Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

The National Library of Finland has launched a new program to support the digitization efforts of its archives. The project, Digitalkoot (Digital Volunteers), blends microtasks, crowdsourcing, and video games to break up and distribute some of the dull repetitive work of verifying digitized records.

Ultimately I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world

Open-source scientific workflow and provenance management system developed at the University of Utah that provides support for data exploration

Review all for understandign the user behavior in the context of DPLA

Well-behaved document (user and IM friendly) and other posters

Report commissioned by the Publishing Research Consortium

report notes the growth of published papers at a rate of 20% a year and new open access journals at around 15% per year, credited to the increased ease of digital publishing

A research paper considers new scientists' publishing and presentation activities using blogs, websites, and social media in the context of the scientific publishing enterprise.

Case studies by Jonathan West on innovation in labs

update on mapping approach for defining best research cities

authors were most likely to share data if they had prior experience sharing or reusing data, if their study was published in an open access journal or a journal with a relatively strong data sharing policy, or if the study was funded by a large number of NIH grants. Authors of studies on cancer and human subjects were least likely to make their datasets available.

How should the university campus interface with national cyberinfrastructure (CI)? What role do networks play in today's data-intensive environment?

The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. OAI has its roots in the open access and institutional repository movements. Continued support of this work remains a cornerstone of the Open Archives program. Over time, however, the work of OAI has expanded to promote broad access to digital resources for eScholarship, eLearning, and eScience.

'Maximizing The Impacts Of Your Research: A Handbook For Social Scientists' now available to download as a PDF

Heather Morrison has released a draft of her doctoral thesis Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age.

A human-machine approach to annotation framework (contested collective intelligence)