Tag Archives: Scholarly Communication

Google Scholar Juice

By alex | Published: 4/20/2006
There is a somewhat cryptic note about how Google Scholar is now ranking results over on the Official Google Blog. It says the search engine is now ranking results in a different way, noting that: It’s not just a plain sort by date, but rather we try to rank recent papers the way researchers do, […]
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Windows Live Academic Home Page

By alex | Published: 4/14/2006
This may be old news, but have you had a chance to play with Windows Live Academic. It’s positioning itself to go toe-to-toe with Google Scholar (who has already won the naming battle). Google Scholar has become the defacto search engine for a lot of students and researchers, I think. What can Live hope to […]
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Exxon Secrets

By alex | Published: 4/13/2006
Exxon Secrets is a They Rule-style exploration of funding and other relationships between Exxon and scientists and think tanks that are skeptical of climate change claims. I think this kind of exploratory forensic structure is a really interesting way to present information to the public. It should be the sort of thing that journalists are […]
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Democracy & Independence conference

By alex | Published: 4/13/2006
This June 29-July 1, there is a “conference and roundtable summit” at UMass entitled Democracy & Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World. It looks to be a great conference, and is right up my alley, in terms of interests. Unfortunately, it’s a bit spendy for me ($350), especially considering I’m a bit […]
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