Goodbye Thomas.gov! All of the legislative information you love will now be on Congress.gov.
Need an icon for that? Here’s an interview with the founder of the Noun Project, which aims to create simple icons for everything. I was hoping for an icon for "online library," but I guess there's just not enough call for that yet.
Just in case your family doesn’t know what to get you for the holidays, you can send them this list.
A big win for Google in their book scanning case. This is making a lot of open-access proponents very happy, but I wonder how academic book publishers will respond.
HBR’s extra costs making librarians hopping mad. Where the norms of academia and the norms of business collide. And Library Babel Fish just wants to say “no” to HBR and everyone else. I'd love to say no, too, but just one week of no PDF printing for HBR articles was a reference headache.
African countries pushing to create more PhDs. I find it interesting that it doesn't mention the role of PhD-granting online programs. You no longer have to leave home to get an advanced degree from an accredited American university (well, not quite totally true - our doctoral students do travel to a few residencies, but that's a few weeks versus several years.).
