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OpenDOAR is open

OpenDOAR - Directory of Open Access Repositories went live on Friday.
This morning there were 49 UK repositories listed; browing by subject internationally finds 116 health repositories.

Haydock, Naas and Wincanton

Haydock 110: Accordello
Haydock 140: Al Eile
Haydock 210: Kingscliff
Naas 215: Church Island
Haydock 245: Turthen
Wincanton 310: Almost Broke

John Lanchester on Google

There's an excellent piece in the latest London Review of Books by John Lanchester on Google: The Global Id.
Lanchester. John
The Global Id
London Review of Books 2006 28(2): 3-6
It's a review (but much more than that) of David Vise's the Google Story and John Battelle's The Search

PS I also offer this:

Is Google enough? Comparison of an internet search engine with academic library resources
Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, Vol. 57, No. 6. (2005), pp. 498-512.
Brophy J, Bawden D

 

Hangover Square

I see there's to be an attempt to film Hangover Square according to Time out, by Joe Wright who apparently directed a version of Pride and Prejudice; I get my recent Austen adaptations muddled, there seem to be so many. Was this the one that caused distress to Austenians by changing the ending?
Hamilton has not been served well by film makers, and Time Out wryly say that the 1940s John Brahm version of Hangover Square
"did not stick particularly closely to the source material".

egoSurf

Hours of harmless solipsistic fun: egoSurf - ego surfing without the guilt.
I have 2401 ego points

A beginner's guide to open access

From MLA-Focus: "Mark E. Funk, AHIP, [and MLA President-elect-TR] has developed a beginner's guide to open access (PDF, 112KB). "Open Access—A Primer" provides a broad overview, including the history, philosophy, ethics, and economics of open access and several national and international initiatives such as the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the Bethesda Principles, and DC Principles."

Warwick, Carlisle and Punchestown

Punchestown 100: First Row
Warwick 200: Be Be King
Carlisle 245: Torkinking
Warwick 300: Valley Ride

One Entry to Research

A group of Swedish librarians have set up a blog, One entry to research  for the critical evaluation of Google Scholar ,  Scopus and Web of Science 

Sandown and Navan

Sandown 205: Ladalko
Sandown 235: Noland
Navan 255: Laureldean
Sandown 310: Afrad

Library 2.0

For weeks I have been wrestling with a post on Library 2.0. It's an interesting idea, and I thought I had something to say. I also was afraid that I might become a character in  a H M Bateman cartoon, the blogging librarian who has nothing to say on the subject. And then, blast him, T Scott Plutchak beats me to it and says nearly everything I wanted to say and far more eloquently and persuasively.
I may add a little bit in a day or two.