Library Opening Hours During Semester Break

Please be reminded that the Main Library, Medical Library, Law Library and Za`ba Memorial Library opening hours during the semester break effective from 23 November 2009 are as follows:

• Monday to Friday: 8 AM to 10.30 PM
• Saturday and Sunday: 9 AM to 4 PM
  * Za`ba Memorial Library is closed on Sunday.
• Public Holidays: CLOSED

Special libraries opening hours, see here.

Main Library and Law Library Opening Hours During Revision and Exam Weeks

Dear Library Users,

Please be informed that the opening hours of the Main Library and the Law Library during revision and examination weeks (26 October – 22 November 2009) are:

1. Monday to Friday: 8.00 AM to 12.00 AM
2. Saturday and Sunday: 9.00 AM to 4.00 PM
3. Public Holidays: Closed

Note: Users are advised to leave the library by 11.45 PM to allow library staff to make closing arrangement.

Client Services Division
UM Library

Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet

UCLA Professor of Information Studies Christine Borgman provides an overview of new developments in scholarly information infrastructure, including policy issues such as open access and intellectual property, and addresses the implications of e-science for cyberlearning.

The video of it is now online.

From the description:

Today’s research and scholarship is data- and information-intensive, distributed, interdisciplinary, and collaborative. However, the scholarly practices, products, and sources of data vary widely between disciplines. Some fields are more advantaged than others by the array of content now online and by the tools and services available to make use of that content.

Extended Opening Hours During Examination Weeks: Main Library and Law Library

Dear users,

Please be informed that the opening hours of the Main Library and Law Library during examination weeks (13th April to 8th May 2009) will be as follows:

• Monday to Friday : 8.00 am to 12.00 am
• Saturday and Sunday: 9.00 am to 4.00 pm
• Public Holidays: Closed

Users are advised to leave the Library by 11.45 pm to enable library staff to prepare for closing.

Thank you.

Client Services Division, UM Library

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Three Prize Winners Awarded in Elsevier’s Article 2.0 Contest

Elsevier, a leading global healthcare and scientific publisher, has announced the winners in the Elsevier Article 2.0 Contest, a competition challenging individuals to develop creative and useful solutions for rendering journal articles on the web.

The $4,000 first prize was awarded to Inigo Surguy whose idea demonstrated how Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0/Semantic Web approaches can be combined to add value to article content. His application enhances content navigation, facilitating commentary on specific paragraphs, and assertions about the article and its contents.

The $2,000 second prize was awarded to Jacek R. Ambroziak. His mobile application enables reading Elsevier articles on an Android Smartphone. Stuart Chalk, the $1000 third prize winner, submitted an idea operating on the premise that research articles are inherently non-linear and that researchers view articles in a random fashion, depending on their interests.

Congratulations to Surguy, Ambroziak, and Chalk.

The Future of Technology and Education

Self-archiving dermatology articles

Dellavalle, Robert and Banks, Marcus and Ellis, Jeffrey (2008) Self-archiving dermatology articles. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 59(6), 2008 – Discusses the merits of depositing medical journal articles in open repositories.

“… Because of the lack of familiarity, medicine has been slow to adopt new publishing models. However, now, like computer scientists and physicists who have been self-archiving articles for many years, all physicians, including dermatologists, should consider self-archiving their articles more routinely and promoting journals with permissive self-archiving policies …”

Complete Suspension of Access to Science Direct

Wed 17-Dec-08; Access to UM’s ScienceDirect has been resumed. Thank you for your patience whilst we were resolving this.

We regret to inform all users that access to the Science Direct database has been suspended completely by the publisher since 17 November 2008 due to non-payment of their 2008 subscription. As has been informed earlier, the subscription and renewal of all electronic journals have to adhere to the full acquisition procedures instituted by the Ministry of Finance. Different categories of subscription prices (i.e. ≥ RM20K, ≥ RM50K, ≥ RM200K, ≥ RM500K) have to conform to relative levels of the procedure and in this instance, Science Direct costs us more than RM1.5 million for a 12-month subscription. In line with the acquisition procedures, we have to go through several entities for approval and up until today, we are still awaiting approval for payment from the Ministry.

Prof Madya Dr Nor Edzan Che Nasir
Chief Librarian
E-mel: ketua_pustakawan@um.edu.my

New Modes of Scholarly Communication: Blogs, Wikis and Web 2.0 in Academia

Lambert Heller (TIB Hannover) at the Berlin 6 Open Access Conference, 11 November 2008, Düsseldorf, Germany.

The UM Memory Project

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Originally uploaded by UM Library

Sehingga kini Perpustakaan telah memperoleh sebanyak lebih 5 ribu keping foto lama berkaitan Universiti Malaya. Pengimejan foto ini sedang giat dijalankan di samping usaha memulih dan memeliharanya sebagai khazanah negara.

Walaubagaimanapun, kebanyakan foto ini tidak diketahui perinciannya. Sehubungan dengan itu, bantuan sukarela untuk memberi huraian dan perincian kepada foto lama seperti ini adalah sangat dialu-alukan dan dihargai!

Kepada yang mengetahui dan berminat membantu bolehlah menghantar email kepada umlibweb@um.edu.my.