Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

Prediction markets applied to scientific publication

Includes mobile apps, real-time web, augmented reality ,others

A series of case studies presents how libraries (or knowledge centers) contribute to achieving organizational goals, including streamlining contracts with partners, increasing access to corporate members via newsletters and mobile-accessible technology, facilitating directories of "intellectual capital" (think HMS's Catalyst or MIT Expertise), a knowledge source and filter of developments in risk management, and a video archive of institutional knowledge. A wide range of organizations were consulted for the report and HBS' Deb Wallace was instrumental in its creation.

"Contributed articles illustrate both challenges and innovations in implementing linked data"

Assignment from a library and information science course identifying key websites and literature for the digital humanities field.

Heidi Clark and Anita Bramhoff, two Canadian teachers who made the film as part of some work at the University of British Columbia.

Abstract: "Traditionally, scholarly impact and visibility have been measured by counting publications and citations in the scholarly literature. However, increasingly scholars are also visible on the Web, establishing presences in a growing variety of social ecosystems. But how wide and established is this presence, and how do measures of social Web impact relate to their more traditional counterparts? To answer this, we sampled 57 presenters from the 2010 Leiden STI Conference, gathering publication and citations counts as well as data from the presenters' Web "footprints." We found Web presence widespread and diverse: 84% of scholars had homepages, 70% were on LinkedIn, 23% had public Google Scholar profiles, and 16% were on Twitter. For sampled scholars' publications, social reference manager bookmarks were compared to Scopus and Web of Science citations; we found that Mendeley covers more than 80% of sampled articles, and that Mendeley bookmarks are significantly correlated (r=.45) to Scopus citation counts. " "Accepted to 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Montreal, Canada, 5-8 Sept. 2012."

the Memento Project led by Herbert Van De Sompel adds a time stamp to web pages and allows searching with time preferences.

"In recent years, publishers, librarians and academics have seized the opportunities offered by the electronic publication of scholarly journals. Despite the popularity of e-journals, however, content continues to be published, acquired and used in physical printed form. In the UK, we are still some way from a wholly electronic journal environment. This study is prompted by a concern from publishers and librarians that the retention of both printed and e-journal formats adds unnecessary costs throughout the supply chain from publisher to library to user. In view of the many advantages of electronic journals, this report sets out to understand the barriers to a move to e-only provision of scholarly journals in the UK, and to investigate what various players within the scholarly communications system could do in order to encourage such a move."

"Eduroam is a secure, world-wide wireless network roaming access service developed for the international research and education community."

Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship-Related Questions (DID-ARQ) project

The sister organisation of W3C, the Web Science Trust (www.webscience.org) proposes to create a Create a global "Web Observatory".

Many libraries decided to offer e-publishing services, one model to stay relevant in the digital world.

Discusses efforts at Wayne State University to partner more effectively with researchers and campus organizations to market library services

Categories include "Policies, Best Practices and Guidelines," "Roles, Services and Skills" "Directories of Data Repositories" "Metadata Standards" among other resources

A critique of the impact factor from a review of the mathematics literature

Calls for an inventory of federally-funded research datasets toward better data stewardship

Partnering to Publish: Innovative Roles for Societies, Institutions, Presses, and Libraries

A research brief issued for public comment by the US Department of Education which discusses a research agenda for how dating mining can inform educational decision making and outcomes

Decision-makers, administrators and research managers should focus on Sections 8 and 9 that capture all relevant issues of OA policy development.