Would you like to remove your personal phone number from Google results? Or, limit who can view your Blogger postings, Google Documents or Picasa photos?
If so, then Google’s series of Privacy Tips may supply some of that assistance you desire. Each tip is demonstrated by a You Tube video.
With thanks to librarian, Barbara L for this blog post.
Each year Google’s Zeitgeist site pulls together the annual trends in Google searching, as drawn from use in the United States and internationally. Check out the 2007 trends. From the sidebar, you can browse top ten searches in such amusing categories as “Newsmakers,” “Showbiz,” “All the Rage,” and “Top of Mind.”
Each page of the 2007 site also supplies a Google tip that changes frequently. One favorite is to type weather madison wi for a quick four day forecast with links to additional weather forecasts (particularly handy if you will be traveling soon). Or, you can type weather and add your zipcode (e.g. weather 53706).
With thanks to librarian, Barbara L, for this blog post.
If you have just completed your university studies—we congratulate you on that achievement. And, did you know that there are library resources you can continue to access once you have left our institution?
Visit the Wisconsin Alumni Association Library Access page for information about publicly-available online collections and association membership benefits that also include online access to two sizeable, article databases.
Information is also available from our libraries’ Website about borrowing privileges for residents (Wisconsin) and non-residents and fee-based document delivery services.
The Wisconsin State Office of Privacy Protection offers some terrific strategies and resources for protecting your personal information, online and off.
Handy printable brochure, “Identity Theft Consumer Tips”
Identity Theft: Protecting Your Information While Shopping
Students and ID Theft: It Happens A lot!
Two of my personal favorites:
Wisconsin’s No-Call List
Stop the insanity and the disruption! Register your phone number with the Wisconsin No Call Program to limit the number of calls you receive from telemarketers.
End the mail clutter of pre-approved credit card offers with the OptOut service. *
*Of similar interest, you can opt-out from all the unsolicited catalogs that fill your box by signing on to the free Catalog Choice service.
Do you have a legal right to post copies of your previously published work on your Website? Your right to do so will depend on the contract you signed with a publisher for your work. The Faculty Senate encourages academic authors to append a special Authors’ Addendum to contracts signed with publishers. Use of the addendum is intended “to ensure that academic authors retain certain intellectual property rights that facilitate archiving, instructional use, and sharing with colleagues to advance discourse and discovery.”
The addendum is available online.
But what about contracts you may have signed in the past? While the actual contract is the definitive document that determines your rights, a Website called “SHERPA/RoMEO” is an excellent source of information about the terms of different publishers’ standard contracts. You can consult it to determine the rights you (probably) have to items you previously published, or to find out more about the standard contract terms of journals where you are considering submitting your work for publication.
Additional information:
Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, UW-Madison Library System
