Category Archives: Library Services

Why Can’t Academic Publishing Be More like iTunes?

Kindle works fairly well for novels and light non-fiction, but I have always wondered why academic publishing can’t be more like iTunes or even like journals in the Libraries. Why can’t we allow users to purchase chapters? And why to… More On: Why Can’t Academic Publishing Be More like iTunes?

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Zotero, RefWorks or End Note? All of the Above

Someone asked me which bibliographic tool I would recommend and I commented that each had different features, so as long as you could port data, you could use whatever combination you wanted. Then I wondered what our Penn State Zotero… More On: Zotero, RefWorks or End Note? All of the Above

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Electronic Reserves: An “Unglamourous” But Successful Service

Electronic Reserves – a University Libraries Service in which instructors request library content for their courses to be digitized and made available online to students. A few of these documents may be streamed music or online images, but truthfully most… More On: Electronic Reserves: An “Unglamourous” But Successful Service

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