What digital natives want from their library

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Celebrating the Open Access Week

These links will be useful for celebrating the Open Access Week. DOAJ (http://www.doaj.org/) is now over 7,000 journals, and still adding more than 4 titles per day. The Electronic Journals Library (http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en) now lists more than 30,000 titles that are freely available. OpenDOAR (http://www.opendoar.org/) now lists more than 2,000 repositories, and the BASE (http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/en/index.php) search [...]

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Science.gov services

Science.gov (http://www.science.gov/index.html) was launched in December 2002. It searches over 50 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 14 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information (http://www.science.gov/searchdbs.html) including research and development results. Science.gov is governed by the interagency Science.gov Alliance (http://www.science.gov/participatingagencies.html). While this isn’t a site designed for kids, their [...]

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