Adding to your likely information overload, an article in the latest issue of Ariadne on dealing with information overload. I have many, many good intentions that I mean to follow up on to cut down my information overload. And never set aside the time to do it. But if we’re going to expand Olivia to include skills beyond those of information literacy, time management is a crucial area.
August 26, 2008
August 18, 2008
Science podcasts and other stuff
From an INFOMINE alert, a link to the Library of Congress Science Reference Guides section on Podcasts, webcasts, and other digital media files.
August 5, 2008
Google Generation
For anyone who’s not read the CIBER report, Information behaviour of the researcher of the future, its authors have published an article in the latest issue of Aslib Proceedings, available online at Imperial:
Rowlands, I. et al (2008) The Google generation: the information behaviour of the researcher of the future. Aslib Proceedings. 60(4), 290-310. doi:10.1108/00012530810887953
August 1, 2008
Medpedia
Medics may already know about this project, but I’ve just read about it in the latest RLUK/SCONUL news round up – Medpedia is to be launched this year, a project that is “an extraordinary global effort to collect, organize and make understandable, the world’s best information about health, medicine and the body and make it freely available“. It’s to be a very collaborative project, with contributions from Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley and University of Michigan, and other health organisations.
JISC plagiarism report
The second report from the Academic Misconduct Benchmarking Research Project (AMBeR) investigating HEI plagiarism policies in the UK has been published. I haven’t read the full report yet, but I will be! You can have a look at the Executive Summary for a shorter version (it was highlighted in the HEA’s latest bulletin).
