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Impact Challenge: Day 4 – personal websites and blogs

Welcome to day 4 of the 2022 EUI Impact Challenge!  Can you remember on day 3 when we asked you to explore the academic side of twitter? Tweeting and retweeting is great, sure, but what if you want to say a bit more and yet you don’t have an article or a working paper ready? […]

Impact Challenge: Day 3 – Social media and academia? 

Welcome to day 3 of the 2022 EUI Impact Challenge! Today we ask you to investigate the academic side of social media.  Most of you are already on some kind of social media, but what we would like to find out today is whether these tools are useful in academia. Social media can be incredibly […]

Impact Challenge: Day 2 – Create a Google Scholar profile 

Welcome to day 2 of the Impact Challenge! Today we ask you to create a profile in Google Scholar to track your citations. What is Google Scholar? Google Scholar is the Google initiative to track and index research publications globally and across all disciplines. Similar to the Google main search engine, Google Scholar provides means […]

Love Data Week 2022

The EUI Library’s 7th annual Love Data Week begins on Monday, the 14th of February with an Info-Desk in the lower loggia of the Badia Fiesolana, from 12:00 to 15:00 – to raise awareness of data discovery; data use and protection; and data preservation and sharing. The Library assists EUI members throughout the research data lifecycle and provides advice on data management plans (DMPs); data inputs and quality control; database copyright and protection, and the preparation of datasets for reposit in the EUI research repository, Cadmus. [ctd…]