Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

This paper reports results from a large recent study of the public domain in the European Union. Based on a combination of catalogue and survey data our figures for the number of items (and works) in the public domain extend across a variety of media and provide one of the first quantitative estimates of the 'size' of the public domain in any jurisdiction.

Discussion about what "patrimony" and "heritage" and a "universal knowledge collection" means and the place of HathiTrust and Google digitization project in the future National Dgitial Library

In 2013 HathiTrust will be moving to a new cost model that will distribute the costs of sustaining the repository in a way that more accurately reflects the benefits each partner receives from the preserved collections. The new model will also allow institutions to join HathiTrust that wish to participate in the curation and management of the repository in return for specialized services, but do not necessarily have digital content to contribute

Elsevier [is announcing the] launch of Article-Based Publishing -- a new publishing model that publishes articles as final and citable without needing to wait until a journal issue is complete. With an increasing focus on online publishing, there is a growing need for innovative publication models geared towards individual articles instead of the print-based issue model. Article-Based Publishing is the assigning of final citation data on an article-by-article basis, decoupled from the compilation of the journal issue itself.

The Scholarly Communication Institute at the University of Virginia has released Scholarly Communication Institute 8: Emerging Genres in Scholarly Communication.

By Jason Priem, Bradely H. Hemminger

A project proposed by Cameron Neylon to convene (funders, publishers and individuals) and developers to develop useful research metrics that encourage more open usage and re-usage of research data.

Video of a lecture by Charles Vest (former MIT president and president of the National Academy of Engineering) on sharing educational resources over the web, with MIT's OpenCourseWare as a model.

ReaderMeter adapts two popular impact metrics for authors (the H-Index [1] and the G-Index [2]) and redefines them using bookmarks instead of citations as an HR-Index and a GR-Index respectively: hover over the index values for an explanation of their meaning.

ReaderMeter: Crowdsourcing research impact September 22nd, 2010

OpenAccess Statistics: Alternative Impact Measures for Open Access documents? An examination how to generate interoperable usage information from distributed Open Access services

from the eco4r project, features a review of "enhanced publications" in repositories, data standards for supporting the use of these publications, best practices and examples from Bielefeld University Library repositories

(Note: See the .pdf attached to this media release for the various models suggested for analyzing impact) It is often stated that the most difficult task in any research project is not the achievement of results, but the accurate analysis of the benefits that those outcomes reap. The Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Programme has been a leading light in the discovery and industry-focused application of new technologies and techniques. Now, with the release of a landmark guidebook by the CRC Association, scientists are armed with tools to greatly improve their ability to accurately assess the benefit to the economy of their outputs.

Formerly, the impact of authors and their scientific production was measured by the average citation frequencies of journals publishing their research: the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), calculated by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in the United States and published annually in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)-the most frequently used quantitative indicator to measure the quality/value/impact of research works published in the core international journals. It has been suggested that, by calculating the number of webpages pointing to a given site, analogously, a Web Impact Factor can be calculated as a way of comparing the attractiveness of sites or domains on the World Wide Web.