Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

The DataCite Metadata Scheme is a list of core metadata properties chosen for the accurate and consistent identification of data for citation and retrieval purposes, along with recommended use instructions. At a minimum, the mandatory metadata scheme properties must be provided at the time of identifier registration

The report provides recommendations to policy makers in science and scholarly research regarding IPR policy to increase the impact of research and make the outcomes more available

A 15-chapter open access book published by de Gruyter focusing on knowledge access efforts by libraries worldwide, with considerations given to libraries furthering lifelong learning and library spaces.

The 2011 SPARC-ACRL form, "Marketplace: Open Access and the changing state of scholarly publishing," painted a picture of the rapidly changing-and maturing-open-access publishing sphere, illustrated the growing range of options and approaches that are emerging, and offered help to the library community to make sense of what it all means.

call for a strategic, distributed cyberinfrastructure plan

a model for innovative organization

Microsoft Research Connections and UKOLN, University of Bath, are working in partnership on an exciting and challenging new project to develop a Community Model for Data-Intensive Science.

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.

Global Reset Series / by John Wilbanks / January 28, 2011The scientific paper has long been the unit of scientific knowledge. Now, with print media lapsing into obsolescence, the internet is poised to transform science publishing and science itself.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science has released Research Data Stewardship at UNC: Recommendations for Scholarly Practice and Leadership.

OCLC and the HathiTrust have developed a unique WorldCat Local user interface for discovery of items accessible through the HathiTrust Digital Library.

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

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

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

Review of innovators in 21st century's 1st decade

Alan Davidson, formerly a lawyer and now a Google exec, talks about disruptive technology in business

presentation, an Ohio Libraries perspective

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

a slideshare presentation that highlights data on impact of oa articles in medical 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)