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January 08, 2013

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3:53 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Planetizen

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

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1:32 PM | Around the Web: The machine apocalypse vs The New York Times on libraries

The Machine Apocalypse Is Growth Over? “The data are”: How fetishism makes us stupid Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines An innovation agenda to help people win the race against the machines Sure, Big Data Is Great. But So Is Intuition The Consequences of Machine Intelligence Will a Robot Take Your Job? Artificial…

January 07, 2013

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1:26 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Jack Uldrich/Jump the Curve: A Futurist’s Top Ten Books for 2012

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

January 06, 2013

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3:11 PM | Best Science Books 2012: The Thought Stash

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

January 05, 2013

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7:02 PM | Best Science Books 2912: The Millions, Chamber Four, The Armchair General, The Book Lady and more

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

January 04, 2013

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5:31 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Greg Laden

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

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3:47 PM | Friday Fun: A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Departmental Manager were on their way to a meeting…

Nothing like a little engineering humour to get the year off to a good start! This is one of my favourite engineer jokes, one that’s been kicking around the web for quite a while. I’m not sure the original source, but this is there I found it for today’s post. If you know the original…

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1:39 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Largehearted Boy, OUPBlog, Michael Brand and more

Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous…

January 03, 2013

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1:13 PM | A year of books: 2012

I’m including here a list of all the books I’ve read in 2012, as well as some commentary my year in reading. I always enjoy when people post these sorts of lists online and actually rather enjoy doing so myself. I’ve been doing this for a few years now: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007.…

January 02, 2013

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1:19 PM | Best Science Books 2012: The Birdbooker Report

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

January 01, 2013

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10:28 AM | What’s wrong with citation analysis?

What’s wrong with citation analysis? Other than your papers not being cited enough, what’s wrong with measuring scientific influence based on citation count? Citation analysis-based decisions concerning grants, promotions, etc. have become popular because, among other things, they’re considered “unbiased.” After all, such analysis gives numbers even non-professionals can understand, helping them make the best [...]

MacRoberts, M. & MacRoberts, B. (1996). Problems of citation analysis, Scientometrics, 36 (3) 435-444. DOI: 10.1007/BF02129604

MacRoberts, M. & MacRoberts, B. (2010). Problems of citation analysis: A study of uncited and seldom-cited influences, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61 (1) 1-12. DOI: 10.1002/asi.21228

Priem, J., Taraborelli, D., Groth, P. & Neylon, C. (2010). altmetrics: a manifesto, http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/, Other: Link

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December 31, 2012

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2:29 PM | A year in Open Access advocacy: 2012

While it has not generally been my practice to do year end review posts, artificially trying to tie the various and disparate strands of my blogging habits together into some sort of coherent story, I think for this year it’s worth doing. And that’s because my blogging year did seem to have a coherent theme…

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1:49 PM | Around the Web: Open Access in the Humanities & Social Sciences, Top ed-tech trends of 2012, eBooks in libraries

OA and the UK Humanities & Social Sciences: Wrong risks and missed opportunities One Size Fits All?: Social Science and Open Access Statement on position in relation to open access(Institute of Historical Research) The open access journal as a disruptive innovation Openness, value, and scholarly societies: The Modern Language Association model Public Library of Humanities:…

December 30, 2012

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1:56 PM | Best Science Books 2012: The Natural Capital

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

December 29, 2012

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5:53 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Heather Mallick, iFanboy, Joe Klein and more

Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous…

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1:14 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Brian Pickings

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

December 28, 2012

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1:04 PM | Best Science Books 2012: San Francisco Chronicle

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

December 27, 2012

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1:40 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Skeptically Speaking

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

December 26, 2012

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2:30 PM | TIB Open Science Lab, Artikel-Auktionen, Toll Access & Open Access Kosteneffizienz

Housekeeping 12/2012, Nachträge zum Dezember 2012

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1:18 PM | Best Science (Fiction) Books 2012: io9

(Yeah, yeah, I know. This list isn’t strictly part of my regular list of science books lists, but hey, it’s Boxing Day and we should all be a little extra self-indulgent and buy ourselves something nice. Being a fan of the full range of science fiction, fantasy and horror genres, I have been paying attention…

December 25, 2012

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3:33 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Teaching Biology

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

December 24, 2012

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3:21 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Discovery News

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

December 23, 2012

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3:14 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Cocktail Party Physics

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

December 22, 2012

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3:04 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Technology and Learning / Joshua Kim

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

December 21, 2012

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5:35 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Teaching Biology

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

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1:09 PM | Best Science Books 2012: The New Scientist

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

December 20, 2012

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5:37 PM | Around the Web: Amazon Needs Some Catalogers, Is the scientific literature self-correcting? and more

Amazon Needs Some Catalogers Is the scientific literature self-correcting? Publishing: It’s a Cabal What is Open Notebook Science? Embedded Academic Librarianship: A Review of the Literature Academics and Post-Academics Need to Talk More The Simple Power of Finding Stuff Out (what should first year papers really try and do) Crowdsourcing a database of “predatory OA…

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5:24 PM | Student learning at the reference desk: bringing home notes

For as long as there have been reference desks in libraries, there has been a debate and a discussion about the nature of the reference transaction. In some cases, the reference transaction is simply a question and answer exchange. The patron asks the question, the librarian finds the answer and passes it along: Q: Who [...]

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1:00 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Kobo

Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…

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