New Online from ebrary (Free): An Open Access Collection of E-books and Other Materials About Cyberbullying
This is another free collection (available to everyone) of open access e-books and other materials focused on a special topic from ebrary.
The latest collection, available today, deals with the growing problem of cyberbullying.
From the Announcement:
To help parents, educators, and others better understand, prevent, and take action against this growing concern, ebrary today announced it is subsidizing a collection of open access e-books on cyberbullying and will enable other organizations to contribute materials as long as they have copyrights.
+ Click, Click, Who's Really There?: Protect Your Family from Online Predators, Pedophiles, Privacy Loss and More, by Koh (LHK Publishing, LLC, 2006);
+ Bullying Prevention and Intervention: Realistic Strategies for Schools, by Susan Swearer, (Guilford Press, 2009)
+ Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet, by Simon Johnson (McGraw-Hill, 2004)
It also includes a growing selection of documents uploaded by ebrary employees from authoritative sites including the Pew Internet & American Life Project, U.S. Department of Justice, and other agencies.
+ Library and KM Center
Includes e-books from leading publishers subsidized by ebrary. Includes a collection from Dr. Allen McKiel, Dean of Library and Media Services at Western Oregon University including his book Beyond tolerance: religion and global community
See Also: ebrary Continues to Offer One of the Best Freebies On the Internet, ebrary Discover.
In a nutshell, FREE access to over 20,000 full text books (searchable) from a variety of publishers covering a variety of topics. After registration (free), read as much as you like, of often as you like, online, using ebrary technology. You do have to place at least $5/U.S. on a credit card but money is only deducted IF you decide to save or print a page. Saving/Printing a page costs $.25/page.
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.
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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
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