THE EVOLUTION OF NEWS AND THE INTERNET :
“Importantly, the study shows that many promising forms of news creation and distribution are being
experimented with, some of which are empowered by increasing technological sophistication and resulting
decentralised forms of content creation and broad-based participation. The rise of the Internet and other
technologies radically changes how news is produced and diffused. It enables the entry of new intermediaries that create and distribute news, including online news aggregators, online news publishers,
mobile news actors, citizen journalism and many more. Information providers with very different
trajectories (TV, newspapers and Internet companies) are now competing head-on in a global online news
environment. More recently newspaper websites have seen strong growth in their own pages, with large
newspapers reporting several million unique visitors to their pages per month, increasingly including
readers from abroad, a radical shift from national patterns of established newspapers.”
URL : http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/30/24/45559596.pdf
Science 2.0 (change will happen …) : …
Science 2.0 (change will happen …) :
“In this paper we outline some of the main trends and changes we consider will affect science over the next 20 years, mainly driven by a new socio–technological paradigm, which results from the use of information and communication technologies. We first analyze three main trends (growth of scientific authorship; growth in scientific publishing; growth in data availability and processing) which are already visible now but will grow exponentially in the coming decades and will thus affect the dynamics of science.
We then frame the above changes in the context of the transformation of the scientific production and publication conditions — seen as production process of a cultural good — which then feedback into the nature of science itself. Finally, we will take together these interrelated growth trends of authors, publications and data and pinpoint their profound and multiple impacts on the very nature of scientific work and its professional dynamics, in terms of increased openness, instability and inequality.”
URL : http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2961/2573
Scientometrics 2.0: Toward new metrics o…
Scientometrics 2.0: Toward new metrics of scholarly impact on the social Web :
“The growing flood of scholarly literature is exposing the weaknesses of current, citation–based methods of evaluating and filtering articles. A novel and promising approach is to examine the use and citation of articles in a new forum: Web 2.0 services like social bookmarking and microblogging. Metrics based on this data could build a “Scientometics 2.0,” supporting richer and more timely pictures of articles’ impact. This paper develops the most comprehensive list of these services to date, assessing the potential value and availability of data from each. We also suggest the next steps toward building and validating metrics drawn from the social Web.”
URL : http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2874/2570
The Accessibility of Open Access Materia…
The Accessibility of Open Access Materials in Libraries :
“Librarians often champion open access (OA) as a sustainable alternative to the current scholarly communications system, which is widely accepted as being in a state of crisis. However, there has been little insight into how far libraries are making this support tangible by providing access to OA publications in their OPACs and other library pathways. This study conducted a large-scale survey of US library holdings to determine the extent that records of journals from the Directory of Open Access Journals are held by WorldCat-affiliated Academic libraries. It then followed up with a questionnaire inquiring into the attitudes and practices of librarians from 100 libraries that were ranked highest out of the total population in terms of their holdings of DOAJ journals. The main objective of the study was to develop a better understanding of the factors influencing the incorporation of OA materials into a university library’s holdings, where and by what means they typically appear on library websites, and how librarians feel about having these materials in their collections. Our findings suggest that the majority (54%) of WorldCat-affiliated US academic libraries have at least one record for a DOAJ journal in their holdings. It additionally suggests that librarians from institutions holding high numbers of DOAJ records generally have very positive attitudes towards OA, even though most of the respondents from these institutions were largely unaware that their holdings were more heavily weighted towards DOAJ records than at comparable institutions. Regarding library selection of OA titles, a journal’s subject matter was highlighted as a more important consideration than its access model. Additional findings suggest that large publishers of OA journals tend to have a higher representation in library holdings than smaller independent publishers. ”
URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/18766/
FUSE : “Partial list of the English-lan…
FUSE :
“Partial list of the English-language business journals, made searchable at article-level via FUSE”
URL : http://www.jurn.org/fuse/fuse-titles.html
The Semantic Web, Linked and Open Data :…
The Semantic Web, Linked and Open Data :
“The development of the Semantic Web has been a long running project championed by the inventor of the
web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It is built around his concept of the ‘Web of data’ which means moving on from
the existing document centric view of the Web to a data centric one. In this vision of the Web, data and the relationships between data are key. Coupled with these ongoing Semantic Web developments there has also been growing interest in the related areas of linked and open data.
Between 2009 and 2010 both the UK and US governments launched high profile projects to release a wide range of publicly funded government information as open data sets. There is considerable potential for the education sector to use and contribute to these data sets as they become available. There are also potential benefits for institutions in using the principles of open and linked data in a number
of key areas such as institutional administration, teaching, learning and research. However, there is still a degree of confusion regarding the key concepts of the Semantic Web and linked and open data, as well as a range of views on approaches to implementation. This briefing paper will provide a high level overview of key concepts relating to the Semantic Web, semantic technologies, linked and open data; along with references to relevant examples and standards.
The briefing is intended to provide a starting point for those within the teaching and learning community who may have come across the concept of semantic technologies and the Semantic Web but who do not regard themselves as experts and wish to learn more. The examples and links are intended as starting points for further exploration.”
URL : http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/1/1a/The_Semantic_Web.pdf
BRIEF AMICI CURIAE OF THE AMERICAN LIBRA…
BRIEF AMICI CURIAE OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, THE ASSOCIATION
OF COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES, AND THE ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONER : http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/lca-costco-amicus.pdf