The coolest set of "cool tools" ever!

Check out this cool collection of digital research tools: DiRT

Tools to help with everything from brainstorming ideas to editing images to finding research materials to organizing research materials. The coolest set of "cool tools" I've ever come across!

Kim

Millenials and just what that term means

From The Chronicle -- The Millennial Muddle: How stereotyping students became a thriving industry and a bundle of contradictions

This article provides an intriguing overview of the how different researchers (some scholarly, some not so much) have fueled and debated the term "Millenials." I found it very interesting considering how much that term and its associated stereotypes are thrown around.

Google Scholar and Citation Analysis

I came across two articles this week - both evaluating/critiquing the citation counts used in Google Scholar, so thought I'd juxtapose them here. The gist is what many have been suspicious of GS - that it provides a lower quality tool that is much more accessible and easy to use than some of the more established ones.

Newswire Analysis: Google Scholar’s Ghost Authors, Lost Authors, and Other Problems. Why the popular tool can't be used to analyze the publishing performance and impact of researchers. Peter Jacso, University of Hawai'i at Manoa -- Library Journal, 9/24/2009
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6698580.html

A Citation Analysis of College & Research Libraries Comparing Yahoo, Google, Google Scholar, and ISI Web of Knowledge with Implications for Promotion and Tenure. Charles Martell.
PDF version - requires ALA membership auth.