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American Publishers and Google reach an agreement
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers' in-copyright books and journals digitized by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years of...
Data visualization – awards posted!
The site Information is Beautiful has released its award winners for 2012:View the list and runners up here
Predicting 2012 Nobel Laureates
From the press release:Annually, Thomson Reuters citation analysts mine proprietary data from the company’s research platform, Web of Knowledge™, to identify the most influential researchers in the categories of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, and...
Google starts Course Builder an open source project
From the post: The Course Builder open source project is an experimental early step for us in the world of online education.
Data visualization
Information is Beautiful has released its visualization award list.Here is a sample, view the full listSCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN WORLD CITIES
Google Scholar adds ‘Updates’
Google Scholar has implemented a feature that will automatically bring to your attention articles relevant to your research.Read the official announcement and the feedback from a satisfied researcher.You do need to have a...
Google Scholar adds ‘Updates’
Google Scholar has implemented a feature that will automatically bring to your attention articles relevant to your research.Read the official announcement and the feedback from a satisfied researcher.You do need to have a...
UVA, Rice, Duke and many more join Coursera: free online course platform
From Coursera's blog, 12 universities join the initial schools (Stanford, Princeton University and the universities of Pennsylvania and Michigan) to offer free online courses.Coursera is a MOOC a Massive Open Online Course platform created by Stanford...
UVA, Rice, Duke and many more join Coursera: free online course platform
From Coursera's blog, 12 universities join the initial schools (Stanford, Princeton University and the universities of Pennsylvania and Michigan) to offer free online courses.Coursera is a MOOC a Massive Open Online Course platform created by Stanford...
Researchers of Tomorrow
Researchers of Tomorrow is the UK’s largest study to date on the research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students (born between 1982 and 1994). JISC and the British Library jointly commissioned the three year study in 2009, which involved 17,000 doctoral students...
Top 10 journals in Management, Finance & Economics
The latest edition (2011) of the Journal Citation Reports has just been released. Academics can use this tool to rank several journals in different disciplines according to various fields such as Total Cites, Immediacy Index, Impact Factor and...
B-Schools and Social Media
Two researchers from the University of Massachussetts Center for Marketing Research have released a study on The Missing Link In Social Media Use Among Top MBA Programs:Tracking Prospects