Declining Use Among Scholarly Email Lists
The Chronicle of Higher Education posted a fascinating article on scholarly email lists this week. To some extent the argument for the need of this technology has diminished with the development of...
View ArticleTo Blog or Not to Blog
To Blog or Not to Blog (at conferences). That is the question raised by an article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education. The topic was raised by a journalist from Nature who argues that,...
View ArticleScholarly Communication in the PHD Comics
For those who are involved with the scholarly publication process, here is a comic that discusses the publication process (from the publisher’s perspective): scientists give their work to publishers...
View ArticleProblems of Ghost Writing in the Medical Industry
The New York Times had a fabulous article on ghostwriters whom influence medical literature. For those who do not know what ghostwriters are, they are essentially people who write under a made-up name...
View ArticleThere’s More Than Google
More Than Google Unshelved posted a great series of comic strips published in 2007 that are a spin off of the Macintosh and Windows advertisements. This one ends with a question from the Internet, with...
View ArticleDistribution of News by the Reader
I finished reading a fascinating article by the NY Times which discussed how readers (specifically of the NY Times) continue to distribute the contents of news articles to friends, family, and...
View ArticleGoogle Books Settlement Possibilities Chart | American Libraries Magazine
Do you enjoy watching March Madness basketball? Here is something akin to the playoff chart we’ve come to know & just for the Google Books settlement… Library Copyright Alliance Releases Diagram...
View ArticleScholarly Communications by Faculty
Ithika, an organization that promotes the use of technology in higher education, released a report recently on the scholarly communication habits of tenured faculty members. Ithika has performed this...
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