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Results of Innovations in Scholarly Communication Survey
My colleague Christie pointed me to this interesting bit of research, Survey of scholarly communication tool usage. I'm pretty sure I didn't contribute to the original survey, but over 20,000 scholars did! The survey was run by two librarians from Utrecht University Library, Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman. I've only started to poke at the
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12 Screencasting tools that were all new to me
Admittedly I haven't spent lots of time staying up-to-date on screencasting tools, but I have to admit I was surprised that a recent list on MakeUsOf, Record Your Desktop with These 12 Great Screencasting Apps, contained all new stuff to me. Take a look, maybe you'll find something useful there! (OK, obviously I know about
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Please support ResearchBuzz on Patreon!
Received this email earlier today, and would like you to read it as well. If you're an information professional of any stripe and somehow not aware of Tara's work with ResearchBuzz, now's a perfect time. I currently subscribe to well over 200 RSS feeds(!) and multiple email lists, and if I had to choose just
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Recreating Hilary Mason’s Research-quality data sets bitly bundle
I'm about halfway through an excellent Coursera MOOC called Getting and Cleaning Data, part of my plan to learn R. We were just shown a slide listing a bunch of collections where we could find data sets to play with, and the first one on the list had disappeared. Turns out it was originally created
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13 Tips for Recording Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod
In the most recent TechSmith newsletter was a link to recent post on their site titled, 13 Tips for Recording Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. In addition to the useful information, it was nice to see the author using screencasts of iOS devices to illustrate what was being discussed 🙂 to wit: