A new title this month at Mullen Library is Mathematics Without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation by Michael Harris. No apologies here if your vocation is data  – Dr. Data drops first choreographed rap video about predictive analytics. Thanks, Eric Siegel, Ph.D.! Predictive analytics learns from the data you supply, and predicts if you will click, buy, Read More

Valid data and a belief that government is a public good can be motivators in society. The PEW Research Center 2015 report Americans’ Views on Open Government Data documents the not-quite-tipping-point of the value of open data. It seems the jury is still out! More data is available everyday: DATA.GOV – managed and hosted by Read More

Data – it’s everywhere! From ‘March Madness’ to politics to infrastructure to Broadway musicals, data is shaping our understanding of the world. You don’t have to look very far to find data, data sets, coding and visualizations. Try 30 Places to Find Open Data on the Web. From the news this week see: NCAA Tournament Read More

Celebrate Fair Use Week 2016 – what better way to keep learning and keep up with the author’s issues than by listening to Peter Suber discuss open access! Gary Price, Editor, infoDOCKET and Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Open Access Project and the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication discuss key issues in the Open Read More

Is the PDF dead? Beginning in 1666, academic scholarship becomes public through print academic journals. Today, in our electronically enabled universe the portable document format PDF has become the standard for scholarly communication. In 2008 the PDF became an International Organization of Standardization standard – ISO 32000-1:2008. The PDF (the container) made the transition of Read More

Scholarly communications can get bogged down in discussions of metrics, publishing models, open access,  promotion & tenure, and funder mandates. These discussions are important but miss that essential ingredient that makes the world spin and life worth living – passion! The first CUA Physics Department Colloquium of February featured Raffaele Resta, Ph.D. speaking on Are Polarization Read More

The Catholic University of America, as a campus community is engaged in the work of scholarly communication – the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. In April, CUA will be celebrating scholarly communications and research by sponsoring its’ first campus wide Research Day! Be there! Read More

Beyond just reading, you may want use the digital tools embedded into e-book readers. The e-book platform ebrary has a new look and options. Please see the “Playlist” feature in the upper left corner of the video below and pull down to see the chapters: ebrary New Reader Overview, ebrary New Reader Downloading and ebrary Read More

Sing along with me…the tools, they are a-changin’! Information management is a skill every researcher should practice. To be proficient at research, it helps to use digital tools. Digital tools are essential for digital scholars.  Citation managers, or reference managers, are one of the basic tools used by librarians, faculty and students. There are many Read More

It’s digital tools January! A new semester requires a new focus on how we get our jobs done. How does a researcher keep up with ideas, innovations and industry? They read the scholarly literature – usually available in journal or pdf format. Researchers at CUA may search across platforms using the SearchBox; or they may Read More