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Garrett Eastman

The Google Scholar Experiment: How to Index False Papers and Manipulate Bibliometric In... - 0 views

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    Attempts at gaming Google Scholar's metrics with fake papers, but frustrations reported with Scholar's lack of transparency
Garrett Eastman

From Dominance to Decline? The Future of Bibliographic Discovery, Access and Delivery - 2 views

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    A review of four bibliographic utility studies on library catalogs points out that the library catalog is no longer the starting point for students and researchers and that it has been eclipsed by easier-to-use and more convenient tools such as Google Books, Google Scholar, and LibraryThing. The author suggests that catalog developers learn from these tools and draw on their metadata; include "social" enhancements such as tagging, comments, and reviews; develop systems that are user-focused rather than librarian-focused; forsake the local catalog for the union catalog to reduce duplication of effort
Garrett Eastman

Information-seeking behavior of basic science researchers: implications for library ser... - 0 views

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    Study at University of Vermont medical school, 2007-08
Gosia Stergios

Research Trends - do scientists blog? (June 2010) - 2 views

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    According to Christina Pikas, a doctoral student at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies who performed a cluster analysis on science blogs, communities generally form within scientific disciplines.
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