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At the European level, the Digital Agenda for Europe 2020 identifies 'opening up public data resources for re-use' as a key action in support of the Digital Single Market. 2 The European Commission is reviewing the Directive on Re-Use of Public Sector Information. The Commission's The New Renaissance report 3 , published in January 2011, emphatically endorsed open data. At the national level, for example in the UK, the higher education community has issued the Open Metadata Principles 4 calling on metadata to be openly available for innovative re-use.

Including by M. Hilbert

A model from the Becker Medical Library at Washington University in St. Louis, to aid in tracking and documenting biomedical research impact through a series of impacts not limited to publication, with additional resources including a glossary, strategies for improving impact and a reference library.

Science is of significant importance to our society, but we understand very little of the processes that lead to scientific innovation. In this presentation I will provide an overview of our work on large-scale usage data as an early indicator of scientif

Two UMass librarian authors review the literature and study of online respositories dedicated to particular subjects and find study,and guidelines lacking for such entities. They point out: "subject repositories are frequently cited as highly successful scholarly communication initiatives, especially in relation to institutional repositories."

Raises the question: Whats wrong with the scientific paper and the answer is quite blunt: the journal

...The RQF differs from existing international research assessment methods by considering res- earch impact in addition to the more conven- tional quality measures normally used in the academic community. This inclusion has created some controversy. Detractors argue that the inclusion of impact devalues the assessment process by moving beyond the scholarly domain, and that there may be undue emphasis on research that can demonstrably show shorter- term economic or other gains. An alternative view is that the absence of an assessment of impact seriously unbalances the evaluation of research and its importance to national and global priorities....

one of 2 efforts from Sage to make research methods visible and sharable

Calls for an inventory of federally-funded research datasets toward better data stewardship

The best, activity-based model I know of by Bjork

We used the databases of ISI and Ulrich's as our primary sources and estimate that the total number of articles published in 2006 by 23 750 journals was approximately 1 350 000.\nUsing this number as denominator it was also possible to estimate the number of articles which are openly available on the web in primary OA journals (gold OA). This share turned out to be 4.6 % for the year 2006. In addition at least a further 3.5 % was available after an embargo period of usually one year, bringing the total share of gold OA to 8.1%\nUsing a random sample of articles, we also tried to estimate the proportion of the articles published which are available as copies deposited in e-print repositories or homepages (green OA). Based on the article title a web search engine was used to search for a freely downloadable full-text version. For 11.3 % a usable copy was found. Combining these two figures we estimate that 19.4 % of the total yearly output can be accessed freely.

A working paper proposing four (instead of two) repository kinds, including the subject-based repository, research repository, national repository system and institutional repository.

Michael Kurtz from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has been publishing on the research metrics subject

"This report brings together the responses of 160 interviewees across 45, mostly elite, research institutions to closely examine scholarly needs and values in seven selected academic fields: archaeology, astrophysics, biology, economics, history, music, and political science. "

"Open Access to Scientific Publications The good, the bad, and the ugly."

University of Haifa and New Jearsey Institute of Technology collaborate on astudy which shows that "prediction of an online community's survival chances cannot be based on quantitative data relating to the size of the group or even to its growth rate alone. A social predictor, on the other hand, can much better predict its chances,"

According to Christina Pikas, a doctoral student at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies who performed a cluster analysis on science blogs, communities generally form within scientific disciplines.