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Infographic: World’s Biggest Data Breaches
The Information is Beautiful site has released an infographic showing the World's Biggest Data Breaches (losses greater than 30,000 records) overtime, click on the bubbles to read more.
Top 10 journals by impact factor – Latest JCR is released
Thomson Reuters released its latest Journal Citation Report (2012 data)10,854 titles appear in the 2013 release of JCR. 379 journals will be posting their first Journal Impact Factor this year. 67 titles were suppressed from this year's release. (methodology...
Registry of Research Data Repositories lauched
"The goal of re3data.org is to create a global registry of research data repositories. The registry will cover research data repositories from different academic disciplines. re3data.org will present repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to...
UK Survey of Academics
In partnership with the US Ithaka Survey of Academics, JISC and Research Libraries UK, the UK Survey of Academics 2012 has recently been released.Starting point for research
9 Useful Educational Tools
Ned Potter is an Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of York and has created this great Prezi to suggest 9 educational tools to be used in research or teaching by academic (including Prezi itself).Read the full article from the LSE blog
THE Global Gender Index
Read the Times Higher Education article on THE Global Gender Index done in conjunction with Thomson Reuters.From THE article
Questionable or Predatory Open Access Journals
As of January 2017, J. Beall has shut down his blog.A few recent articles around a growing number of 'predatory' open access journals.Beall's List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals(University of Colorado Denver,...
Google updates its Transparency Report
The latest update reveals more government removal requests than ever before.From the official blog post:"...for the seventh time, we’re releasing new numbers showing requests from governments to remove content from our services. From July to December 2012,...
MIT Tech. Review lists 10 Breakthrough Technologies in 2013
MIT 10 Breakthrough Technologies in 2013"Think of the most frustrating, intractable, or simply annoying problems you can imagine. Now think about what technology is doing to fix them. That’s what we did in coming up with our annual list of 10 Breakthrough...
The National Digital Public Library is now live
Launched on April 18, 2013 the Digital Public Library of America aims to "make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge"...
Elsevier buys Mendeley
While acknowledging Elsevier's recurrent issues in Academia the Mendeley team gives the reason behind the deal.Press Release from Mendeley.Press Release from Elsevier.
Faculty Survey on Research & Teaching Practices
The Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey focused on research and teaching practices broadly, as well as the dissemination, collecting, discovery, and access, of research and teaching materials.Download PDF ReportMajor topics covered by the survey include:Research...