Do you know where your copyrights are?

Do you know where your copy rights are?
Google Book Settlement – Opt Out Deadline Extended
Millions of in-copyright books, including those of foreign authors and publishers, will be part of the proposed class action settlement between Google, the Author’s Guild, and the Association of American Publishers.
For a number of years Google has been scanning books held [...]

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Research 2.0!

Tomorrow (Monday) is the Research 2.0 Workshop for people who want to know more about web tools that can assist with your online research. It’ll be held in the Library’s Instruction Room at 4:30pm and should probably only take an hour. I’ll be covering a bunch of tools such as Zotero, Google groups and docs, [...]

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Gapminder.org

Gapminder.org a great resource for students and professors at our campus, and it’s free to the public, so no subscriptions for us to pay and no logins for you to remember!
In a nutshell, Gapminder is: “Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased [...]

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Research 2.0!

The library will be hosting a Research 2.0 workshop on Monday, 2/18 (President’s Day) in the library’s instruction room (101K) from 5:30 – 6:30 PM. This workshop will introduce you to online research tools such as Google docs/books/scholar, Zotero, EndNoteWeb, and RSS feeds. If interested, please sign up at http://ittraining.gmu.edu. Send any questions you have [...]

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