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

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

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.

Presentations from the ALCTS Scholarly Communications Group in January 2011 on the topic of the "author pays" model in open access journal publishing

"Much turmoil in the scholarly-communication ecosystem appears to revolve around simple ownership of intellectual property. Unpacking that notion, however, produces a fascinating tangle of stakeholders, desires, products and struggles. Some products of the research process, especially novel ones, are difficult to fit into legal concepts of ownership. As collaborative research burgeons, traditional ownership and authorship criteria are stretched to their limits and beyond, with many contributors still feeling short of due credit. The desire for access and impact brings institutions and grant funders into the formerly exclusive relationship between authors and publishers. Librarians, stripped of first-sale rights by electronic licensing, wonder about both access and long-term preservation. Emerging solutions to many of these difficulties threaten to cut publishers out of the picture altogether, perhaps a welcome change to those stakeholders who find publishers' behavior to block progress."

A survey of researchers in UK and European research institutions

From a study conducted by Purdue University librarians, with respect to repository data collection of faculty output, identifying skill sets needed for the process.

Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) project highlights, culling some 40,000 answers reflecting positive views of open access while reflecting concerns with funding and journal quality. An introduction to the survey is presented with links to survey data.

Consists of three reports, "Can a New Research Library Be All-Digital," "On the Cost of Keeping a Book" "Ghostlier Demarcations" (latter discusses large text databases such as Google Books and their impact on scholars)

From Elsevier, S&T Journals, Content Innovation. Offers models of dataset linking and application-based dataset linking to scientific journal articles

article by Mercè Crosas, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Harvard. Demonstrates application's utility for data sharing, preservation, permanence, interoperability, ease of use and maintenance, among other considerations

The aims of this study are to answer the following questions: * are social media impacting upon researcher workflows? * if so, how should publishers and librarians respond? * how influential are age and other factors in shaping the demand for social media?

Focus on Canadian research institutions and the social sciences, considers digital advances with respect to scholarly journals and monographs, library data systems, and issues related to universities.

New journal

Jan Velterop discusses a proposed solution to the plethora of scientific publications daunting new researchers and even established ones, pointing to "ʻnanopublicationsʼ6 as a method with which to extract assertions from published text as well as data collections, and subsequently using them to build an overall picture of the state and the dynamic development of knowledge in a given field."