by Brian Kelly | Nov 19, 2012 | Identifiers, search
Background to ORCID Last week the SpotOn London 2012 conference (#solo12) included a session entitled ORCID – Why Do We Need a Unique Researcher ID? As described in the abstract for the session: Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) provides a persistent...
by Brian Kelly | Oct 1, 2012 | Evidence, search
Background How can we ensure that the wide range of information provided on university Web sites can be easily found? One answer is quite simple: ensure that such resources are easily found using Google. After all, when people are looking for resources on the Web they...
by Brian Kelly | Sep 24, 2012 | Evidence, search
About This Post This post summarises the findings of a survey of the Google search engine results for Russell Group universities. The post provides access to the findings which were obtained recently, with live links which enable the current findings to be viewed. The...
by Brian Kelly | Aug 10, 2012 | search, Web2.0
“Google Scholar Has New Updates For You” Yesterday while visiting Google Scholar I noticed an alert which informed me that there were 10 new notifications for me (see image but note that as I have viewed the updates the alert which was displayed in the top...
by Brian Kelly | Aug 9, 2012 | search
In May 2012 Google announced the launch of Knowledge Graph, a database of more than 500 million real-world people, places and things with 3.5 billion attributes and connections among them. On 8 August it was reported that Google are rolling out the Knowledge...
by Brian Kelly | May 29, 2012 | search
The Commercial Sector is Using Link Optimisation Techniques We are all aware of the importance of institutional Web sites. Over the past 15 years UKOLN’s Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) series have provided many opportunities to share experiences...
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