Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

A project proposed by Cameron Neylon to convene (funders, publishers and individuals) and developers to develop useful research metrics that encourage more open usage and re-usage of research data.

Analysis of 12 UK/US studies on digital information usage

a model proposed for health science info

Eric Mazur and others - consider inviting to the 2011 Harvard Digital Scholarship Seminar

IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing associate professor Johan Bollen and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will share the Mellon Foundation grant designed to build upon the Metrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources (MESUR) project that Bollen began in 2006

Proposes a new way of looking at library organization and services, with three specific areas, reduce redundant collection and storage with a "national network of "last copy" print repositories," throw efforts toward National Digital Library such as proposed by Darnton, coordinate depository and data sharing initiatives, consolidate technical services operations regionally, and establish an LIS R&D for data collection, data sharing, decision making and development of useful information applications.

Excerpt: similarities and emerging differences between Generation Y and older students in six broad areas: * constraints on research; * ways of searching for research information; * research resources used; * using library collections and services; * using technology in research; * training and support to research. ...

JISC report explores assumptions about "Generation Y' and information-seeking behavior and facility with technology

Wikipedia may have more in common with an old-fashioned factory floor than we think.

Very interesting, Gosia!

"a novel PDF reader that semantically integrates visualization and data-analysis tools with published research articles." A pilot project with Biochemical Journal is described.

Comparison of three citation tools for tracking dataset citations

Discusses the prospects and limitations of digitial scholarship, particularly the for-profit nature of scholarly publishing and faculty resistance to new models

"Open Access to Scientific Publications The good, the bad, and the ugly."

A review of four bibliographic utility studies on library catalogs points out that the library catalog is no longer the starting point for students and researchers and that it has been eclipsed by easier-to-use and more convenient tools such as Google Books, Google Scholar, and LibraryThing. The author suggests that catalog developers learn from these tools and draw on their metadata; include "social" enhancements such as tagging, comments, and reviews; develop systems that are user-focused rather than librarian-focused; forsake the local catalog for the union catalog to reduce duplication of effort

Conference taking place at Rice University, February 27-28, 2012. Speaker bios and abstracts available at the conference page.

The Repositories Support Project has released the Survey of Academic Attitudes to Open Access and Institutional Repositories-An RSP and UKCoRR Initiative.

by Anna Gold

Unfortunate development in the print publication business

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

survey useufl for societies consider e-only publication