May 8, 2019
by Dinah Handel
Digital library
Digitization
Music
Sound recordings
Stanford Digital Repository
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Academic communication, Citations, Data science, data visualisation, Featured, Knowledge Mapping, research evaluation, sustainable development goals, UNSDG
Mapping the impact of UN Sustainable Development Goals on global research
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent one of the largest and most sustained influences on global research to date. However, charting the effect of these 17 goals on the global research community is a complex task. In this post, Martin Szomszor draws on the findings of a recent bibliometric study to produce a ‘citation map’ of sustainability research, which […]
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Digital library how-to guides – visit our revised, user-friendly documentation
May 6, 2019
by Catherine A. Aster
Digital library
Digitization
Stanford Libraries staff: Have questions about how to get your content digitized? Need help…
#LSEsocialsciences, Academic Publishing, books, Featured, Guttenberg, New media, Printing Press, Publishing Economics
New Media New Knowledge – How the printing press led to a transformation of European thought
Fundamental changes in information technologies have profound implications for labour markets, for the production and spread of knowledge, and for the evolution of politics and beliefs. But competition among producers also influences the use of these technologies and their impact on multiple dimensions of life. In this post, Jeremiah Dittmar and Skipper Seabold explore how the introduction of Gutenberg’s printing press […]
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SDR Deposit of the Month: All in the Family
May 3, 2019
by Hannah Frost
By many measures, Stanford is a big place. Two typical measures: the historic campus (6th largest in the US) stretches across 8,180 acres, and is home to over 31,000 students, faculty, and staff this academic year. A random measure: for the JSTOR database subscription provided by the Libraries, Stanford’s institution classification level is “very large”.
But some days, Stanford feels like a small, close-knit town where degrees of separation between community members rarely exceed two or three.
Academic communication, academic conferences, academic mobility, Academic Social Media, Carbon Neutral Conference, climate change, communicating your research with social media, Featured, Impact of Academic Travel, The Impact of Academic Travel
Running a ‘nearly carbon neutral conference’ – Lessons from the Feral Conference
Previous posts on the Impact Blog have argued that academic conferences are bad for the environment and can present a barrier to increased diversity and inclusion within the research community. Digital communication media are often recommended as a potential solution to these issues. In this post, Nicholas Holm, Sy Taffel, Trisia Farrelly and Lisa Vonk describe how they organised the […]