Elsevier: Article-Based Publishing to Increase Publication Speed

Elsevier announces 'Article-Based Publishing' service.

Final and citable articles are published without needing to wait until a journal issue is complete; speeding the publication process by an average of 7 weeks

Published faster = cited faster!                                                        

Kindle DX project

In August 2009, 7 schools started a project to experiment using the Kindle as a platform for course reading.

• June 10, 2010 article from Business week: E-Book Readers Bomb on College Campuses
• September 5, 2010 FT article: E-books fail the classroom test

Princeton final survey results. (41p. PDF)

Darden survey results:

• Would you recommend the Kindle DX to an incoming Darden MBA student? A total of 75 to 80 percent answered “no” 

• Would you recommend the Kindle DX to an incoming MBA student as a personal reading device? A total of 90 to 95 percent said “yes” 

Participating schools

Mobile Teaching - Mobile Learning

From Educause Quarterly 2010 , Number 3

• Teaching America’s First Course on Mobile Phone Learning
• Mobile Learning Environment

See also, earlier this year, Rutgers initiative Mini-MBA™: Digital Marketing certificate for Executive, provides participants with free iPad containing course material.

ORCID: Open Researcher and Contributor ID

An offshoot of Research ID, ORCID follows this lofty goal:

ORCID, Inc. aims to solve the author/contributor name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID and other current author ID schemes.

Who are these people?

Several organizations have agreed to contribute data sources and technologies to aid the initial development of the ORCID prototype, including: Researcher ID profile system from Thomson Reuters, author profiles from REPEC, Scholars Universe, Scopus, and bibliographic data from the CrossRef metadata database.

 List of participating universities, publishers, organizations.

Reference Manager Overview

Compiled by Martin Fenner, blog entry: Reference Manager Overview

Zotero Everywhere

Zotero Everywhere

Zotero Everywhere will have two main components: a standalone desktop version of Zotero with full integration into a variety of web browsers and a radically expanded application programming interface (API) to provide web and mobile access to Zotero libraries. Zotero is a production of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

2010 Rankings: Doctoral Programs in America - Home - The Chronicle of Higher Education

2010 Rankings: Doctoral Programs in America - Home - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Trial page offered by the Chronicle. For source data check the National Research Council page:

The National Research Council released the Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs on September 28, 2010. The report consists of a descriptive volume, and a comprehensive data table in Excel containing data on characteristics and ranges of rankings for over 5000 programs in 62 fields at 212 institutions.