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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.
Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms? Can a conference be held without a program? Can Twitter replace a scholarly society?They picked the best submissions (over 300 received in one week) and posted the volume online. Click here for more about the methodology. This initiative comes from the University of Michigan Digital Culture project.
We’re witnessing the bibliographical equivalent of the rapture. If anything we may be lowballing the weirdness of it all.
'Tablet technology is beginning to transform case studies from straightforward narratives into complex and changeable plots—a metamorphosis nearly a century in the making.'This BusinessWeek article describes how some B-schools are using digital tablet platforms (iPads, Kindles) to deliver course materials and case studies in particular.
We use a statistical model based on author names, bibliographic data, and article content to group articles likely written by the same author. You can quickly identify your articles using these groups. After you identify your articles, we collect citations to them, graph these citations over time, and compute your citation metrics.Full Google announcement - Help & FAQ page
AARON SWARTZ, 24was charged in an indictment with wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer. If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million
The 2010 Journal Citation Report from Thomson Reuters has just been released."Once digitised, these unique items will be available for full text search, download and reading through Google Books, as well as being searchable through the Library’s website and stored in perpetuity within the Library’s digital archive."[Click for full press release]
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, The Natural History of the Hippopotamusor River horse. 1775 (2), British Library Board
Analyzing large data sets—so called big data—will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus as long as the right policies and enablers are in place.
Google's chief economist Hal Varian has been reported as saying that "the sexy job of the next ten years will be statisticians" [p.103]
"The American Economic Association announced last week that it is ending "double blind" peer review, the traditional system in the social sciences in which authors of submitted articles are not known to reviewers, nor are reviewers known to authors. Political Analysis, a key journal in political science, is making a similar shift."
As reported in this RWW article: It provides an " in-depth analysis about how people are using iPads. As is usual with Nielsen reports, it also lustily lists all the design flaws that his users found - such as touchable areas that are too small, low discoverability and "swipe ambiguity."
“…are only marginally better than last year and represent the continuation of a historic low period for faculty salaries. For the second consecutive year, the overall average salary level increased at a rate less than inflation, and this is the fifth of the last seven years in which overall faculty salaries declined in purchasing power.”Top Private Universities in Faculty Salaries for Full Professors, 2010-11
University | Average Salary |
1. Harvard University | $193,800 |
2. Columbia University | $191,400 |
3. University of Chicago | $190,400 |
4. Stanford University | $188,400 |
5. Princeton University | $186,000 |
University | Average Salary |
1. New Jersey Institute of Technology | $158,700 |
2. University of California at Los Angeles | $153,700 |
3. University of California at Berkeley | $149,100 |
4. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | $146,900 |
5. University of Maryland at Baltimore | $144,800 |
The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its latest report on the "State of the Media." The study finds that, "When it came to any kind of news, 46% of people now say they get news online at least three times a week, surpassing newspapers (40%) for the first time."  |
| Source: Nielsen Media Research, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation |
Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2011 are:Time to adoption: One Year or Less
This is the question posed by two researchers in their working paper:
