Possible Sale of Mendeley to Elsevier Raises Questions about Future...
According to this tech-crunch article, there are strong suggestions that the citation manager, Mendeley (which we’ve blogged about here), could soon be sold to Elsevier. Given Elsevier’s reputation as...
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Life After Google Reader
Google’s much lamented decision to pull the plug on Google Reader has produced more than petitions from frustrated users. A number of competing services have stepped into the limelight and are touting...
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Capturing the Conference Conversation: Part 1 of 3
Conference attendance is a significant part of professional development for graduate students, researchers, and faculty members. Conference attendees are increasingly using Twitter as a medium for...
View ArticlePartnering to Support Student Financial Literacy
The Scholarly Commons is pleased to partner with the Student Money Management Center (SMMC), a division of USFSCO, to join in the student financial education effort. This partnership builds on...
View ArticleATLAS Statistics/GIS Open Lab Fall Schedule Now Available
Colleagues at the ATLAS Statistics/GIS Open Lab have released their Fall service hours and workshop series. The ATLAS workshop series covers ATLAS.ti, ArcGIS, SPSS, Stata, SAS, R, and Questionnaire...
View ArticleLibrary Research Showcase
The University Library invites the campus community to a Library Research Showcase from 12:30-4PM on Tuesday, November 19, 2013. Library faculty and academic professionals will present their research,...
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Capturing the Conference Conversation: Part 2 of 3
A previous post described how to capture and share conference tweets (+ associated data like retweet count and @ mentions) using Scraperwiki and Viewshare. Going this route is a good one for creating...
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Capturing the Conference Conversation: Part 3 of 3
The “Capturing the Conference Conversation” series (Part 1, Part 2) introduced tools and methods that enable capture, visualization, analysis, and sharing of Twitter data. The value of being able to...
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Scholar Library, a new Google citation management service
Google recently deployed a citation management tool called Scholar Library that integrates with Google Scholar. Scholar is a web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature of most...
View ArticleNeed Assistance With Financial Planning?
Not sure where to start? Next Tuesday, March 18th, there will be two Savvy Researcher Workshops geared to help guide students through the first steps in the creation of a future financial plan. The two...
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Scholarly Smackdown: Scalar vs. Omeka
Scholarly Smackdown is the Scholarly Commons’ new review series comparing popular online research tools and resources. This week we’ll be taking a look at Scalar and Omeka, resources for presenting...
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Running low on Zotero storage? Sync your files through a cloud storage service
I’ve recently returned to using Zotero for collecting, organizing, and citing references after not having used the software for a couple of years. While I was a bit rusty, it only took a couple of days...
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Meet Elizabeth Wickes, Data Curation Specialist
Elizabeth with a rebuilt and functional Colossus computer at the British National Museum of Computing. This post is the third in our series profiling the expertise housed in the Scholarly Commons and...
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Digital Preservation and the Power of Markdown
My markdown file in Notepad++. Many of us tend to think of digital documents as everlasting, and don’t put a whole lot of thought into how we’ll access our Word documents ten years from now. However,...
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Spotlight: Postach.io Blogging Platform
Many people use Evernote to keep their research (and life) organized. This notebook-based note-taking platform has grown in popularity so much, that the creators of Evernote created Postach.io, a...
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Spring 2017 Savvy Researcher Schedule Available
Hello Savvy Researchers! The moment you have all waited for has arrived… the spring 2017 Savvy Researcher Workshop schedule is now available on the University Library website. We have the old standbys...
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Review: The Infographic History of the World by Valentina D’Efilippo and...
The Infographic History of the World, created by Valentina D’Efilippo and James Ball, consists of various infographics with accompanying commentaries. You can find this book and read it at Scholarly...
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Love and Big Data
Can big data help you find true love? It’s Love Your Data Week, but did you know people have been using Big Data for to optimize their ability to find their soul mate with the power of data science!...
View ArticleScholarly Smackdown: StoryMap JS vs. Story Maps
In today’s very spatial Scholarly Smackdown post we are covering two popular mapping visualization products, Story Maps and StoryMap JS.Yes they both have “story” and “map” in the name and they both...
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Meet Eleanor Dickson, the Visiting HathiTrust Digital Humanities Specialist
This latest installment in our series of interviews with Scholarly Commons experts and affiliates features Eleanor Dickson, the Visiting HathiTrust Research Center Digital Humanities Specialist. What...
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