From The Chronicle of Higher Education: E-Books' Varied Formats Make Citations a Mess for Scholars
"The trouble is that in electronic formats, there are no fixed pages. The Kindle, developed by Amazon, does away with page numbers entirely. Along with other e-book readers, the Kindle allows users to change font style and size, so the number of words on a screen can vary. Instead of pages, it uses "location numbers" that relate to a specific part of a book."
Theresa Bell in the RRU Writing Centre can help with any citation questions.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Cognitive barriers to environmental action
New study from Harvard Business School Working Papers:
Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions
"... people intuitively discount the future to a greater degree than can be rationally defended. Second, positive illusions lead us to conclude that energy problems do not exist or are not severe enough to merit action. Third, we interpret events in a self-serving manner, a tendency that causes us to expect others to do more than we do to solve energy problems."
Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions
"... people intuitively discount the future to a greater degree than can be rationally defended. Second, positive illusions lead us to conclude that energy problems do not exist or are not severe enough to merit action. Third, we interpret events in a self-serving manner, a tendency that causes us to expect others to do more than we do to solve energy problems."
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Postsecondary support for entrepreneurship
From Industry Canada: The Teaching and Practice of Entrepreneurship within Canadian Higher Education Institutions, December 2010
"Overall, the survey shows Canadian higher education institutions are actively involved in offering entrepreneurship education as well as in providing a network of practitioners and the necessary facilities to support students interested in entrepreneurship... However, having an overall objective to deliver entrepreneurship education within an institution was absent in over two thirds of responding institutions. In most cases, entrepreneurship education was offered in only one or two (principally business and engineering) faculties. While institutions do make efforts to motivate and support entrepreneurship opportunities on campus, less than one third of surveyed institutions had an objective to deliver entrepreneurship opportunities to students in all faculties."
"Overall, the survey shows Canadian higher education institutions are actively involved in offering entrepreneurship education as well as in providing a network of practitioners and the necessary facilities to support students interested in entrepreneurship... However, having an overall objective to deliver entrepreneurship education within an institution was absent in over two thirds of responding institutions. In most cases, entrepreneurship education was offered in only one or two (principally business and engineering) faculties. While institutions do make efforts to motivate and support entrepreneurship opportunities on campus, less than one third of surveyed institutions had an objective to deliver entrepreneurship opportunities to students in all faculties."
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The Internet's impact on social interaction
From the Pew Research Center: The Social Side of the Internet
"...75% of all American adults are active in some kind of voluntary group or organization and internet users are more likely than others to be active..."
"...75% of all American adults are active in some kind of voluntary group or organization and internet users are more likely than others to be active..."
Goodbye Delicious?
From Wired Campus: Alternatives to Delicious
Yahoo will be selling off Delicious. When is anyone's guess. As a result of this announcement Delicious users have been downloading their bookmarks and moving to other social bookmarking sites. Check out some popular alternatives.
Yahoo will be selling off Delicious. When is anyone's guess. As a result of this announcement Delicious users have been downloading their bookmarks and moving to other social bookmarking sites. Check out some popular alternatives.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Assessing the impact of scholarly articles is changing
From Inside Higher Ed: New Measures of Scholarly Impact
"Some online journals are already publishing social media impact metrics alongside their articles. The Public Library of Science, widely known as PloS, which publishes seven open-access journals, earlier this fall began sharing not only how many times an article has been cited by other academic articles, but also how many times it has been commented on, rated, blogged about, hyperlinked, and bookmarked online."
"Some online journals are already publishing social media impact metrics alongside their articles. The Public Library of Science, widely known as PloS, which publishes seven open-access journals, earlier this fall began sharing not only how many times an article has been cited by other academic articles, but also how many times it has been commented on, rated, blogged about, hyperlinked, and bookmarked online."
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