Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

The objective of the project was to examine the feasibility of outsourcing management of low-use print books held in academic libraries to shared service providers, including large-scale print and digital repositories.

The Journal of Digital Humanities is a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal that features the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the digital humanities community in the previous quarter.

"Much turmoil in the scholarly-communication ecosystem appears to revolve around simple ownership of intellectual property. Unpacking that notion, however, produces a fascinating tangle of stakeholders, desires, products and struggles. Some products of the research process, especially novel ones, are difficult to fit into legal concepts of ownership. As collaborative research burgeons, traditional ownership and authorship criteria are stretched to their limits and beyond, with many contributors still feeling short of due credit. The desire for access and impact brings institutions and grant funders into the formerly exclusive relationship between authors and publishers. Librarians, stripped of first-sale rights by electronic licensing, wonder about both access and long-term preservation. Emerging solutions to many of these difficulties threaten to cut publishers out of the picture altogether, perhaps a welcome change to those stakeholders who find publishers' behavior to block progress."

A survey of researchers in UK and European research institutions

"We write to communicate an untenable situation facing the Harvard Library. Many large journal publishers have made the scholarly communication environment fiscally unsustainable and academically restrictive"

The Journal of Academic Librarianship Volume 36, Issue 6, November 2010, Pages 495-500

new ways of publishing with linked data and metadata

"releasing some or all of a library's catalogue records for open use and re-use by others. " 17 cases shown

A presentation by Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet Project

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

The Lime Guild has done several analyses, which have had the purpose to predict future scenarios for the research libraries in relation to the development within the research system and to the future demands of the researchers.

Considers NY Times recent decision to make articles pay-per-view and contrasts with more open developments in scholarly publishing

Challenges in data archiving and retrieval

Aspen Institute report asks, "Does Big Data represent an evolution of knowledge, or is more actually less when it comes to information on such scales?"" Big Data and Health Care", "How Should Big Data Abuses Be Addressed?" and "Business and Social Implications of Big Data". (via the Scout Report)

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multime

What is authority in scholarship and what is the role of librarians?

The best, activity-based model I know of by Bjork

"creation spaces - places where individuals and teams interact and collaborate within a broader learning ecology so that performance accelerates."

summarizes recent OA citation studies (Alma Swan)

"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."