AcaWiki is like a "Wikipedia for academic research" designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online. AcaWiki turns research hidden in academic journals into something more dynamic and accessible.
This website is dedicated to the development, dissemination and discussion of journal indicators. Such indicators are being developed to assess the quality and impact of scholarly journals within the scientific community. The pioneeering one is the journal impact factor developed by Eugene Garfield at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), nowadays Thomson Reuters. Recently, the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University developed for Elsevier Scopus an indicator called the source normalized impact per paper (SNIP, see Moed, 2009). This indicator can be seen as an important alternative to the impact factor. More information is available in the Documentation section. Currently, the SNIP is being produced by CWTS exclusively for Scopus.
Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts. Critical Commons is also part of the technical and conceptual architecture for numerous electronic publishing efforts that directly engage media as objects of analysis, curation and critique. At the heart of Critical Commons is an online platform for viewing, tagging, sharing, annotating curating and spreading media. Our goal is to build open, informed communities around media-based research, teaching, learning and creativity.