The future of medical journals
This presentation was delivered by Richard Smith, former Editor of British Medical Journal. In this presentation he talks about what’s currently wrong with our attempts to provide doctors with the information they need; why might journals die; drivers of change for the future of medical publishing; and what might the… Read More
Mobilizing the Deluge of Data
While today's digital data has the potential to transform our work and life, the challenges of managing it, retaining it, accessing it over the long term, using it, and sustaining it constitute some of the most difficult problems of our time. Solving these problems requires strategies that make sense from… Read More
Re-examining content-enriched access: its effect on usage and discovery
(lib.polyu.edu.hk): This is a conference paper and presentation from the 2010 “Academic Librarian” ALSR Conference that took place in Hong Kong earlier this month. It focuses on two questions: do content-enriched records have an impact on circulation in various subjects? And How; and Are the content enriched metadata of circulated… Read More
Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age
(eprints.rclis.org): Discusses the purpose of scholarship, the potential of the internet to further the purposes of scholarship, and the role of librarians in transformative change in scholarly communication. Addresses the rapidly growing volume of information, and discusses three approaches to coping; writing less and collaborating are recommended. Talks about the… Read More
Stage Five Book Publishing
(slideshare.net): The topic of sustainability keeps coming up in all discussions of scholarly communications. Sustainability implies stasis, but what we need is innovation. It is very, very hard to make economic sense out of anything that is not growing. This presentation describes some trends, trends that I believe are inevitable,… Read More
From Library Stacks to Library-in-a-Pocket: Will Users Be Around?
(lib.polyu.edu.hk): This presentation by Choy Fatt Cheong discusses the key factors that are essential to lead users to use library resources, services and facilities. Key changes in the information and learning environment have gradually eroded the library as a premier institution in access to information and knowledge even though it… Read More
Supporting Research Dissemination
(oclc.org): Preliminary results from a new study into researcher dissemination behaviors were reported at this session. This builds on work done in Scotland funded by JISC in which we have participated, and provides evidence of faculty preferences for "disseminating" their research outputs in ways other than via traditional journal or… Read More
Web 2.0 and the Study of History Through a Living Learning Community
(youtube.com): This presentation describes a project at the University of Oregon which helps students to understand the uses of primary source materials, and also to think about their own roles as creators of such materials, and as prospective contributors to the collective social record. Technology comes into play, of course,… Read More
The Impact Factor of Open Access Journals: Data and trends
(eprints.rclis.org): This work is aimed at testing the most trational bibliometric indicator, Impact Factor, and Open Access journals. It is focused mainly on the JCR Science edition, because of the largest coverage in OA journals (about 5%). OA journals rank in the top fifty percentiles with a 38,62% share. The… Read More
Partnering to Publish: Innovative Roles for Societies, Institutions, Presses, and Libraries
(arl.org): As the skills and infrastructure needed to sustain scholarly communication change in the electronic age, many organizations are reevaluating their publishing strategies. Smaller societies and institutions are finding it increasingly difficult to meet the demands of their authors to link research data with publications, repurpose content in new ways… Read More
