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Student perceptions of writing with Wikipedia in Australian higher education

Posted on 3 juin 2017 by Hans Dillaerts

Authors : Robert Cummings, Frances DiLauro

The benefits of teaching with Wikipedia in higher education have been investigated for more than a decade and practitioners have claimed a fairly uniform set of outcomes. Although Wikipedia is a global knowledge platform, many studies of the benefits of teaching with Wikipedia have been conducted in U.S. higher education institutions.

The authors taught with Wikipedia in writing classes at the University of Sydney, Australia, surveying and interviewing students to both verify the traditional benefits of teaching with Wikipedia and investigate a new set of perceived benefits.

This study finds evidence that students who worked with Wikipedia in the writing classroom remained neutral in their opinions as to the legitimacy of information on Wikipedia and skeptical as to its utility in mastering writing course outcomes.

DOI : http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7488

Assessing the utility of an institutional publications officer: a pilot assessment

Posted on 3 juin 2017 by Hans Dillaerts

Authors : Kelly D. Cobey, James Galipeau, Larissa Shamseer, David Moher

Background

The scholarly publication landscape is changing rapidly. We investigated whether the introduction of an institutional publications officer might help facilitate better knowledge of publication topics and related resources, and effectively support researchers to publish.

Methods

In September 2015, a purpose-built survey about researchers’ knowledge and perceptions of publication practices was administered at five Ottawa area research institutions. Subsequently, we publicly announced a newly hired publications officer (KDC) who then began conducting outreach at two of the institutions.

Specifically, the publications officer gave presentations, held one-to-one consultations, developed electronic newsletter content, and generated and maintained a webpage of resources. In March 2016, we re-surveyed our participants regarding their knowledge and perceptions of publishing.

Mean scores to the perception questions, and the percent of correct responses to the knowledge questions, pre and post survey, were computed for each item. The difference between these means or calculated percentages was then examined across the survey measures.

Results

82 participants completed both surveys. Of this group, 29 indicated that they had exposure to the publications officer, while the remaining 53 indicated they did not. Interaction with the publications officer led to improvements in half of the knowledge items (7/14 variables).

While improvements in knowledge of publishing were also found among those who reported not to have interacted with the publications officer (9/14), these effects were often smaller in magnitude. Scores for some publication knowledge variables actually decreased between the pre and post survey (3/14).

Effects for researchers’ perceptions of publishing increased for 5/6 variables in the group that interacted with the publications officer.

Discussion

This pilot provides initial indication that, in a short timeframe, introducing an institutional publications officer may improve knowledge and perceptions surrounding publishing.

This study is limited by its modest sample size and temporal relationship between the introduction of the publications officer and changes in knowledge and perceptions. A randomized trial examining the publications officer as an effective intervention is needed.

URL : Assessing the utility of an institutional publications officer: a pilot assessment

DOI : https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3294

A Trust Framework for Online Research Data Services

Posted on 3 juin 2017 by Hans Dillaerts

Authors : Malcolm Wolski, Louise Howard, Joanna Richardson

There is worldwide interest in the potential of open science to increase the quality, impact, and benefits of science and research. More recently, attention has been focused on aspects such as transparency, quality, and provenance, particularly in regard to data.

For industry, citizens, and other researchers to participate in the open science agenda, further work needs to be undertaken to establish trust in research environments.

Based on a critical review of the literature, this paper examines the issue of trust in an open science environment, using virtual laboratories as the focus for discussion. A trust framework, which has been developed from an end-user perspective, is proposed as a model for addressing relevant issues within online research data services and tools.

URL : A Trust Framework for Online Research Data Services

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/publications5020014

Le livre numérique en bibliothèques, entre absences et attentions. Études des formes de rematérialisation d’offres réputées immatérielles

Posted on 31 mai 2017 by Hans Dillaerts

Auteurs/Authors : Marie Doga, Olivier Zerbib

Comment se dessinent les offres de livres numériques qui sont actuellement ou seront proposées demain aux usagers des bibliothèques ? Si le livre numérique est réputé immatériel, le faire entrer dans les catalogues des bibliothèques exige des opérations qui, quant à elles, s’inscrivent dans des dispositifs sociotechniques, des interactions, des organisations, des savoir-faire ou bien encore des usages loin d’être évanescents.

Ce sont notamment ces allers-retours incessants entre éditeurs, distributeurs, agrégateurs de contenus, médiateurs et usagers, sans oublier les représentants des différentes tutelles nationales ou locales, qui conforment les offres de livres numériques et les usages qui sont susceptibles d’en être faits.

La numérisation bouscule les notions d’acquisition, de fonds documentaires ou bien encore de pérennité d’accès. Comment les professionnels se réapproprient-ils les règles de ce nouveau marché ?

Les institutions publiques que sont les bibliothèques constituent d’excellents observatoires de cette innovation en train de se faire que constitue le livre numérique, cela d’autant plus que cette dernière s’inscrit dans la continuité d’une série d’autres adaptations ayant transformé les bibliothèques durant les dernières décennies.

URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01492516

Le numérique et le lecteur, retour du nomade : Une enquête dans les médiathèques en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Posted on 31 mai 2017 by Hans Dillaerts

Auteur/Author : Mabel Verdi Rademacher

Comment les bibliothèques participent-elles à la construction de la pratique de lecture numérique de leurs usagers ?

Cette enquête qualitative menée en 2015 dans la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes recueille les récits des professionnels de l’information et des usagers inscrits : à la question initiale posée par ce support nomade, se superposent les interrogations sur les contenus nomades quand, en fin de compte, il semble que ce soit l’acte lui-même de lire que l’on souhaite toujours plus mobile, extensible, intégré dans les dimensions de nos vies, fussent-elles numériques.

URL : http://www.enssib.fr/presses/catalogue/le-numerique-et-le-lecteur-retour-du-nomade

On the « persistency » of scientific publications: introducing an h-index for journals

Posted on 30 mai 2017 by Hans Dillaerts

Author : Roberto Piazza

What do we really mean by a « good » scientific journal? Do we care more about the short-time impact of our papers, or about the chance that they will still bhe read and cited on the long run?

Here I show that, by regarding a journal as a « virtual scientist » that can be attributed a time-dependent Hirsch h-index, we can introduce a parameter that, arguably, better captures the « persistency » of a scientific publication. Curiously, however, this parameter seems to depend above all on the « thickness » of a journal.

URL : https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.09390