Veille dédiée aux Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques // Collecting and Sharing research papers in Library and Information science ISSN 2429-3938
Introduction sur l’évolution des politiques de l’Information scientifique et technique
Intervention JNE 26-11-2012 Denis VARLOOT et Lydia MERIGOT from URFIST de Paris on Vimeo.
Implementing Open Access Policies : Using Institutional Repositories :
“Implementing an open access (OA) policy off ers libraries an unusually high level of challenge. Chris Armbruster, who surveyed early policy implementers says that “open access policy implementation is a tough job. Policy pioneers have faced considerable challenges in meeting their own aims and achieving recognized success.”1 But the implementation process also off ers a proportionally high potential for positive payback not just to the campuses, but to the academy and the world beyond. Given this level of challenge and potential impact, libraries would do well to confer with those who have travelled further down the path, in order to maximize their chances for success. Yet not much has been written to date about policy implementation, no doubt because this task is so new to libraries.”
URL : http://www.ala.org/alcts/sites/ala.org.alcts/files/content/resources/papers/ir_ch05_.pdf
Neither digital or open. Just researchers: Views on digital/open scholarship practices in an Italian university :
“How do university researchers consider attributes such as ‘digital’ and ‘open’ as regards to their research practices? This article reports a small–scale interview project carried out at the University of Milan, aiming to probe whether and to what extent actual digital research practices are affecting cultures of sharing in different subject areas and are prompting emergent approaches such as open publishing, open data, open education and open boundary between academia and society. Most of the 14 interviewed researchers seem not to see any clear benefit to move to further technological means or new open practices and call for institutional support and rules. However, a few profiles of ‘digital, networked and open’ researchers stand out and show both a self–legitimating approach to new modes of knowledge production and distribution and a particular sensitiveness towards values and perspectives driven by ‘openness’ in digital networks.”
URL : http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3881
The cost and quality of online open textbooks: Perceptions of community college faculty and students :
“Proponents of open educational resources (OER) claim that significant cost savings are possible when open textbooks displace traditional textbooks in the college classroom. We investigated student and faculty perceptions of OER used in a community college context. Over 125 students and 11 faculty from seven colleges responded to an online questionnaire about the cost and quality of the open textbooks used in their classrooms. Results showed that the majority of students and faculty had a positive experience using the open textbooks, appreciated the lower costs, and perceived the texts as being of high quality. The potential implications for OER initiatives at the college level seem large. If primary instructional materials can in fact be made available to students at no or very low cost, without harming learning outcomes, there appears to be a significant opportunity for disruption and innovation in higher education.”
URL : http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3972
Since its birth in the early seventeenth century, the press has played a prominent role in the political and social life of France. Over the two last decades, the economic and even cultural pillars on which the press ecosystem is built has been challenged by the growing use of digital technologies, and by the increasing role of the Internet as a way to distribute and access information.
Heritage libraries need to address the accelerating shift from analogue to digital in order to maintain the continuity of their objectives and of their missions. Many aspects need to be taken into account: legal, scientific, technical, economic and organizational issues have to be identified and addressed.
This paper looks at the example of the National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France or BnF), and at the way it has dealt with collecting newspapers in digital form. During the ten last years, the BnF has launched several experiments, testing different approaches, with varying degrees of success: – Direct deposit of electronic publications on physical media (CDs and DVDs) or through FTP. – Fully automated web harvesting.
Since December 2010, almost 100 news websites (national and daily newspapers, pure players, news portals…) are collected on a daily basis. -Web harvesting through agreements with producers.”
Bibliographic Metadata Harvesting to Support the Management of an Institutional Repository :
“This thesis approaches the problem of automatic harvesting of bibliographic metadata records from several indexing services, in the context of the population of institutional repositories. Since the manual insertion of records is a tedious and error-prone task, the automation of the process intends to facilitate the management of a repository. However, the automated harvesting of records has to deal with the problem of identifying authors and with the need to consolidate duplicate records retrieved from different services. In an approach to the automation of the aforementioned task, we introduce a system that proposes to harvest bibliographic metadata records from different information sources publicly available, identify and consolidate the retrieved records that are considered duplicates and make available the results of such consolidation to external parties that are interested in the information, such as an institutional repository. The proposed system was tested with real bibliographic metadata corresponding to scientific publications of a subset of faculty members at Instituto Superior T´ecnico. The results of the evaluation show that, despite the required time to identify and consolidate, the merged records contain a valid aggregation of all available information in the system and can be efficiently accessed by external entities through a machine-to-machine interface.”
URL : https://dspace.ist.utl.pt/bitstream/2295/1271450/1/dissertacao.pdf
Status of Open Access Repositories in SAARC Countries: A Picture from OpenDOAR and ROAR :
“The paper throws light on the growth and development of open repositories in SAARC countries. The study explores various facets of open repositories and tries to present a lucid picture of their overall development in the region. The study provides a detailed description of repositories in terms of country and content type, reuse policies, and language diversity etc. The repositories of the SAARC countries were thoroughly sifted from the two prominent open access repositories (OpenDOAR and ROAR) and analyzed for various parameters. The paper discuss various steps that need to be taken to elevate the number and quality of repositories in the region with special reference to the research output and potential of the region to become one of the front runners of open access movement.”
URL : http://ijpd.co.in/vol1no2/001.pdf