A list of Group papers for Reinventing the Scientific Paper. Articles include: 'The level of non-citation of articles within a journal as a measure of quality: a comparison to the impact factor' by Andy R Weale, Mick Bailey, Paul A Lear, 'Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO)' by Jöran Beel, Bela Gipp, Erik Wilde and 'UC : A Fluid Interface for Personal Digital Libraries' by Lance Good, Ashok C Popat, William C Janssen et al.
Utopia Documents allows new ways of thinking about your documents: it brings your papers to life by linking to live resources on the web and turning static data into live interactive content.
The Citation Counting and Context Characterization Ontology is an ontology for the characterization of bibliographic citations. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies.
The FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology is an ontology for recording and publishing on the Semantic Web bibliographic records of scholarly endeavours. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies.
The Citation Typing Ontology is an ontology for the characterization of citations, both factually and rhetorically. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies.
The Bibliographic Reference Ontology is an ontology for describing bibliographic records (as subclasses of frbr:Work) and bibliographic references. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies.
Knowledge Exchange is a co-operative effort that supports the use and development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) infrastructure for higher education and research.
Islandora is an open source project underway at the Robertson Library at the University of Prince Edward Island. Islandora combines the Drupal and Fedora software applications to create a robust digital asset management system that can be used for any requirement where collaboration and digital data stewardship, for the short and long term, are critical.
Dryad is being developed by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and the University of North Carolina Metadata Research Center, in coordination with a large group of Journals and Societies in evolutionary biology and ecology. The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center is a joint effort of Duke University, the University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State University.
Several cutting-edge thinkers will prepare short opinion pieces on future trends/issues/developments that are likely to impact research, instruction, and scholarly communication. These essays will serve as the foundation for panel discussions between some of these thinkers, selected respondents, and attendees on emerging roles for libraries and librarians, particularly collections and technical services librarians. This symposium will build upon the themes developed in the ALCTS Symposium, “Living Digital.”
SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine) is an interdisciplinary project to develop a practical, common, semantically-structured, framework for biomedical discourse initially applied, but not limited, to significant problems in Alzheimer Disease (AD) research. The ontology of Scientific Discourse Relationships has been developed in the context of building a series of applications for biomedical researchers, as well as extensive discussions and collaborations with the larger bio-ontologies community.
Cell Press and Elsevier have launched a project called Article of the Future that is an ongoing collaboration with the scientific community to redefine how the scientific article is presented online. The project's goal is to take full advantage of online capabilities, allowing readers individualized entry points and routes through the content, while using the latest advances in visualization techniques.
Giant science publisher Elsevier announced this week that it is developing what it calls The Article of the Future, a new method of leveraging the web's multi-media capabilities for presenting academic articles online.
During the proposed 12-month period of the planning grant, the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Libraries will collaborate with the College of Liberal Arts, to develop a multi-dimensional model for assessing support for scholarship and research in the context of a large research campus. Sixteen academic departments have been selected for exploration within the humanities and social sciences.
Das EDV-System FuD ist als integrierte Arbeits-, Publikations- und Informationsplattform für die Geisteswissenschaften konzipiert.
Es unterstützt die Zusammenarbeit in räumlich verteilten Arbeitsgruppen während der verschiedenen Phasen des Forschungsprozesses von der Inventarisierung und Erfassung der Primärdaten über ihre Erschließung und Analyse bis hin zur Ergebnispublikation und Datenarchivierung.
Wissenschaftskommunkation.info ist die Projekt-Webpräsenz des Forschungsverbundes Interactive Science - Interne Wissenschaftskommunikation über digitale Medien.
The aim of the annual international conference on e-Social Science is to bring together leading representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order to improve mutual awareness and promote coordinated activities to accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new methods and tools for the social sciences and beyond.
The Sci-Mate (Scientific Material Transfer Exchange) is an open collaboration to address well known problems in academic publishing and commercial development using proven Web 2.0 software solutions.
A free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science.
Scitable currently concentrates ongenetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. As you cultivate your understanding of modern genetics on Scitable, you will explore not only what we know about genetics and the ways it impacts our society, but also the data and evidence that supports our knowledge.
A Report on the Workshop of 22-24 October, 2008 Turf Valley Resort, Ellicott City, Maryland by Dan Cohen, Neil Fraistat, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Tom Scheinfeldt
A "legacy system" in the world of computing provides a useful analogy for understanding the precarious state of contemporary academic publishing. This comparison might also keep us from stepping backward in the very act of stepping forward in promoting Open Access publishing and Institutional Repositories. I will argue that, vital as it is, the Open Access movement should really be seen in its current manifestation as academic "middleware" servicing the "legacy system" of old-school scholarship.
Former University of Toronto Press executive Bill Harnum describes the current terrain of scholarly book publishing and looks to the future. There are a number of daunting challenges, he writes, but they can be overcome.
This report provides an expert review of the burgeoning literature on disciplinary research behaviors, synthesizes findings from decades of research on scholarly information practices and identifies key implications for libraries.
Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question:
How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?
Recognized nationally and internationally, the Institute promotes collaborative work representing different fields and institutions both within and beyond the University of California.
The NEW MEDIA WORKING GROUP invites graduate students and faculty from multiple departments to collaborate around a shared interest in the social, political, aesthetic, and philosophical implications of digital media.
Since 1994 under the founding direction of Roy Rosenzweig, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past.
The Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER) is the principal association of the major research libraries of Europe. It was founded in 1971 under the auspices of the Council of Europe. Its current membership includes research libraries of more than forty countries.
I'm the Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and a historian who explores—and tries to influence through theory, software, websites, and this blog—the impact of computing on the humanities.
The Scholarly Communication Institute (SCI) provides opportunities for leaders in scholarly disciplines, academic libraries, advanced technologies, and higher education administration to study, develop, and implement creative and innovative strategies to advance scholarly communication in the context of the ongoing digital revolution.
Ithaka is an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide. We help promising not-for-profit projects develop sustainable organizational and business models. We also work with established institutions that are rethinking the way they serve their core constituents.
Launched in January 2006, ScienceBlogs is a portal to this global dialogue, a digital science salon featuring the leading bloggers from a wide array of scientific disciplines. Today, ScienceBlogs is the largest online community dedicated to science.
Review of a neat new tool that provides a cool function for many academics: GPeerReview is a very simple Open Source tool that lets you write a review of a work, embed a hash of the work in your review, and sign that review with your digital signature (using your GPG key).
The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age. February 11-13, 2009 @ Annenberg Presidential Conference Center, Texas A&M University College Station
This year saw some positive developments in open access and scholarly communications, such as the implementation of the NIH mandate, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Science’s decision to go open access (followed by Harvard Law), and the launch of the Open Humanities Press. But there were also some worrisome developments (the Conyers Bill’s attempt to rescind the NIH mandate, EndNote’s lawsuit against Zotero) and some confusing ones (the Google Books settlement). In the second part of my summary on the year in digital humanities, I’ll look broadly at the scholarly communication landscape, discussing open access to educational materials, new publication models, the Google Books settlement, and cultural obstacles to digital publication.