Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Enhanced Access to Chronicle of Higher Education

The University Library has provided online access to The Chronicle of Higher Education to GGU faculty, students and staff for over a year now. We now have an enhancement to the online service.

The University's email domain "@ggu.edu" has been added to the authentication database. As a result, anyone who has, or creates, a free Chronicle account using this email domain, will now be able to do a number of things, including,

  1. Access premium content posted at Chronicle.com from any location without going through your institution's proxy server
  2. Access premium content from one's smart phone
  3. E-mail articles to colleagues.
Just a reminder, the GGU subscription also provides the following:
  • Sign up for any of our free e-newsletters such as Academe Today,
  • Chronicle Review, the Global Edition, and others
  • Sign up for job alerts
  • Participate in Chronicle forums
  • Comment on Chronicle articles
You can use the link above to go to the web site to create your personal account now.

Monday, February 7, 2011

How to read a paper

Although this relates to "hard" science, the basic principles of reading an academic or purportedly academic paper remain true. Perhaps this may serve as a reading assignment for a brief introduction to critical reading?

How to read a paper, by Ben Goldacre.