Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

With increased pressure on universities and researchers to preserve research data for re-use in the future, JISC's Research Integrity Conference considered the role of universities in safeguarding research integrity and looked into the real issues being faced by universities from a strategic and technical perspective

WorldWideScience.org, a federated full-text database of scientific and technical research information published at least 70 cooperative countries, providing access to millions of deep web documents with only about a 4% overlap with general public search engines.

Four decades of sociological research points to a future society where education performance will be the singular dominant factor in social status attainment, and education will be one of the most transforming of social institutions for individuals and other social institutions

How Google Search, the Kindle and e-books, and print on demand this could play out in the future, specifically for the major players of book publishing: readers, authors, printers, publishers, retailers, and e-book device vendors.

Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory annual conference to be held December 2-3, 2011, University of Michigan, deadline for proposals July 1, 2011, information on conference topics

look for a critique of culturomics

call for proposals, conference taking place September 6-8. 2011 at Urbana-Champaign,

a conference on elearning presented by the New School taking place in October

Google's book service raises monopoly and privacy concerns. It also holds great promise for increasing access to knowledge.

"this report: 1) describes data-centric architectures; 2) gives some examples of how organisations are already sharing data and discusses this from a data-centric perspective; 3) introduces some tools and technologies that can support data-centric architectures as well as some new models of data management; 4) concludes with a look at the direction of travel. This report also provides a glossary to help clarify key terms and a 'References' section listing works cited."

Twelve national organisations have signed up to a new set of open metadata principles and now JISC is inviting all publicly funded organisations including universities, colleges, libraries, museums and archives to make the same commitment

look for info innovations?

Since the publication of Robert K. Merton's theory of cumulative advantage in science (Matthew Effect), several empirical studies have tried to measure its presence at the level of papers, individual researchers, institutions or countries.

One of the advantages of the Harvard open-access policies is that the university's cumulation of rights allows it to negotiate directly with publishers on behalf of covered authors. Such discussions can lead to win-win agreements in which Harvard authors

Launched by NCBI, Rapid Research Notes (RRN) "allows users to access and cite research that is provided through participating publisher programs designed for immediate communication."

Abstract: "By analyzing six different event-centric datasets of resources shared in social media in the period from June 2009 to March 2012, we found about 11% lost and 20% archived after just a year and an average of 27% lost and 41% archived after two and a half years. Furthermore, we found a nearly linear relationship between time of sharing of the resource and the percentage lost, with a slightly less linear relationship between time of sharing and archiving coverage of the resource. From this model we conclude that after the first year of publishing, nearly 11% of shared resources will be lost and after that we will continue to lose 0.02% per day." Wonder how this compares with some of the "linkrot" or disappearing web resource links studies in the '00s?

The compact for open-access publishing equity supports equity of the business models by committing each university to "the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication charges for articles written by its faculty and p

Google Books (despite some OCR-related quality issues) is becoming a treasure trove for computational research (such as culturomics) and other digital humanities projects.