CREDO has shared key findings from its 2014 survey of U.S. students (2,600) and faculty (500) on perceptions of student research skills.
CREDO on perceptions of students research skills
25 Thursday Jun 2015
Posted in Spotted in the news
Monthly Archives: June 2015
How to download a large page image from an Issuu magazine
21 Sunday Jun 2015
Posted in JURN tips and tricks
How to download a large page image from an Issuu magazine:
1. Load the Issuu magazine.
2. Right click on the first page. “View Source”.
3. Near the top of the source code, look in the meta for link rel="image_src" href="http://image.issuu.com/[really-really-long-number---]/jpg/page_1.jpg"
4. Copy that image URL, and simply change page_1.jpg to page_18.jpg or whatever page you want to get.
Note that the page numbering between the Issuu magazine’s display and the original PDF may be astray by a few pages, and a little re-calibration may be needed. Note also that you’re getting images of the entire page, not hi-res copies of the images used in the page.
But these days all this is probably not needed. Screen-capture software is perfectly capable of capturing a scrolling screen.
Calibre now searches inside your ebook collection
21 Sunday Jun 2015
Posted in JURN tips and tricks, Spotted in the news
The popular Calibre ebook software now includes a means to search inside all the ebooks on your devices. Find it in: Preferences | Miscellaneous.
Indexing of biomedical open access journals
19 Friday Jun 2015
Posted in Spotted in the news
A new PeerJ article claims to have looked at the indexing of 481 biomedical open access journals. It’s claimed that 86.7% were found to be listed in the DOAJ, while 36.5% were indexed in PubMed Central. However, given the level of detail in the paper itself, it seems odd to find that there’s no list given of the journal titles and URLs checked. They’re certainly not in the supplemental data file which is very misleadingly titled “All journals listed in the included databases, along with journal data”.
Radical Open Access Conference
16 Tuesday Jun 2015
Posted in Spotted in the news
I’ve just found out about the leftist Radical Open Access Conference in Coventry, UK, happening now…
“Two days of critical discussion and debate in support of an ‘alternative’ vision for open access and scholarly communication. The aim of the conference is to explore some of the intellectually and politically exciting ways of understanding open access that are currently available internationally. A particular emphasis is placed on those that have emerged in recent years in the arts, humanities and social sciences. … the conference will endeavour to strengthen alliances between the open access movement and other struggles …”
The Manitoban
14 Sunday Jun 2015
Posted in Spotted in the news
A positive review of JURN in The Manitoban, student newspaper of the University of Manitoba, Canada.
NewJour dead?
08 Monday Jun 2015
Posted in Ooops!
It appears that the NewJour journal listings service (NEWJOUR‐L) has died suddenly and totally vanished. On all Web pages I get a message that it…
“is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource.”
The Pipes dream ends
05 Friday Jun 2015
Posted in Spotted in the news
How to access your Amazon Listmania lists
04 Thursday Jun 2015
Posted in JURN tips and tricks
Amazon.com is making it almost impossible for user of its Listmania service (create themed lists of selected books, eg: best books on the history of Tomorrowland) to access their old lists from their personal Amazon profile. Here’s how to see a list of your lists…
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/ADD-YOUR-ID-NUMBER-HERE?ref_=cm_aya_bb_lists&pldnSite=1
Replace ADD-YOUR-ID-NUMBER-HERE with the number that shows up in the URL when you view your personal profile.
Probably best copied out to a new WordPress.com blog, if you want to keep them and make them more public.