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January 18, 2013

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8:11 AM | Mendeley vor Aufkauf durch Elsevier?

Techcrunch schürt Gerüchte

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4:57 AM | Library vendors, politics, Aaron Swartz, #pdftribute

On January 10, 2013 Rick Anderson published a post at The Scholarly Kitchen published on six mistakes library staff are making when dealing with our vendors. Most of them were fairly standard stuff like don’t be rude, don’t waste people’s time. That sort of thing. (Yes, sometimes I think that every time I link to…

January 16, 2013

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9:37 PM | Best Science Books 2012: The Guardian

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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8:54 PM | When journal articles are hard to find

This post is a re-worked and updated version of a post that appeared on my blog, the Undergraduate Science Librarian, in October 2011. One of the most fun sciencey things I’ve seen lately is the #overlyhonestmethods meme on twitter. This was a cathartic exercise for scientists to say out loud the things that influence how [...]

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5:14 PM | ResearchFish: CVs with alternative products

I received an email today and have been given permission to post it here to help spread the word. See below (emphasis is mine). Looks like ResearchFish is useful for funders and universities, and free for researchers to generate CVs that include alternative products. Cool! I do think the generated CV line items need some ImpactStory [...]

January 15, 2013

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5:23 PM | Best Science Books 2012: ScienceGeek / Shabbeer Hassan

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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1:36 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Schaumberg Township District Library

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 14, 2013

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1:00 PM | Reading Diary: The Best Science Writing Online 2012 edited by Jennifer Ouellette and Bora Zivkovic

The Best Science Writing Online 2012 edited by Jennifer Ouellette and Bora Zivkovic is decended from the old Open Laboratory series of anthologies which featured the fifty best science blog posts (and a poem and a cartoon) from the year in question. The series as a whole was organized by Bora Zivkovic and each year…

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12:00 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Quill & Quire, Bloomberg, Washington Post 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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10:07 AM | Nachrichtenverbreitung in sozialen Netzwerken: Studie der TU Darmstadt

Social Media, Nachrichten, Onlinezeitungen ... und das Leistungsschutzrecht

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9:29 AM | Aaron Swartz ist tot, Solidaritätsbekundungen via #pdftribute

Selbstmord des Internetfreigeists am 11. Januar 2013

January 11, 2013

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4:55 PM | Process behind a Nature Comment

Publishing a Comment in Nature involved a process unlike any I’ve experienced to date, so I figured I’d document it. I wish more people would document the story behind their papers (and #OverlyHonestMethods :) ), and also the process behind their scientific communication to help us all peek behind the curtains. Or, yknow, take down [...]

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4:34 PM | Instrument bibliographies, data citation, searching for data

My place of work builds spacecraft and instruments that fly on other folks' spacecraft. So one of the things that we need to do is to come up with a list of publications that use our data. It's the same thing with telescopes and it ends up being a lot more difficult than you might [...]

January 10, 2013

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10:26 PM | Best Science Books 2012: Mitch Joel, January Magazine, The Seattle Times 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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6:51 PM | Best Science Books 2012: The Hill Times

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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5:00 PM | First draft of just-published Value all Research Products

The copyright transfer agreement (arg) I signed for the just-published Comment in Nature included restrictions on where I may post a copy of the article: Although ownership of all Rights in the Contribution is transferred to NPG, NPG hereby grants to the Authors a licence [...] c) To post a copy of the Contribution as [...]

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4:05 PM | Just published: Value all research products

A Nature editor contacted me in November, asking if I’d like to write a Comment about the upcoming NSF policy change in Biosketch instructions. It sounded like a great chance to talk about the value of alternative research products with a wide audience, so I agreed. The comment was published yesterday and is now available [...]

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12:37 AM | Sloppy statistics – steroids for scholars?

Reading this article next to #overlyhonestmethods – well it’s not all rosy. One reason I like the hashtag is because …Continue reading »

January 08, 2013

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5:25 PM | #overlyhonestmethods

This is one of my favorite hashtags ever. I told a colleague before – there’s a great undergraduate learning experience …Continue reading »

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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 [...]

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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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