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Citation counts and more recently usage statistics provide valuable information about the attention and research impact associated with scholarly publications. The open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) has pioneered the concept of article-level metrics, where these metrics are collected on a per article and not a…
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The ICT revolution of the last decades impacted scientific communication as it has impacted many other forms of communications, changing the way in which articles are delivered and how they can be discovered. However, the impact of ICT on the research itself has been much more profound,…
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“Enhanced publications” are commonly intended as digital publications that consist of a mandatory narrative part (the description of the research conducted) plus related “parts”, such as datasets, other publications, images, tables, workflows, devices. The state-of-the-art on information systems for enhanced publications has today reached the…
« Coinciding with today’s United Nations’ World Book Day and World Copyright Day, the European Bureau of Library Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) is rallying the European community to its “Right to e-Read” campaign. EBLIDA’s campaign aims to raise awareness among policy makers…
« L’expression de diplomatie est polymorphe. Bien loin de se résumer aux seules relations inter-étatiques, elle comprend aujourd’hui d’autres concepts tels que, celui de diplomatie scientifique, qui participe à la visibilité de la France (…)
L’enjeu de cette nouvelle forme de diplomatie est de véritablement repenser la…
« … EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), the leading provider of aggregated content resources for libraries, has released its new policy on metadata sharing and technology collaboration. EBSCO will make all metadata (and full text when contractually allowed) available for more than 120 full-text databases and 500,000+ e-books, as well…
« … OCLC is working with Ingram, one of the world’s largest distributors of physical and digital content, to set and maintain holdings for e-books in WorldCat automatically, saving library staff valuable time and effort.
This new program enables libraries with an OCLC cataloging subscription and…
« Dans la Technology Review (@techreview), Nicholas Carr (@roughtype) fait la critique de Social Physics, le nouveau livre de Sandy Pentland, directeur du Laboratoire de dynamique humaine du MIT. Dans ce livre, Pentland explique que…
« Le rapport Traille sur les conflits juridiques et les pratiques de data mining (exploration de données) commandé par l’Union européenne a été publié vendredi dernier (…)
Les directives européennes qui autorisent des exceptions au droit d’auteur sont rares, ce qui constitue un frein…
« … La pratique de l’IE est en premier lieu sommée d’intégrer sous contrainte les bouleversements majeurs qui l’impactent :
– l’avènement du big data et impact sur le management stratégique et la place des données analytiques;
– la priorité stratégique de l’innovation;
–…
