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The Repositories Support Project has released the Survey of Academic Attitudes to Open Access and Institutional Repositories-An RSP and UKCoRR Initiative.

How can Internet benefit science? Is online science a myth? Examples of tools and technologies, "Science is an example par excellence of creative collaboration, yet scientific collaboration still takes place mainly via face-to-face meetings. With the exce

Science 2.0: Social networks and online applications for scholars. Author: Lluís Codina

Study at University of Vermont medical school, 2007-08

This faculty survey (with a return rate of 8.6%) indicates library disintermediation, increasing comfort (of fac members) with e formats, and persistence in conservative attitudes towards publishing in scholarly journals

Following last week's release of Ithaka S+R's Faculty Survey 2009 (http://bit.ly/aJP4pl), we are pleased to announce a series of webinars that will explore each of the major themes of this survey in depth. Each webinar will focus on an individual chapter of the full report, providing the opportunity for a targeted discussion of the findings of our study and their implications for libraries, publishers, and scholarly societies.

Analysis of 12 UK/US studies on digital information usage

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.

authors were most likely to share data if they had prior experience sharing or reusing data, if their study was published in an open access journal or a journal with a relatively strong data sharing policy, or if the study was funded by a large number of NIH grants. Authors of studies on cancer and human subjects were least likely to make their datasets available.