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March 23: Discussion on e-books and libraries

Join in a panel discussion on e-book benefits and features from the perspective of five e-book publishers for libraries. The conference on e-books is organized by Lyrasis, the nation’s largest regional membership organization serving libraries and information professionals (www.lyrasis.org) and will take place at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and will be available virtually. Current topics on digital books will be discussed, including best practices from libraries just being their electronic collections, to examples from universities with large e-book holdings. Digital rights management, preservation options, functionality, licenses, and marketing electronic resources will also be covered. Interaction from online participants, via microphone or typing questions, is encouraged and there will be a question and answer session at the end of the panel.

Mar 23, 2010 at 9 am EST
Register online here.

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Human Relations Journal Podcast – The context of Leadership

A podcast that Human Relations journal recently published to accompany A special issue on the Context of Leadership with special Guest Editors: Robert C. Liden, John Antonakis, and Gail T. Fairhurst is now online.

Click here to download the free podcast.

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Journal of Personnel Psychology

The first issue of Journal of Personnel Psychology is available online free of charge.

The issue covers a variety of topics such as the demand control model (Bakker et al., The Netherlands), employee identification (Edwards and Peccei, United Kingdom), effects of social desirability on hiring judgments (Christiansen and Burns, United States), autonomy and workload in relation to temporary and permanent workers’ job involvement (De Cuyper et al., Belgium and Finland), and goal adaptation (König et al., Switzerland and The Netherlands).

Contact the editor regarding submissions in all areas of personnel and organizational psychology.

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Two Journals new to SAGE – Free Access until April!

Interested in an international view? See these two journals from SAGE: The Australian Journal of Management and Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research. For more information about these and other SAGE management and organization journals please visit: http://www.sagepub.com/managementjournals or, if you are at Capella, look in the library.

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The Sergeant Major Syndrome: HRM and Career Management

The authors have made the book available online as a free download. Read a sample of what’s inside.

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“The Art of Community”: Free Online

Jono Bacon, the community manager for Ubuntu, has just released his published book: The Art of Community for FREE, under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Non-Commercial license (remixing allowed). Formats: PDF, Kindle, Nook, Twitter, Official Web site and the O'Reilly site.

Description: Online communities offer a wide range of opportunities today: whether you're supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or developing open source software. The Art of Community will help you develop the broad range of talents you need to recruit members to your community, motivate and manage them, and help them become active participants.

Mr. Bacon offers a collection of experiences and observations from his decade-long involvement in building and managing communities, including his current position as manager for Ubuntu, arguably the largest community in open source software. You'll discover how a vibrant community can provide you with a reliable support network, a valuable source of new ideas, and a powerful marketing force.

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Ethics, Accountability and Transparency for Nonprofits

The new issue of the Mission-Based Management Newsletter is now online. This month's topic is: Ethics, Accountability and Transparency for Nonprofits. Click here for management tips and resources.

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New Journal: Applied Research in Workplace E-learning

The inaugural issue of Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning has now been published. The inaugural issue, the theme of which is "Current Issues and Future Directions in Workplace E-learning: Mapping the Research Landscape," contains 14 refereed articles written by authors from France, the UK, Ireland, the USA and Australia. The full text of all 14 articles is available to all those who register for a free account.

The publication frequency of Impact will increase to bi-annual in 2010, followed by quarterly in 2011 and subsequent years. Manuscript submissions are now being accepted via the online submission system for the first regular issue of the journal (Vol 2, No 1 – to be published in July 2010) – Please see the "About" section of the journal's Web site for information about the journal's focus and scope as well as detailed guidelines for authors.

The second issue of Impact in 2010 (Vol 2, No 2), which will be published in December, is intended to be a special, themed issue on the topic of e-learning evaluation and transfer. More details, including a formal Call for Papers, will be made available in early 2010. Meanwhile, expressions of interest can be sent to impactjournal@elnet.com.au.

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Digital Access for Native America

Those interested in online education and online business have an inherent interest in technology access for a broad range of diverse customers and students. Increasingly, digital communications technologies are central to educational access, health care delivery, economic development, and civic participation for citizens generally.

Access can be more challenging in rural areas where upwards of thirty percent of all Native Americans live. "The New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country: Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses" describes these issues. The full report is available online here.

It combines both a survey of Native American technology use, normed against other national surveys, and case studies of six successful projects exhibiting Digital Excellence in Native America.

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December 2009 issue of The Qualitative Report

The December 2009 issue of The Qualitative Report (Volume 14 Number 4) is viewable online here.

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