Bob Jensen's Links to Electronic Literature

Please send me links to good electronic literature that you think should be added to this page.

How to Find Books and Compare Prices --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#Books

BookFinder online textbook aggregator http://www.bookfinder.com
Compares prices and shipping costs of alternative sellers of hard copy textbooks.

Rare Book Room --- http://www.rarebookroom.org/
Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America --- http://www.abaa.org/books/abaa/index.html
Other Rare Book Sources --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Searchh.htm#RareBooks

Bob Jensen's links to art, entertainment, history, and museums --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History

Online Training and Education Alternatives --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/CrossBorder.htm

Bob Jensen's Search Helpers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm

The Library Thing: Catalog Your Books Online --- http://www.librarything.com/

Trade In Your Books for Other Books
BookMooch allows you to trade books on your shelf for other books --- http://bookmooch.com/

"Only minutes after creating a list of books I am willing to give away on Bookmooch, I already had enough points to request free books from others. Tomorrow, I am mailing two complete strangers some old books. And four strangers have promised to send me books I was planning to buy on Amazon. An excellent trade! Bookmooch works!"
- Solana Larsen (a BookMooch member)
See Joanne Kaufman, "Clear the Bookshelf and Fill It Up Again, All Online," The New York Times, October 15, 2007 --- Click Here

Swap Books Online
March 27, 2007 message from Tina Bungert [tina.bungert@hitflip.de]

. . . I would like to introduce you to our service and web site Hitflip that might be an interesting addition to your links for books and education. Hitflip is a community to swap used books and other original media. It is therefore an easy and cheap alternative to the existing online book stores. You can find hitflip at http://www.hitflip.de .
The just recently launched English version can be found at http://www.hitflip.co.uk

From the National Science Foundation
The Birth and Rise of the Internet --- http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/?govDel=USNSF_51

Also see Richard Jensen's (History, U of Illinois-Chicago) --- Scholars' Guide to WWW

How do scholars search for academic references?

Scholarpedia --- http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Main_Page

PLoS One --- http://www.plosone.org/home.action

Google Scholar --- http://scholar.google.com/
Not to be confused with Google Advanced Search which does not cover many scholarly articles --- http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

Microsoft's Windows "Live Search" or "Academic Search" ---
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?scope=academic&q=

Amazon's A9 --- http://a9.com/-/search/advSearch

Beginning October 23, 2003, Amazon.com offers a text search of entire contents of millions of pages of books, including new books ---
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/10197021/ref%3Dsib%5Fmerch%5Fgw/104-3984945-7813514

How It Works --- http://snurl.com/BookSearch
A significant extension of our groundbreaking Look Inside the Book feature, Search Inside the Book allows you to search millions of pages to find exactly the book you want to buy. Now instead of just displaying books whose title, author, or publisher-provided keywords that match your search terms, your search results will surface titles based on every word inside the book. Using Search Inside the Book is as simple as running an Amazon.com search.

Soon to be the largest scholarly library in the world:
Google Book Search --- http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search

Answers.com --- http://www.answers.com/

Wikipedia (heavily used by scholars in spite of authenticity risks)--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s

Other Scholarly Search Engines (CrossRef and Scirus.) --- http://privateschool.about.com/b/a/116956.htm
Also see http://www.library.uq.edu.au/internet/scholsearch.html

Scholarly search tools

CiteBase
Citebase is a trial service that allows researchers to search across free, full-text research literature ePrint archives, with results ranked according to criteria such as citation impact.

Gateway to ePrints
A listing of ePrint servers and open access repository search tools.

Google Scholar
A search tool for scholarly citations and abstracts, many of which link to full text articles, book chapters, working papers and other forms of scholarly publishing. It includes content from many open access journals and repositories.

OAIster
A search tool for cross-archive searching of more than 540 separate digital collections and archives, including arXiv, CiteBase, ANU ePrints, ePrintsUQ, and others.

Scirus
A search tool for online journals and Web sites in the sciences.

UCLA Library Scholarly Search Helpers --- http://www2.library.ucla.edu/googlescholar/searchengines.cfm

University of Kansas Scholarly Search Helpers --- http://www.lib.ku.edu/technology/searchengines/scholar.shtml

Social scientists and business scholars often use SSRN (not free) --- http://www.ssrn.com/

If you have access to a college library, most colleges generally have paid subscriptions to enormous scholarly literature databases that are not available freely online. Serious scholars obtain access to these vast literature databases.

Librarian's Index to the Internet --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#Librarian'sIndex

Searching the Deep Web --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#DeepWeb

Open Access Shared Scholarship --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

University Channel (video and audio) --- http://uc.princeton.edu/main/

Bob Jensen's links to electronic literature, including free online textbooks and other learning materials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm

Links to Bob Jensen's Workshop Documents on Education and Learning
Bob Jensen's Education and Learning Bookmarks	Bookmarks
The Shocking Future of Education	First File Second File
E-Learning and Distance Education's Top (Award-Winning) Illustrations	Detail File
Bob Jensen's Threads on Cross-Border (Transnational) Training and Education (Includes helpers for finding online training and education courses, certificate programs, and degree Programs)	Detail File
Alternatives and Tricks/Tools of the Trade (Including Edutainment and Learning Games) (Includes aids for the handicapped, disabled, and learning challenged)	First File Second File
The Dark Side of the 21st Century: Concerns About Technologies in Education	Detail File
Assessment Issues, Case Studies, and Research	Detail File
History and Future of Course Authoring Technologies	Detail File
Knowledge Portals and Vortals	Detail File
Bob Jensen's Advice to New Faculty (and Resources)	Detail File
Bob Jensen's Threads on Electronic Books	Detail File
Threads of Online Program Costs and Faculty Compensation	Detail File
Bob Jensen's Helper Videos and Tutorials	Detail File
Jensen and Sandlin Book entitled *Electronic Teaching and Learning: Trends in Adapting to Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Networks in Higher Education* (both the 1994 and 1997 Updated Versions)	Old Book
Some Earlier Papers Working Paper 265 on Metacognition Metacognitive Concerns in Designs and Evaluations of Computer Aided Education and Training: Are We Misleading Ourselves About Measures of Success? http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm Working Paper 255 on Asynchronous Learning Networks Using Asynchronous Network Courses to Bridge Gaps in the Teeth of a University Curriculum With Imported Gold: Bridgework May Be Optimally Effective Only by Incurring High Labor Expenses http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm
Additional Links and Threads	Threads

Bob Jensen's Archives of New Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookurl.htm

Bob Jensen's Tidbits Blog --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

Bob Jensen's Updates on Fraud --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm

Links to Documents on Fraud --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm

Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm

Bob Jensen's links to free electronic literature, including free online textbooks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Bob Jensen's links to free online video, music, and other audio --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm

Bob Jensen's documents on accounting theory are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory.htm

Bob Jensen's links to free course materials from major universities --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Bob Jensen's links to online education and training alternatives around the world --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm

Bob Jensen's links to electronic business, including computing and networking security, are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ecommerce.htm

Bob Jensen's links to education technology and controversies --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm

Links to Bob Jensen's Workshop Documents on Education and Learning
Bob Jensen's Education and Learning Bookmarks
Bookmarks

The Shocking Future of Education

First File

Second File

E-Learning and Distance Education's Top
(Award-Winning) Illustrations
Detail File

Bob Jensen's Threads on Cross-Border (Transnational) Training and Education
(Includes helpers for finding online training and education courses, certificate programs, and degree Programs) Detail File

Alternatives and Tricks/Tools of the Trade
(Including Edutainment and Learning Games)
(Includes aids for the handicapped, disabled, and learning challenged)
First File
Second File

The Dark Side of the 21st Century: Concerns About Technologies in Education
Detail File

Assessment Issues, Case Studies, and Research Detail File

History and Future of Course Authoring Technologies Detail File

Knowledge Portals and Vortals Detail File

Bob Jensen's Advice to New Faculty (and Resources) Detail File

Bob Jensen's Threads on Electronic Books Detail File

Threads of Online Program Costs and Faculty Compensation Detail File

Bob Jensen's Helper Videos and Tutorials Detail File

Jensen and Sandlin Book entitled Electronic Teaching and Learning: Trends in Adapting to Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Networks in Higher Education
(both the 1994 and 1997 Updated Versions) Old Book

Some Earlier Papers

Working Paper 265 on Metacognition
Metacognitive Concerns in Designs and Evaluations of Computer Aided Education and Training:
Are We Misleading Ourselves About Measures of Success?
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm

Working Paper 255 on Asynchronous Learning Networks
Using Asynchronous Network Courses to Bridge Gaps in the
Teeth of a University Curriculum With Imported Gold: Bridgework
May Be Optimally Effective Only by Incurring High Labor Expenses
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm

Additional Links and Threads Threads

Sony Reader: The New eBook Alternative
Electronic books have traditionally gone straight from the manufacturer to the remainders bin -- but the market has never gone away entirely, despite years of tepid sales and failed predictions. Now a new device from Sony is generating buzz worthy of a Stephen King novel. Some people are even wondering whether the Sony Reader might be just the ticket to kick the e-book market into high gear.
Dylan Tweney, "Screening the Latest Bestseller," Wired News, January 24, 2006 --- http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70039-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_13

Amazon Pages: Amazon's Breakthrough Technology to Help Quadriplegic's Read

"Turning Pages for Those Who Can't," by Steven Edwards, Wired News, January 24, 2006 --- http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70052-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_4

I've been watching companies' efforts to develop e-book offerings for a long time. As a quadriplegic, I can't hold a book, so reading literature on the computer seems like an obvious solution.

Alas, companies like Microsoft, Adobe and Palm have failed in their e-book endeavors. They've introduced proprietary, encrypted formats that require their respective software to be installed before reading them, in effect destroying a book's inherent characteristic: portability.

Amazon seems to be on the brink of doing e-books right, and I'm keeping my proverbial fingers crossed. By taking advantage of the web's ubiquity, Amazon can restore portability: Pay once, read anywhere.

In November, Amazon announced two new services for accessing books online. The company seems to be targeting programmers and students who would welcome freedom from toting enormous texts. But Amazon has another, perhaps unforeseen, set of customers: the disabled.

Amazon Pages will allow readers to buy online access to individual pages and chapters from books instead of the entire thing, presumably for a few cents a page. Amazon Upgrade will let readers purchase, for a similar premium, perpetual access to an online digital copy of the text.

If the services turn out to be as good as they sound, I plan on taking full advantage of them. I miss the comforting sensation of curling up with a good book at night, promising myself that I would only read one more chapter before becoming so engrossed in the story that I devour it whole and am barely aware of the fact that, as my eyelids are closing, the sun is rising on the next day.

It truly is the little things in life that make it worth living.

The joy of holding a book again won't be happening in the next year, but Amazon's proposed services, assuming they are well implemented, will reopen the boundless horizons of literature to me and other similarly disabled readers.

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, told Fox News that publishers will decide whether their books will be included in the programs, unlike Google Print, which requires publishers to opt out. Among the publishers I'm rooting for are Penguin Group and Tor. (So, give Mr. Bezos a call. Today. Please? The Shadowrun and The Wheel of Time series, among others, beckon.)

The Amazon services should allow publishers to have their content available as plain text, as do niche sites such as The National Academies Press, InformIT's Safari and Safari's predecessor site, MacMillan's Personal Bookshelf (an all-time favorite, now deceased, that allowed me to learn a lot for free).

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Bob Jensen's threads on electronic books are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ebooks.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on learning aids for the handicapped, disabled, and learning challenged persons --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped

Santa Clara University Virtual Library --- http://campustechnology.com/articles/48506 .

January 6, 2006 message from Carolyn Kotlas [kotlas@email.unc.edu]

COMPARISON OF SCHOLARLY PRINT AND E-JOURNAL EDITORS

Using examples from the library publishing field, Julie Banks and Carl Pracht examined the roles of editors of traditional print journals and newer electronic journals. The authors findings, reported in "Movers and Shakers in the Library Publishing World Highlight Their Roles: Interviews with Print and Electronic Journal Editors - A Comparison" (E-JASL, vol. 6 no. 3, Winter 2005), show that the two formats were "more similar than different from each other in terms of the editors' and editorial boards' roles, relationships, work loads, and utilization of peer review." The paper is available online at http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v06n03/banks_j01.htm .

E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship [ISSN 1704-8532] is an independent, professional, refereed electronic journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and research in the areas of academic and special librarianship. E-JASL is published by the Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP), Athabasca, Canada. For more information, contact: Paul Haschak, Executive Editor, Board President, and Founder, Linus A. Sims Memorial Library, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA USA;
email: phaschak@selu.edu ; Web: http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org /.

For another publishing viewpoint, see:

"The Shift Away From Print" By Eileen Gifford Fenton and Roger C. Schonfeld INSIDE HIGHER ED, December 8, 2005 http://insidehighered.com/views/2005/12/08/schonfeld

Scholarly search tools

"Million Books Scanned at U. of Michigan -- and Counting," Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 4, 2008 --- Click Here