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10 minutes on Google Book Search

Billy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:14:01 +0000

A short interview from The Chronicle of Hired Education with Adam Smith of Google Book Search.

Open Office Hours from Stanford

Billy — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:15:48 +0000

Stanford University project with academics answering questions through video posts to the Stanford Facebook page rather than the (underused) physical open office hours.

news story on Stanford website

A Research Last.FM?

Billy — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:05:39 +0000

Hailed by TechCrunchUK as a Last.FM for Research, Mendeley provides organisation and collaboration software for researchers.

Jurn – journal search

Billy — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:41:26 +0000

A simple implementation, JURN uses a Google Custom Search to search through over 2300 handpicked ejournals in the arts and humanities. There’s also a JURN blog, with an About page that explains what is and isn’t included and an excellent ‘Short guide to free academic search‘, illustrating starting points for various types of search query.