Tag Archives: Featured sites

Searching the deep web

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Sarah

I had the great pleasure yesterday to attend a training course at CILIP HQ on Navigating the Deep Web: Advanced Search Strategies for Researchers, run by search guru, Karen Blakeman. I always come away from Karen’s courses feeling invigorated and … Continue reading →

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Unpaywall: a site for finding academic papers that are free

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Sarah

The journal Nature recently reported on a website called Unpaywall, developed by computer scientists to help academics demonstrate how much of their work is freely available to download. Launched in 2017, the site has become a really useful place to … Continue reading →

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The pleasure of writing: drilling into oil & gas information

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Sarah

If you’re a regular visitor to this blog, you will know that I’ve contributed articles and reviews to Jinfo (formerly Freepint) quite a number of times over the years. Well, it’s a pleasure to be doing so once again. This time … Continue reading →

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Missing you already…or not?

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Sarah

Happy new year! Here’s an interesting bit of news to start off 2017. An article in Science magazine 6 Jan 2017 describes how hundreds of universities, technical schools and research institutes and public libraries in Germany will be starting the … Continue reading →

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Happy to be writing for Jinfo (formerly FreePint) again

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Sarah

So much going on in the world of information and searching and so few posts written. My only excuse is that I’ve been very busy because there is so much going on in the…OK, you can guess the rest! It’s … Continue reading →

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Saving libraries and searching skills

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Sarah

Caitlin Moran eloquently expresses in Caitlin’s Moranifesto: Save our Libraries why Libraries still have their place in the age of the internet, and why we shouldn’t be content with just “Googling it”. “Do we all want to be Googlesheep, herded … Continue reading →

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Another article in support of open access

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Sarah

I’ve posted several times on the open access movement which aims to end the practice of charging to read academic papers describing research which has usually been publicly funded in the first place. The latest case for open access is … Continue reading →

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Default to Google: it’s a hard habit to break

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Sarah

From time to time SearchEngineWatch produces useful reviews of search engines other than Google. Recently DuckDuckGo has been in spotlight. This was a useful article because the author really tried hard to give DuckDuckGo a proper trial and with some … Continue reading →

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Let the bells ring out, spreading harmony

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Sarah

An appropriately festive article of especial interest to me (as a bell-ringer, or “campanologist” if you like long words), entitled Ding dong measurement on high, swung into my in-box from ScienceDaily over the weekend and inspired me to think about … Continue reading →

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Taylor & Francis offers free access to medical journals for 14 days

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Sarah

The title says it all really, all you have to do is to register on the Taylor & Francis website. Then you will be able to enjoy 14 days of free access to all of their latest medical journal content … Continue reading →

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