+ [Board Accepted] Evaluation of an Audience Response System in Library Orientations for Engineering Students
by Denise A. Brush, Rowan University
+ [Board Accepted] Open Access Citation Advantage: An Annotated Bibliography
by A. Ben Wagner, University at Buffalo
+ [Refereed] Information Portals: A New Tool for Teaching Information Literacy Skills
by Debra Kolah, Rice University and Michael Fosmire, Purdue University
+ [Refereed] Are Article Influence Scores Comparable across Scientific Fields?
by Julie Arendt, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
+ [Refereed] Using Course Syllabi to Assess Research Expectations of Biology Majors: Implications for Further Development of Information Literacy Skills in the Curriculum
by Andrea L. Dinkelman, Iowa State University
+ [Refereed] Developing the Oregon Explorer-- a Natural Resources Digital Library
by Janine Salwasser and Bonnie Avery, Oregon State University
Book Reviews
+ Virtual Research Environments: From Portals to Science Gateways
by Phoebe Ayers, University of California, Davis
+ Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism
by Melissa L. Gold, Millersville University
+ Science and Technology Resources on the Internet
Michael Fosmire, Editor
Internet Resources
+ End-User Patent Searching Using Open Access Sources
by Pat LaCourse, Alfred University
+ Selected Internet Resources on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
by Erin O'Toole, University of North Texas
Expert Tools
Five Minute Screencasts -- The Super Tool for Science and Engineering Librarians
by Olivia Bautista Sparks, Arizona State University
Viewpoints
The Future of arXiv
by Robert Michaelson, Northwestern University
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
