Global Access to Indian Research: Indian STM Journals Online
The author, Lalitha Kumari, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India, emphasises that the development of a firm R&D foundation in the government and private sector in every domain of science and technology has led to a rise in research publications. But it is of great concern that these research… Read More
‘Marketing’ with Metadata – How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and Visibility of Online Content.
This document is intended primarily for a non-technical audience who may require an overview for decisions regarding the best means of exposing metadata. It may also be of interest to anyone with an interest in digital repositories. It looks at exposing metadata via harvesting (OAI Repositories, Static Repositories), via distributed… Read More
Open Access to Scientific Literature —A Difficult Balance
This article by Dr. Martin Frank, executive director of the American Physiological Society, centers around John Willinsky’s ‘The Access Principle’, which argues that the knowledge conveyed in Scientific publications amounts to being a public good, and hence access to it should be open to the extent possible. Willinsky assigns the… Read More
Net writing new chapter for science journals
Though the internet is affecting how the mainstream media works, open-access publishing is becoming more and more popular among scientists. In this article, Andrew Kantor, a technology writer, and former editor for PC Magazine and Internet World, contends that formal, polished communication is making way for simple, blunt data. The… Read More
SOA Versus Web 2.0
The author John Hagel contends that while Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) focus on connecting applications and databases within an enterprise, Web 2.0 is all about connecting people. An interesting read ! Read More
Unleashing the Marketing and Publishing power of RSS
According to Rok Hrastnik, author of "Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS", RSS is getting much coverage lately, but very little is being said about the key aspects of RSS marketing. This article briefly summarises the steps of RSS marketing. Read More
The Digital Road to Scientific Knowledge Diffusion
With the United States federal government spending over $130 billion annually for research and development, ways to increase the productivity of that research can have a significant return on investment. All scientific advancement is based on work that has come before. This article by David E. Wojick and three co-authors… Read More
Will Research Sharing Keep Pace with the Internet?
Over the years, there has been a rapid change in the ways scientists share and use research. Many limitations of the recent past, on research and learning, have now been being swept away by the Internet. This article by Richard K. Johnson is one of a series of commentaries on… Read More
Author Addenda: An Examination of Five Alternatives
This article by Peter Hirtle describes an analysis done concerning various forms of addenda that enable authors to retain some rights in their works, provided the addendum is acceptable to the publisher of the journal in which the author's work will be published. Peter B. Hirtle is the Technology Strategist… Read More
The Research University And Scholarly Publishing: The View From A Provost’s Office
In this paper James V. Maher, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor at the University of Pittsburgh, presents a closer analysis of the university and difficulties of scholarly publishing in today’s world. According to Maher, scholarly publishing is one area in which the future of Research University is really threatened. Read More
