Wired Campus: Judge Dismisses Software-Licensing Case Against George Mason U. - Chronicle.com

Wired Campus: Judge Dismisses Software-Licensing Case Against George Mason U. - Chronicle.com 

Judge Dismisses Software-Licensing Case Against George Mason U.

A Virginia Circuit Court judge dismissed a lawsuit this morning against George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media.

Thomson Reuters Inc. had sued the university in a Virginia court in September for at least $10-million in damages, claiming that Zotero, a free software tool created by the university, made improper use of the company’s EndNote citation software.

Zotero is a plug-in for the Firefox Web browser that is designed to help scholars store and organize their online research. The program, which could convert EndNote files, had been downloaded over one million times by September.

George Mason University said in November it had not renewed a site license for EndNote, and would not make any changes to its software.

A spokesman for the university confirmed the case had been dismissed but declined to comment further. Officials at Thomson Reuters were not immediately available for comment on the dismissal. — Marc Beja

Wired Campus: Judge Dismisses Software-Licensing Case Against George Mason U. - Chronicle.com

MPG/SFX: Using COinS

MPG/SFX: Using COinS 

What are COinS?

ContextObjects in Spans (COinS) is a method to embed bibliographic information about available references into the HTML code of a web page by using a "span" element. Span elements are hidden in the HTML code and therefore internet users won't notice COinS unless they have installed a modern browser software (e.g. Firefox) and a specific extension which discovers the hidden information. COinS re-use the elements defined by the OpenURL standard, e.g. the article title is marked as "rft.atitle". This is how HTML code looks like with COinS element included:

MPG/SFX: Using COinS

HOW TO: Make Firefox Your Productivity Machine

 HOW TO: Make Firefox Your Productivity Machine

Firefox extensions I’d pay for

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Last, but definitely not least, I’d like to mention a handful of plugins I use every day and would most likely pay for (attention extension developers: do not send emails asking me to pay):

- Evernote - The Firefox plug-in from Evernote allows you to highlight and clip text or entire pages to your notebooks.

- Sharaholic - If you use Delicious, StumbleUpon, Digg, and similar sites - save yourself the hassle of having plugins for each site and just use Sharaholic to spread all your link love around.

HOW TO: Make Firefox Your Productivity Machine

Vertov » Getting Started

Vertov » Getting Started 

Vertov is a free media annotating plugin for Zotero, an innovative, easy-to-use, and infinitely extendable research tool. Both are Firefox extensions. Vertov allows you to cut video and audio files into clips, annotate the clips, and integrate your annotations with other research sources and notes stored in Zotero.

Vertov » Getting Started