Building an Institutional Discovery Layer for Virtual Research…

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Building an Institutional Discovery Layer for Virtual Research Collections :

“University libraries are under pressure to ensure that their strategies and services to support researchers are aligned with the parent organization’s research goals. Important to researchers are not only research information needs — which necessarily underpin their research — but also the discoverability and accessibility of their own research outputs. While libraries have a history of designing discovery systems, new research paradigms are presenting both challenges and opportunities for libraries to reconceptualise such systems within a broader context. This paper describes a nationally funded Australian university initiative to build a research repository which feeds data into both a national research data service and university library discovery tools. Challenges and benefits are discussed.”

URL : http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may11/wolski/05wolski.html

Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation Assessing Current Practices…

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Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries :

“In spring 2010, authors from the University of Massachusetts Amherst conducted a national survey on digital preservation of Institutional Repository (IR) materials among Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions. Examining the current practices of digital preservation of IR materials, the survey of 72 research libraries reveals the challenges and opportunities of implementing digital preservation for IRs in a complex environment with rapidly evolving technology, practices, and standards. Findings from this survey will inform libraries about the current state of digital preservation for IRs.”

URL : http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may11/yuanli/05yuanli.html

Use made of open access journals by Indian…

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Use made of open access journals by Indian researchers to publish their findings :

“Most of the papers published in the more than 360 Indian open access journals are by Indian researchers. But how many papers do they publish in high impact international open access journals? We have looked at India’s contribution to all seven Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals, 10 BioMed Central (BMC) journals and Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports. Indian crystallographers have published more than 2,000 structure reports in Acta Crystallographica, second only to China in number of papers, but have a much better citations per paper average than USA, Britain, Germany and France, China and South Korea. India’s contribution to BMC and PLoS journals, on the other hand, is modest at best. We suggest that the better option for India is institutional self-archiving.”

URL : http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/10may2011/1297.pdf

The FAO Open Archive

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Since 1998, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been publishing its electronic publications in the FAO Corporate Document Repository (CDR). The electronic publishing workflow is maintained by the Electronic Information Management System (EIMS). The EIMS-CDR holds more than 38 500 documents and is the gateway to FAO’s publications. The EIMS-CDR coexists with the FAODOC – the online catalogue for documents produced by FAO. FAODOC catalogues and indexes both electronic and printed documents while the EIMS-CDR manages full text documents and a minimal set of metadata. This paper discusses the merger of the EIMS-CDR and the FAODOC into a unique FAO Open Archive based on the integration of the electronic publishing and the bibliographic cataloguing requirements.

The FAO Open Archive will be the foundation for the collection, management, maintenance and timely dissemination of material published by FAO. To improve the effectiveness of the proposed repository, it is necessary to streamline the current electronic publishing workflow. The merger of the EIMS-CDR and the FAODOC will strengthen FAO’s role as a knowledge dissemination organization. Especially, as one of the principal tasks of the FAO is to efficiently collect and disseminate information regarding food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries and forestry.

URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/handle/10760/15652

Les nouvelles formes d’évaluation scientifique : quelles évolutions en sciences, technique et médecine ?

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Dès 1960, l’Institute for Scientific Information (I.S.I.) de Philadelphie, sous l’impulsion d’Eugen Garfield, a mis en œuvre le Science Citation Index (S.C.I) pour l’évaluation des auteurs, suivi en 1975 par le Journal Citation Reports (J.C.R.) pour celle des revues.

Au terme d’une analyse critique de ce modèle, nous envisagerons de nouvelles approches : l’algorithme mis au point sur le site Citebase par les équipes de S.Harnad à Southampton (G.-B.) et T.Brody à Cornell (Ithaca, N.-Y.) sur le miroir britannique d’ArXiv.org. (l’un des plus importants sites mondiaux d’archives ouvertes scientifiques) Scholar Google, avatar du moteur généraliste standard lancé sur le Net en novembre 2004 deux alternatives récentes à la définition d’un facteur d’impact proposées par J.E. Hirsch (facteur h lié à la production individuelle d’un chercheur) et l’équipe de J. Bollen (Journal Status) ; donc sur les Auteurs d’une part et les Sources de l’autre le modèle du ” collectif ” Faculty of 1000 dans les domaines biomédicaux.

Son originalité par rapport aux précédents réside dans le primat de l’évaluation “humaine” qualitative sur le principe statistique de la citation. Après un essai de typologie des comités de lecture et des usages en cours dans les différentes disciplines scientifiques, on conclura sur la nécessité d’explorer rapidement la voie d’un nouvel outil d’évaluation libre d’accès, dont les règles seraient clairement définies, tant au niveau de la couverture qu’à celui des critères d’analyse qualitative et statistique.

URL : http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_00260459/fr/