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Using Digital Technology for Efficiency

By |November 21st, 2016|News, reference, Technology|Comments Off on Using Digital Technology for Efficiency

Digital Science recently invested in a robotic cloud laboratory for life sciences. They brought this to our attention in their article, “Digital Science Invests in Transcriptic, […]

Who Wrote It?

By |October 31st, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on Who Wrote It?

In a surprising turn of events, Oxford University Press announced that its new edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare will credit Christopher Marlowe […]

Power Project Using Cellular Engineering

By |October 12th, 2016|News, Technology|Comments Off on Power Project Using Cellular Engineering

In the world of semantic technology and artificial intelligence, it may seem surprising that cellular engineering is poised to open up new and exciting […]

New President for Association of Research Libraries

By |October 4th, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on New President for Association of Research Libraries

Mary M. Case recently began a one-year term as president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Prior to her election, Case served as the university librarian […]

New Resources for Scholars

By |September 13th, 2016|indexing, News, reference|Comments Off on New Resources for Scholars

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has introduced a new product to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research. The collection includes five multidiscipline databases, each […]

The Origins of Labor Day

By |September 5th, 2016|Featured, reference|Comments Off on The Origins of Labor Day

Every year in the United States, summer is unofficially kicked off with Memorial Day. The pools open, the BBQ grills are fired up and […]

Grey Areas in Plagiarism

By |August 8th, 2016|Access Insights, Featured, reference|Comments Off on Grey Areas in Plagiarism

Throughout college, I would get anxious when I submitted papers to a professor who used plagiarism software. I always cited my sources, following the […]

New Ways to Collaborate

By |August 2nd, 2016|Business Intelligence, News|Comments Off on New Ways to Collaborate

Kristen Ratan and Adam Hyde have launched the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to evolve how scholarship is created, produced and reported. This […]

Monographs in the Digital World

By |July 25th, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on Monographs in the Digital World

A daughter’s interest in monographs spurred her mother to learn more than she ever thought she needed to about this declining literary form. This interesting […]

Dealing in the Dark

By |July 21st, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on Dealing in the Dark

We have all heard about the darknet, the Web content that exists on overlay networks which use the public Internet but which require specific […]