Tag Archives: research

Via The Atlantic: College Wealth Premium Has Collapsed

Definitely worth reading this piece in the The Atlantic, that makes the point that the economic value of Higher Education has decreased in the U.S. (“College still boosts graduates’ earnings, but it does little for their wealth”).

The article leans heavily on a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis authored by William R. Emmons, Ana H. Kent, and Lowell R. Rickett.

Web Scraping Workshop

Web Scraping

John R. Gallagher (Assistant Professor of English at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) provided an extremely useful workshop on web scraping at DePaul today.

The workshop was introductory, and used the XPath query language and Google Sheets to begin, and then mapped out how R and Python could be used to automate.

Planning to come back to his resources and dig in deeper.

EndNote – Manual Entry

EndNote

Most of the time I find EndNote to be useful – a place to organize research resources. Citations are easily imported in as RIS (Research Information Systems) files (or ENL or ENW). Creating a manual entry is a little bit painful, and there does not appear to be much in the way of documentation fully explaining how to do this.

However, a colleague of mine at DePaul attempted to address this issue. Posting this here to come back to later:

  • There is no set format or syntax for creating a new reference in EndNote library. For instance…
    • The “Place published” field can be entered in a variety of ways (e.g. “city, state, country” or “country; state; city”).
    • There are no particular or suggested options for the “Type of Work” field (suggest matching as best as possible to the intended audience).
    • The “Short Title” / “Abbreviation” fields can be updated as you wish (if it were a published journal, then clearly the abbreviated titles would be provided in the journal’s ‘author information’ section).
  • DOI syntax is determined by the DOI Registration Agency you use to create your DOI, should you need or wish to have one (more on the actual DOI syntax at: https://www.doi.org/doi_handbook/2_Numbering.html#2.2 ).
  • The Keywords term list (which maintains a list of terms used in the Keywords field) can be set up to recognize semicolons (;), slashes (/), backslashes (\), and returns as the delimiters that separate individual keywords.
  • If you would prefer to use other punctuation to separate your keywords, you may change these settings using the “Define Term Lists” option located in EndNote’s “Tools” menu.
  • If & when editing/viewing your document in MS Word, you can create/edit reference types and styles using the Word menu option: “Output Style.” EndNote Tech Support recommended referring to this Knowledge Base article:
  • https://support.clarivate.com/Endnote/s/article/EndNote-Windows-and-Mac-Style-Editing-Guide?language=en_US

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