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lubajung

The Digital Literacy "best practices" Site - 3 views

www.netliteracy.org/digital-literacy

knowledge mooc publishing open

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  • lubajung on 14 Nov 14
     
    This is a great source about Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion. You can find here worldwide research and news about these topics. 'The Digital Literacy "best practices" website is a reference and a celebration of the many good ideas that have been successfully used to promote digital literacy and digital inclusion'
  • dudeec on 14 Nov 14
     
    Good resource. Thanks for sharing. "Information literacy," "media literacy," "digital literacy" are all similar but yet different ideas. I am wrestling with the specifics of each. This site provides great examples.
  • yitingwang on 16 Nov 14
     
    Thank you for sharing this resource. Nowadays, people just post things on the internet and doesn't consider the following effects. Many people lack the digital literacy. They need to learn it and then protect themselves. It is a good website to help me know digital literacy and digital inclusion.
christofhar

HINARI - 1 views

www.who.int/en

Module9

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  • christofhar on 16 Nov 14
     
    HINARI Access to Research in Health Programme provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries.
jurado-navas

InTech - Open Science Open Minds | InTechOpen - 0 views

www.intechopen.com

module4 open open access creative commons

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  • jurado-navas on 12 Oct 14
     
    InTechOpen is a leading global publisher of Journals and Books within the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. We are the preferred choice of over 60,000 authors worldwide. Hello everybody, Editorial Intech is a good example of Creative Commons Publication Site: www.intechopen.com They are focused on the scientific world with a great variety of topics including engineering, mathematics, linguistics, software, radio mobile communications, etc. In this sense, let me one of my recent publications there: "A unifying statistical model for atmospheric optical communications", focused on the generation of a new statistical model that unifies in a single closed form expression many of other probability density functions employed in the literature to model the turbulent atmosphere as an optical channel of communications. http://cdn.intechweb.org/pdfs/20889.pdf Best regards, Dr. Antonio Jurado-Navas University of Málaga (Spain)
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  • Ibraghimova Irina on 23 Oct 14
     
    Very useful resource. Recommended it some time ago to colleagues in Ethiopia when they started a new university programme in biomedical engineering and were looking for publications that they can use in their curriculum
  • jurado-navas on 09 Nov 14
     
    Thank you, Ibraghimova.
  • Matt Tibble on 10 Nov 14
     
    I have now only realized that this site is an Open Knowledge site, and I had used it over a year ago to cite some research for a paper on renewable energies. You might be interested in this site for sharing scientific data: http://www.researchgate.net/
mbishon

Predatory open access publishing - 0 views

en.m.wikipedia.org/...edatory_open-access_publishing

shared by mbishon on 17 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • mbishon on 17 Nov 14
     
    I was reading one of the week 12 additional resources, PKP School: Becoming a Reviewer http://pkpschool.sfu.ca/becoming-a-reviewer/ and came across the term Predatory Open Access Publishing. I guess no matter what, someone is going to try to make a buck. There is also a site that others have posted here, http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ that is where Beall's list is housed. Beall's list is a list of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers - a good place to check if you are thinking of writing or reviewing for a journal, if it's on the list do more digging and research on the journal itself before committing to anything. The journal names all sound pretty impressive so you can't tell by name alone.
azhar_ka

Google's delivery drones newest front in war with Amazon - 0 views

www.cbc.ca/...t-in-war-with-amazon-1.2750104

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  • azhar_ka on 12 Nov 14
     
    Google's secretive research laboratory is trying to build a fleet of drones designed to bypass earthbound traffic so packages can be delivered to people more quickly. The ambitious program announced Thursday escalates Google's technological arms race with rival Amazon.com Inc., which also is experimenting with self-flying vehicles to carry merchandise bought by customers of its online store.
koobredaer

"Freedom for scholarship in the internet age" - 1 views

theses.lib.sfu.ca/etd7530

open access publishing scholarly communication economics module9

shared by koobredaer on 29 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • koobredaer on 29 Oct 14
     
    This is a thesis from a professor who occasionally teaches a Scholarly Communication course at UBC iSchool. It deals with complicated questions of economics of scholarly publishing. If you are looking for sources for research, there is a lot in here for you. Worth skimming through and reading any chapters of interest. "Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age examines distortion in the current scholarly communication system and alternatives, focusing on the potential of open access. High profits for a select few scholarly journal publishers in the area of science, technology, and medicine contrast with other portions of the scholarly publishing system such as university presses that are struggling to survive."
kamrannaim

African Journal Archive - 0 views

www.ajarchive.org

open access knowledge open africa journal

shared by kamrannaim on 17 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • kamrannaim on 17 Nov 14
     
    The African Journal Archive is a retrospective digitisation project of full-text journal articles published in Africa. Journal articles hosted on the Archive extend back to the first issue (if available) and end with the last pre-current issue (determined by the publisher). The website comprises over 700 issues and 150,000 pages of journal archives of academic, scholarly, institutional, museums, and professional research organizations in Africa. Online access to the archive is free of charge to Africa and the world.
christofhar

Electronic publishing - 0 views

www2.marilia.unesp.br/...2442

Module9

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  • christofhar on 18 Nov 14
     
    Publishing has transited from traditional to Electronic format making information resources available to users without much subscription. E-publishing is engendered by the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT), this development has brought about increase in the number of scholarly communication in circulation. The awareness and rate of e-publishing differs among faculties, it based on this that this study was carried out to survey the situation of e-publishing and open access of librarians in three federal universities in Southern Nigeria, five research questions were formulated to guide the study. The methodology adopted is descriptive survey, questionnaire was given to a total population of 64 librarians consisting of librarians from the institutions understudy, the data collected from the study shows that though librarians are aware of e-publishing but they have not being publishing as should have been expected in University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) out of the 95% that aware of electronic publishing only 30% have published there articles electronically, in University of Lagos (UNILAG) 100% indicated that they have published electronically while in University of Benin (UNIBEN) 45.4% percent indicated yes while 54.5% said they have not published their articles electronically. On availability of open access it was discovered that they have access as a total of 84% from UNN responded Yes, UNILAG 100% said Yes while in UNIBEN 90.9%. The following problems based on their scoring militating against e-publishing and open access in Nigeria. Inadequate power supply; inadequate computer terminals; inadequate funding for subscription payment.
koobredaer

Social Annotation Site Diigo.com Recovering After Domain Hijacking Nightmare - 2 views

techcrunch.com/...ter-domain-hijacking-nightmare

privacy risks

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  • koobredaer on 17 Sep 14
     
    this is an article from a few years ago that does a great job of telling the story of a major hack at Diigo--very interesting to see this as a narrative rather than just the headline, lets you understand the story more personally. I thought it was an interesting reflection considering the discussion of risks of a public course, public online life/profile. "Diigo, a social bookmarking and annotation site, is finally back online 50 hours after the domain was first hijacked. It's an incredible story that involves crisis management, blackmail, investigative research, payoffs, a clever thief, and points to potential problems with the domain name registry system that could affect anyone with a website."
  • c maggard on 17 Nov 14
     
    Reading now...
kamrannaim

ScienceOpen - 0 views

scienceopen.com

science open open access open knowledge

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  • kamrannaim on 17 Nov 14
     
    ScienceOpen, is a next generation Open Access platform that builds on the premise that scholarly publishing is not an end in itself, but the beginning of a dialogue to move research forward. It combines over 1 million articles from all areas of modern science, the humanities and social sciences with collaborative pre-publication workspaces, immediate publication and post-publication peer-review.
kamrannaim

Alma Swan Lecture on the Benefits of Open Access - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

open access knowledge open

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  • kamrannaim on 17 Nov 14
     
    Alma Swan is one of the Open Access Movement's key voices. In this video presentation she presents the benefits of open access from the author's perspective, as well as for institutions and research funders
embioptera

Citizen Science: Information, Technology and People - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

citizen science Module3

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  • embioptera on 18 Nov 14
     
    Interesting lecture on citizen science given at UBC. Professor Jennifer Preece gives several interesting examples of recent citizen science projects, and the research being done on citizen science. She also presents some of the roles computer scientists and librarians can have in citizen science projects.
mbittman

Will paper books exist in the future? Yes, but they'll look different. - 6 views

www.slate.com/...t_they_ll_look_different_.html

Publishing Books Digital

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  • mbittman on 12 Nov 14
     
    The change has come more slowly to books than it came to music or to business correspondence, but by now it feels inevitable. The digital era is upon us. The Twilights and Freedoms of 2025 will be consumed primarily as e-books. In many ways, this is good news. Books will...
  • serrarouafae on 13 Nov 14
     
    when I take a book in my hands, I always start with smelling paper (old or new), can we do the same thing with technology?
  • kristykim on 14 Nov 14
     
    I do like physical book in my hand, but I find e-books more convenient either when I am writing my research paper or I want to read certain book right away. I heard that more and more universities are supporting e-book system, and getting rid of physical textbooks due to costs and other reasons. A lot more e-books will become useful in the future. I think paper books will exist, but it will be rare in the future.
Kevin Stranack

Are universities teaching the skills needed in a knowledge-based economy? - 14 views

www.tonybates.ca/...d-in-a-knowledge-based-economy

module2 higher education knowledge skills

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  • Kevin Stranack on 29 Jun 14
     
    Provides a list of important skills and how those skills are embedded within the curriculum.
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  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 09 Sep 14
     
    Encontré un post relacionado con las Alfabetizaciones digitales y competencias fundamentales en http://futurosdellibro.com/alfabetizaciones-digitales-y-competencias-fundamentales/ Tal vez interese: El pasado 5 de marzo los expertos de UNESCO dedicados a la alfabetización mediática y digital, en reunión preparatoria de la siguiente World Summit of Information Societies, rubricaron lo que es una evidencia ya incontrovertible: que la alfabetización mediática e informacional (MIL. Media and information literacy) ocupa un lugar central en el mapa escolar de competencias del siglo XXI. Esto no es nada esencialmente nuevo: Viviane Reding, la hoy Vicepresidenta de la Comisión Europea y ex-comisaria de Información entre los años 2004-2009, declaraba en el año 2006: "Hoy, la alfabetización mediática es tan central para el desarrollo de una ciudadanía plena y activa como la alfabetización tradicional lo fue al inicio del siglo XIX". Y añadía: "también es fundamental para entrar en el nuevo mundo de la banda ancha de contenidos, disponibles en todas partes y en cualquier momento". De acuerdo con el European Charter for Media Literacy podríamos distinguir siete áreas de competencias que, de una u otra forma, deberían pasar a formar parte de todo currículum orientado a su adquisición: Usar adecuadamente las tecnologías mediáticas para acceder, conservar, recuperar y compartir contenidos que satisfagan las necesidades e intereses individuales y colectivos. Tener competencias de acceso e información de la gran diversidad de alternativas respecto a los tipos de medios que existen, así como a los contenidos provenientes de distintas fuentes culturales e institucionales. Comprender cómo y porqué se producen los contenidos mediáticos. Analizar de forma crítica las técnicas, lenguajes y códigos empleados por los medios y los mensajes que transmiten. Usar los medios creativamente para expresar y comunicar ideas, información
  • Ad Huikeshoven on 09 Sep 14
     
    Thank you Kevin Stranack for sharing. Tony Bates ends with five questions: 1. Have I covered the main skills needed in a knowledge-based society? What have I missed? 2. Do you agree that these are important skills? If so, should universities explicitly try to develop them? 3. What are you or your university doing (if anything) to ensure such skills are taught, and taught well? 4. What roles if any do you think technology, and in particular online learning, can play in helping to develop such skills? 5. Any other comments on this topic - My answers: 1. Frustration tolerance and keeping a balance between work and private life is a necessary skill 2, The skill set mentioned is important, but more likely trained in college than in university 3. I do have a personal coach and a counseler, and I'm enrolled in #OKMOOC 4. The activities required in every module of #OKMOOC ask to reach out, connect, build relationships, Have you answered the feedback questions?
  • hreodbeorht on 13 Oct 14
     
    This question is really the elephant in the room in a lot of university programs, especially in the humanities. I myself was a doctoral student in the humanities before leaving because, as I eventually learned, there were essentially no employment opportunities and my skillset in today's economy was sorely lacking. But the old mantra that "we teach critical thinking" is become a worn excuse. Do we really need four years to teach people the skills to survive "out there"? How much of our specialized knowledge will really be useful outside of the academy? These are questions we just don't have the answer to, and I'm not sure there are many people willing to ask them. But more to the point, I didn't see anything in this link about the changing ways that millennials (I promise that I hate the term as much as anyone, but it's a useful one) are engaging with information, and how that is changing how they actually think. There have been arguments made that digital natives (again, a pretty terrible term) think about and process information in very different ways that have serious implications for contextualization and long-term research. I'm not saying that universities don't teach these things in their own ways, but it's an important issue that needs addressing. I know that the link talks about the important of knowledge management, but there's a huge difference between simply knowing how and when to access information and quite another to properly contextualize its place in a larger hierarchy (or web) of knowledge. I would argue *that* skill is the one that universities are best poised to provide, and maybe why we keep hearing talk about how undergraduate degrees are the new highschool diplomas.
Kutty Kumar

Online Survey - 0 views

At Present Quality of research work is very essential so some open source website is given encouragments for data survey analysis free of cost using online survey websites

started by Kutty Kumar on 19 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
salma1504

Communication Information Literacy Standards & Related Readings - Communication - U Research Resources - LibGuides at Mississippi College-Leland Speed Library - 0 views

mc.libguides.com/COMMUNICATIONInfoLit2

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  • salma1504 on 07 Nov 14
     
    "The Information Literacy Competency Standards for Journalism Students and Professionals aim to adapt and apply the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards to journalism. Information literacy isdefined as the ability to recognize when information is needed and the ability to locate, evaluate, effectively use and ethically apply the needed information.
jesseharris

HELP WANTED: Reinventing MOOC discussion boards - 11 views

Excellent feedback! Thanks for taking time to share - feel free to keep the great ideas and notes coming!

started by jesseharris on 21 Oct 14 4 follow-ups, last by jesseharris on 27 Oct 14
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Ibraghimova Irina

TrendMD - 1 views

"TrendMD, an online tool that gives readers a way to find content relevant to their interests, while giving publishers, institutions, industry and authors the ability to target their audience. Tre...

module10 filter

started by Ibraghimova Irina on 11 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
Kutty Kumar

Week-11 - 0 views

This week is very nice for digital publication, scholarly publication, Agronomic research is very nice

started by Kutty Kumar on 12 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
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