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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,"

Venessa on the web : "a tool to enhance both ourselves and the network."

paper examines costs and benefits of alternative scholarly publishing strategies in the UK, with five responding articles in the same journals issue

Discusses the prospects and limitations of digitial scholarship, particularly the for-profit nature of scholarly publishing and faculty resistance to new models

Arthur Sale of Tasmania offers some suggestions on how to increase deposit to academic repositories

JISC study form OCLC, RIN and JISC survey data on digital library user behavior, highlights disciplinary differences in e-research and reliance upon Google

"This paper focuses on changing reading characteristics and presents a study among a group of expert readers. Considering technological bases of reading and applying corporeal and material perspectives, this study examines manners in which proficient readers handle printed and digital texts, attempting to explain differences in digital and paper-based reading. Based on findings, this paper reflects on how long-form text can be productively transferred into the digital reading space."

Call for OA journal innovation in Canada, particularly inclusion of multiple media formats

"Long-term preservation and stewardship of scientific data and research-related information are vitally important to future science and scholarship. Scientific data archives can offer capabilities for managing and preserving disciplinary and interdisciplinary data for research, education, and decision-making activities of future communities of users. Meeting the requirements for a trusted digital repository will help to ensure that today's collections of scientific data will be available in the future. A continuing self-assessment of a long-term archive for interdisciplinary scientific data is being conducted to identify the additional steps needed for it to become a trustworthy repository. Recommendations include a strategy for collaborative organizational sustainability, a model for submission and workflow to ingest interdisciplinary scientific data into a repository, and a plan for facilitating intra-organizational transfer between repositories."

Joyce L Ogburn discusses the role of libraries in preserving data and shows examples of how tangible data formats have served scholars longitudinally.

Analysis of 12 UK/US studies on digital information usage

Considers the integration of publications and data as representing potential for realization of the semantic web

A bibliography of more than 2000 citations to articles and books by Charles W. Bailey on data preservation and curation.