Rowland Institute Library Blog

My presentation from the session Blogs and k-logs for information
dissemination and knowledge management at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting
is now available in .pdf.  Keep an eye out, however, for the
excellent presentations by Jessica Baumgart on feeds and Christina
Pikas on blogs for personal knowledge management, which should appear
shortly.  Christina and Jessica contributed a great deal of
material to a blog for the panel as we were preparing for the session
over the last few months.  Thanks to Kris Liberman for organizing us.

Update (11/19/04): Jessica’s presentation is now online, while Christina posted an outline of her slides. 

Greg Hill has contempt for blogs, and while his point about their
unreliability may have some merit in some cases, he doesn’t mention any
specific sites but provides a caricature.  Wikipedia doesn’t
impress him either, but maybe if Hill provided some examples of
erroneous wiki passages, his piece might be a little more
convincing.  (Source: blogwithoutalibrary)

The University of Saskatchewan libraries have compiled an impressive
electronic journals page which features an alphabetical listing of
journals that feature RSS feeds.  (Source: blogwithoutalibrary)

CiteULike is similar to del.icio.us in that it enables scientists to
bookmark and create libraries of papers that interest them. 
Additionally, you can look at other people’s citations, browse by
category and receive updates via RSS (source: nodalpoint.org)

In “Blinded by science,” Chris Mooney offers examples of how the
journalistic striving for “balance” in scientific articles can give
weight to ideas discredited by the mainstream scientific
community.  (Source: PAMNET-L)

but at a cost of $2000 per paper.  It’s called “author
select”  and authors in journals such as Review of Scientific
Instruments, Journal of Mathematical Physics and Chaos may opt for
their papers to be “open access” by paying the fee.  This is
similar to PNAS’ policy (but quite a bit more expensive.) (Source;
SPARC Open Access Forum)