19.475 new on WWW: Infobits 11/05; Camena from Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty <willard.mcc on 2005-12-03 (Humanist Archives Vol. 19 )

From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 10:17:52 +0000

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 475.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                   www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
                        www.princeton.edu/humanist/
                     Submit to: humanist_at_princeton.edu

[1] From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu> (162)
Subject: CIT Infobits -- November 2005

[2] From: Wolfgang Schibel <schibel_at_uni-mannheim.de> (56)
Subject: CAMENA

--[1]------------------------------------------------------------------
         Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:56:42 +0000
         From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu>
         Subject: CIT Infobits -- November 2005

CIT INFOBITS November 2005 No. 89 ISSN 1521-9275

About INFOBITS

INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the
CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a
number of information and instructional technology sources
that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic
dissemination to educators.

......................................................................

World Digital Library Initiative Announced
Google Scholar: One Year Later
Do Employers and Students Take Online Educations Seriously?
UIUC's Scholarly Communication E-Newsletter Converted to a Blog
Readings in Higher Education IT Issues
Recommended Reading

......................................................................

WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY INITIATIVE ANNOUNCED

The U.S. Library of Congress, in partnership with Google, announced a
plan to begin building a World Digital Library (WDL) for use by other
libraries around the globe. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington
said that the WDL "would bring together online 'rare and unique
cultural materials held in U.S. and Western repositories with those of
other great cultures such as those that lie beyond Europe and involve
more than 1 billion people: Chinese East Asia, Indian South Asia and
the worlds of Islam stretching from Indonesia through Central and West
Asia to Africa.'" For more details about the World Digital Library go
to http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2005/05-250.html.

Also of interest:

"What Is a Digital Library Anymore, Anyway? Beyond Search and Access in
the NSDL" by Carl Lagozei, Dean B. Kraffti, Sandy Payettei, and
Susan Jesurogaii
D-LIB MAGAZINE, vol. 11, no. 11, November 2005
Volume 11 Number 11
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/lagoze/11lagoze.html

......................................................................

GOOGLE SCHOLAR: ONE YEAR LATER

Google Scholar was launched a year ago this month as an aid to
searching for scholarly literature located on the Web. Now that
scholars have had time to put the service to a test, some are beginning
to point out critical deficiencies and pitfalls. Criticisms include:

-- it's a single search tool, and no single search tool searches the
entire bibliographic universe

-- it does not offer full disclosure about content (what is and is not
included) in the database

-- current research appears late in the database

-- indexing is incomplete

-- it does not provide equal coverage of all subject areas

Peter Jacso provides in-depth evaluation of Google Scholar in "As We
May Search -- Comparison of Major Features of the Web of Science,
Scopus, and Google Scholar Citation-Based and Citation-Enhanced
Databases" (CURRENT SCIENCE, v. 89, no. 10, November 25, 2005, pp.
1537-47). His article is available online at
http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/nov102005/1537.pdf.

Librarian Joe Buenker's webpage, "Google Scholar's Impact on
Libraries," includes a bibliography of critiques of Google Scholar at
http://www.west.asu.edu/jbuenke/librarianship/google-scholar.html.

Google Scholar is available at http://scholar.google.com/.

Another article of interest:

"A Risky Gamble With Google" by Siva Vaidhyanathan
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, vol. 52, issue 15, p. B7
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i15/15b00701.htm
(Online access requires a subscription to the Chronicle.)

......................................................................

DO EMPLOYERS AND STUDENTS TAKE ONLINE EDUCATIONS SERIOUSLY?

The research firm Eduventures recently asked about 500 corporate
training managers if they thought that an online education is equal to
or better than an on-campus education. Sixty-two percent felt it was,
but still that "means 4 in every 10 employers are looking at online
degrees with some degree of skepticism," said senior analyst Sean
Gallagher. Only a third of the 500+ students surveyed agreed that the
two delivery methods were of comparable value. The survey report,
"Assessing Consumer Attitudes toward Online Education," is available
online at
http://static.wbz.viacomlocalnetworks.com/~wbz/onlineed505.pdf.

For more information about Eduventures, go to
http://www.eduventures.com.

Also of interest:

"Web-Based Learning: Factors Affecting Students' Satisfaction and
Learning Experience" by Kyung-Sun Kim and Joi L. Moore
FIRST MONDAY, vol. 10, no. 11, November 2005
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_11/kim/index.html

The article reports on a study that surveyed eighty-two graduate
students taking a Web-based course on their learning experiences and
styles.

......................................................................

UIUC'S SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION E-NEWSLETTER CONVERTED TO A BLOG

ISSUES IN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION ceases distribution as an emailed
newsletter with the November 15, 2005, issue. The purpose of the
newsletter, published since August 2001 by the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champagne Library, has been to bring to readers' attention a
variety of topics that affect the current system of scholarly
communication. This task will continue in a blog located at
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/scholcomm/. The newsletter will also
be available through an RSS feed.

Back issues of the newsletter are available at
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/administration/scholarly_communication/.

......................................................................

READINGS IN HIGHER EDUCATION IT ISSUES

The article "Recommended Readings on the Top-Ten IT Issues" (EDUCAUSE
REVIEW, vol. 40, no. 6, November/December 2005, pp. 114=AD15) provides a
list of recommended readings on information technology issues
identified by the 2005 EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey. The article is
available at http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm0566.asp. The
complete survey and a longer version of the reading list are available
at http://www.educause.edu/2005SurveyResources/6323.

EDUCAUSE Review [ISSN 1527-6619], a bimonthly print magazine that
explores developments in information technology and education, is
published by EDUCAUSE (http://www.educause.edu/). Articles from current
and back issues of EDUCAUSE Review are available on the Web at
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/.

......................................................................