The Wired Campus blog over at The Chronicle site has a posting on a plagiarism video produced by the reference librarians at Rutgers University’s Robeson Library. It’s an edutainment tutorial whose style reminds me of those Guinness ads that have been running the past couple of years.
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A reader points out in the comments section that Central Piedmont Community College Library has created a similar plagiarism tutorial.
I noticed this afternoon that Google has loaded millions of patent documents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. According to the FAQ, it covers approximately 7 million patents from 1790 up through the middle of 2006. The scanned images loaded very quickly when I tested it (see example below) and didn’t require the use of a third part TIFF viewer. A couple of months ago I was searching for patents and had to install IrfanView (a nice image utility) in order to view patent images on the United States Patent and Trademark Office site.
Read the FAQ to see content information and the advanced searching options that are supported.
