Slate profiles a small college that decided to act like the big, online for-profits, and shows that the model works in the non-profit world as well.
Stories of people who failed to figure out the origins of images, and got burned. If only they’d used Google Image Search.
Is the print book a luxury object now?
When the scholarship is digital, preservation becomes a thorny problem. They can even become technologically obsolete before they’re completed.
People search the Internet for a lot of things, including evidence of time travelers!
Librarian is the 8th least stressful job.
What do you have to do to get an entry in Wikipedia? One woman tries to find out.
Reading a novel changes your brain (and the results my last a while). And why fiction is important to thinking.
Etsy meets Professional Conference: print your conference poster on fabric. Easy to transport, or turn into a quilt!
What would be public domain today if copyright law hadn’t been changed in 1978?
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn talk about the future of the Internet.
Google Scholar has its own journal metrics Learn more about how the evaluate journals.
If Google doesn’t like what you’re doing, they can take you out of their search results. And the result is a deep drop in visits to your website.
People love their public libraries (according to Pew).
Ever wonder if the article you’re reading was corrected or even retracted? CrossRef has a CrossMark program,
which lets you discover which articles have had changes made to them
post-publication. They now have over a quarter million articles in the
program. See the video.
Most website traffic isn’t even human.
Nature publishes a study on gender imbalance in science publishing.
MOOC as job placement provider doesn’t appear to work.
Not returning your library book could get you jail time.
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