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Scholarly Publishing: Science magazine and JoVE announce scientific-video partnership

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

From the Announcement:

Science, the journal of scientific research, news, and commentary published by The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and JoVE, the scientific video journal, announced that they have entered into a partnership for joint production and publication of scientific videos online. The purpose of the partnership is to enhance scientific articles published in Science through video demonstrations of experimental techniques.

Under the partnership, which is currently in its pilot phase, Science will select papers suitable for the video enhancement, and will identify author groups willing to help shape the video demonstrations. JoVE will then work with the authors to create the actual demonstrations, using the company’s platform for geographically distributed video-production. According to Stewart Wills, Online Editor at Science, direct, in-article video demonstrations should increase the value of Science research to its main audience, working scientists and students.

The announcement contains links to an example (free) where the combination scholarly text and video enhancement can be viewed.

Source: EurekAlert

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Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Releases Public Access Survey Results

Friday, August 14th, 2009

From the Article:

The Association of Research Libraries reveals that many of its member libraries are already, or soon will be, providing resources that help academics make public-funded research freely-available.

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This survey was distributed to the 123 ARL member libraries in February 2009. Respondents were asked to provide information on staffing, partnerships, and resources and services developed for public access policy (PAP) compliance support, and the challenges related to providing such support.

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Thirty-seven respondents (53%) indicated that more than one library within their system provides PAP compliance support; eleven (16%) indicated that just one library within their institution is providing this support. Four other institutions (6%) are planning to support PAP compliance.

These and other results come from ARL SPEC Kit 311 and the full text is available at no charge.

Access Spec Kit 311 (16 pages; PDF)

Source: Research Information

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JSTOR and University of California Press Announce Partnership

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

From the News Release:

University of California Press, the not-for-profit publishing arm of the University of California and JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform that is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA, will work in partnership – and encourage others to join them – to make current and historical scholarly content available on a single, integrated platform, to provide a single point of purchase and access for librarians and end users around the world, and to ensure its long-term preservation.

Beginning in 2011, current content from all University of California Press published journals, including those from scholarly societies, will be hosted on a re-designed JSTOR platform. Faculty and students around the world will be able to access all licensed content on JSTOR – current issues, back issues, and a growing set of primary source materials from libraries – easily and seamlessly. JSTOR’s nearly 6,000 library participants worldwide will be able to license the Press’s current journals, either individually or as part of current issue collections, together with JSTOR back issue collections in a single transaction. The journals will also continue to be preserved in Portico, the digital preservation service that is also part of ITHAKA.

Access the Complete News Release

Source: UC Press, ITHAKA

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Free Digital Textbooks

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

From the Inside Higher Ed Post:

“The third and last of Monday’s news developments also comes in the digital textbook arena — but from the free, rather than for-profit, perspective. The Community College Collaborative for Open Educational Resources said the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation had given it $1.5 million in new funds to expand its work, which focuses on increasing the number of free, online textbooks and training community college instructors on how best to use such books. Its main resource, the Community College Open Textbook Project, has dozens of college members and seeks to significantly expand the number of freely available digital textbooks it makes available.”

+ Access the Community College Open Textbook Project

+ Browse the Textbooks

Source: Inside Higher Ed

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Citation Briefs: The Most-Cited Institutions Overall, 1999-2009

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

From the Web Site:

This month, ScienceWatch.com presents a listing of the top 20 institutions which, as of the second bimonthly update of Essential Science Indicators (January 1, 1999-April 30, 2009) attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals over all 22 fields in the database. These institutions are the top 20 out of a pool of 4,050 institutions comprising the top 1% ranked by total citation count over all fields.

Source: Thomson Reuters

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UN Offers Free Journal Access to Poorest Nations

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

From the Article:

The United Nations has partnered with several scientific publishers to provide the world’s least developed countries with free access to online journals.

Called ‘Access to Research for Development and Innovation (aRDi)’, the scheme will allow industrial property offices, universities and research institutes to subscribe free of charge to prominent science and technology publications.

Participating publishers include the American Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences, Oxford University Press and Royal Society of Chemistry.

See Also: Access to Research for Development and Innovation (aRDi)

Source: Research Information

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Citation Briefs: Science in Germany, 2004-08 & Other Reports

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

+ Science in Germany, 2004-08

+ Australian Universities: Highest Impact in Space Science, 2004-08

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Chemistry

Source: Thomson Reuters

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UK: Working Paper on Scholarly Digital Use and Information Seeking Behaviour in Business and Economics

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Some research from the United Kingdom.

From a Blog Posting:

Only tentative and draft conclusions are offered here because the study is ongoing and more data are to be evaluated.

However, on the basis of the data we have evaluated it is clear that Business/Economics stands out in regard to e-book use in that:

1. these subjects are major and significant users of e-books in that they view them more, spend longer viewing titles and undertake much busier and intensive sessions

2. their e-book users tend to search off campus and are more likely to access the books via VLEs

3. a high proportion of e-book use comes from the newer universities (this is true for other subjects too)

In regard to e-journals, where a good deal more data evaluation has to be completed, it appears that Economists:

1. are significant users, especially so the ones from universities with big business schools

2. tend to search more out of hours and on weekends

3. have a strong preference for tables of contents and abstracts

4. read relatively low impact factor journals and have a tendency to favour current material”

Access the Complete Paper (38 pages; PDF)

Author: David Nicholas
Source: CIBER & JISC

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Article: A Comparative International Study of Scientific Journal Databases in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH)

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

From the Abstract:

Presented here for the first time in a comparative table are the contents of the databases that inventory the journals in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH), of the Web of Science (published by Thomson Reuters) and of Scopus (published by Elsevier), as well as of the biographical lists European Reference Index for Humanities (ERIH) (published by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and of the French Agence d’Evaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur (AERES). With some 20,000 entries, this is an almost exhaustive overview of the wealth of publications in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, at last made available in this table, adopting the same nomenclature for classing the journals according to their disciplines as the one used in 27 workstations of the ESF. The multiple assignments reveal the multidisciplinarity of the journals, which is quite frequent in SHS (Social Sciences and Humanities), but also sometimes the incoherence of databases that have not been corrected.

The research was carried out in 2008 with the financial support of the TGE Adonis of the CNRS. An updated version will soon be presented online.

The final objective of this project, which concerns the entire international community of the Social
Sciences and the Humanities, is to put online, in a bilingual English/French version, the database of JournalBase in interactive mode on a collaborative platform, as well as the final report of the study, so that the decision-makers, the scientists, the experts in scientific information have access to up-to-date information, and so that they may contribute to forward movement in the reflection on these questions, through the exchange of experiences and of good working practices.

Direct to Complete Article (721 pages; PDF)

Source: Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography

Hat Tip: Scholarship 2.0 Blog

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Citation Briefs: U.S. Universities with Highest Concentrations in Law, 2004-08 and Other Briefs

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

+ Journals Ranked by Impact: Acoustics

+ U.S. Universities with Highest Concentrations in Law, 2004-08

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Biology

Source: Thomson Reuters

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Elsevier Releases ‘Article of the Future’ Prototypes

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

From the Article:

Elsevier, the scientific, technical and medical information publisher, are releasing first article prototypes of the project – Article of the Future – an ongoing collaboration with the scientific community to redefine how a scientific article is presented online.

The prototypes, with non-linear structure, enhanced graphical navigation, real time reference analyses, and integrated multimedia, aim at revealing a new approach to presenting scientific research online.

View the Prototypes, Share Your Views

See Also: Official News Release

Source: Information World Review
Hat Tip: P.W.

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Giving Away Academic Books Online Can Actually Help Print Sales

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

From the Blog Post:

In an economy where sales of everything are down, an increasing number of authors and publishers, especially in academic fields, are distributing their books free on the Internet. This contradicts common sense. After all, at a time when people are buying fewer books, won’t giving away books compound the problem?

Maybe not.

Source: Wired Campus

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Get Ready for PubMed Central Canada

Friday, July 17th, 2009

From the Announcement:

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), and the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) have announced a three-way partnership to establish PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada). PMC Canada will be a national digital repository of peer-reviewed health and life sciences literature, including research resulting from CIHR funding. This searchable Web-based repository will be permanent, stable and freely accessible.

PMC Canada builds on the successful PubMed Central (PMC) archive developed by the US National Library of Medicine and will join UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) as a member of the broader PMC International network. This network enables national versions of PMC to share content, and will make much of PubMed Central and UKPMC content accessible through PMC Canada. The network uses software developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), the division of NLM that created and administers PMC.

Source: National Library of Medicine

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Scholarly Publishing Reports

Friday, July 17th, 2009

+ Brazilian Science on the Rise

+ Fast Moving Research Fronts

+ Rising Stars

Following the latest bimonthly update to Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters, ScienceWatch.com has produced a listing of the scientists, institutions, countries, and journals that have achieved the highest percentage increase in total citations from the sixth bimonthly period of 2008 to the first bimonthly period of 2009—that is, from December 2008 to February 2009. These entities are singled out as Rising Stars in their respective fields.

+ Country Profile of England, 1999-February 28, 2009

Source: Thomson Reuters

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Citation Briefs: Science in Japan, 2004-08 and Other Briefs

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

+ Science in Japan, 2004-08

+ Telecommunications: Most Prolific U.S. Institutions, 2004-08

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Medicine

Source: Thomson Reuters

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A New Issue of Research Library Issues (#264) is Now Available

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Access the Complete Table-of-Contents

Articles Include:

+ ARL Encourages Members to Refrain from Signing Nondisclosure or Confidentiality Clauses

+ The Case for Regulating Google and the Proposed Book Rights Registry

+ Learning and Research Spaces in ARL Libraries: Snapshots of Installations and Experiments

+ A Different Kind of Conversation: The Sparky Awards and Fresh Views on Change in Scholarly Communication

Source: Association of Research Libraries

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Now Online: Papers and Presentations from the 13th International Conference on Electronic Publishing

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

A slew of content is available online. Here are the titles of some (just a few) of the presentations that are available to read/view online. This conference took place in Milan, Italy at the beginning of June, 2009.

+ Connecting Readers with Open Access Resources: The CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections Group

+ Building a Digital Library with Learning Materials

+ Exploring the costs and benefits of alternative publishing models

+ Understanding how Students and Faculty REALLY use E-Books: The UK National E-Books Observatory

+ Self-Archiving in practice: What do the researchers say and is there any pain alleviation?

+ The PROBADO-Framework: Content-Based Queries for non-textual Documents

+ PLoS One: background, future development, and article-level metrics

+ Scientific publications on Web 3.0

+ Building a Semantic Digital Library for the Municipality of Milan

+ Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age

+ Social Tagging Workshop

+ Many other presentations, demonstrations and short papers.

Access these and other papers and presentations.

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Who Controls Journals?

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

From the News Report:

Sage apologizes to board of political science journal for making leadership change without consulting academics — and signs deal to run sociology association’s scholarly publications.

Source: Inside Higher Ed

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Citation Briefs from Thomson Reuters

Monday, July 6th, 2009

+ U.K. Institutions: Most Prolific in History, 2004-08

+ Journals Ranked by Impact: Microbiology

+ What’s the Hot Paper in Physics

Source: Thomson Reuters

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Search Techniques: Peerless Pathways to Find Peer Reviewers

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

From the Article:

Early in my days as director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Library, a program officer asked me for help filling out a panel of reviewers. On a short deadline, he had worked for 2 days and only found two possible reviewers. In desperation, he wondered if there was any assistance I could give. The topic was “vibrational spectroscopy.” In 2 hours, I had a list of several hundred possible reviewers, with information about each reviewer to help him choose those most appropriate. He was astounded that I could do this so quickly and easily, and I was surprised that he could not.

As a result, I developed a workshop that all new program officers at NSF would attend on how to use standard library resources to quickly and easily find and evaluate possible peer reviewers, even if the subject area is unfamiliar. These program officers come to NSF as highly sophisticated users of standard databases, having used them throughout their careers as scientists. But what they have not done is viewed these tools through this particular lens.

Web of Science and Scopus both offer a wealth of incredible features for this task. These databases are so powerful, flexible, and elegant that they have abilities you never even dreamed were available. Let me give you a quick walk through some of the special features that can make this task simple and effective for you and your patrons.

Source: Online

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