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"Published in October 2013, the Library Publishing Directory provides a snapshot of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries, including information about the number and types of publications they produce, the services they offer authors, how they are staffed and funded, and the future plans of institutions that are engaged in this growing field" (open access .pdf file)

MIT librarians report results of a survey of NIH-funded faculty members and researchers on their experiences with the publishing process. Possible areas of library support and partnership are considered.

Dorothea Salo outlines a framework for understanding the complexities of research data and researchers' needs, with emphasis on digital libraries and institutional repositories and data standards and management characteristics and requirements.

STAR METRICS programme - "The first aim of the programme is to build a 'clean' database of all federally funded researchers in the United States ... Later on, the plan is to track patents, citations and other metrics of the research's impact. ... researchers' use of the Internet to communicate and publish will enable STAR METRICS to track the creation and transfer of knowledge properly for the first time"

OpenAccess Statistics: Alternative Impact Measures for Open Access documents? An examination how to generate interoperable usage information from distributed Open Access services

Abstract: The deluge of scientific research data has excited the general public, as well as the scientific community, with the possibilities for better understanding of scientific problems, from climate to culture. For data to be available, researchers must be willing and able to share them. The policies of governments, funding agencies, journals, and university tenure and promotion committees also influence how, when, and whether research data are shared. Data are complex objects. Their purposes and the methods by which they are produced vary widely across scientific fields, as do the criteria for sharing them. To address these challenges, it is necessary to examine the arguments for sharing data and how those arguments match the motivations and interests of the scientific community and the public. Four arguments are examined: to make the results of publicly funded data available to the public, to enable others to ask new questions of extant data, to advance the state of science, and to reproduce research. Libraries need to consider their role in the face of each of these arguments, and what expertise and systems they require for data curation.

from the eco4r project, features a review of "enhanced publications" in repositories, data standards for supporting the use of these publications, best practices and examples from Bielefeld University Library repositories

Video of a lecture by Charles Vest (former MIT president and president of the National Academy of Engineering) on sharing educational resources over the web, with MIT's OpenCourseWare as a model.

Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, Brody T, Harnad S. Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research. PLoS ONE. 2010;5(10):e13636+. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013636.

A project proposed by Cameron Neylon to convene (funders, publishers and individuals) and developers to develop useful research metrics that encourage more open usage and re-usage of research data.

"releasing some or all of a library's catalogue records for open use and re-use by others. " 17 cases shown

Many libraries decided to offer e-publishing services, one model to stay relevant in the digital world.

"In recent years, publishers, librarians and academics have seized the opportunities offered by the electronic publication of scholarly journals. Despite the popularity of e-journals, however, content continues to be published, acquired and used in physical printed form. In the UK, we are still some way from a wholly electronic journal environment. This study is prompted by a concern from publishers and librarians that the retention of both printed and e-journal formats adds unnecessary costs throughout the supply chain from publisher to library to user. In view of the many advantages of electronic journals, this report sets out to understand the barriers to a move to e-only provision of scholarly journals in the UK, and to investigate what various players within the scholarly communications system could do in order to encourage such a move."

Review of existing OER (Open Educational Resources) initiative and a discussion of the conditions for a sustainable funding models

survey useufl for societies consider e-only publication

write a scientific paper in 140 characters or less

"Future Professional Communication in Astronomy II"

"Welcome to Electronic Resources & Libraries!" wiki via Abigial Bordeaux