Bridging the Geographic Science Gap: Modes of Quantitative Analysis for
How are scientific papers and journals ranked and evaluated? This presentation by Patricia Brennan, MSIS, Manager of Evaluative Products and Services, Thomson Reuters, gives an in-depth overview of quantitative evaluation systems for scientific papers, looking at the long-established and the newer methods to rank and correlate scientific research. Read More
Open Access Publishing: a PKP User Group Workshop
This presentation was presented by Andrew Stammer, Journals Publishing Director, CSIRO Publishing, during a two-day Public Knowledge Project Workshop in Sydney. In his presentation, Stammer gives an overview of the scholarly publishing scene and offers his thoughts on Open access. According to him, access to scholarly literature is better now… Read More
Leveraging Institutional Repositories to Support Your Institution’s Strategic Mission
This presentation by Richard W. Clement of Utah State University addresses how to improve the chances of a successful Institutional Repository. The presentation was given at the Association for College and Research Libraries 2009 conference. Read More
Different Views on Digital Preservation
This presentation was presented by by Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University, during Portico's ALA Annual Participants' Meeting. The presentation provides a perspective on what the obligation to preserve longevity… Read More
Revolution and Evolution in Scientific Communication: Moving from Restricted Dissemination of Publicly-Funded Knowledge to Open Knowledge
This presentation by Paul F. Uhlir will describe the author's vision of open knowledge environments (OKEs) for digitally networked scientific communication. OKEs would bring the scholarly communication function back into the universities, much like law journals are published in the United States today. But the OKEs would go beyond the… Read More
Access to Research Data – What can Libraries do to Help?
Knowledge, as published through scientific literature, is the last step in a process originating from primary scientific data. These data are analyzed, synthesized, interpreted, and the outcome of this process is published as a scientific article. Access to the original data as the foundation of knowledge has become an important… Read More
Medical publishing in the future
This presentation was delivered by Alison Langton, Books Publishing Director, Medicine, Wiley–Blackwell. In her presentation Langton discusses how the world of medical-book publishing is changing fast, and the several benefits of publishing in the internet age. According to her, though E-books are not seen as mere substitutes for print, print… Read More
New journal models and publishing perspectives in the evolving digital environment
Open access combined with Web 2.0 networking tools is fast changing the traditional journals’ functions and framework and the publishers’ role. As content is more and more available online in digital repositories and on the web an integrated, interconnected, multidisciplinary information environment is evolving and Oldenburg’s model disintegrates: the journal… Read More
Magic of Social Netwoks
This presentation by Lee Rainai, Director – Pew Internet Project, Wisconsin Library Assiciation, covers the Pew Internet Project’s latest findings and why they suggest that libraries can play a role in people’s social networks in the future. Lee describes the reasons that people rely more and more on their social… Read More
Latest Developments in Open Access
(Openaccesscentral.com): This presentation, by Matthew Cockerill, Managing Director, BioMed Central, gives a summary of some of the many significant developments in Open Access over the last 12 months. This presentation was presented at the 2009 Online Information in London. Read More
