September 17, 2009 – 11:09 am
nbsp;http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/publications/…
Researchers are driven by a desire to enhance our knowledge and understanding of the world we inhabit, and to communicate their findings to others. But both governments and other funders are increasingly interested in demonstrating the social and economic returns from their investments in research, and in assessing research performance.
The many different criteria for [...]
September 14, 2009 – 7:44 am
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The Economics of Open Access Publishing (Christian Zimmermann)
The Stratified Economics of Open Access (John Willinsky)
But what have you done for me lately? Commercial Publishing, Scholarly Communication, and Open-Access (John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders)
Publishing an E-Journal on a Shoe String: Is It a Sustainable Project? (Piero Cavaleri, Michael Keren, Giovanni B. Ramello, and Vittorio Valli)
Open [...]
September 8, 2009 – 11:10 am
nbsp;http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/…
Version 76 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship.
This selective bibliography presents over 3,480 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.
August 20, 2009 – 9:50 am
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=407838&c=1
Tenfold increase in withdrawal of science papers may be thin end of the wedge. Zoe Corbyn reports
The rate at which scientific journal articles are being retracted has increased roughly tenfold over the past two decades, an exclusive analysis for Times Higher Education reveals.
Growth in research fraud as a result of greater pressure on researchers to [...]
August 19, 2009 – 1:43 pm
nbsp;http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/eve…
Keynote Address | What’s the Matter with Memory?
Elizabeth Loftus PhD, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine
Why Should Editors Do Research? Drummond Rennie, MD, Deputy Editor, JAMA; Ana Marusic, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Croatian Medical Journal; Daniel T. Kulp, PhD, Editorial Director, American Physical Society
How to Make Science Interesting, and Why It’s Important
Bruce Lewenstein, PhD, Professor [...]
August 14, 2009 – 8:34 am
nbsp;http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA…
In June, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, became the first public university in the United States to adopt an open access (OA) regarding scholarly research, and SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is offering resources to encourage other universities to take the plunge.
Under the faculty-initiated policy, faculty members will send digital copies of [...]
August 14, 2009 – 7:58 am
nbsp;http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/pro…
The Current Scholarship Program is a new effort, initiated by University of California Press and JSTOR, to make current and historical scholarly content available on a single, integrated platform, to provide a single point of purchase and access for librarians and end users around the world, and to ensure its long-term preservation.
Beginning in 2011, current [...]
nbsp;http://www.digital-scholarship.org/etdb/…
This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, conference papers, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories.
For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital [...]
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND SUGGESTED STEPS FORWARD
The Commission received 30 responses to the questionnaire on scientific information in
the digital age, 25 from CREST members (EU Member States) and 5 from CREST
observers. The responses provide informative details on ongoing initiatives in the
Member States. Overall, it is encouraging to see how many valuable activities are
underway in the Member [...]
nbsp;http://www.arl.org/news/pr/spec310-1july…
Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Author Addenda, SPEC Kit 310, which explores how ARL member libraries are promoting the use of author addenda by researchers at their institutions.
Recent developments in scholarly communication have raised the issue of author rights on academic campuses with increasing frequency. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) [...]
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