QOTD: apple and amazon
There is an interesting story in the WSJ about Amazon’s plans to take on Apple
in the music download
Libraries, logistics and the long tail
[NOTE: this blog post formed the basis of a subsequent article:
Libraries and the Long Tail: Some Thoughts about Libraries
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QOTD: "Break glass and blog"
The Economist has a brief article about blogging and how corporations are taking
notice.
> Steve Rubel, of CooperKatz, a
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Research support: COS and CSA
Community of science provides various research support services, including a
matching service between funding opportunities and researchers, and between
those
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Citable resources
Ross Atkinson argues:
> The library also has a responsibility at the citation level – ideally ensuring
that all information cited
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Libraries, networks and services
Blogging has been a little light of late, as I have had a lot going on –
including the writing of
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Four, four, four, four
Well, teetering beween a liking for lists and a po-faced disinclination to be
frivolous I am leaning to lists. In
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The preservation turn
We have become used to thinking about digital preservation as an issue. We don’t
tend to think of print
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Tenth anniversary issue of Ariadne
A special decennial issue of Ariadne has just appeared. Here is a list of the
articles included:
> Projects into
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A couple of pubs
Just a note about a couple of publications which have recently appeared which
highlight the use of bibliographic data to
Engagement
[https://www.ucl.ac.uk]Every now and again I take a look at the MIT website
[https://www.mit.
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Smart aggregation
A while ago I was thinking about the development of bibliographic record
exchange in terms of the following progression: standardization,
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