“Technology has changed the way scholarly research is conducted and in some ways, the process has become easier and more accessible. How does this affect the rigor? Will open access be THE game changer?”
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Cori Zuppo
Undoubtedly, open access is one of the best tools used to ensure the broad dissemination of scholarship: SUP's top-downloaded book Let sleeping dogs lie? has had over 11500 downloads since its release in October 2010. 
Such margins (37%, up from 36% in 2010) are possible because the journals' content is largely provided free by researchers, and the academics who peer-review their papers are usually unpaid volunteers. 
Then a colleague introduced him to Academia.edu, one of a growing number of networking sites designed specifically for scholars. [snip] The profile he set up .... Social Awareness Tools For Science Research. 
My academic identity—I'm a professor of educational technology at the Open University in the United Kingdom—is strongly allied with my blog. Increasingly we find that our academic identities ... ResearchBlogging.org aggregates posts based on peer-reviewed research and allows bloggers to cite their sources in a scholarly manner. We studied the bloggers, blog posts and ... of Blogging as Scholarly Activity. 
Evolution and Future of the Knowledge Commons: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges for Less Developed Societies http://t.co/VdP6aixv il y a 20 heures; Which alternative tools for bibliometrics in an research institute ... 
Office of Science and Technology Policy (Photo credit: justgrimes). OSTP has published the public comments on its RFI on public access to scholarly publications. There are only 375 comments, a small number as theses ... 
Here's an excerpt: This report explores the explosion of tracking tools that have accompanied the surge of web based information instruments. Is it possible to monitor 'real-time' how new research findings are being read, cited ... 
(Washington, D.C. and Georgetown, Texas) The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) announce the formation of Anvil Academic, ... 
Social Networks for Scientists Won't WorkHuffington Post (blog)They have names like Academia.edu, Laboratree, Mendeley, myExperiment, and Epernicus. 
For a subscription-based content vault like JSTOR, the economy of the modern Web is a double-edged sword.
Unlike an article citation — which requires an author to produce a new piece of research, have it vetted by peers, and published in a journal, which is indexed by a reputable source that tallies citations — there are very low barriers to .... |
Heather Joseph, executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an association of research and academic libraries, gave the keynote talk, outlining the main issues digital ... We're particularly appreciative of our development partners who are working with us to chip away at the problems hindering research efficiency today. One problem is sifting through the volume of search results to find the most ... Slides and the bibliography from presentation on niche social networks and academic research. 
Those who do not enjoy (or succeed) in the high-pressure publish-or-perish environments of research universities gravitate to institutions with less pressure to publish and the reverse is true as well. 
It is still with us, and has a huge effect in the world, even in the face of the changes wrought by technologies like printing presses, motion pictures, radio, air travel, medical care, and the Internet. social science research is to achieve academic impact by advancing your discipline, and (where possible) by having some positive influence also on external audiences – in business, government, the media, civil society or public debate. 
Are scholarly and scientific publishers “rethinking” their content for these devices in order to maximise information usage and value? Are e-books ... 
A partial list of agencies FRPAA would apply to includes: the NIH, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Health & Human Services. 
Technology could be used to create a platform where peers could comment on different versions of research • System could alert ... In general, I will have learnt more about tools and software that I don't know so much about. This 106-page report examines the scholarly journal licensing and acquisition practices of academic and special libraries, highlighting trends in journal subscriptions, publishers' pricing policies, and library spending on both ... 
Scalability has become an absolutely necessary attribute for technological information systems today. I'm claiming that this trait is of equal importance for the ... 
Oxford Scholarly Communications Debate. Scholarship, publishing ... Developments in policy, practice and technology are influencing change in the dissemination of academic research publications and other products of research. |
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