DRP 2010

Everybody's talking about content monetisation. David Howe looks at two proposals on the table from Google and Microsoft

The new site lets anyone post a question along with a monetary "reward" for answers. Then all you have to do is wait for the experts to weigh in.

Gmail has crashed several time in recent months.

CIOs and IT directors are being overwhelmed by the choice of products in the social software market, making it difficult for organisations to decide what products to deploy.

Microsoft patents a DRM scheme

According to Marcus, digital technology creates two opposing cultures: one is creating works with copyright, another is illegally making use of those works. In the academic world, we are fear of copyright law, but outside the academic world we use the internet to download, mix and create another work. And this is where the Creative Commons arrives.

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.

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.

Google's latest application Sidewiki is subverting the roles of users and allowing them to partake in the creative process by posting comments in the sidelines of webpages.

With this book, you'll learn how companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to 'rent' computing power, data storage and bandwidth on Amazon's vast network infrastructure. Programming Amazon Web Services gives developers the background and technical detail they need for using Amazon's subscription-based Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Flexible Payments Service (FPS), and SimpleDB to build web-scale business applications

A new feature on the Google toolbar-which is installed on millions of computers around the world-lets users comment about the content of any web page they visit; the comments are then visible to other toolbar owners when they visit that site (see screenshot to the left).

This study presents the results of an exploratory multimethod evaluation study and transcript analysis of an online forum.

Using cloud architecture and crowdsourced data on web pages, this real-time discovery and recommendation engine ranks pages based on whether users actually visited them and returns results from all over the web, not just a handful of indexed pages.

A new report shows how researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about the channels they should use to communicate their research findings.

AT&T dispute with Google regarding legal frameworks for communications, specifically Google's movements into telecommunications, which AT&T argue violates net neutrality principles.