LexiURL Searcher automatically analyses the impact of collections of documents or web sites, and creates network diagrams of collections of web sites. It automatically submits queries to search engines and process the results.

This paper reports results from a large recent study of the public domain in the European Union. Based on a combination of catalogue and survey data our figures for the number of items (and works) in the public domain extend across a variety of media and provide one of the first quantitative estimates of the 'size' of the public domain in any jurisdiction.

Discussion about what "patrimony" and "heritage" and a "universal knowledge collection" means and the place of HathiTrust and Google digitization project in the future National Dgitial Library

In 2013 HathiTrust will be moving to a new cost model that will distribute the costs of sustaining the repository in a way that more accurately reflects the benefits each partner receives from the preserved collections. The new model will also allow institutions to join HathiTrust that wish to participate in the curation and management of the repository in return for specialized services, but do not necessarily have digital content to contribute

Elsevier [is announcing the] launch of Article-Based Publishing -- a new publishing model that publishes articles as final and citable without needing to wait until a journal issue is complete. With an increasing focus on online publishing, there is a growing need for innovative publication models geared towards individual articles instead of the print-based issue model. Article-Based Publishing is the assigning of final citation data on an article-by-article basis, decoupled from the compilation of the journal issue itself.

The Scholarly Communication Institute at the University of Virginia has released Scholarly Communication Institute 8: Emerging Genres in Scholarly Communication.

By Jason Priem, Bradely H. Hemminger

ReaderMeter adapts two popular impact metrics for authors (the H-Index [1] and the G-Index [2]) and redefines them using bookmarks instead of citations as an HR-Index and a GR-Index respectively: hover over the index values for an explanation of their meaning.

ReaderMeter: Crowdsourcing research impact September 22nd, 2010

In this paper we make the case for a scientific data publication model on top of linked data and introduce the notion of Research Objects as first class citizens for sharing and publishing.

Science-Metrix is an independent research evaluation firm specializing in the assessment of science and technology (S&T) organizations and activities. Our services enable evidence-based decision-making, strategic planning, and outcome assessments.

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