Social media not just for millennials

From Pew Internet: Older Adults and Social Media
"Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010."

Ebrary ebooks will be unavailable for 2 hours on Saturday Aug. 28th

Between 10 AM - 12 PM Saturday, August 28th Ebrary ebooks will be unavailable due to Ebrary's scheduled maintenance.

Alternatives to peer review?

From NY Times: Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review
"... in an era of digital media there is a better way to assess the quality of work. Instead of relying on a few experts selected by leading publications, they advocate using the Internet to expose scholarly thinking to the swift collective judgment of a much broader interested audience."

New Key Small Business Statistics

From Industry Canada:
Key Small Business Statistics (July 2010) now available.
"As of 2009, small businesses employed approximately 5 million individuals in Canada, or 48 percent of the total labour force in the private sector."

Market research tutorial available

Business Source Premier @ EBSCOhost is a great tool for market research. We have a new tutorial that will help.

Voices From the Front Lines of Online Learning

From Wired Campus:
Online educators share their experiences teaching online. Watch the video here.

Twitter and other social media are becoming an important communication tool in disasters

From: Red Cross Emergency Social Data Summit:
results from a study of social media in disasters and emergencies.

July/August 2010 issue of EDUCAUSE Review is available

Open access is the theme of the latest issue of EDUCAUSE Review.

From the Chronicle of Higher Education: Needed - Support for Professional Science Master's Degrees

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Needed - Support for Professional Science Master's Degrees
"The rapid growth and palpable enthusiasm surrounding professional science master's degrees demonstrates something important: that higher education can respond energetically and directly to employers' demands for sophisticated science professionals with high-level scientific and business and management skills."

Big Refworks News!!! Citations in Refworks now link to full-text

When you log into your Refworks account you will now see a 'Check for Full Text' link. Refworks will look for the full-text in our 100+ databases. As you can imagine the RRU librarians are doing a "happy dance". Please contact us for more information.

New report from the National Wildlife Federation: Oil disasters common in the last decade

From Docuticker: Oil disasters common in the last decade
Source: National Wildlife Federation
The full report: Assault on America: A Decade of Petroleum Company Disaster, Pollution, and Profit.
Also available:
List of oil disasters, 2000-2010 & list of oil disasters by State.

Interesting article on plagiarism in the New York Times

Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age
(New York Times - August 1, 2010)
From article: “Writing is difficult, and doing it well takes time and practice...”