Every year on 24 May many countries in Eastern Europe and Northern/Central Asia celebrate the day of the Cyrillic alphabet. The Cyrillic alphabet is used by more than 250 million people across 50 languages and is the 6th most popular writing script on the planet. The creation of the Cyrillic alphabet is related to the […]

Since the late 19th century, when it was recognised as an organised profession, librarianship has been understood as a viable career option for women – first as a place where they might provide administrative support to the intellectual efforts of the predominantly male librarian cadre but, by the early 20th century, as a women’s profession […]

Welcome to Day 5, the last day of the 2022 EUI Impact Challenge!  We hope you went through all the challenges so far and that you found them appealing! Today we ask you to engage with  Cadmus, the EUI Research Repository. What is Cadmus, EUI Research Repository Cadmus collects, preserves & provides access to the […]

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? […]

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 […]

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 […]