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Google+ Project
Google's new project Google+ while still available 'on invitation only' is growing fast and is already considered for use in the classroom according to this article.It is also starting to get less enthusiastic coverageInteractive tour.
Top 10 management journals by impact factor
The 2010 Journal Citation Report from Thomson Reuters has just been released.Covers more than 9,100 journals from over 2,200 publishers in approximately 230 disciplines from 78 countries.The Sciences Edition covers over 6,500 journals; the Social Sciences Edition...
New Digital Partners: Google and the British Library
Per the agreement, 250 000 out-of-copyright titles representing 40 million pages from 1700-1870, from the French Revolution to the end of slavery will be digitized.Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, The Natural History of the Hippopotamusor River horse. 1775 (2), British...
Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity
A 2011 McKinsey report shows that: 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...
Top-Ten IT Issues in Higher Education: 2011Survey
Top-Ten IT Issues, 2011 - Educause surveyTop-Ten IT Issues, 20111. Funding IT2. Administrative/ERP/Information Systems3. Teaching and Learning with Technology4. Security5. Mobile Technologies6. ...
American Economic Association drops double-blind peer review process
"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...
Corporate Recruiters Survey 2011
The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) has released its Corporate Recruiters Survey 2011 report.Trends:School ranking comes before academic quality for MBA recruiters (see related article from CNN Money)Globally, more companies are hiring in 2011 and...
Annual Reviews white paper
A white paper from Annual Reviews publisher:"The paper draws on a survey of early-career researchers to examine their approach to academic literature, such as how and why they read it, how much time they dedicate to it, what informs their reading choices, and how they...
AAUP Faculty Salary report – 2010/2011
It’s Not Over Yet: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2010–11Per the press release, the results of the latest AAUP survey:“…are only marginally better than last year and represent the continuation of a historic low period for faculty salaries....
SciVal Strata: new tool to measure academic performance
Elsevier announces a new tool to "measure individual or team performance using customizable indicators."See this article from ReadWriteWeb: Strata Allows You to Play Fantasy Football - With Scientists
Milestone: more people get their news online than in print
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...
NYU Stern drops GMAT requirement for EMBAs
Like Chicago Booth, Kellogg, Cornell's Johnson or others, Stern now drops GMAT requirement for EMBAsFT articleArticle from J. Byrne (Poets & Quants for Executives website)