How Scholarly Is Google Scholar? A Comparison to Library Databases (pdf, requires ALA password so on second thoughts Q:\Deborah\stuffs\howland09.pdf will be quicker.)

“We found that Google Scholar is, on average, 17.6 percent more scholarly than materials found only in library databases and that there is no statistically significant difference between the scholarliness of materials found in Google Scholar across disciplines.”

Whiteboard paint to turn any wall into a whiteboard.

Results from usability testing of five next-gen library catalogues.

A motion to make Vancouver an “open city” (using open data, open standards and open source where possible) has passed.

Dorothea Salo has made her slides on Digital preservation and institutional repositories available for viewing online – it’s a really readable look at many of the issues involved.

Deborah