Springshare have announced some new products, CampusGuides and LibAnswers.
A newspaper article re the cost of textbooks sparked discussion on open access textbooks. Links posted include:
- An analysis of the college textbook marketplace
- a library directory of Open Access Books
- a list of free organic chemistry resources
NZ publishers line up for slice of Google Books copyright settlement.
The editor-in-chief of Journal of Medical Internet Research blogs about how to cite twitter and other ephemeral websites – and given that most websites are ephemeral… He recommends, instead of citing the website’s url, using the WebCite tool to get a snapshot archive of the website and citing the link to that instead. Read more here. Will be great if something like this catches on.
Google Images’ advanced search lets you refine your search to find faces/photos/clipart/line drawings, or black-and-white/greyscale/full colour. A recent hack reported is to run your search and then paste &imgcolor=orange at the end of the url, eg this search. Not sure how many colours this works with.
Deborah