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Lists and Rankings: Best-Selling Graduate Works of 2010 Published by ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Pub
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Publishing, Resources, School Libraries
From ProQuest: Best-selling graduate works are based on an analysis of sales results, search queries, and customer service inquiries of the chosen titles. Each spring the best-selling dissertations from the previous year are announced to the scholars, libraries, and researchers. This year the list has expanded to include the best selling master’s theses. ProQuest/UMI Dissertation […]
Research Article: "Integration Innovation: Launching the Library into a Course Management System"
| Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Reports, Resources
Direct to Full Text Article by: Jon Jeffryes, Kate Peterson, Stephanie H. Crowe, Elizabeth Fine, Elena Carrillo Source: Journal of Library Innovation (2.1; 2011) Courses are commonly delivered through or supported by an online course management system (CMS). Unfortunately, there is typically little integration between the CMS and online library resources, making discovery and use […]
New Research Article: "Why Not Just Google It? An Assessment of Information Literacy Skills in a Biomedical Science Curriculum"
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Open Access, Reports, Resources, School Libraries
This new open access article appears in BMC Medical Education 2011, 11:17 (25 April 2011). Co-Authors: Karl Kingsley, Gillian M Galbraith, Matthew Herring, Eva Stowers, Tanis Stewart and Karla V Kingsley From the Abstract: Background Few issues in higher education are as fundamental as the ability to search for, evaluate, and synthesize information. The need […]
OnCampus Research: "E-Books, E-Readers Begin to Catch on with College Crowd"
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Findings from the March 2011 “OnCampus Electronic Book and E-Reader Device Report” by OnCampus Research have been released. OnCampus Research is the the research division of the National Association of College Stores (NACS). 655 college students were surveyed. Highlights via a NACS News Release The March 2011 OnCampus Electronic Book and E-Reader Device Report backs […]
"With Google Settlement in Limbo, Universities Press Ahead With Research on Digitized Books"
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
From a Chronicle of Higher Ed. Report by Marc Perry: With the Google project in legal limbo, Indiana University and the University of Illinois are moving forward with plans to set up a similar research center [HathiTrust Research Center for Computational Access to Archives] built around the archive maintained by the HathiTrust Digital Library, which […]
From Harvard Magazine (May-June, 2011): The benefits of collaboration are well accepted in the scientific world, but researchers with the HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics wondered whether physical proximity affects the quality of those collaborations: Do scientists who have more “face time” with colleagues produce higher-impact results? To test the hypothesis, they examined data from […]
A very interesting that you’ll want to share your colleagues. Title: “Who Says What to Whom on Twitter” (10 Pages; PDF) Shaomei Wu Cornell University, USA Jake M. Hofman Yahoo! Research, NY, USA Winter A. Mason Yahoo! Research, NY, USA Abstract: We study several longstanding questions in media communications research, in the context of the […]
Indiana U. & U. of Illinois Launch HathiTrust Research Center for Computational Access to Archives
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Resources
From an Indiana University Announcement: A new collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Repository, will help to meet this challenge by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. The HathiTrust Research […]
From a Summary of the New Report From Nielsen (via Nielsen Wire): According to a new report from The Nielsen Company that looks at family dynamics, media and purchasing behavior trends, American households are getting smaller, growing more slowly and becoming more ethnically diverse than at any point in history. Diversity in all its dimensions […]
JISC ITT: Research Projects: "The Role of Metadata in the Discovery, Selection and Acquisition of e-Books"
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Libraries, News, Publishing, Resources
Here’s news of a research project that might me be of interest to you and/or your colleagues. One thing is for sure, both timely and interesting. From a JISC Announcement (Full-Text): The JISC, working closely with the Publishers and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) Metadata and Interoperability Group invites tenders to conduct a study to investigate the […]
