Reddit Scholar Posts (Scraped from April - August 2014)

One file containing posts to Reddit's r/Scholar forum. These were scraped from April 2014 through August 2014. The following variables are available for each post:<br>*DayOfWeek*Date *Week *Title *User*Description*Link *FirstLinkProvided *FirstLinkProvidedDomain*UserSuppliedISBN*UserSuppliedPMID*UserSuppliedDOI<br><br><br>Preparation: <b>(1) Scraping:</b> Scraping took place via Google Sheets and Google Scripts. Google Sheets code used to scrape Reddit is available here: https://ctrlq.org/code/19600-reddit-scraper-script?_ga=2.69874256.1771062494.1515537454-939238282.1515537453<br><b>(2) Cleaning:</b> After scraping, data was cleaned and enriched in Excel. Extraneous HTML tags were removed and Excel's Text to Columns command was used to separate the posts into more easily analyzable chunks. Excel's IF, SEARCH, and FIND functions were used to extract the FirstLinkProvided, UserSupliedISBN, UserSuppliedPMID, and UserSuppliedDOI information. OpenRefine (http://openrefine.org) was used to turn the FirstLinkProvided values into the FirstLinkProviedDomain values.<br>Caveats: *Some posts requested more than one item. If two or more URLs were supplied in a post, only the first was captured by the URL extraction method used in Excel. *To allow for verification of the scrape's accuracy, a link back to each original post on Reddit is included. (These links also allow for researchers to see the comments on the original post, which may have been made after the scrape took place and are not included in this file.) Links to original posts reveal user information. Because identification of users would be a trivial matter for someone who followed links to the original posts, no attempts were made to anonymize user IDs in this file.