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New Research Paper: "How Much of the Web is Archived?"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Preservation, Resources
|“How Much of the Web is Archived?” (3 pages; PDF) by Scott G. Ainsworth, Ahmed Alsum, Hany SalahEldeen, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson Presented at JCDL 2011 Earlier This Month From a Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group (Old Dominion University) Blog Post: There are many questions to ask about web archiving […]
From an Oxford University Press Blog Post by Dennis Barron: The Supreme Court is using dictionaries to interpret the Constitution. Both conservative justices, who believe the Constitution means today exactly what the Framers meant in the 18th century, and liberal ones, who see the Constitution as a living, breathing document changing with the times, are […]
From an OCLC Research Announcement: This report synthesizes the results of two parallel studies of research support services in US and UK universities that OCLC Research and the UK’s Research Information Network undertook last year. The following findings from the joint studies are highlighted in the report: Universities face a diversity of needs and transnational […]
By: Lynn Silipigni Connaway, OCLC Research; Timothy J. Dickey, OCLC Research; and Marie L. Radford, Rutgers University. This Preprint is Scheduled to Appear in Library and Information Science Research (33: 179-190) and is being made available by OCLC Research. From the Abstract: In today’s fast-paced world, anecdotal evidence suggests that information tends to inundate people, […]
The National Academies Press Makes All PDF Books Free to Download; More Than 4,000 Titles Now Available Free to All Readers As of today all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press will be downloadable to anyone free of charge. This includes a current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future […]
How many G-20 countries make CRS-like reports available to the public? The United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) recently released the World e-Parliament Report 2010. The Report, prepared by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, is based on the results of the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments conducted by the Global Centre […]
Preprint: "Positioning Open Access Journals in a LIS Journal Ranking"
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing, Reports, Resources
|Title: Positioning Open Access Journals in a LIS Journal Ranking (16 pages; PDF) Author: Jingfeng Xia Affiliation: Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science Accepted: May 8, 2011 Scheduled For Publication in January 2012 Issue of College and Research Libraries From the Abstract: Academic journal ranking serves as an important criterion for the scholarly […]
The May/June 2011 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is Now Available Online
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, Reports, Resources
|Direct to Complete Table of Contents Along with the Featured Collection, Clips and Pointers and other material in News and Events section, here are the new articles and an editorial in in D-Lib (May/June 2011; Volume 17, Number 5/6) Now and Into the Future By Laurence Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Institutional Repositories and […]
The report is a collaboration between the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the California HealthCare Foundation. It was written by Susannah Fox from Pew Internet and is now available online. Summary of Findings: The survey finds that, of the 74% of adults who use the internet: 80% of internet users have looked online […]
Research Paper: "How Journal Rankings Can Suppress Interdisciplinarity. The Case of Innovation Studies in Business and Management"
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|“How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinarity. The case of innovation studies in business and management” (via arXiv) by: Ismael Rafols, Loet Leydesdorff, Alice O’Hare, Paul Nightingale, Andy Stirling From the Abstract: While interdisciplinary research (IDR) is valued as a means of encouraging scientific breakthroughs, innovation and socially relevant science, it is also widely perceived as […]