Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

Considers the integration of publications and data as representing potential for realization of the semantic web

iPRES 2010 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects September 19 - 24, 2010, Vienna, Austria

Unfortunate development in the print publication business

Analysis of 12 UK/US studies on digital information usage

Describes a survey instrument to demonstrate the importance of knowlege management, information sharing and collaboration for librarians

Following last week's release of Ithaka S+R's Faculty Survey 2009 (http://bit.ly/aJP4pl), we are pleased to announce a series of webinars that will explore each of the major themes of this survey in depth. Each webinar will focus on an individual chapter of the full report, providing the opportunity for a targeted discussion of the findings of our study and their implications for libraries, publishers, and scholarly societies.

"Long-term preservation and stewardship of scientific data and research-related information are vitally important to future science and scholarship. Scientific data archives can offer capabilities for managing and preserving disciplinary and interdisciplinary data for research, education, and decision-making activities of future communities of users. Meeting the requirements for a trusted digital repository will help to ensure that today's collections of scientific data will be available in the future. A continuing self-assessment of a long-term archive for interdisciplinary scientific data is being conducted to identify the additional steps needed for it to become a trustworthy repository. Recommendations include a strategy for collaborative organizational sustainability, a model for submission and workflow to ingest interdisciplinary scientific data into a repository, and a plan for facilitating intra-organizational transfer between repositories."

Call for OA journal innovation in Canada, particularly inclusion of multiple media formats

comparison of article metrics

NSF's Cyber-Network Now Expands Across the Northern Hemisphere and Connects Half the Globe GLORIAD's Taj Network opens new horizons for U.S. scientists, educators and students from South Asia to North Pole

"This paper focuses on changing reading characteristics and presents a study among a group of expert readers. Considering technological bases of reading and applying corporeal and material perspectives, this study examines manners in which proficient readers handle printed and digital texts, attempting to explain differences in digital and paper-based reading. Based on findings, this paper reflects on how long-form text can be productively transferred into the digital reading space."

InnoCentive and NPG Launch Nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion InnoCentive, Inc., the global open innovation marketplace (www.innocentive.com), and Nature Publishing Group (NPG), a scientific and medical publisher (www.nature.com), announced the launch of the Nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion. Jointly hosted on InnoCentive.com and Nature.com (www.nature.com/openinnovation) the Nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion provides a hub for scientific collaboration and open innovation.

Example of an "Article of the Future" (project sponsored by Elsevier). How is it different (or similar) to the PLoS format?

Future of mobile monitoring of research?

The OSG/CMU Scientific Software Ecosystem Workshop was held February 16 & 17, 2010 in Los Angeles, supported by the National Science Foundation through grant #0943168. It was an invitation workshop on scientific software development ecosystems, organized by the SciSoft research team at CMU (Jim Herbsleb and James Howison) and the Open Science Grid, hosted by LIGO at CalTech (special thanks to Kent Blackburn). The purpose of the workshop was to learn from each other in order to improve how we produce, share and sustain scientific software in our various fields and to develop positions regarding possible scientific research funding agency policies on software practices.