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Israel: The Alternative - The New York Review of Books

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:38:23 +0200

Israel: The Alternative - The New York Review of Books:

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In one vital attribute, however, Israel is quite different from previous insecure, defensive microstates born of imperial collapse: it is a democracy. Hence its…

Are Online and Free Online Access Broadening or Narrowing Research? - Open Access Archivangelism

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:44:28 +0200

Are Online and Free Online Access Broadening or Narrowing Research? - Open Access Archivangelism:

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If I had to choose between the explanation of the Evans effect as a recency/bandwagon effect, as Evans interprets it, or as an increased overall quality/selectivity…

Open Reading Frame

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:44:28 +0200

Open Reading Frame:

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What this suggests to me is that the driving force in Evans’ suggested “narrow[ing of] the range of findings and ideas built upon” is not online access per se but…

Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship -- Evans 321 (5887): 395 -- Science

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:44:28 +0200

Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship -- Evans 321 (5887): 395 -- Science:

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The forcedbrowsing of print archives may have stretched scientists andscholars to anchor findings deeply into past and present scholarship.Searching online is…

"I believe that high-quality journals such as Nature and Science and, in chemistry, Angewandte Chemie..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:54:54 +0200

“I believe that high-quality journals such as Nature and Science and, in chemistry, Angewandte Chemie and Journal of the American Chemical Society should continue to appear in all their published formats, including print. Otherwise, there is a risk that the quality of these prestigious journals could gradually decline to the standard of many of today’s web-only journals.”

- The pleasure and importance of printed journals : Article : Nature

Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:35:00 +0200

Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship — Evans 321 (5887): 395 Figure Figure 1 — Science

“Fig. 1. Distribution of online journal availability in ISI-FSO data through (A) commercial subscription and (B) free through journal Web site. “Hot” regions of the graph correspond to journal issues just a few years behind the years in which they are available online, e.g., in 2003, more journals were commercially and freely available from 1999—about 1000 and 500, respectively—than from any other year. The figure highlights how journal issues increasingly came online from the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s in 2004 and 2005. [View Larger Version of this Image (121K JPEG file)]”

“Au-delà des dépôts institutionnels”, un article de Laurent Romary et Chris Armbruster

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:33:07 +0200

“Au-delà des dépôts institutionnels”, un article de Laurent Romary et Chris Armbruster

Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:28:42 +0200

Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns:

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Readings from library-provided electronic journals has increased substantially, while readings of older articles have recently increased somewhat. Ironically,…

Couperin, Elsevier et Olivier T. (commentaire)

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:04:22 +0200

Couperin, Elsevier et Olivier T. (commentaire)

Twitter: vedette des évènements iraniens mais il faut la mort de Michael Jackson pour faire laguer...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:28:56 +0200

Twitter: vedette des évènements iraniens mais il faut la mort de Michael Jackson pour faire laguer la plate-forme… Mise en perspective.

The Story (so far) of Twitter | Manolith

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:21:01 +0200

The Story (so far) of Twitter | Manolith

"Les technologies émergentes changent le rapport des gens à l’information. Les bibliothécaires..."

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:17:43 +0200

““Les technologies émergentes changent le rapport des gens à l’information. Les bibliothécaires doivent comprendre leur fonctionnement pour pouvoir les utiliser et mieux servir leurs usagers. Les outils en ligne changent plus rapidement que ce que les programmes de formation traditionnels peuvent suivre. Il est essentiel que les bibliothécaires deviennent des apprentis permanents et se forment constamment à ces nouveaux outils.””

- Formation permanente : Marlene’s corner

"newspapers have a simple solution: block Google from crawling their sites with a “nofollow”..."

Mon, 18 May 2009 18:06:33 +0200

“newspapers have a simple solution: block Google from crawling their sites with a “nofollow” “disallow” tag in their robots.txt file. Now if that sounds complicated to you, it’s not: it’s literally one single word in an HTML page that tells Google “stay the fuck out because we’re too fucking stupid to want people to find our material via search engines!” Here’s the problem, 1) the newspapers don’t want Google to stay the fuck out, and 2) newspaper execs are actually not so fucking stupid that they want their sites blind to potential readers. The issue is, they want Google to PAY them for the privilege of sending people their direction. Why? Who knows! Maybe because they’re fucking stupid?”

- Daily Kos: State of the Nation (via transnets)

"For the first time, the university is systematically contacting families with limited experience..."

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:28:46 +0200

“For the first time, the university is systematically contacting families with limited experience navigating the financial-aid process to talk about the debt they could incur if they send their son or daughter there. The conversations are not meant to discourage students from taking out loans, but they do hint at what college leaders believe: NYU is not the right financial fit for everyone who gets in.”

- After Accepting Students, NYU Asks Them: Are We Too Costly for You? - Chronicle.com

"Nous avions besoin d’une industrie du disque parce que fabriquer et diffuser des disques était..."

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:06:00 +0200

“Nous avions besoin d’une industrie du disque parce que fabriquer et diffuser des disques était une opération industrielle lourde qui exigeait de gros investissements à l’origine. Aujourd’hui, la diffusion de musique n’a plus besoin d’industrie lourde, elle n’a même plus besoin d’industrie tout court.”

- affordance.info: Les cons ça ose tout. C’est même à ça qu’on les reconnaît. (en commentaire)

Internet Users in Developing Countries Drag on Sites’ Profits - NYTimes.com

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:06:59 +0200

Internet Users in Developing Countries Drag on Sites’ Profits - NYTimes.com:

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“Whenever you have a lot of user-generated material, your bandwidth gets utilized in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, where bandwidth is expensive and ad rates…

affordance.info: L'université de demain.

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:06:59 +0200

affordance.info: L'université de demain.:

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“En médecine comme en management, tout ne se contrôle pas et le risque existe.” Eeeeeet oui. C’est ça ce qu’on appelle la force de l’évidence. Le point commun entre…

Shortage of Doctors Proves Obstacle to Obama Goals - NYTimes.com

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:06:20 +0200

Shortage of Doctors Proves Obstacle to Obama Goals - NYTimes.com:

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The need for more doctors comes up at almost every Congressional hearing and White House forum on health care. “We’re not producing enough primary care physicians,”…

Le blog Marcel Gauchet: L'autonomie veut dire la mise au pas des universitaires

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:59:49 +0200

Le blog Marcel Gauchet: L'autonomie veut dire la mise au pas des universitaires:

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Ce partage universités/grandes écoles pèse très lourd. Partout ailleurs, le problème de l’université est vital puisqu’il y va de la formation des élites. Mais pas…

The wiki principle | The Economist

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:59:47 +0200

The wiki principle | The Economist:

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Wikipedia’s numbers actually make it an anomaly among wikis. Joe Kraus, the co-founder of JotSpot, a provider of wiki software, reckons that most of the millions of…