Friday, May 28, 2004

Accessibility goal: Tear down barriers to virtual schooling - Corey Murray, eSchool News. For hundreds of thousands of students across the United States, virtual schooling--instruction that takes place entirely online--has opened educational doors previously inaccessible. But for students who are blind, visually impaired, or who have certai [Online Learning Update] 3:04:50 PM      Google It!.

UC policy on cataloging OA resources. The University of California Libraries have adopted a policy (May 13, 2004) for the cataloging, linking, and management of OA resources. The policy includes criteria for what counts as an OA resource (based primarily on the BOAI) and procedures for nominating and approving OA resources for cataloging. Faculty who want a certain OA resource to be catalogued may fill out an online request form. [Open Access News] 3:01:33 PM      Google It!.

Most of us are poor judges of our own abilities [Science Blog] 3:00:18 PM      Google It!.

Avoiding journal rot. George Porter writes an extensive commentary at the (sci-tech) Library Question on the fleeting nature of online journals, citing several horrific examples of when a journal ceases publication and the publisher does not deign to maintain the electronic archive (he also mentions a few instances of publishers following good practice and maintaining backfiles if a journal has ceased or changed publishers, etc.) He also highlights the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) project, praises the libraries and publishers who are participating, and chides the holdouts for their fecklessness. [Open Access News] 2:59:12 PM      Google It!.

EIOffice 2004 vs. MS Office 2003 [Slashdot] 2:57:39 PM      Google It!.

Web-cheat student to sue university. They should have stopped him sooner, he says By Lucy Sherriff . [The Register] 2:56:00 PM      Google It!.

World's Smallest RFID Reader Touted [Slashdot] 12:38:20 AM      Google It!.

Cellphone as Virtual Mouse, Keyboard [Slashdot] 12:30:40 AM      Google It!.

Still More Uses for Cell Phones. Cellphone as Virtual Mouse, Keyboard "stab writes 'Check this out! High Energy Magic have announced a public beta of software to let you use your camera-phone as a physical mouse by just pointing and clicking and rotating it in the air. Some very cool videos available: check out the volume control and flight booking ones in particular! The tags used are really robust - they did a wastebasket torture test for a bit of fun as well.' " [Slashdot] [The Shifted Librarian] 12:21:11 AM      .