google Books Web Reader, on mobile devices via… Read More
Cloud computing technology crucial for new breed of social networks
(telegraph.co.uk): Cloud computing is the one crucial piece of technology that enables drivers to interact with their cars. The technology allows data and software to be stored and processed remotely, with access via the internet (often depicted in IT diagrams as a cloud). Cheap, fast and mobile, there are countless… Read More
The Survey of Medical School Faculty: Use of Journals, Databases, Repositories and other Information Sources
(researchandmarkets.com): This 134 page study looks closely at the use of the medical library and use of specific information resources by medical faculty. The report gives highly detailed data on medical school faculty use of databases, journals, institutional digital repositories, medical blogs, wikis and listservs and other medical information resources.… Read More
On the unbearable lightness of mandatory data sharing
(blogs.openaccesscentral.com): Online archiving of original data has been standard practice for a long time in research on phylogenetics and population genetics, and scientific journals typically will release articles only after all DNA sequences used in the analyses have been submitted to a public database such as GenBank. Now this mode… Read More
What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know
(papers.ssrn.com): Do you read everything in your field today? Do you even know what everything means any more? Readers of scholarly research are faced with an overabundance of information due to interdisciplinary subject areas, access to research at earlier and multiple stages, and simply more research from more scholars. My… Read More
Are e-readers the future of books?
(chronicle.augusta.com): Tablets and e-readers were a popular gift this holiday season. But will you be using it primary for school and other reading in the future? As of now, there are numerous e-readers on the market, such as Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook, Borders’s Kobo, and even more. Read More
Healthcare Is High Among Web Searches
(prescriptions.blogs): Four in five Internet users have searched the Web for health care information, most often checking on specific diseases and treatments, a Pew Internet Project survey reported. Sixty-six percent of Web users looked for information about a disease or medical problem, the survey found. Read More
Aftermarketing: What Publishers Now Must Do After the Sale
(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): Are there too many books? Too few? Perhaps there are too many in some disciplines, not enough in others? How could this information be used to build plans for migrating toward patron-driven acquisition (PDA), which potentially could lower libraries’ costs — or, better yet, align collections with usage such… Read More
Is Google’s Copying Complaint Fair or Hypocritical?
(pcworld.com): Google irately charged Microsoft with sneakily capturing the top Google results for various queries and grafting them into the Bing search engine. It lobbed its complaint in an article on the Search Engine Land blog and continued it during an onstage panel at a search event. Read More
The e-book is the future
(wnd.com): Last week, CNET reported that Amazon is now selling more e-books for its Kindle reader than it is selling traditional paperback books. When e-books outsold hardcovers, this was no real shock, given the high prices hardcovers command. The paperback, by contrast, is the standard by which leisure reading is… Read More
