Category Archives for Education & Learning
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Predatory Publishing but Were Afraid to Ask
Librarians have a key role to play in educating users about predatory publishing. Predatory publishing can be described as low quality, amateurish, and often unethical academic publishing that is usually Open Access (OA). Understanding predatory publishing helps authors to make … Continue reading
False gold: Safely navigating open access publishing to avoid predatory publishers and journals
The aim of this study was to review and discuss predatory open access publishing in the context of nursing and midwifery and develop a set of guidelines that serve as a framework to help clinicians, educators and researchers avoid predatory … Continue reading
Predatory Publishing and Academic Integrity: A Perspective Statement on Retraction of Neurosurgical Publications: A Systematic Review
Despite the increasing awareness of scientific fraud, no attempt has been made to assess its prevalence in neurosurgery. The aim of our review was to assess the chronologic trend, reasons, research type/design, and country of origin of retracted neurosurgical publications. … Continue reading
Predatory publishing: an emerging threat to the medical literature
The quality of medical literature is increasingly threatened by irresponsible publishing, leading to rising retraction rates, irreproducible results, and a flood of inconsequential publications that distract readers from more meaningful scholarship. “Predatory publishers” offer rapid publication with loose peer review, … Continue reading
Where is scientific publishing heading?
The scientific publication industry is undergoing dramatic changes. The number of journals continues to increase, competing for the best papers, as evidenced by the large number of invitations we receive. With many journals remaining in the traditional format, relying on … Continue reading
Lehigh Invests $4 Million in 2017-18 Academic Infrastructure Buildout
Led by a working group chaired by Jack Lule, Professor and Chair in Journalism and Communication, and Bruce Taggart, Vice Provost for Library and Technology Services, the plan includes the redesign and upgrade of advanced technology large lecture halls, next-generation … Continue reading
Academics and Copyright Ownership: Ignorant, Confused or Misled?
The recent law suit against ResearchGate brought by Elsevier and the American Chemical Society follows hard upon the $15 million damages awarded to Elsevier in their recent case against Sci-Hub. These are just the latest actions in a long line … Continue reading
Getting on the Map: A Case Study in Digital Pedagogy and Undergraduate Crowdsourcing
The author, Shannon Kelly, argues that crowdsourcing opportunities can offer a way for faculty at small liberal arts colleges and universities to increase digital literacy among their students. She suggests that such assignments be framed with supporting undergraduate coursework. She … Continue reading
Purdue App Puts Learning Data into Students’ Hands
Engineering students at Purdue University can track their study behaviors with Pattern, a quantified-self tool designed to help learners regulate and improve their habits. Read More
Be aware: Elevate your news evaluation: Emphasizing media literacy, one library’s initiative
The following article outlines the University of California-Merced Library’s unfolding news evaluation campaign,1 shares our strategies, and reflects on our efforts. The impetus for this campaign came when a colleague shared Vanessa Otero’s News Quality Chart, a graphic that places … Continue reading