Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

Survey of ten authors shows increased distribution and no negative effects on print sales

paper examines costs and benefits of alternative scholarly publishing strategies in the UK, with five responding articles in the same journals issue

There are at least six ebook reader devices on the market or in preparation. A major business magazine predicts that up to seven million of these devices will be sold next year. A major consulting firm says ebook sales will account for ten percent of the publishing market in five years. And an executive at the leading computing firm predicts that 90 percent of all publishing will switch to electronic form in just 20 years.

From Nicholas Carr

Research Data Access and Preservation Summit Program Friday, April 9, 2010

(International Council for Scientific and Technical Information) Annual Conference 2010 will take place for the first time in Helsinki, Finland, on June 10 and 11, 2010. From Information to Innovation has been chosen as the main theme of the conference and will highlight the significance of information as the enabler and catalyst for scientific, technical and business developments and point to to elements of success in building the future. There are three inspiring sub-themes: Information as the lifeblood of research and innovation - Finnish cases Intelligent information solutions and services Creating the future - towards the global innovation economy

Collaboration between The New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (via @oatp) offers technology predictions for one to five years

"Cloud computing comes in several different forms and this article documents how service, platform, and infrastructure forms of cloud computing have been used to serve library needs. Following an overview of these uses the article discusses the experience of one library in migrating IT infrastructure to a cloud environment and concludes with a model for assessing cloud computing."

Venessa on the web : "a tool to enhance both ourselves and the network."

"The 116-page report represents a 2-year effort with the sponsorship and support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Library of Congress (LC), the U.K. Joint Information Systems Committee, the Electronic Records Archives Program of the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Council on Library and Information Resources. On April 1, the Task Force will hold a symposium in Washington, D.C., followed by another on May 6 in the U.K." _Barbara Quint, InformationToday

UNIVERSITY AND CYBERSPACE: RESHAPING KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE NETWORKED AGE Torino, Italy, 28-30 June 2010

inclusionists and deletionists

" A survey was carried out to explore the field, both why journals did not employ advertising, and how advertising was employed. The findings show little uptake of advertising among OA journals, and indicate that there is a lack of understanding of how advertising could best be employed."

"In this paper we measure the relationship between the narrowness of focus and the quality of contribution across a range of both traditional and recent knowledge sharing media, including scholarly articles, patents, Wikipedia, and online question and answer forums. Across all systems, we observe a small but significant positive correlation between focus and quality."

study of scores in Journal Citation Reports

Considers material form 2001 to 2009

: ePrints, DSpace, Fedora and Zentity.

"Do we have the generosity to collaborate? Can we build legal, organizational, and financial structures that will preserve and order-but also share and disseminate the learning of the world? Scholars have traditionally gated and protected knowledge, yet also shared and distributed it in libraries, schools, and universities. We have stood for a republic of learning that is wider than the ivory tower, and now is the time to do so again. We must stand up, as the Swedes say, for folkbildningsidealet, that profoundly democratic vision of universal learning and education."

summarizes recent OA citation studies (Alma Swan)