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Libre accès: opportunités et défis

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:26:44 +0200

Open Access: Opportunities and challenges – A handbook (pdf)

Une publication de l'Union européenne et de la commission allemande de l'UNESCO.

Si vous êtes dans la base de l'Ue, vous recevrez la version papier du document par courrier.

RDF en français

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:39:25 +0200

Les 6 documents de recommandations du W3C pour RDF sont désormais disponibles en français.

Via Planet RDF

Dépôts institutionnels (28/06/08)

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:57:25 +0200

- Do we really want repositories to be more Web2.0-like?
(source: Digital Curation Blog, 18/06/08)

- Digital Research Data Curation: Overview of Issues, Current Activities, and Opportunities for the Cornell University Library
(source: université de Cornell, E.-U.)
Advances in computational capacity and tools, coupled with the accelerating collection and accumulation of data in many disciplines, are giving rise to new modes of conducting research. Infrastructure to promote and support the curation of digital research data is not yet fully-developed in all research disciplines, scales, and contexts. Organizations of all kinds are examining and staking out their potential roles in the areas of cyberinfrastructure development, data-driven scholarship, and data curation. The purpose of the Cornell University Library's (CUL) Data Working Group (DaWG) is to exchange information about CUL activities related to data curation, to review and exchange information about developments and activities in data curation in general, and to consider and recommend strategic opportunities for CUL to engage in the area of data curation. This white paper aims to fulfill this last element of the DaWG's charge.

- BOA - Bicocca Open Archive
Le DI de l'université italienne de Milano-Bicocca.

- DRIVER infrastructure software
Voir ici (cliquer sur 'Search the repositories...') un exemple d'implémentation du logiciel.

- Une liste de flux RSS des dernières soumissions dans divers DI à travers le monde.
(source: Internet Resources Newsletter, 26/06/08)

- Why hotlinking to a RePEc service makes sense
(source: RePEc, 27/06/08)
Par "hotlinking", il faut entendre les fameux "deep links", les liens qui ne pointent pas sur une page d'accueil mais dans les pages (ou services web) "internes" d'un site.

- Creating an institutional repository at the University of Liverpool: our approach (pdf)
- Brunel University Research Archive - a year in the life of an institutional repository (pdf)
(source: SCONUL Focus, n° 42)

Information literacy (28/06/08)

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:56:39 +0200

- Fostering Lifelong Learning through Information Literacy education: Exploring conceptions in different disciplines and framing pedagogies for lifelong learning (présentation)
(source: Sheila Webber, Lifelong Conference, Australie, 18/06/08)

- Non-use of Library Services by Students in a UK Academic Library
(source: EBLIP, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, vol. 3, N° 2, 2008)
Results – The findings showed that students in part-time and distance learning courses were the largest group of non-users. Other factors influencing non-use included the purchase of books, use of the Internet, and a lack of awareness of services available.
Conclusions – The library service needs to target non-traditional student groups, particularly those taught off-campus, with innovative induction techniques. This survey highlighted the need to embed information skills teaching into the curriculum and a recent restructure of the department has enabled this to happen with a more focused approach to academic liaisonship.

- Building a More Net-Savvy Campus Culture
(source: Educause)
What does it mean for students, faculty, and staff to be “net savvy”? Many are facile with music downloads, word processing, text messaging, or Web 2.0 tools, but are they really technology literate? What does it take to build a more net-savvy campus culture for students, faculty, and staff? Share your ideas, experiences, and questions in this dialogue on a topic of critical importance to the development of a community of responsible, self-directed, lifelong learners.

- Papachristopoulos, Leonidas and Tsakonas, Giannis and Papatheodorou, Christos (2008) Enforcement of information seeking behavior through digital library services. In Selthofer, Josipa and Aparac-Jelusic, Tatjana and Krtalic, Maja, Eds. Proceedings Libraries In the Digital Age 2008, pp. 97-105, Dubrovnik and Mljet (HR).
(déposé sur E-LIS, 24/06/08)
Digital library are complex information systems, comprised by core and value added services. The current study attempts to collect through a qualitative approach users’ opinions about the usage, usefulness and usability of DL value added services. Selected value added services from four DLs are related to the main stages of information life-cycle in order to identify crucial areas of DL interaction. The results show a major concentration of services in stages that address information searching needs and that the most significant factors affecting acceptance reside on three levels of factors, namely system, services and individual’s factors.

- Mitrelis, Angelos and Tsakonas, Giannis and Papatheodorou, Christos (2008) Using qualitative research methods for the improvement of collaborative information searching tools design. In Selthofer, Josipa and Aparac-Jelusic, Tatjana and Krtalic, Maja, Eds. Proceedings Libraries In the Digital Age 2008, pp. 111-117, Dubrovnik and Mljet (HR).
(déposé sur E-LIS, 24/06/08)
Regarding the change of information seeking to a collaborative activity, DLs as dynamic information systems, have to adopt collaboration searching tools. This study investigates the degree of collaboration in information retrieval and the extent of collaboration tools usage in DLs. The collaborative tools of a prototype digital library are assessed through a qualitative study by the aspects of usefulness, usability and usage. Results show that information search transforms to a collective form, while they prove that usefulness and usability have a significant effect on usage and on user satisfaction. The results also show that collaboration tools evolve into indispensable design parameters for modern digital libraries.

- The development of information literacy skills to support a changing postgraduate research environment: an Irish experience (pdf)
(source: SCONUL Focus, n° 42)

Enseignement/Recherche (28/06/08)

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:55:44 +0200

- SocialLearn: Bridging the Gap Between Web 2.0 and Higher Education
(source: e-Literate, 16/06/08)
Higher education faces a challenge. It may not now it yet, but it does. And the challenge is this – when learners have been accustomed to very facilitative, usable, personalisable and adaptive tools both for learning and socialising, why will they accept standardised, unintuitive, clumsy and out of date tools in formal education they are paying for? It won’t be a dramatic revolution (students accept lower physical accommodation standards when they leave home for university after all), but instead there will be a quiet migration. The monolithic LMSs will be deserted, digital tumbleweed blowing down their forums. Students will abandon these in favour of their tools, the back channel will grow and it will be constituted from content and communication technologies that don’t require a training course to understand and that come with a ready made community.

- High Self-efficacy and High Use of Electronic Information may Predict Improved Academic Performance
(source: EBLIP, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, vol. 3, N° 2, 2008)
Main Results – Self-efficacy and use of electronic information together contributed to 9% (reported as 0.9% in the article) of the variance in academic performance, and each variable statistically significantly contributed to predicting academic performance (p<0.05). Use of electronic information contributed more than did self-efficacy to the prediction of academic performance. The correlations of use of electronic information to high self-efficacy and academic performance to high self-efficacy were very slightly stronger than these variables to low self-efficacy. Use of electronic info and self-efficacy were both statistically significantly correlated to academic performance (r = 0.2779 and r = 0.1559, respectively), though these correlations were modest. When asked what information source the students used most often, a little more than a third (35.42%) noted the Internet, followed by CD-ROM databases (20.43%), electronic journals (18.71%), and e-mail (18.29%). Electronic books and bulletin boards were used least often (3.71% and 3.43%, respectively).

- The quality of open scholarship: what follows from open?
(source: Revues.org, 26/06/08)
Compte-rendu de la conférence d'ouverture ELPUB.
[Voir aussi, en anglais]

- Making Digital Scholarship Count: [ un ] [ deux ] [ trois ]
(source: edwired / via D. Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog, 27/06/08)

Outils de recherche (28/06/08)

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:54:09 +0200

- Content-Based Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries
(source: Information Technology & Libraries, mars 2008, vol. 27, n° 1 / sur abonnement)
This paper discusses the applications and importance of content-based information retrieval technology in digital libraries. It generalizes the process and analyzes current examples in four areas of the technology. Content-based information retrieval has been shown to be an effective way to search for the type of multimedia documents that are increasingly stored in digital libraries. As a good complement to traditional text-based information retrieval technology, content-based information retrieval will be a significant trend for the development of digital libraries.

- Etude > Google domine aussi le marché du mobile selon Nielsen
(source: Abondance, 19/06/08)

- 100 Useful Niche Search Engines You’ve Never Heard Of
(source: College@Home)

- Search Engines are Preferred Method for Researching Products and Services
(source: SEWB, 24/06/08)

- Google Launches Google Map Maker
(source: SEWB, 24/06/07)

- Visuwords
Un dictionnaire "visuel", c'est-à-dire graphique; et d'associations sémantiques.

ELPUB 2008, Open Scholarship

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:52:59 +0200

Revues.org a publié quelques comptes-rendus de l'ELPUB 2008, Open Scholarship (Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0)

- The quality of open scholarship: what follows from open?
[Voir aussi]

- Keywords and metadata extraction from pre-prints

- The state of metadata in open access journals: possibilities and restrictions