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“In anticipation of worldwide Open Access Week, the Harvard Open Access Project is pleased to release version 1.0 of a guide to good practices for university open-access policies. Gathering together recommendations on drafting, adopting, and implementing OA policies, the guide is based on policies adopted at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and a couple of dozen other …
The New Librarian Librarians expertly engage in the following discipline, programs and projects: Intranet content development; Creation of expertise databases; Database development and maintenance; Taxonomy development and enterprise implementation; Legal project management; Search engine optimization (SEO); Business Intelligence and Competitive Intelligence; Planning, launching and maintaining Social Media applications; Portal knowledge services; ROI (for research, knowledge, …
“The purpose of this Consumer Federation of America (CFA) project is to determine the cost of typical checking accounts at the largest banks for consumers who are unable to meet the rising thresholds to waive bank fees and to demonstrate the impact of just a few mistakes on the annual cost of bank accounts. Consumer …
Global Wealth 2012: The Year in Review. Michael O’Sullivan, Credit Suisse Research Institute, Richard Kersley, Investment Banking Securities, October 10, 2012: “The Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report aims to provide the most reliable and comprehensive data on global household wealth, covering all components of wealth and spanning the entire wealth spectrum. Subdued economic growth and …
Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment, Sally Vermaaten, Brian Lavoie and Priscilla Caplan. D-Lib Magazine, September/October 2012. Volume 18, Number 9/10 “Developing a successful digital preservation strategy amounts to accounting for, and mitigating, the impact of various threats to the accessibility and usability of digital materials over time. Typologies …
How College Graduates Solve Information Problems Once They Join the Workplace. October 16, 2012 | Alison J. Head “Qualitative findings about the information-seeking behavior of todays college graduates as they transition from the campus to the workplace. Included are findings from interviews with 23 US employers and focus groups with 33 recent graduates from four …
Dremel: Interactive Analysis of WebScale Datasets – Sergey Melnik, Andrey Gubarev, Jing Jing Long, Geoffrey Romer, Shiva Shivakumar, Matt Tolton, Theo Vassilakis – Google, Inc. “Dremel is a scalable, interactive ad-hoc query system for analysis of read-only nested data. By combining multi-level execution trees and columnar data layout, it is capable of running aggregation queries …
Emily Nickerson: “Sitting up straight is a simple way to boost your metabolism, keep your blood pressure in check, lower your stress levels, and morebut its so easy to find yourself slouching lower and lower at your desk as the workday goes on. Check out this infographic for quick posture tips your whole body will …
The 27year decline of coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef and its causes. Glenn Deatha, Katharina E. Fabriciusa, Hugh Sweatmana, and Marji Puotinenb – doi: 10.1073/pnas.1208909109 PNAS October 1, 2012 The worlds coral reefs are being degraded, and the need to reduce local pressures to offset the effects of increasing global pressures is now …
Forbes – Erica Swallow: “Mohit Lakhmani art director, paper sculptor, and 3D graphics artist is the creator of the best infographic résumé I have yet to see. Bonus: its 3D! The résumé, which features three-dimensional charts, bars, pop-up descriptions, and decorative details, took Lakhmani four days to design in Adobe Photoshop and an …
Gallup news release: “Americans who are either satisfied with their community or feel that their community is becoming a better place to live have Physical Health Index scores that are roughly nine points higher than score for Americans who are not satisfied with their communities or feel that their community is becoming a worse place …
the Chronicle of Higher Education – Jennifer Howard: “Academic libraries indexing of digitized works counts as fair use. So says the federal judge overseeing a major copyright-infringement lawsuit brought last year by the Authors Guild against the HathiTrust digital repository and its university partners. At stake was the uses the libraries could make of millions …
