Digital Media and Learning Conference, March 1-3, 2012, San Francisco, sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, theme "Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World"
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).
"Digital Media and Learning Competition 4: Badges for Lifelong Learning" supported by the MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with Mozilla and HASTAC, simultaneously in person and online 9/15/11
"a report by Marco Fioretti for the Laboratory of Economics and Management of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa" focusing on Public Sector Information (PSI) in Europe (via Gonzalo San Gil, Future of the Web group on diigo)
Program announcement from the National Science Foundation. "to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized information (including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United States. " Seeking proposals from academic, governmental and non-profit orgs.
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"
Investigates data from two multi-user studies funded by IMLS, finding convenience is a determinative of infomation seeking regardless of "age, gender, academic role," virtual or non-virtual use.
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
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