Open Access Journals

Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

OA removes price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and permission barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions). The PLoS shorthand definition 

"free availability and unrestricted use"— succinctly captures both elements"
 

There is some flexibility about which permission barriers to remove. For example, some OA providers permit commercial re-use and some do not. Some permit derivative works and  some do not. But all of the major public definitions of OA agree that merely removing price barriers, or limiting permissible uses to "fair use" ("fair dealing" in the UK), is not enough.

More reading at : Open Access journal website (UiTM)

Cara memuat turun perisian Endnote X5

 

Beberapa perubahan untuk memuat turun perisian EndnoteX5 di dalam blog ini akan diperjelaskan di dalam posting terbaru. Jika anda ingin mendapatkan perisian tersebut, 3 pilihan akaun yang perlu anda login iaitu samada 4shared, Facebook atau Twitter akaun.

 

 Download EndnoteX5 link: HERE

Sekiranya anda tidak mempunyai sebarang akaun dari 3 pilihan diatas, boleh berjumpa dengan pegawai unit perkhidmatan penyelidikan iaitu Encik Shahrol Nizam Johol di Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak 1 (PTAR1) atau hubungi beliau di talian 03-55211707 (klik sini)

terima kasih.

Bengkel Kemahiran Sumber Elektronik Perpustakaan 2012

Dimaklumkan Bahagian Jurnal dan Pangkalan Data akan menganjurkan Bengkel Kemahiran Sumber Elektronik Perpustakaan 2012 di Perpustakaan UiTM Cawangan Pulau Pinang (selaku tuan rumah) pada 22-23 Mei 2012 (Selasa-Rabu). 



Undangan peserta adalah dari gred S17 hingga gred S44 dari Perpustakaan UiTM Cawangan Pulau Pinang, Kedah, Perak dan Perlis (Zon Utara).


Pegawai PTAR yang terlibat di dalam penganjuran bengkel ini adalah :
1. Puan Noormala Maarof
2. Puan Nurul Diana Jasni
3. Encik Ahmad Faizar Jaafar 
4. Encik Shahrol Nizam Johol


OBJEKTIF BENGKEL DIADAKAN ADALAH:
1. Memberi latihan secara teori dan praktikal kepada Pustakawan UiTM supaya mereka dapat membimbing pengguna mencari maklumat dengan cara yang lebih berkesan. 
2. Mempelajari bagaimana pangkalan data elektronik dapat membantu pelanggan perpustakaan dalam pembelajaran, pengajaran dan penyelidikan mereka. 
3. Memahami kaedah dan strategi pencarian maklumat yang cekap dan berkesan.


Sumber: Blog Perpustakaan UiTM

#1 InfoSharing@PTAR: Library Connect Monthly

Assalamualaikum dan Salam Sejahtera

InfoSharing@PTAR  kali ini menampilkan pautan ke Library Connect Monthly  keluaran May 2012 yang membuka minda pembaca terhadap isu-isu menarik dan terkini dalam bidang kepustakawanan dan pengurusan maklumat. Mari bersama kita tingkatkan pengetahuan melalui artikel-artikel ini:

1) The changing face of academic libraries: Why less space does not have to mean less impact 

By Robert Schwarzwalder, Stanford University Libraries

2) If they don't know what you're doing, then tell them: A primer on how to start marketing
By Zuzana Helinsky, zh Consulting

3) Being "Librarian 2.0": It's all in the attitude
By Helen Partridge, Queensland University of Technology

4) Get to know your users better: Seven secrets for successful surveys
By Donna Carroll, University of Warwick 

Untuk teks penuh artikel, makluman event terbaru dan cara-cara berhubung dengan Library Connect Monthly  sila layari pautan ini:
http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bECU001/mCAMAC3F/uKARH4/xUL61C3F

Selamat membaca!
 

Team InfoSharing@PTAR

Sumber: Library Connect Monthly

(Google Scholar) Finding high-quality content in social media

Abstract:


The quality of user-generated content varies drastically from excellent to abuse and spam. As the availability of such content increases, the task of identifying high-quality content sites based on user contributions -social media sites -becomes increasingly important. 

Social media in general exhibit a rich variety of information sources: in addition to the content itself, there is a wide array of non-content information available, such as links between items and explicit quality ratings from members of the community.


In this paper we investigate methods for exploiting such community feedback to automatically identify high quality content. As a test case, we focus on Yahoo! Answers, a large community question/answering portal that is particularly rich in the amount and types of content and social interactions available in it. 


We introduce a general classification framework for combining the evidence from different sources of information, that can be tuned automatically for a given social media type and quality definition. In particular, for the community question/answering domain, we show that our system is able to separate high-quality items from the rest with an accuracy close to that of humans.


Find more: HERE

(NEW) Publication 2012

MAXIMS OF UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP

Author : Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar

ISBN No : 978-967-363-357-9

Pages : 234

Price : RM 35.00 (SC) RM 45.00 (HC)

More publication 2012: e-catalogue publication

Official Release of WizCite Desktop for Mac v1.0.0.0

Hello,
Wizfolio has officially released WizCite Desktop for Mac v1.0.0.0 on 30th April 2012. This release ensures compatibility between Mac and PC users.
   
Wizfolio are also planning to release the Windows version of WizCite Desktop  in two weeks' time.  To learn more please visit the link provided by the Wizfolio Team.

See here for the blog announcement.
For a preview of WizCite Desktop for Mac click here.
You can download the latest versions of WizCite here.


Regards
TKP