Posts Tagged ‘Research’
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 avenues of exploration into ways to address issues like combating disease, enhancing food production, monitoring the environment for toxins and much more. Forbes brought this news to us in their article, “IBM,…
Read MoreNew 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 and dean of libraries at University of Illinois at Chicago. This news came to us from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in their release, “ARL Board of Directors 2016–2017 Elected by…
Read MoreNew 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 offering an extensive amount of full text that brings a global perspective to research in each discipline. Knowledge Speak brought this news to us in their article, “EBSCO Information Services releases Ultimate…
Read MoreThe 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 kids are generally out of school. To end summer we have Labor Day. It’s the last weekend for a quick vacation. The pools tend to close the day after and kids…
Read MoreGrey 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 correct style format of the professor’s choosing, but there was always that shadow of a doubt whether the words I wrote were in fact my words, or if I had read…
Read MoreNew 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 interesting information came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Can You Coko? An Interview with Kristen Ratan of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation.” The Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF), also known as Coko,…
Read MoreMonographs 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 information came to us from Against the Grain in their article, “Reading and Writing Monographs: the Dual Role of Researchers and the Demand for Dual Formats.” The long-form scholarly monograph is…
Read MoreDealing 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 software, configurations or authorization to access. A similar version of libraries – called pirate or shadow libraries – have been created. All around the world these libraries are filled with banned…
Read MoreThe Interoperability Imperative
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering an educational opportunity in the form of a webinar addressing “Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles.” In a landscape inundated with data-driven research output, institutional repositories and content provider partnerships are beginning to take more of a hold than ever in the scholarly research community. This NFAIS…
Read MoreFocusing on the Infrastructure
The EC-funded project THOR – Technical and Human infrastructure for Open Research – has been working towards a cultural change for quite some time. The 30-month project started in June 2015 and is building capacity by providing training materials and organizing workshops on implementing and using persistent identifiers (PIDs) such as ORCID iDs and DOIs. This…
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