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Thursday, August 26, 2004 |
Review of Project Euclid. Gerry McKiernan, Project Euclid: Mathematics and Statistics Journals,
The Charleston Advisor, July 2004. Excerpt: "By providing access to
more than 30 significant mathematical and statistics journals within a
common framework, Project Euclid has clearly realized its primary goal
of addressing 'the unique needs of independent and society journals
through a collaborative partnership with scholarly publishers,
professional societies, and academic libraries'. Through its range of
access and distribution plans (i.e., Euclid Prime, Euclid Select,
Euclid Direct, and Open Access) and the associated varied subscription
and pay-per-view options, it has achieved its goal of providing low
cost access to its component journals. The low subscription pricing for
a range of subscribers is particularly noteworthy. While it currently
provides access to only one Open Access title (Annals of Mathematics),
Project Euclid is to be commended for utilizing the Open Archives
Initiative Metadata Harvesting Protocol (OAI-PMH) (OAI-2.0) that allows
its article metadata to be harvested by such OAI Service Providers as
Euler, OAIster, and Scirus, as well as for its plans to offer Open
Access to backfiles of journals older than five years." [Open Access News]
5:48:49 PM  Google It!.
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MIT Selects Its First Female President.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
on Thursday named Susan Hockfield as its first female president, a
breakthrough for the world-renowned school that has churned out more
than 50 Nobel prizewinners but which ranks below the national average
for its percentage of female students. [Reuters: Science]
2:25:55 PM Google It!.
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Todd's Big IDEA: Firefox search plugin for MLX. Todd has done something cool. He published a search plugin for Mozilla/Firefox web browsers that provides a direct keyword search into the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX).
I don't do a lot of browser hopping beyond testing on the major
brands. I've taken the cues from the Zeldmans out there to develop and
test for on the more compliant web browsers (Safari), then test, hack,
and fix for the oddities of Internet Explorer, etc. Netscape 4?
Fuggedaboudit.
Anyhow I keep a copy of Mozilla or Firefox around since sometimes
there are web sites (like a lot of our Maricopa system apps) that are
finicky on browsers. The long amble is that I have not spent much time
in looking into this search engine add on, but it is pretty slick, and
opens the mind to creating more browser tools.
<>Likie Safari, Firefox comes out of the box with a built in Google Search field in the top right of the browser. However, the piece of code Todd cooked up
inserts an new search option that is selectable, instead of keywords
going to google, they go to our own MLX search:select other search
sites so entering our desired search words:keywords entered
goes zing! to the MLX and produces the same results as if you were at our site.
It's pretty cool, though sadly, it helps a pithy minor percent of of web site traffic.
Oh, and Todd, love the plugin, but the acronym is MLX, not MLE ;-) [cogdogblog]
11:42:06 AM Google It!.
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RSS Screen Saver for Libraries!. C# Express RSS Screen Saver Starter Kit
"One of my favorite features of C# Express is the built-in RSS
Screen saver Starter Kit. If you’ve never built a screensaver before,
or if you have never written code that uses RSS, then you’ll find the
RSS Screen saver a great way to start programming.
In a nutshell, the RSS Screen saver is a screen saver that lets you
select and validate an RSS feed, select a background directory for
images to loop through, and the screensaver will loop through the items
in the RSS feed." [Dan Fernandez's Blog, via del.icio.us/tag/rss]
I'm not enough of a programmer to run with this one, but this could
be a very cool tool for libraries. Imagine being able to display your
current news on your workstations via the screensaver in real-time
without any manual intervention. Just update your "what's new" blog and
it magically appears on all of your workstations. Major, major woot
with a happy dance thrown in for good measure!
[The Shifted Librarian]
11:38:01 AM Google It!.
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