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TeacherTube Videos - JSTOR's Data for Research Tip #1: What are ngrams — updated Saturday, September 26, 2009

JSTOR's Data for Research Tip #1: What are ngrams Our goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos.

YouTube - JSTOR's Data for Research (DfR) Use #3: The currency of ... — updated Saturday, September 26, 2009

This short video will highlight JSTOR's Data for Research (DfR) service available at http://dfr.jstor.org. With DfR, you can see which words have passed in ...

Concordia Library Research Innovations: JSTOR Facted Searching .. — updated Saturday, September 26, 2009

By Dan JSTOR has recently announced a delay in the release of their faceted browsing enhancement, but are also happy to provide a similar functionality through it's Data for Research beta service. Read more about this here. ...

TeacherTube Videos - JSTOR's Data for Research Tip #2: Key terms — updated Saturday, September 26, 2009

JSTOR's Data for Research Tip #2: Key terms Our goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos.

Vue: Tools for teachers « The Ddeok is Always Greener on the Other ... — updated Saturday, September 26, 2009

By msg352 The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, ... You can pull PubMed, JSTOR, Flickr and other data seamlessly into the presentation. This aggregation into a single learning platform is a huge step in the right direction. Collaborative learning and teaching spaces, places where content of any type can ...

Data, the currency of academic jargon, and a corpus of 14 billion ... — updated Monday, August 03, 2009

By Michael Gallagher JSTOR is offering a beta service called “Data for Research”. The original intention of the Data for Research tool was to make it easier to fulfill requests for data sets and support data mining needs. However, the DfR beta also makes it possible to ... Using this interface one can quickly and easily define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and results filtering. view document-level data including word frequencies, citations, and key terms. ...

Forums Open — updated Tuesday, July 21, 2009

 

Gene Expression: QWERTY-nomics debate thriving 20 years after "The ... — updated Tuesday, July 14, 2009

By agnostic To investigate, I did an advance search of JSTOR's economics journals for "QWERTY" and divided this count by the total number of articles. This was done for five four-year periods because it's not incredibly popular in any year, ...

Vue: Tools for teachers « The Ddeok is Always Greener on the Other ... — updated Wednesday, June 10, 2009

y msg352 The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, ... You can pull PubMed, JSTOR, Flickr and other data seamlessly into the presentation. This aggregation into a single learning platform is a huge step in the right direction. Collaborative learning and teaching spaces, places where content of any type can ...

Poster Based on Data from DfR — updated Monday, May 11, 2009

by Marcela Zalamea at the Centre for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies and Biology Institute- Terrestrial Ecology Section Faculty of Natural Sciences Copenhagen University

Tensions and Questions in JSTOR Data, Math and Otherwise — updated Wednesday, April 22, 2009

JSTOR's content includes page images of journals, ... search engine and the quality of data, one can sort of search for math. ...

Peter Scott's Library Blog: 19th Century British Pamphlets Project — updated Sunday, March 29, 2009

By noreply@blogger.com (Peter Scott) "This project, created by the Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and funded by the JISC Digitisation Programme, provides online access through JSTOR to the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries ...

Some older articles on people using JSTOR — updated Friday, March 27, 2009

 

Tracking economists' consensus on money illusion, as a proxy for Keynesianism — updated Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Culture11 - ‎Mar 19, 2009‎ The data end in 2003, since there's typically a five-year lag between the publication date of an article and its appearance in JSTOR. ...

Will information criteria replace p-values in common use? Some trends — updated Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Culture11 - ‎Mar 5, 2009‎ So, let's see what JSTOR has to say. I did an advanced search of all articles for "p value" and for "Akaike Information Criterion" (the most popular one), ...

Map of Science Looks Like Milky Way — updated Wednesday, March 25, 2009

by Brandon Kim March 11, 2009 Wired Science

'Oldest English words' identified — updated Friday, February 27, 2009

from BBC News - Some of the oldest words in English have been identified, scientists say.