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Altmetrics: alternative modes for assessing scholarly impact

Citation tools like the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar all allow scholars and researchers to track the impact of academic articles by tracking the number of times a work has been cited. But in today's digital media landscape, people tweet about articles, reblog digital content, blog about articles, re-post individual paragraphs or ideas …

Posted a day ago by Anne Hays

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I think altmetrics are great for the future of scholarship…

Academia.edu : social media and digital repository mashup

While scrolling around the internet looking for information about Eli Pariser's TED talk, I encountered an interview with Umberto Eco from 1995 in which he discusses the distractions of being able to find too much on the internet, verses stumbling upon information in what he considers the more controlled (and curated) environment of the traditional …

Posted 3 months ago by Anne Hays

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Hi, I want to subscribe for this weblog to obtain most recent updates, thus where can i do it please help out…

Using Vialogues in Your Classroom

If you are searching for an interactive video social media space to help your classroom actively (and digitally) debate theoretical concepts that emerge when watching video, look no further than EdLab's own Vialogues software. A combination of the words "video" and "dialogue," Vialogues is an interactive social media tool developed specifically for educators looking to …

Posted 6 months ago by Anne Hays

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Thank you for this great post, Anne…

Gettysburg College Collects Blogs for Special Collections

Gettysburg College has acquired a couple of exciting new items of Civil War interest: blogs! Yes, I said, "blogs!" The College's Civil War Institute has started a project to collect and curate these discussions of Civil War memory, which you can read more about here. Blogs and social media have often been cited as potential …

Posted 8 months ago by Clare O'Dowd

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Thanks, Brian…

Library Your Way Around Town, Part 3

Unless you've been intentionally living in deep seclusion over these past months, you have heard of this thing called Occupy Wall Street. (If you have not heard of this, please let me know how you have been able to accomplish this level of seclusion. I've got finals coming up...) So assuming you have heard of …

Posted 18 months ago by arstessen

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Thanks, Anne…

Social Book Lending

I recently decided on bestsellers The Help and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for my last pleasure reading hurrah before school starts for me on August 29th. I don't like to buy books anymore, considering the teetering towers of treasured hardbacks that sit on the floor of my tiny Brooklyn apartment, my bookshelves offering no …

Posted 22 months ago by Michelle Pronovost

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This is awesome, Michelle…

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