Thursday, April 21, 2011
Amazon announces Kindle Library Lending Program
Press relase from Amazon and from Overdrive, digital distributor of eBooks for many libraries, and Amazon's partner in this program.
The release is planned for later this year in the US.
Monday, April 11, 2011
AAUP Faculty Salary report – 2010/2011
Per the press release, the results of the latest AAUP survey:
“…are only marginally better than last year and represent the continuation of a historic low period for faculty salaries. For the second consecutive year, the overall average salary level increased at a rate less than inflation, and this is the fifth of the last seven years in which overall faculty salaries declined in purchasing power.”Top Private Universities in Faculty Salaries for Full Professors, 2010-11
University | Average Salary |
1. Harvard University | $193,800 |
2. Columbia University | $191,400 |
3. University of Chicago | $190,400 |
4. Stanford University | $188,400 |
5. Princeton University | $186,000 |
Top Public Universities in Pay for Full Professors, 2010-11
University | Average Salary |
1. New Jersey Institute of Technology | $158,700 |
2. University of California at Los Angeles | $153,700 |
3. University of California at Berkeley | $149,100 |
4. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | $146,900 |
5. University of Maryland at Baltimore | $144,800 |
Adapated from Losing Ground on Salary (Inside Higher Ed. article)
Monday, April 4, 2011
SciVal Strata: new tool to measure academic performance
Elsevier announces a new tool to "measure individual or team performance using customizable indicators."
See this article from ReadWriteWeb: Strata Allows You to Play Fantasy Football - With Scientists
Another study questions the impact of open access journals
Mr. Philip M. Davis, a researcher in the department of communication at Cornell University, publishes a study in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology journal and concludes that "open access publishing may reach more readers than subscription access publishing, although additional readership may not translate into more citations."
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