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Will “Article of the Future” hamper sharing among scientists?

By jts | Published: August 17, 2009
Ad Lagendijk argues that Elsevier’s experiment “to redefine how a scientific article is presented online” is a solution in search of a problem. For many scientists, Adobe’s PDF is the standard for publishing and reading scientific literature. Linear text is still the preferred format for consumption. Lagendijk suggests that Elsevier’s real aim is to force [...]
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JA-SIG 2008

By jts | Published: April 30, 2008
I’m at JA-SIG, St. Paul.  It’s winding down today with some sessions, a BarCamp and a uCamp.  I’m looking forward to the uCamp.  Overall, it has been a good conference, probably not as relevant for me personally as the Open Repositories Conference, but still very useful.  And it’s inspiring to see these different projects and [...]
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Medical Research Services in Sharepoint

By jts | Published: January 30, 2008
Recently, a Medlib-er asked for examples of how medical librarians were using Microsoft Sharepoint. The majority of respondants said they had created sites or pages for their library in Sharepoint, duplicating the usual stuff found on library web sites: ILL forms, links to the public catalog, and other sites – essentially reconstructing the library’s public web site [...]
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Report on Emerging Technologies Released

By jts | Published: December 15, 2007
The 2007 Horizon Report has been released by the New Media Consortium . The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education…. The core of the report [...]
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Wink for screencasting

By jts | Published: April 11, 2007
Wink is a free, but not open source, application for recording screencasts. Wink outputs to a number of file formats including Flash.  I don’t know how it compares to Camtasia, but my impression is that Wink lacks many of the editing features.  Still, Wink is very straightforward and easy to use and met the needs of my first [...]
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