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UK: National Archives Releases Public Application Programming (API) Interface For 11m Records
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Journal Articles, News
|From Computer Weekly The National Archives [UK] has made details of 11m records available through an application interface it published today as part of an ongoing programme to get more official records online. The API allows anyone to search for and retrieve the metadata that describes records in the archive in XML format. The data […]
Direct to Complete Table of Contents Direct to Articles 1. Ladders, samurai, and blue collars: Personal branding in Web 2.0 by Robert W. Gehl Abstract Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze, Eva Illouz, and Mark Andrejevic, this paper critiques the personal branding literature, particularly as it applies to Web 2.0 social media. I first […]
Economics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views)
Academic Libraries, Journal Articles, Resources, School Libraries
|Economics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views) (PDF) We sent a survey to economics professors through out the United States, and 299 returned a completed survey. The survey asked about favorites in the following areas: economic thinkers who wrote prior to the twentieth century of the twentieth century, […]
Recently Updated: Business, Management & the Economy in East Asia: A Guide to Selected Information Sources
Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Resources
|From the Business Reference Services at the Library of Congress: This guide provides a brief overview and information on selected books, periodicals, and electronic resources on business, management, economic trends in East Asia. The guide includes English language material that looks at larger macroeconomic policies and trends, as well as those microeconomic issues that involve […]
Preprint: "A Study of Faculty Data Curation Behaviors and Attitudes at a Teaching-Centered University"
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Resources
|Title: “A Study of Faculty Data Curation Behaviors and Attitudes at a Teaching-Centered University” Source: C&RL (College and Research Libraries) Authors: Jeanine Marie Scaramozzino, Marisa L. Ramirez, and Karen J. McGaughey Affiliation (All Authors): Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA Accepted for Publication: August 2011 Anticipated Publication Date: May […]
The Digital Revolution and Higher Education By Kim Parker, Amanda Lenhart, Kathleen Moore Report Also Available in PDF (29 Pages) Below is a summary of key findings: The Value of Online Learning. The public and college presidents differ over the educational value of online courses. Only 29% of the public says online courses offer an […]
New White Paper from ProQuest: Scholarly Publishing: “Extending the Reach and Impact of Graduate Works”
Academic Libraries, Journal Articles, Open Access, Publishing
|The focus is on dissertations. “Extending the Reach and Impact of Graduate Works” (PDF) by Austin McLean, Director of Scholarly Publishing at ProQuest Included in the 16 page white paper is a discussion about alternative sources for dissertations, digital repositories, and open access on pages 11-15.
Title: “Internet of Things: Services and Applications Categorization” Authors: Matthew Gigli, Simon Koo Source: Advances in Internet of Things, Vol.1 No.2, July 2011 (OA Journal) From the Abstract: In this paper we attempt to categorize the services provided by the Internet of Things (IoT) in order to help application developers build upon a base service. […]
From The Daily Athenaeum (WVU): The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the West Virginia University Libraries with a $266,000 grant to help digitize West Virginia newspapers written between 1836 and 1922. “This grant both continues and rewards the leading role that the WVU Libraries have historically played in preserving West Virginia newspapers of […]
Content Disputes in Wikipedia Reflect Geopolitical Instability Indicators that rank countries according socioeconomic measurements are important tools for regional development and political reform. Those currently in widespread use are sometimes criticized for a lack of reproducibility or the inability to compare values over time, necessitating simple, fast and systematic measures. Here, we applied the ‘guilt […]