I just a post over at Putting people first about Microsoft’s Live Search for Acadmics. Similar to Google Scholar except that it trawls journal databases instead of the open web for content.

It’s pretty well-designed - simple, basically - and shows why all those university library search engines that use metalib are so useless. The common […]

Not another buzzword like Web 2.0? We hope not, but it is the title of really interesting paper by Derek Keats and J. Philipp Schmidt. The paper is actually focussed on Africa and how it can shape its own future in this new environment, but there is much to apply to other nations too. Essentially […]