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15 More Countries At Risk Of Ebola Contamination - Oxford University

Staff Writer | RT News | September 10, 2014

The deadly Ebola virus could spread to 15 new countries, according to calculations made by Oxford University...The new study is published in the eLife journal, and examines how the disease could spread through the animal kingdom and to human beings...

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Access To Research Comes At A Price

Chris Flegg | Financial Times | October 23, 2013

In 2008, the Sainsbury Library at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, with a number of specially selected libraries, was “invited” to take part in a “pilot” to pay EBSCO, the journal aggregator, an additional amount of money for the privilege of using URLs to point to Harvard content contained in our existing subscriptions. The Sainsbury Library refused... Read More »

iPads And Other Tablets Could Replace NHS Written Patient Monitoring Charts

Antony Savvas | Computerworld UK | December 13, 2013

Handwritten medical observation charts could become a thing of the past in UK hospitals with the development of an iPad-based patient monitoring system. Read More »

Transcribing Manuscripts With Crowdsourcing

Isaac M. Alderman | Bible Junkies | October 16, 2013

Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest in the power of crowdsourcing, or getting lots of people to each do a little bit of work.  Scientists in particular have utilized this to get people to go through huge amounts of data.  This approach has also been used in the humanities, in the collection of data for local histories, for example. Read More »

What Is The Future Of The Library? Bright When Digital!

Mercedes Bunz | Hybrid Publishing Lab | August 8, 2013

To sum it up: while all those libraries define their role quite differently, one thing is certain: digital technology is getting more and more important. This is what their plans are... Read More »