vendredi, 03 juillet 2009

[Projet d'étude] Comment étudiants et chercheurs utilisent les e-ressources

User Behaviour Observational Study (Business and Economics, UK)

"This project is a study of students' and researchers' use of information resources in Business and Economics using observation techniques and cognitive task analysis, and also drawing on analyses of usage data."

(source: JISC, 02/07/09)

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[Projet d'étude] DI / OPAC

OCRIS Project (UK): Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study:

• Survey the extent to which repository content is in scope for institutional library OPACs, and the extent to which it is already recorded there;
• Examine the interoperability of OPAC and repository software for the exchange of metadata and other information;
• List the various services to institutional managers, researchers, teachers and learners offered respectively by OPACs and repositories;
• Identify the potential for improvements in the links (e.g. using link resolver technology) from repositories and/or OPACs to other institutional services, such as finance or research administration;
• Make recommendations for the development of possible further links between library OPACs and institutional repositories, identifying the benefits of such links to various stakeholder groups.

(source: JISC, 02/07/09)

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DI et répartition de la recherche pas disciplines: un exemple

Institutional Visualisation

"I've been working on the problem of showing the spread of research on a particular topic across the institution. The aim is to enable the repository to show the contribution of the various schools, groups and individuals in areas of strategic interest, and to allow the repository to play an active part in research management. [...]"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(source: RepositoryMan, 02/07/09)

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mercredi, 01 juillet 2009

Libre accès et réduction des coûts: une étude comparée

Open Access—What Are the Economic Benefits? A Comparison of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark

"[...] Analysis focuses on comparing three alternative models for scholarly publishing, namely: subscription publishing, open access publishing and self-archiving. To ensure that meaningful comparisons could be made, the self-archiving models explored include the peer review, certification and quality control functions necessary for formal scholarly publishing.

We estimate that in an open access world:
• Open access or ‘author-pays’ publishing for journal articles (i.e. ‘Gold OA’) might bring net system savings of around EUR 70 million per annum nationally in Denmark, EUR 133 million in the Netherlands and EUR 480 million in the UK (at 2007 prices and levels of publishing activity);
• Open access self-archiving without subscription cancellations (i.e. ‘Green OA’) might save around EUR 30 million per annum nationally for Denmark in a worldwide ‘Green OA’ system, EUR 50 million in the Netherlands and EUR 125 million in the UK; and
• The open access self-archiving with overlay services model explored is necessarily more speculative, but a repositories and overlay services model may well produce similar cost savings to open access publishing.

The cost-benefits of the open access or ‘author-pays’ publishing model are very similar across the three countries. In terms of estimated cost-benefits over a transitional period of 20 years, open access publishing all articles produced in universities in 2007 would have produced benefits of around 2 to 3 times the costs in all cases, but showed benefits of 5 to 6 times costs in the simulated alternative ‘steady state’ model for unilateral national open access, and benefits of around 7 times the costs in an open access world. [...]"

(source: Knowledge Exchange, 23/06/09 / via DigitalKoans, 01/07/09)

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Les relations entre dépôts et revues (dans le cadre du libre accès)

Journals and repositories: an evolving relationship?

"It is now widely accepted that there are two routes to open access (OA): OA repositories and OA journals. It is often assumed these are distinct alternative parallel tracks. However, it has recently become clear that there is potential for repositories and journals to interact with each other on an ongoing basis and between them to form a coherent OA scholarly communication system. This paper puts forward three possible models of interaction between repositories and journals; services such as arXiv and PubMed Central, and the work carried out by the RIOJA project, are working exemplars and pilot implementations of these models. The key issues associated with the widespread adoption of these models include repository infrastructure development; changing ideas of the 'journal', 'article', and 'publication'; version management; quality assurance; business and funding models; developing value-added features; content preservation; policy frameworks; and changing roles and cultures within the research community."

(source: Learned Publishing, Volume 22, Number 3, July 2009 , pp. 165-175(11))

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Usage des dépôts et dissémination via les pre-prints: pratiques concluantes en physique

Citing and Reading Behaviours in High-Energy Physics. How a Community Stopped Worrying about Journals and Learned to Love Repositories

"Contemporary scholarly discourse follows many alternative routes in addition to the three-century old tradition of publication in peer-reviewed journals. The field of High- Energy Physics (HEP) has explored alternative communication strategies for decades, initially via the mass mailing of paper copies of preliminary manuscripts, then via the inception of the first online repositories and digital libraries.
This field is uniquely placed to answer recurrent questions raised by the current trends in scholarly communication: is there an advantage for scientists to make their work available through repositories, often in preliminary form? Is there an advantage to publishing in Open Access journals? Do scientists still read journals or do they use digital repositories?
The analysis of citation data demonstrates that free and immediate online dissemination of preprints creates an immense citation advantage in HEP, whereas publication in Open Access journals presents no discernible advantage. In addition, the analysis of clickstreams in the leading digital library of the field shows that HEP scientists seldom read journals, preferring preprints instead."

(source: Anne Gentil-Beccot et al., arXiv, 01/07/09)

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DULCINEA

Très intéressante initiative: DULCINEA est l'équivalent espagnol du service SHERPA/RoMEO et propose le détail des politiques des éditeurs espagnols en matière de libre accès.

Jusqu'à présent, plus de 260 revues sont couvertes (75 en sciences sociales, 27 en sciences humaines, 101 en médecine, 41 en sciences naturelles, 18 en ingénierie).

A quand un service de ce genre pour les éditeurs et revues francophones?

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Internet, le cerveau, la lecture, etc.: un dossier

Internet rend-il encore plus bête ?

(source: Books-L'actualité par les livres, n° 7, juillet-août 09)

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Que peut-on attendre de la "recherche sémantique"?

Outils Froids présente: TextRunner un moteur de recherche sémantique pour interroger le web

"TextRunner, mis en ligne récemment par le Department of Computer Science Engineering de l''Université de Washington, nous donne un bel avant-goût de ce que l'on peut attendre de la recherche sémantique.
Il permet en effet d'interroger 500 millions de pages web en utilisant des triplets. Kesako? Le triplet est ce qui va vous permettre de lancer des requêtes plus "intelligentes" que celles permises par les moteurs classiques en vous donnant la possibilité de les structurer un minimum. [...]"

 

A voir aussi:

Sindice, The semantic web index

"Over 10 billion pieces of reusable information can already be found across 100 million web pages which embed RDF and Microformats."

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Journalisme multimédia

L’excellence dans le journalisme multimédia

""Storytelling", agrégateurs de données, lignes de temps... Le web permet de nouvelles visualisations de l'information qui enrichissent la production journalistique et l'expérience du lecteur. Voici quelques exemples dans "L’excellence dans le journalisme multimédia" (fichier pdf avec liens actifs), une présentation récemment faite à l'AFP par David Castello-Lopes, un jeune journaliste de retour d'un an à l'Ecole de journalisme de l'Université de Californie à Berkeley, en compagnie de Frédéric Filloux, qui est notamment enseignant (internet & multimédia) à l'Ecole de journalisme de Sciences Po Paris."

(source: AFT-Mediawatch / via Le Bouillon du Bibliobsédé, 01/07/09)

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Retour sur le plagiat

Le plagiat : attention DANGER!

Les actes du colloque « Copié – collé… » Former à l’utilisation critique et responsable de l’information sont disponibles ici.

(source: BlogusOperandi, 01/07/09)

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PARSE.Insight (3)

Le projet européen PARSE.Insight a publié sa première newsletter :

"This Newsletter summarizes the first year’s goals and achievements of PARSE.Insight, a two-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme. It is concerned with the preservation of digital information in science, from primary data through analysis to the final publications resulting from the research. Its aim is to develop a roadmap and recommendations for developing the e-infrastructure in order to maintain the long-term accessibility and usability of scientific digital information in Europe. The project conducts surveys and in-depth case studies of different scientific disciplines and stakeholders and it will base its results on these findings, as well as knowledge of ongoing developments. PARSE.Insight is closely linked to the Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science (http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/index.php?id=1). The output from the project is intended to guide the European Commission's strategy about research infrastructure. [...]"

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Entendu ce midi...

... quelque part sur le campus:

"Une faculté sans bibliothèque, ça craint."

(source: un jeune étudiant)

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Pas que G.

Oui, il existe d'autres moteurs de recherche... (source: Wired / via ResourceShelf, 30/06/09)

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Catalo, etc. (01/07/09)

- RDA Online: demo screenshots available

(source: Cataloging Futures, 25/06/09) | lire aussi

- Google and FRBR

(source: The FRBR Blog, 25/06/09)

- Journée de réflexion sur l’avenir du catalogue dans les bibliothèques

(source: BiblioFusion, 25/06/09)

- Library Catalogues are no longer an inventory but a place, and a community

(source: The Cataloguing Librarian, 25/06/09)

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Infolit: une méta-synthèse

Preparing information literate teachers: A metasynthesis

"This metasynthesis of empirical and nonempirical literature analyzed 39 journal articles and book chapters that examined issues related to the preparation of information literate teachers in the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan, and the U.K. All 39 items were published after March 1998 (when the Association of College and Research Libraries reported that teacher education programs had made no real progress in modifying course requirements and performance expectations to address information literacy concerns). The literature indicates that teacher education programs have made significant progress in addressing information literacy concerns during these last 10 years; however, much work remains to be done. Increased opportunities for collaboration between educators and librarians at the preschool–Grade 12 (P-12) and postsecondary levels are needed to prepare information literate teachers who can effectively teach information literacy skills and research strategies to their P-12 students."

(source: Library & Information Science Research, 30/06/09 / sur abonnement)

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Library Hi Tech: spécial VRE

Virtual research environments: issues and opportunities for librarians next generation OPACs: n° spécial de la revue Library Hi Tech (vol. 27, n° 2, 2009 / sur abonnement). A voir, notamment:

• Virtual research environments in scholarly work and communications

• Exploring new ways of working using virtual research environments in library and information science

• Dealing with the complexity deluge: VREs in the arts and humanities

• VRE library services: Learning from supporting VLE users

• On-demand virtual research environments and the changing roles of librarians

• From OPAC to CMS: Drupal as an extensible library platform

• Discovering discovery tools: Evaluating vendors and implementing Web 2.0 environments

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Citation

"[...] oui, les journalistes ont raison. Notre absence quasi totale dans les médias est justifiable, si ce n’est justifiée.

Oui, nous avons un problème d’image. Oui, nous avons un job complexe à expliquer et qui se résume fort mal. Mais reste que nous ne montons pas encore souvent au front et surtout que nous ne prenons pas trop-trop la peine de vulgariser. Je pense que nous ne réalisons même pas à quel point notre jargon pénètre nos prises de parole et peut paraître rébarbatif au commun des mortels. Et il ne s’agit ici encore que de la forme. Parce que pour ce qui est du propos…

Hé oui, même en changeant de ton et de façons, il faudrait encore que les sciences de l’information, comme sujet, soient séduisantes et là, il faut bien l’avouer, pour capitale que la gestion de l’information puisse être de nos jours, c’est loin d’être le sujet le plus captivant qui soit…

Entendons-nous bien, j’adore débattre de référence, de développement de collections, de la place du numérique dans nos services et même de… catalogage. Reste que je comprends très bien qu’il n’y ait pas là de quoi faire vendre de la copie.

Est-ce que la partie est perdue? Sommes-nous destinés à croupir dans les bas-fonds des métiers rebutants et incompris aux côtés des comptables en bas bruns et de nos collègues et «rivaux» les archivistes? Peut-être pas. [...]"

Lire la suite

(source: Pirathécaire, 18/06/09)

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Sale temps pour Elsevier?

1. In April/May it became known that they had used funds from the pharmaceutical industry to create fake journals in a "stealth marketing campaign to Australian Doctors" (The Scientist). Elsevier statement: "This was an unacceptable practice, and we regret that it took place."
2. At about the same time, Elsevier's parent corporation, Reed Elsevier, reported that 2008 was a record year both for the parent and Elsevier itself in terms of revenue and profit. When almost every other company on this planet was taking losses, a publisher relying mainly on taxpayer money raked in a whopping 716 million € in adjusted profits, a solid 3% more than the previous year (see presentation below for charts).
3. Now this month, Elsevier attempts to get universities to link to Elsevier's online content instead of hosting their own Open Access repositories.
4. A few days later, the news surfaces that Elsevier has offered money for positive book reviews (for their own books, of course) on Amazon.com. Elsevier statement: "request(s) should be unbiased, with no incentives for a positive review, and that's where this particular e-mail went too far."
5. And finally, just a few days ago, Elsevier lost a lawsuit where they wanted to prevent their licensing practices from becoming public. Something they have to hide in their pricing schemes?

(source: Tom Sanville @ OhioLINK / via Maxime)

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mardi, 30 juin 2009

BU 2.0: enquête et modèle conceptuel

The Academic Library meets Web 2.0: Applications and implications

"Visits to 81 academic library websites in the New York State reveal that 42% of them adopted one or more Web 2.0 tools such as blogs while implementation of those tools in individual libraries varies greatly. We also propose a conceptual model of Academic Library 2.0 in this report."

 

 

(source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 18/06/09 / sur abonnement)

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