Cite feature in Google Scholar

Scholar now offers the ability to format the articles in APA, MLA or Chicago style in one click.
To copy a formatted citation, click on the “Cite” link below a search result ( or click on More as the screenshot below illustrates) and select from the available citation styles

For more styles don't forget that you can export the scholar article references to a citation management software.

Steps to export to Refworks

Steps to export to EndNote

Need help? Contact your librarian

2012 Nobel Prize in Economics

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

has been awarded jointly to

Alvin E. Roth & Lloyd S. Shapley 

"for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design"

Alvin E. Alvin E. Roth Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA, USA.  From nobelprize.org

Lloyd S. Shapley University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA - From nobelprize.org

 

American Publishers and Google reach an agreement

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers' in-copyright books and journals digitized by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years of litigation.

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Data visualization - awards posted!

The site Information is Beautiful has released its award winners for 2012:
View the list and runners up here

Predicting 2012 Nobel Laureates

From the press release:

Annually, Thomson Reuters citation analysts mine proprietary data from the company’s research platform, Web of Knowledge™, to identify the most influential researchers in the categories of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, and economics. Based on a thorough review of citations to their research, the company names these high-impact researchers as Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates and predicts them to be Nobel Prize winners, either this year or in the future.

Click on the door to view the next laureates predictions.

Methodology

Nobel Prize website.  

Google starts Course Builder an open source project

From the post: The Course Builder open source project is an experimental early step for us in the world of online education.

Data visualization

Information is Beautiful has released its visualization award list.
Here is a sample, view the full list

SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN WORLD CITIES

Google Scholar adds 'Updates'

Google Scholar has implemented a feature that will automatically bring to your attention articles relevant to your research.
Read the official announcement and the feedback from a satisfied researcher.
You do need to have a Google Scholar profile.

UVA, Rice, Duke and many more join Coursera: free online course platform

From Coursera's blog, 12 universities join the initial schools (Stanford, Princeton University and the universities of Pennsylvania and Michigan) to offer free online courses.


Coursera is a MOOC a Massive Open Online Course platform created by Stanford professors in late 2011.

You’ll be able to choose from more than 100 courses, from Professor Dan Ariely’s course on irrational behavior, to learning how to program in Scala (taught from the creator of Scala, Professor Martin Odersky from EPFL), to the legendary UVA course “How Things Work” with Professor Louis Bloomfield.

16 institutions have partnered with Coursera:

California Institute of Technology
Duke University
École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Georgia Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Princeton University
Rice University
Stanford University
University of California, San Francisco
University of Edinburgh
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Toronto
University of Virginia
University of Washington

Researchers of Tomorrow

Researchers of Tomorrow is the UK’s largest study to date on the research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students (born between 1982 and 1994). JISC and the British Library jointly commissioned the three year study in 2009, which involved 17,000 doctoral students from 70 universities at various stages in the project.