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28 July 2011 0 Comments

The skill set is changing!

Are knowledge management and information management set to merge to form a new discipline?

18 July 2011 0 Comments

All the news that’s fit to read . . .

Direct charges to users for the use of news-related sources may have a deleterious effect on the supply and use of news-related information in libraries.

18 July 2011 0 Comments

Facebook versus Google+: is it really a competition?

Google is always an interesting company to watch — but is its Google+ experiment in social networking sufficiently distinctive?

7 May 2011 0 Comments

Finding free e-books

Looking for free e-books? Here is a useful application and directory.

16 February 2011 0 Comments

The underside of Google?

Some companies have received very high ranking in searches through the manipulation of search results.

10 February 2011 0 Comments

Change and digital decay

The problems of preserving digital materials are acute and worrying; David Rosenthal considers them in his blog.

29 January 2011 0 Comments

Are e-texts acceptable?

A survey by the Book Industry Study Group (the U.S. book industry’s leading trade association for policy, standards and research) has revealed that students prefer their textbooks in conventional print-on-paper form rather than as e-texts.

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22 January 2011 0 Comments

Google “bias” survey — start of a flame war?

Results of a survey of bias in the search algorithms of Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL, and Ask.

22 January 2011 0 Comments

Wikipedia — ten years old!

It has certainly courted notoriety since its implementation and has also received its share of plaudits. Wikipedia was founded on 15 January 2001. What is its future?

21 January 2011 0 Comments

Open Access Publishing: a good read . . .

Whilst scientists support the principle of open-access publishing, few are willing to publish papers in open-access sources.