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Resources and advice for students and researchers
Sound is all around us. It carries meaning through speech, and emotion through tone and music. The invention of radio, more than a century ago, changed the world, and the Internet gave this medium a new form through podcasts. Social science researchers, historians and anthropologists also use sound and recordings as research data or as the subject of their research, whether for oral histories or qualitative analysis.
Continue reading “22nd UNESCO Week of Sound”
After a fruitful open access week (4 events with Catherine Brendow, including a discussion with department heads about a future policy), it is time for us to focus back on Open Data and Research Data Management. Here is what’s happening at the Institute around research data support, mostly through the collaboration of the Library and the Tech Hub.
Continue reading “An update on research data management at the Institute”
As the owner of perhaps the most influential academic social media tool – yes, I am talking about that guy and Twitter/X – is finally scaring away academics and most sane people off his $44bn platform, many of them are wondering where to go from there. Don’t worry, we have you covered, with an obvious focus on today’s darling social media, BlueSky.
Continue reading “On X alternatives for academics”
Slightly more than 10 years after we started collecting games (February 2014), we thought you might want to hear (with some delay) about this academic year’s additions to our collection. But first, a reminder: you can check our full collection of games on BoardGameGeek and borrow them for 7 days (renewable) from the loan desk.
Continue reading “2024 – Summer of games!”
The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) is 10 years old. As an homage, we are displaying a few titles related to the issue in the entrance of the Library this week.
Metrics-based research assessment is considered a root cause of the crisis of scholarly publishing via the famous motto “Publish or perish”. The culture in academia is slowly evolving towards more qualitative evaluation, as multiple initiatives show since then, including COARA, the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment.
Many events are organised during the 10th anniversary week from May 12 to 19. Check them out!
You can read more about metrics in scholarly publishing in our dedicated guide. If you would like some information about sustainable publishing and open access options, visit us on Tuesday at the FAB for the IHEID Book and Podcast Festival or contact library@graduateinstitute.ch.
