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This one has been all over the news in the last two days, but if you haven’t seen it, it’s an Early View article in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. The article suggests that people who doodle while they are listening to stuff retain more of what they hear than non-doodlers do. As an unabashed [...]
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So this is a little different for peer-reviewed Monday, even though it is a peer-reviewed article about information literacy. It’s different in that I chose the article because of the research method – the infolit topic was just a bonus. I’m going to be involved in a project for the Oregon Library Association that is [...]
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I just started reading this blog – Research as a Second Langauge – and I highly recommend it to anyone who spends their time trying to draw students into the world of scholars and scholarship and the writing that they do. Today’s post is about what a plagiarism policy should look like and while it [...]
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This is really interesting. In a letter to Nature a few days ago, (paywall – natch) six researchers (one from the CDC, and five from Google, including one named “Brilliant” – awesome) reported on their work using five years of query data to track the presence of flu-like symptoms within the population – By processing [...]
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A thing I learned today that everyone else for sure already knew – there are old editions of the Statistical Abstracts scanned and available at the U.S. Census site. I wonder if there’s stuff we used to include that we don’t now? http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/past_years.html
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I meant to come up with the perfect, open-access peer-reviewed article on something different – something besides media literacy, publics, critical thinking or reflective practice. But I failed. I’ve read a few articles this week, but nothing really compelling or interesting. So here’s a quick thing -the article I read is behind Sage’s paywall: S. [...]
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When I wrote that one theory and practice post last November I was thinking about reflective practice, but I didn’t really talk about it. Luckily, Kirsten at Into the Stacks picked up that thought for me. The whole post is great, but here’s the reflection piece: But the purpose of theory, it seems to me, [...]
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Way back when we first started talking about talking about peer review, Kate made a point that has stuck with me ever since – that we talk being accessible a lot in libraries but we usually talk about it in one sense of the word. To be fair, it is the first sense listed by [...]
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Oh who am I kidding. It probably won’t be short. But it might be disjointed. My good intentions were foiled by intermittent Internet access at the Super Conference, which was not that unexpected. And by a seriously limited amount of power for my computer, which was totally unexpected except for my expected ability to do [...]
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