Watkinson: The academic eBook ecosystem reinvigorated. A perspective from the USA #openaccess

Charles Watkinson (2018): The academic eBook ecosystem reinvigorated. A perspective from the USA. Learned Publishing 51(S1), 280-287. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1185 The development of infrastructure to support new forms of long‐form digital scholarship that go ‘beyond the eBook’ has been an active area … Weiterlesen →

Is It Such a Big Deal? On the Cost of Journal Use in the Digital Era #openaccess

Shu, F., Mongeon, P., Haustein, S., Siler, K., Alperin, J., & Larivière, V. (2018). Is It Such a Big Deal? On the Cost of Journal Use in the Digital Era. College & Research Libraries, 79(6), 785. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.79.6.785 Commercial scholarly publishers … Weiterlesen →

Faculty Perceptions of Plagiarism: Insight for Librarians‘ Information Literacy Programs #openaccess

Michalak, R., Rysavy, M., Hunt, K., Smith, B., & Worden, J. (2018). Faculty Perceptions of Plagiarism: Insight for Librarians‘ Information Literacy Programs. College & Research Libraries, 79(6), 747. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.79.6.747 Using a survey modified from The Plagiarism Handbook (Harris, 2001, p. … Weiterlesen →

Heather Joseph: Securing community-controlled infrastructure: SPARC’s plan of action @hjoseph @SPARC_NA #openaccess

Heather Joseph (2018). Securing community-controlled infrastructure: SPARC’s plan of action. College & Research Libraries News, 79(8), 426. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.8.426 Late last year, the news of Elsevier’s acquisition of bepress, the provider of the popular Digital Commons repository platform, sent a shockwave … Weiterlesen →

Gore: A Brief History of Data Visualization (and the role of libraries and librarians) #openaccess

Gore, Sally A.. 2018. „A Brief History of Data Visualization (and the role of libraries and librarians).“ Journal of eScience Librarianship 7(1): e1135. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2018.1135 Abstract: Graphics, illustrations, charts, and tables have accompanied scientific works for as long as people have … Weiterlesen →

Briney: Gaining Competency. Learning to Teach Data Visualization #openaccess

Briney, Kristin A.. 2018. „Gaining Competency: Learning to Teach Data Visualization.“ Journal of eScience Librarianship 7(1): e1116. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2018.1116 Abstract: Data services librarians are often faced with local needs in all 12 data information literacy competencies (Carlson et al. 2011) but … Weiterlesen →

Ogier, Stamper: Data Visualization as a Library Service. Embedding Visualization Services in the Library Research Lifecycle #openaccess

Ogier, Andrea L., and Michael J. Stamper. 2018. „Data Visualization as a Library Service: Embedding Visualization Services in the Library Research Lifecycle.“ Journal of eScience Librarianship 7(1): e1126. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2018.1126 Abstract Objective: The purpose of this article is to explore data … Weiterlesen →

Sentimentanalyse – Eine Untersuchung browserbasierter Tools (Young Information Scientist 3, 2018)

Berndt Jesenko: Sentimentanalyse – Eine Untersuchung browserbasierter Tools Zielsetzung — Das Erfassen von Stimmungen und Einstellungen mittels Sentimentanalysen wird durch eine steigende Anzahl an kostenfrei verfügbaren Analysetools zunehmend erleichtert. Im folgenden Beitrag wird ein Überblick über diese Tools sowie deren … Weiterlesen →

Kristin Briney: The Problem with Dates. Applying ISO 8601 to Research Data Management #rdm #openaccess

Briney, Kristin A.. 2018. „The Problem with Dates: Applying ISO 8601 to Research Data Management.“ Journal of eScience Librarianship 7(2): e1147. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2018.1147 Abstract: Dates appear regularly in research data and metadata but are a problematic data type to normalize due … Weiterlesen →

Opening Science. The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing #openaccess #openscience

Sönke Bartling, Sascha Friesike (Eds.): Opening Science. The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing. Springer, Cham: Heidelberg et al. 2018. 978-3-319-00025-1 (print), 978-3-319-00026-8 (online). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00026-8 Introduction: Modern information and communication technologies, together with a … Weiterlesen →