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Social media is very popular in Singapore. A high percentage of the 5 million inhabitants have Facebook accounts and use smartphones daily, particularly the younger generation in our schools and universities. Due to this huge social media following, our library at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) must have a presence there. If we want to influence our users, we need to be on the same playing field.....Read more

Share this video with your users to help them quickly learn how to use ScienceDirect. This video covers: Registering with ScienceDirect Browsing journal and book titles Finding peer-reviewed content Reviewing and refining search results, and Using the intutive online article format  ....Watch Now

I really prefer tools to be a push rather than something I have to go out and check or find, so I use Google Reader to aggregate feeds from the library world, the higher ed world, the tech world, and the disciplines I work with.Amanda IzenstarkReference and Instructional Design LibrarianUniversity of Rhode Island, USA ....Read more

It is widely recognized that simple access to digital information is not enough. Tools and strategies are needed to sift through what can be thought of as a beach full of information when you are looking for a grain of sand. One digital sieve that is gaining momentum in the library is the application. On August 12, 40 coders gathered at the National University of Singapore (NUS) to create 16 such applications for Elsevier's SciVerse platform in the first annual Singapore Code Jam (SGCodeJam24).....Read more

Like our librarian readers around the world, Library Connect has become a bit more "social" as of late. If you haven't done so yet, you can join our online community in a variety of ways and let us - and other fellow information professionals - know what successes you've had or challenges you'd like help solving in your library.....Read more

Broadening the reach of knowledge-seeking activities and tools often comes via new technologies to increase speed and access. It also comes from opening up new sources of content in terms of language and origin.....Read more

Elsevier today is synonymous with leading edge science, technology and medical publications. This quest for quality recalls the original Elzevier publishing house, which operated from 1580 to 1712. The House of Elzevier published groundbreaking work from contemporary scholars including Descartes, Huygens and Galileo.....Read more

Are you on the receiving end of queries from faculty authors on how they can reuse their published works? And would you find it handy to have a point of reference in answering these queries and guiding authors on correct usage?....Read more

In a national gathering, more than 70 librarians and National Agency for Innovation and Research (ANII) representatives met to gain new insights into Uruguay's current digital libraries landscape and its vision for the future. With the support of ANII, Elsevier hosted "Digital Libraries: Tendencies and Perspectives," a Library Connect event, in Montevideo on September 1.....Read more