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SEATTLE - The most noteworthy reference titles published in 2012 have been named to the 2013 Outstanding References Sources List, an annual handpicked list from the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of ALA.
The 2013 winners are: Biotechnology: In Context, edited by Brenda Wilmoth Lerner & K. Lee Lerner, Gale CengageDictionary of African Biography, edited by Emmanuel K Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates Jr., Oxford University PressEncyclopedia of Housing, Second Edition, edited by Andrew T. Carswell, Sage PublicationsEncyclopedia of Peace Psychology, edited by Daniel J. Christie, Wiley-BlackwellEncyclopedia of Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Guide, edited by Charles R. Figley, Sage PublicationsEnslaved Women In America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Daina Ramey Berry and Deleso A. Alford, GreenwoodJapanese Philosophy: A Source Book, edited by James W. Heisig, et al, University of Hawaii PressLiterature of War, edited by Thomas Riggs, St. James Press/Gale CengagePresidents and Black America: A Documentary History, by Stephen A. Jones and Eric Freedman, Sage/CQ PressTypography Referenced: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, History, and Practice of Typography, edited by Allan Haley et al, Rockport PublishersWomen in American Politics: History and Milestones, by Doris Weatherford, Sage/CQ Press
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A new report, Reading Habits in Different Communities was released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project today.
Direct to Summary/Full Text Report (HTML) ||| Direct to Full Text Report (PDF) What Does the Report Cover? The General Reading Habits of AmericansE-reading Device OwnershipThe State of E-Book ReadingWhere and How Readers Get Their BooksLibrary Use Across CommunitiesDifferences Between Heavy, Light, and Non-book readers Across Community Type Via Karen du Toit, NELLCO
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A new report, Reading Habits in Different Communities was released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project today.
Direct to Summary/Full Text Report (HTML) ||| Direct to Full Text Report (PDF) What Does the Report Cover? The General Reading Habits of AmericansE-reading Device OwnershipThe State of E-Book ReadingWhere and How Readers Get Their BooksLibrary Use Across CommunitiesDifferences Between Heavy, Light, and Non-book readers Across Community Type Via Karen du Toit
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Digital archives: Don't let copyright block data miningNature.comAdvances in computer technology combined with the availability of digital archives are allowing humanities scholars to do what biologists, physicists and economists have been doing... Via Jessica Parland Delete the scoop?
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Authors: R. Gomez; IGI global
"The goal of this document is to portray the landscape of users and uses of public access to computers and the Internet in developing countries around the world. In 2007-2010, the Technology & Social Change Group at the University of Washington conducted a ground-breaking study in 25 countries, the Landscape Study, to better understand who uses information and communication technologies (ICT) in public access venues and how. Each country conducted a discrete section of the study and shared a report. All the data was then collated and analyzed. This book attempts to put all the pieces together in order to make comparisons and cross-references for further research."
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Robin Good: Readcube is a free download software (PC and Mac) which allows you to automatically update, organize, annotate, index and search-through your collection of PDF documents.
This is a great tool for anyone doing serious research in any field, whether inside or outside the official academic and scientific sectors. The key benefit of using this tool is its ability to auto-organize and enhance your existing PDF library and to help you find related documents, while appropriately linking all authors and reference notes within each paper.
Key features include:
- PDF import and auto-indexing - Author, title and and source-journal auto-identification
- Search and view abstracts from Google Scholar and PubMed
- Get daily article recommendations based on your research interests + the contents of your library
- Create in-line comments and directly highlight key phrases
- Find automatically citations for any article in your library
- Login integration with your university or institution so you can download articles from its library without logging in separately
To get a better idea of ReadCube can do, please check the video on this page: http://www.readcube.com/enhancedpdf
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Live Demo of ReadCube Web Reader: http://www.readcube.com/reader/10.1038/nature10414
Features: http://www.readcube.com/#features
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Data Curation as Digital Preservation of Documents and Electronic Artifacts: Key Reference Resources
Robin Good: Data (or Digital) Curation, is an academic/scientific discipline dedicated to preserve, organize and collect digital documents and other electronic artifacts for archival, re-use and repurposing objectives.
Check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_curation and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_curation
The importance of Data Curation can be easily underestimated as it may appear, to the casual viewer, as an arid, tedious document archival job.
In reality, Digital Curation efforts are of great value to the preservation of important cultural documents and data for future researchers who will want to access, in some organized way, the data-information-artifacts of our time. In addition, the data curation practices and guidelines developed by academic and research institutions can also be of value and inspiration to other types of curation work, that may adopt, emulate or innovate upon them. University of Arizona – Digital Information Management University of Illinois – Data Curation Education Program University of North Carolina – DigCCurr University of Virginia – Scientific Data Consulting Digital Curation Centre Digital Curation Exchange International Journal of Digital Curation Purdue-UIUC Data Curation Profiles Project
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How can you make creating high quality, shareable content easier? What processes can you follow to minimise the time you spend researching and thinking and maximise the time you spend creating and sharing your content? Via Pasquale Gangemi, Alessandro Lanzarini, michel verstrepen, Karen du Toit Delete the scoop?
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By Nancy Bellafante: The Chronicle’s recent article on plagiarism accusations in Coursera courses kicked off my exploration into MOOCs and the role librarians can play. A recent RUSA post on Chasing Reference points to the lack of research assignments in MOOCs and the need for embedded librarians. Even though students enrolled in a MOOC do not typically have access to the parent institution’s fee-based library resources, information literacy and research skills can still be taught and are an important component in courses that ask students to explore complex issues and social problems. Simply providing students with a reading list is not going to teach them to be savvy information consumers who can effectively find authoritative information and critically evaluate sources. So, what’s our first step? Librarians should  join a  MOOC.
Read more: http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/technologies/tag/edx/
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A new report, Reading Habits in Different Communities was released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project today.
Direct to Summary/Full Text Report (HTML) ||| Direct to Full Text Report (PDF) What Does the Report Cover? The General Reading Habits of AmericansE-reading Device OwnershipThe State of E-Book ReadingWhere and How Readers Get Their BooksLibrary Use Across CommunitiesDifferences Between Heavy, Light, and Non-book readers Across Community Type Via Karen du Toit
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"At the Library 2.012 worldwide virtual conference, Pew Internet Research Analyst Kathryn Zickuhr and ALA Program Director Larra Clark will discuss key findings from these reports—including a brand new analysis focused on younger Americans' reading preferences and library use habits. The session also will explore immediate practical implications for U.S. public libraries."
Slideshare here: http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/what-can-libraries-learn-from-new-user-and-nonuserereading-data-from-the-pew-internet-project
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Vitae is committed to enhancing the quality and output of the research base in the United Kingdom, through supporting the training and development of world-class researchers. Via Susan Bainbridge Delete the scoop?
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[...] With the help of advanced visualization techniques, Mapping the Republic of Letters, led by a team of students and professors at Stanford, literally "maps" the Republic of Letters by plotting the geographic data for the senders and receivers of correspondences. The project pulls from the Electronic Enlightenment database, an archive of more than 55,000 letters and documents exchanged between 6,400 correspondents, and maps the geographic origin and destination of the correspondence. [...] Via Jessica Parland Delete the scoop?
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http://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2gos. If you weren't able to attend the Digital Humanities 2012 conference in Hamburg this week, you can still watch all of the lectures which are being recorded and posted immediately. Via Jessica Parland Delete the scoop?
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The European Library offers services and facilities of direct relevance to research communities in Europe and beyond. Via João Greno Brogueira, Karen du Toit Delete the scoop?
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handbook of research on educational communications and technology. Downloads of the latest free software. Via Susan Bainbridge Delete the scoop?
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