Not sure how this will affect most students at CSULB. The CSU system has agreed to participate in a pilot project to license digital course content through an initiative called the Digital Marketplace.
From the article link here:
"Starting this fall, Bedford/Freeman/Worth, Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson, and John Wiley & Sons, will offer content through pilot courses at five CSU campuses: Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Long Beach, San Bernardino and San Francisco State."
Monday, September 13, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Look! Science Direct has a new look and feel
If you used ScienceDirect recently, you might have noticed that it had a new face lift. It looks "greener" to me. Not sure if, subconsciously, this is the corporate message that Elsevier is trying to imprint in people's mind.
Elsevier promotes its SciVerse Hub, which (in their own words) "is your key to performing advanced searches across SciVerse ScienceDirect and SciVerse Scopus content, and web content."
CSULB does not subscribe to Scopus so we still need to see how this SciVerse Hub works without Scopus content. It is interesting to note that the free web content that SciVerse Hub originally stated was Scirus, the Google-like, science-focused search engine.
Let's try it out and see ...
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