Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

Studying Scientific Discourse on the Web using Bibliometrics: A Chemistry Blogging Case Study

One of the many comparative studies in the field of business and management which point to the conclusion that to see the full impact of HBS faculty article output (as judged by citations) needs to take into account GS (Harzing's), WoS and Scopus.

Metrics collected by reference management software are especially intriguing because they offer a measure of active interest without requiring researchers to do anything more than what they are already doing. Scientists collect the papers they find interesting, take notes on them, and store the information in a place that is accessible and useful to them

This is the first public version of the collective proposal led by C. Neylon to develop alternative metrics of scholarly output that wil combine measures of usage and re-use and social metrics (commenting, discussions, etc.) with citation and peer review metrics.

Including by M. Hilbert

Scientific Data Sharing and Archiving at UC3/CDL: the Excel Add-in Project and More John Kunze, California Digital Library/California Curation Center and Tricia Cruse, California Digital Library/California Curation Center

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.

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.

By Jason Priem, Bradely H. Hemminger

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: Crowdsourcing research impact September 22nd, 2010

Science-Metrix is an independent research evaluation firm specializing in the assessment of science and technology (S&T) organizations and activities. Our services enable evidence-based decision-making, strategic planning, and outcome assessments.

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See the discussion that unfolded among the commenters (a panel at a conference cannot be better.)

"SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a tool to support your research needs as you design, select and apply a method. Containing over 100,000 pages of book, journal and reference content from leading SAGE authors, SRMO supports independent researchers at all levels."

Rich Results is a book search algorithm takes into account more than 100 "signals," individual data categories that Google statistically integrates to rank your results. When you search for a book, Google Books doesn't just look at word frequency or how closely your query matches the title of a book. They now take into account web search frequency, recent book sales, the number of libraries that hold the title, and how often an older book has been reprinted.

A new way to define "digital scholarship" as a family of digital forms of scholarly communication (rather than e-science or e-social science, etc.)

Ball, A.., 2012. Review of Data Management Lifecycle Models. Research Report. Bath, UK: University of Bath

Oxford Internet Institute Produces Its First Interactive iBook of Research 22 March 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

From Elsevier, S&T Journals, Content Innovation. Offers models of dataset linking and application-based dataset linking to scientific journal articles