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Are the Top 5 Cited IS & LS articles essential reading?

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

inspired by the self improvement post over at scatterplot, in which the author describes her attempt to read the top 25 most cited articles in sociology, i went in search of the same in information & library science.  i ended … Continue reading →

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Organizing a research community with SPIRES

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

i’m reading through an article about how high energy physicists organize themselves to do their work, with the traditional model of publishing as the surprising second step, the first step being sharing via pre-print environments such as arXiv.  though the … Continue reading →

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ATLAS.ti tames your data

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

i would have lost my mind by now if it weren’t for atlas.ti.  i’m working with a corpus of 24 scholarly articles published in information/library science journals, picking out examples of marketing techniques used to promote electronic resources at the … Continue reading →

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a missed branding opportunity

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

when a researcher is in literature review mode, she is downloading tens of documents at a time to read later. the usual organizational scheme at the beginning of a research project -for me at least- is to save all those … Continue reading →

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is the IRB optional for library-related research?

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

I just browsed a peer-reviewed article about marketing a specific library resource and was surprised by what I read in the Assessment section. In that section the author noted that he developed a survey to gather feedback from students on … Continue reading →

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The natural landscape metaphor in information visualization

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

this article is not what i was intending to find during today’s browse of journal tables of contents, but i’ll take it!  i’ve often wondered about how people respond spatially to all those network graphs that are popular these days.  … Continue reading →

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