The recently released ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology gives some excellent insights into trends in college students' technology ownership, perceptions, skills, and habits.
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This page displays the number of entries (articles) in PubMed (Medline) published every year, that conform to search strategy (such as a phrase) you enter.
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"For adoption of new technologies in science, it has to be an order of magnitude more useful than current tools. We just don’t have the time to waste learning new tools that only marginally increase our productivity." Discussion: http://friendfeed.com/science-2-0/bceaea67/scientists-still-not-joining-social-networks
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http://www.citeulike.org/user/username/order/pubdate,desc,last e.g. http://www.citeulike.org/user/AJCann/order/pubdate,desc,last To list your own publications in date order, flag them as your own papers in the edit dialogue, then: http://www.citeulike.org/profile/AJCann/publications/order/pubdate,desc,first
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Quarkbase is a free tool to find complete information about a website. It is a mashup of over 30 data sources and many algorithms gathering information from Internet on various topics like social popularity, traffic, associated people, etc. e.g. http://www.quarkbase.com/show/microbiologybytes.com
Code of best practice that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.