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Economic Research Wants to Be Free
Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Journal Articles, News, Open Access
|Economic Research Wants to Be Free Here’s a test of basic economic literacy: What is the socially optimal price of online access to economics journal articles? If my students learn only one thing, it’s this: Price equals marginal cost. And the marginal cost of accessing a journal article is pretty much zero. The research has […]
Bibliometric analysis of highly cited publications of health research in England, 2002-2006 This paper describes a bibliometric analysis to support the selection of candidate National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs) and Biomedical Research Units (BRUs). It is intended to assist potential applicants in deciding whether to submit a pre-qualifying questionnaire as part […]
Now on Facebook: National Archives Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies (NCAST)
Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, News, Reports
|From the NCAST Web Site: NCAST addresses three major needs for NARA: Expand the scope of the advanced technology research to a broader, NARA-wide perspective – Identifying, exploring, and evaluating new developments in computer science and related fields that are likely to impact the lifecycle management of records; Applied research and exploratory development – Inaugurating […]
"A Very Brief History of Scholarly HTML"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Journal Articles, Publishing
|From a Blog Post by Martin Fenner on Gobbledygook: In April 2009 Learned Publishing published a paper by David Shottontitled Semantic publishing: the coming revolution in scientific journal publishing. David listed six rules for semantic publishers: Start simply and improve functionality incrementally. Expect greater things of your authors. Exploit your existing in-house skills fully. Use established standards wherever possible. […]
HathiTrust: "Pays to Share"
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From an Inside Higher Ed Article by Steve Kolowich: HathiTrust, a cooperative based at the University of Michigan, has taken steps to make sure that Google is not the only one putting together a comprehensive digital archive of academic library content. After only two and a half years, HathiTrust now counts more than 50 member […]
From a NY Times Article by Jeremy Peters: Beginning March 28, visitors to NYTimes.com will be able to read 20 articles a month without paying, a limit that company executives said was intended to draw in subscription revenue from the most loyal readers while not driving away the casual visitors who make up the vast […]
The March/April 2011 Issue of D-Lib is Now Online
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports, Scholastic, School Libraries
|D-Lib (Volume 17, Number 3/4) Direct to Table-of-Contents Articles Discovering the Information Needs of Humanists When Planning an Institutional Repository Article by David Seaman, Dartmouth College Library Abstract: Through in-person interviews with humanities faculty members, this study examines what information needs are expressed by humanities scholars that an institutional repository (IR) can address. It also asks […]
Paper — Does WestlawNext Really Change Everything: The Implications of WestlawNext on Legal Research
|Does WestlawNext Really Change Everything: The Implications of WestlawNext on Legal Research WestlawNext, Thomson Reuters’ newest electronic research service, has been around for over a year now. Ron Wheeler shares his thoughts on how this service may impact various aspects of legal research, and he suggests further study and research are necessary to fully evaluate […]
From an Announcement: Thomson Reuters announced today the results of its annual roundup of the “hottest” researchers and research papers. In its March/April issue of Science Watch, an open Web resource for science metrics and analysis, Thomson Reuters identified the top 13 authors who fielded the highest numbers of Hot Papers cited in 2010. [Clip] […]
At the end of August, 2010 Schipol Airport in Amsterdam opened a library for travelers. More info (with pictures ) via USA Today and Radio Netherlands. Today, Ralph Jennings from the IDG News Service reports on the opening of a library at the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. From the Article: The e-library at Taiwan Taoyuan […]