Filed on Jul 31st 2008 in Scholarly Publishing
If you have ever published a paper or plan to publish one in this age of freely available web information and the attendant ownership controversies, you may be wondering what you are allowed to do with your paper after it has been published or approved for publication. SHERPA/RoMEO is a database that lets you know what rights are normally give to author's by journal publishers.
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Filed on Jul 29th 2008 in Engineering
The electronic collection at Dibner Library is expanding: we now have access to over 2,000 full text journals via Science Direct, a significant increase over our previous subscription.
Science Direct's extensive full text collection covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature. But don't let the name mislead you - in addition to Life, Health, Physical and Materials Sciences...
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Filed on Jul 28th 2008 in Engineering
IEEE has approved six new publications to be released in 2009. The list of new journal titles offers an exciting array of information on emerging and multidisciplinary technical topics:
IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters
IEEE Journal of Optical Communications and...
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Filed on Jul 28th 2008 in Scholarly Publishing
Media companies moved into the online world with trepidation, seeing the opportunities in providing online music and movie viewing and downloading for a fee, but also fearing copyright violation. Many in the music and movie audience, especially young people, believed the media companies were gouging them with high prices for DVDs and CDs, and felt little remorse at procuring and providing free...
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Filed on Jul 25th 2008 in Fun
An earlier post had mentioned online panoramas. Creating these shots was often quite expensive, requiring high end cameras and special motorized mounts. Now we might be seeing many more of these displays as researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an inexpensive robotic device that can be attached to any standard digital camera. The device will cause the camera to...
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