Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

companion to e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice (Routledge, 2009) and includes material both supplementing and expanding what is contained in the book. The site contains background information, new research and resources, visualizations, and opportunity to post comments and contact contributors. It is a dynamic site in the sense that additions and revisions are frequently made

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

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

Amazon.com has launched a lending library for US Kindle owners with Prime membership today (3rd November), after signing deals on a "variety of terms" with publishers.

web service that collects all scientific articles published by an author and displays their aggregate article-level metrics. ScienceCard allows a researcher to create and maintain a researcher profile with minimal effort, and to export and reuse this information elsewhere.

The E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography includes English-language articles, books, editorials, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the broad role of academic libraries in e-science efforts. The scope of this brief selective bibliography is narrow, and it does not cover data curation and research data management issues in libraries in general (see the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 for coverage of these topics).

The possibilities offered by the Internet will give researchers and teaching staff broad and easy access to scientific/scholarly sources. It is not only publications that will become available but also the underlying data, models, and algorithms. Adding the underlying data and models to an article makes it easier to verify, reproduce, and re-use the results of research. An article of this kind is referred to as an "enhanced publication

Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences Hackathon

." I'd suggest we can learn a lesson from that story as we 'build' the DPLA: we should work with familiar mental models of the library, for both browsers and searchers. Let's make this easy for our users." (Nate Hill)

Scientists can now include online gaming in their problem-solving arsenal... Imagine an article or patent application with 30,000 gamers/authors?

What are new pedagogic approaches for learning with mobile platforms? What are the limitations of the "digital literacies" paradigm and its first world/third world assumptions?

many sessions with implications for digital scholarship and new forms of scholarly communications