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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

How Articles Get Noticed and Advance the Scientific Conversation

Gozde Ozakinci, a lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, offers an exemplary use of Twitter in a research workflow.
I dip in and out during the day and each time I have a nugget of information that I find useful. I feel that with Twitter, my academic world expanded to include many colleagues I wouldn’t otherwise meet. … The information shared on Twitter is so much more current than you would find on journals or conferences.
The good news is you’ve published your manuscript! The bad news? With two million other new research articles likely to be published this year, you face steep competition for readers, downloads, citations and media attention — even if only 10% of those two million papers are in your discipline.

So, how can you get your paper noticed and advance the scientific conversation? 
One word: Tweet.

From: Victoria Costello, March 30 2015, on PLOS Blogs,              blogs.plos.org/plos

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Five things we mean when we say digital humanities

Libraries as Problem Shapers: some thoughts sparked by Brian Croxall (five things that we mean when we say digital humanities)

Brian Mathews (Virginia Tech.) comments: It was great to learn about Emory’s Center for Digital Scholarship but the real reason Brian Croxall was on campus was to talk about digital humanities. We hosted him in the library and his talk was insightful and entertaining.
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The main takeaway for me was his five things that we mean when we say digital humanities:
  1. Humanistic examination of digital objects
  2. Digital scholarly communication
  3. Digital pedagogy
  4. Creation of digital archives and primary source materials
  5. Digital examination of Humanistic objects
 From: The Ubiquitous Librarian, 24th November 2014

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Can universities survive the digital age?


The fifth annual international IE University conference on “Reinventing Higher Education” discussed Bologna, English as the lingua franca and engagement between business and universities. But perhaps it will be the ‘digital natives’ of the next generation who will be higher education’s greatest challenge...

“I was not taught digital marketing in my degree because the change in the business model was so rapid that the university did not have time to adapt,” said Cristina Rojas, 23, an economics graduate.

Rojas added that in 2013 Facebook and Twitter were only known as social networks, they had not developed their marketing potential online and “professors did not even know that they existed”...

Santiago IƱiguez, President of IE University, concluded: “The Millennial generation is creative, cosmopolitan, entrepreneurial, sociable, with a distinctive global awareness and commitment, and they demand more control over their own learning experience.

From: University World News, Paul Rigg, 31 Oct 2014, Issue no. 341

Monday, June 2, 2014

Academics Anonymous...

Academics Anonymous: break down barriers between disciplines

 & Three ways we are stifling research

Universities are outdated – big problems require thinkers who can transcend the traditional boundaries between subjects
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Academics from different disciplines need to work together more. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian
The world is changing at an incredible rate. Pressing problems like climate change and the related social unrest are connected to an ever-growing population and dwindling resources. It has become clear that these vast problems cannot be answered by single academic disciplines, working within archaic institutional settings and throttled by systemic boundaries.
Working across disciplines is the key to answering the big questions, focusing on what is needed to solve problems, and transcending the boundaries of conventional approaches and disciplines. However, in academia we have put boundaries in place to stop this happening, and the pace of change to adopt new strategies is glacial at best.
From: The Guardian, Higher Education Network  30 May 2014

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Digital Humanities

How the Humanities Compute in the Classroom

Computer-assisted scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this technology-inflected research "the next big thing."
Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now in the undergraduate classroom, whether they pay off in tenure and promotion, and what it takes to create a work of digital scholarship that will last.

- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf
Computer-assisted scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this technology-inflected research "the next big thing."
Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now in the undergraduate classroom, whether they pay off in tenure and promotion, and what it takes to create a work of digital scholarship that will last.

- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf
 Computer assisted research in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital humanities have taken on fresh luster...digital scholarship has begun to work its way into the academic ecosystem. Read more for how digital humanities play out in the classroom and for collection of articles.

From: Chronicle of Higher Education, Marc Parry, January 6 2014
Computer-assisted scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this technology-inflected research "the next big thing." - See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf
Computer-assisted scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this technology-inflected research "the next big thing."
Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.d
Computer-assisted scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this technology-inflected research "the next big thing."
Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf
Computer-assisted scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this technology-inflected research "the next big thing."
Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.d
Computer-assisted scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this technology-inflected research "the next big thing."
Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now in the undergraduate classroom, whether they pay off in tenure and promotion, and what it takes to create a work of digital scholarship that will last.
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf
Computer-assisted scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this technology-inflected research "the next big thing."
Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now in the undergraduate classroom, whether they pay off in tenure and promotion, and what it takes to create a work of digital scholarship that will last.
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf
Computer-assisted scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this technology-inflected research "the next big thing."
Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now in the undergraduate classroom, whether they pay off in tenure and promotion, and what it takes to create a work of digital scholarship that will last.
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf
Computer-assisted scholarship in the humanities dates back decades. In the past five years, though, the kinds of work collectively known as the digital humanities have taken on fresh luster. Observers have called this technology-inflected research "the next big thing."
Beyond the headlines and hoopla, digital scholarship has begun to work its way into the academic ecosystem. In the following collection of articles, read more about how the digital humanities play now in the undergraduate classroom, whether they pay off in tenure and promotion, and what it takes to create a work of digital scholarship that will last.
- See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Humanities-Compute-in/143809/?cid=wb#sthash.ttugUO0c.dpuf

Thursday, December 5, 2013