Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

"potential to dramatically accelerate a broad disruption in the mobile phone market where the balance of power shifts from carriers and retailers to device, software, and applications providers."

highlights a number of initiatives in the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, showing how research data repository infrastructures can be effectively realized through collaboration and sharing of expertise.

Scientific research is increasingly digital. Some activities, such as data analysis, search, and simulation, can be accelerated by letting scientists write workflows and scripts that automate routine activities.

Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, Brody T, Harnad S. Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research. PLoS ONE. 2010;5(10):e13636+. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013636.

The aims of the roundtable were to provide an international perspective on the likely impact of an open access future on librarians, to identify support and skills required for librarians in such a future, and to further current discussion on support for the library community from their institutions, publishers, funders and other parties.

Report from the 2012 Summit of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE,) which focused particularly on digital scholarship, open educational resources and academic collaboration.

a variety of digital scholarship issues addressed, including reproducibility of escience (data + methods)

"esearchers of Tomorrow is the longest and most intensive research to date on information-seeking practices and research behaviour among doctoral students. This gives it special significance in terms of the credibility of its findings, and these should be of key interest to a number of different stakeholders in the HE and research sector."

VOSON System - web-based software for the collection and analysis of online network data; incorporates web mining, data visualisation, and social network analysis (SNA). VOSON Data Provider for NodeXL - a plugin for NodeXL (Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel), which is a template for Excel 2007. VOSON+NodeXL allows VOSON account holders users to access VOSON System functionality (data collection and processing) from within NodeXL. Alpha version released February 2010. VOSON SNSLab - a

provides access to a comprehehsive set of software packages easing the exploration, modification, comparison, and extension of data mining and information visualization algorithms. Diverse software packages were bundled into learning modules. Access to a large-scale data repository, extensive compute resources, and a growing set of references are provided as well. It is our hope that the community will adopt this resource to foster Information Visualization education and research.

a tool for Idea tracking?

review the program in context of DSS'11

Bibliometric methods can be used to assess many types of impact. See the example from Science-Metrics and the Univeristy of Leiden Book of Abstracts.

VOSviewer, a freely available computer program is used for constructing and viewing bibliometric maps. Unlike programs such as SPSS and Pajek, which are commonly used for bibliometric mapping, VOSviewer pays special attention to the graphical representation of bibliometric maps. (Journal impact analysis)

Green OA (21.4%) exceeds Gold OA (2.4%) in proportion and growth rate in all but the biomedical disciplines,

uses coments, ratings, and recommendations metrics

The core service of Faculty of 1000 (F1000) identifies and evaluates the most important articles in biology and medical research publications. The selection process comprises a peer-nominated global 'Faculty' of the world's leading scientists and clinicians who rate the best of the articles they read and explain their importance. Launched in 2002, F1000 was conceived as a collaboration of 1000 international Faculty Members

One of a new Research Library Notes issue on 21st century academic library workforce

The Fourth International m-libraries Conference 24-26 September 2012 The Open University, UK, The main theme for the conference this year is "From margin to mainstream: mobile technologies transforming lives and libraries"

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