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A disturbing story on academic freedom and predatory publishing
While I had actually read the article in question shortly after it first came out, I was unaware of the fallout until earlier this morning. This is a story you should be aware of. How I learned of it: Investigation launched into alleged academic freedom violations at Thompson Rivers University What I had missed: B.C.
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First look at NVivo Transcription
Almost exactly a year ago I took a quick look at three automated transcription tools, and today there's another one to add to the mix, though this one's not free. NVivo has launched an automated transcription service and I'm impressed! I uploaded the same audio clip I used in last year's shootout, a 40-second snippet
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Google enters the data discovery game
I first read about it on Reddit, followed shortly by the CANLIB-DATA Listserv, but as of today Google has a new search engine dedicated to research data sets, the cleverly-named Google Dataset Search. The good: Surfacing this stuff is great! Google is using schema.org to discover stuff, and has a pretty extensive page on how