Monthly Archives: July 2008

Measuring a cultural institution

28 July 2008 – 6:49 am

The BBC has in many ways pushed the adoption and acceptance of the Internet in the UK. For example, it is required to provide a public whole-of-web search engine that takes users to non-BBC web sites.
Here are a few factoids that illustrate how the impact of a cultural institution like the BBC might be measured.
The [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in archives, knowledge transfer | Comments (0)

Changing our scholarly communication habits

12 July 2008 – 6:56 am

The Create Change web site “is an educational initiative that examines new opportunities in scholarly communication, advocates changes that recognise the potential of the networked digital environment, and encourages active participation by scholars and researchers to guide the course of change.”
The site explains why Open Access publishing is beneficial to academic researchers, teachers and students, [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in access, knowledge transfer, publishing, repositories, research | Comments (1)

Towards an integrated ‘knowledge environment’

10 July 2008 – 6:39 am

Staff at Cornell and Bates (both in the US) are in the early stages of a collaborative project, looking into how they might provide a seamlessly integrated knowledge environment (IKE) for their students, alumni, academic and professional staff, and other constituencies of their respective institutions.
In particular, the project aims to:
“Envision, identify, and promote integrated online [...]

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Mapping the top journals

8 July 2008 – 6:04 am

nbsp;Eigenfactor.org uses data from Thompson (publishers) to create a browsable map of relationships between academic disciplines, as evidenced in the citations published in top academic journals over the last five years.
From Eigenfactor’s home page you can also search for a specific journal and find two numbers that describe the journal:

Article Influence (AI): a measure [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in publishing, research | Comments (0)