The Continuum International Publishing Group – Series Detail: “”

(Via .)

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i like Bataille’s on neitzsche…. it is well worth reading.

EDUCAUSE | Security Task Force | Publications and Reports: “”

(Via .)

interesting set of reports on higher education information security.

Launch of Google Scholar: “Tomorrow Google will launch the beta version of Google Scholar, although it is online today for use. From the press release: ‘[W]e are excited to announce Google Scholar, a free search service that helps users find scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports. This service will be available tomorrow morning….Like Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders search results by relevancy to ensure the most useful references appear at the top of the page. This ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article’s author, the publication in which the article appeared, and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature….Whenever possible, Google searches across the full text of a paper, not just the abstract….Google Scholar offers relevant results for a wide range of scholarly materials including research that isn’t yet online. For instance much of Einstein’s work isn’t online, but it is heavily cited by other researchers. Google Scholar leverages these citations to make users aware of important papers or books that are not online, yet may be available in their local library.’

(PS: This is an important development. It will make OA literature even more visible and retrievable than it already is. It will give authors new incentives to make their work OA. It will help readers find what they need. Because it indexes work that is not online, even non-OA publishers will have an incentive to participate, making it more and comprehensive and useful. When you run a search, Google Search labels each hit by the number of citations it has, presumably from other works in the index. It also lets you click through to a new page showing just those citing works. Authors and publishers: see the FAQ for instructions on how to make sure that your work is included.)”

(Via Open Access News.)

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i think it is good, but it doesn’t do the metadata well and really… i find the metadata search on things like ingenta.com to be very useful.

Strong-Ties: “Heavy-duty erector sets”

(Via Cool Tools.)

handy….

Colleges Easy Prey to Hackers: “Conmputer-security experts say that college networks will increasingly be infiltrated by hackers unless campus computing officials take more aggressive steps to protect sensitive data. (Denver Post)”

(Via Chronicle.com – The Wired Campus.)

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this is pretty clear…..

in just the last week, we’ve had 2 computers hacked.

TCS: Tech Central Station – The Ivy League’s Missed Connections: “”

(Via .)

It is as if perennial college football powerhouses like USC, Oklahoma and Miami were obliterated in national Bowl games by tiny programs not even ranked during the regular season.

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i think the author greatly misses the issue. it isn’t that the powerhouses win at football, they still win at football, but any university might beat their ping pong team, because your money, reputation, or anything else doesn’t guarantee that you will have a good ping pong team, only the good people you have do and that is a problem at large institutions where you have more people and thus it is harder to concentrate really good technical people and technical systems because you will have more people and more people will usually approach normal instead of approaching greatness.

Theocracy Watch: “”Christians are mandated to gradually occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns -Definition of Dominion Theology by sociologist Sara Diamond link…”

(Via Spitting Image.)

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cause you know, jesus was a christian warrior……

Put it all online: “

I had the opportunity of sitting with Ismail Serageldin, the director of the Library of Alexandria at a session at the STS Forum. He told me a story about a fellow educator and librarian who was dismayed that students were only citing things that they could find on the Internet and were no longer using physical libraries. Ismail said that he disagreed. He told me that he felt that students using the Internet were correct and that it was the libraries that needed to make more material available online. I totally agree. (He also said he was a fan of Wikipedia.) So it’s good news that:

Matt Haughey @ CC Blog

30 Million newspapers to be put online

Great news for the public domain: The National Endowment for the Arts and the Library of Congress are putting 30 million newspaper pages online, dating from 1836 to 1922.

It’ll take until 2006 to complete the project but the Library of Congress has put up a sample from The Stars and Stripes, an armed forces paper, posting every issue from 1918-1919.

Comment – TrackBack“

(Via Joi Ito’s Web.)

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all great news. but i suppose it is much like the online archives of the norfolk and western railroad in the end, they exist online, but no one can find them and if they can find them, they might not find them of particular value for any given reason under the sun. in short, there is a difference between putting things online and putting things online and making them useful.

I despise Wal*mart: “Having stood atop the Pyramid of the Sun at ancient Teotihuacan, in awe of the vast and stunning metropolis that has dominated the skyline for thousands of years, I could weep at the mere thought of the Wal-Mart that opens next month only 1.6 km away.

(Via Purse Lip Square Jaw.)

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shopping wins….. yep, in a consumer culture…. it does, and sometimes with horrid results.