Magazines? On Google?

List of all magazines now available in Google Books Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 9:21 AM Posted by Jeffrey Peng, Software Engineer, Google Books.
Inside Google Books blog

I'm a software engineer on Google Books. One of my main projects is adding magazine content and features to the site. In September we were excited to announce the availability of over 1,860 issues of the iconic LIFE magazine on Google Books. One of the feature requests that I got from friends and family was to add a way to browse all the magazines available. I coded up a page on Google Books that lets you browse the available magazine titles. You can view the page I'm happy to announce that last week here. [info from bespacific@earthlink.net ]

Hubble’s New Camera Delivers a Stunner

Thursday is send us your fantastic images Day!
You absolutely cannot guess what this is, can you? First thing I thought of were the stretch marks on a tummy in month 9 of pregnancy. Send me your initial guess, if you dare. And, now for the truth: "The Hubble Space Telescope’s new camera is returning incredibly detailed, stunning images of space. This close-up view of an area near the core of the iconic Southern Pinwheel galaxy, or M83, shows very rapid star birth." More information at
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/hubble-m83-pinwheel/ thanks Susan Johns-Smith

Edwards Campus: receives awards

The Greater Kansas City Public Relations Society of America honored the Edwards Campus with the following awards in its annual PRISM competition.

The Edwards Campus, in partnership with Johnson County Community College, received a Silver Award in special events — $50,000 or less category for the “Start2Finish 5K Run-Walk,” an annual fundraiser for undergraduate scholarships.

Ed Foley, Edwards Campus recruitment director, received a Silver Award in the workshops/training category for “Professional Edge,” a program delivered by KU faculty that provides professional development in the workplace.

In partnership with Trozzolo Communications Group of Kansas City, Mo., HigherEd, the Edwards Campus community newsletter, won a Silver Award in the newsletters category and the 2008 Edwards Campus external branding campaign also won a Silver Award in the branding initiatives category.

PRISM is the annual award ceremony sponsored by the Kansas City PRSA chapter that recognizes the best in public relations and marketing in greater Kansas City.

See: The Oread

An Interview With Vint Cerf

Hello Bloggers. . . I'll be returning tomorrow from a fascinating conference, Internet Librarian 2009. The big topic was "going mobile" and how libraries can better serve our users who are definitely using their mobile devices and smart phones to get directions on where to go. . .a perfect place for libraries to be. But, first we must remember where we came from. Not as far back as those little clay tablets with inscribed messages--although that concept does have a familiar ring to it. Okay, following is part of an interview with an Internet Evangelist at Google AND one of the founding fathers of the Internet. WoW! An Interview With The “Father of the Internet” Enjoy! Lissa
PS
Did I mention the conference was in Monterey, CA? The least I can do is give you a little photo of the sunny salty ocean--

Top Tools Web 2.0 Research

Hi Bloggers, I'm sending you 3 of the 10 sites for Web 2.0 Research with more coming. If you start with iGoogle and follow along, you will find fantastic resources to add to your academic research toolbox. Questions? Lissa llord@ku.edu

iGoogle.com http://google.com/ig
I use it like a story board for various bits of news, research facts and information I need for my current work.

GoogleReader http://www.google.com/reader/
I read my GoogleReader like the Sunday paper--the place to go when I want to catch up on the news that interests me. I direct general RSS notices to Google Reader.

Addthis http://addthis.com/
There would be no need for Web 2.0 without the desire to share information with others. Addthis is a share button that allows you to send specific information from selected sites to your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

Social Science Policy Research

I found quite a few policy books at IPR Institute for Policy Research Newsletter site. This is an excellent site for all engaging in social science research. Enjoy, L

New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform
By Celeste Watkins-Hayes
University of Chicago Press, 2009, 328 pages
As the recession worsens, more and more Americans must turn to welfare to make ends meet. Once inside the agency, the newly jobless will face a bureaucracy that has undergone massive change since the advent of welfare reform in 1996. IPR sociologist and African American studies assistant professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes offers a behind-the-scenes look at bureaucracy’s human face in a compelling study of welfare officers and how they navigate the increasingly tangled political and emotional terrain of their jobs. Based on extensive fieldwork in two distinct communities in the Northeast, her analysis shows how the shift from simply providing monetary aid to helping recipients find jobs has made caseworkers more involved in their clients lives—and increased the importance of their own racial, class, and professional identities in the process.

Wilson Database Talks

Hello Bloggers . . .I was searching Wilson OmniFile full text select (Search= twitter AND higher education). I wanted to read one of the articles in the search results, and then noticed a speaker icon which I clicked on and had my choice of male or female computer generated voice! This could be quite helpful for folks who would rather listen than read text on the screen. And, that cool search of mine was from a Scholarly Journal, but the term "twitter" meant the chirping of a bird! Imagine my surprise.
Silverman, E., et. al., Cheep, Chirp, Twitter, & Whistle. Science and Children v. 44 no. 6 (February 2007) p. 20-5

Google Books for your research

A Writer’s Plea: Figure Out How to Preserve Google Books Hello bloggers! I sent this link straight to our blog from Wired Magazine. It always amazes me when one piece of technology talks to another (online Wired to Blogger). The article is excellent as well. Definitely, we'll have to look into Google Books for our own research. Enjoy, L

Research Steps 8-10

Questions and Apointments? Lissa llord@ku.edu

Reminder:
Online Research in 60 Minutes
9-21-09 Monday 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Register: http://tinyurl.com/qcc2y3

8. Keep a record. Find a method to write down citations to books, articles, videos, Internet sites, etc. and keep them in an easy to remember space (on or offline). Methods include pencil and paper, a Word Document, spreadsheet, email notes and citation software. If you are a graduate student, the KU Libraries recommend using Endnote--citation management software. It is free and downloads to PC or MAC. We've already had the Introductory class but we have two more coming up:

Endnote II in 60-minutes
9-26-09 Saturday 9:30am - 10:30am
No need to sign-up for this session but EndNote I is required.

Endnote III in 60-minutes
10-3-09 Saturday 9:30am - 10:30am
Register: http://tinyurl.com/qcc2y3

9. Use everything. Thoughts pop into your head--write them down. Books have been known to jump off the shelf--catch them. Many Internet resources come with Alert services--use them. Check the Blogs and Twitter search engines. And, at your fingertips, is the Dissertation Research Blog.

Research & Web 2.0 in 60-minutes
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, iGoogle
10-5-09 Monday 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Register: http://tinyurl.com/qcc2y3

10. Research using our Twitter!
http://twitter.com/LibraryKUEC

Endnote II in 60-minutes

By popular demand from our Edwards Campus students, we've added an EndNote II session for Saturday the 26th.

Endnote II in 60-minutes
This session is for those already familiar with Endnote. How to construct, print, save and email bibliographies from selected references stored in our Endnote files. Also, we will work within a Word document to use the Cite-While-You-Work (CWYW) feature with Endnote. We will download specific citations to be placed within a Word document as an in-text citation and a Bibliography or Reference List added at the end of the paper.

September 14 Monday 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Register: http://tinyurl.com/qcc2y3
AND
September 26 Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Register: Not necessary. This is an extra class not on the schedule.

Research Steps 6 and 7

6. Contact a librarian for help with your research. On KU Edwards Campus, we're Lyn Wolz lwolz@ku.edu, and Lissa Lord llord@ku.edu in the Regents Center Library.

7. Find scholarly articles directly through the Libraries' databases--and this is where the librarian comes in. What is a scholarly article and which of the hundreds of databases is the one perfect for your topic? Use Google Scholar with the library databases--to your research advantage! How to get a full text article from the library to your email? Here's a Research Guide and please join us at a class:

Online Research in 60-minutes
9-05-09 Saturday 9:30am to 10:30am
9-21-09 Monday 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Register: http://tinyurl.com/qcc2y3

Research Steps 3, 4, 5

Hello Bloggers! As promised here are three more tips from the libraries' famous Research Refresher in 10-Steps. Lissa llord@ku.edu

3. Write down some keywords that relate to your question. Start broad. Your search will narrow to more specific findings as you focus search terms that work for you.

4. WorldCat.org is a global catalog of library holdings--including the KU Libraries catalog. Notice that you can enter your zip code to see if some of your findings are available from a library close to home.

5. Tip, the library will try to get any title you find listed in WorldCat or KU Libraries catalog. InterLibraryLoan is the service and at KU, this service is here illiad.lib.ku.edu/KKU/)

More on our Twitter

Research Steps 1 & 2

Welcome back to your awesome library. We're ready for the best semester, ever! To get us started, how about a research refresher in 10-steps? We'll start with Step-1 and Step-2. Then, we can go play on Twitter. Lissa llord@ku.edu

1. State your topic as a question.

2. If you don't know the subject area, and even if you do, collect some basic background information. How? Visit the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, Wikipedia.org, get friendly with the Librarians Index to the Internet lii.org, and shuffle through the Internet Public Library www.ipl.org.

More on our Twitter

Online Writing Lab (OWL)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

"The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction." Source= http:/www.refdesk.com

Mobile KU email

There are several options for connecting wirelessly to your KU email account from a mobile device (PDA with WiFi capability, smartphone, etc.). Here is a list of the most commonly used, with general instructions for configuration. <http://email.ku.edu/mobile.shtml>

Device:

• Cell phone:
• Cell with web browser: OMA
• Cell with Email program for IMAP/POP connections: IMAP/POP
• Palm (Treo smartphones; PDAs with WiFi): OMA, IMAP/POP, Exchange ActiveSync
• All Apple iPhones: OMA, IMAP/POP
• iPhones with Software Update 2.0 from Apple: OMA, IMAP/POP, Exchange ActiveSync
• Blackberry: OMA, IMAP/POP
• Windows Mobile (smartphones; PDAs with WiFi): OMA, IMAP/POP, Exchange ActiveSync
• Other devices: Check the manual to see what is supported on the device; at a minimum, if the device has a web browser, you can use OMA.

100 Ways to use Google

Hello Bloggers . . . There was a grand conference at Johnson County Community College a couple of weeks ago: SIDLIT (for faculty and staff involved in instructional technology to share expertise on a colleague to colleague basis). I'm going to be posting some of the presentations during this August break. Enjoy! Lissa

100 Ways You Can Use Google (Besides Searching)
Marziah Karch, Johnson County Community College
Google has dozens of tools for educators and students. Learn how to make forms that feed into spreadsheets, blogs, social networks, websites, collaborative documents, videos, and more. During economic downturns it's more important than ever to make sure you and your students are utilizing free tools for collaborative learning and communication.

Recommended Citation:
Karch, Marziah, "100 Ways You Can Use Google (Besides Searching)" (2009). SIDLIT Conference Proceedings. Paper 17.
http://scholarspace.jccc.edu/sidlit/17

Web20 Academic Research & Ten Tools

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Web20 Academic Research & Ten Tools

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Society for New Communications Research

http://sncr.org/ The Society for New Communications Research is a global nonprofit 501(c)(3) research and education foundation and think tank focused on the advanced study of the latest developments in new media and communications, and their effect on traditional media and business models, communications, culture and society.

SNCR is dedicated to creating a bridge between the academic and theoretical pursuit of these topics and the pragmatic implementation of new media and communications tools and methodologies. The Society’s Fellows include a leading group of futurists, scholars, business leaders, professional communicators, members of the media and technologists from around the globe – all collaborating together on research initiatives, educational offerings, and the establishment of standards and best practices.

Fall '09 Research Classes at the Library

Hello Blog Watchers! Below is the first sighting of our fall classes.
Mark your calendars
Register: http://tinyurl.com/qcc2y3
Questions? just ask Lissa llord@ku.edu
All Classes are located in the Computer Lab in the Library


Online Research in 60-minutes databases, websites,
September 5 Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
September 21 Monday 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
How to find scholarly articles and books using library databases. We’ll also introduce some new search engines and research websites!
Register: http://tinyurl.com/qcc2y3

SPSS I: Getting Started in 90-minutes
September 10 Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Learn to navigate the various SPSS windows and menus, to enter, save, and retrieve data, perform statistical analysis and publish results.
Register: http://tinyurl.com/qcc2y3

Endnote I* in 60-minutes
September 12 Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
This beginning Endnote session will cover how to download a copy of the Endnote software (KU faculty, staff and students). We will look at how to export citations from specific library databases and search engines directly into Endnote.
Register: http://tinyurl.com/qcc2y3

Endnote II* in 60-minutes bibliographies, Cite-While-You-Write
September 14 Monday 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Here we cover how bibliographies and we will work within a Word document to use the Cite-While-You-Work (CWYW) feature with Endnote.
Register: http://tinyurl.com/qcc2y3

Endnote III* in 60-minutes basic refresher and FAQ
October 3 Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
A quick hour for those already using Endnote.
Frequently Asked Questions bring your questions to class!
Register: http://tinyurl.com/qcc2y3

Research & Web 2.0 in 60-minutes Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, iGoogle
October 5 Monday 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
We will concentrate on academic interests in using the free Internet and the social sites of Web2.0. The range of information is deep, useful and oh, so interesting. Join us!
Register: http://tinyurl.com/qcc2y3

*Endnote is available to KU Graduate students, staff and faculty

Chemistry Journals Go Digital-Only

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus The American Chemical Society, which publishes several dozen academic journals, is moving to end print editions and produce journals only online. The move was noted by the journal Nature in late June after someone sent it a copy of a memo from a chemical-society official, but unfortunately you can't read the complete report unless you pay a fee to subscribe or buy one-time access.

And that's precisely the issue--making money online, and losing it in print--that drove the chemistry society's decision, according to a recent story in Ars Technica, which you can read in full, at no charge. The Web site notes that the journal publisher said, in the memo, that "printing and distribution costs now exceed revenues from print journals." Plus, scientists seem happier reading online, the society thinks. So this summer, all but three of its journals will become digital-only. No word on whether the society will pass on to subscribers the savings it realizes from buying less paper and fewer stamps. But don't hold your breath. --Josh Fischman
from The Wired Campus

Online Learning Study

There’s an abstract of a U.S. Dept of Education study on the effectiveness of online education available at: http://teaching.uncc.edu/ctl-blog/effectiveness-online-learning . The USDE study examined over a 1,000 studies between 1996 and 2008 and screened those studies to analyze the success of online vs. face-to-face instruction.

The complete study can be downloaded here: http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf .
TechNews from JCCC, July 6, 2009 J. Bacon

Academic Earth

http://academicearth.org/ Academic Earth provides videos of lectures by top scholars in subject s that range from Astronomy to Entrepreneurship to Religion, and come from universities as celebrated as MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, and Stanford. Visitors must register to view the lectures, but registration is free. There are over 1500 video lectures available, with more being added everyday. Visitors can even keep a playlist or download their favorite lectures. from The Scout Report
The Human Brain and Muscular System
Marian Diamond Berkeley / Biology

The Institute for Policy Research (IPR) is an interdisciplinary public policy research institute founded in 1968-69 at Northwestern University. Our mission is to stimulate and support excellent social science research on significant public policy issues and to disseminate the findings widely -- to students, scholars, policymakers, and the public. www.northwestern.edu/ipr / This is a solid research site for the Social Sciences--social welfare, education, public administration and urban development, etc. --Lissa

Information Access via Web 2.0

Information is sometimes difficult to get. The process of providing accurate news and accessing information NOW involves Twitter, blogs, and other Web 2.0 programs are putting the "peoples' journalism" on our screens concerning post election news in Iran. How do we know what is valid and what is not? Start with a source you know, like major newspapers online, BBC News or academic sites highlighting international affairs, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, and Christiane Amanpour, an expert from CNN news. The Huffington Post has been making news about its extensive coverage of this topic completely using the tools of Web 2.0. The NYTimes site to supplement the messages from their reporters in Iran is The Lede at http://tinyurl.com/nyrfgo Don't forget:
Google Blog Search http://blogsearch.google.com/
Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com
YouTube Search http://www.youtube.com/#
Twitter is a source of much news of the current news: http://twitter.com/#iranelection

The photo is from June 17, Christian Science Monitor, one of the most highly rated news sources for balanced coverage.

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Letters pictured from space: First ever 'Google alphabet' formed using satellite images.