Library Connect

For the January 2010 issue of the Library Connect Newsletter, we're looking for a few quotes from undergrad or grad students regarding how they define "trusted content." So, please, feel free to pass along to your undergrad/grad student patrons the following call for quotes.

Question to answer: "When doing research, h...ow do you tell if a source can be trusted?"
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In conjunction with the publishing seminars at Stockholm University and the University of Helsinki, the schools' libraries hosted workshops on how to market the university library. These workshops were preceded by the presentation "Connecting wth Young Researchers" given by Elsevier Account Development Manager Chris Ja...mes, who's based in Amsterdam. Chris' talk draws from the 2008 book "A Short-cut to Marketing the Library" by Zuzana Helinsky. Watch for a Library Connect Newsletter, 8;1 (Jan. 2010) article about the marketing workshops.Read More

Fall 2009 publishing seminars organized by Elsevier helped get needed information out to the Nordic scientific community. The kick-off of the publishing seminars took place in October in Stockholm and Helsinki. The seminar in Stockholm on October 8 attracted about 70 participants, most of them in an early stage of thei...r scientific career. The interest at the University of Helsinki was even more overwhelming with more than 150 people attending the seminar on October 20. This university is the largest higher-education institute in Finland and responsible for a large share of the Finnish scientific publications. On November 17, a publishing seminar will be organized at the University of Oslo. Watch for a Library Connect Newsletter, 8;1 (Jan. 2010) article about the seminars.Read More

This year's Nordic Librarian Forum was very well visited by all five Nordic countries. Topics included Open Access; research performance evaluation; and the relationship between fulltext article usage and scientific output, grant income and PhD awards. Speakers included Gunnar Sivertsen from NIFU STEP in Oslo (the Norw...egian Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education), Ian Rowlands with CIBER and Robert Kiley with the Wellcome Trust. Watch for a Library Connect Newsletter, 8;1 (Jan. 2010), article about the forum.Read More