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."

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.

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.

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

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

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

Video of a panel discussion (October 20, 2010) hosted by David Thornburn and featuring Steven Pinker and Alison Byerly

"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

A series of case studies presents how libraries (or knowledge centers) contribute to achieving organizational goals, including streamlining contracts with partners, increasing access to corporate members via newsletters and mobile-accessible technology, facilitating directories of "intellectual capital" (think HMS's Catalyst or MIT Expertise), a knowledge source and filter of developments in risk management, and a video archive of institutional knowledge. A wide range of organizations were consulted for the report and HBS' Deb Wallace was instrumental in its creation.

"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."

Calls for an inventory of federally-funded research datasets toward better data stewardship

A critique of the impact factor from a review of the mathematics literature

Categories include "Policies, Best Practices and Guidelines," "Roles, Services and Skills" "Directories of Data Repositories" "Metadata Standards" among other resources

Discusses efforts at Wayne State University to partner more effectively with researchers and campus organizations to market library services

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

An evaluation of research support services in four UK institutions discusses support for research dissemination, data curation and intellectual property concerns.

Comparison of three citation tools for tracking dataset citations