- Advancing Science through Conversations: Bridging the Gap between Blogs and the Academy
(source: PLoS Biology / via OAN, 25/09/08)

- Galyani Moghaddam, Golnessa and Moballeghi, Mostafa (2008) How Do We Measure Use of Scientific Journals? A Note on Research Methodologies . Scientometrics 76(1):pp. 125-133.
(source: déposé sur E-LIS, 28/09/08)
"Scientific journals represent a significant and growing part of the libraries and many researchers have attempted to measure their use by various methodological approaches till date. In this paper, the author reviews the methodologies employed by researchers working on scientific journals usage. It aims to present an overall picture of the research methods used in the area, in a way that will be of value to anyone seeking to study scientific journals. The author reviews four main research methodologies which are being used for profiling scientific journals usage including questionnaire, interview, citation analysis and transaction log analysis."

- Planning for Contraction
(source: Inside Higher Ed, 28/09/08)
"Timothy Burke looks at the changing economic landscape for higher education -- and sees a coming period of relative austerity."

- Skills, Role & Career Structure of Data Scientists & Curators: Assessment of Current Practice & Future Needs
(source: Key Perspectives/JISC, juillet 08)

- Giménez-Toledo, Elea and Román-Román, Adelaida (2008) Peer review and in-depth interviews with publishers as a means of assessing quality of research monographs . In Proceedings 10th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Vienna (Austria).
(source: déposé sur E-LIS)
"It has often been observed that evaluating scientific activity in the Humanities and in some of the Social Sciences needs to involve a study of monographs, as they are often the preferred mean of publication by scientists in these fields. As well as being the most frequently cited publication type, monographs are also the mean most often used to publish research findings. Thus, if they are not included in the evaluation process, a significant part of the scientific output is excluded, and the scientific activity undervalued.
The purpose of this work in progress is to push forward the study of monographs to provide evaluators of research activities with a number of consistent scholar books quality indicators, through two different approaches: a survey of more than 200 researchers working in various fields and in-depth interviews with the editors responsible for selecting manuscripts at each of the best-regarded publishers."

- Open Access to and Reuse of Research Data—The State of the Art in Finland
(source: Finnish Social Science Data Archive / via DigitalKoans, 30/09/08)

- The Future of Research (Science and Technology)
(source: C. Goble, université de Manchester / British Library, 23/09/08)

- Innovate. Journal of Online Education (vol. 5, n° 1, oct.-nov. 08)
> Recasting Distance Learning with Network-Enabled Open Education: An Interview with Vijay Kumar James L. Morrison and Vijay Kumar
> Transforming e-Learning into ee-Learning: The Centrality of Sociocultural Participation Sandra B. Schneider and Michael A. Evans
> e-Learning and Action Research as Transformative Practice Margaret Farren
> Using Student Response Systems to Increase Motivation, Learning, and Knowledge Retention David J. Radosevich, Roger Salomon, Deirdre M. Radosevich, and Patricia Kahn
> Designing for the Student: Users' Styles and Department Web Sites Trevor Hall, Ryan Jensen, and Daniel McLean
> Places to Go: Connectivism & Connective Knowledge Stephen Downes