Les revues électroniques scientifiques : stratégies éditoriales et médiation de l’information

Auteur/Author : Moncef Mehrezi

Depuis quelques années on assiste à la naissance d’un nouveau modèle d’édition. il trouve ses origines dans l’édition classique sur support papier et qui s’inspire des nouvelles technologies de la communication comme outil de production et de diffusion.

L’édition électronique a suivi l’évolution, on peut mieux exploiter les capacités de l’Internet, augmenter l’efficacité des liens hypertexte et améliorer l’interactivité tant la production d’un éditeur commercial que dans une bibliothèque universitaire.

L’innovation est dans ce sens un concept de base, fondateur dans ce domaine, elle concerne les éditeurs qui réalisent de nouveaux produits et proposent des services à valeur ajoutée. Mais aussi la bibliothèque en tant que médiateur de l’information via les nouvelles technologies.

Le contexte actuel de l’édition est en pleine mutation, les changements sont énormes et l’impact des TIC est de plus en plus important. Les nouvelles technologies participent réellement à la reconfiguration des pratiques éditoriales.

La chaîne classique de l’édition basée sur le papier est en train de changer voir disparaitre dans puiseurs disciplines comme la médecine, la physique ou les mathématiques.

URL : http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00548152/fr/

Building Social Networks from Institutional Repositories An…

Building Social Networks from Institutional Repositories :

« An Institutional Repository may o er a .set of services. to its local users, supporting the publication of research. More importantly, the repository also forms a key component in the global scholarly communications environment. In this presentation we investigate the role of the repository on a global scale by witnessing the e ects on a changing economy and also show how worldwide collaboration networks can be predicted using the strong social links found in repository metadata. »

URL : http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/22683/

Free E Books and Print Sales Digital…

Free E-Books and Print Sales :

« Digital technologies now enable books and other digital resources to be openly available to those with access to the Internet. This study examined the financial viability of a religious publisher that put free digital versions of eight of its print books on the Internet. The cost to put these eight books online was $940. Over a 10-week period, these books were downloaded 102,256 times and sales of these books increased 26%. Online sales increased at a much higher rate. Comparisons with historical book sales and sales of comparable titles indicate that that this increase may have been connected to the free books being available. There was a modest correlation between book downloads and print sales. »

URL : http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0014.109

Library Student Journal The role of digital libraries…

Library Student Journal: The role of digital libraries in providing access to networked information (2011) :

« This paper introduces the concepts of Global Information Infrastructure (GII) and a global digital library. A comprehensive literature review is conducted to explore the role a global digital library might play in providing network access to information within a GII based on current and emerging paradigms in the information sciences and information service professions. Particular attention is given to the concepts of system usability and content usefulness. Conclusions are drawn based on the observations of the studies reviewed within the conceptual framework discussed with emphasis on the role of digital librarianship. »

URL : http://www.librarystudentjournal.org/index.php/lsj/article/view/234/311

Creative Commons : a user guide

« Here is an operational manual which guides creators step by step in the world of Creative Commons licenses, the most famous and popular licenses for free distribution of intellectual products. Without neglecting useful conceptual clarifications, the author goes into technical details of the tools offered by Creative Commons, thus making them also understandable for total neophytes. This is a fundamental book for all those who are interested in the opencontent and copyleft world.

The author: Simone Aliprandi is an Italian lawyer and researcher who is constantly engaged in writing and consulting in the field of copyright and ICT law. He founded and still coordinates the Copyleft-Italia.it project and has published numerous books devoted to openculture and copyleft. This is his first publishing in English.

This is an independent publishing project: the book is completely edited by the author and published online and by a self-publishing service (Lulu.com). Thanks to the CC license applied you can download it for free, but if you want to support and promote this kind of cultural production please consider to buy a paper version. »

URL : http://www.aliprandi.org/cc-user-guide/index.html

It was twenty years ago today To…

It was twenty years ago today . . . :

« To mark the 20th anniversary of the commencement of hep-th@xxx.lanl.gov (now arXiv.org), I’ve adapted this article from one that first appeared in Physics World (http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/35983) and was later reprinted (Learned Publishing, Vol. 22, No. 2, Apr 2009, p. 95; http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/2009203) (with permission) in Learned Publishing. This version is closer to my original draft, with some updates for this occasion, plus an astounding 25 added footnotes. »

URL : http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2700

Development of institutional repositories in Chinese Universities and…

Development of institutional repositories in Chinese Universities and the open access movement in China :

« The number of research articles about Open Access (OA) and Institutional Repository (IR) has grown quickly in recent years, while Chinese universities move slower than their western counterparts. There are only a few experimental institutional repositories (IRs) now, and no explicit campus-wide policies towards open access have been proclaimed. This paper will describe the status of the OA movement in China, and mainly focus on institutional repositories in Chinese Universities. Factors that hinder the development of OA will be discussed; meanwhile we will give some suggestions for constructing IRs in Chinese Universities. »

URL : http://conferences.aepic.it/index.php/elpub/elpub2009/paper/view/97/44