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ACI Roundup: The Use of Social Media and Blogs in Education
As noted in Blogs and Social Media Play Important Roles in Helping Scientists Engage the Public, a recent Pew Internet Research study showed that more scientists are using blogs and social media to communicate with the public than ever before.
Pioneers of Scholarly Blogging (It's Not a New Thing)
As a creative outlet, discourse catalyst, and distribution outlet to reach new and expanded audiences, scholars have been reaping the benefits of blogging for years.
Visit ACI at the 2015 ACRL Conference in Portland, OR
The ACI team is proud to announce that we'll be showcasing the ACI Scholarly Blog Index to library and information science professionals at the 2015 Association of College & Research Libraries conference.
Gigaom Closes Showing It's Not All about Web Traffic
Gigaom was founded in 2006 by Om Malik and grew to be one of the leading blogs in the world. With 6.4 million readers per month, you'd think Gigaom was a success story that would go down in history, but things change quickly in the world of online publishing.
Trends in Scholarly Publishing - The View from Scholarly Presses
Scholarly publishers already know that digital publishing and social media have changed scholarly research workflows and affected the impact of research. Scholarly presses also recognize that technology has caused a sea change in the scholarly publishing industry.
Changing the Research Workflow with Innovations in Scholarly Communication
Advances in scholarly communications have significantly changed the research workflow, particularly in the past decade with the huge volume of technology tools that have launched to aid the process.
Ranking Identifies Top University for Scholarly Research in 2014-2015
The University Ranking by Academic Performance Research Laboratory ranks 2,000 colleges and universities around the world based on quantity and quality of its scholarly publications.
Study Finds Online Mentions of Scholarly Documents Affects Research Impact
In an analysis of online mentions of over 2.5 million medical and health sciences-related scholarly documents, Altmetric found that the share of scholarly papers that are mentioned through social media, online news media, social bookmarking, and more has risen from one in 20 in 2009 to nearly one in four in 2014.
5 Strategic Tips for Using Hashtags to Promote Your Online Content
Hashtags are an important part of content discovery, so it makes sense that they're equally important for content promotion. In simplest terms, a tweet that is published and shared using a targeted hashtag has one additional way for people to find it than the same tweet without the hashtag.
Blogs and Social Media Play Important Roles in Helping Scientists Engage the Public
A new study from Pew Research Center, How Scientists Engage the Public, shows that the number of scientists who use social media and blogs to communicate with audiences is growing.
