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This is my blog on library and information science.
Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
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December 31, 2009
Category: Information Science
In the past few years a number of large electronic resources have gone through rather dramatic interface changes - mostly for the better, mostly desperately needed. Some typical things added are faceted presentation of search results, more personalization options, better...
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December 23, 2009
Category: Off Topic
The other day when I had to be at a stupid training session off site very early in the morning, I stepped on my iphone in the dark. It apparently slid out of my purse. Sigh. It turned on, but...
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December 17, 2009
Category: Information Science
One thing that kind of bugs me is that people answer the question "what impact has your funding had" with things like "I hired 3 postdocs and 2 support staff." Dr Lane talked about this at the workshop, but to...
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Category: bibliometrics
One of the open problems in article level metrics is how to automate, quantify, and describe the exposure an article has had in popular science pieces in newspapers and general science magazines. Peter Binfield (PLoS) and Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka. (European Research...
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Category: Information Science
stream of consciousness notes from this meeting I attended in DC, Wednesday December 16, 2009 Final panel Oren Beit-Arie (Ex Libris Group), Todd Carpenter (NISO),Lorcan Dempsey (OCLC),Tony Hey (Microsoft Research),Clifford Lynch (CNI),Don Waters (Andrew W. Mellon foundation) introduction from Cliff...
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Category: Information Science
Continuing stream of consciousness notes from this workshop held in DC, Wednesday December 16, 2009 Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka. (European Research Council) - intertwined research funding structures at national and European level. At the national level two main funding modes - institutional...
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Category: Information Science
this continues my stream of consciousness notes from the workshop held in DC, December 16, 2009. Peter Binfield (PLOS) - article level metrics. Not talking about OA, not talking about journal level. Journal is just packaging, and shouldn't necessarily judge...
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Category: Information Science
Continuing my stream of consciousness notes from this meeting in DC, Wednesday, December 16, 2009. Jevin D West (U Washington, Eigenfactor) - biology and bibliometrics. biology has a lot of problems that are studied looking at networks. From ecosystems to...
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Category: Information Science
I attended this one-day workshop in DC on Wednesday, December 16, 2009. These are stream of consciousness notes. Herbert Van de Sompel (LANL) - intro - Lots of metrics: some accepted in some areas and not others, some widely available...
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December 10, 2009
Category: Information Science
I've weighed in a few times on how to build online communities or support scientists online, but it's really worth paying attention to when you get an actual scientist who is also very involved in and interested in social software...
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