The University of Google – my information skills rant of the week.

I’m currently reading “The University of Google: education in the [post] education age” by Tara Brabazon. It’s absolutely fascinating, highly recommended for anyone interested in higher education and information skills in the digital age. I need to buy a copy myself, because as I’m reading I feel the need to highlight passages all [...]

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Hej from Stockholm

Despite the fact that I’ve really got a million things to do, including preparing for at least three upcoming presentations – two on self-archiving and the repository, and one on blogging, I’m off work this week. And in Stockholm. It’s a family thing.
But an interesting thing to report – I put my powerpoints [...]

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Social bookmarking tools and repositories

Are there any institutional repositories out there that incorporate social bookmarking tools?
A strong advocacy claim for depositing material in a repository is that this increases access to the material and subsequently increases citation rates. If we’re to look at web citations, wouldn’t adding options to post to del.icio.us, Connotea, CiteULike, etc. on [...]

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