Monday, December 10, 2012
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Friday, November 9, 2012
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.
Click on the image for the full infographic.
Read the entire report.
Monday, October 22, 2012
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
Frequently Asked Questions
Friday, October 19, 2012
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 In 2011 Facebook was the most visited site for faculty professional purposes; by 2012 this has been replaced by LinkedIn.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.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
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
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.
Need help? Contact your librarian
Monday, October 15, 2012
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 |
Friday, October 5, 2012
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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Monday, October 1, 2012
Data visualization - awards posted!
The site Information is Beautiful has released its award winners for 2012:
View the list and runners up here
View the list and runners up here
Thursday, September 20, 2012
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.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Data visualization
Information is Beautiful has released its visualization award list.
Here is a sample, view the full list
Here is a sample, view the full list
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SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN WORLD CITIES |
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
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.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
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.
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
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
Monday, July 9, 2012
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.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Top 10 journals in Management, Finance & Economics
The latest edition (2011) of the Journal Citation Reports has just been released. Academics can use this tool to rank several journals in different disciplines according to various fields such as Total Cites, Immediacy Index, Impact Factor and more.
Top 10 Journals in Management by Impact Factor
For more categories and variables INSEAD users can login here.
Note: once on the platform, Business, Management, Finance, Economics and Psychology related fields are within the Social Sciences Edition -- Operations Research & Management is within the Science Edition.
Top 10 Journals in Management by Impact Factor
- Academy of management review
- Academy of Management Journal
- Academy of Management Learning & Education
- Journal of Management
- Academy of Management Annals
- MIS Quarterly
- Journal of Operation Management
- Organization Science
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Journal of Management Studies
- Review of Financial Studies
- Journal of Finance
- Journal of Financial Economics
- Journal Accounting & Economics
- Accounting Organizations and Society
- Journal of Banking and Finance
- Accounting Review
- Journal of Accounting Research
- IMF Economic Review
- Review of Accounting Studies
- Journal of Economic Literature
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Review of Financial Studies
- Journal of Finance
- Journal of Economic Perspectives
- Economic Geography
- American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics
- Journal of Financial Economics
- Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
- Journal Accounting & Economics
The Journal Impact Factor is defined as the number of citations in 2011 to items published in the previous two years, divided by the total number of items published in those same two years.
For more categories and variables INSEAD users can login here.
Note: once on the platform, Business, Management, Finance, Economics and Psychology related fields are within the Social Sciences Edition -- Operations Research & Management is within the Science Edition.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
B-Schools and Social Media
Friday, June 15, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
2012 - Top 10 issues for IT leaders in Higher Education
Top 10 IT issues 2012 - Educause survey.
- Updating IT professionals' skills and roles to accommodate emerging technologies and changing IT management and service delivery models
- Supporting the trends toward IT consumerization and bring-your-own device
- Developing an institution-wide cloud strategy
- Improving the institution's operational efficiency through information technology
- Integrating information technology into institutional decision-making
- Using analytics to support critical institutional outcomes
- Funding information technology strategically
- Transforming the institution's business with information technology
- Supporting the research mission through high-performance computing, large data, and analytics
- Establishing and implementing IT governance throughout the institution
Friday, May 25, 2012
How's your life?
Check out the newly released interactive OECD Better Life Index. You can also create your own better life index and have it compared to the average index. The index compares well-being based on 11 topics - housing, income, jobs, community, education, environment, governance, health, life satisfaction, safety and work-life balance - and integrates data on gender and inequality
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
New look for Google Scholar
Google Scholar has a new look, read all about the changes from the Google Scholar announcement.
To access the advanced search features, users must click on the arrow in the search box and can refine the search without leaving the result page.
To access the advanced search features, users must click on the arrow in the search box and can refine the search without leaving the result page.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Free online courses from Harvard and MIT
Harvard and MIT have teamed up to release edX an open source platform to deliver online courses worldwide.
The schools have committed to a combined $60 million ($30 million each) in institutional support, grants and philanthropy to launch the collaboration. Here is an excerpt of their FAQs.
Who can take edX courses? Will there be an admissions process?
EdX will be available to anyone in the world with an internet connection, and in general, there will not be an admissions process. For a modest fee, and as determined by the edX board, MIT and Harvard, credentials will be granted only to students who earn them by demonstrating mastery of the material of a subject.
Is there anything innovative about the online technology?
Yes. It will move beyond the standard model of online education that relies on watching video content and will offer an interactive experience for students. And the technology will be open source; other universities will be able to leverage the innovative technology to create their own online offerings.
edX press conference:
Video streaming by Ustream
The schools have committed to a combined $60 million ($30 million each) in institutional support, grants and philanthropy to launch the collaboration. Here is an excerpt of their FAQs.
EdX will be available to anyone in the world with an internet connection, and in general, there will not be an admissions process. For a modest fee, and as determined by the edX board, MIT and Harvard, credentials will be granted only to students who earn them by demonstrating mastery of the material of a subject.
Is there anything innovative about the online technology?
Yes. It will move beyond the standard model of online education that relies on watching video content and will offer an interactive experience for students. And the technology will be open source; other universities will be able to leverage the innovative technology to create their own online offerings.
edX press conference:
Video streaming by Ustream
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
AAUP Faculty Salary report – 2011/2012
A Very Slow Recovery: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2011–12
Adapted from this Higher Education article: Slow Recovery
The AAUP released its annual review of faculty compensation, read the April 9, 2012 press release.
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Average Salary for Full-Time Faculty, by Category, Affiliation, and Academic Rank, 2011-12 |
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Academic salaries, an international comparison
The project led by a team of researchers from Russia's Higher School of Economics and Boston College in the USA looks at salary data from 28 countries.
The research will be available in an upcoming book: Paying the Professoriate: A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts
The research will be available in an upcoming book: Paying the Professoriate: A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts
Data is available on the project website
Friday, March 16, 2012
Tablet ownership triples among college students
The Pearson Foundation recently released their second annual survey on Students and Tablets.
Key findings:
Key findings:
- Tablet ownership has more than tripled among college students since March 2011, with one-quarter of students now owning a standard tablet (25%), compared to only 7% in March 2011.
- Ownership of standard tablets among college-bound high school seniors has quadrupled from 4% in March 2011 to 17% in January 2012.
- Among college students, one-third (35%) of those who own a standard tablet also own an e-book reader or small tablet device.
- Almost one-half of current tablet owners (46%) say that they intend to purchase another tablet within the next six months.
For more information, read the Pearson Foundation Survey on Students and Tablets 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The European Business Schools Women on Board Initiative
Several european business schools (including INSEAD) have come up with a list of:
Press release
"3500 board-ready women to bring Europe into the 21st Century and support European Commission Vice President Reding’s initiative to shatter the glass ceiling for women in Europe’s publicly listed corporation’s board rooms. "Participating schools:
- Boston University Institute of Leadership Brussels
- Cambridge Judge Business School Cambridge University
- EDHEC Business School
- EFMD – European Foundation for Management Development
- Erasmus University: Rotterdam School of Management
- ESMT
- IMD BUSINESS SCHOOL
- INSEAD
- University of St. Gallen: Institute for Leadership and Human ResourceManagement – Female Board Pool
Press release
Monday, February 6, 2012
Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing
A study was released in Science magazine on February 3rd: Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing.
The authors analyzed 6672 responses from a survey sent to researchers in economics, sociology, psychology, and multiple business disciplines (marketing, management, finance, information systems, and accounting) as well as data from 832 journals in those same disciplines
The survey results are available in the supporting material along with a list of journals identified as 'coercers' by survey respondents.
- Journal of Business Research
- Journal of Retailing
- Marketing Science
- Journal of Banking and Finance
- Information and Management
- Applied Economics
- Academy of Management Journal
- Group and Organization Management
- Journal of Consumer Psychology
- Psychology and Marketing
Conclusion from the paper:
Overall, the empirical results from the author survey and the journal-based data tell a consistent story. Coercive self-citation exists and is more common in the business disciplines than in economics, sociology, and psychology
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Elsevier under fire...again -- Updated
Update February 28, 2012:
This time the action comes from University of Cambrige mathematician Tim Gowers (Fields Medal winner in 1998) Here is his entire blog post: Elsevier — my part in its downfall
Academics have protested against Elsevier's business practices for years with little effect. The main objections are these:
- In a press release, Elsevier announces that it withdraws its support for the Research Work Act (a bill that was threatening open public access of federally funded research).
- In parallel it has announced to the Mathematics research community that it would reduce the price of access to articles in its math journals to no more than $11 per article and that it would make the articles in “14 core mathematics journals” free to the public four years after they are first published
This time the action comes from University of Cambrige mathematician Tim Gowers (Fields Medal winner in 1998) Here is his entire blog post: Elsevier — my part in its downfall
I am not only going to refuse to have anything to do with Elsevier journals from now on, but I am saying so publicly.His call has been answered and a public website The Cost of Knowledge has already received over a thousand signatures from researchers all over the world.
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Apple enters the E-textbook market
While this is initially targeted to the high school market, there are obvious implications and potential for Higher Education.
NEW YORK—January 19, 2012—Apple® today announced iBooks® 2 for iPad®, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, engaging and truly interactive. iBooks textbooks offer iPad users gorgeous, fullscreen textbooks with interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos, unrivaled navigation and much more. [...]Leading education services companies including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill and Pearson will deliver educational titles on the iBookstore℠ with most priced at $14.99 or less [...].Read the full press release
from Apple site. |
For reactions to the announcement (Chronicle of Highed Ed. article.)
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Can Tweets Predict Citations?
Interesting article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research:
Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact
The author, Gunther Eysenbach , concludes:
Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact
Tweets can predict highly cited articles within the first 3 days of article publication. Social media activity either increases citations or reflects the underlying qualities of the article that also predict citations, but the true use of these metrics is to measure the distinct concept of social impact. Social impact measures based on tweets are proposed to complement traditional citation metrics. The proposed twimpact factor may be a useful and timely metric to measure uptake of research findings and to filter research findings resonating with the public in real time.'
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