During the Information Futures Commission’s consultation process we found anthropology lecturer Michael Wesch’s short videos were a terrific way to introduce the topics we were trying to tackle, about how digital technology is changing the scholarly communication process and the way people interact with each other in broader society. I blogged about the videos in […]
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 […]
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, […]
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Tagged ACRL, ARL, create change, journals, open access, scholarly communication, SPARC
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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 […]
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 […]