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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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Category: information policy
Another brief observation. I was just reading a popular cooking/recipe magazine and they mentioned that the New York Board of Health did an "academic study" of the new nutrition labeling laws. ARGH. I don't like calling scientific research "academic study"...
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Category: information policy
Here's a quote from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers' response (pdf) to the FRPAA legislation (about): There is no need for federal agencies to replicate content on their own sites when web-linking approaches...
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Category: information policy
A brief note. Remember when I told you about free to you research databases? Remember when some other librarians told you about a certain company negotiating for exclusive access to certain popular magazines, choking out other aggregators? Well, now these...
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Category: comps
This post serves a few purposes. First, Bill Hooker questioned Crotty's assertion about the importance of patents to university researchers [*]. Bill also posted a nice summary of AUTM's statistics (later in DrugMonkey's comment stream there were other discussions of...
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