Category Archives: scholarly communication

Audio of Cliff Lynch’s talk Memory Organizations & Evidence to Support Scholarship in the 21st Century is now available

May 14, 2012 – 2:03 pm

http://www.lis.illinois.edu/newsroom/lectures Audio of Cliff Lynch’s talk Memory Organizations & Evidence to Support Scholarship in the 21st Century is now available from http://www.lis.illinois.edu/newsroom/lectures. The talk was presented as part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign GSLIS Windsor Lecture Series. The Windsor Lecture honors the career of Dr. Phineas L. Windsor, who served as director of the University of [...]

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Report on Peer Review of Research Data in Scholarly Communication

May 4, 2012 – 10:10 am

http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/04/APARSEN-REP-D33_1A-01-1_0.pdf Abstract: Quality assurance of scientific information is a precondition and integral part of digital long-term archiving. To operate successful digital long-term archiving, organizations from the fields of science, culture and business cooperate within the EU project, APARSEN. The objective of this project is to set up a “long-lived Virtual Centre of Digital Preservation Excellence”. [...]

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Access to scholarly content: gaps and barriers

March 8, 2012 – 6:57 am

http://www.rin.ac.uk/node/1172 This report investigates and quantifies the extent to which members of different communities in the UK can gain ready access to formally-published scholarly literature, in particular journal articles and conference proceedings. The findings are based on an online survey of researchers and knowledge workers from UK universities and colleges, medical schools and health providers, industry [...]

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Unpublished Fieldwork Reports (Grey Literature Library)

March 6, 2012 – 6:41 am

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/greylit/ The aim of this resource is to make available unpublished fieldwork reports in an easily retrievable fashion. There are currently 12625 reports available and this number is increasing steadily through the OASIS project in England and Scotland. Through this resource it is possible to list the reports by contractor, using the browse by contractor [...]

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How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Article Downloads, Twitter Mentions, and Citations

February 15, 2012 – 2:18 pm

http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2461 We analyze the online response of the scientific community to the preprint publication of scholarly articles. We employ a cohort of 4,606 scientific articles submitted to the preprint database arXiv.org between October 2010 and April 2011. We study three forms of reactions to these preprints: how they are downloaded on the arXiv.org site, how they are [...]

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FREEDOM FOR SCHOLARSHIP IN THE INTERNET AGE

January 24, 2012 – 2:28 pm

http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/files/2012/01/Heather-Morrison-thesis-draft-Jan-21-2012.pdf Here’s an excerpt: The purpose of this thesis is to further the work of transitioning to an open access scholarly communication system designed to support and prioritize scholarship and the public good rather than profit. The method will involve analysis of key underlying historical trends in society and how they impact scholarly communication, as [...]

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PhilPapers

January 3, 2012 – 10:46 am

http://philpapers.org/ PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online philosophical articles and books by academic philosophers. source: AMIR

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GreySource Index – Public Gateway to Grey Literature

August 23, 2011 – 9:42 am

http://www.greynet.org/greysourceindex.html The GreySource Index provides examples of grey literature to the average net-user and in so doing profiles organizations responsible for its production, processing, open access, and distribution. Only web-based resources that explicitly refer to the term grey literature (or its equivalent in any language) are listed. GreySource identifies the hyperlink directly embedded in a [...]

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Research Communications Strategy (RCS) project

July 12, 2011 – 7:50 am

http://crc.nottingham.ac.uk/projects/rcs/index.php The JISC funded Research Communications Strategy (RCS) project, based at the Centre for Research Communications – University of Nottingham has now come to a close. The final outputs of the project are available at http://crc.nottingham.ac.uk/projects/rcs… These outputs include consultancy reports on the following topics (available at http://crc.nottingham.ac.uk/projects/rcs…): ·         Chemists and Economists knowledge, beliefs and behaviours surrounding  [...]

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Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications

April 11, 2011 – 10:07 am

http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/heading-open-road-costs-and-benefits-transitions-s This new report from RIN  investigates the drivers, costs and benefits of potential ways to increase access to scholarly journals. It identifies five different routes for achieving that end over the next five years, and compares and evaluates the benefits as well as the costs and risks for the UK.

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