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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.
Where am I?
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: publishing
Besides watching this like the finals of Olympic hockey, I've been seriously impressed with the thoughtful and insightful commentary from a huge bunch of my libr* online contacts. Interesting stuff, too, from scientists and other folks interested in scholarly communication....
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:30 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: publishing
Read this (pdf). So the UC system has been screaming - they are totally cutting budgets, people, everything... And NPG has decided to hike their subscription renewal prices by 400%. So if the offer doesn't change, UC's going to fight...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 9:51 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: publishing
I ♥♥♥ this essay by Barbara Fister: Washington, We Have a Problem at Library Journal. Go read it....
Posted by Christina Pikas at 8:19 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: librarians
I expect D to have a more thorough take (she always does!), but there's finally a more widespread outcry against Ebsco. A few of us commented about the exclusive rights to magazines and closing access to Ageline. There was also...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 9:32 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conferences
These are a continuation of my notes. This portion has been transcribed from my scribble - I was sitting on stage for the second half of the day so live blogging didn't really seem appropriate :( If there is something...
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Category: Conferences
I attended this one day pre-conference session on February 3, 2010. I got here after the first group of speakers, unfortunately, due in part to #snOMG and part to parking confusion. Barbara Kline Pope on Free at the National...
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Category: Information Science
In the past few years a number of large electronic resources have gone through rather dramatic interface changes - mostly for the better, mostly desperately needed. Some typical things added are faceted presentation of search results, more personalization options, better...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 8:26 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: bibliometrics
One of the open problems in article level metrics is how to automate, quantify, and describe the exposure an article has had in popular science pieces in newspapers and general science magazines. Peter Binfield (PLoS) and Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka. (European Research...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:17 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: open access
SUMMARY: With this notice, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the President, requests input from the community regarding enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from research funded by Federal science and technology...
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