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Url:http://ericschnell.blogspot.com
Author(s):Eric Schnell
Language:English
Tags:library, scholarly communications, technology
Description:Library, technology, and information thoughts and trends (with respect to Marshall McLuhan)
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Popularity:36 Followers

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Harvard: Computers in Hospitals Do Not Reduce Administrative or Overall Costs
Harvard researchers recently released the study Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study, which examined computerization’s cost and quality impacts at 4,000 hospitals ...more
2009-12-07
What Technology? Reflections on Evolving Services EDUCAUSE Report
I just finished reading What Technology? Reflections on Evolving Services, a report from Sharon Collins and the 2009 EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee. For the first time, Information resour...more
2009-12-02
NSF Funded Workshop on Scholarly Evaluation Metrics
A one-day NSF-funded workshop entitled "Scholarly Evaluation Metrics: Opportunities and Challenges" will take place in the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel on Wednesday, December 16th 2009. The 50 a...more
2009-11-16
Have Life Science Researchers Removed Themselves from the Mainstream Library User Population?
A report Entitled Patterns of Information Use and Exchange: Case Studies of Researchers in the Life Sciences has been released by the British Library and the Research Information Network.The report...more
2009-11-02
A Need for University Branded URL Shortening Services?
Twitter users are quite familiar with URL shortening tools as a way to include web links within their 140 character limit. URL shorting is is the process of taking a long URL and turning it into, w...more
2009-10-28
Ohio State President Calls for Tenure Changes
As the Chair of of OSU's University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Committee, I say Thank You! to President Gee.At his annual presidential address yesterday afternoon, Ohio State University Preside...more
2009-10-08
Process of Tenure and Promotion a Monster That Eats Its Young?
The approach that Kathleen Fitzpatrick has taken with her new book manuscript might be one possible path that the future of scholarly communications will take.Ms. Fitzpatrick has made the manuscri...more
2009-10-07
Peer Reviewers Get Worse, Not Better, Over Time
Almost all peer reviewers get worse, not better, over time.So suggests a study presented at the Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication in Vancouver, Canada, and repo...more
2009-10-01
Faculty Rewards Systems Discourage Alternative Scholarly Communications
"As a young scholar, with a family to support and without a secured position, my main selection criteria is in practice how the chosen journal would look in my CV."The above is a comment by Jan Kun...more
2009-09-29

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Eric SchnellSep 3, 2008

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