MORE 'PLOS' POSTS
“Recommendations for the Role of Publishers in Access to Data”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, PLOS
|The following recommendations appear in a perspective published the other day by PLOS Biology. Title Recommendations for the Role of Publishers in Access to Data Authors Jennifer Lin PLOS Carly Strasser California Digital Library Source PLoS Biol 12(10): e1001975 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001975 Abstract As appeals for public access of research data continue to proliferate, many scholarly publishers—alongside […]
From the University of Tennessee: The College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will receive $2.73 million over the next five years as part of a $15 million accomplishment based renewal of the National Science Foundation’s DataONE project. DataONE stands for Data Observation Network for Earth, a National Science Foundation program […]
Rich Citations: PLOS Develops Enriched Citation Format, API Now Available For Developers
Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, PLOS, Public Libraries, Publishing
|A new format for citations developed by the team at the Public Library of Science (PLOS) that will add a lot more data to what a citation has traditionally provided. This is yet another project that we will be watching very closely not only for how the code develops/improves, how the data is used, and […]
Partnerships: PLOS, CDL, and DataONE Launch Pilot Project to Develop Data-Level Metrics
Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, PLOS
|From a PLOS Blog Post by Jennifer Lin: In partnership with the University of California Curation Center at the California Digital Library, and DataONE, we are pleased to announce the launch of a new project to develop data-level metrics. This project is funded by an EAGER grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, titled “Making Data Count: […]
New Issue Brief From Ithaka S+R Looks at Reimagining the Book Review Process
Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, New Issue, News, PLOS, Publishing
|Here’s a new issue brief written by Oona Schmid, director of publishing at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and released online today by Ithaka S + R. It’s titled, Faster and Cheaper: Can a Digital-Centric Workflow Transform the Book Review? From a Summary: Academic authors in the humanities and social sciences often wait three or […]
Privacy: Researchers at MIT Developing System That Allows Users to Pick and Choose the Data They Share on Web, Apps
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, PLOS
|Say hello to OPENpds and SafeAnswers! From MIT News: …a host of recent studies have demonstrated that it’s shockingly easy to identify unnamed individuals in supposedly “anonymized” data sets, even ones containing millions of records. So, if we want the benefits of data mining — like personalized recommendations or localized services — how can we […]
News Headlines From PLOS, IFLA, AAP, and 3M Cloud Library
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Open Access, PLOS
|1. IFLA/Brill Open Access Award 2014 goes to Knowledge Unlatched 2. Milestones: PLOS ONE Publishes its 100,000th Article 3. American Association of Publishers (AAP) Statement on BISG Withdrawal From BookStats Joint Venture 4. Redesigned 3M Cloud Library App Coming Later This Summer, Will Feature Personalized Sorting of Books Note: The app will be on display […]
Standards: NISO Releases Draft of White Paper With Results From Phase One of Altmetrics Projects, Open For Public Comments Through July 18th
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, PLOS, Public Libraries, Reports, Roundup, Scholarly Communications
|The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) released a draft of a white paper about their altmetrics project. More specifically, the white paper takes a look at the results of phase one of NISO’s Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project that was announced about one year ago (June 20, 2013) with funding from the Sloan Foundation. Public comment […]
Below is a recently published article co-authored by someone we’ve admired for well over a decade, Dr. Lee Giles at Penn St. University. Dr. Giles is one of the developers CiteSeerX, a wonderful specialty open-web database/search engine that focuses on info tech/computer science scholarly literature. The original CiteSeer, predates Google Scholar by several years. By […]
CrossRef Formally Launches Text and Data Mining Services
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Elsevier, News, Open Access, PLOS, Publishing
|Note: For background about today’s launch see infoDOCKET posts from May 1, 2014 and December 23, 2013. From Today’s CrossRef Announcement: CrossRef Text and Data Mining services, allowing publishers to provide information that will simplify access arrangements for researchers who desire to mine and analyze scholarly publisher sites, is now available to CrossRef Members. [Clip] […]