Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

A Web service developed by Microsoft Research lets people curate their own personal history - project call "Project Greenwich" launched in Beta in October

"Policies for the Natives Designed by the Immigrants?"

Showing that articles with links to data get higher citation rates might increase the willingness of scientists to take the extra steps of linking data sources to their publications. In this presentation we will show this is indeed the case: articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links.

Symposium scheduled for December 6, 2011, from a partnership of BLC ,NERCOMP, NITLE,, featured speaker Kathryn Tomasek of Wheaton College

Institutional Data Management Blueprint

"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)

The Toolkit consists of two tools: the KRDS Benefits Framework (Tool 1); and the Value-chain and Benefits Impact tool (Tool 2). Each tool consists of a detailed guide and worksheet(s).

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."

Royal Society Report Documents Globalization of Science

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.

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

Harvard took a DASH toward opening access to its scholarship this week (Aug. 31). DASH stands for Digital Access to Scholarship. It's an open-access repository of scholarly works administered by the University Library. So far, more than 350 members of the

A New Approach to College Textbooks. Finally. We preserve the best of the old - books by leading experts, rigorously reviewed and developed to the highest standards. Then we flip it all on its head. Our books are free online. We offer convenient, low-cost

Good overview of forecasting methods/approaches that can be applied to any subject area. Scenarios, prediction markets, Delphi method, environmental scan and other method are compared.

In this paper, we propose the construction of ontologies as a means of monitoring a research programme's portfolio of projects. In particular, we introduce the "virtual laboratory ontology" (VLO) and show how its application to e-Science yields a mapping

New extensive report from CSHE

on country level, WoS and Scopus coverage is extremely correlated

Joint IEEE and Microsoft Research e-science conference

MIT Launches New Center for Mobile Learning Receives Initial Funding from Google Education.