Well, OK. That’s a bit hyperbolic. But a piece in the Globe over the weekend, Group Think, got around to noticing a phenomenon I wrote about a while back. Essentially, the ease of doing research online is actually limiting the scope of scholarly research to that which can be found only in the targeted search [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Research’
We Scooped the Boston Globe!
Posted in News, Scholarly research, tagged Online journals, Research on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
You Know You are a Bestselling Author, When They Steal Your Books
Posted in News, Publishing, tagged Bestsellers, Online journals, Research, Theft on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An absence of news and the cruel heat of summer can only mean one thing. It is time to look at what is happening in the world of books and libraries outside of Alabama. I begin with an amusing account of the most frequently stolen books from Flying off the Shelves, an amusing little essay that I found [...]