Practical Portals

More frequent reviews of supply chain capabilities are essential to meet increased demand, adapt to varying fuel prices and account for fluctuating currency valuations.

- Do something no one has imagined: The 2008 SPARC Digital Repositories meeting (source: College & Research Libraries News, mars 09 / via OAN, 08/03/09) – PIRUS—Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics: Final Report (source: JISC / via DigitalKoans, 09/03/09) “Developing a global standard to enable the recording, reporting and consolidation of online usage statistics for individual journal articles hosted by institutional repositories, publishers and other entities

- The Author ID Dilemma (source: The Scholarly Kitchen, 11/03/09) “The notion of a persistent, unique, portable author identifier sounds reasonable, but there may be a showstopper or two hidden in the mix.” – Une plus grande portée pour vos recherches: ressources pour les chercheurs (source: Carl/Abrc, Canada / via Françoise) – Journal of Scholarly Publishing (Vol. 40, n° 3, avr. 09 / sur abonnement à l’UCL et avec embargo de 6 mois) – Citations citations … (source: Urfi

We bought a home sometime back and decorated it with lighting and furniture. We went through a number of shops and also online portals to see, check and decide as to what exactly we would need. We spent a lot of time deciding on each and every single lighting. What kind of light should be there. Which spaces needed lighting. How do we go green while buying lights etc. We also spent quite some time deciding on the furniture. Looking at each and every single furniture item was really draining. T

by John Smith Since quite few years skateboarding has taken sports to a whole different level. This is one recreational sport that is a great exercising regime and fun game to bring friends together. The skateboarding fans always complain about not having the right information to make the choice easier. The most important consideration is to go to the right source for the purchase. There are many online portals which will make our choice easier but if you follow some tips you will make the

Correct me if I am wrong, but I get the feeling that blogs related to Indian advertising & marketing are not as vibrant as those abroad. Even with ad portals or online versions of trade magazines I feel that the US and UK titles offer better width and depth of coverage. And when it comes to ‘discussions’ I find both the Indian magazine websites and blogs woefully falling behind. Take a look at the Gulf edition of Campaign or venerable titles like Ad Age or Adweek, and you will find industr

After the success of Geng in cinemas nationwide, Les’ Copaque is now expanding its production team to cater to more animation projects. Join the team and be involved with the popular series Upin & Ipin which is now in its third season, as well as the chance to be a part of Les’ Copaque’s next major 3D Animated Feature Film which will be announced soon. We are looking for both fresh graduates and experienced individuals so apply now while vacancies are still available. Here are th

“Intricate maps of science have been created from citation data to visualize the structure of scientific activity. However, most scientific publications are now accessed online. Scholarly web portals record detailed log data at a scale that exceeds the number of all existing citations combined. Such log data is recorded immediately upon publication and keeps track of the sequences of user requests (clickstreams) that are issued by a variety of users across many different domains. Given these adv

Nuance finally acquires Zi Corp. Gerson Lehrman Group, New York vLingo, Fonix, and others have products for the iPhone. Most are voice dialers. Others allow people to search the internet or Google Maps or whatnot. Currently, they most all free. The Fonix voice dialer application costs $3. Gamasutra GDC: Zeebo Announces Console Launch, ‘Gaming for the Next Billion’ Gamasutra, CA Qualcomm and Zeebo did a number of market tests and research in various regions, and found that most middle cl

This: In this really cool article by Bollen et al. in PLoS ONE we get a map of the connections between disciplines by seeing how folks click through journals. As they put it: Over the course of 2007 and 2008, we collected nearly 1 billion user interactions recorded by the scholarly web portals of some of the most significant publishers, aggregators and institutional consortia. The resulting reference data set covers a significant part of world-wide use of scholarly web portal