Improving The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship
The dissemination of knowledge derived from research and scholarship has a fundamental impact on the ways in which society develops and progresses, and at the s...
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Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality
Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework, this paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young user...
The Future of Taxpayer-Funded Research: Who Will Control Access to the Results?
This report examines the costs and benefits of increased public access, and proposals to either extend or overturn the NIH policy. It looks at increased public ...
Trends in Scholarly Communication and Knowledge Dissemination in the Age of Online Social Media
It is no secret that Online Social Media (OSM) has become mainstream in recent years, and their adoption has skyrocketed. As a result of their growing popularit...
The Rise of the Knowledge Broker
Knowledge brokers are people or organizations that move knowledge around and create connections between researchers and their various audiences. This commentary...
Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact
Background Citations in peer-reviewed articles and the impact factor are generally accepted measures of scientific impact. Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter, blogs ...