Journal rankings a sword over universities
(theaustralian.com.au): Journal rankings are ‘a spectre haunting universities everywhere’ according to a British business academic who also attacked a new University of Queensland internal index that measures research performance. In an article published online, Dennis Tourish, professor of leadership and deputy director of research at Kent Business School, argues that… Read More
HarperCollins Responds To Library eBook Controversy
(mediabistro.com): HarperCollins president of sales Josh Marwell recently wrote an open letter explaining the publisher’s controversial new eBook lending policy for libraries. The publisher decided that eBooks can only be checked out 26 times by library patrons until they expire, setting off a wave of Twitter protests and a call… Read More
Making the most of open content: understanding use (Part II)
(infteam.jiscinvolve.org): There is a huge variety of free content on the web of use for teaching, learning and research. This post is part two of an attempt to deepen the argument that uses matters. JISC funds a range of work to support innovation in open access and open content, and… Read More
First Thoughts on Sustaining Scholarly Publishing | Peer to Peer Review
(libraryjournal.com): When we invest in libraries, we do so with the understanding that they are a laboratory for basic learning and discovery. Academic libraries don't ask "how will we bring in enough money to sustain our operations?" and, luckily, we don't have to. Even with increasing calls for accountability, academic… Read More
The Next Generation of Discovery
(libraryjournal.com): A casual Google search may well be good enough for a daily task. But if you are a college student conducting his or her first search for peer-reviewed content, or an established scholar taking up a new line of inquiry, then the stakes are a lot higher. The challenge… Read More
Information Overload’s 2,300-Year-Old History
(businessweek.com): The overload we experience today—millions of Google search results in a fraction of a second—has its costs, but it is also a privilege, the result of the efforts of generations of accumulation before us and of massively increased access to the consumption and production of information in the digital… Read More
How eBook lending clubs will extinguish eBook Piracy
(goodereader.com): eBook lending services are starting to blossom and bear fruit, as popular e-reader companies, such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble recently allowed their eBook owners to lend out most books for a 14 day window period. Many new websites such as eBookFling, Kindle Lending Club, Lendle and BookLending… Read More
The Open Source trials: hanging in the legal balance of copyright and copyleft
(visionmobile.com): Open source has been in the limelight for the last few years, but its legal implications have been in the dark. Research Partner Åse Stiller sheds some light into the legal precedents of open source Read More
Publisher Limits Shelf Life for Library E-Books
(nytimes.com): In borrowing terms, e-books have been treated much like print books. They are typically available to one user at a time, often for a seven- or 14-day period. But unlike print books, library users don’t have to show up at the library to pick them up — e-books can… Read More
The Future Of Search: Better Living Through Algorithms
(forbes.com): Search as we now know it works pretty well if you know what you are looking for and there is one right answer. But discovery is a lot harder than search. With discovery you don’t know what you are looking for, and there can be more than one “right”… Read More
