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Since its debut I November 2004, librarians have raised several criticisms at Google Scholar (GS)... more Since its debut I November 2004, librarians have raised several criticisms at Google Scholar (GS) such as its inconsistency of coverage and its currency and scope of coverage. It may have been true in the early years of Google Scholar but is this still through twelve years after? Is this sufficient to ignore it totally either in our information literacy programs or evaluate its value against the values of subscription-based abstracts and indexes? In this era of severe budget constraints that libraries are facing, can we imagine of substituting most or all of our subject databases with the free access of Google Scholar for discoverability? How much overlap between our databases and Google Scholar? How reliable is Google Scholar? How stable is its content over time? Open Access is getting to be the predominant form of getting access to peer reviewed articles. Many new non-traditional tools (institutional repositories, social media and peer to peer sites) are available out there to retrieve the full-text of peer reviewed articles. What can be said in terms of content and reliability of both Sci-Hub and LibGen? This article reports on preliminary results of a one year study of Google Scholar where 2,750 random samples (peer review journal articles) coming from fifty-five different databases covering all disciplines (Arts & Humanities, Law, Music, Social Sciences and STM) are tested against GS. The samples have been searched against Google Scholar at four different intervals during the year. The same samples have been searched against both Sci-Hub and LibGen in order to see how much full-text content is available under these platforms. Different data such as publication year, publishers, language of articles and OA are being looked at to see if content is affected by either or all of these parameters. To verify the currency of information in Google Scholar, Sci-Hub and LibGen, research articles from both Nature and Science (from current issues, Nature Advance Online Publication and First Release from Science) were searched on a daily basis. Results are showing that most of the peer review articles are available in Google Scholar, Sci-Hub and LibGen.
Documentation et bibliothèques, 2002
À l’ère d’Internet, le gouvernement québécois revoit la façon d’offrir ses services aux citoyens,... more À l’ère d’Internet, le gouvernement québécois revoit la façon d’offrir ses services aux citoyens, en misant sur les nouvelles technologies de l’information. Avec « l’évolution » numérique, la bibliothéconomie prend un virage majeur afin de s’adapter à cette nouvelle réalité numérique. Cet article présente l’évolution du Service de l’information documentaire (SID) du ministère des Relations avec les citoyens et de l’Immigration qui est devenu un centre de services où s’ajoutent le partage et le transfert des connaissances dans la foulée de la loi 82 sur la modernisation de l’État et du renouvellement de la fonction publique.
OpenEdition has developed platforms to publish, disseminate and highlight open access scientific ... more OpenEdition has developed platforms to publish, disseminate and highlight open access scientific content in humanities and social sciences. OpenEdition intends to find a balance between disseminating journals and books in open access while generating income for publishers and university presses by offering its <strong>Freemium economic model</strong> to libraries. This model was presented by Louis Houle (Director Collections, McGill University library, Canada) and Romain Féret, in charge of open access, University of Lille library, France). They emphasized on the upcoming challenges for OpenEdition to keep building an innovative way to develop fair gold open access solutions. Some propositions were made to tackle these challenges and to make the most of the global change towards open access.
Cyberinfrastructure is used variously to encompass a wide variety of developments, including-infr... more Cyberinfrastructure is used variously to encompass a wide variety of developments, including-infrastructure, cloud computing, cyberenvironments, grid computing, virtual research environments, e-research and e-science. Cyberinfrastructure has been used in Canada to describe the various underpinnings of data acquisitions, data storage, data management, data mining and other online manipulations of data. Another layer has been added by the need to link researchers
Interlending & Document Supply, 2000
The McGill University Library System is a network of 16 individual libraries on two campuses: the... more The McGill University Library System is a network of 16 individual libraries on two campuses: the downtown campus with 15 libraries and the Macdonald campus with one library. The Physical Sciences & Engineering (PSE) Library, located on the downtown campus at McGill, serves 12 departments from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science Departments of the Faculty of Science (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
Open Access is becoming the predominant form of getting access to peer reviewed articles. Many ne... more Open Access is becoming the predominant form of getting access to peer reviewed articles. Many new non-traditional tools (institutional repositories, social media, and peer to peer sites) are available out there to retrieve the full-text of peer reviewed articles. Since the launch of Sci-Hub (2011) and Library Genesis (LibGen), several criticisms have been raised both from the library and publishing worlds. Some court decisions have also been rendered to block the access of such platforms in different countries. What can be said in terms of content, coverage, reliability, stability and currency of both Sci-Hub and LibGen? In this era of severe budget constraints and economic recessions that libraries are facing, can we imagine of substituting some or most of our journal collection funds with the “open and free access” that Sci-Hub and LibGen is giving us? How much overlap between our collections and what is available through Sci-Hub and LibGen? This article reports on preliminary re...
Libraries are looking at new types of services to improve the dissemination of information to the... more Libraries are looking at new types of services to improve the dissemination of information to their users. One such new service, the integration of Interlibrary Loan with acquisitions and collection development, looks like a promising approach to meet the users’ information needs. The requests that meet selection criteria are not sent through the regular ILL borrowing channels but are instead turned into rush acquisitions. A special fund was set aside to purchase books requested by users (students, faculty and staff) through ILL processes. The ILL Librarian does both the selection of the ILL requests and the ordering of the books. The books are ordered through WEB sources (such as Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, etc.) and purchased with a credit card. Books are received in ILL and rush processed prior to user delivery. This service has been in place for more than two years now. Results on the turnaround time, the circulation of books, the average cost per title and the effectiveness o...
Since its debut I November 2004, librarians have raised several criticisms at Google Scholar (GS)... more Since its debut I November 2004, librarians have raised several criticisms at Google Scholar (GS) such as its inconsistency of coverage and its currency and scope of coverage. It may have been true in the early years of Google Scholar but is this still through twelve years after? Is this sufficient to ignore it totally either in our information literacy programs or evaluate its value against the values of subscription-based abstracts and indexes? In this era of severe budget constraints that libraries are facing, can we imagine of substituting most or all of our subject databases with the free access of Google Scholar for discoverability? How much overlap between our databases and Google Scholar? How reliable is Google Scholar? How stable is its content over time? Open Access is getting to be the predominant form of getting access to peer reviewed articles. Many new non-traditional tools (institutional repositories, social media and peer to peer sites) are available out there to ret...
La situation difficile que vivent les bibliotheques academiques jumelee au cout eleve des periodi... more La situation difficile que vivent les bibliotheques academiques jumelee au cout eleve des periodiques scientifiques ont oblige l'Universite McGill a recourir a de nouvelles avenues a la dissemination de l'information. Depuis novembre 1996, la bibliotheque des Sciences physiques et Genie (PSE) de l'Universite McGill a introduit un nouveau Service de Fourniture de Documents Electroniques Sans Mediation et Subventionnee (FODESAMS) : le service Source de l'ICIST/FODESAMS. Il s'agit d'un guichet unique ou les usagers (professeurs, chercheurs et diplomes) peuvent chercher dans la base de donnees de tables des matieres Source de l'ICIST (Institut canadien de l'information scientifique et technique) accessible par Internet, commander leurs articles et les recevoir directement a leur poste de travail par l'entremise de l'ICIST sans jamais devoir chercher dans le catalogue de McGill. Un mecanisme de blocage des commandes est mis en place de telle sorte ...
Collection Management, 2016
Journal of Applied Phycology, 1991
The growth kinetics and nitrogen (N)-nutrition of the marine pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricorn... more The growth kinetics and nitrogen (N)-nutrition of the marine pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin were determined in continuous dialysis culture at different cell densities. Inflow nutrient medium was supplied as natural unenriched estuarine seawater to a dialysis culture system with a high ratio of membrane surface area/culture volume (Am/Vc). Under the experimental conditions, the supply of inorganic macronutrients (NO + NO4 and PO4 3) by diffusion (Nd) was markedly greater than that provided by the dilution (FfCN) of the culture (Nd > FfCN), thereby establishing an inverse relationship between the cell density and the dilution rate (D). This continuous dialysis system allows for the maintenance of prolonged growth (> two weeks) at various cell densities (1.4 to 27.2 x 109 cells 1-' ) within a range of dilution rates between 0.30 to 1.08 d-. In high cell density cultures, where the extracellular medium was characterized as nutrient deficient, a lower growth rate (e) was exhibited than in cultures with lower cell densities. The growth rate (e) remained equivalent to the dilution rate (D) throughout the culture cycle, indicating that equilibrated growth was achieved. High cell density cultures yielded higher productivity (P), relative to that of cultures grown at lower cell densities, in terms of cell-N and -C produced per unit time. However, cell quotas of both N and C declined with increasing cell concentrations. Denser cultures were characterized by an enhanced N-conversion efficiency (YN) and a higher cellular N/C atomic ratio. The nutritional response of this diatom in dense cultures reveals an efficient use of N-nutrients, presumably as a result of cellular nutrient adaptation to oligotrophic conditions.
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000
This is the opposite of our own experiences. As parents of extremely premature infants, we were g... more This is the opposite of our own experiences. As parents of extremely premature infants, we were given little information about probable outcomes and few, if any, choices about the treatment. Instead of being encouraged to limit care, many of us were threatened and ...
Cyberinfrastructure is used variously to encompass a wide variety of developments, including-infr... more Cyberinfrastructure is used variously to encompass a wide variety of developments, including-infrastructure, cloud computing, cyberenvironments, grid computing, virtual research environments, e-research and e-science. Cyberinfrastructure has been used in Canada to describe the various underpinnings of data acquisitions, data storage, data management, data mining and other online manipulations of data. Another layer has been added by the need to link researchers
Since its debut I November 2004, librarians have raised several criticisms at Google Scholar (GS)... more Since its debut I November 2004, librarians have raised several criticisms at Google Scholar (GS) such as its inconsistency of coverage and its currency and scope of coverage. It may have been true in the early years of Google Scholar but is this still through twelve years after? Is this sufficient to ignore it totally either in our information literacy programs or evaluate its value against the values of subscription-based abstracts and indexes? In this era of severe budget constraints that libraries are facing, can we imagine of substituting most or all of our subject databases with the free access of Google Scholar for discoverability? How much overlap between our databases and Google Scholar? How reliable is Google Scholar? How stable is its content over time? Open Access is getting to be the predominant form of getting access to peer reviewed articles. Many new non-traditional tools (institutional repositories, social media and peer to peer sites) are available out there to retrieve the full-text of peer reviewed articles. What can be said in terms of content and reliability of both Sci-Hub and LibGen? This article reports on preliminary results of a one year study of Google Scholar where 2,750 random samples (peer review journal articles) coming from fifty-five different databases covering all disciplines (Arts & Humanities, Law, Music, Social Sciences and STM) are tested against GS. The samples have been searched against Google Scholar at four different intervals during the year. The same samples have been searched against both Sci-Hub and LibGen in order to see how much full-text content is available under these platforms. Different data such as publication year, publishers, language of articles and OA are being looked at to see if content is affected by either or all of these parameters. To verify the currency of information in Google Scholar, Sci-Hub and LibGen, research articles from both Nature and Science (from current issues, Nature Advance Online Publication and First Release from Science) were searched on a daily basis. Results are showing that most of the peer review articles are available in Google Scholar, Sci-Hub and LibGen.
Documentation et bibliothèques, 2002
À l’ère d’Internet, le gouvernement québécois revoit la façon d’offrir ses services aux citoyens,... more À l’ère d’Internet, le gouvernement québécois revoit la façon d’offrir ses services aux citoyens, en misant sur les nouvelles technologies de l’information. Avec « l’évolution » numérique, la bibliothéconomie prend un virage majeur afin de s’adapter à cette nouvelle réalité numérique. Cet article présente l’évolution du Service de l’information documentaire (SID) du ministère des Relations avec les citoyens et de l’Immigration qui est devenu un centre de services où s’ajoutent le partage et le transfert des connaissances dans la foulée de la loi 82 sur la modernisation de l’État et du renouvellement de la fonction publique.
OpenEdition has developed platforms to publish, disseminate and highlight open access scientific ... more OpenEdition has developed platforms to publish, disseminate and highlight open access scientific content in humanities and social sciences. OpenEdition intends to find a balance between disseminating journals and books in open access while generating income for publishers and university presses by offering its <strong>Freemium economic model</strong> to libraries. This model was presented by Louis Houle (Director Collections, McGill University library, Canada) and Romain Féret, in charge of open access, University of Lille library, France). They emphasized on the upcoming challenges for OpenEdition to keep building an innovative way to develop fair gold open access solutions. Some propositions were made to tackle these challenges and to make the most of the global change towards open access.
Cyberinfrastructure is used variously to encompass a wide variety of developments, including-infr... more Cyberinfrastructure is used variously to encompass a wide variety of developments, including-infrastructure, cloud computing, cyberenvironments, grid computing, virtual research environments, e-research and e-science. Cyberinfrastructure has been used in Canada to describe the various underpinnings of data acquisitions, data storage, data management, data mining and other online manipulations of data. Another layer has been added by the need to link researchers
Interlending & Document Supply, 2000
The McGill University Library System is a network of 16 individual libraries on two campuses: the... more The McGill University Library System is a network of 16 individual libraries on two campuses: the downtown campus with 15 libraries and the Macdonald campus with one library. The Physical Sciences & Engineering (PSE) Library, located on the downtown campus at McGill, serves 12 departments from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science Departments of the Faculty of Science (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
Open Access is becoming the predominant form of getting access to peer reviewed articles. Many ne... more Open Access is becoming the predominant form of getting access to peer reviewed articles. Many new non-traditional tools (institutional repositories, social media, and peer to peer sites) are available out there to retrieve the full-text of peer reviewed articles. Since the launch of Sci-Hub (2011) and Library Genesis (LibGen), several criticisms have been raised both from the library and publishing worlds. Some court decisions have also been rendered to block the access of such platforms in different countries. What can be said in terms of content, coverage, reliability, stability and currency of both Sci-Hub and LibGen? In this era of severe budget constraints and economic recessions that libraries are facing, can we imagine of substituting some or most of our journal collection funds with the “open and free access” that Sci-Hub and LibGen is giving us? How much overlap between our collections and what is available through Sci-Hub and LibGen? This article reports on preliminary re...
Libraries are looking at new types of services to improve the dissemination of information to the... more Libraries are looking at new types of services to improve the dissemination of information to their users. One such new service, the integration of Interlibrary Loan with acquisitions and collection development, looks like a promising approach to meet the users’ information needs. The requests that meet selection criteria are not sent through the regular ILL borrowing channels but are instead turned into rush acquisitions. A special fund was set aside to purchase books requested by users (students, faculty and staff) through ILL processes. The ILL Librarian does both the selection of the ILL requests and the ordering of the books. The books are ordered through WEB sources (such as Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, etc.) and purchased with a credit card. Books are received in ILL and rush processed prior to user delivery. This service has been in place for more than two years now. Results on the turnaround time, the circulation of books, the average cost per title and the effectiveness o...
Since its debut I November 2004, librarians have raised several criticisms at Google Scholar (GS)... more Since its debut I November 2004, librarians have raised several criticisms at Google Scholar (GS) such as its inconsistency of coverage and its currency and scope of coverage. It may have been true in the early years of Google Scholar but is this still through twelve years after? Is this sufficient to ignore it totally either in our information literacy programs or evaluate its value against the values of subscription-based abstracts and indexes? In this era of severe budget constraints that libraries are facing, can we imagine of substituting most or all of our subject databases with the free access of Google Scholar for discoverability? How much overlap between our databases and Google Scholar? How reliable is Google Scholar? How stable is its content over time? Open Access is getting to be the predominant form of getting access to peer reviewed articles. Many new non-traditional tools (institutional repositories, social media and peer to peer sites) are available out there to ret...
La situation difficile que vivent les bibliotheques academiques jumelee au cout eleve des periodi... more La situation difficile que vivent les bibliotheques academiques jumelee au cout eleve des periodiques scientifiques ont oblige l'Universite McGill a recourir a de nouvelles avenues a la dissemination de l'information. Depuis novembre 1996, la bibliotheque des Sciences physiques et Genie (PSE) de l'Universite McGill a introduit un nouveau Service de Fourniture de Documents Electroniques Sans Mediation et Subventionnee (FODESAMS) : le service Source de l'ICIST/FODESAMS. Il s'agit d'un guichet unique ou les usagers (professeurs, chercheurs et diplomes) peuvent chercher dans la base de donnees de tables des matieres Source de l'ICIST (Institut canadien de l'information scientifique et technique) accessible par Internet, commander leurs articles et les recevoir directement a leur poste de travail par l'entremise de l'ICIST sans jamais devoir chercher dans le catalogue de McGill. Un mecanisme de blocage des commandes est mis en place de telle sorte ...
Collection Management, 2016
Journal of Applied Phycology, 1991
The growth kinetics and nitrogen (N)-nutrition of the marine pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricorn... more The growth kinetics and nitrogen (N)-nutrition of the marine pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin were determined in continuous dialysis culture at different cell densities. Inflow nutrient medium was supplied as natural unenriched estuarine seawater to a dialysis culture system with a high ratio of membrane surface area/culture volume (Am/Vc). Under the experimental conditions, the supply of inorganic macronutrients (NO + NO4 and PO4 3) by diffusion (Nd) was markedly greater than that provided by the dilution (FfCN) of the culture (Nd > FfCN), thereby establishing an inverse relationship between the cell density and the dilution rate (D). This continuous dialysis system allows for the maintenance of prolonged growth (> two weeks) at various cell densities (1.4 to 27.2 x 109 cells 1-' ) within a range of dilution rates between 0.30 to 1.08 d-. In high cell density cultures, where the extracellular medium was characterized as nutrient deficient, a lower growth rate (e) was exhibited than in cultures with lower cell densities. The growth rate (e) remained equivalent to the dilution rate (D) throughout the culture cycle, indicating that equilibrated growth was achieved. High cell density cultures yielded higher productivity (P), relative to that of cultures grown at lower cell densities, in terms of cell-N and -C produced per unit time. However, cell quotas of both N and C declined with increasing cell concentrations. Denser cultures were characterized by an enhanced N-conversion efficiency (YN) and a higher cellular N/C atomic ratio. The nutritional response of this diatom in dense cultures reveals an efficient use of N-nutrients, presumably as a result of cellular nutrient adaptation to oligotrophic conditions.
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000
This is the opposite of our own experiences. As parents of extremely premature infants, we were g... more This is the opposite of our own experiences. As parents of extremely premature infants, we were given little information about probable outcomes and few, if any, choices about the treatment. Instead of being encouraged to limit care, many of us were threatened and ...
Cyberinfrastructure is used variously to encompass a wide variety of developments, including-infr... more Cyberinfrastructure is used variously to encompass a wide variety of developments, including-infrastructure, cloud computing, cyberenvironments, grid computing, virtual research environments, e-research and e-science. Cyberinfrastructure has been used in Canada to describe the various underpinnings of data acquisitions, data storage, data management, data mining and other online manipulations of data. Another layer has been added by the need to link researchers