MORE 'PRODUCTIVITY' POSTS
From the World Economic Forum: By analyzing 8 million books and 65 million newspaper articles, researchers have created the first-ever “index of national happiness” going back to 1820. Key findings include from the index include: Money helps: Increases in national income do generate increases in national happiness but it takes a huge rise to have […]
From the Syracuse University School of Information Studies A study looking at data surrounding the impact of demographic variables such as gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic background on the outcome of scientific training between mentors and mentees is underway at the School of Information Studies given a grant the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded to Assistant […]
From Carnegie Reporter (Carnegie Corp. of New York): New broadband access and low-cost digital tools like smartphones and mobile applications hold great promise for African libraries and universities, enabling students, scholars, and researchers to take deep dives into the rich histories of their countries, to explore and enrich postcolonial identities, and to create the sort […]
Collection Development: Reference Resources Roundup #14 (A Curated Collection of Recently Published or Updated Data-Rich Reports Available on the Web)
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, PLOS, Preservation, Productivity, Reports, Roundup
|This selection of curated, full text documents and other reference material is updated daily with new entries. Please bookmark this page and visit again. All of the linked items are free to access and download. This roundup began on June 27, 2019. THIS ROUNDUP IS NO LONGER RECEIVING UPDATES THE CURRENT ROUNDUP IS AVAILABLE HERE 13 previously […]
Collection Development: Reference Resources Roundup #13 (A Curated Collection of Recently Published or Updated Data-Rich Reports Available on the Web)
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Productivity, Reports, Roundup
|This selection of curated, full text documents and other reference material is updated daily with new entries. Please bookmark this page and visit again. All of the linked items are free to access and download. This roundup began on May 29, 2019. TAKE A LOOK 12 previously released curated roundups featuring hundreds of reports, datasets, etc. can be […]
Research Article: “A Cross-Sectional Study of Predatory Publishing Emails Received by Career Development Grant Awardees”
Funding, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Productivity, Publishing
|The following article was recently published by BMJ Open. Title A Cross-Sectional Study of Predatory Publishing Emails Received by Career Development Grant Awardees Authors Tracey A Wilkinson Indiana University Christopher J Russell Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles University of Southern California William E Bennett Indiana University School of Medicine Erika R Cheng Indiana University Aaron […]
From the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) (A UN Committee): Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history — and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, warns a landmark new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity […]
The following article and dataset were published today by Scientific Data. Title A Dataset of Publication Records For Nobel Laureates Authors Jichao LiNational University of Defense Technology, Changsha, ChinaNorthwestern University Yian YinNorthwestern University Santo FortunatoIndiana University Dashun WangNorthwestern University Source Scientific DataVolume 6, Article Number: 33 (2019)DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0033-6 Abstract A central question in the science […]
The following article was recently published by PLoS One. Title Measuring Researcher Independence Using Bibliometric Data: A Proposal for a New Performance Indicator Authors Peter van den Besselaar Network Institute and Department of Organization Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ulf Sandström KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Source PLoS One PLoS ONE 14(3): e0202712 Abstract […]
OCLC’s Andrew Pace on “Linked Data in Libraries: From Disillusionment to Productivity”
Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Productivity
|From a NEXT Blog Post by Andrew Pace, Executive Director, Technical Research at OCLC: What does “productive linked data” look like? What could linked data cataloging mean for library workers and end users? Catalogers will trade re-work for pioneering new work, refocusing on materials and not on formatting strings, abandon local aggregation and cleanup of others’ data, and […]