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Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present, a report by C.W. Anderson, Emily Bell, Clay Shirky. Columbia Journalism School, Tow Center for Digital Journalism “This essay is part survey and part manifesto, one that concerns itself with the practice of journalism and the practices of journalists in the United States. It is not, however, about …
Dempsey is OCLC Vice President and Chief Strategist: “This article discusses the position of the catalog and uses it to illustrate more general discovery and workflow directions for libraries. There is a renaissance of interest in the catalog and catalog data. Yet it comes at a time when the catalog itself is being reconfigured in …
Curt Hopkins for The Daily Dot: “When a user deletes an email in the normal fashion, it becomes invisible to that user and is immediately a candidate to be overwritten. But until it is in fact overwritten, it exists. And it may persist longer on company servers. So, even if it is taken off your …
“In this presentation, Jackie discusses how things like national security, international activism and crowdsourcing impact the work of archivists. OCLC Research Program Officer and President of the Society of American Archivists Jackie Dooley gave this presentation at the Archival Leaders Advocate Annual Seminar on 13 November 2013 at the Center for Jewish History in New …
Relationship Between Healthy Diet and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Among Patients on Drug Therapies for Secondary Prevention – A Prospective Cohort Study of 31,546 High-Risk Individuals From 40 Countries. Circulation. 2012; 126: 2705-2712 doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.103234 BackgroundDiet quality is strongly related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence, but little is known about its impact on CVD events …
News release: “The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) yesterday released a report titled Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities: 2010 that unveils important trends in U.S. doctoral education. The report calls attention to the changing characteristics of U.S. doctorate recipients over time, including the increased representation of women, minorities and foreign nationals; the …
“Large-scale weather patterns which occur in various locations around the Earth, from the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the tropics to the high latitude Arctic Oscillation (AO) play a significant part in controlling the weather on a seasonal time scale. Knowing the condition of these atmospheric oscillations in advance would greatly improve long-range weather predictions. …
Via LLRX – New Economy Web Guide 2013 Under Obama – Internet research guru Marcus P. Zillman’s new guide is an essential resource for researchers in all sectors for whom identifying and leveraging economic data, news and scholarly publications is a requirement. It identifies comprehensive, accurate knowledge available through reliable and current sources from government, …
“The 10th anniversary edition of the State of College Admission report (free to members) provides a detailed look at some of the trends observed in data collected by NACAC over the last ten years. It also offers a recap of some shorter-term observations, which are reflected in periodic research NACAC conducted into issues of concern …
“Although a majority of Americans believes higher education remains critical to the nations competitiveness and the best way for individuals to achieve the American Dream, 83 percent say that higher education must innovate for the United States to maintain its global leadership, according to a new Northeastern University survey. The national opinion poll, conducted for …
The growth of electronic publishing of literature has created new challenges, such as the need for mechanisms for citing online references in ways that can assure discoverability and retrieval for many years into the future. The growth in online datasets presents related, yet more complex challenges. It depends upon the ability to reliably identify, locate, …
Efficiency Measurement in Data Envelopment Analysis: Some Selected Applications, Biresh K. Sahoo – Xavier Institute of Management, 2011. Saarbrücken (Germany), Lap Lambert Academic Publishing (2011) “In a competitive environment most of the business firms face an irritatingly limited supply of resources. This has led to a significant emphasis on the efficient utilization and allocation of …
