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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...
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 ImpactThe author, Gunther Eysenbach , concludes: Tweets can predict...
Twitter for Academics, a ‘how to’ guide from LSE
Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters?The LSE Public Policy Group and the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog seeks to answer this question, and show academics and researchers how to get the most out of the micro-blogging site. The Guide is...
WRDS community
. WRDS is pleased to announce a new WRDS Community & WRDS Research PageWRDS Community offers the global network of WRDS users a place to share ideas, collaborate, find colleagues with similar interests, link to their publications on SSRN and discuss...
Rent an Article!
Cambridge Journals has announced an article rental offer providing "Low-cost access to peer-reviewed research papers from leading academic journals"Article Rental is open to anyone, anywhere in the world no subscription to any Cambridge title is required.After...
Steve Jobs 1955-2011
From the Apple website:Wall Street Journal tribute
E-textbooks: another project
Indiana University has released a summary of two years of research on their E-Textbook project.About 60% of the students surveyed said they preferred the e-textbook to a paper textbook, although this ranged from a high of 84% to a low of 36% depending upon the...
Hacking the Academy
Hacking the Academy, a book crowdsourced in one weekIn May 2010 the two authors Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt asked online:Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms?...
Data Storage – Infographic
Via Rackspace blog
The Case Study and the Tablet
The B-School Case Study Gets a Digital Makeover'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...
Google Scholar Citations
Google's answer to ResearcherID?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,...
Under attack: Sony, CIA….JSTOR?!
Corporations and government have recently been under intense hacker attacks and now Academia is also a target: programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz has been indicted for illegally downloading millions of articles from JSTOR via a MIT account.This statement...