Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

According to a news article by the SURFfoundation, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, which "funds thousands of top researchers at universities and institutes and steers the course of Dutch science by means of subsidies and research programmes," will commit five million Euros to support the open access publication of its funded research results.

A working paper proposing four (instead of two) repository kinds, including the subject-based repository, research repository, national repository system and institutional repository.

AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), announces the launch of article-level metrics for its new, open access journal AIP Advances

A new publishing platform to showcase the best of that online work. It's called PressForward. And its creators-the same people who developed the academic-research platforms Zotero and Omeka-hope to take advantage of the interactive Web but preserve elements of scholarly review.

implications for DPLA

Science 2.0: Social networks and online applications for scholars. Author: Lluís Codina

"Managing free and open access electronic resources" How to support library patron access to OA resources and ins ome cases, how to distinguish between free, or partially free or free at some time.

Heather Morrison reviews statistics of OA growth including DOAJ, Scientific commons, insitutional mandates

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?

A thoughful article on OA, its progress and implications, followed by an informative discussion from publishers, authors and librarians.

Questions discussed includ privacy, monopoly, size

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.

Teaching with the HIGHBROW Annotation Browser

The CLARIN project is a large-scale pan-European collaborative effort to create, coordinate and make language resources and technology available and readily usable. CLARIN offers scholars the tools to allow computer-aided language processing, addressing one or more of the multiple roles language plays (i.e. carrier of cultural content and knowledge, instrument of communication, component of identity and object of study) in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

At the European level, the Digital Agenda for Europe 2020 identifies 'opening up public data resources for re-use' as a key action in support of the Digital Single Market. 2 The European Commission is reviewing the Directive on Re-Use of Public Sector Information. The Commission's The New Renaissance report 3 , published in January 2011, emphatically endorsed open data. At the national level, for example in the UK, the higher education community has issued the Open Metadata Principles 4 calling on metadata to be openly available for innovative re-use.

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