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*BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

*BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). We are indexing the metadata of all kinds of academically relevant resources – journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. – which provide an OAI interface and use OAI-PMH for providing their contents (see our Golden Rules for Repository Managers). The index is continuously enhanced by integrating further sources / content provider (Become a content provider). BASE is a registered OAI service provider. In comparison to commercial search engines, BASE is charcterised by the following features: Start searching BASE Related:  Week 11: Academic Search / Social Scholarship

ORCID | Connecting Research and Researchers Paperity - Multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals & papers | Paperity Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes La Búsqueda avanzada permite buscar varios términos diferentes campos, y combinar los resultados mediante operadores booleanos. Si escribimos varios términos en un casillero, se recuperarán los registros catalográficos que contengan todos esos términos. Además, los campos de Autor y Título ofrecen posibilidades de elección que se despliegan conforme se redacta el término o términos de búsqueda. Operadores Booleanos (Y, O, Y NO) Los operadores permitidos son: Y: recupera los documentos que contengan todos los términos de búsqueda. Índices de búsqueda En cualquier sitio: busca en todos los campos del registro bibliográfico. Límites de búsqueda Además de poder recuperar los documentos por la combinatoria de título, autor, materia o en cualquier sitio y su interacción (y, o, y no); la búsqueda se puede concretar por Tipo de documento desde la parte inferior del formulario de búsqueda avanzada. En número de 10, a no ser que se elija las opciones de mostrar en número de 20, 50 y 100.

*Google Scholar: Library Partner or Database Competitor? By Nancy K. Herther Information professionals rely on vetted sources of information in order to provide the best quality service to their clients—whether they are students, researchers, or businesses. The internet has profoundly transformed our communication expectations, access to information, product evaluation, and buying behaviors. It has disrupted the business models of retail stores, the travel industry, and music. For libraries, it has created serious challenges in the provision of quality information services. What is the role of Google Scholar (GS) in libraries today? GS has not only become a common fixture in library literature but is also becoming ubiquitous in information-seeking behavior of users. Since 2009, the reliance on Google products has risen dramatically in academic and research institutions as financial and public support have declined. However, Smit sees a clear, ongoing need for quality scholarly databases with sophisticated search options.

Rutgers University Begins Implementation of ORCID iDs | Rutgers University Libraries Today, Rutgers University begins a formal universitywide implementation of Open Researcher & Contributor IDs (ORCID iDs). An ORCID iD is a persistent digital numeric identifier that distinguishes a researcher from every other researcher. It remains constant through changes in name or institutional affiliation, ensuring that a person’s work is properly attributed and recognized throughout their career. To date, nearly 4 million ORCID iDs have been issued to researchers around the world, including hundreds of affiliates at Rutgers. Essentially, ORCID acts as a clearinghouse where researchers can compile and curate a record of their scholarly activity, including elements such as their funding history, affiliations, presentations, and published works. “In today’s information landscape, it is vital that researchers disambiguate themselves from others,” said Krisellen Maloney, vice president for information services and university librarian. “The idea is very simple,” added Copeland.

Nature vs. Science, pt. 2 The PHD Store - is back online! Need a gift for the holidays? Why not a book, mug or shirt that matches their level of procrastination sophistication? A Message from Jorge - hi! You may have noticed the huge banner below each comic. When we wrote it, we were inspired to make a book that doesn't just talk about what we know, but also what we don't know about the Universe. So take a look, and consider buying it for yourself or gifting it to a friend or family member who is graduating! Thank you all for supporting all my crazy efforts (movies, videos, books) over the years! -Jorge WE HAVE NO IDEA Release! And check out the book tour map and come see us at one of many fun events! Free excerpt from The PHD Movie 2! Watch the new movie! Filming is done! Coming to Campuses this Fall! The Science Gap - Watch Jorge's TEDx Talk:

Science News Cycle NEW TV SHOW! - Check out ELINOR WONDERS WHY the new animated TV show for young kids I co-created! It's about Nature and encouraging kids to follow their curiosity. 20 YEARS! - PHD Comics turns 20! The PHD Store - is back online! WE HAVE NO IDEA Release! And check out the book tour map and come see us at one of many fun events! Free excerpt from The PHD Movie 2! Watch the new movie! Filming is done! Coming to Campuses this Fall! The Science Gap - Watch Jorge's TEDx Talk: Scholarly publishing is broken. Here’s how to fix it The world of scholarly communication is broken. Giant, corporate publishers with racketeering business practices and profit margins that exceed Apple’s treat life-saving research as a private commodity to be sold at exorbitant profits. Only around 25 per cent of the global corpus of research knowledge is ‘open access’, or accessible to the public for free and without subscription, which is a real impediment to resolving major problems, such as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Recently, Springer Nature, one of the largest academic publishers in the world, had to withdraw its European stock market floatation due to a lack of interest. This announcement came just days after Couperin, a French consortium, cancelled its subscriptions to Springer Nature journals, after Swedish and German universities cancelled their Elsevier subscriptions to no ill effect, besides replenished library budgets. How will we fund scholarly publishing? Republish Jon Tennant

How can blogging help research make an impact beyond academia? Illustrative examples from the LSE blogs Previous posts in our series on the Impact of LSE Blogs project examined the effects of blogging on the academic sphere, looking more closely at citations to the original research outputs and also to the blog posts themselves. But what about the effects of blogging beyond academia, on the public sphere? In the final post of the series, Kieran Booluck recounts some examples of how LSE blogs have helped primary academic research to be discovered and used, and also revisits those posts that have demonstrated the blogs’ huge potential to extend the reach of research. Earlier this summer, Carlos Arrebola and Amy Mollett introduced the Impact of LSE Blogs project, which sought to investigate the role of LSE’s public-facing academic blogs as channels of academic communication. With this in mind, we sought out examples of LSE blog posts being directly responsible for research that might otherwise have been overlooked being picked up and used. Copyright © Televisa SA de CV About the author

Publish or Perish Explains the use of Publish or Perish and its metrics Anne-Wil Harzing - Sat 6 Feb 2016 16:10 (updated Fri 25 Aug 2023 16:24) Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses a variety of data sources to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents a range of citation metrics, including the number of papers, total citations and the h-index. The results are available on-screen and can also be copied to the Windows or macOS clipboard (for pasting into other applications) or saved to a variety of output formats (for future reference or further analysis). What Publish or Perish is for Are you applying for tenure, promotion or a new job? You can also use Publish or Perish to decide which journals to submit to, to prepare for a job interview, to conduct a literature review, to do bibliometric research, to write laudatios or obituaries, or to do some homework before meeting your academic hero. How to cite the Publish or Perish software

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