By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian Altmetric, the company, has been in existence for ten years now. The company has grown, and to get the view from company officials themselves, we submitted questions and various company officials responded...
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian It was ten years ago that the Altmetrics Manifesto was published. Today the movement to more open science is growing rapidly. In our recent article series on Wikipedia, we looked at how...
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian Citation analysis research has been progressing at an incredible speed. Certainly the web, internet access and digitization have played a major role. However, much of the energy and...
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian In 2019 Charleston Hub first reported on the new, innovative scite, an effort to easily check how a scientific article has been cited and if it has been supported or disputed by others. Scite is a...
By: Bob Nardini, Vice President, Library Services ProQuest Books Across generations, one thing every college student learns—no matter their major, school, or anything else—is how to get around buying a textbook. They don’t always succeed, and sometimes a student...
By: Nancy K. Herther, writer, consultant and former librarian with the University of Minnesota Libraries Altmetrics began as more of a trivia factoid resource that might be used as fodder for an academic mixer. However, with so much influence now easily derived...
It might surprise you to know that once there were “apartments on the top floors of New York City’s branch libraries.” And more than that, a few still exist. By Another Believer (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons But it makes sense when you realize that,...
It might surprise you to know that once there were “apartments on the top floors of New York City’s branch libraries.” And more than that, a few still exist. By Another Believer (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons But it makes sense when you realize that,...
Google Earth's biggest update in years adds free 3D timelapse videos Yahoo News reports that "Google is announcing its biggest update to the service since 2017, saying in a blog post that "you can now see our planet in an entirely new dimension — time." It's bringing...
Northeast Engineering and Physical Sciences Librarian, University of New Hampshire (UNH) Library, Durham, NH Associate Librarian for Collections, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME Librarian III/Research and Reference Librarian, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ...
Library Leaders Lack Confidence in Diversity Strategies This report and analysis in Inside Higher ED notes that "Fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic libraries is more important to library leaders now than it was in 2019, but many are uncertain about...
