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Entrepreneurial skills are not given out with grant letters
Ithaka produced a report last year – Sustainability and revenue models for
online academic resources PDF
[https://sca.jiscinvolve.org/files/
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Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet .....
I have just got the latest issue of one of my favorite publications, the London
Review of Books [https://www.
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Metasearch redux
Here is something I said about metasearch in these pages some time ago ….
> The issue is that libraries have
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Books in the humanities
In the context of recent discussion of monograph publishing in the humanities I
was interested to read this recommendation in
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QOTD: books: the last frontier for ads
Fintan O’Toole writes about the Google books settlement in the Irish Times. He
wonders which ads will be shown
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Web scale library management services
OCLC has just released a press-release about its Web scale library management
services. For some context see Andrew’s note:
Larkin, work and libraries
Philip Larkin on being a librarian ….
> “I hate work. Libraries are a quite pleasant way of earning a living.
Library and archives - visible
[https://www.ryman.com/HatchGallery.html]We were in Nashville for a couple of
days over the Easter period. Doing
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E-journal impact ....
The Research Information Network in the UK has released a report about the
impact of e-journals …
> ‘E-journals: their use,
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QOTD: library catalogs and users
Karen Calhoun and other colleagues have produced a report on catalog data from
user and library points of view.
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Articles on structured data: matching, mining and mixing
The current issue of Library Resources and Technical Services (not on the web)
has a couple of interesting articles which
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