Cites & Insights 6:7 available

Cites & Insights 6:7, May 2006 is now available.

The 22-page issue (PDF as always, but each section is available as an HTML separate from the home page includes:

• Perspective: Books, Blogs & Style - Comments (my own and others') about the relationship of books and blogs (and "blooks"!).


• Following Up and Feedback


• Trends, Quick Takes & Good Stuff - Five trends, two quicker takes, and two article commentaries.


• Bibs & Blather - Tweaking the sections, C&I and YBP Academia, two resources you need to be aware of, and a tentative plan for the next four issues.


• Library Access to Scholarship - Almost half the issue, but it's been six months...


• Perspective: You Just Can't Comprehend - Maybe off-topic. Maybe not.

Cites & Insights 6:6 available

No rain today in Mountain View, for the first time in two or three weeks--what better reason to publish a Spring issue?

Cites & Insights 6:6, Spring 2006 is ready for downloading.

The 26-page issue (all essays except the last also available as HTML separates at the C&I home page) includes:

• Perspective: Discovering Books: The OCA/GBS Saga Continues - Keeping up to date on various projects to make millions of books more discoverable.


• The Library Stuff - One featured website and ten articles and posts worth reading.


• Trends & Quick Takes - seven items, fromclick fraud to AllLearn.


• Good Stuff Perspective: Journal of Electronic Publishing Returns! - Notes on all but one of the articles in the first new issue of JEP in 3.5 years


• Following Up and Feedback - belatedly, six pieces of feedback


• Net Media: Blogs, Google and [Prawn] - that last word's wrong, but I'd just as soon not have this blog blocked.


• My Back Pages - nine comments and curiosities, exclusive to the PDF edition.