An open access initiative is celebrating ten years of its activities and existence. The Open Access philosophy was firmly articulated in 2002, when the Budapest Open Access Initiative was introduced. It quickly took root in the scientific and medical communities because it offered an alternative route to research literature that was frequently closed off behind costly subscription barriers.
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Related People and Pages is one of the newest tools to hit Google. Google recently released a set of search options that Google+ users can take advantage of, and many SEO experts are currently experimenting with these features to best enhance their search engine exposure.
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Here’s one thing Google could improve user experience: Demote results for out of stock product pages and promote the ones that are available – even if they don’t have high rankings to start with. How’s that?
I am a fan of Polo Blue and tend to buy the same deodorant over and over again.
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It’s been a while since open access and open source events have been as interesting as they are now. While the things are heating up around Elsevier publisher, including a petition being signed by academics to refuse to publish or do any editorial work for any Elsevier journal, on the other side there have been open source changes announced at the FOSDEM conference in Belgium.
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This is a quick study on how asterisk symbol affects Google search queries, illustrated on a search for insurance in Google Australia.
Quick Summary:
insurance: brings results with word insurance highlighted in title and description
*insurance: word insurance is highlighted with the nearest relevant phrase before it
insurance*: word insurance is highlighted with the nearest relevant phrase after it
*insurance*: word insurance is highlighted with the nearest relevant phrases before and after it
Search Variations:
Where Google decided to bold a relevant related term instead of the main key term we searched for:
Search Anomalies:
Terms that were bold in results that are either not relevant or useful to users:
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Anyone can write a book. Whether a publisher will edit, print and distribute is a matter of expert evaluation. Some terrible titles may even pass through and find their audience, but will certainly not end up in a state library. Online is the same, anyone can write anything – and they do.
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Google+ has broken the boundaries of expectations, some may say they forced us because its Google, so you are either on the boat or it’s leaving without you, but one thing is for sure, no one expected it to grow as fast as it did and not many listened when we said get on early, it will be worth it.
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We all strive to be creative and come up with new, innovative ideas that will make a difference in our everyday lives, our environment, and our work .
Steve Johnson looks at this issue from the environmental perspective and he found that there are certain recurring patterns he calls “small hunches”.
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We wrote earlier last week about SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) which have recently been dropped after massive internet protest, and now comes another global movement that appear more dangerous. Here are some essential information and resources that you need to know about ACTA and how you can help.
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We were waiting a fairly long time to have Google+ pages, there were quite a few disgruntled fellows regarding removal of brand name profiles before the implementation of pages, no one can blame them. After a while we got official badges for pages and our profiles that we could place on our sites, and they are quite good, interactive, help logged in users to place your pages or profiles in their circles directly from your website or +1 your page.
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