Professional Reading Shelf
Social Search
Tagging
Source: Nature Publishing Group
New Tools and More from Connotea
"Connotea is a free online reference management service. It allows you to save links to all your favourite articles, references, websites and other online resources with one click. Connotea is also a social bookmarking tool, so you can view other people's collections to discover new, interesting content."
Several new features in the past few weeks including:
+ A Tagging Tool for EPrints-powered Institutional Repositories
+ New Homepage Includes Tag Cloud
+ Video Introduction to Connotea, tags, bookmarking, automatic bibliographic information import, and more
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Academic Libraries
Digitization Projects
Source: The Daily Bruin (UCLA) Libraries getting the digital treatment
"Gary Strong, the UCLA librarian, said that he envisions the library of the future as a space of collaborative learning. Instead of coming to the library to read books, students will be able to collaborate with peers and faculty while looking at and researching collections of rare material, he said." The California Digital Library is also mentioned. Search the California Digital Library. See Also: Direct to The Online Books Page
"Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web."
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See Also: Searching for Digital Books
-- A (Non-controversial) Alternative to Google Print
-- More Online Books Resources
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Personal Information--United States
Source: Chicago Tribune Internet blows CIA cover
From the article, "When the Tribune searched a commercial online data service, the result was a virtual directory of more than 2,600 CIA employees, 50 internal agency telephone numbers and the locations of some two dozen secret CIA facilities around the United States." While this is bad, the article is clear that the information is NOT on the public web but rather via a fee-based service or what we would call "via the web." Which one? We don't know. Also, although the article states, "anyone ... can qualify for a subscription to one of the online services." Without knowing the precise service, it is very hard to measure the accessibility to the data. That said, many of the most robust services are not available to the general public. Lots of paperwork/documentation needs to get completed and approved before access is granted. Of course, many government databases (direct from local, state, federal authorities) offer access to all sorts of personal info, IF you know where to look. This data stockpile, for the most part, remains on the Invisible or deep web. The issue is not one for the search engines, but rather for government webmasters and legislators. Thanks to P.L. for the news tip.
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