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"Overcoming barriers: access to research information" a Research Information Network report

This report points out a major issue for researchers: it is often easy to FIND the content they need (through Web of Science or Google or PubMed) but it is difficult to ACCESS it. "The content is not available online (either through failure to be digitised or lack of licence purchasing) and licences for online content are seen to be too complex and sometimes restrictive of access for non-members of institutions; and institutions lack the technical and administrative capacity to overcome these issues."

Abstract "Research libraries have sought to apply their information management expertise to the management of digital research data. This focus has been spurred in part by the policies of two major funding agencies in the United States, which require grant recipients make research outputs, including publications and research data, openly available. As many academic libraries are beginning to offer or are already offering assistance in writing and implementing data management plans, it is important to consider how best to support researchers. Our research examined the current data management requirements of major US funding agencies to better understand data management requirements facing researchers and the implications for libraries offering data management services for researchers."

See the free executive summary. Digital technologies raise all kinds of issues regarding the validity of research data, standards, restrictions, and preservation. This book seeks to be an essential guide to the principles affecting research data in th

a n inspirational ppt about new technologies and transformational thought

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How can Internet benefit science? Is online science a myth? Examples of tools and technologies, "Science is an example par excellence of creative collaboration, yet scientific collaboration still takes place mainly via face-to-face meetings. With the exce

"Welcome to Electronic Resources & Libraries!" wiki via Abigial Bordeaux

"Future Professional Communication in Astronomy II"

a new online publication

This is a very condensed newsletter-like format, mostly useful for EU/UK information, sponsored by BBC, British Library, JISC and others.

iSGTW is an international, weekly, on-line science-computing newsletter that shows the importance of distributed computing, cloud computing and supercomputing. It does so by reporting about the people and projects involved in these fields, and how these types of computing technologies are being applied to make scientific advances.

Kobo wants readers of ebooks to be able to read on any platfom

From the O'REilly Open Source conference (July 2009), featuring Simon Wardley of Canonical, Ltd. "cloud computing is a natural progression of industry maturity for IT ...whether your revenue can be enhanced by making your offerings available through cloud computing. "

A blog by web librarians, named by LISNews as one of the librarian blogs to read in 2010 (see: http://lisnews.org/10_librarian_blogs_read_2010/)

description of sm tools for discovery and evaluatio in pharma

new perspective in journal metrics from Elsevier

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.

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

"This report brings together the responses of 160 interviewees across 45, mostly elite, research institutions to closely examine scholarly needs and values in seven selected academic fields: archaeology, astrophysics, biology, economics, history, music, and political science. "

questioning of citation counts and research metrics

"promise and direction of ereaders