My last blog , my wonderful experience

Before the course I knew nothing about blogging , I have discovered something I liked and enjoy doing ,with womderful people my class mates, It was quite a journey sharing our views and opinions , made me to be creative , Thank you for gaining this adventure   

Public Library of Science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Library_of_Science

Did you know?
In 2009, the Public Library of Science became an official supporting organisation of Healthcare Information For All by 2015, a global initiative that advocates unrestricted access to medical knowledge

Open-access journal

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Open-access journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself."^[1] Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author. Subsidized journals are financed by an academic institution, learned society or a government information center; those requiring payment are typically financed by money made available to researchers for the purpose from a public or private funding agency, as part of a research grant. There have also been several modifications of open-access journals that have considerably different natures: hybrid open-access journals and delayed open-access journals.

Open-access journals (sometimes called the "gold road to open access") are one of the two general methods for providing open access. The other one (sometimes called the "green road") is self-archiving in a repository. The publisher of an open-access journal is known as an "open-access publisher", and the process, "open-access publishing".

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_journal

RC Code

http://qrinlibs.blogspot.com/

QR Codes and Mobile LibGuides

"I am one of those sad, unfortunate librarians who does not yet subscribe to the wondrous world of LibGuides. And yet, I try to stay current on the many amazing things they are capable of, including their ability to be accessed mobile-ly (as in, with a mobile device - still uncertain what the adverbial form of that should be...).

During one of the ACRL Unconference sessions, Jodi Shepherd presented her library's use of QR codes and a mobile LibGuide to help students navigate their stacks. Discovering that students were frequently lost in the stacks of their multi-floor library, they created a LibGuide explaining how to read a call number and find the book on the shelf. Although any LibGuide will be automatically converted to a mobile-friendly version when accessed from a mobile device, they decided to create a new one specifically for mobile use because formatting was lost from the original LibGuide when viewed on a mobile device. A QR code directing to that specific LibGuide was then created and displayed at strategic places throughout the library stacks. Students are able to scan the code and immediately call up the LibGuide for a quick tutorial. This is a great example of using mobile technology to assist students at their point-of-need. Rather than trying to track down a librarian to help them, the student can try to help himself using the technology in his pocket. Great idea!" by Megan Dempsey .