Thursday, August 8, 2013
Monday, August 5, 2013
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Get to Know Your Personal Librarian - outside the Day Kaif
Friday, August 2, 2013
Social media’s politics of circulation have profound implications for how academic knowledge is discovered and produced.
From LSE
As social media and other new forms of media emerge as influential ways to communicate academic knowledge, David Beer argues academics may need to pay more attention to the politics of circulation that increasingly define how academic knowledge is discovered and transmitted. If we don’t understand the politics of data circulations that define contemporary media cultures then we may also find that academic practice is reshaped without sufficient reflection and reaction.
As social media and other new forms of media emerge as influential ways to communicate academic knowledge, David Beer argues academics may need to pay more attention to the politics of circulation that increasingly define how academic knowledge is discovered and transmitted. If we don’t understand the politics of data circulations that define contemporary media cultures then we may also find that academic practice is reshaped without sufficient reflection and reaction.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
The Structure of Scholarly Communications Within Academic Libraries
Definitions from Wikipedia
*Scholarly communication is the process of academics, scholars and researchers sharing and publishing their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community (such as university academics) and beyond.
*Scholarly communication is the creation, transformation, dissemination and preservation of knowledge related to teaching, research and scholarly endeavors. Among the many scholarly communications issues include author rights, the peer review process, the economics of scholarly resources, new models of publishing (including open access and institutional repositories), rights and access to federally funded research, and preservation of intellectual assets
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Interesting new feature: Elsevier and Dryad Implement Reciprocal Linking Between Datasets and Published Research Articles
"Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the Dryad Digital Repository, a leading archive for scientific and medical research data, today announced that they have implemented two-way linking between their respective content. The Dryad Digital Repository provides facilities for archiving, discovery and accessibility of data files associated with any published article in the sciences or medicine, as well as software scripts and other files important to the article. Dryad is a nonprofit organization committed to its mission of making data publicly available for research and educational reuse. All datasets stored by Dryad receive persistent, resolvable Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to allow their proper citation. ....."
10 Emerging Educational Technologies and How They Are Being Used Across the Globe
10 emerging ed technologies
Tablet Computing (12 Months or Less)
MOOCs (12 Months or Less)
Open Content (2-3 Years)
Learning Analytics (2-3 Years)
Games and Gamification (2-3 Years)
3D Printing (4-5 Years)
Virtual and Remote Laboratories (4-5 Years)
Cloud Computing (12 Months or Less)
Mobile Learning (12 Months or Less)Tablet Computing (12 Months or Less)
MOOCs (12 Months or Less)
Open Content (2-3 Years)
Learning Analytics (2-3 Years)
Games and Gamification (2-3 Years)
3D Printing (4-5 Years)
Virtual and Remote Laboratories (4-5 Years)
Wearable Technology (4-5 Years)
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Embargoes Can Only Go So Far to Help New Ph.D.'s Get Published, Experts Say
From the CHE
.......editors at two university presses backed away from offering her a book contract for a revised version of her dissertation, which is about urban public hospitals and the care of the poor in Houston in the mid-20th century, upon learning that it was posted online. Some half-dozen other editors voiced interest in her work at scholarly conferences and then said they could not publish a monograph based largely on a dissertation readily available online.
She was forced to shelve efforts to publish a revised version of her dissertation with a university press.......
.......editors at two university presses backed away from offering her a book contract for a revised version of her dissertation, which is about urban public hospitals and the care of the poor in Houston in the mid-20th century, upon learning that it was posted online. Some half-dozen other editors voiced interest in her work at scholarly conferences and then said they could not publish a monograph based largely on a dissertation readily available online.
She was forced to shelve efforts to publish a revised version of her dissertation with a university press.......
Historians Seek a Delay in Posting Dissertations
.... why would someone work years to produce a dissertation and then insist that it not be seen for as many as six more years?....university presses are known to be skeptical about agreeing to publish a
book when the Ph.D dissertation it is based on is readily available
online.......“The idea of locking up ideas for six years is not right,” said Heather
Joseph, the executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition, which favors open research. “The thing that
bothered us the most is that it was a one-dimensional response to a
multidimensional issue, and a missed opportunity.”........
Monday, July 29, 2013
Bibliometrics of individual researchers
Bibliometrics of individual researchers
....key topic at a special plenary at the 14th ISSI Conference two weeks ago in Vienna. The plenary was an initiative taken by Jochen Gläser (Technical University Berlin), Ismael Rafols (Ingenio, Spanish National Research Council / Polytechnical University Valencia), Wolfgang Glänzel (Leuven University) and myself. The plenary aimed to give a new stimulus to the debate how to apply, and how not to apply, performance indicators of individual scientists and scholars. Although not a new debate – the pioneers of bibliometrics already paid attention to this problem – it has become more urgent because of the almost insatiable demand for objective data and indicators in the management of universities and research institutes. ......Publishing Your Dissertation Online: What’s a New Ph.D. to Do?
Early this week, the American Historical Association (AHA) released a controversial statement that strongly advised graduate programs and libraries to adopt a policy allowing the embargoing of the publication of completed dissertations online for up to six years. The statement has generated much praise and much criticism. Supporters of the statement argue that it protects junior authors, given that in the current academic climate a completed, published, single-authored monograph continues to be the standard for tenure and promotion in fields like history. Opponents of the statement counter with several arguments: that making the dissertation research public, rather than keeping it embargoed for years, allows the junior scholar to gain credit for his or her work; that the revision necessary to turn a dissertation into a book makes the two significantly different scholarly works; and finally, that the AHA should actively consider rethinking the book as a gold standard for advancement.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Take advantage of Google Now on your Android tablet
If you've previously ignored Google Now, you should break down and give it a try. This powerful assistant that can help you in many ways, and it's certainly more efficient than having to do a number of things manually (traffic information, Google searches, and more). Google Now is much more than a simple Siri drop-in clone -- it's a predictive tool that works with you and offers you information that it thinks you need. Anyone on-the-go would appreciate such a tool on their smartphone. But did you know that you can get that same power on your tablet? That's right! Google Now is now available on tablets, as long as your device sports Android 4.1 or better.
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http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tablets-in-the-enterprise/take-advantage-of-google-now-on-your-android-tablet/?tag=nl.e067&s_cid=e067&ttag=e067&ftag=TRE40fd434
Ubuntu Edge: Three big takeaways on the cross-over Android device
This could be the mobile device that
finally has enough power and moxy to replace a PC, because it can act just like
one.
With the Ubuntu Edge, that’s exactly
what Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth would like you to believe. Announced on
Monday, the Ubuntu Edge is a high-powered Android smartphone that will also
dock and provide a full desktop experience using Ubuntu. It runs bleeding edge
hardware squarely aimed at enthusiasts and it has launched one of the world’s
largest crowdfunding campaigns to date in order to make it happen.
Read More ...
Google Unveils £22 Web TV Streaming Dongle
Google has introduced a new device to allow viewers to stream internet videos to their TV.
Chromecast, a two-inch dongle that looks like a thumb drive, fits into the HDMI port on an HD television.It streams content over a wi-fi network to a television, using a computer, phone or tablet as a remote control.
The company said its goal is to create a device with no setup time, no learning curve, and one that works with all platforms and devices.
http://news.sky.com/story/1120117/google-unveils-22-web-tv-streaming-dongle
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
The role of Twitter in the life cycle of a scientific publication
The role of Twitter in the life cycle of a scientific publication
Abstract:Twitter is a micro-blogging social media platform for short messages that can have a long-term impact on how scientists create and publish ideas. We investigate the usefulness of Twitter in the development and distribution of scientific knowledge. At the start of the 'life cycle' of a scientific publication, Twitter provides a large virtual department of colleagues that can help to rapidly generate, share and refine new ideas. As ideas become manuscripts, Twitter can be used as an informal arena for the pre-review of works in progress. Finally, tweeting published findings can communicate research to a broad audience of other researchers, decision makers, journalists and the general public that can amplify the scientific and social impact of publications. However, there are limitations, largely surrounding issues of intellectual property and ownership, inclusiveness and misrepresentations of science ‘sound bites’. Nevertheless, we believe Twitter is a useful social media tool that can provide a valuable contribution to scientific publishing in the 21st century.Tuesday, July 23, 2013
How Google Rediscovered the 19th Century
Interesting article in the CHE
......rediscovery of the 19th century as an open-source reading experience is accompanied by a subtle appreciation of the era’s intellectual merits. Consider the quantity of material—obscure novels, local histories, antique catalogs, minor journals, a sea of biographies, and those vast and terrifyingly erudite bibliographies that were a specialty of that age of scholarship.Work that fails to enter a canon—literary, historical, or otherwise—tends to languish on the dustier shelves of college libraries. Digitization allows a new generation of scholars to look at them with fresh regard. This represents a significant change in the way we think about scholarship. Google Books is a kind of Victorian portal that takes me into a mare magnum of out-of-print authors, many of whom helped launch disciplines. Or who wrote essays, novels, and histories that did not transcend their time. Or who anonymously produced the paperwork of emerging bureaucracies, organizations, and businesses that, because printed, has been scanned and, because scanned, is now available......
......rediscovery of the 19th century as an open-source reading experience is accompanied by a subtle appreciation of the era’s intellectual merits. Consider the quantity of material—obscure novels, local histories, antique catalogs, minor journals, a sea of biographies, and those vast and terrifyingly erudite bibliographies that were a specialty of that age of scholarship.Work that fails to enter a canon—literary, historical, or otherwise—tends to languish on the dustier shelves of college libraries. Digitization allows a new generation of scholars to look at them with fresh regard. This represents a significant change in the way we think about scholarship. Google Books is a kind of Victorian portal that takes me into a mare magnum of out-of-print authors, many of whom helped launch disciplines. Or who wrote essays, novels, and histories that did not transcend their time. Or who anonymously produced the paperwork of emerging bureaucracies, organizations, and businesses that, because printed, has been scanned and, because scanned, is now available......
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