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This is an overview of the development of the digital research infrastructure in Arts and Humanities in
Slovenia. The aim of the case study is to identify the development of the digital humanities
infrastructure, to map all relevant recommendations, strategies, initiatives and key figures supporting
and enabling the development of (future) policies. The main focus is on the development process itself;
identifying individual initiatives, ideas, strategies, collaborations, accomplishments, references and the
obstacles encountered. The paper includes a comparative component - considering developments in
Slovenia within a broader EU and non‐EU context.
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The Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University kindly organized the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, which was held in the beautiful island of Corfu, Greece from September 27 to October 2, 2009. The general theme of the conference was "Digital Societies".
Kirk McElhearn is a freelance writer, specializing in Macs, the iPod, iTunes, digital music and more. In addition to having written or co-written a dozen books, he is a Senior Contributor to Macworld magazine, and contributes to several other web sites and magazines. He reviews classical CDs for MusicWeb and audiobooks for Audiofile, and is a translator from French to English.
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In this article, we propose a multi-dimensional approach to analyze argumentative knowledge
construction in CSCL from sampling and segmentation of the discourse corpora to the analysis of four pro-
cess dimensions (participation, epistemic, argumentative, social mode).
The book review of
Willinsky, J. (2006) The Access Principle: the case for open access to research and scholar-
ship. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. xv + 287 pp. ISBN
0-262-23242-1.
The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals. Such ongoing comparisons are revealing dramatic citation advantages for OA.
Although many authors believe that their work has a greater research
impact if it is freely available, studies to demonstrate that impact are few.
This study looks at articles in four disciplines at varying stages of adoption
of open access-philosophy, political science, electrical and electronic
engineering and mathematics-to see whether they have a greater im-
pact as measured by citations in the ISI Web of Science database when
their authors make them freely available on the Internet. The finding is
that, across all four disciplines, freely available articles do have a greater
research impact. Shedding light on this category of open access reveals
that scholars in diverse disciplines are adopting open-access practices
and being rewarded for it.
E-book collections, such as ebrary and Netlibrary, provided an economical opportunity to fill
gaps in our print collection. With an institutional focus on distance education, e-books seemed to
provide the obvious solution for how to serve users who will never come to campus. With our
traditional users taking to e-journals immediately, we thought e-books would be a win-win
solution. However, use statistics indicated that our e-book collections remain underutilized.
This paper explores alternative forms of IBM technical documentation in the form of two case studies-one an eBook and the other a Macromedia Flash-based interactive multimedia presentation. Both projects were co-developed by the writers and graphic designers, with a mandate to create a rich, graphical approach to entice and engage users to read and understand complex technical concepts.