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Citing data
A few links on citing data in research:Why cite data?Why not cite data?Out of Cite, Out of Mind: The Current State of Practice, Policy, and Technology for the Citation of DataHarvard's Guide to Citing your Data.
Can tweets really predict citations?
In contrast with the article 'Can tweets predict citations' a recent study finds very little correlation between the number of tweets received by articles in the biomedical literature and later citation counts obtained from more traditional...
Information is Beautiful – 2013 awards
The Kantar Information is Beautiful site has posted its winners for 2013
Google Scholar Library
A new initiative from Scholar:"Google Scholar library is your personal collection of articles. You can save articles right off the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar search to quickly find just the one you want "Read this page detailed...
Google Book Scanning Project is Fair!
Big success for the Google Book project and the libraries involved in this initiative. Yesterday a judge ruled that the project did not break any fair use regulations and dismissed the lawsuit.Access full text of the ruling here, thanks to Karen Coyle's blog entry.
Social Media for Teaching & Learning – Pearson report 2013
Pearson has released its 2013 Social Media in Higher Education survey [free registration required]Infographic
Open Access Week – Oct 21- 27 2013.
Open Access Week "a global event now entering its sixth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they've learned with colleagues, and to help inspire...
HBR’s fee policy questioned
Found on Flickr - CCJoshua Gans, chaired professor at the Rotman School of Management in Toronto questions whether changes to Harvard Business Review article fee policy should impact their participation to the FT's business school rankings.While...
Open Access and Peer Review issues
John Bohannon, journalist at Science, sent a fake research paper under a fake name to several open access peer review journals. He reports on the experiment in Science: Who's Afraid of Peer Review (INSEAD community only)CREDIT: C. SMITH/SCIENCEUnfortunately...
edX+Google = mooc.org
A new alliance in the ever growing field of MOOCs was announced on the Google Research blog:The platform mooc.org is set to go live in the first half of 2014. Today, Google will begin working with edX as a contributor to the open source platform, Open edX. We are...
Google Scholar Metrics
The 2013 version of Scholar Metrics was released on July 24, 2013. It covers articles published between 2008 and 2012.'Scholar Metrics currently cover articles published between 2008 and 2012, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that...
Altmetrics – an overview
Richard Cave, Director of IT and Computer Operations, Public Library of Science has released a paper titled: Overview of the Altmetrics Landscape.Definition from the Altmetrics website"Altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for...