Monday, June 18, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
With Tablet, Apple Sees New Money in Old Media - WSJ.com
With Tablet, Apple Sees New Money in Old Media - WSJ.com
by SHIRA OVIDE And GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
by SHIRA OVIDE And GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
"With the new tablet device that is debuting next week, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is betting he can reshape businesses like textbooks, newspapers and television much the way his iPod revamped the music industry—and expand Apple's influence and revenue as a content middleman."
Hearst Plans Digital Service for Periodicals - WSJ.com
Hearst Plans Digital Service for Periodicals - WSJ.com
by SHIRA OVIDE And GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
by SHIRA OVIDE And GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
"Publisher Hearst Corp. plans to launch next year a service called Skiff to sell digital versions of newspapers and magazines on electronic readers and other devices, in a system it believes will be more visually appealing to readers and more lucrative for media companies."
Friday, December 04, 2009
Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Economist.com | Coffee-houses
Via Southern Appeal we are directed to the Economist and their story on Coffee-houses: The internet in a cup.
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Science Direct
Blog 702 led me to Science Direct, which calls itself "The Digital Library of the Future"
and states on its home page: "Welcome to the world's best resource for research journals, abstract databases and reference works." See Blog 702 for more info.
the blawg review
The motto of the blawg review is: "the blawg review reviewing the law reviews".
Check this blog for law review headlines, new law journals etc.
Library Journal Acquisitions - Rising Costs
Library Journal Acquisitions - Rising Costs
As noted at the Information Today article by by Paula J. Hane at Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles, the increasing cost of professional journals is leading universities to reconsider their library spending policies.
More about this issue can also be read about at the following sites:
Harrassowitz Reports
"Issues in Scholarly Communication" - Cornell University
Association of Research Libraries
Journals Cost Update - Yale University Science Libraries
Crisis in Scholarly Communication - Iowa State University
Outlook Online - Ohio University
VCU - Virginia Commonwealth University
University of Texas - at Austin, General Libraries
Data and Statistics - Boston College
Issues in Scholarly Publishing - Stanford University School of Medicine
Crisis in Scholarly Communication - Ohio State University
The cost problems discussed at those links are leading to new unique solutions, e.g.:
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
Budapest Open Access Initiative
SPARC - The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Tax & Business Law Commentary
A reference to The Public Library of Science is found at Tax & Business Law Commentary, a blog by Stuart Levine.
As related at the Public Library of Science site:
"The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource."
As Levine writes:
"This organization will publish on-line journals containing referred papers concerning various aspects of scientific research. Access to the journals will be free and open to the public. It is hoped that the effort will spawn a host of competing publications that will replace the subscription based system currently in place for the publication of scientific papers. The costs of those subscriptions significantly limits the access of researchers, particularly in poorer countries, to research material."
Sunday, October 26, 2003
Journals Newspapers and Periodicals
In spite of the fact that we now have online search engines such as Google or AllTheWeb to direct us to sources, we still spend a lot of time reading journals, newspapers and periodicals of every kind and description. JournalPundit is devoted to the world of periodicals online or offline.
We can find various resources on the internet
Far from home on business or pleasure and want to read your home newspaper?
A fabulous searchable database of about 10000 newspapers is found at OnlineNewspapers.com. Just select the geographic region of your interest and you are on your way to newspapers around the world. The comprehensiveness of this site is first-class.
A good place to start looking for leading popular magaziines and periodicals is the Reference Desk, which has many links to magazines.
The Internet Public Library of the School of Information at the University of Michigan has many links to periodicals of all kinds, but be sure to scroll down every page to the bottom or you may miss the list of resources for the link that you clicked - they always put links to sub-headings at the top and the actually found resources at the bottom, and you often do not see these unless you scroll the page.
For scientific and research periodicals, Science Direct describes itself as "the world's best resource for research journals, abstract databases and reference works".
Stanford University's HighWire is the web's largest database.
It covers Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Medical Sciences and Social Sciences and specializes on articles from science and medical journals. You have to register to use this service - not all of it is free - and when you enter an inquiry, again, scroll down the page to see your results, where you see a photo of the journal, the conditions for use (e.g. "free" or "purchase access"), the name of the author(s) and title of the article. Abstracts of purchasable articles can often be viewed for free.
Entrez-PubMed is described as follows:
"PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources."
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