Last day @ the Academy

A word of thanks to Pat, Colin and Karin for making this Academy works. I definitely have something to take away with me - a new knowledge, a well said wisdom and the new friends I made here. Good luck to all. Pavlinka

Carnegie Academy: The Class of April 2010

The Carnegie Academy, April 2010

iPAD, Kindle: The e-book reader race

Read some of the commentaries on iPAD and Kindle:

Colin's contribution to this post is Publish or Perish: Can the iPAD topple the Kindle and save the book business?

More on iPAD:

• David Williams column: iPad fails to ignite e-book revolution
• EBooks not yet a replacement for textbooks
• Can IPad compete as an E-book reader?
• IPad books are US-Only

More on Kindle:

• Libraries lending out Kindle (examples from US libraries)
• British Library and Kindle
• Kindle for iPad

For more info just Google (forget for a second that we are librarians!!!)

Pavlinka

The Radical Librarians on the Loose

Useful links

Tuesday, 20 April 2010 we learned about data sets, archiving, research ethics and intellectual property. Watching episode of "House" and discussing it, was a brilliant idea. Eve Gray introduce us to 2010 trends and the future of "kindle" books in the library environment.

Eve Gray useful links:

• Gray Area blog
• Twitter: GraySouth
• Eve.Gray on Delicious (tags)
• EveGray: Open Access Research Dissemination in Africa
• Openaccess.org
• Open Journal System

Additional links recommended by Colin Darch:

• CODEX: Rules & Guidelines for Research
• A Guide to resources on Research Ethics (Australia, Canada, USA, etc)

I have created for the UJ Sciences Community an Open Access Portal to provide easy access to OA journals; Institutional Repositories; Publishers and Authors.

Julene contributed the link to the full-text of The Copy/South Dossier: Issues in the Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Copyright in the global South, Edited by Alen Story, Colin Darch and Debora Halbert

Pavlinka

Monday: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Spot the differences
Pavlinka

Recommended book & Journal ranking websites

Prof. Johann Mouton recommended the book "Bibliometrics and citation analysis: from the Science Citation Index to sybermetrics".

L. Meho (h-index; citation analysis; ISI-Scholar-Scopus article) links to articles on Google Scholar (most are full-text)

I also want to recommend the Elsevier's SJR SCimago Journal and Country Rank if you want to find ranking of journals and countries. I also found last year about H-index (how to measure your scientific productivity)

I also use these websites from Thomson Reuters:

• ScienceWatch
• Sci-Bytes: What's new in Research
• Emerging Research Fronts, etc.

Just look all the additional links available under "Data and Ranking". It could be useful fo your work.

Pavlinka

Views on Blogging

The group views are as follows:
Its a move from the isolation of the listserv to the public arena.
It is e-learning on the move.
A new way of communication with users and staff members.
It allows you to embed into the academic and learning workflow.
It brings you closer to the where the users are.
Its a good idea to have it in subject portals
Its a means of interactive communication and source of new ideas.
It creates an online discussion forum.