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Congrats to the winners of the Middlesworth Award & Durden Prize
By Emily Daly On October 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Duke researchers, Life in the library, Original research
Parents’ and Family Weekend brings with it special events and festivities held across campus, and Duke University Libraries are not excluded from the excitement. As part of our roster of activities, we will honor the recipients of the Middlesworth Award and Durden Prize for their exceptional use [...]
Power tool for working with data
By Michael Peper On September 3, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Cool tools, Noteworthy Resources, Original research
If you deal with large amounts of data and especially if you use spreadsheets to work with it, there is a new tool for you. Freebase Gridworks allows you to upload data and then examine, filter and do data cleanup for ‘grid-shaped data.’ Visit the Gridworks project site for more [...]
What *really* matters when citing sources?
By Emily Daly On November 5, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Citing Sources, Duke researchers, Librarians, Original research
You may know that two major style manuals — APA and MLA — have released new editions in the last six or so months. And if you’re aware of that fact, you undoubtedly know that both editions contain inconsistencies in their examples and enough errors to require APA to post an [...]
Facebook for Faculty (Part Two)
By libraryhacks On June 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Cool tools, Duke researchers, Original research
Name ambiguity is a recurring issue that impacts research accuracy and quality, career advancement and tenure, global collaboration among researchers, and identification and attribution of funding for institutions and individual authors alike.
ResearcherID.com by Thomson Reuters (the creators of ISI’s Journal Citation Reports) allows researchers [...]
There are a number of ways to analyze the impact of publications of a particular researcher (including yourself). A longtime favorite has been ISI’s (Social) Science Citation Index, which has come to the web as Web of Science. The web has introduced a number of other tools for assessing the impact of [...]
Then enter your research paper or project into competition for the Libraries’ Durden Prize or Middlesworth Award.
Undergraduates who make exceptional use of library collections (yep, articles that you get online through the Libraries website count!) are eligible for the Durden Prize.
Undergraduates OR graduate students [...]
Then enter your research paper or project into competition for the Libraries’ Durden Prize or Middlesworth Award.
Undergraduates who make exceptional use of library collections (databases count and e-journals count!) are eligible for the Durden Prize.
Undergraduates OR graduate students who incorporate materials from the
Most of the Duke Libraries’ web pages are now licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike License. What that means in non-lawyer speak is that everyone is welcome to use, share or remix the pages so licensed, under certain conditions.
Look for the logo below the footer on every relevant page. A [...]
Sarah Wallace has some interesting comments on the process of getting IRB approval for using (interviewing) human subjects for her Ukraine project. Here’s an excerpt:
All week, I’ve been working hard on my application for Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval of my project in Ukraine. …Procedures for protecting the rights and welfare of human [...]
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