World's Top 500 Universities

Shanghai Jiao Tong University published their 2005 list of World's top 500 Universities
Harvard is ranked first in the US. Cambridge lead the pack in Europe

The Future of Citation Analysis

Henry Small, chief scientist at Thomson Scientific and president of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics.says " ongoing efforts to map the Web, to visualize its connectivity and see who influences whom, are among the most sophisticated areas to evolve from traditional citation analysis. "People are attempting to use all the links to map the system of underlying communications or of ideas," he says." via Scientist

Iranian President calls for the destruction of Israel

At the World Without Zionism conference Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Israel should be "wiped off the map" via davenetics

Mr. President this is a very very bad idea............ in case that none of your assistants brought the following statistics to your attention, the same country that you want to destroy is also a major contributor to Science and Technology. But I don't know if education is a priority for your administration.


ccording to ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product, among the 151 top-performing countries in all fields, Israel ranked #16 for citations, #18 for papers, and #24 for citations per paper. Via In-Cites

Google preparing for another interesting service:: Base Google

Base Google will allow users to post their items in Google.

Google Base is Google’s database into which you can add all types of content. We’ll host your content and make it searchable online for free." via Google Blogoscoped

It goes well with Google's mission "to organize the world's information and make it universally
accessible and useful"

Google Scholar's Food Analogy Continues

First it was Roy Tennant and now Linda Martinez states that "“Faculty are concerned that students are using only Google,” “Fast food’s good, but we’ve got steak.” in an article published at the Chronicle

Google Helping Librarians: Google Librarian Center

Google (Librarian Center) plans to launch a newsletter for just librarians. Via Bob Michaelson's email to CHNINF-L listserv.

Librarians and Google share a mission: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. We support librarians like yourself who work each day to further that mission.

JustStudents: Clever Productivity tool for Students

This is promising. They have very clever tools to make students' life more productive

Google's Perspective on Google Scholar

Google Scholar's principal engineer Anurag Acharya presentation on "Searching Scholarly Literature: A Google Scholar Perspective, via bespacific

Roy Tennant on Google Scholar

great quote from Roy Tennant from his presentation at NISO

"Google Scholar is to scholarly information access what McDonald's is to food"

Credits Goes to Thomson Pearson's

I saw Syndication for Higher Ed blog today via Steve

I would suggest to include a category for A&I providers which are providing RSS feeds too.

Blogs as credited courses?

from WSJ article by Laura Landro

One of the best known, Robert Centor, is professor and director of the division of general internal medicine at the University of Alabama's Huntsville Regional Medical Campus; doctors can even get continuing-medical-education credits from the university for reading his blog, DB's Medical Rants (medrants.com).

Instant Search

A new service Inquisitor Instant Search similar Google Suggest via ajaxian

Yahoo Launches Podcasts

yahoo launched podcast yahoo. it's great.i mentioned before this is an excellent tool for STM publishers to distribute & sell content.

Revolution Health Group Acquires Wondir

Wondir which I had mentioned before was acquired by RHG

Google Advertising Google Scholar

Schoogle posts of an ad run by google in an university paper.


Hey, if you use EV2, Scopus or ISI you don't have to search until the sunrise trying to figure out which is the most relevant article, you'll get the results when you wanted without wasting your time........so you can have a good sleep or may be enjoy your evening....

Yes, Google Scholar is a nice product but IMO still they are way behind to compete with any good subject database (Compendex, Inspec) to provide relevant results and knowledge of the results.

SiloBreaker

A new "next generation" information retrieval (for news) product powered by Elucidon. This is great. Congratulations to Elucidon team. You can see the product tour here

Tekilah & Rosh Hashana

The whole family enjoyed this animation from ShaBot 6000 via Dylan Green