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.
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.
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.
SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication. services include: RoMEO - Publisher's copyright & archiving policies, JULIET - Research funders archiving mandates and guidelines, OpenDOAR worldwide Directory of Open Access Repositories, SHERPA Search - simple full-text search of UK repositories, DRIVER - developing a cross-European repository network infrastructure, and more
Imagine a world where anyone can instantly access all of the world's scholarly knowledge - as profound a change as the invention of the printing press. Technically, this is within reach. All that is needed is a little imagination, to reconsider the economics of scholarly communications from a poetic viewpoint. Heather Morrison, MLIS
The project's major objective is enriching the toolkit used for the assessment of the impact of scholarly communication items, and hence of scholars, with metrics that derive from usage data. The project has created a semantic model of the scholarly communication process, and an associated large-scale semantic store that relates a range of bibliographic, citation and usage data obtained from a variety of sources
The aim of this project is to develop COUNTER-compliant usage reports at the individual article level that can be implemented by any entity (publisher, aggregator, IR, etc.,) that hosts online journal articles and will enable the usage of research outputs to be recorded, reported and consolidated at a global level in a standard way.
Open Folklore–now being created by the American Folklore Society and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries–is a new scholarly resource that will make a greater number and variety of useful resources, both published and unpublished, available for the field of folklore studies and the communities with which folklore scholars partner. Fister mentioned this.
journal articles and accepted manuscripts. anticipated annual growth of 20,000-30,000 publicly-accessible articles and manuscripts. public access gateway to scholarly publications resulting from DOE research funding. When fully operational, DOE PAGESBeta will provide public access to the final peer-reviewed accepted manuscripts or published journal articles following a twelve-month embargo.
The partnership brings together faculty members, librarians, and graduate students dedicated to exploring whether and how new technologies can be used to improve the professional and public value of scholarly research. Its research program is investigating the social, economic, and technical issues entailed in the use of online infrastructure and knowledge management strategies to improve both the scholarly quality and public accessibility and coherence of this body of knowledge in a sustainable and globally accessible form. It continues to be an active player in the open access movement, as it provides the leading open source software for journal and conference management and publishing.
This Scholarly Communication toolkit was designed by ACRL’s Scholarly Communication Committee as a resource for education and advocacy efforts in transforming the scholarly communication landscape. Following nuanced and passionate discussions, we came to understand that the idea of bringing the full cycle of scholarly communication -- from discovery and creation of knowledge, to its dissemination, preservation, and re-use -- into all aspects of our work is central to the continued success of academic libraries. As information is increasingly captured, created, and communicated in digital forms, the activities of making scholarly resources well structured, discoverable, archived and readily available move closer to the creators of knowledge -- largely, faculty, students, and others within the academy. Understanding and influencing that shift is central to our goal. We believe these issues are key for our profession, and it is time for all librarians to fully own them.
Created by Professor Henk Moed at CTWS, University of Leiden, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa.
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has established the Scholarly Kitchen - a comprehensive resource and place to go to for exciting dialogue on current trends and information on what’s happening in the scholarly publishing community!
SHERPA's new JULIET service breaks down the differing requirements from each of the Research Councils to try and simplify what the policy says has to be done, what authors should archive, when they should archive, and where they should archive their outputs. The list then categorises the different sets of advice in comparison to an ideal Open Access mandate. The JULIET list complements the well-known RoMEO list, which summarises publishers' permissions for archiving research articles.