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Category Archives: Technology & Development
reconnect12: Gaming Undermines the Occupation
I’m on my way to Montreal, Canada for @OccupyImpact, CASRAI’s 1st Annual International Conference. During my session, Gaming Undermines the Occupation, with Jennifer Lin from PLoS, we will discuss the issues related to working with large and growing amounts of content. There will be keynotes by Maryse Lassonde, Dr. Claire Donovan and Cameron Neylon, and [...]
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Did You Know?
SSRN provides an eye-friendly short-form URL for every author and abstract page. Author Page: http://ssrn.com/author=1234567 This URL is useful in your email “signature,” allowing recipients to quickly find your research (without running the risk of fumbling to copy a long string of a URL that may not paste properly). For example: Sincerely, John Doe Professor [...]
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Who is Who?
I just got to Washington, DC for tomorrow’s Society for Scholarly Publishing’s Workshop (#SSP2012). Euan Adie (Digital Science), Ellen Rotenberg (Thomson Reuters), Laurel Haak (ORCID) and I will be discussing Applying Unique Identifiers to Understand and Establish Influence. SSP’s theme this year is “Social, Mobile, Agile, Global: Are You Ready?” A very broad topic that [...]
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Alternative is the New Grey
Jason Priem asked me to give a keynote at the altmetrics12 workshop at Northwestern on 21 June. Unfortunately, the timing of #altmetrics12 isn’t very convenient. I was supposed to be on a plane on my way to #ALA12 in Anaheim. But, I think metrics are important and have written about what SSRN is doing in [...]
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Remixing Scholarly Research
Kirby Ferguson is a quirky New York-based filmmaker with an interesting idea. He wanted to show copying was often part of the creative process by providing popular examples of remixed content. The research and examples from different types of media have been aggregated into an extremely well done, short video series titled Everything Is [...]
Searle Center “Internet Search and Innovation” Conference Keynote
I’m looking forward to delivering the keynote, Searching and Accessing the Right Content, in the Right Place at the Right Time, tonight at the Searle Center’s Second Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation at Northwestern Law School. The Searle Center runs several conferences each year related to the impact of laws and regulations on [...]
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Who’s Who? ORCID and the Author Disambiguation Issue
I’m speaking at the ORCID (Open Research and Contributor ID) Meeting at Harvard on May 18th. ORCID is a global initiative tackling the author name ambiguity issue, with over 200 participating organizations including academic institutions, publishers, societies, corporate, non-profit and government organizations. Author names create a lot problems for repositories like SSRN. We often find errors [...]
SSRN’s CiteReader Project Update
Last week we released a project update to our reference and citation technology, CiteReader. CiteReader allows readers to view the references within a paper submitted to SSRN and the citations from other papers in the SSRN eLibrary, making it possible for users to easily go backwards and forward in the literature. Here is SSRN Chairman, [...]
Also posted in User experience, What's new Tagged Citations, CiteReader, Gregg Gordon, itx, Michael Jensen, online repository, scholarly reserach, SSRN Links Leave a comment
Mobility, the Future and Your Business – Tomorrow 10AM
I will be one of three guests speaking tomorrow morning on the “Eyes on the Future” radio show (3.4.2o11) at 10AM. We will be discussing all things mobility, apps, how they can help grow business and the access customers can gain. I invite you to stream the discussion online or if you’re in Rochester, NY [...]
Also posted in What's new Tagged eyes ont he future, growing business mobility, itx, mobility scholarly education, radio show, ssrn app, SSRN Links, wham 13 Leave a comment
Automate Me (Information Overabundance – Part III)
We’ve been talking a lot about the wealth and overabundance of information at our digital fingertips. Last week we discussed the increase in academic plagiarism and paper mills as a possible result of the pressures of endless information. Then I read this article on automated reporting. Statsheet.com has fed sports fans scores, stats, and other [...]
Information Overabundance: What We Don’t Know, We Don’t Know
A few months ago, Peter Shepherd, Project Director at Project COUNTER, asked me to contribute an article to Against The Grain (librarians, publishers and vendors) for their Special Issue on Metrics – The Importance of Being Measured. I wrote about article level metrics at SSRN and how we view the changing world of information overabundance. [...]
Riding Two Surfboards, Historically Speaking
Robert B. Townsend, assistant director for research and publications at the American Historical Association (AHA), wrote about the recent AHA survey exploring the current state of new media in their field. The findings are a very good example of what we’ve been seeing across the Humanities at SSRN; a large percentage of users with general [...]
Also posted in President's Notes, Scholarship Tagged AHA, american historical association, digital history, historians, new media history, Robert B. Townsend Leave a comment
Modern Finance – Past, Present and Future, 2010
I’m speaking at the Chicago Booth School of Business on Thursday, 4 November 2010 for the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Forum 2010. Jason Zweig author, editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal will moderate the panel. The panel will also include Rodney Sullivan, CFA, head of publications for the CFA Institute and Daniel Giamouridis, Assistant [...]
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Libraries: Keeping It Real
via I was at MIT a few days ago and had the opportunity to participate in Erik Brynjolfsson‘s class at Sloan School of Management. It was a fun class. We discussed the early days of SSRN, bundled services, and electronic resources in general. During the conversation, I asked the MBA students if they knew where [...]
Three R’s & a V
The 3 R’s, the long held foundation of teaching, are adding another letter to their crew. Looking to increase the effective communication of knowledge, several companies are shifting to visual tools and technologies. Amongst them, different approaches are beginning to emerge. While SSRN has recently beta tested adding audio and video content to the eLibrary, [...]
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A Wandering Mind is a Busy Mind
A couple of weeks ago we blogged about taking contemplative time to find innovative solutions. Along the same theme, I wanted to visit another interesting behavior: the wandering mind. A friend shared a Wall Street Journal article that explores how a wandering mind can lead to creative insights. Today, more than ever, innovators are eager [...]
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APE 2010: What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking at Academic Publishing Europe (APE 2010) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences about article level metrics. APE 2010 was a very interesting conference with a wonderfully diverse audience. The sharing was open and the discussions were quite frank, especially considering the number of competitors in the [...]
Also posted in Conferences and Presentations, President's Notes Tagged academic publishing europe, academic technology, APE 2010, APE 2011, Arnoud de Kemp, article level metrics, Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, editorial research, eLibrary, Gregg Gordon, librarian research, publishing conference, scholarly communication, scholarly research, scientific publications, SSRN Links 2 Comments
SSRN’s iPhone App, iSSRN, is Available
iSSRN, our free iPhone App, was released recently. It provides instant access to the latest Social Science and Humanities research in the SSRN eLibrary from scholars around the world. iSSRN is available from Apple‘s iTunes store. iSSRN allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to search over 250,000 papers and read the full text of the [...]
Also posted in Miscellaneous, President's Notes, What's new Tagged Apple, AppStore, iPhone, iSSRN, iTouch, iTunes 9 Comments
CrossRef Creating Impressive Tools
Geoff Bilder, CrossRef‘s Director of Strategic Initiatives, and others discussed Trust during their CrossRef Annual Meeting presentations earlier this week and I’ll discuss more on this topic next week. What I was most impressed with in Bilder’s talk was the list of new projects, such as TOI DOI (a DOI shortener). I have often thought [...]
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Talking Open Access with the European Research Council