Where information technology and information literacy meet. Brought to you by Doriot Library staff.
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Here’s how it works. You can quickly identify which articles are yours, by selecting one or more groups of articles that are computed statistically. Then, we collect citations to your articles, graph them over time, and compute your citation metrics - the widely used h-index; the i-10 index, which is simply the number of articles with at least ten citations; and, of course, the total number of citations to your articles. Each metric is computed over all citations and also over citations in articles published in the last five years.You will need to login with a Google account, by default your profile is private but you can decide to make it public.
On September 12, the Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Écrivaines et des Écrivains Québécois (UNEQ), and eight individual authors filed a law suit against HathiTrust, the University of Michigan, the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Cornell University for copyright infringement.
Factors influencing preference for e-textbooks: | |
Ability for instructor to annotate and share with the class: | 69% |
Sustainability (reducing paper) | 67% |
Cost | 64% |
Weight of Books | 61% |
Student Annotations | 60% |
The university requires certain students to purchase e-textbooks and negotiates unusually low prices by promising publishers large numbers of sales—now has the participation of major textbook publishers, and university officials plan to expand the effort.
