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New extensive report from CSHE

Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory annual conference to be held December 2-3, 2011, University of Michigan, deadline for proposals July 1, 2011, information on conference topics

Conference to be held at the University of Michigan 12/2- 12/3/11, deadline for proposals 9/15/11,

Proposes a new way of looking at library organization and services, with three specific areas, reduce redundant collection and storage with a "national network of "last copy" print repositories," throw efforts toward National Digital Library such as proposed by Darnton, coordinate depository and data sharing initiatives, consolidate technical services operations regionally, and establish an LIS R&D for data collection, data sharing, decision making and development of useful information applications.

Describes a tool that streamlines parts of the scholarly publishing process, conceived by researchers at Lund University, to make articles more easily accessible on institutional repository

Open Society Foundations funded project that aims to facilitate a conversation between researchers, their funders, and developers about what we mean by the "impact" of research and how we can make its measurement more reliable, more useful, and more accepted by the research community

Report commissioned by the Publishing Research Consortium

report notes the growth of published papers at a rate of 20% a year and new open access journals at around 15% per year, credited to the increased ease of digital publishing

A research paper considers new scientists' publishing and presentation activities using blogs, websites, and social media in the context of the scientific publishing enterprise.

A preprint of an article submitted for publication urging changes to the scholarly journal publishing system. Much of the article reviews previous attempts at change: overlay journals (topical collections of disparate articles from various journals) have not seen widespread adoption; modified open access platforms such as PLOsONE seem to charge too much for what they are; postpublication services such as F1000. The authors propose a model to give authors of articles maximum control of their work and service providers "freedom to innovate"

The E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography includes English-language articles, books, editorials, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the broad role of academic libraries in e-science efforts. The scope of this brief selective bibliography is narrow, and it does not cover data curation and research data management issues in libraries in general (see the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 for coverage of these topics).

The possibilities offered by the Internet will give researchers and teaching staff broad and easy access to scientific/scholarly sources. It is not only publications that will become available but also the underlying data, models, and algorithms. Adding the underlying data and models to an article makes it easier to verify, reproduce, and re-use the results of research. An article of this kind is referred to as an "enhanced publication