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Tuesday @ Your Library

EndNote Web Your Web-based research and writing tool 10 AM Tuesday Oct 2 in the I Hub area of the library. EndNote Web is a Web-based service designed to help students and researchers through the process of writing a research paper. Undergraduate students can organize their references for citing in papers Professional reseachers and graduate students can use EndNote Web as the perfect complement to EndNote and other desktop writing tools, as well as storing references between ISI Web of Knowledge search sessions

Rising Journal Costs Limit Scholarly Access

http://www.lyponline.com/infocus/0907/Special_Report.htm Courtesy of Emory University Are publishers getting rich publishing your research? A Bear-Stearns evaluation of Reed-Elsevier (one of the world's largest publishers of scholarly journals) recently rated the company, which earns profits of almost 40% annually, "a stockholder's dream." Should private publishers be getting rich selling information generated by research that is funded by academic institutions and the public? What's happening and how does it affect scholars? This article looks at one university’s experience.