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Data-sharing culture has changed - DATA SHARING - Research Information

sennoma — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:15:00 -0500

Simon Hodson of JISC examines how technology and funding policies have changed the ways that researchers share data Tagged by sennoma under opendata,

Open Access Submission Fees « putting down a marker

sennoma — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:11:00 -0500

Mark Ware Consulting has been commissioned by Knowledge Exchange (www.knowledge-exchange.info), a partnership of JISC (UK), SURF (Netherlands), DEFF (Denmark) and DfG (Germany), to conduct a study into the feasibility of submission fees in open access journals (i.e. as distinct from publication fees). Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, oa.businessmodels, oa,

Open science at web-scale: Optimising participation and predictive potential : JISC

sennoma — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:47:00 -0500

This report has attempted to draw together and synthesise evidence and opinion associated with data-intensive open science from a wide range of sources. The potential impact of data-intensive open science on research practice and research outcomes, is both substantive and far-reaching. There are implications for funding organisations, for research and information communities and for higher education institutions. Tagged by sennoma under oaos.review, opennotebookscience, openresearch, openscience,

Communicating knowledge: How & why UK researchers publish & disseminate their findings : JISC

sennoma — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:09:00 -0400

Researchers are driven by a desire to enhance our knowledge and understanding of the world we inhabit, and to communicate their findings to others. But both governments and other funders are increasingly interested in demonstrating the social and economic returns from their investments in research, and in assessing research performance. The many different criteria for success, and the lack of any consensus on how success should be assessed or measured, however, mean that researchers often find themselves in receipt of confused or conflicting messages. And they are pulled in different directions in deciding which channels of communication they should adopt. This report is complimented by four supporting papers which provide detailed descriptions of the methods used, a full analysis of the data, and further details of the findings. Tagged by sennoma under RIN, JISC, scholarlycommunication,

DISC-UK Home

sennoma — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:54:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under JISC, Berglund, IR, opendata,

Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation

sennoma — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:36:00 -0400

This study examines the costs and potential benefits of alternative models for scientific and scholarly publishing in the Netherlands. It is a follow-up of the Australian study ‘Research Communication Costs, Emerging Opportunities and Benefits’ (Houghton et al. 2006) and the UK/JISC study ‘Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models’. Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, readthis, johnhoughton,

Current Trends in Biomedical Publishing and Bioinformatics: Some thoughts on Open Access publishing

sennoma — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:39:00 -0400

I've bookmarked both reports, this is just to remind me to actually read them: "The JISC ‘Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models’ and the RIN ‘Activities, costs and funding flows in the scholarly communications system in the UK’ both set out to identify opportunities arising from the shifts towards online publishing and various open access business models." Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, oa.numbers, publishing.models, readthis,

JISC response to publisher objections to the Houghton report

sennoma — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:25:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under oa, oa.money, publishing,

Open Access News: Rachel Proudfoot, et al., IncReASe (Increasing Repository Content through Automation and Services), JISC Final Report, May 1, 2009.

sennoma — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:28:00 -0400

The IncReASe (Increasing Repository Content through Automation and Services) was an eighteen month project (subsequently extended to twenty months) to enhance White Rose Research Online (WRRO). WRRO is a shared repository of research outputs (primarily publications) from the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York; it runs on the EPrints open source repository platform. The repository was created in 2004 and had steady growth but, in common with many other similar repositories, had difficulty in achieving a “critical mass” of content and in becoming truly embedded within researchers’ workflows. The main aim of the IncReASe project was to assess ingestion routes into WRRO with a view to lowering barriers to deposit. We reviewed the feasibility of bulk import of pre-existing metadata and/or full-text research outputs, hoping this activity would have a positive knock-on effect on repository growth and embedding. Prior to the project, we had identified researchers’ reluctance to duplicate effort in metadata creation as a significant barrier to WRRO uptake; we investigated how WRRO might share data with internal and external IT systems. This work included a review of how WRRO, as an institutional based repository, might interact with the subject repository of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Tagged by sennoma under Berglund,

New Business Models : JISC

sennoma — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:54:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under scholarlycommunication, publishing, publishing.models, JISC,

JISC Access Management Team » Blog Archive » Where is the I in Open Content?

sennoma — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:52:00 -0400

I have created a quick (and definitely not exhaustive or particularly well informed) review of the traditional publishing model against the use of open content Tagged by sennoma under oa, openeducation,

Publications : JISC

sennoma — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:17:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under oa.money,

JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool

sennoma — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:18:00 -0500

This site from JISC Collections aims to help libraries to make informed decisions about future subscriptions to bibliographic and full text databases. More information about the site's data sourcing and comparison method is available on the 'About' page. Compare Journal Title Lists Search to compare title lists of major bibliographic and full text databases. Compare Database Platforms Generate tables comparing the key features of database platforms. Compare eBook Platforms You are also able to compare the core functionality of eBook platforms. Tagged by sennoma under reference,

Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - petermr’s blog » Blog Archive » NSF/JISC meeting on eScience/cyberinfrastructure

sennoma — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:34:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under openscience, oa, readthis, busreading,

NSF/JISC Repositories Workshop - Position Papers

sennoma — Sun, 06 May 2007 02:55:00 -0400

Many classic results in science have come from the analysis of existing knowledge already available in the open literature. The chemical classic is Mendeleev's proposal of the law of periodicity [1] where he states: The law of periodicity was thus a direct outcome of the stock of generalisations and established facts which had accumulated by the end of the decade 1860-1870: it is an embodiment of those data in a more or less systematic expression. The data on which the law depended were not gathered systematically but published throughout the chemical literature and in many languages and symbolic formulations. Many of the sources would have taken months to locate and analyse and the metadata - the experimental conditions - were critical for establishing data quality. Tagged by sennoma under openscience, opendata, oaos.examples,

NSF/JISC Repositories Workshop - Position Papers

sennoma — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:37:00 -0400

Includes good paper by PMR on open data Tagged by sennoma under openscience, oa, opendata,