Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

Dorothea Salo outlines a framework for understanding the complexities of research data and researchers' needs, with emphasis on digital libraries and institutional repositories and data standards and management characteristics and requirements.

Excerpt: "will involve the use of an ecosystem of interacting web-based resources, including the infrastructure provided by the Virtual Observatory, data provisioning services from Astronomy archives, a variety of analysis services such as Astrometry.net, notification services such as skyalert.org, and visualization services such as CDS's Aladin and Microsoft's WorldWideTelescope."

Incorporating web 2.0 behaviors (e.g. recommending, commenting, social bookmarking) into the array of valid reserch metrics is a long work in progress...

"You go to the store to buy a television, and then you come home and you watch some television. But the television you buy isn't the television you watch, and the television you watch isn't the television you buy. We use the same word to refer to the object and the content flow, and nobody gets confused because we all know what television is. Now all of a sudden, we have video spilling out of phones and personal computers, and the question "Is that television?" becomes really complicated."

Study at University of Vermont medical school, 2007-08

"The combination of Elsevier's and Collexis' knowledge discovery technologies will create a powerful set of applications designed to support scientific management and assessment." Publishers are offering more and more tools, e.g. Thomson Reuter's InCites and SciVal.

Recently announced NSF requirement (that all grant proposal need to include a Data Management Plan (DMP) shows the importance of digital data as a foundation for the progress of science and replicability of research in the digital age. ..

The University of Michigan Press has started an e-book rental program for over 250 e-books.

U.S. e-book sales grew 183% in the first half of this year compared with the year-earlier period, according to the Association of American Publishers.

Abstract: The deluge of scientific research data has excited the general public, as well as the scientific community, with the possibilities for better understanding of scientific problems, from climate to culture. For data to be available, researchers must be willing and able to share them. The policies of governments, funding agencies, journals, and university tenure and promotion committees also influence how, when, and whether research data are shared. Data are complex objects. Their purposes and the methods by which they are produced vary widely across scientific fields, as do the criteria for sharing them. To address these challenges, it is necessary to examine the arguments for sharing data and how those arguments match the motivations and interests of the scientific community and the public. Four arguments are examined: to make the results of publicly funded data available to the public, to enable others to ask new questions of extant data, to advance the state of science, and to reproduce research. Libraries need to consider their role in the face of each of these arguments, and what expertise and systems they require for data curation.

A grant proposal was submitted to build a Facebook for scientists to foster scientific collaboration. Such a social network could connect experts across scientific and geographic borders to promote collaboration on research projects.

UNIVERSITY AND CYBERSPACE: RESHAPING KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE NETWORKED AGE Torino, Italy, 28-30 June 2010

inclusionists and deletionists

Example of an "Article of the Future" (project sponsored by Elsevier). How is it different (or similar) to the PLoS format?

InnoCentive and NPG Launch Nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion InnoCentive, Inc., the global open innovation marketplace (www.innocentive.com), and Nature Publishing Group (NPG), a scientific and medical publisher (www.nature.com), announced the launch of the Nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion. Jointly hosted on InnoCentive.com and Nature.com (www.nature.com/openinnovation) the Nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion provides a hub for scientific collaboration and open innovation.

"This paper focuses on changing reading characteristics and presents a study among a group of expert readers. Considering technological bases of reading and applying corporeal and material perspectives, this study examines manners in which proficient readers handle printed and digital texts, attempting to explain differences in digital and paper-based reading. Based on findings, this paper reflects on how long-form text can be productively transferred into the digital reading space."

" A survey was carried out to explore the field, both why journals did not employ advertising, and how advertising was employed. The findings show little uptake of advertising among OA journals, and indicate that there is a lack of understanding of how advertising could best be employed."

from the abstract: "assessing the influence of spatial proximity between scientists is crucial to promote efficient collaboration strategies and, ultimately, to improve the quality of science. Here we present a systematic analysis of citation and collaboration streams between cities and countries. By assigning papers to the geographic locations of their authors' affiliations, we construct weighted networks of citations and collaborations. The citation flows as well as the collaboration strengths between cities decrease with the distance between them and follow gravity laws with exponents close to 1. Moreover, for a given number of authors, the diversity of affiliations increases the number of citations, especially when many countries are represented. In addition, the total research impact of a country grows linearly with the amount of national funding for research & development. However, the average impact reveals a peculiar threshold effect: the scientific output of a country may reach an impact larger than the world average only if the country invests more than 120,000 US $ per researcher annually. Our results reveal the overall structure of scientific research by showing the correlation between collaboration, citation, geography and funding, and could provide valuable inputs in shaping the future science policies."

Survey of ten authors shows increased distribution and no negative effects on print sales

"The 116-page report represents a 2-year effort with the sponsorship and support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Library of Congress (LC), the U.K. Joint Information Systems Committee, the Electronic Records Archives Program of the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Council on Library and Information Resources. On April 1, the Task Force will hold a symposium in Washington, D.C., followed by another on May 6 in the U.K." _Barbara Quint, InformationToday