I can see it online, but when I try to download the PDF, kentstate.academia.edu first asks me to log in using Facebook, then says it wants permission to:
"Access my basic information
Includes name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone."
I don't have a work Facebook account, this is a personal one. Is academia.edu a scam site (I had assumed .edu addresses were 'safe', like '.ac.uk' ones in the UK) or is use of Facebook so widespread now people just assume grabbing your personal details is normal? And why would a university site do this?
Graham
-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Casburn
Sent: 26 May 2011 17:33
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Article recommendation: OPACs, Google, and cataloging theory
I'd like to thank everyone who pointed out that the article IS available on
the open Web, and in a perfect reproduction rather than a photocopy. That
URL:
http://kentstate.academia.edu/karlfast/Papers/346311/
Academic Search Premier does allow for a search by Accession Number, from
its Advanced Search page.
Steve
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*Steve Casburn*
ILS Coordinator
Multnomah County Library
Phone: 503.988.4549
stevencm_at_multcolib.org
www.multcolib.org <http://www.multcolib.org/>
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Steve Casburn <stevencm_at_multcolib.org>wrote:
>
> For an intelligent comparison of the effectiveness of OPACs with that of
> Google, I recommend this article (available in full text through EBSCO's
> Academic Search Premier as Accession Number 17663772):
>
> Campbell, D. Grant and Karl V. Fast. "Panizzi, Lubetzky, and Google: How
> the Modern Web Environment is Reinventing the Theory of Cataloguing." _The
> Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science_ (Sep 2004), vol. 28,
> no. 3, pgs. 25-38.
>
>
> The authors observed 16 college students search for information using both
> an OPAC and Google, and interviewed each student in depth immediately
> afterwards. Based on those observations and interviews, they posed two
> questions: "Does the OPAC do justice to cataloguing theory and practice?"
> and "Does cataloguing theory have relevance to search engine design?" Their
> answers to those questions are clearly written and thought-provoking.
>
>
> Steve
>
>
> --
> *Steve Casburn*
> ILS Coordinator
> Multnomah County Library
> Phone: 503.988.4549
> stevencm_at_multcolib.org
> www.multcolib.org <http://www.multcolib.org/>
>
>
>
Received on Fri May 27 2011 - 09:09:07 EDT