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UC Berkeley Library's New Directions Website

2collab Survey Reveals That Scientists and Researchers are

NYU 21st Century Library Project: Designing a Research Library of the Future for New York University

Released January 2007

Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?: Scientific American

M. Mitchell Waldrop, January 9, 2008

Bench Marks B; Blog Archive B; Why Web 2.0 is failing in Biology

Indiana University Library Publishes First Faculty E-Journal

LJ Academic Newswire, Feb. 21, 2008

The Iowa Guide: Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields

Edited by Carolyn Steward Dyer; "... helps scholars find appropriate journals in which to publish their work and offers advice on how to prepare manuscripts for publication."

Reaction to Harvard mandate: CLIR report on digitization - Library Journal

February 19, 2008

Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate - Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID) Collection

Open Access Publishing and the Emerging Infrastructure for 21st-Century Scholarship

Donald Waters, JEP, wo. 11, no. 1, Winter 2008

Anthropology New in Focus--Feb. 2008 special issue on Open Access

The February 2008 issue of Anthropology News (49[2]) features an In Focus thematic commentary series on Open Access. Recognizing that this topic is of great interest to AAA members and larger anthropological communities, we will now feature an Open Access blog where members and non-members alike can offer both their reactions to the In Focus series and their general thoughts on the Open Access issue. To facilitate this discussion, full-text series articles will be available here Feb 1–March 1, after which all five articles will be archived at AnthroSource and AN Archives.

Harvard Proposal to Publish Scholarly Research Free on the Internet - New York Times

Patricia Cohen, Feb. 12, 2008

The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: The Case for Open Access

article by Robert Darnton, Feb. 12, 2008

SSRN-Access, Usage and Citation Metrics: What Function for Digital Libraries and Repositories in Research Evaluation? by Chris Armbruster

Chris Armbruster

World Universities' ranking on the Web: top 4000 World Ranking

MESUR: usage-based metrics of scholarly impact

Internaitonal Conference on Digital Libraries, Johan Bollen et al. 2007

The largest scholarly semantic network...ever.

From Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web; by Johan Bollen et al. Los Alamos National Lab, re: Mesur

MESUR: usage-based metrics of scholarly impact

JCDL07poster_bollen.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Johan Bollen, Marko A. Rodriguez, Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory

WorldWideScience

U.S. Dept. of Energy with British Library and other sources:

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases.

"Born Medieval": MSS. in the Digital Scriptorium

Stephen G. Nichols' article about the Roman de la rose digital initiative at Johns Hopkins.

Journal of Electronic Publishing, 10/3, 2008.

JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing-- special issue on cyberinfrastructure and scholarly communication

vol. 10, issue 3, 2008

Living Reviews - Portal

SSRN-Society Publishing, the Internet and Open Access: Shifting Mission-Orientation from Content Holding to Certification and Navigation Services? by Chris Armbruster

Downloading Cultures :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education

One Way to Rein In Textbook Costs: Make Them Free - Chronicle.com

February 1, 2008

American Economic Association Plans 4 New Journals - Chronicle.com

PeerReviewFullPRCReport-final.pdf

Full report by Mark Ware Consulting for the Publishing Research Consortium (London).

PRCPeerReviewSummaryReport-final-e-version.pdf

Mark Ware, Publishing Research Consortium (London), January 25, 2008

Peer review rules; some prefer moving towards double-blind reviewing.

Physical Review Letters 50th Anniversary

Inside Higher Ed :: Upgrading to Philosophy 2.0

Dec. 31, 2007

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: QOTD: Top economists publish less in reviewed journals?

The Chronicle: 6/15/2007: The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority

Michael Jensen is director of strategic Web communications for the National Academies.

In the Web 3.0 world, we will also start seeing heavily computed reputation-and-authority metrics, based on many of the kinds of elements now used, as well as on elements that can be computed only in an information-rich, user-engaged environment. Given the inevitable advances in technology, remarkable things are likely to happen. In a world of unlimited computer processing, Authority 3.0 will probably include (the list is long, which itself is a sign of how sophisticated our new authority makers will have to be):

Prestige of the publisher (if any).
Prestige of peer prereviewers (if any).
Prestige of commenters and other participants.
Percentage of a document quoted in other documents.
Raw links to the document.
Valued links, in which the values of the linker and all his or her other links are also considered.
Obvious attention: discussions in blogspace, comments in posts, reclarification, and continued discussion.
Nature of the language in comments: positive, negative, interconnective, expanded, clarified, reinterpreted.
Quality of the context: What else is on the site that holds the document, and what's its authority status?
Percentage of phrases that are valued by a disciplinary community.
Quality of author's institutional affiliation(s).
Significance of author's other work.
Amount of author's participation in other valued projects, as commenter, editor, etc.
Reference network: the significance rating of all the texts the author has touched, viewed, read.
Length of time a document has existed.
Inclusion of a document in lists of "best of," in syllabi, indexes, and other human-selected distillations.
Types of tags assigned to it, the terms used, the authority of the taggers, the authority of the tagging system.

None of those measures could be computed reasonably by human beings. They differ from current models mostly by their feasible computability in a digital environment where all elements can be weighted and measured, and where digital interconnections provide computable context.

SULAIR: Stanford 2007 Copyright Reminder

TrustDR Outputs - Institutional Development Pack

Managing IPR in Digital Learning Materials: A Development Pack for Institutional Repositories

John Casey, Jackie Proven & David Dripps; UK

What tools do humanities scholars need?

Lisa Spiro's blog: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Impact of Digital Resources on Humanities Scholarship

By Jane Segal, Lisa Spiro and Pamela Francis, May 2007

GeneralSurveyThemesMay07.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Nature Precedings is live

Peer-to-Peer: Open peer review Archives

About : Nature Precedings

Peer-to-Peer: for peer reviewers and about the peer review process

from Nature.com

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union

Blackwell Synergy - History Compass, Vol 5, Issue 6: Table of Contents

Blackwell Synergy - Historical Research, OnlineEarly Articles (Article Abstract)

OnlineEarly is a Blackwell Synergy service where fully corrected, fully web-functional and complete articles are published online as and when they are ready, prior to their ultimate inclusion in a print issue.

RSC's Project Prospect demo page

Ultrasensitive assays for proteins (DOI: 10.1039/b704256f)

Hongquan Zhang , Qiang Zhao , Xing-Fang Li and X. Chris Le *
Analyst, 2007, 132, 724-737
DOI: 10.1039/b704256f
Critical Review
Example of article available with Prospect view and embedded Toolbox

Project Prospect

Royal Society of Chemistry

A leap forward into the semantic web gets award for RSC

14 Sept 2007: Royal Society of Chemistry's Project Prospect wins the 2007 ALPSP/Charlesworth Award.

"This project sees the introduction of semantics into chemical science publishing. RSC Project Prospect journals incorporate standard metadata within the full text of their articles and combine this with an elegant and intuitive on screen manifestation of the advantages of including this metadata.

"As a result, sophisticated and effective searching of the literature is greatly improved and the value gained from reading each article is significantly enhanced. RSC Project Prospect is delightfully simple to use and its benefits to authors and readers are immediately obvious."

NISO/ALPSP Working Group on Versions of Journal Articles - National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

SPIE Digital Library Search Results _ Abstract View.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Example of backward citing references.

Reference linking is available for all SPIE Journal papers published since 1999. Each Journal abstract page includes the complete list of references from that paper in HTML, with citation links as applicable. In addition, forward linking (citing articles) is now supported. Only subscribers can access this feature. Links are also provided to INSPEC and MEDLINE records. Proceedings papers have assigned DOI numbers and thus may be linked from other sources in the technical literature. Outbound reference linking from SPIE Proceedings papers to references cited within the paper is planned for the future. SPIE is a member of CrossRef.

SPIE Digital Library Search Results _ Abstract View2.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Example of forward citing references.

CrossRef Forward Reference Linking
The SPIE Digital Library now also includes full CrossRef forward reference linking. In the past, forward linking was limited to citing articles published on the Scitation platform. With CrossRef-supported forward reference linking, new SPIE articles are deposited and stored in the CrossRef system. When a new citation is deposited from any other journal, SPIE is notified and a link to the new article is created even if the article is not published on Scitation.

SPIE Digital Library

Overlay Journal Infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences

Special Topic: Remapping Genre

MLA Journals: PMLA, Vol. 122, No. 5, October 2007; coordianted by Wai Chee Dimock and Bruce Robbins

TrustDR Outputs - Institutional Development Pack

Managing IPR in Digital Learning Materials: A Development Pack for Institutional Repositories

The Scientist : Open Access 2.0

Joseph J. Esposito, The Scientist.com, vol. 21, issue 11, p. 53.

Ariadne Issue 53 | Contents

The Biodiversity Heritage Library Mass Digitizing Project: A Grandeur in this View of Digital Libraries B; SlideShare (share powerpoint presentations online, slideshows, slide shows, download presentations, widgets, MySpace codes)

Renaissance Women, Text Encoding and the Digital Humanities: An Interview with Julia Flanders | Academic Commons

Mark Liberman: Language Log

Fernando Pereira: Earning My Turns

Erin O'Connor: Critical Mass

Nathan L. Ensmenger : Science, Technology & Society

Weibel Lines: GRL 2020: advocacy for a digital civilization of the future?

The Future of Scholarly Communication: Building the Infrastructure for Cyberscholarship

NSF-JISC-report.pdf (application/pdf Object)

NSF/JISC Repositories Workshop - Breakout Groups

Understanding Research Behaviors, Information Resources, and Service Needs of Scientists and Graduate Students: A Study by the University of Minnesota Libraries

June 2007 U of MN report

CTWatch Quarterly : The Shape of the Scientific Article in The Developing Cyberinfrastructure

Clifford Lynch. 2007. CT Watch Quarterly, 3 (3), 5-10.

Scientific Publication Packages -- A Selective Approach to the Communication and Archival of Scientific Output

Jane Hunter, International Journal of Digital Curation, 1 (1), Autumn 2006

7 things you should know about... Open Journals

7 Things You Should Know About... | ELI | EDUCAUSE

The Horizon Report 2007 Edition

"Doing Much More Than We Have So Far Attempted" By Donald J. Waters

E-Content column in Educuause Review, Sept/Oct. 2007

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: Identifiers again: names

CTWatch Quarterly: Reinventing Scholarly Communication for the Electronic Age

August 2007, vol 3, no. 3, by J. Lynn Fink and Philip E. Bourne

The Chronicle: 6/15/2007: The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority

The Dawn of Networked Science - Chronicle.com

September 7, 2007

The Office of Scholarly Communication: Activities and Publications

Web 2.0 in Science

CTWatch Quarterly, by Timo Hannay, Nature Publishing, Vol. 3, no.9 (August) 2007.

Nereus: Network of European Economists Online

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: QOTD: Top economists publish less in reviewed journals?

July 26, 2007

Molecule Pages - Signaling Gateway

Nature Publishing

Journal of Visualization

The Visualization Society of Japan

Nature Podcast

IT Conversations: Timo Hannay

Podcast with Web Publishing Director at Nature Publishing Group

UsefulChem Project

Open source Science project in Chemistry led by the Bradley Laboratory at Drexel University

Open Notebook Science Using Blogs and Wikis : Nature Precedings

Home : Nature Precedings

Launched in June 2007 by Nature publishing as "a place for researchers to share pre-publication research."

ScienceBlogs

Top 5 things to do on Nature Network (page 1) Nature Network

Consortium on Fostering Interdisciplinary Inquiry--MyU page UMN

Consortium on Fosterin Interdisciplinary Inquiry

University of Minnesota: Academic Affairs

'Institutionalizing' Interdisciplinary Research

Inside Higher Ed article of July 25, 2007 discussing self-study being undertaken by 10 research universities, including Penn, "Fostering Interdisciplinary Inquiry."

Scholarly Communications-

From: DLIST - ARL 237: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC

Ithaka :: The Impact of Digitization on Citation Patterns

Ithaka :: Economics of scholarly publishing

article by Roger C Schonfeld, The Serials Librarian 52, 1/2 (2007)

The Science Lab Is Flat

July 16, 2007, Inside Higher Ed

Reports on study that compares scientific output from 9 countries in 7 fields

Copyright Essential for Linguists

by Paul Newman; Language Documentation & Conservation, vol. 1., no. 1 (June 2007), pp. 28-43

The Changing Information Services Needs of Faculty

by Roger C. Schonfeld and Kevin M. Guthrie, EDUCAUSE REVIEW | July/August 2007, Volume 42, Number 4

Scholarly Communications-

From: DLIST - ARL 237: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC

Ithaka :: The Impact of Digitization on Citation Patterns

Ithaka :: Economics of scholarly publishing

article by Roger C Schonfeld, The Serials Librarian 52, 1/2 (2007)

The Science Lab Is Flat

July 16, 2007, Inside Higher Ed

Reports on study that compares scientific output from 9 countries in 7 fields

shimenawa - On scholarly communication and university presses

U.S. Copyright Office: Current Legislation

RSS feed on copyright with legislative news from the U.S. Copyright Office.

Science Direct-ly into Google

from O'Reilly radar, July 3, 2007

Program-overview-ecdl2007.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States

Cornell University chart of when works enter the public domain.

Copyright at the University of Michigan

CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5) (18-20 April 2007)

American Scientist Online - Open Access and the Progress of Science