When proceeding with a digital project, it seems that a lot of emphasis is generally placed on learning the ins and outs of using the tool or method. Certainly, this …
What to Consider When Planning a Digital Project
Category: Guides, Tutorials, Reviews
Getting the Best Recording (within your budget) for your Interview
When I started my oral history project two years ago, I knew very little about microphones and recorders. I knew I had to get a decent quality recording so that …
Quickstart Guide to R Package Building
Want to make your research more reproducible? Try housing it within an R package! While R packages are typically used to house broadly applicable functions for defined use-cases, they offer …
Finding Your Way To R
Finding Your Way To R We think R is a great place to start your data science journey because it is an environment designed for data science. R is not …
Zotero: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s … Citation Management Software!
Zotero is a piece of software intended to help you manage citations. That might not sound like much, but in practice it’s a portable, pluggable, online and on-your-computer tool that …
Analyzing preprints: The challenges of working with SHARE metadata
As can be seen from a series of recent publications, there is great interest surrounding preprints—scholarly manuscripts that are published ahead of peer review. And while these studies show a rise …
Locking Down Your Digital Identity with FemTechNet
As FemTechNet point out: “Locking down your digital identity is not only for those who are being harassed – it’s good practice in general. However, if you find yourself being …
Comment, reply, repeat: Engaging students with social annotation
Picture the last time you sat down to read an article for class. If your university experience was anything like most students’, chances are, you were alone. While solitary reading …
In Common Comes Back! New Editor, New Content, and More!
In Common will be making a glorious return this coming semester! In the past, In Common has been a platform for members of the CUNY Academic Commons community to share the …
Summer 2019 Electronic Resources Summary
It’s been a bit of time since we had a post here about our collections. Yet a few things have been in the works. We’ve started this new guide that …
