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Ebooks tracking readers' behaviour

From The Wall Street Journal: Your E-Book Is Reading You

"Now, e-books are providing a glimpse into the story behind the sales figures, revealing not only how many people buy particular books, but how intensely they read them."

Google tips and tricks from a Google scientist

How to solve impossible problems: Daniel Russell’s awesome Google search techniques
"...advice directly from someone at Google who offers you his favorite search tools, methods and perspectives to help you find the impossible."

This is a good tip:

Use the intext command to force Google to find a keyword in the body of a webpage.

intext:[keyword]

Saving endangered languages

Endangered Languages Project

"is an online resource to record, access, and share samples of and research on endangered languages..."

No more longitudinal data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics

From Economics for Public Policy: Statistics Canada cuts long data short: another longitudinal survey is cancelled

As of the release of 2011 data next year cross-sectional estimates will be available.

Come back long form census

From University Affairs: Long-form census remains hot topic for Canadian researchers

"More than 98 percent of Canadian households responded to the 2011 short-form census, a larger percentage than in 2006. But the response rate to the 2011 voluntary National Household Survey, which replaced the mandatory long-form census, was just 69.3 percent."

Where is the Google Scholar advanced search?

The Google Scholar advanced search option has been moved!  To access it click on the down arrow on the right side of the search box.