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[rapport] Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication

noreply@ (pintini) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:31:00 +0100

Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication
(source: Association of Research Libraries)

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released the final report from a study that ARL commissioned Ithaka to conduct, Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication, by Nancy L. Maron and K. Kirby Smith, along with the database of exemplars that the study produced.
In the spring of 2008, ARL engaged Ithaka’s Strategic Services Group to conduct an investigation into the range of online resources valued by scholars, paying special attention to those projects that are pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional formats and are considered innovative by the faculty who use them. The networked digital environment has enabled the creation of many new kinds of works, and many of these resources have become essential tools for scholars conducting research, building scholarly networks, and disseminating their ideas and work, but the decentralized distribution of these new-model works has made it difficult to fully appreciate their scope and number.
Ithaka’s findings are based on a collection of resources identified by a volunteer field team of over 300 librarians at 46 academic institutions in the US and Canada. Field librarians talked with faculty members on their campuses about the digital scholarly resources they find most useful and reported the works they identified. The authors evaluated each resource gathered by the field team and conducted interviews of project leaders of 11 representative resources. Ultimately, 206 unique digital resources spanning eight formats were identified that met the study’s criteria.

Oxford: gestion des données de recherche

noreply@ (pintini) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:34:02 +0100

Institutional and National Services for Research Data Management Workshop (Said Business School, 20/10/08)

Objectifs:
- Raise awareness of best practice in institutional and national support data services
- Complement the findings of the scoping study consultation with Oxford support services
- Help to identify gaps in the provision of services available to researchers to assist with their data management duties
- Stimulate discussion amongst service providers about collaborative ways to address data management needs of Oxford researchers

Présentations:
- A Grand Challenge for the Information Age
- The UK Research Data Service (UKRDS) Feasibility Study
- Tools for Managing Research Data: the Data Audit Framework (DAF) and DRAMBORA
- Data Management Planning: what do researchers really need to know?
- Legal Issues Relevant to Digital Repositories

Via DigitalKoans

Recherche scientifique (01/11/08)

noreply@ (pintini) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:41:19 +0100

- E-Science Talking Points for ARL Deans & Directors
(source: Association of Research Libraries, 15/10/08)
"e-Science is not a new scientific discipline in its own right: e-Science is shorthand for the set of tools and technologies required to support collaborative, networked science. The entire e-Science infrastructure is intended to empower scientists to do their research in faster, better and different ways."

- NARCIS, portail de la recherche scientifique des Pays-Bas
(source: Prosper, 20/10/08)

- Evaluation de la recherche en SHS (France)
Un site proposé par Hypothèses (CLEO, Revues.org) pour accueillir les débats sur la question.

- DISCOVER Research Service Group
(source: université de Cornell, E.-U.)

- International science community to establish global virtual library for scientific data
(source: OAN, 24/10/08)

- Rinnovati, Laura (2007) A literature review in digital humanities computing
(déposé sur E-LIS, 30/10/08)
"The research start from the necessity to define with clarity what is digital humanities considering that digital humanities comprise the study of what happens when computers are as a means of solving humanist’s information problems. In the digital humanities, humanists play the role of both consumer and contributor and creator of intellectual works as digital libraries, seeking and using information in new ways and generating new types of products, many of which are specialized resources for access to research information, although many humanists haven’t technical knowledge’s and relevant faculties in computing. In fact computing and digitisation are transforming not only the condition of work for humanists, but also the ways in which humanists think and their disciplines are configured. The digital world has grown radically in the last few years and become part of what most humanists do and both enable and compel the way of research and create new instruments to work for them. So the ongoing revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) has fundamentally altered the work of scholars and researchers and the humanist now populate Internet with many discussion groups that address the specialised needs of the non-technical disciplines, including their uses of computing. It is important study humanities users, and their interactions with digital information, and in virtual environments, to gain a fuller understanding of the nature of their information work, their corpus-based informative resources."

- Une plateforme d’édition électronique complète
(source: Revues.org, 31/10/08)
Il s'agit bien entendu de la plateforme CLEO.

A propos de la diffusion de la recherche "non traditionnelle"

noreply@ (pintini) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:48:00 +0100

Heterodox Economics and Dissemination of Research through the Internet: the Experience of RePEc and NEP
(source: University of Connecticut, Department of Economics / via OAN)

"We study how the democratization of the diffusion of research through the Internet could have helped non traditional fields of research. The specific case we approach is Heterodox Economics as its pre-prints are disseminated through NEP, the email alert service of RePEc. Comparing heterodox and mainstream papers, we find that heterodox ones are quite systematically more downloaded, and particularly so when considering downloads per subscriber. We conclude that the Internet definitely helps heterodox research, also because other researcher get exposed to it. But there is still room for more participation by heterodox researchers."

[Europe] PARSE.Insight

noreply@ (pintini) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:38:13 +0200

PARSE.Insight - INSIGHT into issues of Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe

"The EU-project "PARSE.Insight - INSIGHT into issues of Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe" started its work in March 2008. Its areas of activity include long-term digital preservation, the provision of raw scientific data and its links to publications.
Raw scientific data is often scattered over a number of research institutes and in many cases is managed locally by the researchers themselves. The rapid aging of data carriers, formats and software and hardware environments means that their long-term accessibility is under threat. In many cases no preservation strategies exist for this data. There is therefore a risk of losing data which is of great significance for research.
The aim of PARSE.Insight is to draw up a roadmap and recommendations to support the e-Infrastructure for the digital preservation and long-term accessibility of this raw academic data. The project partners first analyze the digital preservation methods and the communities involved in the provision of raw academic data. They then carry out a Europe-wide survey to determine how raw academic data is currently being archived. Three case studies are providing specific and complementary information. The results will be used as the basis for plugging the gaps in the European e-Infrastructure with regard to the long-term usability of raw scientific data and then to devise a tool to support EU investment and infrastructure decisions aimed at ensuring long-term access to raw scientific data.
Nine partners from the fields of libraries, research, journalism and politics are working together in PARSE-Insight. The project is scheduled to run for two years.
Further information: http://www.parse-insight.eu/"

Enseignement/Recherche (12/10/08)

noreply@ (pintini) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:54:57 +0200

- Hypothèses. Carnets de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales
(source: Cleo-Revues.org)
"Qu'est-ce qu'un carnet de recherche ? Il s'agit d'un mode de publication rapide et léger permettant de rendre compte régulièrement de recherches en cours. Un carnet de recherche peut être un carnet de fouilles archéologiques, une chronique scientifique sur un thème précis, un carnet de bord d'une recherche collective en cours, un blog de revues ou de livres, un carnet de terrain, une newsletter scientifique, etc. Il permet au « carnetier » de dialoguer avec ses lecteurs par le biais des commentaires. Il repose enfin sur l'utilisation d'un outil simple, ne nécessitant pas de connaissance informatique particulière."

- ESC Lille adopte la solution Google Apps Education : Un campus numérique inédit en France
(source: Urfist, 02/10/08)

- Lost in Transition? The International Students’ Experience Project
(source: University of the Arts London / ILW, 04/10/08)

- E-Textbooks for All
(source: Inside Higher Ed, 07/10/08)
"A pilot at the University of Texas at Austin will replace printed textbooks with electronic versions for all students in certain classes, free of charge."

- E-learning et cours magistral
(source: Urfist, 07/10/08)

Revues.org

noreply@ (pintini) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:37:53 +0200

Livret de Revues.org (2008-2009)

Sommaire:
* Des outils mis à la disposition de la communauté scientifique
* Suivre l’actualité du CLEO
* Des revues de sciences humaines et sociales souhaitant participer à la diffusion des savoirs
* Les revues adhérentes
* Adhérer à Revues.org

Enseignement/Recherche (02/10/08)

noreply@ (pintini) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:34:23 +0200

- 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

Enseignement/Recherche (25/09/08)

noreply@ (pintini) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:36:00 +0200

- User-generated science
(source: The Economist, 18/09/08 / via OAN)
"Web 2.0 tools are beginning to change the shape of scientific debate"

- New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies
(source: Ariadne, n° 56, juillet 08)
"In this article I want to reflect on the rhetoric of ‘Web 2.0’ and its potential versus actual impact. I want to suggest that we need to do more than look at how social networking technologies are being used generally as an indicator of their potential impact on education, arguing instead that we need to rethink what are the fundamental characteristics of learning and then see how social networking can be harnessed to maximise these characteristics to best effect. I will further argue that the current complexity of the digital environment requires us to develop ‘schema’ or approaches to thinking about how we can best harness the benefits these new technologies confer."

- How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Content
(source: Blogo Numericus, 22/09/08)

- La fièvre de l'évaluation de la recherche. Du mauvais usage de faux indicateurs
(source: Yves Gingras, CIRST, UQAM, mai 2008 / via Urfist)

- Compendium d’indicateurs de l’activité scientifique et technologique au Québec : les incidences de la science, de la technologie et de l’innovation, Québec
(source: Institut de la statistique du Québec)

- Est-ce que le déluge de données va rendre la méthode scientifique obsolète ?
(source: InternetActu, 09/09/08)

Universités (E.-U.) dans les médias: classement

noreply@ (pintini) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:22:19 +0200

Dans ce billet, New College And University Ranking Looks At Media Coverage, The Kept-Up Academic Librarian signale ce "nouveau" classement - un de plus - (réalisé par Global Language Monitor) des universités américaines selon leur "présence" dans les médias (papier, électro), mais aussi dans la blogosphère.

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