Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

Each year, the members of the EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee identify and research the evolving technologies that are having - or are predicted to have - the most direct impact on higher education institutions.

Big publisher offers software to track performance in 80,000 areas

Bibliometric and usage-based analyses and tools highlight the value of information about scholarship contained within the network of authors, articles and usage data. Less progress has been made on populating and using the author side of this network than the article side, in part because of the difficulty of unambiguously identifying authors. I briefly review a sample of author identifier schemes, and consider use in scholarly repositories. I then describe preliminary work at arXiv to implement public author identifiers, services based on them, and plans to make this information

PLoS initiated a program to provide a series of metrics on the individual articles published in all the PLoS Journals.

Response to 2010 Edge question, talks about connectedness on internet and social web

Experiences at EDUCAUSe, with emphasis on connecting with folks from different filed (e.g. non-librarians)

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is the first publisher to place transparent and comprehensive information about the usage and reach of published articles onto the articles themselves, so that the entire academic community can assess their value. We call these measures for evaluating articles 'Article-Level Metrics', and they are distinct from the journal-level measures of research quality that have traditionally been made available until now.

Library Resources & Technical Services 52, no. 1 (2008): Includes "Converting and Preserving the Scholarly Record: An Overview," "Mass Digitization: Implications for Preserving the Scholarly Record," and other articles.

See a growing list of initiatives and project on a GKEN knol at http://bit.ly/bdrjtO

From Artifacts to Aggregations: Modeling Scientific Life Cycles on the Semantic Web

Copyright, Ebooks and the Unpredictable Future

"Recent studies have begun to show that open access increases impact" "Also lists the web tools available to measure impact"

eScience and open access to data chapter by den Besten, P. David and Ralph Schroeder

Characteristics: Registration of ideas, data or other outputs for the purpose of assigning credit and priority to the right people is high on everyone's list. The ability to re-use, replicate, and re-purpose outputs very highly as well. It would need to enable and support public and stakeholder engagement. The the system will support discovery and filtering tools so that users can find the content they are looking for in a huge and diverse volume of available material.

"Our mission is to make the world one big study group," says Phil Hill, chief executive of OpenStudy, whose founders include Ashwin Ram, a Georgia Tech professor, and Preetha Ram, an Emory University dean.

Two UMass librarian authors review the literature and study of online respositories dedicated to particular subjects and find study,and guidelines lacking for such entities. They point out: "subject repositories are frequently cited as highly successful scholarly communication initiatives, especially in relation to institutional repositories."

a DARPA-funded report seeks a definition of disruptive technologies and to determine what goes into accurate technology prediction

A strategy used for scientific data curation needs assessment used at the University of oregon is demonstrated.

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