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DIS 19, Fiat Lux:
"Don’t Just Google It": (as well as issues of
Identity and Privacy) |
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Potential Presentation topics: What is copyright?
Pros/cons of Google Books/Scholar?
Google scholar compared to ISI's Citation
Indexes aka Web of Science, http://Addall.com,
collectorz.com or http://librarything.com or http://resourcemate.com or intelliscanner.com
as well as Project Gutenberg's
42,000 free electronic books and now, Microsoft's Academic Search (beta). c. Challenges to Google’s scanning: the landmark October 2008 publishers
agreement; see the PBS news hour 8-minute video...On
4 February 2010, the US Department of Justice weighs
in on possible settlement; Judge Denny Chin of the Court rejects
settlement--“A Guide for
Perplexed IV: The Rejection of the Google Book Settlement”
(2011). d. "Library Scanning
Contracts" some of which are public (U of Michigan, UC,
and UW-M, and UTA) e. The European Digital
Library Project (15 million items) at http://europeana.eu/portal/
and its subset, the British Library’s 1700-1870 250,000
book project partnering with Google f. Google Scholar
Blog; the visible versus the invisible web--especially the
Deeper Web and How to Get There via IP authentication and an interview with
Anurag Acharya, the co-creator of Scholar on the 10th
anniversary of this service h. Geoffrey Nunberg, "Google's Book Search: A Disaster for
Scholars," (2009) at http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/ i. Want to buy a
paperback book—got the ISBN barcode?
Check its price with an iOS device with Quick Scan Pro. Potential Presentation 6: Search--what's the best price
for one of our DIS 19 class textbooks (see below)? Why? What factors do you
consider in determining "best"? Or, find three peer-reviewed
journal articles related to a topic from one of your other classes and
discuss why you found what you found. Revised,
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