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03 Aug 09

Are Online and Free Online Access Broadening or Narrowing Research? - Open Access Archivangelism

  • If I had to choose between the explanation of the Evans effect as a recency/bandwagon effect, as Evans interprets it, or as an increased overall quality/selectivity effect, I'd choose the latter (though I don't doubt there is a bandwagon effect too). And that is even without going on to point out that Tenopir & King, Gingras and others have shown that -- with or without OA -- there is still a good deal of usage and citation of the legacy literature (though it differs from field to field).



    I wouldn't set much store by "skimming serendipity" (the discovery of adjacent work while skimming through print issues), since online search and retrieval has at least as much scope for serendipity. (And one would expect more likelihood of a bandwagon effect without OA, where authors may tend to cite already cited but inaccessible references "cite unseen.")
17 Dec 07

FutureOfBibliographicControl - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki

  • Bibliographic records are a key part of our shared cultural heritage. They too should therefore be made available to the public for access and re-use without restriction. Not only will this allow libraries to share records more efficiently and improve quality more rapidly through better, easier feedback, but will also make possible more advanced online sites for book-lovers, easier analysis by social scientists, interesting visualizations and summary statistics by journalists and others, as well as many other possibilities we cannot predict in advance.
12 Dec 07

Peter Suber, Open Access News

  • The challenge is to expand the current HAL platform run by CCSD/CNRS since 2001 to a fully shared platform offering both direct depositing and indirect depositing by federating institutions local repositories, under development in most universities.
06 Dec 07

Peter Suber, Open Access News

  • I do not think that there will be significantly more open-access institutional repositories in the United States at the end of 2008 than there are today. This is only a slight disagreement with Peter Suber, because he didn’t specify IRs, just open-access repositories, and there likely will be a few more of those, especially outside the States. I also think that if, as Suber suggests, self-archiving hits the tipping point once we get an NIH mandate and a few mandates like it, institutional repositories will not be winners. Nothing will counteract scholars’ natural gravitation toward their disciplines.
  • It could be a more graceful handoff, or a consolidation into a consortial repository. It could be a major defunding; the repository’s materials will remain accessible, but staff time and money thrown at the repository will be reduced significantly or eliminated.
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Principes pour les échanges entre systèmes locaux et HAL at /home/nicomo/

  • C’est un étrange document, qui mêle technique et politique.


    Par exemple, on lit dans les principes généraux que “Les documents numériques en texte intégral relevant du périmètre de HAL DOIVENT être stockés dans HAL”. Impérativement. Ce n’est pas un jugement politique local de l’université, c’est une obligation nationale. Qui le dit? Le Groupe de Travail. Bon.

04 Dec 07

BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine | Über BASE

  • BASE ist die
    multidisziplinäre Suchmaschine der Universität Bielefeld
    für wissenschaftliche Internet-Quellen, die von der
    Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld basierend auf der Technologie der
    norwegischen Firma FAST Search & Transfer entwickelt wurde.
03 Dec 07

ASIS&T 2007: Opening Science to All: Implications of Blogs and Wikis for Social and Scholarly Scientific Communication (RSS4Lib)

  • Serious stuff... Snippets of research too "small" to be published, but valuable. Sometimes hypotheses and data -- open notebook science (in a later talk). Blog carnivals -- ad hoc popular journalism. One editor collects posts sent in by others, posts link list in a single place. Editorship rotates among group.
  • Blogs are starting to be locus of open access publishing and review -- reviewers don't comment on quality of paper, per se; rather, on value of information being added
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25 Nov 07

PerX | About

  • The PerX Toolkit technical architecture includes a set of Open Source software applications and loosely coupled software modules and libraries implemented using protocols for searching and harvesting distributed digital repositories as well as open standards that support the discovery and the cross searching of searchable databases.

Caveat Lector » Less cognitive load, faster deposit

  • It isn’t just keystrokes, though. It’s the notion of cognitive load, and it’s a simple notion: the more we make people think about putting stuff in the repository, the less of it they’ll actually do, because don’t we all have too much to think about?
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