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How I Work: The Best of How I Work

sennoma — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:02:00 -0500

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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,

springpad - making content useful

sennoma — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:40:00 -0400

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The Ferryman: Growing significance of communities and collaboration in discovery and development

sennoma — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:21:00 -0400

The benefits of community participation or collaboration should outweigh the costs to support a rational decision to pursue such routes. Lions usually prefer to hunt as a group as the shared food from group kills offers a better return and lower risk than hunting alone; in a similar manner organisations may also choose to collaborate to have greater success in acquiring new resources or income. The current convergence of a number of factors appears to be driving up the R&D collaboration benefit/cost ratio. The drivers include: 1. Scientific research is becoming more complex and multi-disciplinary, requiring researchers to move more away from “working in the expert’s box”. 2. Our work, economy and society are becoming more knowledge-oriented. (I define knowledge here as including understanding gained from experience and involves individual and collective knowledge in addition to explicit knowledge such as intellectual property (IP).) 3. Business models in the chemistry and pharmaceutical industry that worked fine historically, e.g., manufacturing products based predominantly on patents related to chemistry, appear to be increasingly lacking. 4. The goals of translational and personalized medicine have stronger requirements for networked and collaborative approaches over discipline and time than the historically relatively linear drug discovery and development process. Integrated services offer greater future value creation than stand-alone products. 5. Patient Safety has become an issue of growing concern requiring new more integrative approaches to data, knowledge and disciplines. 6. Computational Science continues to grow in importance, fueling overlaps and interactions between scientific disciplines including that of computer science. 7. The maturing of the Internet-based World Wide Web including enhanced usability, services, social software and the semantic web, provide new community and collaboration resource opportunities. 8. Challenging problems we face as a Tagged by sennoma under openscience, collaboration,

Open Archives Forum - Home

sennoma — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:45:00 -0400

The Open Archives Forum provided a Europe-based focus for dissemination of information about European activity related to open archives and, in particular, to the Open Archives Initiative. The aim of the Forum was to facilitate clustering of IST projects, national initiatives and other parties interested in the open archives approach. In order to do so, the Forum brought interested parties together to build a community of interest, enable exchange of information and establish a web-based European information source for open archives. In addition, the Forum undertook comparative reviews of technical and organisational issues. Tagged by sennoma under oa,

On the Design and Implementation of a Market Mechanism for Peer Review and Publishing

sennoma — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:38:00 -0400

Traditional methods of peer review are coming under strain as the volume of manuscripts and the number of forums for manuscript submission rise. These pressures can result in poorer quality reviews, extended publication times, and higher costs to the organisations that fund research. In this paper we describe a method for reducing reviewing burden, expediting feedback and shortening publication times. Furthermore, by its nature, the method produces leading (as opposed to lagging/trailing) publication metrics for authors and the manuscripts they write, and we show how these metrics can be used by search engines to provide more useful orderings of search results. Finally, we briefly discuss the potential to apply the underlying mechanism of the method to application domains beyond research publishing, such as the web as a whole. Tagged by sennoma under scholarlycommunication, publishing.models, peerreview, readthis,

Main Articles: 'Publish and Cherish with Non-proprietary Peer Review Systems', Ariadne Issue 59

sennoma — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:03:00 -0400

With a shift from proprietary to non-proprietary systems of peer review, initial experience has now been garnered from SCOAP [4] and the Springer experiments [5] at UKB, MPG, Göttingen University and, lately, California University [6]). This conversion can be speeded up if disciplinary communities, universities, and research funders actively enter the market of the peer review organisers by calling for tenders and inviting publishers to submit proposals for a non-proprietary design of the peer review process. Given the current situation – with the American legislature and the European Commission having clearly taken a stand in favour of Open Access – one can expect that such tenders will certainly produce interesting proposals. The time is ripe! Tagged by sennoma under peerreview, leowaaijers,

Usage-based measurements of journal quality - research project enters its second stage | UKSG

sennoma — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:53:00 -0400

In 2007 the United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG), in association with the online usage metrics organisation COUNTER, published the results of a wide-ranging study which explored how online journal usage statistics might form the basis of a new metric of journal quality. The study combined a web-based survey of opinion with a series of in-depth interviews with stakeholders from the author, publisher and librarian communities. The aim of these twin avenues of research was to examine the ways in which journal quality is currently assessed, and the degree to which any additional usage-based metrics might prove valuable to each stakeholder community, along with practical ways in which such metrics might be derived and constructed to provide the maximum utility for all, within defined resource constraints. Building upon the encouraging reactions revealed in the market research, Stage 2 of the project is developing a programme of data modelling and analysis that will use real usage data from a number of content providers, with the aim of identifying potential candidate metrics for longer term scaled up testing. Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, bibliometrics,

FreeMind Scholar

sennoma — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:32:00 -0400

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OAN: New issue of European Review with section on OA

sennoma — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:34:00 -0400

The current issue of European Review has a section on OA. (Thanks to Russ Swan.) * Gerard Van Trier, Focus: Scholarly Publishing and Open Access * Michael A. Mabe, Scholarly Publishing * Dieter M. Imboden, Scientific Publishing: the Dilemma of Research Funding Organisations * Robert Aymar, Scholarly Communication in High-Energy Physics: Past, Present and Future Innovations * Paul Ayris, New Wine in Old Bottles: Current Developments in Digital Delivery and Dissemination Tagged by sennoma under oa, scholcomm, publishing, publishing.models,

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