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Library News & Notes —
December 26, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

Blogs Find Favor as Buying Guides
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/business/22drill.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Books and Libraries in the Digital Age
A conversation with Robert Darnton
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/622
(Source: ResourceShelf)

The Business of Academic Publishing: A Strategic Analysis of the Academic Journal Publishing Industry and its Impact on the Future of Scholarly Publishing
http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v09n03/mcguigan_g01.html
(Source: Open Access News)

Defeating Bedlam
http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/defeating-bedlam/?ref=opinion
(Source: LIBLICENSE-L)

The Evolution of Search
http://blog.tigerlogic.com/chunkit/the-evolution-of-search/
(Source: Library Web)

Google Shutters Its Science Data Service
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html

Health Sciences Online
http://hso.info/
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

HelloFlight "Current US Airport Information and Live Flight data"
http://helloflight.com/
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Innovation Strategies for the Global Recession
http://www.innovationtools.com/weblog/innovationblog-detail.asp?ArticleID=1219
(Source: Stephen's Lighthouse)

Is the Web helping us evolve?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2008/12/23/david_brin_google/index.html

Know It All An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle
http://www.flypmedia.com/content/know-it-all
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Making sense of the 'semantic Web'
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/17/db.semanticweb/index.html

Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits
http://online.wsj.com/article/(Shortened url)
(Source; Slashdot)

News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/mediarepublic/downloads.html
(Source: ResourceShelf)

Online Register Created To Flag Scientific Papers That May Be Tainted By Fraud Or Misconduct
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217075134.htm
(Source: ResourceShelf)

People of the Screen
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/people-of-the-screen
(Source: Library Web)

Producing connections between research data and publication
http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/1450
(Source: Open Access News)

The Return of Amateur Science
http://www.good.is/?p=14293
(Source: Boing Boing)

The science of Web 2.0 and what it means for research
http://www.research-live.com/(Shortened url)
(Source: Librarian of Fortune)

State of the USA Health Indicators
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12534
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)

Tales from the Terminal Room
http://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Ten Ways to Find Your Children More Likeable (And to Be More Likeable to Your Children)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-trillin/ten-ways-to-find-your-chi_b_152346.html

Things found in books
http://www.thingsinbooks.com
(Source: Library Web)

The Top Eight Science Policy News Stories of 2008
http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/(Shortened url)
(Source: Open Access News)

Top Ten Physics Stories of the Year
http://www.aip.org/pnu/2008/split/879-1.html

The use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance
http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esep/v8/n1/
(Source: PAMNET)

The Use of the Internet by America's Largest Newspapers (2008 Edition)
http://www.bivingsreport.com/2008/(Shortened url)
(Source: ResourceShelf)
See also: News You Can Lose
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/12/22/081222ta_talk_surowiecki
(Source: Slashdot)

Video is About to Become King - Are You Ready?
http://www.ere.net/2008/12/18/video-is-about-to-become-king-are-you-ready/
(Source: Science Careers Newsletter)

Wikipedia's limitless knowledge means unlimited fun
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/(Shortened url)
(Source: Library Web)

Your brain on shopping
http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/12/22/your_brain_on_shopping/

 

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Received December 20 - December 26, 2008