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20 Feb 09

Confessions of a Science Librarian: If you don't have a blog you don't have a resume (Part 1)

First part of a series on blogs as a resume or CV. Briefly mentions the arguments against blogging, specifically for academics, and refutes them.

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There also seem to be a lot of caveats to the whole blogging thing in academia, though. Are the downsides real or just myths?
Blogging is dangerous for non-tenured faculty: Blogging will not get you tenure. Neither will giving talks worldwide. Tenure is usually granted because you were able to hold a decent research program, and you showed respect for the students. However, if blogging prevents you from getting tenure, something is very wrong with your blogging or your school...

Serious researchers have no time for blogging: Indeed, there is always another paper to write and more time to spend at the library, isn’t there? Let me quote Downes on this: If you are spending time in meetings, spending time traveling or commuting to work, spending time reading books and magazines, spending time telephoning people (or worse, on hold, or playing phone tag) then you are wasting time that you could be spending connecting to people online.

Blogging distracts you away from the research: bloggers do not tend to write about their latest research results. We tend to write about ideas that will not make it into our research papers. Is it a distraction? It might be, but does blogging cause you to lose focus in your research? I doubt it...

17 Dec 08

Mathematics :: New Model Publications Search Results

8 Resources from Ithaka-ARL study. Includes some blogs, ejournals, working paper archives, listservs, and a newsletter-review site.

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Engineering :: New Model Publications Search Results

7 resources from Ithaka-ARL study. Includes mostly interdisciplinary resources like a group of blogs and resources for organic chemistry or bioengineering. Also includes a math site.

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Business and Management :: New Model Publications Search Results

10 resources from the Ithaka-ARL study for business and management. Includes ejournals, working paper repositories, blogs, and interdisciplinary resources.

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Biology :: New Model Publications Search Results

In Biology, 9 e-journals and 1 working paper repository were identified as successful in the Ithaka-ARL study.

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Economics :: New Model Publications Search Results

Economics resources from Ithaka-ARL study. Includes journals, blogs, news sources and interdisciplinary resources.

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Chemistry :: New Model Publications Search Results

10 resources from Ithaka-ARL study including ejournals, blogs, and data sets.

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Examples Collected for Analysis (206):: ARL 2008 New Model Publications Study

Search the 206 resources identified as new scholarly resources from the Ithaka-ARL study in 2008. Can search by discipline, genre, resource name or URL.

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