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Mapping the Intellectual Structure of th…

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Mapping the Intellectual Structure of the Open Access Field Through Co-citation Analysis :

“Open access has been one of the major research trends and hottest topics in electronic publishing. This paper aims to assess the evolution of open access as a research field using bibliometric and scientific visualization techniques. It maps the intellectual structure of open access based on 281 articles that appeared in professional literature on the topic between 2000 and 2010. Using bibliometric and co-citation analyses, co-citation patterns of papers are visualized through a number of co-citation maps. CiteSpace was used to analyze and visualize co-citation maps. Maps show major areas of research, prominent articles, major knowledge producers and journals in the field of open access. The letter written by Steven Lawrence (“Free online availability substantially increases a paper’s impact”, 2001) appears to be the most prominent source as it was cited the most. The journal article by Kristin Antelman (“Do open Access articles have a greater research impact”, 2004) and the report by Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown (“Open access self-archiving: An author study”, 2005) are the second most highly cited papers in the network. JASIS / JASIST is the most frequently cited journal by the authors writing on open access. The most recent research topics appear to be institutional repositories, open access publishing/open access journals and scientific communication. Stevan Harnad is most frequently co-cited author, followed by Alma Swan, Steven Lawrence and Peter Suber. The preliminary findings show that open access is an emerging research field. Findings of this study can be used to identify landmark papers along with their impact in terms of providing different perspectives and engendering new research areas.”

URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/19050/

MePrints: Building User Centred Reposito…

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MePrints: Building User Centred Repositories :

“Over the last few years we have been working to reinvent Teaching and Learning Repositories learning from the best practices of Web 2.0. Over this time we have successfully deployed a number of innovative repositories, including Southampton University EdShare, The Language Box, The HumBox, Open University’s LORO and Worcester Learning Box. A key part of this work has been the development of an extension for the EPrints repository platform, called MePrints, that enables configurable profile pages, and works alongside existing extensions such as IRStats and SNEEP in order to give users live feeds about repository events that matter to them. Through these deployments we have discovered that more sophisticated profile pages give users a home within a repository, act as a focus for their work, and help them feel more ownership of the work that they deposit. This increases the visibility of the repository and encourages more deposits.”

URL : http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21716/

An Overview of Online Exhibitions : “To…

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An Overview of Online Exhibitions :

“To save our culture and heritage collections, online exhibitions are good conviction. Apart from saving and propagating the knowledge they play a vital role as communications link between highly valuable collections and the general public. This paper gives an overview of online exhibitions, their need, types, benefits and drawbacks. It also describes various authoring tools to create user interfaces and such online exhibitions. Some of the historical online exhibitions have also been discussed. The paper conclude that online museums have consequently reduced the distance between visitor and historical monuments and also the demand for original work has increased because of repeated exposure on World Wide Web.”

URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/19380/

Scaling Vectors: Thoughts on the Future …

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Scaling Vectors: Thoughts on the Future of Scholarly Communication :

“This essay proposes that bold new forms of experimentation and bookishness are necessary if we are to advance (and perhaps save) scholarly publishing in the humanities. Possible issues facing presses are considered through consideration of two examples in scholarly publishing that involve the author. The first example, the experimental journal Vectors, highlights the advantages and limits of certain types of multimodal scholarly communication for the humanities. The second example, the new Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, points toward new methods of workflow and publishing that link archives, scholars, and presses. The essay ends with a list of key questions that presses will need to address as various stakeholders collectively expand what we understand humanities publishing to be.”

URL : http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0013.208

Use of Scholarly Resources among Researc…

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Use of Scholarly Resources among Research Scholars in Pondicherry University :

“In this short article we examine the use of electronic journals by research scholar and consider whether library services need any innovation. Research scholars are the intellectual asset of the University and their production of new knowledge through the practices of research and scholarship lies at the heart of the University’s mission. Yet, without effective and ongoing dissemination of knowledge, the efforts of researchers and scholars are wasted. Dissemination is thus a core responsibility of the University.”

URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/19368/

Analyse prospective du libre accès en Fr…

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Analyse prospective du libre accès en France :

“Dresser un panorama et identifier les enjeux liés au développement du libre accès en France ont été les objectifs de l’étude que nous avons menée. Pour réaliser cette étude, nous avons emprunté une méthode de travail d’une autre discipline, la prospective, qui est souvent utilisée dans le domaine du management stratégique. L’analyse structurelle, la première étape de la prospective, est utilisée dans le cadre général de cette méthode à la fois pour dresser un panorama de l’environnement de l’entreprise et pour identifier les questions clés liées au développement de celle-ci. Par le biais de la méthode MICMAC (Matrice d’Impacts Croisés—Multiplication Appliquée à un Classement), nous avons pu identifier que les principaux enjeux liés au développement du libre accès en France seraient le développement des mandats obligatoires, les politiques de l’Union européenne et les embargos liés à l’auto-archivage. Ces enjeux devront s’articuler autour de deux spécificités françaises, à savoir HAL, l’archive ouverte disciplinaire et nationale, et l’environnement disparate de la recherche publique française.”

URL : http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_00537239/fr/

THE IMPACT OF OPEN ACCESS OUTSIDE EUROPE…

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THE IMPACT OF OPEN ACCESS OUTSIDE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES :

The Open Access movement has encouraged the availability of publicly-funded research papers, data and learning content for barrier-free use of that content without payment by the user. The impact of increasing availability of content to researchers in European universities is understood in terms of easier access to previous research and greater exposure for new research results, bringing benefits to the research community itself. A new culture of informal sharing is evident within the teaching and learning communities and to some extent also within the research community, but as yet the growth in informal sharing has not had a major effect upon the use of formal publication choices.

This briefing paper explores the impact of open access upon potential users of research outputs outside the walls of research-led European universities, where the economic value of open access may be even greater than the academic value within universities. The potential impact of open access is understood in many communities but requires a greater volume of open access content to be available for the full potential to be realised. More open access content will become available as the opportunities in open, internet-based digital scholarship are understood.

URL : http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=412