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."
Library news, great new resources and information of interest to the RRU community.
Friday, August 27, 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.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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."
"... 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."
Saturday, August 21, 2010
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."
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."
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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.
Online educators share their experiences teaching online. Watch the video here.
Monday, August 16, 2010
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."
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."
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
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.
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.
Monday, August 2, 2010
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...”
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