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A Scholarly
Society Faces Open Access
The American Chemical Society
Interview with Bob Bovenschulte
Miriam Drake talks with Bob
Bovenschulte, president of ACS's publishing division, to find out how
the ACS is working with authors, universities, and scholarly societies
in dealing with open access.
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Assessing Value in the
Online Environment
One Expert's
Opinion
Jill O'Neill knows value-add
can mean many things to different people and that the perception of
value is constantly changing. In her article, O'Neill analyzes how
information professionals view value-add in the realm of fee-based
services, centering in on such areas as authoritative collections,
precision results, and navigation. |
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Latent Value and Perceived
Value: Another Expert Opinion
Richard Wiggins continues
the question Jill O'Neill raises about what constitutes value in the
online world of 2006, taking a different slant on how value is defined
in this realm. |
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Can't See the Forest for
the Trees
International
Web Resources and Databases on Forestry
David Mattison is branching
out, so to speak, moving from international resources and databases
about the world's oceans to those organizations dealing with forest
management issues and agroforestry. He also gets to the root of
sustainable forestry, both within global corporations and small
communities. |
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| COLUMNS
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Internet Express
Need some space? Irene
McDermott highlights the phenomenon known as social networking and
tells you where you can go online to get connected while focusing on
the hugely popular MySpace.com and its offerings. |
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Publishing
Trends
The arrival of online
digitized books has swung the balance of power back from the publisher
to the author. In this column, Paula Berinstein examines the business
models that can be used and also addresses online publishing copyright
issues.
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The Better
Mousetrap
In “RSS
Explosion in Chemistry and Science,” Edward Vawter takes a
look at the newly created RSS feeds of two well-known organizations,
the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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The Sidebar
Law librarian Carol
Ebbinghouse provides some of the best places to go on the Web for basic
— and free — legal help and resources, including
state, federal, and judiciary sites and law libraries such as the
American Association of Law Libraries, and offers up a few caveats as
well.
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What's Next
Disintermediation is
causing anxiety in the librarianship rank and file, as well as in many
other industries, now that most users think everything can be found on
the Internet. David Grossman shows how one travel agency reinvented its
services to win its cusomer base back from the Net. |
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Tools of the Trade
Sheri Lanza introduces
readers to WordWeb, an international thesaurus and dictionary for
Windows users, giving many examples of how this tool can help in all
kinds of word-related situations. |
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| EDITORIAL |
Searcher's
Voice
When
a little unidentifiable atmospheric smoke gets in bq's eyes, it
inspires her call for local public libraries to build Web-based
community news services. |
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| DEPARTMENTS
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Contacts
Find the postal and
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products, and people mentioned in this issue.
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