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Reference Linking in JSTOR; search JSTOR content in Google and Google Scholar Wednesday, 1 March 2006 8:48 pm

Posted by Dongmei in What's new at Google?!, database features, databases.
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Reference Linking in JSTOR 

Yesterday, JSTOR announced its official release of reference linking functionality. Reference linking enables JSTOR users to follow a link from a reference in an article directly to the cited article. (A feature should be familiar for the open Web users). At this time, the reference linking capability is internal – links are currently available only between journals archived in JSTOR. Approximately 18,000 links are currently available from a small number of journals, and JSTOR expects to complete retrospective reference capture for all current holdings in 2007.  

For more details about reference linking, check out http://www.jstor.org/help/reference.linking.htmlJSTOR Crawl Site Update

Google (not surprising!) is the first search engine company that signed a license agreement with JSTOR and is allowed to crawl and index the scholarly literature in the archive. The crawl site contains the full-text or optical character recognition (OCR) files for the majority of journals participating in JSTOR. More than 2 million of the full-length articles and book reviews archived by JSTOR are searchable in both Google and Google Scholar.

spyware, things you should know Wednesday, 1 March 2006 5:32 pm

Posted by Dongmei in Internet Resources, featured IT of the week, free/Open Source Software.
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Been sick for a while, haven’t kept up w/ my blog … lots of things to blog about … attended this great spyware workshop presented by two Student Computing Support tech guys (for more details, see Thurs. @ 3 Library Seminars) a couple of weeks ago, meant to share w/ you all what I learned. (Don’t know what spyware/malware/badware/adware is and what it will do to your computer? Read this from Wikipedia).
1. anti-spyware software and tools
Microsoft Anti-Spyware (Windows Defender (Beta 2)): http://www.microsoft.com

Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE (Personal version is free to download): http://www.lavasoftusa.com

Spybot Search and Destroy (freeware, donate if you can :-) ): http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Ewido Anti-Malware (free download): http://www.ewido.com

note: of all these software, I personally like Spybot S&D the best.

2. Comprehensive list of spyware (black list :-) ): http://www.spywareguide.com

3. Report to stop badware (sponsored by Google, Sun Microsystems, etc.): http://www.stopbadware.com

4. Faculty (staff) and students of CofC, download and install Symantec Anti Virus: http://antivirus.cofc.edu

5. You may wish to use alternative browsers, such as

Mozilla Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org

Opera Web Browser: http://www.opera.com

6. Tips to protect yourself from spyware

  • Read User Agreements Before Clicking Yes to Protect Yourself from Spyware (Spyware that comes bundled with shareware usually appears in Chapter 9: Third Party Software);
  • Be Careful of Advertising That Looks Like Windows Warnings to Protect Yourself from Spyware;
  • Carefully Read Windows Warnings that Present themselves while Surfing to Protect Yourself from Spyware;
  • Install a Program to Detect Spyware and Scan Often to Protect Yourself from Spyware (see above 1);
  • Be Leery of Visiting Websites that aren’t Well Known to Protect Yourself from Spyware;
  • Update Windows and your Browser to Protect Yourself from Spyware;
  • Be Leery of Installing Shareware and Free Programs to Protect  Yourself from Spyware.