MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2021
The factsheets from the International Olympic Committee linked below were updated in the past month. IOC Members IOC Sessions Olympic Congresses Records of Medals at the Games of the Olympiad Roles and Responsibilities During the Olympic Games The Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games The Games of the Olympiad The Olympic Games of the Antiquity […]
From a Google Scholar Blog Post by Anurag Acharya: This release covers articles published in 2016–2020 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of July 2020. Scholar Metrics include journals from websites that follow our inclusion guidelines and selected conferences in Engineering & Computer Science. Publications with fewer than […]
From the Atlantic Council: The Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center today launched a state-of-the-art Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Tracker, offering an unprecedented global look at the adoption of digital currency. The original version of the tracker– launched in April 2020– has been used by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of International Settlements, and news outlets […]
Research Libraries: ARL, CARL, and Ithaka S+R Launch Joint Project to Advance the Research and Learning Mission
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News
|From a Joint Announcement (via the Association of Research Libraries): The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) launched a joint project in June 2021 to explore how libraries advance the higher education sector’s strategic priorities. This is an important time to reflect on the role of research libraries […]
From an OpenStax Blog Post: While creating our library of over 40 free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks for high school and college courses, we’ve placed both affordability and accessibility at the forefront. Although we’ve had several accessibility initiatives since publishing our first textbook in 2012, we also recognize that accessibility is an ever-changing landscape. [Clip] […]
The article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Reproducibility of COVID-19 Pre-Prints Authors Annie Collins University of Toronto Rohan Alexander University of Toronto Source via arXiv arXiv:2107.10724 Abstract To examine the reproducibility of COVID-19 research, we create a dataset of pre-prints posted to arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and SocArXiv between 28 January 2020 […]
Roundup (July 23, 2021)
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, News, Publishing, Roundup
|AIP Publishing and TIB Announce Three-Year Read & Publish Agreement ARL and Six Universities Awarded National Science Foundation Grant to Study Discipline-Specific Models and Costs for Public Access to Research Data JISC Joins SPARC Europe
A New Partnership to Help “Boost Your Skills in Working with Digital Collections”
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From JISC: Researchers often tell us that they have problems when they want to use digital methods to interrogate large archives, special collections, masses of catalogue records or aggregations of metadata. We are therefore pleased to announce a new partnership between Jisc, the Programming Historian and The National Archives (TNA) to publish a series of […]
From the Leiden Madtrics Blog: Bibliometric visualizations are often presented as powerful tools for identifying the key patterns in large bibliometric data sets. However, not everyone is convinced of their value. Some skeptics suggest that these visualizations are “just nice to look at but not useful or helpful”. Based on almost 15 years of experience […]
From The Wall Street Journal: A Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of time you linger over a piece of content. Every second you hesitate or rewatch, the app is tracking you Direct to Video