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."
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Monday, October 22, 2012
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 In 2011 Facebook was the most visited site for faculty professional purposes; by 2012 this has been replaced by LinkedIn.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
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