170 billion tweets archived

The Library of Congress has "an archive of approximately 170 billion tweets and growing. The volume of tweets the Library receives each day has grown from 140 million beginning in February 2011 to nearly half a billion tweets each day as of October 2012."

Click to view a a white paper [PDF] that summarizes the Library’s work to date and outlines present-day progress and challenges.

Price Tag of an MBA

Article from CNN Money:

Stanford MBA price tag hits $185K: Highest in the world

Social Media Report 2012

Released by Nielsen, State of the Media: Social Media Report 2012.
Click below for the full report.

Undergrads and IT - 2012 survey

EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research has released its annual survey of undergraduates' attitude towards technology in Higher Education.

Click on the image for the full infographic.
Read the entire report.

ORCID has officially launched

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an initiative started in 2010 aimed at "providing a registry of persistent unique identifiers for researchers and scholars and automating linkages to research objects such as publications, grants, and patents."

Frequently Asked Questions

How today’s higher education faculty use social media

Pearson and the Babson Survey Research Group have released a survey on higher education faculty use social media. View the whole survey here (free registration required)

Highlights from the Executive Summary:

• Young faculty members use social media at rates much higher than the rates for older faculty,a pattern that holds true for personal use, professional use, and use in teaching. 
• Faculty match different sites to their different needs; the sites they visit most often for personal use (Facebook), professional use (LinkedIn), and for use for in teaching (Blogs and Wikis) are all different.
• The use of social media among faculty is fluid and evolving. The mix of sites being used is changing over time. In 2011 Facebook was the most visited site for faculty professional purposes; by 2012 this has been replaced by LinkedIn. 
• One area where adoption is almost universal is in the use of video for classes. Whether it is used in a class session or assigned for viewing outside of class, faculty are enthusiastic adopters of video. 

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