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This is my blog on library and information science.
Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
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September 19, 2009
Category: publishing
It just hit me this morning that new communications journals are sort of less expected right now. In this post I'll briefly discuss the traditional place of letters or communications publications in scholarly communications (in science) and then weave in...
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September 16, 2009
Category: Information Science
quality? popularity? utility? I'm pretty sure I've blogged about MESUR (a research project that studied how usage statistics - as we call them in the industry - can be a metric like citations are). I've also blogged a discussion by...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 9:02 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Off Topic
Sure Hubble's pictures are prettier, but there's a lot of cool science coming out of the nifty MESSENGER spacecraft. She's up for a third Mercury fly-by in two weeks. She'll go into orbit in 2011 and she's the first spacecraft...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 8:11 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 15, 2009
Category: Off Topic
Anybody can code but what just anybody codes can be crap. There's a real problem in my place of work and probably in other places where you have scientists and engineers who haven't been formally trained in CS and haven't...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:38 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 11, 2009
Category: Posts I would like to write
So anyone who's spent any time at all with Google Books (hence forth GB), has probably noted some really bizarre - I mean truly strange - metadata. Like messed up titles, authors, publication years, oh and categories are totally hit...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:28 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 5, 2009
Category: Information Science
...'cause I thought I heard of a software and I know people at x conference said and seems like.... I get this all the time. Most recently I did a pretty detailed presentation of some analysis I did. Once I...
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September 2, 2009
Category: libraries
Sometimes so many things come up at the same time it becomes difficult if impossible to ignore. Here's just a brief list: An oceanographer came to me and asked to see a print copy of an AGU journal article. If...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:37 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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