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Alexandra Finch

Publishing: The Peer-review scam - 2 views

a. An unfortunate phenomenon is emerging in scholarly publishing: the artificial or contrived peer review. Ferguson, et al., report the emerging issue affecting several peer review systems used by ...

peer-review scholarly publishing module9

started by Alexandra Finch on 28 Nov 14 1 follow-up, last by Alexandra Finch on 28 Nov 14
Kevin Stranack

Martin Eve: Building the Open Library of the Humanities - 5 views

lj.libraryjournal.com/...open-library-of-the-humanities

module9 scholarly publishing altmetrics open access

shared by Kevin Stranack on 30 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 30 Sep 14
     
    "At the same time, a fair amount of resistance to OA practices still exists. Publishers object to OA on economic principles, as it undermines the revenue generated by journals. Some researchers feel that it devalues their work as well, lowering it to the level of "a database to be consulted," in Eve's words. He believes the academic community is over-reliant on scholarly publishing's status quo; as he told the crowd at Columbia, "the system reinforces itself through economies of prestige." Even as interest in altmetrics grows, the quality of research continues to be gauged by the number of citations an article gathers and the status of the journal it appears in."
  • rafopen on 12 Nov 14
     
    This is a good overview of a project that seeks to demystify and break down resistance to open educational resources.
ibudule

Open Access Button - 2 views

openaccessbutton.org

open access tools Module8

shared by ibudule on 23 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • ibudule on 23 Oct 14
     
    The key functions of the Open Access Button are finding free research, making more research available and also advocacy. Have not tried yet, but seems interesting.
michielmoll

Journal of Leadership and Management Studies - 1 views

http://digitalknowledge.cput.ac.za/xmlui/handle/11189/1831 This journal is now the second that we are putting online - but it is the first fruits of our recently adopted Open Access policy at CPUT...

South Journal JOLMS research leadership management

started by michielmoll on 13 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
Kevin Stranack

The Public Library as a Community Hub for Connected Learning - 9 views

library.ifla.org/...167-nygren-en.pdf

module2 public libraries connected learning

shared by Kevin Stranack on 18 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 18 Sep 14
     
    "This paper provides a brief overview of the ideas and principles underlying the connected learning movement, highlighting examples of how libraries are boosting 21st century learning and promoting community development by partnering with a range of organisations and individuals to incorporate connected opportunities into their programmes"
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  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 18 Sep 14
     
    Robert Darnton about the centrality of public libraries (in the distant 2008): Meanwhile, I say: shore up the library. Stock it with printed matter. Reinforce its reading rooms. But don't think of it as a warehouse or a museum. While dispensing books, most research libraries operate as nerve centers for transmitting electronic impulses. They acquire data sets, maintain digital repositories, provide access to e-journals, and orchestrate information systems that reach deep into laboratories as well as studies. Many of them are sharing their intellectual wealth with the rest of the world by permitting Google to digitize their printed collections. Therefore, I also say: long live Google, but don't count on it living long enough to replace that venerable building with the Corinthian columns. As a citadel of learning and as a platform for adventure on the Internet, the research library still deserves to stand at the center of the campus, preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future. Source: The Research Library in the Digital Age. Available: http://hul.harvard.edu/publications/Darnton_ResearchLibraryDigitalAge.pdf
  • Leticia Lafuente López on 19 Sep 14
     
    Thank you very much Kevin for this report. For me has been very ilustrative; my last experience with internet connection, collaboration and public libraries in Spain was that the person in charge of the lecture hall told me I was not allowed to plug the mobile phone charger in (as I was running out of battery with my smart phone), but that I could use the library desk computers (only for 30 minutes per day for free...) I was really disgusted and for me it is great to hear that in other countries these initiatives are taking place. Thanks!
  • aleksandraxhamo on 20 Sep 14
     
    Thanks Kevin for sharing this.
  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 20 Sep 14
     
    El lado oscuro de las bibliotecas: "¿Quieren leer? Pues a pagar" Es un delirio: cuando tomemos prestado un libro de una biblioteca será preciso pagar un canon http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2014/08/27/babelia/1409137321_870906.html
mark Christopher

Inequitable power dynamics of global knowledge production and exchange must be confront... - 1 views

blogs.lse.ac.uk/...p-from-access-to-participation

resource inequality module2

shared by mark Christopher on 02 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • bmierzejewska on 02 Aug 14
     
    "Showing "The World of Science", the map below portrays global research production as expressed through science journals' publishing in the early 2000s. It makes a dramatic point about the complexities of global inequalities in knowledge production and exchange. What would it take to redraw the knowledge production map to realise a vision of a more equitable and accurate world of knowledge?"
  • mark Christopher on 11 Sep 14
     
    The research environment in the global South faces many pressing challenges given resource inequality. Technical and financial issues aside, Laura Czerniewicz asserts it is the values and practices shaped by the Northern research agenda which contribute just as much to the imbalance.
Jacynthe Touchette

Together we are stronger: charities join forces to support open access (UK) - 2 views

blogs.biomedcentral.com/...charities-support-open-access

module4 module6 open access publishing charities

shared by Jacynthe Touchette on 18 Sep 14 - No Cached
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  • Jacynthe Touchette on 18 Sep 14
     
    A great news, especially for the "immediately" aspect! "A consortium of six leading UK medical research charities will support the costs of making research articles from their funded research immediately and freely openly available to scientists, patients, and donors alike, through the recently announced joint Charity Open Access Fund."
mbishon

The state of Internet privacy in 2013: Research roundup - 0 views

journalistsresource.org/...ivacy-in-2013-research-roundup

module1 privacy

shared by mbishon on 03 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Pris Laurente on 03 Sep 14
     
    "This study examined the impact of three dimensions of digital literacy on privacy-related online behaviors: (a) familiarity with technical aspects of the Internet, (b) awareness of common institutional practices, and (c) understanding of current privacy policy.However, the findings were mixed when accounting for the interaction between knowledge and Internet experiences. There were limitations on the extents of knowledge and action related to personalized information. Furthermore, those limitations divided with sociodemographic characteristics such as age, gender, income, and education."
  • Pris Laurente on 14 Sep 14
     
    "This study examined the impact of three dimensions of digital literacy on privacy-related online behaviors: (a) familiarity with technical aspects of the Internet, (b) awareness of common institutional practices, and (c) understanding of current privacy policy.However, the findings were mixed when accounting for the interaction between knowledge and Internet experiences. There were limitations on the extents of knowledge and action related to personalized information. Furthermore, those limitations divided with sociodemographic characteristics such as age, gender, income, and education."
  • mbishon on 21 Sep 14
     
    Concerns about the decline in personal privacy have long troubled citizens, scholars and politicians. This is a list of recent academic research studies and reports that address issues relating to digital privacy.
geeta66

Online research collaboration - 2 views

wizfolio.com

shared by geeta66 on 05 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • geeta66 on 05 Oct 14
     
    WizFolio is an online research collaboration tool for knowledge discovery. With WizFolio you can easily manage and share all types of information in a citation ready format including research papers, patents, documents, books, YouTube videos, web snippets and a lot more.
Aruna Maruthi

List of open science journals in India - 0 views

Open Science Publications (OSP) is an open access journal rostrum for peer reviewed, scientific literature. OSP is poised on offering researchers and research institutions all over the world with r...

open access open Science Module 6

started by Aruna Maruthi on 13 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
itsmedianelee

Will sunshine database clarify or cloud researchers' industry ties? - 0 views

news.sciencemag.org/...loud-researchers-industry-ties

open knowledge open access cloud database free online

shared by itsmedianelee on 09 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • itsmedianelee on 09 Oct 14
     
    A federal database publicly disclosing companies' payments to doctors went live this week, drawing a splash of attention to the $3.5 billion given to physicians over 5 months last year. Although one purpose of the site is to shine light on potential conflicts of interest in research, the site may fall short of that goal.
ilanab

SHARE Selects Center for Open Science as Development Partner for Notification Service - 0 views

www.arl.org/...rtner-for-notification-service

Module6 open access open data open science

shared by ilanab on 11 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • ilanab on 11 Oct 14
     
    This article describes how the Notification Service of SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) has come about. It clearly specifies the associations and organisations which have collaborated to alert scientists and others to the status of the latest scientific research being conducted to drive their mutual goals of the advancement of science and access to this research for all.
Kim Baker

At Sea in a Deluge of Data - 1 views

chronicle.com/...147477

module10 information overload

shared by Kim Baker on 04 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Kim Baker on 04 Nov 14
     
    "It turns out that students are poorly trained in college to effectively navigate the Internet's indiscriminate glut of information. Another Project Information Literacy study, involving more than 8,300 undergraduates at 25 American colleges, found that most make do with a very small compass. They rely on tried and true resources such as course readings, library databases, Google, and Wikipedia....The skills that students cultivate through traditional assignments-writing essays based on library research-are far different from those required to perform efficient, high-level, accurate research in the digital world. All of those types of research skills take practice under the eye of experts."
  • ilanab on 04 Nov 14
     
    This commentary emphasises the need for students to be taught within the curricula on how to be discerning when navigating the surfeit of information on the internet.
Jannicke Røgler

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - 0 views

plato.stanford.edu

reference research education theory resources library culture free filosofi leksikon stanford open access Module8

shared by Jannicke Røgler on 01 Nov 14 - Cached
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  • Jannicke Røgler on 01 Nov 14
     
    Welcome to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). From its inception, the SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Consequently, our dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research. You can cite fixed editions that are created on a quarterly basis and stored in our Archives (every entry contains a link to its complete archival history, identifying the fixed edition the reader should cite). The Table of Contents lists entries that are published or assigned. The Projected Table of Contents also lists entries which are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected.
  • scat39 on 06 Nov 14
     
    I like this encyclopedia, I already have used it to do my homework, it has very structured information, and is like consult a great book of phylosophy and very specialized!
Kutty Kumar

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

www.informationr.net/ir

shared by Kutty Kumar on 25 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • 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.
talenwu

Wikipedia Is More Biased Than Britannica, but Don't Blame the Crowd - 2 views

hbr.org/...nnica-but-dont-blame-the-crowd

encyclopedia

shared by talenwu on 04 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • talenwu on 04 Dec 14
     
    Researchers found out that " Wikipedia is significantly more biased than Britannica by their measurement, and a bit more left-leaning." But isn't the biggest and the most important thing of Wikipedia is their neutral point of view policy? This is introduced by the Wikipedia founder as the core principle of the community in our lecture video. However, researchers also found out that, the research result is influenced by their measurement, "Wikipedia articles are longer, on average, than Britannica articles, and on a per word basis Wikipedia is actually slightly less biased. Wikipedia articles which have received more revisions tend to be more neutral. The more the crowd works on an article, the less biased it is."
  • monde3297 on 10 Dec 14
     
    Does that mean it has created a platform for all the political foes to meet, under one roof and voice out their views.
Philip Sidaway

Using Social Media to Build Your Academic Career - 1 views

ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/...-to-build-your-academic-career

social media scientific literature

shared by Philip Sidaway on 10 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Philip Sidaway on 10 Sep 14
     
    Background Back on 19th June 2014 I gave an invited plenary talk on "Open Practices for Researchers" at the Research and Innovation Conference 2014 at the University of Bolton. I was pleased to have an opportunity to share my experiences with researchers at the University of Bolton, an institution which has a clear focus on...
omarrr

Open access is revolutionizing science, and it's a growing research market online | Sci... - 2 views

www.dw.de/...a-17619476

open access

shared by omarrr on 06 Sep 14 - No Cached
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  • omarrr on 06 Sep 14
     
    Comparto, la forma en que se percibe al Open Access, en diferentes áreas de conocimiento, y que considero, ya que no es un caso aislado para los que se han comprometido con la causa: "Access to this research is like a human right"
mbchris

Data.gov - 2 views

www.data.gov

US Government Open Data Open Data Data Sets Information you can use

shared by mbchris on 14 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • mbchris on 14 Oct 14
     
    The home of the U.S. Government's open data Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. This tool is very powerful for researchers that may not access to the funds and resources of researchers from well funded universities or that of the US Government. This resources breaks the data out into 21 different topics covering areas from education to the ocean. Each section has data sets to choose from and access to grant information as well as articles and updates on each topic. Even it you are someone that does not have the capacity to use these resources, I believe that it is good to know where to find this source so that you can share it with others, or perhaps one day you will have the ability to use this resource more fully.
dudeec

How can students know the information they find online is true or not - 6 views

www.noodletools.com/...true_or_not.pdf

module10 information literacy

shared by dudeec on 06 Nov 14 - No Cached
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  • dudeec on 06 Nov 14
     
    A good supplement to Module 10's core reading on ACRL's standards for information literacy for higher education, this 5-pager is a short article for middle and high school librarians and parents.
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  • liyanl on 07 Nov 14
     
    I think that is a really good point. I feel like sometime for myself,I don't really know whether the information that we have found online is true or not. There are tons information online and we can't filter them all out, instead i think we should have a better understand and sense of what we are searching online before we do research.
  • pad123 on 07 Nov 14
     
    Very good information. Every child should be taught about this before project assignment given to them. Sothat they will concentrate on only positive results of search engine and ignore negative results
  • ibudule on 07 Nov 14
     
    I agree that students need to have some background knowledge about the topic they research on internet. And then they may do qualitative research. I wouldn't speak about positive/negative search results, I would rather speak about true/false results.
  • itsmedianelee on 07 Nov 14
     
    As a student, I think I learn to filter out what is valid and invalid. Depending on the source, and the crediblity, and the references it uses, i think will help individuals fitler out what is true or not .
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