If  you have ever published a paper or plan to publish one in this age of freely available web information and the attendant ownership controversies, you may be wondering what you are allowed to do with your paper after it has been published or approved for publication.  SHERPA/RoMEO is a database that lets you know […]

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The electronic collection at Dibner Library is expanding: we now have access to over 2,000 full text journals via Science Direct, a significant increase over our previous subscription.
Science Direct’s extensive full text collection covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature.  But don’t let the name mislead you - in addition to Life, Health, Physical  […]

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IEEE has approved six new publications to be released in 2009. The list of new journal titles offers an exciting array of information on emerging and multidisciplinary technical topics:

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters
IEEE Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
IEEE Photonics Journal
IEEE Solid State […]

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Media companies moved into the online world with trepidation, seeing the opportunities in providing online music and movie viewing and downloading for a fee, but also fearing copyright violation.  Many in the music and movie audience, especially young people, believed the media companies were gouging them with high prices for DVDs and CDs, and […]

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An earlier post had mentioned online panoramas.  Creating these shots was often quite expensive, requiring high end cameras and special motorized mounts.  Now we might be seeing many more of these displays as researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an inexpensive robotic device that can be attached to any standard digital camera.

The device will […]

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Advertising revenue from print newspapers in France has declined dramatically along with readership. Even fewer adults read newspapers in France than in the United States. Advertising revenue from online papers has increased somewhat, but not nearly enough to compensate for the drop in revenue from print.  In an effort to remedy this situation, a […]

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Most of us are accustomed to seeing information originally from print reference sources posted online in some form or another.  Now, in a reversal of this familiar pattern, we are about to see a web creation made available in print format.
It was announced at the Wikipedia conference in Alexandria that the online encyclopedia was about […]

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Using the internet to search for scientific articles is narrowing the range of findings by researchers, says University of Chicago sociologist James Evans in an article published yesterday in Science.
His argument is a classic computer-versus-paper library dilemma, updated for science: when researchers search online, they tend to arrive at just a few high-ranking articles. Lost […]

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A recent post  commented on e-book sales and a new e-book reader that did a better job of supporting the kinds of actions people perform when reading from traditional print.
Electronic Papyrus: The Digital Book, Unfurled, which was written by Anne Eisenberg, professor emeritus at Poly, and which appeared in this Sunday’s edition of the New […]

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