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Found via Lifehacker, this site lets you find alternative open source applications.
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Via Techcrunch. Does this mean that Info Island will be forming a militia soon? Maybe a draft?
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Extensive resource for information on yard and garden plants. Maintained by the Ohio State Department of Horticulture and Crop Science.
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Via Slashdot. Offers some reasons why Joe Q. Public has not jumped on the Linux bandwagon.
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Short article in College & Research Libraries News describing the Eigenfactor.
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Via Stephen Abrams. List of 100 search engines for helping you get out of your Google search rut.
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Article describing the use of active learning to teach chemistry/biochem students how to find citations using a variety of resources.
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Clearing house for articles, books, and other information on encouraging critical thinking.
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Article describing how librarians at a UK university used Blackboard to teach information literacy and research skills.
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Article discussing different tactics used to integrate information literacy into the curriculum. The author argues that librarians should align IL programs to match their institutions academic goals and objectives.
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Updated report on scholarly journal prices examining price, price per page, and impact factor value.
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Tool to find and rank journals by price per article or citation.
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EDUCAUSE Quarterly article. “Despite students’ connected lifestyle, colleges and universities often fail to reach them with timely and relevant information”
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EDUCAUSE article. “Frequent use of mobile devices does not mean that students or instructors are ready for mobile learning and teaching”
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Sheila Webber’s companion wiki from her Lilac 2007presentation “Writing for publication”.
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Pew longitudinal study and the trends are not in the Republicans favor.
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New book (download free PDF) from MIT on open source. Topics include: motivation, economics, business models, software development process and tools, law, and community.
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Found via Science Library Pad, this research project provides free impact factor data. They are “evaluating the influence of scholarly periodicals and for mapping the structure of academic research.”
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Blog from the CIC 2007 conference with session write ups and links to presentations.
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Quick and easy online whiteboard tool. Could be useful during IM chats.
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Search the “Presidential writings, addresses, and remarks of a public nature could be made available” for George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.
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Article on Pew’s December tagging report including an interview with David Weinberger who contrasts tagging with Dewey Decimal and discusses implications.
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Via ILI-L, repository of open source database tutorials. Anyone can use and contribute.
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Iris shares her experience teaching how to use book reviews to a class.
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Jakob Nielsen suggests that the focus should be on teaching “deep, strategic computer insights” not application specific tasks. Via Library Stuff.
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Paper about the intersection of social networks and libraries. By R. David Lankes, Joanne Silverstein, Scott Nicholson from the Information Institute of Syracuse.
