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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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July 29, 2010
Category: scholarly communication
This APS rocks! Here's the press release from PAMnet: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APS ONLINE JOURNALS AVAILABLE FREE IN U.S. PUBLIC LIBRARIES Ridge, NY, 28 July 2010: The American Physical Society (APS) announces a new public access initiative that will give...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:01 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 25, 2010
Category: Off Topic
He was also my husband's uncle. I only found two of his images online, the remainder are photographs of prints we have on our walls - intentionally poor quality for those. He was a member of the Lyme Art...
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Category: scholarly communication
The authors thesis is that the only mandatory communication of results is in peer reviewed journal articles. Scientists aren't required to do other communicating and often leave communication to the public to the media. They ask if is this is...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:33 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 21, 2010
Category: finding information
So there I was, try all kinds of librarian ninja tricks on the fanciest, most expensive research databases money can buy (SciFinder, Reaxys, Inspec...) and no joy. Couldn't find what I needed. I'm perfectly willing to admit that I don't...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:44 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: information retrieval
in Geneva. This is the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. Besides the academic types, this huge conference pulls a lot from the search engine industry and there’s a lot of interesting stuff. The twitter tag is #sigir2010 and...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 6:53 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 17, 2010
Category: Information Science
This article is in early view at JASIST. It looks like it comes from the author's dissertation. It isn't terribly earth-shattering, but it's well done, it provides more evidence, and there are definitely some implications for library/IR manager practice....
Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:12 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 16, 2010
Category: Admin
The comments made last night weren't showing up - I think I've fixed that now. Sorry for any inconvenience!...
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July 15, 2010
Category: Information Science
And why we should care. Gary Price of the Resource Shelf pointed to a news story today, that Ebsco has acquired two more research databases: Criminal Justice Abstracts and Communications Abstracts. For those of you who haven't been following, Ebsco...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:03 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Off Topic
Via Jason P on friendfeed BTW - the Old Spice videos over the last couple of days were an amazing marketing feat. To create that kind of buzz. See more on Read/Write Web....
Posted by Christina Pikas at 5:05 PM • 48 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 6, 2010
Category: Information Science
The announcement is dated January 6, 2010, but the report itself is dated July 2010. In any case it's new to me, so I thought I would run through some interesting points. Here's the citation (as much as I can...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:55 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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