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"What Publish or Perish is for Publish or Perish is designed to empower individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage. We would be concerned if it would be used for academic staff evaluation purposes in a mechanistic way. When using Publish or Perish for citation analyses, we would like to suggest the following general rule of thumb: If an academic shows good citation metrics, it is very likely that he or she has made a significant impact on the field. However, the reverse is not necessarily true. If an academic shows weak citation metrics, this may be caused by a lack of impact on the field, but also by one or more of the following: Working in a small field (therefore generating fewer citations in total); Publishing in a language other than English (LOTE - effectively also restricting the citation field); Publishing mainly (in) books. Although Google Scholar performs better than the Web of Science in this respect, it is still not very good in capturing LOTE articles and citations, or citations in books or book chapters. As a result, citation metrics in the Social Sciences and even more so in the Humanities will always be underestimated as in these disciplines publications in LOTE and books/book chapters are more likely than in the Sciences. "

This little app made my day! If you have ever been frustrated by having to type in a long url or wanted others to type one in in a hand held device, without email etc.. this is the app for you. Copy and paste in the url. ShortEnuf will generate a 5 character url that lasts all of 3 minutes and allows everyone to get the page you want them on painlessly!

so going to use this on Saturday for the V-room...was stressing about that long url and email etc... to mobile devices...not any more!!!! :-)

this is so much better than glyfos. Destiny Quest® is a K-12 student-friendly searching interface included with Destiny Library Manager, the comprehensive, award-winning K-12 library automation solution.Online Searching for the K-12 Digital NativeWhen was the last time your students called library software 'sweet'? That's what they say about Destiny Quest, the first library search interface designed to appeal to today's digital native students. Destiny Quest engages students in a visually appealing and highly graphic online searching experience, leveraging Destiny's proven K-12 research strategies to help them easily locate and identify appropriate resources. Students can apply the web-savvy skills they already know and expand the skills they need to thrive as 21st century learners.With Destiny Quest, students can see the top 10 books and new arrival titles highlighted on the Destiny Quest homepage, search the library collection, browse the scrolling carousel of bookshelves, view book covers, and link to title details from any computer with an Internet connection. Visually appealing, customizable themes make searching the library a comfortable and familiar experience for today's plugged-in generation.Students become more active learners using Destiny Quest's engaging interface, which invites them to explore and dig deeper through "You May Also Like" automatic suggestions. They can refine their search results by author, subject, series and more, and find the best titles for their interests or reading levels and save their favorites for easy retrieval with the easy drag and drop functionality of 'My List'. Younger students or non-English speakers can easily find materials using a picture-based icon search option.

Grockit is very easy to use and has a user friendly interface. It lets its users search for a YouTube video and once found, they can then both watch the video and use the right side panel to write their questions or comments. They can then share this page using a generated URL with their students or colleagues.

Gunn Map 2 is an online application which allows you to create customizable maps with any compatible set of data you have available. GunnMap is free. Images generated with it are under the Creative Commons BY-SA license, making them suitable for use most anywhere including on Wikipedia. Watch Demonstration:  

Here's how you can add the ability to have your iPad speak selected words and phrases. Go to Settings > General > AccessibilityTap Speak Selection from the list at the top of the screenAdjust the Speaking Rate (Choose a setting near the (s)lower end) You'll now get the option to have selected text spoken aloud in most any app that allows text editing.

Martin Burrett 25 Nov 11 05:41:47 A great online tool for uploading, storage and sharing documents by link or QR code. Simply upload your item to generate both to share. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

Welcome!Welcome on WriteOnIt.Here you can easily create your photomontage, free cards, magazine cover and other funny jokes for you and your friends.

"The web today is a growing universe of interlinked web pages and web apps, teeming with videos, photos, and interactive content. What the average user doesn't see is the interplay of web technologies and browsers that makes all this possible. Over time web technologies have evolved to give web developers the ability to create new generations of useful and immersive web experiences. Today's web is a result of the ongoing efforts of an open web community that helps define these web technologies, like HTML5, CSS3 and WebGL and ensure that they're supported in all web browsers."

Martin Burrett 11 Sep 11 04:15:52A YouTube Page guaranteed to make all but the youngest of us feel old, by showing technology that is obsolete. Great for showing the iPod generation the wonders of cassette tapes and vinyl records. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

"toolsforsearch Actions * New PageNew Page * Join this WikiJoin this Wiki * Recent ChangesRecent Changes * Manage WikiManage Wiki Navigation Home Blog Search Twitter Search Wiki Search Image Search Video Search People Search Government Academic Search Kids Search MakingSearchChoices Pathfinders MLA Style Sheet Research Guide Virtual Library Home Virtual Library (new) edit navigation Mrsjgarcia · My Wikis My Wikis · 1 My Mail · My Account · Help · Sign Out · wikispaces *homeEdit * pagesubmenu o Details and Tags o Print o PDF o Backlinks o Source o Delete o Rename o Redirect o Permissions o Lock * discussion * history * notify me Details last edit Sep 28, 2009 3:28 pm by joycevalenza joycevalenza - 61 revisions hide details Tags * edit * Type a tag name. Press comma or enter to add another. Cancel Edit This Page General Search Tools Google Search Engineer videos Top 100 Alternative Search Engines List CNET's Twitter Search Sites AllMyFaves (one page icon directory of search tools) * Google * Google (Advanced) * Google Directory * Google Books * Google Scholar * Google News Timeline * Google Squared (for building comparisons) * Wolfram|Alpha (computational knowledge engine) * Surchur (for searching social networks & more) * Goofram (search Google & Wolfram|Alpha together) * Search Cube (visual page search) * Yebol (semantic search) * Yahoo! * Wiki.com (for searching wikispace) * Twoogle (searches Google and Twitter simultaneously) * Cuil (offers refinement tabs and categories boxes) * Yuil (Cuil with Yahoo-power) * Buttonall (the Internet's universal remote meta-search) * Ask.com * Clusty(clustered search) * Duck Duck Go * Grokker (offers both map and cluster results) * Leapfish (combines Google, Yahoo!, MSN results)

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"This is an import/export tool for Google Sites. Using HTML Microformats it generates an XHTML version of Sites content suitable for offline browsing and simple HTTP hosting, which is also able to be losslessly imported back into sites. "

Very cool indeed

using qr codes in the library presentation by Jennifer Shafer