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Évaluation des productions scientifiques des innovations en SHS…

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Évaluation des productions scientifiques : des innovations en SHS?:

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  • Discours d’inauguration, F Ruggiu
  • L’évaluation de la qualité des publications en économie, C Bosquet [et al.]
  • Témoignage : le cas des revues de psychologie, J Pétard
  • RIBAC : un outil au service des acteurs de la recherche en SHS, M Dassa [et al.]
  • L’évaluation en Sciences Humaines et Sociales : Comment mesurer ce qui compte, MC Maurel
  • Le classement des revues en SHS : nouvelles perspectives européennes., G Mirdal
  • Open Access et évaluation des productions scientifiques dans l’espace européen de la recherche, C Ramjoué
  • Introduction au libre accès dans la recherche, C Kosmopoulos
  • JournalBase, Une étude comparative internationale des bases de données des revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales (SHS), M Dassa [et al.]
  • Les indicateurs de la recherche en SHS, J Dubucs
  • L’évaluation scientifique en SHS : les questions méthodologiques et perspectives de solutions, G Filliatreau
  • Les SHS au prisme de l’évaluation par l’AERES, P Glaude

URL : http://journalbase.sciencesconf.org/conference/journalbase/eda_fr.pdf

Post-Digital Print : The Mutation of Publishing since 1894

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“In this post-digital age, digital technology is no longer a revolutionary phenomenon but a normal part of everyday life. The mutation of music and film into bits and bytes, downloads and streams is now taken for granted. For the world of book and magazine publishing however, this transformation has only just begun.

Still, the vision of this transformation is far from new. For more than a century now, avant-garde artists, activists and technologists have been anticipating the development of networked and electronic publishing. Although in hindsight the reports of the death of paper greatly exaggerated, electronic publishing has now certainly become a reality. How will the analog and the digital coexist in the post-digital age of publishing? How will they transition, mix and cross over?

In this book, Alessandro Ludovico re-reads the history of media technology, cultural activism and the avantgarde arts as a prehistory of cutting through the so-called dichotomy between paper and electronics. Ludovico is the editor and publisher of Neural, a magazine for criticaldigital culture and media arts. For more than twenty years now, he has been working at the cutting edge (and the outer fringes) of both print publishing and politically engaged digital art.”

URL : https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/alessandro_ludovico.pdf

Alternative URL : http://monoskop.org/images/a/a6/Ludovico,_Alessandro_-_Post-Digital_Print._The_Mutation_of_Publishing_Since_1894.pdf

Interview with Alessandro Ludovico by Janneke Adema :
URL : http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/2013/02/06/post-digital-print-and-networks-of-independent-publishing-alessandro-ludovico/

Open Access, library and publisher competition, and the evolution of general commerce

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“Discussions of the economics of scholarly communication are usually devoted to Open Access, rising journal prices, publisher profits, and boycotts. That ignores what seems a much more important development in this market. Publishers, through the oft-reviled “Big Deal” packages, are providing much greater and more egalitarian access to the journal literature, an approximation to true Open Access. In the process they are also marginalizing libraries, and obtaining a greater share of the resources going into scholarly communication. This is enabling a continuation of publisher profits as well as of what for decades has been called “unsustainable journal price escalation.” It is also inhibiting the spread of Open Access, and potentially leading to an oligopoly of publishers controlling distribution through large-scale licensing.

The “Big Deal” practices are worth studying for several general reasons. The degree to which publishers succeed in diminishing the role of libraries may be an indicator of the degree and speed at which universities transform themselves. More importantly, these “Big Deals” appear to point the way to the future of the whole economy, where progress is characterized by declining privacy, increasing price discrimination, increasing opaqueness in pricing, increasing reliance on low-paid or upaid work of others for profits, and business models that depend on customer inertia.”

URL : http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/libpubcomp.pdf

Academic Administrator Influence on Institutional Commitment to Open…

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Academic Administrator Influence on Institutional Commitment to Open Access of Scholarly Research :

“This quantitative study investigated the interrelationships among faculty researchers, publishers, librarians, and academic administrators when dealing with the open access of scholarly research. This study sought to identify the nature of any relationship between the perceived attitudes and actions of academic administrators and an institution’s commitment to open access as reported by library directors. A survey research design was used to collect data based on perceptions of library directors at four year colleges and universities in the United States. Results of this study show that as academic administrator attention to open access increases so do the open access activities of faculty and librarians. Information presented may benefit members in each stakeholder group by allowing them to better position their organizations for future success in a complex environment. This study may also benefit advocates of open access who wish to expand services and other initiatives that encourage the greater accessibility of scholarly work.”

URL : https://dspace.iup.edu/handle/2069/1916

Managing your assets in the publication economy

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“The issue this article aims to address is the fact that publications may nowadays be used to assess impact and quality of research in ways academics may not be fully aware of. During recent years, scholarly publications have gained in importance, not primarily as the traditional vehicle for the dissemination of new scientific findings, but as a foundation for assessing the production and impact of organizations, research groups and individual researchers. This means that publications as artefacts per se are starting to play a new important role in the scientific community and that researchers need to be aware of how publication and citation counts are being used to assess their research and the outreach, impact and reputation of their mother organization. University rankings, for instance, often have some parameters based on the publishing of the ranked institution. This article is thus not about scientific writing as such; it focuses on what happens to your publication after the publishing has taken place and on aspects to take into account while planning the publishing of your article, report or book.”

URL : http://confero.ep.liu.se/issues/2013/v1/130117/

Deep Impact Unintended consequences of journal rank …

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Deep Impact: Unintended consequences of journal rank :

“Much has been said about the increasing bureaucracy in science, stifling innovation, hampering the creativity of researchers and incentivizing misconduct, even outright fraud. Many anecdotes have been recounted, observations described and conclusions drawn about the negative impact of impact assessment on scientists and science. However, few of these accounts have drawn their conclusions from data, and those that have typically relied on a few studies. In this review, we present the most recent and pertinent data on the consequences that our current scholarly communication system has had on various measures of scientific quality (such as utility/citations, methodological soundness, expert ratings and retractions). These data confirm previous suspicions: using journal rank as an assessment tool is bad scientific practice. Moreover, the data lead us to argue that any journal rank (not only the currently-favored Impact Factor) would have this negative impact. Therefore, we suggest that abandoning journals altogether, in favor of a library-based scholarly communication system, will ultimately be necessary. This new system will use modern information technology to vastly improve the filter, sort and discovery function of the current journal system.”

URL : http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3748