Thursday, May 06, 2004

Zaurus SL-6000 Review [Slashdot] 8:32:21 AM      Google It!.

Full-text search engine for OA journals. Eric Lease Morgan has created a working demo of a search engine for full-text articles published in OA journals. He calls it DOAJI Search. Currently it searches a 19-title subset of the journals catalogued by the Lund DOAJ. (Morgan's "DOAJI" stands for "DOAJ Index".) He is frank about its limitations. But he could also boast about it with justification. DOAJI Search supports Boolean, phrase, field, and nested searches, in any combination. (PS: This is an excellent start on a very useful service. The DOAJ itself is planning a similar search engine to launch later this spring, perhaps even this month. Here's hoping that these two efforts will either collaborate or stimulate one another to improve, for the ultimate benefit of users.) [Open Access News] 8:30:47 AM      Google It!.

An A for Effort to Restore Meaning to the Grade. The rising tide of A's long unsettled Dean Malkiel, the head of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing at Princeton University. By Chris Hedges. [New York Times: Education] 8:19:34 AM      Google It!.

Exam coursework marked online - Katherine Sellgren, BBC News. Schools in England and Wales could soon be sending pupils' coursework to exam boards electronically. Currently exam centres have to hand in coursework on paper to be "moderated" by examiners. Now examiners at Edexcel, OCR, AQA and WJEC have agreed to [Online Learning Update] 8:09:49 AM      Google It!.

Adobe Designer 6.0 preview.  A more descriptive name for Adobe Designer 6.0 might be "InfoPath for PDF." The concept is brilliant: exploit Microsoft's failure to make InfoPath ubiquitous by putting interactivity and XML smarts into Adobe's free PDF viewer, and by offering a forms builder that targets both Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Announced last summer, in beta now, and scheduled for release this summer, Adobe Designer is that forms builder. ... [Jon's Radio] 8:05:05 AM      Google It!.