HSM Reflections on LIS/Life

TinEye Reverse Image Search

2009-11-09T09:25:00.001-08:00

So Cool.......HSM

What is TinEye?

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. For some real TinEye search examples, check out our Cool Searches page.

TinEye Reverse Image Search

New Blog - Citation Help for ISU and Beyond

2009-11-03T12:24:00.001-08:00

http://citehelp.blogspot.com/

I have started a new Blog to keep primarily ISU faculty, staff, and students up-to-date with the latest tools related to bibliographic management applications, primarily EndNote, EndNote Web, and Zotero. Anyone using these tools may benefit from the information shared. I will try to tag those items that exclusivly related to Iowa State University such as upcoming workshops.

The address is http://citehelp.blogspot.com/

Thanks -- Stephen

14 Application Cheat Sheets & Posters for Popular Programs

2009-10-30T10:13:00.001-07:00

14 Application Cheat Sheets & Posters for Popular Programs

14 Application Cheat Sheets & Posters for Popular Programs

Sep. 14th, 2009 By Varun Kashyap

It is a known fact that if you want to commit something to memory, continuous revision is the key. You read something every time you are at your desk and within days it becomes second nature.

To be able to revise quickly and often, it helps if the information is terse and to the point highlighting only the important aspects. Something like an application cheat sheet or a poster that you can print and pin to a board or keep on your desk.

Here are some application cheat sheets for commonly used software that will hopefully make you more productive.

14 Application Cheat Sheets & Posters for Popular Programs

Nerdlets: Christianity/Culture/Computing

2009-10-30T08:15:00.001-07:00

Nerdlets: Christianity/Culture/Computing

Get Real Text out of your Scanned Documents

OCR is the technology used to turn an image of text into plain (editable, search-able) text. If you’re like me (i.e., a nerd) you probably have a pile of scanned journal articles and books and such meticulously sorted on your hard drive (PDFs for example). You can read them and print them, but you can’t search them or edit them. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could?

Well, there are a number of free options on the web, but they all have their problems. Google has some of the best OCR technology out there–they recently acquired CAPTCHA to make it even better–and they have apparently been rolling this out into Google Docs. The Google Docs version is not as wonderful as you might like, but it works on high-res documents. Read about how to turn your images into text here.

Update: I was not able to get this to work with PDFs, surprisingly. The web-app only accepts PNG, JPEG, or GIF images right now. That is unfortunate, and I assume will be “corrected” in the future. Has anyone tried this on an image yet?

Nerdlets: Christianity/Culture/Computing

Sorry -- Been Away !

2009-10-23T11:27:00.001-07:00

Sorry -- had numerous work related issues which were so unforeseen that I had to drop everything to get done.

None related to open access -- but I am back.... So....

Thanks for understanding.....Stephen

Ujiko : Aide

2009-10-23T11:26:00.001-07:00

Ujiko : Aide

Expertise Points & Multiple Levels
The brand new version of UJIKO evolves with your expertise: The more you use it, the more functions it is able to offer .

Basic principle: each time you visit a new site, you are gaining one point of expertise. With every 10 points, you move to the next level. Your search engine is mutating, new buttons appear giving you access to advanced features (search video, images, news, encylopedia, advanced filters, animated skins, web archive, traffic details...)

Animated transitions between each level are displayed to show you the new tools, which you have just acquired.

1 new site visited = +1 point of expertise
10 points = +1 level

Ujiko : Aide

The Mad Men Animated GIF You’ve All Been Waiting For -- Vulture

2009-09-22T13:02:00.001-07:00

The Mad Men Animated GIF You’ve All Been Waiting For -- Vulture

Welcome to USAspending.gov

2009-08-26T18:04:00.001-07:00

Welcome to USAspending.gov

Welcome to USAspending.gov Where Americans Can See Where Their Money Goes Have you ever wanted to find more information on government spending? Have you ever wondered where Federal contracting dollars and grant awards go? Or perhaps you would just like to know, as a citizen, what the Government is really doing with your money.

Welcome to USAspending.gov

Refugee Health Information Network

2009-08-26T18:02:00.001-07:00

Refugee Health Information Network

Welcome to the Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN®), a national collaborative partnership managed by refugee health professionals whose objective is to provide quality multilingual, health information resources for those providing care to resettled refugees and asylees. more> Health Information in Multiple Languages Health Information in Multiple Languages Multilingual information for health professionals, refugees, and asylees (in print, audio, and video formats) Provider Tools Refugee Health Information for Providers Information useful for health providers working with refugee patients or clients, including assessment guidelines, cultural information, clinic tools, and recent literature citations Refugee Support Services Information about Health Services for Refugees Information for refugees about accessing health services in the United States (including links to information about immigration status and procedures, eligibility for Medicaid, Social Security, etc.)

Refugee Health Information Network

Penn World Table, Center for International Comparisons, University of Pennsylvania

2009-08-26T18:01:00.001-07:00

Penn World Table, Center for International Comparisons, University of Pennsylvania

The Penn World Table (PWT) displays a set of national accounts economic time series covering many countries. Its expenditure entries are denominated in a common set of prices in a common currency so that real quantity comparisons can be made, both between countries and over time. It also provides information about relative prices within and between countries, as well as demographic data and capital stock estimates. Since the regionalization of the ICP beginning with the 1980 benchmark, Summers and Heston at Penn have been using ICP benchmark comparisons (see About the ICP) as a basis for estimating PPPs for non-benchmark countries and extrapolations backward and forward in time. These are the major components of Penn World Tables or PWT. An early version of this technique was developed with Irving Kravis (1978): Kravis,I., R. Summers and A.Heston (1978). "Real GDP Per Capita for More Than One Hundred Countries," Economic Journal , June.
The Penn World Tables are described in Robert Summers and Alan Heston "The Penn World Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950-1988", Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1991, pp.327--368. (See Research Papers) The table itself, an annex to the article, was distributed to users on a diskette and through anonymous ftp by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A revised and updated version of PWT 5, PWT 5.5, was made available in 1993. Version 5.6 was released January 1995. It was prepared by Alan Heston and Robert Summers of the University of Pennsylvania, Daniel A. Nuxoll of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Bettina Aten of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (now at the Bureau of Economic Analysis), with the research assistance of Valerie Mercer, James Walsh, and Bao Truong. The current version of Penn World Tables, PWT 6, is produced by The Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania ( see About CIC ). PWT 6 has been prepared by Aten, Heston and Summers with the assistance of Mark McMullen, Feng Zhu, Sham Shah and Prajesh Parekh. Robert Feenstra of the University of California, Davis, has been consulting with CICUP in preparing PWT 6 and will jointly produce subsequent versions through the Center for International Data at Davis, and in association with the NBER.
The Table contains data on about 30 variables for about 167 countries over some or all the years 1950-98. As PWT 6 is modified these will be described in What is new? What is Different? PWT is built up through a set of sophisticated extrapolations from the successive benchmark studies, both through time and across space. The Penn World Table is a forerunner of a new kind of international data base that may be described as a Space-Time System of National Accounts. PWT 6 is comparable to previous versions of the table. However, the methodology of these comparisons is still being developed so that future versions may move in the direction of national accounts constant price series, namely chaining or use stochastic methods of aggregation. While chaining over time is natural, in that time is sequential, chaining across countries does not have such an obvious path, which is why work along these lines has only been preliminary.
Using PWT
Many users of PWT 5.6 may want to refer to those files and documentation so they remain on this site. The most obvious difference between PWT 5.6 and 6 is that the base year has been moved from 1985 to 1996. A second difference, largely cosmetic, is that some of the variables have been renamed and the order has been slightly altered. This should be clear in the list of variables for PWT 6. As noted the present coverage is 1950-2000.
In addition to the description of PWT cited above, there are two other pieces of documentation. First, the data Appendix of PWT 5.6 may be consulted. Second, we have created a more readable Data Appendix for PWT 6, with the treatment of China provided as a separate China Appendix. Also, the national accounts file underlying PWT 6.1 is provided as a separate file in Downloads.

Penn World Table, Center for International Comparisons, University of Pennsylvania

MarketingCharts: charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format

2009-08-26T17:59:00.001-07:00

MarketingCharts: charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format

MarketingCharts is a Watershed Publishing publication. It is published daily in the US by its own staff, and also features editorial contributions from other writers and analysts in the Watershed Publishing network. MarketingCharts is a sister publication to MarketingVox, MediaBuyerPlanner and Retailer Daily.

Ad sales are handled by Watershed’s Justin Martin, who can be reached via email » justin@watershed-publishing.com or via phone at (406) 371-5687.

Editor Victoria Petrock can be reached via email » editorial@marketingcharts.com. Tips, press releases, suggestions, and questions about other editorial matters are welcomed and read avidly.

The company’s business office is located in Thetford Center, VT and can be reached via phone at (802) 785-4260 or email » support@MarketingCharts.com.

MarketingCharts: charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format

InvestIQ

2009-08-26T17:56:00.001-07:00

InvestIQ

Dow Jones Global Index Analysis -- Free site

InvestIQ

Discovering American Women's History Online

2009-08-26T17:21:00.001-07:00

Discovering American Women's History Online

This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas's photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century.

This database simplifies access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Abigail Franks' letters to her son from the 1730s and 1740s (Center for Jewish History) to Katrina Thomas' photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century.

Search and Browse Options

Please see the Search Tips page for several examples of simple and complex searches.

Researchers can browse the database by subject (150+ entries), place (i.e., states), time period, and primary source type. By browsing through these lists of preconfigured searches, researchers not only gain a quick sense of the scope of the database, but may also discover topics (e.g., women engineers) and approaches to research (e.g., using scrapbooks as primary sources) that they had not considered. In addition, many users will be pleasantly surprised by the number of collections that document the history of women in their home state.

Thumbnail Images

Many "short records" in the database include a thumbnail of an image from the collection that the record describes. The use of thumbnails in this way provides a visual cue to the content of the collection. Full records include a thumbnail caption field.

About the Developer

Ken Middleton is a reference librarian at Middle Tennessee State University Library. He has a second master's degree, with an emphasis in American women's history, from the same university.

Credits and Acknowledgements

Numerous people have provided valuable advice, technical knowledge, and encouragement. Many thanks to Fagdeba Bakoyema, Al Camp, Mary Hoffschwelle, James Staub, Mayo Taylor, and the entire Digital Projects team at Walker Library.

Discovering American Women's History Online

Welcome - Medpedia

2009-08-26T17:18:00.003-07:00

Welcome - Medpedia

Medpedia is just getting started. Welcome to the community.

The mission of Medpedia is to openly share and advance medical knowledge, and that includes the knowledge of patients, caregivers and those looking to stay well. By participating and giving your feedback, you are making Medpedia more useful to yourself and others. See all the ways you can get recognition for your contributions to Medpedia.

Welcome - Medpedia

THE Medical Biochemistry Page

2009-08-26T17:18:00.001-07:00

THE Medical Biochemistry Page

Online textbook covering biochemistry in addition it includes:

Abbreviations
Glossary of Medical/Clinical Terms
Links
Clinical Lab Data: Blood Test Values
Awards

THE Medical Biochemistry Page

Wikimedia Commons

2009-08-26T17:14:00.001-07:00

Wikimedia Commons

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons A database of 4,970,855 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to all. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid-for artists but by volunteers. The scope of Commons is set out on the project scope pages.

Wikimedia Commons uses the same wiki-technology as Wikipedia and everyone can edit it. Unlike media files uploaded to other projects, files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons can be embedded on pages of all Wikimedia projects without the need to separately upload them there.

Launched on 7 September 2004, Wikimedia Commons hit the 1,000,000 uploaded media file milestone on 30 November 2006 and currently contains 4,970,782 files and 92,078 media collections. More background information about the Wikimedia Commons project itself can be found in the General disclaimer, at the Wikipedia page about Wikimedia Commons and its page in Meta-wiki.

Unlike traditional media repositories, Wikimedia Commons is free. Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here freely as long as the source and the authors are credited and as long as users release their copies/improvements under the same freedom to others. The Wikimedia Commons database itself and the texts in it are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. The license conditions of each individual media file can be found on their description pages. More information on re-use can be found at Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia and Commons:First steps/Reuse.

Wikimedia Commons

Graduate Schools & Graduate Degrees Guide. Master Degree, MBA, PhD Degree Search - GradSchools.com

2009-08-26T17:10:00.001-07:00

Graduate Schools & Graduate Degrees Guide. Master Degree, MBA, PhD Degree Search - GradSchools.com

Welcome to GradSchools.com, the leading and most comprehensive online graduate school guide to find the best graduate schools and graduate degree programs. Search from over 60,000 master degree, doctorate / doctoral degree, PhD degree and graduate certificate programs. Search by field of study, subject, graduate school or metro area nationwide and international. For students interested in distance learning graduate study, you can also search online graduate degrees offered by accredited online colleges and universities. Explore our MBA degree programs for a finance MBA degree, international business MBA degree, leadership MBA degree and other business school MBA programs. Search top graduate schools and programs for Law school, Medical school, Business School and other disciplines including psychology, nursing, education, physical therapy, information technology, engineering and more. Create your own MyGradSchools account to save important graduate education college and university deadlines, grad school calendar events and graduate degree program information. Register for a My GradSchools Account today.

Graduate Schools & Graduate Degrees Guide. Master Degree, MBA, PhD Degree Search - GradSchools.com

Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars

2009-08-26T17:09:00.001-07:00

Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars

Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.

As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.

We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.

We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone.

Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars

MAPLight.org

2009-08-26T16:22:00.001-07:00

MAPLight.org

Money and Politics & hopefully transparency....Check out the Video Tour!

MAPLight.org

Th:Jefferson Encyclopedia

2009-07-20T09:11:00.001-07:00

Th:Jefferson Encyclopedia

Thomas Jefferson and his world by Monticello researchers and respected Jefferson scholars.

Only Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia community scholars can write and edit articles; however, public users are encouraged to submit comments on the discussion pages. For more information, see Help.

Th:Jefferson Encyclopedia

Librarian Resources | LLRX.com

2009-07-20T09:10:00.001-07:00

Librarian Resources | LLRX.com

Librarian Resources

Subcategories of Librarian Resources

A Cup of Creativi-tea

Adobe Acrobat

After Hours

American Association of Law Libraries

Blogs

Business Cards

Business Research

Citators

Communication Skills

Competitive Intelligence

Conferencing Software

Conflicts

Continuing Legal Education

Cookies (Web)

Cyberlaw

Data Mining

Deal or No Deal – Licensing & Acquiring Digital Resources

Distance Learning

Document Delivery

Domain Names

Editor's Featured Site

Effective Use of Color

Effective Use of Graphics

Email

Email Security

Ethics

Extranets

Extras

Government Resources

Grammar

Guide on the Side

Industry Information

Information Management

Internet Mailing Lists

Intranets

Job Hunting

Latest Links

Law Library Management

Legal Ethics

Legal Profession

LLRXBuzz

Meetings

Metaforix@Health

Mobile Technology

Newstand

Notes from the Technology Trenches

Open Source

Outsourcing

PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants)

Presentation Skills

Presentation Software

Program Planning

Recruiting

Reference from Coast to Coast

ResearchRoundup

ResearchWire

Space Planning

Special Libraries Association

Storyboarding

Summer Associate Programs

Surveys

Technology Trends

Telecommuting

The Government Domain

The Tao of Law Librarianship

Web Critic

Web-Based Training

Wisdom from the Grammar Goddess

Writing Skills

Librarian Resources | LLRX.com

Home - SciTopics

2009-07-20T08:55:00.001-07:00

Home - SciTopics

About SciTopics

SciTopics is a free expert-generated knowledge-sharing service for the scientific community. It serves as an information and collaboration service for researchers.

SciTopics offers authors a dynamic, quick, informal yet authoritative online publication platform

Home - SciTopics

The Great Issues Forum | Great Issues Forum

2009-07-20T08:53:00.001-07:00

The Great Issues Forum | Great Issues Forum

The Great Issues Forum is a new initiative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and presented by the Center for the Humanities. Funding for the initiative was provided by the 2007 Carnegie Corporation of New York's Academic Leadership Award, presented to Chancellor Matthew Goldstein. Each year, the Forum will explore critical issues of our time through a single thematic lens. Our inaugural theme is Power. In a series of high-profile, free public Conversations featuring artists, intellectuals, and policy makers, the Great Issues Forum is examining the ways in which various categories of power – political, economic, cultural, military, and educational – work in our increasingly globalized world. Subsequent themes for 2009-2011 will be "Faith" and "Place."
The Forum also hosts an online seminar with prominent guest bloggers, distinguished faculty, and select graduate students who will discuss a series of texts related to the annual theme.
The Great Issues Forum is designed to replicate the mission of The Graduate Center of the City University of New York – to educate the children of all people, to pursue enlightenment, and to disseminate knowledge for the benefit of all society. By turning the spotlight for a year on an in-depth examination of an issue of great cultural and political consequence, the Great Issues Forum hopes to stimulate new scholarly lines of inquiry, inform students and the public at large, and encourage civic engagement in their local communities and around the world.

The Great Issues Forum | Great Issues Forum

About Us - The AboutJobs.com Network

2009-07-20T08:15:00.001-07:00

About Us - The AboutJobs.com Network

The AboutJobs.com Network

Founded in 1996, AboutJobs.com is an on-line recruitment network that provides career resources and employment opportunities to high school and college students, resort and hospitality staff, expatriates and international job seekers, part-time workers, and adventure seekers.

AboutJobs.com offers services to employers looking to use the power of the Internet to find candidates for hard to fill positions across North America and the world. AboutJobs.com provides employers access to hundreds of thousands of candidates each month who are looking for internships, summer jobs, resort and hospitality employment and overseas work. AboutJobs.com has also created the GeoJobs™ e-recruiting application that allows employers to simultaneously post job openings on their internal corporate Web sites and the AboutJobs.com network of sites.

About Us - The AboutJobs.com Network

Yet Another Plan To Change Copyright Law To Protect Newspapers | Techdirt

2009-07-01T14:28:00.001-07:00

Yet Another Plan To Change Copyright Law To Protect Newspapers | Techdirt

Yet Another Plan To Change Copyright Law To Protect Newspapers

from the please,-someone,-think-this-through dept

Last week, we wrote about Judge Posner's troubling idea that copyright law should be changed to protect newspapers, and this week, a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer is backing the same basic idea as proposed by two brothers, David and Daniel Marburger. One is a First Amendment lawyer and the other an economist -- and I'm stunned that both would get things so backwards. Their specific proposal is that:

Aggregators would reimburse newspapers for ad revenues associated with their news reports.

Injunctions would bar aggregators' profiting from newspapers' content for the first 24 hours after stories are posted.

Both are incredibly shortsighted and backwards and would do significantly more harm than good. Both are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how news and the internet works. Even more amusing? They try to "anticipate the rebuttal" and get that totally wrong, claiming that people will complain: "Newspapers want to monopolize the truth."
No. That's not the complaint at all. The problem is much more basic than that. It's that newspapers (and the Marburgers, apparently) are confused about how people communicate and what business they're in. They think -- incorrectly -- that newspapers are in the business of delivering the news. But that's just a small part of it. They're really in the business of building a community of folks, who they then sell to advertisers. As such, they need to be doing two things, both of which this plan makes harder:

They need to provide more value to their community, so they stick around

They need to attract more people to their community

Now go back and look at the Marburgers' plan, and realize how backwards it is. It takes away value from the community by making it harder for those in the community to share and spread the news themselves -- a vital part of how people interact with the news these days. And just how do you define an "aggregator"? If someone Twitters a link to a news story... does Twitter become an aggregator? On top of that, barring others from "profiting" off the news for 24 hours simply limits the ability of others to help newspapers get more traffic.
Of course, in the meantime, Jay Rosen points us to Josh Young's analysis of what would almost certainly happen if newspapers could block others from linking to them. It's essentially what we've suggested in the past: if you give short-sighted and clueless newspapers the tools to block others from sending them traffic, that just opens wide the market for their smarter competitors to gladly accept all that traffic. Hell, it appears that Reuters recognizes the future. The folks there must be salivating over the idea that others would lock up their content and leave the playing field wide open to Reuters to scoop up all that traffic.

Yet Another Plan To Change Copyright Law To Protect Newspapers | Techdirt

HSM Reflections on LIS/Life

TinEye Reverse Image Search

So Cool.......HSM

What is TinEye?

New Blog - Citation Help for ISU and Beyond

14 Application Cheat Sheets & Posters for Popular Programs

14 Application Cheat Sheets & Posters for Popular Programs

Nerdlets: Christianity/Culture/Computing

Get Real Text out of your Scanned Documents

Sorry -- Been Away !

Sorry -- had numerous work related issues which were so unforeseen that I had to drop everything to get done.

Ujiko : Aide

The Mad Men Animated GIF You’ve All Been Waiting For -- Vulture

Welcome to USAspending.gov

Refugee Health Information Network

Penn World Table, Center for International Comparisons, University of Pennsylvania

MarketingCharts: charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format

InvestIQ

Discovering American Women's History Online

Search and Browse Options

Thumbnail Images

About the Developer

Credits and Acknowledgements

Welcome - Medpedia

Medpedia is just getting started. Welcome to the community.

THE Medical Biochemistry Page

Abbreviations Glossary of Medical/Clinical Terms Links Clinical Lab Data: Blood Test Values Awards

Wikimedia Commons

Graduate Schools & Graduate Degrees Guide. Master Degree, MBA, PhD Degree Search - GradSchools.com

Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars

MAPLight.org

Th:Jefferson Encyclopedia

Librarian Resources | LLRX.com

Librarian Resources

Home - SciTopics

About SciTopics

The Great Issues Forum | Great Issues Forum

About Us - The AboutJobs.com Network

Yet Another Plan To Change Copyright Law To Protect Newspapers | Techdirt

Yet Another Plan To Change Copyright Law To Protect Newspapers

from the please,-someone,-think-this-through dept

Abbreviations
Glossary of Medical/Clinical Terms
Links
Clinical Lab Data: Blood Test Values
Awards