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“Niche social networking is radically transforming collaboration in research as scientists discover that opening up and sharing knowledge reduces redundancy. In a world where success is often built on the back of painstaking trial and error, ResearchGATE promises to make a truly great difference,” by Mandy De Waal. “We started the network about three-and-a-half years …
Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives – Findings of the Web Archive Survey of Federal Depository Libraries, December 2010, Revised: January 2011, Kathleen Murray “The Classification of the End-of-Term Archive (EOT Archive) project builds on a previous project1 conducted collaboratively by the Library of Congress, the US Government Printing …
Report of the Business Standards Committee, January 2011: “The scope and intensity of the Committees eight month review have been significant, encompassing every major business, region and activity of the firm. We made 39 recommendations for change spanning client service, conflicts and business selection, structured products, transparency and disclosure, committee governance, training and professional development …
News release: “At a time of persistent turbulence for Americas economy and schools, Quality Counts has continued its long-standing mission of regularly evaluating the status of states educational performance and policymaking. This 15th edition of Education Weeks annual report issues summative scores and letter grades to the states and features newly updated analysis from the …
News release: “According to Cassidy Turley, a leading commercial real estate services provider in the U.S., the national office sector continues a positive growth trend after bottoming in the first quarter of 2010. Cassidy Turley reports that net demand for office space in the U.S. registered at +9.0 million square feet (msf) the third …
News release: “The report of the Comité des Sages (high-level reflection group) on Digitisation of Europe’s cultural heritage was delivered today to Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, and Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner responsible for Education and Culture. The report urges EU Member States to step up their efforts to put online the …
The geeks strike back: despite enduring an industry bubble and the threat of outsourcing, Software Engineer ranks as the Best Job of 2011: “In recent years, the job market has increasingly rewarded math whizzes at the expense of less technical professionals. Jobs like Actuary, Mathematician and Accountant have all ranked among the best in America …
News release: “This report presents findings from a year-long study designed and executed by OCLC Research, the HathiTrust, New York University’s Elmer Bobst Library, and the Research Collections Access & Preservation (ReCAP) consortium, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The objective of the project was to examine the feasibility of outsourcing management of …
How Large are Housing and Financial Wealth Effects? A New Approach – Christopher D. Carroll, Johns Hopkins University – Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Jiri Slacalek, European Central Bank (ECB), Misuzu Otsuka, December 17, 2010, ECB Working Paper No. 1283 “This paper presents a simple new method for measuring ‘wealth effects’ …
Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books, Published Online 16 December 2010, Jean-Baptiste Michel et al. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1199644. “We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of culturomics, focusing …
2010 Law School Survey of Student Engagement: “Findings reveal that students who interacted with faculty more often were significantly more likely to report substantial gains in key areas related to professionalism and ethics compared to students with less faculty contact. Despite the benefit to students, opportunities for student-faculty interaction often are missed. Results also indicate …
“Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.”
