Response to Science and Technology Committee
This text of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers's written testimony to a British House of Commons Committee allows that open access journals may exist and be treated equally with respect to Research Assessment Exercise and other selection exercises, but plays down the impact of rising journal prices, noting that the number of articles per journal has increased. More...
09 octobre 2018
Response to Science and Technology Committee
iUpload Mailby RSS
iUpload Mailby RSS
Simple and clever. This new service accepts an email message from you and converts the contents into an RSS feed. More...
08 octobre 2018
Using 4IR technology for the greater good
By Sharon Dell. For the developed world, the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) brings with it celebrated innovations such as cardboard beer bottles and driverless cars – both of which originated in a university and have clear benefits to society. In the developing world, the implications of the 4IR are perhaps a little less clear, as a recent conference on the role of universities of technology has shown. More...01 octobre 2018
The Maine Idea
The Maine Idea
Among the more comprehensive coverage of the Maine laptop I have seen, this nine part article is unremittingly enthusiastic. "What happens when technology is accessible to all students all of the time? Continuous learning!" So enthuisiastic, in fact, that the content is more gloss than substance. More...
One-click RSS Subscriptions, Continued: The Lesser of Two Evils?
One-click RSS Subscriptions, Continued: The Lesser of Two Evils?
Still in the pre-draft stage, the proposed 'feed' URI scheme may bridge the gap between web page and RSS reader by placing a feed:// link on a page. More...
The Eagle Is Grounded
The Eagle Is Grounded
I think this is exactly right: "In the face of new technologies and competition, the U.S. is toughening patent and copyright protections... if it's not careful, the US will drive its intellectual property offshore..." The core of the observation here is that patent and copyright policy today is increasingly a type of trade policy, responding to foreign competition by making it more difficult to compete. More...
Del.icio.us
Del.icio.us
It's still a usability disaster (people need more than just headlines), but it has been getting a lot of press, and rightly so. The service is, as it asserts, "a social bookmarks manager. Using simple bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them." The software is "pre-pre-alpha" and changing almost daily. More...
How Dynamic Categories Work
How Dynamic Categories Work
People in the wider community are finally discovering dynamic categories, something I've been plugging for a couple of years now, and which you can view (as always) on my research page and on Edu_RSS Topics. What is a dynamic category? Think of it as a predefined search. More...
Camera Phones Help Buyers Beware
Camera Phones Help Buyers Beware
The CueCat - a bar code scanner magazine readers would use to get more information from advertisements - was an unmitigated disaster. This next device may be a little more successful - it is an attachment to a cell phone that reads bar codes on products in stores and returns information about the product. More...
A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services
A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services
The aggregation of online library resources has grown tremendously in the last year, as this comprehensive report demonstrates. More...
