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Making your Datasets Discoverable
Making Your Datasets Discoverable, 2 Aspects to Look At. Reposted from Musings from Librarianship by Aaron Tay What does it mean for datasets to be discoverable? Which data repositories particularly institutional ones do best here and what are they are doing? How do...
The 2018 Altmetric Top 100
Yesterday, Almetric released their annual Altmetric Top 100, a list that highlights research from the past year that has garnered significant international online attention and discussion. View the 2018 Altmetric Top 100 Many of this year’s most important issues...
Information is Beautiful – 2018 Awards
The Kantar Information is Beautiful site has posted its winners for 2018 "Let's raise a glass to dataviz that pushes boundaries, illuminates truth, and celebrates beauty." Browse all shortlists, longlists and winners dating back to 2012. GOLD WINNER: Reimagine the...
New ebooks in Economics & Finance
Check Springer's Economics & Finance eBooks here! The Economics and Finance eBook collection features cutting-edge research from renowned authors and Nobel Laureates. Authors in this collection are from the world’s most renowned economic think tanks and...
Google Releases Dataset Search
Making it easier to discover datasets Dataset Search lets you find datasets wherever they’re hosted, whether it’s a publisher's site, a digital library, or an author's personal web page. There are many thousands of data repositories on the web, providing access to...
Google Scholar, Web Of Science, & Scopus: A Comparison
Despite citation counts from Google Scholar (GS), Web of Science (WoS), and Scopus being widely consulted by researchers and sometimes used in research evaluations, there is no recent or systematic evidence about the differences between them. In response, the below...
What is Data Science?
WTF is Data Science? Everyone's talking about data science. But what is it? Discover data science with this animated editorial experience, voted Site of the Day by Awwwards. Visit the Site: https://www.thinkful.com/blog/what-is-data-science/ By GLADEYE from New...
Get the Research: New Tool for Open-Access
Get the Research is a new search engine that plans to connect nonacademics with open-access research. It will connect the public with 20 million open-access scholarly articles. Expected launch: Fall 2018 Get early access Read the full article from INSIDE Higher Ed...
CiteScore – Measure journal impact
CiteScore is a current and free set of metrics that measure serial citation impact over a 3-year period from Elsevier Scopus database. Click to view and analyze the 2017 data.
AAUP Faculty Salary Survey 2017-18
The annual update to the Staff and Faculty survey from the American Association of University Professors has been released. You can search the results from 4700 colleges and universities from the Chronicle of Higher Education page, sort by types of schools. Explore,...
Rise in Co-authored Research Articles
The proportion of multi-authored papers in the social sciences has risen steadily over recent decades. But what are the reasons behind such a marked increase? Lukas Kuld and John O’Hagan consider a number of explanations. Read the full article from LSE Impact Blog....
Best Tools for Data Visualization
dataviz.tools is a pretty comprehensive & curated guide to the best tools, resources and technologies for data visualization. Browse per category, from data cleaning, storytelling to network or mapping tools: http://dataviz.tools/