Im Projekt DOARC sollen Autoren und Leser leistungsfähige Werkzeuge zur Literaturverwaltung im Internet erhalten. Beispiele hierfür sind neben dem Import und Export von Referenzen in Standardformaten wie BibTeX und EndNote vor allem auch die Darstellung verwandter Arbeiten mittels Zitationsgraphen. Neben unterschiedlichen Möglichkeiten zur interaktiven Visualisierung ähnlicher Themengebiete, Zitationshäufigkeiten etc. sollen diese eine direkte Navigation zu verwandten Arbeiten ermöglichen. Um die Nutzerfreundlichkeit und Popularität dieser Werkzeuge zu erhöhen, sollen sie zeitnah in der etablierten Fach-Community des Cluster Science Net implementiert und erprobt werden. Die Erschließung von Zitationen soll in enger Kopplung mit dem Vorhaben Open- Access (OAN) Netzwerk erfolgen, die Attraktivität von OA-Repositorien erhöhen und somit den Open-Access-Prozess unterstützen. DOARC wird auf international abgestimmten Metadaten aufbauen, zu Diensten wie etwa dem etablierten Citebase kompatibel sein und somit im Verbund mit den DINI-zertifizierten Repositorien über das Infrastruktur-Layer des Vorhabens OA-Netzwerk zu einer Verbesserung der internationalen Sichtbarkeit der Publikationen beitragen. Der DOARC-Dienst soll zum Projekt-Abschluss vollständig in das OA-Netzwerk-Portal und das Infrastruktur-Layer integriert sein.
In einer Stellungnahme zum "Dritten Korb" des Urheberrechts fordert der Deutsche Bibliotheksverband (dbv) eine Lockerung des geltenden Urheberrechts. So sollen unter anderem die Wiedergabe von Dokumenten an elektronischen Leseplätzen und das Recht auf Privatkopie ausgeweitet werden. Welche Folgen dies für Verlage haben könnte, fragte boersenblatt.net in einem Gespräch mit Gabriele Beger, Vorsitzende des dbv und Direktorin der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg.
Stellungnahme des Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverbandes zum Fragebogen des Bundesministeriums der Justiz vom 13. Februar 2009 Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband
Am 24. November 2009 hat das OLG Frankfurt seine Entscheidung im Berufungsverfahren im Streit zwischen der ULB Darmstadt und dem Ulmer-Verlag verkündet.
This paper by Paul Peters, the Senior Publishing Developer of Hindawi Publishing Corporation, has been written for publication in the conference proceedings of Online Information 2006. Peters presents different open access publishing models and explains why so-called Big Deal journal subscription packages create a barrier to entry into the publishing market.
He explains that these packages are a barrier because only large publishing firms can offer a package with many different journal titles. In contrast, Peters favours the Author-Pays- Model which provides, in his opinion, a sustainable open access publishing model.
VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the traditional OPAC to include...
The mission of Portico is to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students.
The Observatory will review the conduct of "academic ranking" and expressions of "academic excellence" for the benefit of higher education, its stake-holders and the general public. This objective will be achieved by way of:
improving the standards, theory and practice in line with recommendations formulated in the Berlin Principles on Ranking of Higher Education Institutions
initiating research and training related to ranking excellence;
analyzing the impact of ranking on access, recruitment trends and practices;
analyzing the role of ranking on institutional behavior;
enhancing public awareness and understanding of academic work.
The robustness or breakdown of Lotka's law about the frequency distribution of scientific productivity depends on scientific cooperation, counting methods, interdisciplinary publishing and selection methods for sample collections. We have chosen to analyse the relationship using Mandelbrot's equivalent distribution model because this model is sensitive and uses the original data (scores). Five sets of authors and publications, the two sets used by Lotka, a set from High Energy Physics, a set from Microbiology and a set based on applicants to a research programme promoting young researchers have been used. It is shown that even for a sample of authors in High-Energy Physics with extremely strong co-authorship, Mandelbrot's distribution law is robust when complete-normalized (fractional) counting is used whereas complete counting results in a breakdown. In the field of Microbiology with much weaker cooperation, both counting methods result in a breakdown of Mandelbrot's law. Today a field like Microbiology with the corresponding set of journals, probably has a large content of interdisciplinary publishing and therefore no more fulfills the precondition of Lotka's law, that the total production of the authors (sources) is considered. For a set of applicants for the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation. Mandelbrot's law breaks down despite the fact that all publications co-authored by the applicants are taken into account. In agreement with Bayes' theorem of conditional probabilities these results lead to the conjecture that any selection process of authors and/or publications causes a breakdown of Mandelbrot's law and, as a consequence Lotka's law.
A survey cutting across all departments found at U.S. business schools was conducted to assess the readerships of 130 journals. The survey results can help researchers both in their understanding of the composition of potential readers at given journals and in the process of selecting journals for a desirable target audience. Survey respondents also reported the degree to which articles published in various journals have stimulated their thinking and in how far publications in particular journals are believed to help in increasing the researcher’s academic reputation.
Bericht über die Einrichtung eines Forschungsinformationssystems für Medizin in Bayern und Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Die Personen sollen ihre Daten selber eingeben, aber Schnittstellen zu Medline und ISI vereinfachen die Arbeit
This toolkit, first assembled in 2009, is an effort to give a variety of people interested in understanding ways of measuring the impacts that their online scholarly resources are having.
"über einen begrenzten Zeitraum eine Teilmenge der im EconBiz-Fachinformationsführer enthaltenen Internetquellen in Social-Bookmarking-Webseiten angeboten werden. Ziel ist es Erkenntnisse darüber zu gewinnen"
The Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER) is the principal association of the major research libraries of Europe. It was founded in 1971 under the auspices of the Council of Europe. Its current membership includes research libraries of more than forty countries.