Academic library postcards, part II

Evolving academic library specialties

Reinventing Academic Publishing Online. Part II: A Socio-technical Vision

Part I of this paper outlined the limitations of feudal academic knowledge exchange and predicted its decline as cross-disciplinary research expands. Part II now suggests the next evolutionary step is democratic online knowledge exchange, run by the academic many rather than the few. Using socio-technical tools it is possible to accept all, evaluate all and publish all academic documents. Edito...

Mammography; Part II

From the Book of Mammography by Dr. Zabihollah Arnavaz - Head of Radiology Department of Jorjani Hospital of National University of Iran.

Clinical postcards.

We are launching an ultra-brief format for Cortex, as an initiative to re-unite the efforts of clinicians and researchers to advance knowledge in Neuropsychology. Under the label, ‘Clinical Postcards’, clinicians and researchers are encouraged to submit short communications from the frontline of daily practice. These may be informal insights or impressions held about some patient group or condi...

Book Availability: Academic Library Assessment

In the climate of increasing calls for academic assessment, the authors undertook a study to ascertain book availability in an academic library. The study described here uses the methodology pioneered by Tefko Saracevic, W. M. Shaw, Jr., and Paul Kantor and is a follow-up of earlier research reported in College & Research Libraries in 1987. The authors designed the study to identify any improve...