Social Scholarship

This slideshow ‘ is a great summary of a very important concept.

Librarians have information literacy very high on their agendas. Part of IL is how to evaluate material found online – this is an important part of both scholarhip, and lifelong learning. The existance of pre-prints and non-peer reviewed material in repositories is [...]

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Publishing – a snapshot for potential OA funding

Food for thought, possible mathematical fumblings following…
Snapshot of publications: January – February 2008 – Web of Science Alerts
•176 articles listed with University of Bath affiliated authors
•119 articles published with publishers offering an Open Access payment
• Therefore 67% of articles published are with publishers offering an OA payment option.
• Average cost of OA options = seems [...]

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Happy 10th item!

Okay, off to a steady start – over ten items in the repository. Hopefully more to come soon. I’ve got a spreadsheet of possible authors from Web of Science and BMC. I’m checking these against the PIP, our research expertise portal. On the side I’m contacting heads of research centres and [...]

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YouTube vid

Thanks to Gareth Johnston from the RSP in Nottingham for sending this on. I think it spells out the issues in quite the sophisticated manner. Nice one Gaz!

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Hej from Stockholm

Despite the fact that I’ve really got a million things to do, including preparing for at least three upcoming presentations – two on self-archiving and the repository, and one on blogging, I’m off work this week. And in Stockholm. It’s a family thing.
But an interesting thing to report – I put my powerpoints [...]

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Ruptures over PRISM

Making huge waves in the blogosphere, the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine (PRISM) has been established by AAP and partners to ‘protect the integrity of scientific research’. They’ve already come under fire in the early days of their website release with claims of the use of copyright protected images on their [...]

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Licenced to publish

Yesterday we met with two legal people from the University to discuss licences and legal requirements for outlining deposit agreements and the like. The discussion brought up points I hadn’t thought to consider, and also highlighted the need to provide information and education on Intellectual Property Rights, including copyright and the fine print for [...]

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Sharing

If the entertainment blogs are to be believed, the Britney Spears approach to sharing means splitting your half-finished lollypop with the new man in your life (I’m not linking to my sources – *this* is a quality blog..!).
I’m not sure generosity should extend that far, but the following is certainly a much better example of [...]

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Putting the story in repoSiTORY

Over on Brian Kelly’s blog I’ve written a guest post on developing and finding online communities.
Since starting as Research Publications Librarian, I’ve been trying to use the tools that I’ve become accustomed to using for my information – blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and networking sites, etc. Finding the Open Access communities [...]

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Libraries and publishers

I wrote a little in my last post about the ALPSP one day seminar Publishing and the Library of the Future. Here’s my presentation from its resting place on Slideshare (how easy is it to add Slideshare presentations to WordPress or WordPress blog entries to Facebook these days!), but the ALPSP have also made [...]

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