Libraries reinvent themselves to stay relevant
(vancouversun.com): In the struggle to stay relevant - and ultimately to stay open - libraries are reinventing themselves in ways unimaginable even a few years ago, preparing for a future in which most materials can be checked out and read from a home computer, smart phone or electronic reading device.… Read More
Learning to navigate the library an invaluable skill
(miscellanynews.com): With midterms over and paper-writing season well underway, a study by Project Information Literacy and sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation has been released that examines how undergraduates use information resources in their research. The study is based on a survey of 8,000 students on 25 campuses, and describes what… Read More
Cloud Data Protection Necessary, Attainable
(information-management.com): Access control rules, strong authentication and best-of-breed network security infrastructure topped the list for cloud requirements in a new survey on cloud security conducted by Hubspan, a provider of cloud-based business integration services. A majority of respondents (84 percent) agree that sensitive data can be safely stored in the… Read More
Books are victims of new technology
(enterprisenews.com): Sales of eReaders have exploded and eBook sales have increased 10-fold in the past two years. With the youth of the world driving the market, newspapers and books might seem less interesting to some than digital eBooks and online newspapers. The newspaper industry has certainly felt the impact and… Read More
A Study of Self-Plagiarism
(insidehighered.com): Academia tends to profess loudly, and even on occasion strictly enforce, its credo about plagiarism and other academic moral injunctions against violations of academic norms, such as cheating, with regard to students. However, for ourselves, professionalism seems to end with professing. Read More
The Future of University Presses | Peer to Peer Review
(libraryjournal.com): There seems to be general agreement that university presses need to embrace the opportunities digital technologies offer to create richer content with a wider, more global reach rather than simply digitize print-ready texts and sell them through current channels. This will require a lot of experimentation and new skills,… Read More
Caught up in the Web of Knowledge
(telegraph.co.uk): What is the shape of science? We all learn something about maths, physics, chemistry and biology when we crawl across their arid deserts at school and, as a result, we all have some idea of what is going on. Scientists themselves can sketch out the map of their own… Read More
Google executive pushes privacy concerns
(ctv.ca): Google's global privacy counsel says he's surprised by how few people choose to control what ads are steered their way -- a tool which the Internet search giant launched, albeit with minimal fanfare, over the past year. Paris-based global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer said Tuesday that the tool --… Read More
Majority of Cloud Adopters Report Cloud Solutions Are Better Than Their On-Premise Counterparts, According to Appirio’s State of the Public Cloud Survey
(marketwire.com): Appirio, a cloud solution provider, issued results from its first State of the Public Cloud Survey, providing new insight into adoption trends, market misconceptions and the emerging challenges and opportunities for adopters of public cloud applications and platforms. Rather than another general market survey on cloud computing, this survey… Read More
How science funding is putting scientific data at risk
(arstechnica.com): A Policy Forum in the latest issue of journal Science look at what's become a significant problem in the sciences: enabling and maintaing unfettered access to large collections of scientific data. Although the report focuses on the biosciences, many of the problems it describes apply to other areas of… Read More
