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Stephen Francoeur

Stephen Francoeur

User experience librarian @ Baruch College (New York, NY). Interested in usability, information literacy, open access, & scholarly communication.
Should I be surprised? ScienceDirect (from Elsevier...ahem) now lets you activate the bX Recommender service (from Ex Libris) but has set up the recommendation service so that it only points to other articles in ScienceDirect. I really wish Ex Libris had insisted that those vendors who use the technology keep it platform- and publisher-neutral.
ARE YOU FSCKING KIDDING ME? - jambina
To answer your question: No. - Catherine Pellegrino
Hell's bells. - RepoRat
I wish I could get angry about this, but my anger is all scheduled out for the weekend. - Andy
We srsly need a volcano this week. - RepoRat
At moments like these, I find the volcano inadequately hot and flamey enough. We need a rocket to shoot things into THE SUN. - Andy
good lord, I'm not sure the regular volcano is up to the task. We may need to haul out the Sammath Naur for this 'un. - Catherine Pellegrino
Don't let me get started on the laughably-out-of-the-way spot that ScienceDirect has reserved for our link resolver icon. - Stephen Francoeur
It seemed to me a rather odd time for OCLC to announce joyfully that they are adding full text search of Elsevier journals to WorldCat Local. As if it is a good thing. Alas the message in so many quarters was slightly garbled and came out "full text Elsevier articles will be in WorldCat." Still, I don't think when OCLC sat down with that company they brought a long enough spoon. - barbara fister
I posted a note about this on our staff blog last week. Today, I got a nice email from a rep at Elsevier who also added a comment to this LIS News item about the same issue. http://lisnews.org/elsevie... - Stephen Francoeur
Could Backlash to Research Works Act Boost FRPAA’s Odds of Passage? - http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw...
How students (and faculty) really find articles - http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2012...
Classic Blunder #2 – Assuming resistance is a bad thing - http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpre...
Publishers hate you. You should hate them back. - http://stevelawson.name/seealso...
Going cross-eyed today staring at too many admin interfaces and spreadsheets as I try to normalize the way we list our databases on our library website, LibGuides, Serials Solutions 360 Core, SFX Knowledgebase, and the library catalog (records for DBs in the latter may get deleted if I have my way).
Oof. Good luck with that! - ~Courtney F. from Android
Libraries and the Commodification of Culture - http://blogs.princeton.edu/librari...
A must read. - Stephen Francoeur
Know when to fold ‘em - http://info-fetishist.org/2012...
Sad Reports from the Field | ReadersBillofRights.info - http://readersbillofrights.info/Reportf...
Penguin ebooks & The Research Works Act: Publishers gain, communities lose : Confessions of a Science Librarian - http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
Federal Research Public Access Act | Capitol Words - http://capitolwords.org/date...
Three Stories from the Immediately Post-SOPA World - http://copyfight.corante.com/archive...
My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: The National (77), Mudhoney (33) & Lucero (24) http://www.tweekly.fm/twitter...
My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: The National (77), Mudhoney (33) & Lucero (24) http://bit.ly/aBmvWE
What you can and can’t ask librarians - http://gavialib.com/2012...
Book Review: Zotero by Jason Puckett - http://www.web2learning.net/archive...
ReDigi and the Purpose of First Sale - http://laboratorium.net/archive...
"In 2010 Elsevier reported revenues of about $3.2 billion, of which a whopping 36 percent were..." - http://policynotes.arl.org/post...
It’s FRPAA time! Pro-open access legislation introduced in House and Senate - http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlins...
Why scientists are boycotting a publisher - Opinion - The Boston Globe - http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion...
undergraduate students + iPads + photographs - http://info-fetishist.org/2012...
Answering searching questions - http://occamstypewriter.org/trading...
Should We Include bX Recommender in ScienceDirect - http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/newmanr...
ALA, Authors Guild, 3M Weigh In on Penguin-OverDrive Dispute — The Digital Shift - http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012...
Penguin Group Terminating Its Contract with OverDrive — The Digital Shift - http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012...
What Patrons Teach Us—and Publishers Should Learn — The Digital Shift - http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012...
Notes on the Federal Research Public Access Act http://zite.to/yW3T1m via @zite
Too Big to Know (Essential Readings in the Philosophy of LIS) - http://senseandreference.wordpress.com/2012...
Notice to publishers: curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal - http://librarianinblack.net/librari...
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