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What Color Is Your Paratext?, Geoffrey Bilder, Andrée J. Rathemacher
What Color Is Your Paratext?, Geoffrey Bilder, Andrée J. Rathemacher
Technical Services Department Faculty Publications
In the final vision session of the 2009 NASIG Annual Conference, Geoffrey Bilder from CrossRef discussed the problem of how to identify trustworthy scholarly information on the Internet. This problem is exacerbated by readers’ growing distrust of intermediaries such as publishers and librarians, by the fact that the Internet lacks the traditions that have developed in scholarly communication to ensure trust, and by the sheer amount of information now readily available. Paratext is understood as anything outside of a text that sets expectations about that text. In the past, paratext, for example a publisher logo, provided important clues as to …
Remote Access To On-Line Resources: New, Seamless Proxy, Andrée Rathemacher
Remote Access To On-Line Resources: New, Seamless Proxy, Andrée Rathemacher
Technical Services Department Faculty Publications
Short article on the University of Rhode Island Libraries' implementation of a seamless proxy server to enable remote access to Library online resources.
Champlin Grant Funds Wireless Classrooms, Andrée Rathemacher
Champlin Grant Funds Wireless Classrooms, Andrée Rathemacher
Technical Services Department Faculty Publications
Short article announcing that the University of Rhode Island Libraries received a $132,250 grant from the Champlin Foundations to fund the acquisition of mobile media carts networked to portable laptop computers.
Expanded Academic Index (Asap) Via Helin, Andrée Rathemacher
Expanded Academic Index (Asap) Via Helin, Andrée Rathemacher
Technical Services Department Faculty Publications
Short newsletter article on the availability of the database Expanded Academic Index ASAP through the HELIN Library Consortium online public access catalog.