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Kutty Kumar

Information Research: an international electronic journal. Information science, Informa... - 0 views

www.informationr.net/ir

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  • Kutty Kumar on 25 Nov 14
     
    Information Research, is an open access, international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. It is privately published and edited by Professor T.D. Wilson. It is hosted, and given technical support, by Lund University Libraries, Sweden and editorial support by the University of Borås, Sweden.
Kim Baker

The memory of a nation in a digital world - 6 views

www.newstatesman.com/...memory-nation-digital-world

open access module1 Information flux

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  • Kim Baker on 03 Sep 14
     
    "It is an irony of the digital age that at a time when we are used to having easy access to seemingly endless information and knowledge, so much of it is disappearing into a digital black hole. For 450 years the concept of legal deposit has helped to preserve the nation's intellectual record.| There is this aspect of disappearing data as well.
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  • Philip Sidaway on 04 Sep 14
     
    What form does this digital archiving take? Is it cached copies?? There is a real problem with referencing digital materials as the reference (typically including the almost meaningless date of accessing) may not be able to point to what was intended to be cited as the digital presence has been amended or deleted. Therefore the information may never be (re)retrieved in its cited form. Physical copies are of course more robust. Fascinating cultural memory issue.
  • Kim Baker on 04 Sep 14
     
    Indeed, the article raises many questions. The approach is a national one, looking at the problems of archiving digital memory for a specific country when so many of the born digital items are generated from other domains and countries beyond the control of the country (the UK in this instance). There is no global portal at this stage for archiving everything in a coordinated fashion, leading to a kind of anarchy which is not a bad thing, but which does cause problems for national (country-specific) institutions such as national archives and libraries.
  • Jacynthe Touchette on 04 Sep 14
     
    As you say, it is hard for libraries and archives services to keep up because they don't get the resources and support they need to do their work properly. Too often, we think that digital content "archives itself", that it lasts forever when, clearly, it is not the case (not to mention that keeping is not enough, content must be findable too!). I really enjoyed this reading, it touches many of my personal interests, thanks for sharing!
  • Philip Sidaway on 04 Sep 14
     
    See my bookmark post 'Academic citation practices ...' for some geeky stuff on the reference / citation issues.
  • Kim Baker on 04 Sep 14
     
    Jacynthe, you are welcome, and Phillip, many thanks!
noveltynotion

Open Access (or, why I love the internet) - 10 views

hacklibraryschool.com/...open-access

open access

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  • v woolf on 14 Oct 14
     
    The wonderful blog, Hack Library School, has recently posted a piece on open access publishing. This piece is a great overview, which covers many of the basic concepts covered in Module 6. The article discusses what open access is (and what it isn't) and some of the biggest discussion points on the issue today. It's a great overview and well worth the read if you want an overview or a refresher on the topic!
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  • ilanab on 29 Oct 14
     
    Thanks for sharing this link. It includes a clear breakdown of what gold and green Open Access are and identifies some of the challenges of gold OA.
  • Suneil Revarr on 30 Oct 14
     
    Well, its a worth reading article. We can say about open access that its a peer-reviewed work that's published in full on the internet and available at no cost to readers and that helps the whole society. OA is today's need.
  • brunoapolonio on 30 Oct 14
     
    Great link you shared, shows very well on the concepts covered in module 6 and shows an overview of assunto.Engloba and greatly enriches our knowledge.
  • nellycarr on 31 Oct 14
     
    Excelent! thanks for the resource!
  • noveltynotion on 31 Oct 14
     
    Yes thank you for passing it on. As a librarian I'm happy to know more of us are out there and participating in the conversation.
  • noveltynotion on 31 Oct 14
     
    The internet is pretty awesome guys. Privacy attacks and trolls aside, no other tool humans have ever created can match its potential for information transfer. Sure, I often use it to watch cat videos and buy clothing I don't need, but it also supports one of the biggest developments in modern librarianship and one of...
  • dudeec on 31 Oct 14
     
    This blog covers a lot of relevant concepts related to OA, but a finer point need to be clarified. Regarding Google Scholar, not everything retrieved from GS is OA. GS is a web crowler, it crows wherever it is allowed, including references and citations to articles behind paywalls. On the other hand, many librarians are working to make their paid journals subscriptions available to their faculty and students via Google Scholar. So when faculty/students are on their universities' network, they can search GS, find articles from journals. If their library subscribes to that journal, there is a good chance a link to the full text will be available.
  • dudeec on 31 Oct 14
     
    I agree with the point that "findability" for green OA articles is a current problem. We need a PubMed or Web of Science for green OA articles!
Philip Sidaway

Academic citation practices need to be modernized so that all references are digital an... - 1 views

blogs.lse.ac.uk/...ractices-need-to-be-modernized

open access referencing references citation information retrieval

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  • Philip Sidaway on 04 Sep 14
     
    Researchers and academics spend a lot of time documenting the sources of the ideas, methods and evidence they have drawn on in their own writings. But Patrick Dunleavy writes that our existing citation and referencing practices are now woefully out of date and no longer fit for purpose.
  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 05 Sep 14
     
    I think that LSE is doing a lot of useful work for change the way scholars work and communicate. But the structure of the whole system is solid rock (still).
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