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Wednesday, November 30, 2011  Online Research Browsers Updated> Online Research Browsers  http://zillman.blogspot.com/2009/08/online-research-browsers.html I have just updated my Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper titled "Online Research Browsers" a 19 page research paper listing many resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to find information and knowledge research about online research browsers available on the Internet. These research browsers allow you to visualize information to find new relationships and associations to create knowledge discovery and obtain new and highly relevant research data. It is freely available as a .pdf file (162KB) at the above link from the Virtual Private Library™ and authored by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It was updated November 30, 2011. Other white papers are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 3:20 PM 
SliderWall - The Best JQuery Immage Slider http://www.sliderwall.com/ SliderWall is 100% based on HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript and can be used to create all types of sliders, from dynamic feeds to image sliders. The jQuery slider features several templates that can be customized from a single CSS file. But "customize" is not the proper word - with a bit of creativity and experience you can modify the original templates as far as to make them unrecognizable! Features include: a) Tell your story in an interactive way; b) Makes content easier to access on mobile devices; c) Get indexed by search engines; and d) Creates jQuery sliders using multiple templates, modes of navigation and transition effects. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:56 AM 
ISRN Materials Science http://www.isrn.com/journals/ms/ ISRN Materials Science is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of materials science. ISRN Materials Science is part of the ISRN series of peer-reviewed, open access journals that are designed to provide a fast peer review process for all submitted manuscripts. Every ISRN journal is collaboratively run by a relatively large, international Editorial Board of experts in the subject area of the journal. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:31 AM  Call2Record - Record Audio With Any Mobile Phone and Share It On the Web http://calltorecord.com/ Record audio with just your mobile phone. Features include: a) Unlimited recording durations for $1/hour; b) Private recordings; c) Share recordings securely with friends and coworkers; and d) 30 free minutes of recording time! Put Call2Record on speed dial, and you can be recording audio with just the touch of a single button. Sometimes pen and paper aren't available when you'd like to formally agree on something. Call2Record can give you the confidence to make a deal. Sometimes carrying around another device for recording can be cumbersome. Call2Record can help you travel lighter. Don't worry about your audio being destroyed or stolen before you can transfer it to a computer. Recordings are stored in the cloud as they are happening. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:12 AM 
Orchestra - Organizes What Needs Doing and Communicates With Others To Get It Done http://www.orchestra.com/ No man is an island, so Orchestra blends organization with communication to make working with others a piece of cake. Every conversation is focused around a specific task, and you can collaborate with anyone in the world - all you need is an email or phone number to start delegating. Some of the most important notes-to-self come at the most inopportune times. The good news: Orchestra makes capturing tasks as easy as holding down a button and speaking into your phone. Using advanced voice recognition technology, Orchestra jots down what you say quickly, leaving your hands and eyes free for whatever else you were doing. Capture tasks, review what needs doing, and chat with others from your phone when on the go, then visit their web app when you get back to your desk. Everything will be automatically, instantly in sync. It just works. How many tasks are currently trapped in your inbox, stuck behind emails with obscure subject lines that say nothing about what you actually need to do? The first time you forward an email to Orchestra, you won't believe the results. Zero inbox isn't just a pipe dream anymore. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ . posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:01 AM Tuesday, November 29, 2011 
Reel - Cast Your Ideas, Poll Your Friends, and Reel In the Feedbackhttp://www.reelapp.com/ The online presentation tools out there aren’t great right now. They're either too clunky, require special software, or too much overhead. With Reel, getting your ideas out there and polling your audience is like shooting fish in a barrel. Just cast out your line of slides and they’ll bite in no time! Reel helps you quickly create and share presentations. Each preso is stored online behind a unique URL, making it easy to poll your audience for for their impressions. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:57 AM 
Reconect: Electronic Journal of Social, Environmental and Cultural Studies http://reconect.org/ Reconect is the electronic journal of the Region, Environment, Culture research group. It publishes thematic issues three times a year on the field of social, environmental and cultural studies. Articles submitted to the journal should follow the topic of the issue. Theoretical and empirical analysis are both welcome on the editor and reviewers desk, as original scientific works written in Hungarian, Romanian or English language, or translations of original papers published elsewhere. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:35 AM 
FindThatFile - Media File Search Engine http://www.findthatfile.com/ findthatfile is a media file search engine. It locates media for you (documents, audio, video, etc). Everybody knows what a web page search engine is, Bing, Google, Yahoo, etc. findthatfile searches media files rather than web pages from all over the Internet. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:03 AM Monday, November 28, 2011 
TagMyDoc - The New Way To Share Documents http://tagmydoc.com/ This is the first web application that utilizes QR codes in order to share documents. Also, TagMyDoc offers numerous other solutions supported with QR codes that are usually and exclusively available to businesses. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:56 AM 
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML) http://www.scirp.org/Journal/ojml/ Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement of modern linguistics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of modern linguistics. The journal publishes original papers including but not limited to the following fields: * Applied linguistics * Biolinguistics * Clinical linguistics * Computational linguistics * Developmental linguistics * Evolutionary linguistics * Historical linguistics * Language geography * Linguistic typology * Neurolinguistics * Psycholinguistics * Sociolinguistics * Stylistics Open Journal of Modern Linguistics is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:34 AM  Connected2.me - Let People Chat With You Anonymously http://connected2.me/ connected2.me lets people chat with you anonymously. When you create an account you are given a profile: connected2.me/username . connected2.me allows you to chat with whoever visits your profile. You share your profile address with your friends. When they come, they are given anonymous nicknames hence you don't know who you are chatting with. Users may also choose to share their links publicly in order to meet new people. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:12 AM 
Quoteroller - Create, Track and Send Proposals http://www.quoteroller.com/ Quoteroller automates proposal creation and tracks and notifies. Features include: a) Send and Manage Proposal Online: Super easy to use, Quote Roller saves you time and helps to close deals faster. You will find that creating proposals is a fun and enjoyable process; b) Stay Informed: Know the instant a client opens a proposal. Track clients' activity, get instant notifications and react immediately. Quote Roller will help you to convert your leads into orders; c) Accept, Discuss, Collaborate: Allow clients to instantly accept created proposals. Discuss any questions clients have directly in the system. Enable team work on proposals you create; d) Catalog of Products and Services: Organize products, services and subscriptions into a catalog and reuse items from the catalog in your proposal. Didn't think creating a pricing table was so simple? Watch the video; and e) Use Proposal Templates: Having difficulties drawing up a proposal? Find a proposal template in our extensive community library. Share your templates with others in one click. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:04 AM Saturday, November 26, 2011  Civicboom https://www.civicboom.com/ Civicboom is a platform that empowers oPut simply, the Civicboom process is that a content-seeker can set a request for specific content. Then by using our customised mobile app or by uploading to the plug & go site, a content-giver can respond with rich-media directly to that request. All incoming rich-media content can then be managed by the content-seeker, and directed to a customisable plugin to be embedded on a website.rganisations and their audience to collaborate in generating rich media content. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:56 AM  International Journal of Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems (IJSCCPS) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijsccps Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems can be broadly defined as computational facilitation of social systems and the integration of computation with physical processes. The tight combination and coordination between systems’ computational, physical, and social elements make it different from other forms of systems. Social computing and cyber-physical systems have recently become a central theme across a number of information and communication fields and attracted significant interest of the researchers from computer science, computer engineering, electronic engineering, etc. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:33 AM FCC Small Biz Cyber Planner http://www.fcc.gov/cyberplanner Information technology and high-speed Internet are great enablers of small business success, but with the benefits comes the need to guard against growing cyber threats. As larger companies take steps to secure their systems, less secure small businesses are easier targets for cyber criminals. Use this tool to create and save a custom cyber security plan for your company, choosing from a menu of expert advice to address your specific business needs and concerns. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:13 AM  TalkChalk - Where the Classrom Lives Beyond the Bell http://www.talkchalk.com/ Colleges, universities, and school districts across America are constantly looking for new ways to engage students and increase student achievement. The advent of social media has raised the bar for student engagement, creating new platforms for easier, faster, more fun learning. Unfortunately, school districts and universities can face lawsuits and public relations disasters when educators inappropriately utilize social media. TalkChalk offers a safe platform for all parties to interact using Facebook, while eliminating the liability posed by teachers and students viewing their respective Facebook profiles. Features include: Safe Communication: With TalkChalk, you can securely send messages to an individual student, parent, class, or the entire school community. Communication about assignments, snow days, delayed openings, and community events has never been easier; b) Free for Teachers: TalkChalk gives features to teachers for free. TalkChalk was created by former educators who believe that those who make a difference most innovative tools to continue to impact the lives of children. For premium features there are subscriptions plans; and c) Student Achievement: On TalkChalk, students can help each other with questions they have about homework, new material, quizzes, or tests. With the class page and discussion board, students can post questions for their teacher or fellow peers to answer. This will be added to Student Research Resources Subject Tracer™ posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:02 AM Friday, November 25, 2011  Awareness Watch Talk Show for Sunday November 27, 2011 at 2:00pm EST http://www.BlogTalkRadio.com/AwarenessWatch/ This show will highlight my Subject Tracer titled Prediction Markets. This site will give you the latest and greatest resources for identifying and utilizing the current prediction market resources. We will be reviewing the latest happenings and sites on the Internet by visiting my blog at zillman.us. We will also be discussing my latest freely available Awareness Watch Newsletter V9N11 for November 2011 featuring two special reports: Finding People Resources and Sites and Finding Experts By Using the Internet as well as my freely available November 2011 Zillman Column covering Financial Internet Sources 2012. You may call in to ask your questions at (718)508-9839. The show is live and thirty minutes in length starting at 2:00pm EDST on Sunday, November 27, 2011 and then archived for easy review and access. Listen, Call and Enjoy!!  
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 Vetter - Get More Ideas From Your Team http://www.getvetter.com/ Get more ideas from your team in one neat weekly email. Simple as 1) Ideas are submitted (Product ideas, Efficiency ideas, Event ideas ....; 2) Ideas are vetted (The submitter is a mystery at this stage to keep things unbiased); and 3) Delivered by email (Submitter revealed! Useful analytics and sharpened competitive edge included). Benefits of Using Vetter include a) Employees will feel more engaged; b) Your business will improve; and c) You will get the most out of your team. You can expect new product ideas, efficiency ideas, cost savingts ideas, event ideas, marketing ideas, benefits ideas, HR ideas and more. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:56 AM  International Journal of Research in Computer Science (IJORCS) http://www.ijorcs.org/ International Journal of Research in Computer Science (IJORCS) aims to promote and coordinate developments and management of information and computer security in the fields of information and communication technologies, social science, informatics, science and engineering. The Journal invites papers representing synergy between theory and practices to help policy makers and executives manage information and computer security and its related technologies. Emphases will be on the related social, political and economic issues as well as emerging issues of interest to legislators, professionals, researchers, academics, and technical community. The IJORCS publishes original and review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, and commentaries. International Journal of Research in Computer Science is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:39 AM  Greenbeard - Schedules Conference Calls With Experts, Mentors, Tutors and Other Specialists http://www.greenbeard.com/ Have you ever spent hours or days trying to figure something out... wishing you could just get someone on the phone for a few minutes to help you out? Whether you're an individual seeking personal knowledge or you represent a business in need of outside consultation, Greenbeard.com will connect you to the right person with the right expertise. Greenbeard advisors come from a broad range of specialties. You can view feedback from other users and evaluate advisor profiles. Advisor profiles aggregate data from a number of sources to give you a comprehensive picture of each advisor. Advisors set their own rate, charging by the minute. You only pay for the actual time you are on the phone with an advisor. If you get your questions answered in 9 minutes, you only pay for 9 minutes of advice! This has been added to Internet Experts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:14 AM  Google Correlate http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/ Google Correlate is an experimental new tool on Google Labs which enables you to find queries with a similar pattern to a target data series. The target can either be a real-world trend that you provide (e.g., a data set of event counts over time) or a query that you enter. Google Correlate uses web search activity data to find queries with a similar pattern to a target data series. The results can be viewed on the Google Correlate website or downloaded as a CSV file for further analysis. Google Correlate is like Google Trends in reverse. With Google Trends, you type in a query and get back a data series of activity (over time or in each US state). With Google Correlate, you enter a data series (the target) and get back a list of queries whose data series follows a similar pattern. Google Correlate contains web search activity data from January 2003 to present. This data is updated weekly. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, November 24, 2011  Shopping Deals http://www.shopping-deals.com/ Shopping-Deals.com provides a fundamentally better way for consumers to shop. Most people shopping on the web go from store to store to find the products they want at the right price. With thousands of online stores to choose from, this process is tedious and time consuming. Shopping-Deals.com service allows consumers to search for products they want across several stores at the same time. This will be added to ShoppingBots and Online Shopping 2012. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:56 AM  Journal of Agricultural Extension http://ajol.info/index.php/jae/index The mission of the Journal of Agricultural Extension is to publish conceptual papers and empirical research that tests, extends, or builds agricultural extension theory and contributes to the practice of extension worldwide. The Journal of Agricultural Extension is devoted to the advancement of knowledge of agricultural extension services and practice through the publication of original and empirically based research, focusing on: Extension administration and supervision, program planning, monitoring and evaluation, diffusion and adoption of innovations; extension communication models and strategies; extension research and methodological issues; home economics; extension youth program; women-in-agriculture; extension and the environment and so on. Content in English. Journal of Agricultural Extension is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:38 AM  GoalStacker - Todo Meet Today http://www.goalstacker.com/ A Task Manager Focused On What You Can Do Today. Features include: a) Focus On Today: Each task you create focuses on how much time you have. Every day you get a list of tasks tailored to the amount of time you have availalble. No more feeling overwhelmed by looking at an endless list of tasks. You’ll finish each day with a sense of accomplishment knowing you completed everything you had time for; b) Work With Others: Invite anyone to a project you're working on. You don’t have to worry about messy admin accounts and user privileges. Just invite a friend to join a project. Don’t want them on the project anymore? It just takes seconds to update your project team. Sharing made easy; c) Attach Files and Images: Whether you're working alone or with a team, finding the files is easy. GoalStacker allows you to upload files to each task, so the file is ready to go; d) Track Time: GoalStacker makes it easy to figure out how much time you're spending on your tasks. You can time each task to track exactly how much time it takes to complete; e) Daily Reminders: Wake up every morning with your personalized Today List. Each day GoalStacker sends you a Today List of tasks tailored to the time you have available. You'll receive an email every morning reminding you what you need to get done today; and f) Works Anywhere: GoalStacker works in all major browsers on PC or Mac and is completely cloud based so you can access it anywhere. Never worry about syncing projects, tasks, or account info; everything is always up to date. We support Internet Explorer+, Firefox 3.6+, Chrome, Safari 4.0+, and Opera 10+. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:12 AM  CyberMondayDeals http://www.cybermondaydeals.com/ CyberMondayDeals.com launched November of 2011 with the goal of providing consumers easy access to the internet’s deepest Cyber Monday discounts. With this site they have tried to make it as easy as possible for you to search for Cyber Monday deals, find a coupon for your favorite internet retailer, and even share discounts that you've found through our "Add Your Own Deal" feature. They encourage you to vote for your favorite deals and leave comments about what you like or don’t like with a particular deal. The highest rated deals always appear real-time on our home page and our "Most Popular Deals" page. So by voting you can help future visitors find these great deals too. This will be added to ShoppingBots and Online Shopping 2012. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Wednesday, November 23, 2011  Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources Updated> Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources Annotated White Paper http://www.ScholarSearchEngines.com/ I am very pleased to announce that my Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation White Paper titled Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources has been just updated and is now a 68 page research paper listing selected resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to find academic and scholarly information and knowledge available on the Internet. Each source is described along with the URL address than can be accessed. It is freely available as a .pdf file (440KB) at the above link from the Virtual Private Library™ and authored by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. [Updated November 23, 2011] posted by Marcus Zillman | 5:03 AM  ChartsBin - Web Based Visualization Tool http://chartsbin.com/ ChartsBin is a web-based data visualization tool that will allow everyone to quickly and easily create rich interactive visualizations with their own data. You can then share your interactive visualizations with others by embedding them in websites, blogs or sharing via Facebook or Twitter. We're focused on building the most exciting and engaging destination for statisticians, and computer scientists in the world. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information blog. This will be added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:57 AM  International Journal of Research in Commerce, IT and Management (IJRCM) http://ijrcm.org.in/it/index.php In this age of Commerce, Economics, Computer & Management and cut throat competition, a group of intellectuals felt the need to have some platform, where young and budding managers and academicians could express their views and discuss the problems among their peers. This journal was conceived with this noble intention in view. This journal has been introduced to give an opportunity for expressing refined and innovative ideas in this field. It is our humble endeavour to provide a springboard to the upcoming specialists and give a chance to know about the latest in the sphere of research and knowledge. We have taken a small step and we hope that with the active co-operation of like-minded scholars, we shall be able to serve the society with our humble efforts. International Journal of Research in Commerce, IT and Management is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:31 AM  isainfrastructure - Investigation/Study/Assay http://isa-tools.org/ Investigation/Study/Assay (ISA) infrastructure is the first general-purpose format and freely available desktop software suite targeted to experimentalists, curators and developers and that: a) assists in the reporting and local management of experimental metadata (i.e. sample characteristics, technology and measurement types, sample-to-data relationships) from studies employing one or a combination of technologies; b) empowers users to uptake community-defined minimum information checklists and ontologies, where required; and c) formats studies for submission to a growing number of international public repositories endorsing the tools, currently ENA (genomics), PRIDE (proteomics) and ArrayExpress (transcriptomics). This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:12 AM  GigaDB - Revolutionizing Data Dissemination, Organization and Use http://gigadb.org/ GigaScience is a new integrated database and journal co-published in collaboration between BGI and BioMed Central, to meet the needs of a new generation of biological and biomedical research as it enters the era of “big-data.” To achieve its goals, GigaScience has developed a novel publishing format that integrates manuscript publication with a database that will provide DOI assignment to every dataset. Supporting the open-data movement, we require that all supporting data and source code be publicly available in a suitable public repository and/or under a public domain CC0 license in GigaDB. GigaDB is the journal’s affiliated data base hosted by BGI to increase the sharing and reuse of large biological datasets. Through our association with DataCite, they assign data DOIs to our datasets to make them more discoverable, trackable and citable. They also work with the BioSharing community and use ISA-Tab tools to maintain the highest data and metadata standards. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, November 22, 2011  Factual - Open Data Platform and Community http://www.factual.com/ Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, co-founder of Applied Semantics (which launched ASI's AdSense product). Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in 2003. Gil has had a lifelong passion for organizing and structuring information, and building smart tools which can make better sense of data. To that end, he set out to develop an open data platform and community in an effort to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and availability. Fellow data lovers -- Tim Chklovski, chief scientist & founding engineer, Eva Ho, an ex-Googler, along with Bill Michels, former GM of Yahoo BOSS, have joined him in this ambitious project. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:57 AM  Advances in Management and Applied Economics http://www.scienpress.com/journal_focus.asp?Main_Id=55 Advances in Management and Applied Economics publishes high-quality refereed empirical research on all aspects of Applied Economics and Management Sciences. The Journal's emphasis is on empirical, applied, and policy-oriented research in Management and Economics. All empirical methods including (but not limited to) qualitative, quantitative, or combination methods are represented. Articles published in the journal are clearly relevant to applied management theory and practice and identify both a compelling practical management issue and a strong theoretical framework for addressing it. The Journal's purpose is to improve communications between the academic and other research communities and policymakers and operational decision makers. Advances in Management and Applied Economics is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:39 AM  Callimachus - Framework for Data-Driven Applications Based on Linked Data Principles http://callimachusproject.org/ Callimachus (kəlĭm'əkəs) is a framework for data-driven applications based on Linked Data principles. Callimachus allows Web authors to quickly and easily create semantically-enabled Web applications. Callimachus builds on Sesame, Mulgara or OWLIM for RDF storage, AliBaba (a RESTful object-RDF library) and uses a revolutionary template-by-example technique for viewing and editing resources. One of the interesting aspects of Callimachus is its use of RDFa as a query language; templates are parsed to build SPARQL from RDFa markup and then filled with query results. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:13 AM  DataCite - List of Repositories for Research Data http://www.datacite.org/repolist This list is a working document, initated via a collaboration between the British Library, BioMed Central and the Digital Curation Centre, that aims to capture the growing number of repositories for research data. It is provided for information purposes only: DataCite provides no endorsements as to the quality or suitability of the repositories listed. We encourage community participation in developing this resource. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, November 21, 2011  Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) http://www.erialproject.org/ The Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) Project is a two-year study of the student research process. The project is funded by an LSTA grant awarded to Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) by the Illinois State Library. The goal of the project is to understand how students do research, and how relationships between students, teaching faculty and librarians shape that process. ERIAL is also an applied study—that is, research pursued with the purpose of uncovering, understanding and addressing social problems. As such, its goal is to use the results to develop more user-centered library services. ERIAL is built on a unique ethnographic methodology, which employs close observation of students’ research habits. Unlike quantitative studies, which count the frequency of social phenomena, this study is qualitative, depicting how students search for information, what obstacles they encounter, and how they seek help. The analysis is interpretive, yielding rich descriptions of students’ experiences. Project methods include semi-structured interviews, photo elicitation, participant observation in libraries, mapping exercises, and web and space design workshops. ERIAL is a collaborative effort of five Illinois universities: DePaul University, Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU), Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU), the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS). These campuses are urban and suburban, residential and commuter, and public and private, with student populations ranging in size from 2,000 to 26,000 and including varied ages, races and ethnicities. As a result of this diverse partnership, the ERIAL team has uncovered a wealth of insights into similarities and differences across library cultures. The project also has been able to enroll more than 40 librarians, 70 faculty, and 140 students in interviews and more than 600 participants total. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:57 AM  Journal of Environmental Protection (JEP) http://www.scirp.org/journal/jep/ The Journal of Environmental Protection (JEP) covers various aspects of environmental issues, such as research, strategies and the state-of-the-art technologies for prediction, prevention and protection addressing up-to-date research in natural and social sciences related to environmental concerns. The journal includes but not limited to research papers, technical reports, subject reviews, short comments and book reviews on relevant aspects of the field. JEP is to provide a platform for scientists, environmentalists, ecologists, project managers, consultants and students wishing to keep abreast of current developments in environmental protection. Journal of Environmental Protection is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:38 AM  Motribe - Build Your Own Mobile Social Web Community http://motribe.com/ Motribe is a platform enabling users, brands, agencies and publishers across the world to build and manage their own mobile social communities. Motribe HQ is situated in Cape Town, South Africa and was started by the co-founders in August, 2010. Sign up to Motribe, use their mobile social tools, launch your social network and reach millions of mobile users. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:14 AM  Resource Description and Access Toolkit http://www.rdatoolkit.org/ RDA: Resource Description and Access is the new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world. Built on the foundations established by AACR2, RDA provides a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media. The content of RDA has been developed in a collaborative process led by the Joint Steering Committee. The project is overseen by the Committee of Principals representing: a) American Library Association; b) Canadian Library Association; c) CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals; d) Library of Congress; e) Library and Archives Canada; f) British Library; and g) National Library of Australia. Designed for the digital world and an expanding universe of metadata users, RDA: Resource Description and Access is the new, unified cataloging standard. The online RDA Toolkit subscription is the most effective way to interact with the new standard. The RDA Toolkit highlights: 1) Searchable and browseable RDA instructions; 2) User-created Workflows, Maps, and other tools; 3) Two views of RDA content—Table of Contents and RDA Element Set; 4) Full text of AACR2 with links to RDA; and 5) Library of Congress Policy Statements. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, November 19, 2011  Awareness Watch Newsletter V9N12 December 2011 http://AwarenessWatch.VirtualPrivateLibrary.net/V9N12.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The December 2011 V9N12 Awareness Watch Newsletter is a freely available 104 page .pdf document (689KB) from the above URL. This month’s Awareness Watch Featured Report covers the Web Guide for the New 2012 Economy. These sites, resources and tools bring together all the latest information for finding information in the New 2012 Economy. Many of these resources represent the latest mashups, latest large data archives, and other newly transparent data sources for the web, social informatics and databases. The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released annotated current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources including a number of neat and must-have tools! The Awareness Watch Special Feature gives us upcoming holiday as well as year long benefit and is titled ShoppingBots and Online Shopping 2012. The Awareness Watch Article Review covers Tightening the Net: Intellectual Property Micro-regimes and Peer-to-peer Practice in Higher Education Networks by Steven J Jackson and Alok Vimawala. 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They know that by doing this they can make a lot of people happy by saving them time, money, and hassle. In order to make this happen they have come to a few realizations that have shaped their company and the way they do business. This is what they believe in. It is their mantra, their passion, and their promise. Features include: a) Keep It Simple - Software never gets simpler by adding more features. They build and design with the mentality that less is more and focus on one function at a time; b) Good Service Makes It Work - Just as important as their software is their customer service to back their software up. They strive to make sure that their service is on point all the time for every customer; c) No Hidden Fees or Contracts - In short, contracts and hidden fees are nonsense. They make sure that signing up for their software is hassle free. Easy in and easy out; and d) Training Not Necessary - Their software is easy to use and doesn't require training. You can pick it up within minutes instead of hours, days, or weeks. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ . posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:58 AM  International Journal of Recent Trends in Science and Technology http://www.statperson.com/Journal/ScienceAndTechnology/IJSciAndTech.php The International Journal of Recent Trends in Science & Technology is a refereed Scientific & Technical journal devoted to publication of original research articles as well as review articles, with emphasis on unsolved problems and open questions in all sciences & Emerging technologies. All areas listed on the cover of Science & Technology Reviews, such as bioinformatics, computer sciences, physical sciences, chemical Sciences, environmental sciences, management sciences, medical and paramedical sciences, geological and geographical sciences, engineering technologies and applications and all related field of sciences and technologies are included within the scope of the International Journal of Recent Trends in Science and Technology. International Journal of Recent Trends in Science and Technology is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in HTML and PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:39 AM  DBpedia - Extract Structured Information from Wikipedia http://dbpedia.org/ DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data. We hope this will make it easier for the amazing amount of information in Wikipedia to be used in new and interesting ways, and that it might inspire new mechanisms for navigating, linking and improving the encyclopaedia itself. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:13 AM  Bibliogo - Journal Article Alerting, Curation, Access, Collaboration and Sharing Tool http://info.bibliogo.com/ Journal article alerting, curation, access, collaboration and sharing just got way more efficient for the following: a) Individuals - Simplify article alerting and ordering; b) Workgroups – Collaborate securely and share articles legally with colleagues; and 3) Organizations – Take a top-down, permissions-based approach to bibliographic management. Bibliogo is for you if: 1) You use journal articles; 2) You like to be the first to know about the latest research; 3) You create iTunes playlists to share with your friends; 4) You use the ‘Share’ button on social networking sites; and 5) You know what an RSS news aggregator is. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Current Awareness Monitors, Alerts and Information Traps report. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, November 18, 2011  Deep Web Research White Paper - 400,000+ Downloads http://DeepWeb.us/ I am very pleased to announce that my whitepaper titled Deep Web Research reached its 400,000th download late last night!! Educating the Internet global community about the Deep Web has been my passion and with over 400,000 copies of my 52 page freely available research white paper with resources, sources and sites for knowledge discovery on the deep web proves the extremely high interest in the subject. Feel free to visit the above site and download the .pdf file for your information resource on the Deep Web. posted by Marcus Zillman | 1:42 PM  Awareness Watch Talk Show for Sunday November 20, 2011 at 2:00pm EST http://www.BlogTalkRadio.com/AwarenessWatch/ This show will highlight my Subject Tracer™ Information Blog titled Outsourcing/Offshoring Information and Resources. We will review the many sites available to discover new knowledge in these New Economy areas. We will be reviewing the latest happenings and sites on the Internet by visiting my blog at zillman.us. We will also be discussing my latest freely available Awareness Watch Newsletter V9N11 for November 2011 featuring two special reports: Finding People Resources and Sites and Finding Experts By Using the Internet as well as my freely available November 2011 Zillman Column covering Financial Internet Sources 2012. You may call in to ask your questions at (718)508-9839. The show is live and thirty minutes in length starting at 2:00pm EDST on Sunday, November 20, 2011 and then archived for easy review and access. Listen, Call and Enjoy!! 
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