Open
Access
Policies
in
Europe :
Over the course of the past decade open access (OA) has moved from the preserve of a few visionaries to the mainstream of scholarly communicatons. The growth of OA has been dramatic (by any metric). But nowhere has this shift been more obvious than in the arena of public policy. Ten years ago there were no OA policies and any hope that they may be developed quickly was tempered by an inherent conservatism amongst administrators who did not wish to change the well‐established and understood (although increasingly flawed) system. The sudden shift can only be understood when OA is seen in the context of wider political and policy issues. This paper describes that context in Europe and outlines some of the most significant European OA policies and policy statements.
URL : http://bit.ly/cI5EMg
Archives des auteurs : Hans Dillaerts
Digital Technologies and performative pedagogies: Repositioning the visual
“Images are becoming a primary means of information presentation in the digitized global media and digital technologies have emancipated and democratized the image. This allows for the reproduction and manipulation of images on a scale never seen before and opens new possibilities for teachers schooled in critical visuality. This paper reports on an innovative pre-service teacher training course in which a cross-curricula cohort of secondary teachers employed visual performative competencies to produce a series of learning objects on a digital platform. The resulting intertextual narratives demonstrate that the manipulation of image and text offered by digital technologies create a powerful vehicle for investigating knowledge and understandings, evolving new meaning and awakening latent creativity in the use of images for meaning making. This research informs the New Literacies and multimodal fields of enquiry and argues that visuality is integral to any pedagogy that purports to be relevant to the contemporary learner. It argues that the visual has been significantly under-valued as a conduit for knowledge acquisition and meaning making in the digital environment and supports the claim that critical literacy, interactivity, experimentation and production are vital to attaining the tenets of transformative education (Buckingham, 2007; Walsh, 2007; Cope & Kalantzis, 2008).”
URL : http://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/uncategorized/donnelly_html_2010/
Wikipedia et Agoravox : des nouveaux mod…
Wikipedia et Agoravox : des nouveaux modèles éditoriaux ? :
Agoravox et Wikipedia se basent tous deux sur des modèles éditoriaux participatifs. Ne disposant pas de journalistes ou de rédacteurs professionnels, ces sites comptent uniquement sur l’investissement bénévole de citoyens pour les alimenter en contenu et créer une dynamique communautaire. Ils proposent des modes de publication et d’édition alternatifs, basés sur l’auto-production et l’auto-régulation. L’article propose d’étudier l’organisation de ces deux modèles éditoriaux émergents issus d’Internet. L’objectif est d’apporter des éléments d’analyse concernant leurs aspects novateurs et leurs évolutions possibles dans les prochaines années Le journalisme citoyen sur Internet peut-il se transformer en une tendance de fond ou n’est-il qu’un mouvement épidermique lié à l’apparition de nouveaux outils techniques ? Peut-on vraiment envisager la création de médias de masse autorégulés, ou producteurs et consommateurs d’information ne font qu’un ? Au delà des apparences, ces «nouveaux » médias sont-ils vraiment plus collaboratifs et moins hiérarchisés que les autres ? L’ouverture à tous de ces modèles éditoriaux leur a permis de connaître un développement rapide. Cependant, pour assurer la stabilité et la pertinence des informations publiées, il est nécessaire qu’une minorité active soit fortement impliquée dans la gestion des contenus et bénéficie de privilèges particuliers. C’est notamment dans la recherche d’un compromis difficile entre liberté de publication et pouvoirs de régulation que se joue la pérennisation de ces modèles éditoriaux participatifs.
URL : http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_00262484/fr/
The Short-Term Influence of Free Digital…
The Short-Term Influence of Free Digital Versions of Books on Print Sales :
Increasingly, authors and publishers are freely distributing their books electronically to increase the visibility of their work. A vital question for those with a commercial stake in selling books is, “What happens to book sales if digital versions are given away?” We used BookScan sales data for four categories of books (a total of 41 books) for which we could identify the date when the free digital versions of the books were made available to determine whether the free version affected print sales. We analyzed the data on book sales for the eight weeks before and after the free versions were available. Three of the four categories of books had increased sales after the free books were distributed. We discuss the implications and limitations of these results.
URL : http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.101
Digital Curation and Preservation Biblio…
Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography :
This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. Most sources have been published between 2000 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints for published articles in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories.
URL : http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcpb.htm
Blogging by South African academic libra…
Blogging by South African academic librarians: a preliminary survey :
Blogging in South African academic libraries is a relatively new phenomenon. At the time of writing, 28 blogs had been authored by South african academic librarians. A study was conducted of these blogs to establish who these bloggers are and why they are blogging. Several have an experimental air to them. Not all the blogs studied are active and not all have a clear aim or idea of who their audience should be. The most effective blogs seem to be those that invite comments and provide commentary on posts, rather than disabling comments and merely providing links to articles or information.
URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/18501/
SCOPING STUDY ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED R…
SCOPING STUDY ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS AND THE PUBLIC
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