The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by VS Naipaul
VS Naipaul is often blinkered but he still sees things in Africa that others miss, says Aminatta FornaIn 2001, when the Swedish Academy awarded Sir Vidia Naipaul the Nobel prize in literature, it described him as the heir to Joseph Conrad: "The annalist of the destinies of empires in the moral sense: what they do to human beings… the memory of what others have forgotten, the history of the vanquished." There are plenty who would have begged to disagree, for Naipaul has regularly attracted criticism, from Edward Said among others, for his dismissive remarks on the cultures of his native Trinidad, on Islam, Pakistan and mo...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - August 28, 2010 Tags: VS Naipaul Travel Books Culture The Observer Reviews
Kakai Kno Features Dual 14-inch Touchscreens
The Kno ebook is targeting the textbook market.
Article at Slash Gear
There is also an article that mentions the Kno in the NYT. Excerpt from NYT article:
You know how one thing leads to another? Well, that’s what happened with Osman Rashid, the co-founder and CEO of Kno, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based startup that’s publicly previewing its digital textbook platform and device (Kno) today. Rashid, who previously started Chegg, a Netflix-for-college-text-books service, was struck by the archaic nature of the whole college textbook experience. So he and lifelong friend Babur habib started to wonder what it would be like if...
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LISNews.org - June 3, 2010 Author: Bibliofuture Tags: Ebooks
Kakai Kno Features Dual 14-inch Touchscreens
The Kno ebook is targeting the textbook market.
Article at Slash Gear
There is also an article that mentions the Kno in the NYT. Excerpt from NYT article:
You know how one thing leads to another? Well, that’s what happened with Osman Rashid, the co-founder and CEO of Kno, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based startup that’s publicly previewing its digital textbook platform and device (Kno) today. Rashid, who previously started Chegg, a Netflix-for-college-text-books service, was struck by the archaic nature of the whole college textbook experience. So he and lifelong friend Babur habib started to wonder what it would be like if...
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LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News - June 3, 2010 Author: Bibliofuture Tags: Ebooks
links for 2010-05-27
Recording of Scholarly Perspectives Webinar on research literacy for early career researchers
My portion of the presentation begins on slide 25
(tags: webinar presentation informationliteracy learning graduatestudents recording)
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LIS :: Michael habib - May 28, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2010-05-20
Research literacy primer: Equipping early career researchers with the skills they require to create high quality papers | Scholarly Perspectives Resource Library
4 external speakers + "Michael habib, Scopus product manager and former Reference Librarian presents on how early career researchers can use specialist research tools to discern quality and authority in a sea of information." – Tue, 25/05/2010 – 13:00; Host: Penn State University Library
(tags: webinar presentation informationliteracy graduatestudents)
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LIS :: Michael habib - May 21, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2010-05-11
Is Facebook Eroding Privacy? Or Does Social Media Require Us to Lower Our Expectations? « The Scholarly Kitchen
Nice summary article of the issue.
(tags: facebook privacy recommendationsystems)
[1004.5600] On the (Im)possibility of Preserving Utility and Privacy in Personalized Social Recommendations
Privacy and recommendation systems.
(tags: toread privacy recommendationsystems article facebook)
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LIS :: Michael habib - May 12, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2010-05-03
Scopus App launched – Science | Connect
(tags: scopus, app, iphone,)
Scopus iPhone app!
(tags: scopus, app, iphone, mobile)
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LIS :: Michael habib - May 4, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2010-04-09
"Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity"
danahboyd SXSW talk…"Fundamentally, privacy is about having control over how information flows. It's about being able to understand the social setting in order to behave appropriately. To do so, people must trust their interpretation of the context, including the people in the room and the architecture that defines the setting. When they feel as though control has been taken away from them or when they lack the control they need to do the right thing, they scream privacy foul. "
(tags: lecture privacy identity danahboyd socialsoftware facebook)
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LIS :: Michael habib - April 10, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2010-03-31
D2D Forum Agenda – National Information Standards Organization
Slides/presentations from NISO Forum — Discovery to Delivery: Creating a First-Class User Experience — Tuesday, March 23, 2010 • Atlanta, GA #nisod2d #in
(tags: forum event NISO linking openurl exlibris)
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LIS :: Michael habib - April 1, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2010-03-29
Let's make science metrics more scientific – Gobbledygook Blog | Nature Publishing Group
A good blog post summarizing a lot of the issues that keep coming up with standards and metrics.
(tags: ORCID metrics scholarlyidentity scholarlycommunication science)
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LIS :: Michael habib - March 30, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2010-02-16
Data is at the heart of new science ecosystem – DATA – Research Information
Article by Rafael: "Offering their content through open APIs, publishers and platform providers can present researchers with application building tools based on more comprehensive content. In fact, publishers and platform providers have an opportunity to serve as the host of the new scientific knowledge ecosystem that is evolving."
(tags: elsevier, apis, data, science, scholarlycommunication)
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LIS :: Michael habib - February 16, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2010-02-04
Hong Kong University First to Use Scopus API for all HKU Authors Across the Institution
Press release: "Hong Kong University First to Use Scopus API for all HKU Authors Across the Institution
02-03-2010 – Updating Institutional Repository through API Technology -"
(tags: scopusapi api ir institutionalrepository hku researcherpages expertprofiling)
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LIS :: Michael habib - February 4, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2010-02-03
ScienceDirect – Computers in Human Behavior : Does Internet use reflect your personality? Relationship between Eysenck’s personality dimensions and Internet use
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LIS :: Michael habib - February 3, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2010-01-29
The Indispensable Man of Open Science: A Talk with Cameron Neylon « Significant Science
Lengthy and detailed interview with Cameron Neylon touching on just about everything related to Open Science.
(tags: openscience opennotebook cameronneylon interview elsevier)
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LIS :: Michael habib - January 29, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2010-01-28
Research Trends – Sparking debate
From article about SNIP – "Across a subject field as broad as scholarly communication, assessing journal impact by citations to a journal in a two-year time frame is obviously going to favor those subjects that cite heavily, and rapidly. Some fields, particularly those in the life sciences, tend to conform to this citation pattern better than others, leading to some widely recognized distortions."
(tags: scopus sjr snip elsevier journals journalmetrics SCIimago CWTS)
Research Trends A question of prestige
From article: "Prestige measured by quantity of citation...
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LIS :: Michael habib - January 28, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2010-01-26
Elsevier’s Scopus Partners with CWTS and SCImago to Offer Multidimensional Evaluation of Research Journals
From press release: "Elsevier… announced that its flagship product Scopus has successfully partnered with the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) and the SCImago Research Group, endorsing two complementary journal metrics, SNIP and SJR. The metrics will be freely available online at www.journalmetrics.com, and integrated into Scopus, allowing researchers around the world to analyze journals within the abstract and citation database. The indicators will offer a greater currency and flexibility...
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LIS :: Michael habib - January 26, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2010-01-25
Latest Features (Scopus, new APIs, interface improvements, & journal metrics
SJR & SNIP jounral metrics introduced to Scopus. APIs for Author Profiles. Improved Cited-By Count integration. Some interface tweaks.
(tags: scopus release pressrelease)
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LIS :: Michael habib - January 25, 2010 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
Digital "librarians"
Since I teach graduate classes in the Digital Libraries Certificate Program at Syracuse University, I often have students ask about job opportunities. Are there really jobs out there? Yes! And during the course of the conversation, I end up talking about specific librarians or organizations. In order to make my life a bit easier for the next conversation ("...and read this..."), I'm writing this blog post. If you have information that you'd like to add to it, please leave a comment. You're wisdom will be greatly appreciated!So...you're interested in digital libraries and are wondering if people really do the work tha...
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Digitization 101 - December 22, 2009 Author: Jill Hurst-Wahl Tags: digital libraries
Digital "librarians"
Since I teach graduate classes in the Digital Libraries Certificate Program at Syracuse University, I often have students ask about job opportunities. Are there really jobs out there? Yes! And during the course of the conversation, I end up talking about specific librarians or organizations. In order to make my life a bit easier for the next conversation ("...and read this..."), I'm writing this blog post. If you have information that you'd like to add to it, please leave a comment. You're wisdom will be greatly appreciated!So...you're interested in digital libraries and are wondering if people really do the work tha...
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Digitization 101 - December 22, 2009 Author: Jill Hurst-Wahl Tags: digital libraries
Patterns of Change, 2008-2009 (But Still They Blog, 8)
Here comes another verse, not quite the same as the other verse…
This post is about Chapter 8 of But Still They Blog: The Liblog Landscape 2007-2009, now available at the special introductory price of $29.50 paperback, $20 PDF.
This 319-page trade paperback provides a sweeping look at liblogs (blogs created by library people but, generally, not blogs that are official library publications), with trends, facts, figures, graphs, and profiles for each of 521 liblogs. It continues the most comprehensive detailed look at liblogs (or any category of blogs) that I know of, showing measurable characteristics and how they’r...
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Walt at Random - December 11, 2009 Author: walt Tags: C&I Books Liblog Landscape Writing and blogging
links for 2009-12-08
Scholarly reputation & identity 2.0 The Search Principle blog – Dean Giustini on health libraries + web media
"His presentation on scholarly identity 2.0 reminds me that academic libraries’ strategic planning should include a line item about assisting faculty with managing their digital reputation and identity (even promoting it)."
(tags: scholarlyidentity identity20 identity academiclibraries academiclibrary20 belgrade serbia)
PhD 2.0: scholarly communication in the Google era (slides and video)
Cornelius Puschmann’s Blog "…after which I went on a long but practically-oriented rant on ...
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LIS :: Michael habib - December 8, 2009 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
Scholarly reputation & identity 2.0
Daniel's directed study has gotten quite a bit of attention -- but I was pleased to see that Michael habib had seen and favourited it. His presentation on scholarly identity 2.0 reminds me that academic libraries' strategic planning should include a line item about assisting faculty with managing their digital ...
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UBC Academic Search - Google Scholar Blog - December 6, 2009
links for 2009-12-02
Scopus Now Available in Research4Life for Scientists in the Developing World
From the Press Release: "Amsterdam, 2 December 2009 – Elsevier… today announced that Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality Web sources, will be added to Research4Life… the collective name given to HINARI, AGORA and OARE, the three public-private partnerships that offer health, agriculture and environmental research for free or at very low cost to developing countries."
(tags: elsevier scopus research4life agora hinari oare pressrelease)
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LIS :: Michael habib - December 2, 2009 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2009-11-27
Institute of Technical Sciences of SASA – News, November 27, 2009
Belgrade lecture blog post.
(tags: belgrade serbia lecture video pictures)
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LIS :: Michael habib - November 27, 2009 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
Videos of Belgrade Lectures: Scholarly Identity 2.0 and Research 2.0
The videos of the Belgrade lectures are now loaded on the University of Belgrade Library’s YouTube channel.
The second day’s presentation was the more interesting topic and a better presentation overall, so I am going to highlight it first. A written overview of the highlights, key diagrams, and slides ia here and the playlist for the second lecture is embedded below:
The first day’s presentation was titled From Academic Library 2.0 to (Literature) Research 2.0. A written overview of the highlights, key diagrams, and slides is located here and the playlist is embedded below:
I look forward to any f...
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LIS :: Michael habib - November 23, 2009 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: 2collab Academic Library 2.0 Identity/Privacy Lectures STM publishing Scholarly/Academic Publishing Science 2.0 Scopus Theory Web 2.0 elsevier apis belgrade claimid presentation research20 researcher identity scholarlycom
Scholarly Identity 2.0: Matrix, Concept Model, and Presentation
As mentioned in my previous post, my first Belgrade lecture focused on the concept of Research 2.0. The second lecture focused on Scholarly Identity 2.0, which is increasingly important because of the wealth of online identity information created by Research 2.0.
The Scholarly Identity Matrix below is adapted from a general identity matrix concept pioneered by the founders of ClaimID. It is meant to display the different types and components of a researcher’s online identity.
The Scholarly Identity 2.0 Concept Model below displays how the different components from the Matrix fit together.
The black text is conte...
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LIS :: Michael habib - November 4, 2009 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Academic Library 2.0 Identity/Privacy Lectures STM publishing Scholarly/Academic Publishing Science 2.0 Social Software Theory Web 2.0 belgrade claimid concept-models elsevier identity20 onlineidentity presentation research
Research 2.0 Concept Model and Presentation
The above is an evolution of the Academic Library 2.0 Concept Models developed for my Master’s Paper. While the original model primarily focused on academic library services for students, the new model focuses on services for researchers.
Like in the original models, the top represents communication spaces grounded in physical space, while the bottom mirrors this in the online realm.
Two ends of the spectrum are informal communications and formal communications. My argument is that Research 2.0 falls somewhere between these extremes. I developed the presentation for the presentation below.
From Academic Library 2.0...
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LIS :: Michael habib - November 4, 2009 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Academic Libraries Academic Library 2.0 Lectures Library as Place STM publishing Scholarly/Academic Publishing Social Software Theory concept-model concept-models identity onlineidentity research20 researcher identity science20
links for 2009-11-03
Library people at Science Online 2010 : Confessions of a Science Librarian
I am also a library person.
(tags: scio10)
ScienceOnline2010 – introducing the participants: travelers from afar : A Blog Around The Clock
I am a traveler from afar.
(tags: scio10)
University library:Exhibitions – Milutin Milankovic – world famous scientist from Belgrade University – virtual exhibition
(tags: Milankovic, belgrade, serbia,)
Stuart Lewis' Blog » Displaying citation counts in DSpace
Blog post about displaying Scopus Cited-by Count in DSpace.
(tags: scopus, howto, citedby, dspace, repositories api)
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LIS :: Michael habib - November 3, 2009 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2009-11-02
Scholarly Perspectives – Webinars
"We invite you to register for a special series of 65-minute webinars featuring three speakers: a library expert, a senior faculty member and an Elsevier product specialist. Speakers will share their views and insights on the evolving role of peer-reviewed journals and books and how the electronic platforms on which these vital resources are hosted, are also leveraging novel information discovery and retrieval techniques to enhance the research and teaching processes."
(tags: scopus, sciencedirect webinar)
Scopus Scientific Author Identifier – Search Preview
YouTub...
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LIS :: Michael habib - November 2, 2009 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
links for 2009-10-21
Better Tools for Multi-site Research
(tags: duke)
University of Florida News – UF receives $12.2 million to establish national network of scientists
"That’s the goal of a $12.2 million National Center for Research Resources grant awarded today to the University of Florida and collaborators at Cornell University, Indiana University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Washington University in St. Louis, the Scripps Research Institute and the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico. The funding stems from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009."
(tags: florida, cornell, ncrr, vivo)
Facebook for s...
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LIS :: Michael habib - October 22, 2009 Author: Michael C. habib Tags: Unfiled
