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Will 'Publish or Perish' Become 'Clicks or Canned'? The Rise of Academic Social Networks

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Vasquez, who co-authored a 2015 paper comparing services and tools offered by various academic social networks, says researchers must weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each. Mendeley started as an open-access research network, and some researchers balked when publishing giant Elsevier purchased the site in 2013.

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “College and university endowments ’ net returns declined for the second straight year in 2016, dropping into negative territory and posting their worst results since the depths of the financial crisis.” It planned to do so back in 2015.) Elsevier has acquired Plum Analytics.

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The governor, a Republican elected in 2015, announced on Friday that he had disbanded the university’s current 20-member Board of Trustees. From Course Report : “the 2016 Coding Bootcamp Market Size Study.” weeks in 2015.” “ 14 projects win 2016 Knight News Challenge on Libraries.”

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Testing, Testing… “Most of the questions from New York ’s 2016 state tests are now public,” Chalkbeat reports. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Communications Experts Criticize Elsevier - Florida Pilot.” pic.twitter.com/hi32s3S9ke — Chris O'Connor (@ChristopOConnor) May 30, 2016.

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— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) December 13, 2016. Heather Hiles , formerly the CEO of portfolio company Pathbrite (which was sold to Cengage Learning in 2015) will be the new “ deputy director of postsecondary success ” at the Gates Foundation. Education Politics. ’” From the HR Department. Both/and, I guess.