Research publications are some of the world’s most important repositories for content and information ever created. They tie ideas and findings together across time and disciplines, and are forever preserved by a network of libraries. They are supported by evidence, analysis, expert insight, and statistical relationships. They are extremely valuabl... See more

Hamish McKenzie: On social media, posers are often given the most status points, and so we’re left with a misleading idea of authority; it seems the people who are loudest in their claims to be experts — the ones we hear from most on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube — are the ones to be most wary of. When self-proclaimed experts are ultimately reveal... See more

Now if you want to know something, you go online. If you want to make what you’ve learned widely accessible, you go online. Paper will be with us for a long time, but the momentum is clearly with the new, connected digital medium. But this is not merely a shift from displaying rectangles of text on a book page to displaying those rectangles on a sc

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do some checking on the Web for information about the person and the individual’s qualifications. Check WorldCat™ to see what other items the person is associated with and what libraries hold copies of prior titles as well as the current item under consideration. The more items the person has produced and that are widely held is a good clue to the

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