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Video: Peter Brantley On Hypothes.Is

May 20, 2013 – 9:03 am

http://www.cni.org/news/brantley-hypothesis/ Hypothes.is: Annotating the World’s Knowledge, a project briefing from CNI’s spring 2013 member meeting by Peter Brantley, is now available on CNI’s video channels: YouTube: http://youtu.be/4gaJQoplBMo Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/66245049 Hypothes.is, a not-for-profit start-up, is building a reference implementation for open annotation that will be a distributed, open-source platform for the collaborative evaluation of information based on a new [...]

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Workshop: ‘Making Data Count: Research data availability and research assessment

May 20, 2013 – 8:43 am

http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=576 11-12 April 2013, 11:30-13:30, Berlin At the Neue Mälzerei The possibilities of digital research have altered the production, publication and use of research results. Academic research practice and culture are changing or have already been transformed, but to a large degree the system of academic recognition has not yet adapted to the practices and possibilities of digital research.  This [...]

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The Value of Research Data Metrics for datasets from a cultural and technical point of view

May 20, 2013 – 8:21 am

http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/datametrics This report presents a first landscape study of creating and promoting data metrics and the assessment of the use of datasets in scientific work as a tool to stimulate data sharing. This report will be of interest to all major stakeholders in science and research, such as individual scientists, funders, research institutions, universities and data centres. It provides [...]

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Genome Announcements

May 17, 2013 – 11:07 am

http://genomea.asm.org/content/current announcing the availability of recently sequenced genomes of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in public databases. These announcements inform readers of the availability of new genome sequences and provide the rationale for sequencing a particular organism, as well as details of the methodologies and protocols used in assembly of the genome sequence. Manuscripts [...]

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UNESCO to make its publications available free of charge as part of a new Open Access policy

May 17, 2013 – 10:09 am

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/unesco_to_make_its_publications_available_free_of_charge_as_part_of_a_new_open_access_policy/ UNESCO will make its digital publications available to millions of people around the world free-of-charge with an open license. Following a decision by the Organization’s Executive Board in April, UNESCO has become the first member of the United Nations to adopt such an Open Access policy for its publications. The new policy means that [...]

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The May/June 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available

May 17, 2013 – 9:20 am

http://www.dlib.org/ This issue contains four articles and  two conference reports  The ‘In Brief’ column presents five short pieces and excerpts from recent press releases. In addition you will find news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in the ‘Clips and Pointers’ column.  This month, D-Lib features the Cornell University Law Library’s Trial Pamphlets [...]

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Yale University Joins Coursera

May 17, 2013 – 9:16 am

http://blog.coursera.org/post/50511208530/yale-university-joins-coursera Today we are proud to welcome Yale University to Coursera’s network, bringing the total number of educational partners offering courses on our platform up to 70. Yale has long supported open education, particularly through its initiative Open Yale Courses, and we are pleased to partner with them to extend their knowledge to the millions [...]

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New Ithaka S+R Research Support Services Project in Art History

May 17, 2013 – 8:37 am

http://www.sr.ithaka.org/blog-individual/new-ithaka-sr-research-support-services-project-art-history February 12, 2013 This (northern) winter, as part of the Research Support Services program, Ithaka S+R is launching a new investigation of researcher practices and support services needs in the field of art history. Our goal is to examine the evolving needs of researchers on a field-specific basis in order to best understand how [...]

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Ithaka S+R | Jisc | RLUK UK Survey of Academics 2012

May 17, 2013 – 8:33 am

http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/ithaka-sr-jisc-rluk-uk-survey-academics-2012 A major survey of UK Academics released today examines the attitudes of researchers and practitioners working within higher education. It sheds light on their behaviours, including their reliance on digital technologies, the Internet and open access. The survey, funded and guided by Jisc and RLUK and conducted on their behalf by the not-for-profit research [...]

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EEE Xplore Release 4.6 – Introducing IEEE Access plus other new features and enhancements

May 15, 2013 – 7:48 am

The latest IEEE Xplore Release 4.6 brings some significant enhancements to key pages of the site, including the abstract, publication home page and table of contents pages. These pages have been redesigned with a  new look and feel, which incorporates the following enhancements:   Streamlined Presentation for Journal Home Pages – Improved visibility of the [...]

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