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Category Archives: Tools
Primo: our new web scale discovery tool
Primo, the University Library’s new “web scale discovery” tool is now live in beta mode on the University Library gateway. Web scale discovery services are “capable of searching quickly and seamlessly across a vast range of local and remote preharvested … Continue reading
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Connotea is closing
Connotea, nature.com’s social bookmarking site, is closing on March 12th, 2013. We would like to thank you for your patience with and support for the site. To enable you to export your bookmarks to an alternative service, we are providing … Continue reading
EpiCollect
EpiCollect.net provides a web application for the generation of forms and freely hosted project websites (using Google’s AppEngine) for many kinds of mobile data collection projects. Data can be collected using multiple mobile phones running either the Android Operating system … Continue reading
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Report invasive species on your smartphone
Via Great Lakes Echo. Smartphone owners can report invasive species sightings using an applicationby the Midwest Invasive Species Information Network. Users can then see real-time maps of a given species’ distribution based on the data reported by other users. And … Continue reading
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Archive of Pollution Prevention Information: What’s Out There and Where to Find It
If you didn’t have a chance to join us yesterday, the webinar is archived at https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/877931279. If you participated yesterday or viewed the webinar online, please also take a moment to complete the post-webinar evaluation at https://illinois.edu/sb/sec/692437. Your feedback helps … Continue reading
Two Box Tips
The campus-wide Netfiles replacement, Box, has some useful features for file sharing and collaborative editing. Here are two quick tips: To share files, create a folder in your box account, click the “invite people to upload or download files” radio … Continue reading
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What’s new in data?
New tools and information relevant to data access and data management: Grainger Engineering Library is testing a Dataset search option for EasySearch. You can try it out on the Grainger homepage. The search box for datasets is at the top … Continue reading
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Help make the National Environmental Methods Index better
The National Environmental Methods Index (NEMI) is being upgraded to a new operating platform and they want the opinions of users on design features and functionality they want to see. If you are interested in helping, share your opinions about … Continue reading
Open Access Science Resources
Matthew Von Hendy has written a post for the Special Libraries Association’s Social Science Division blog on open access (AKA free) science resources. Many of these resources provide full-text or links to full-text if available but a few only provide … Continue reading
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Current awareness: setting up search alerts
Our online resources make it easier than ever to keep up with new research developments in your area of interest. You can save searches and set up email alerts or RSS feeds from specific publisher sites, literature databases, and web … Continue reading
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