Did you know that Credo Reference provides full text access to more than 500 general reference titles? These titles cover a wide variety of subjects including :

• Dictionaries, both single language like the Collins English Dictionary and bilingual dictionaries such as the Peter Collins Business French Dictionary;
• Art guides, such as the Bloomsbury Guide to Art;
• Biographies, like the Chambers Biographical Dictionary;
• History, such as the Encyclopaedia of World History.

This is just a small selection of what Credo Reference has to offer.

How can you access Credo Reference?  It can be found in the Consortium Luxembourg Portal under the letter ‘C’ in the “Find Database” page.  Or, simply click here.

OvidSP has released Quick Reference Cards to help you use their interface to its full potential. The cards are available in English, French and German for OvidSP’s search engine and its ‘My Projects’ area.  You can download them using the links below:

OvidSP

• Quick Reference Card
• Fiche de référence rapide
• Kurzreferenz

My Projects

• Quick Reference Card
• Fiche de référence rapide
• Kurzreferenz

This simple bookmarklet lets you remove the clutter from webpages, so you can concentrate on reading the text.

Demo video: http://vimeo.com/8798492

Link: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Note: Doesn’t work with… tada: Micorsoft Internet Explorer. Works with Firefox, Safari & Chrome.

Looking back on 2009, there was one particular note that seemed to sound repeatedly, resonating through the professional discourse at conferences and in posts throughout the blogosphere: the likelihood of disruptive change afoot in the scientific publishing industry. (…)

Read on: Michael Clarke at The Scholarly Kitchen

Although it’s just 4 montsh old, Mendeley manages already over a million research papers (in pdf format). Their goal is to support the social component of research. Check out this video from a recent presentation in Hamburg. (Make sure to skip the video to 10:00, when the Mendeley presentation starts)

It really is a great example of the disruptive and innovative power of social technology combined with open data for reshaping the pretty broken Impact factor system and, well, advancing science. Venture capital provided by founders of Skype and Last-fm.

(Also of interest is the open reference manager Zotero)

This blog will become the information and news site for Consortium Luxembourg. It is run by the national library of Luxembourg. Planned launch date is mid-april.

The content that the consortium offers is accessible here: www.portail.bnl.lu

Please note that most subscription content requires a personal password which must be obtained in person, for example at the national library of Luxembourg (Restrictions apply).

Thanks and please do check back.