Community

2012-07-27 19:44

Next month CIBER will studying the virtual community of scholars on behalf of Emerald. Part of the publisher's community building and engagement strategy it will lay the groundwork for more effective web services. We will be asking Emerald authors in key subjects for their view on the factors which draw researchers to online communities.

Scholars' trust

2012-06-25 10:15

Dave Nicholas and Carol Tenopir of the College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee, have been awarded $277,000 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a 15 month study of academic researchers' trust in scholarly information sources.

Much scholarly communication is now online: as a consequence, scholars and researchers, especially younger ones, appear to be changing their views regarding what is authoritative, good or can be trusted. This follows through to what they read and cite, and where they choose to publish. If this is indeed the case then it strikes at some very fundamental scholarly beliefs, especially those related to assessing quality, like peer review and Impact Factors. This has implications for universities, funding bodies, publishers, librarians and scholarship itself. There is a good deal of vested interest in this area which constrains funding to research the topic and we are therefore especially grateful to the Sloan Foundation for their unfettered support.

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He, we lezen niet meer!

2012-06-24 21:41

The 7th National Customer Media Congres will be at Haarlem on the 20th September 2012. Dave Nicholas will be explaining why we are no longer readers and what this means for content providers.

To the City of Good Thoughts on the River Emajõgi

2012-06-24 21:42

Dave Nicholas will be speaking to an audience of research library managers at the 41st LIBER Annual Conference on 27–29 June 2012 in Tartu, Estonia. The conference theme, organised by the University of Tartu Library, is “Mobilising the knowledge economy for Europe”. Programme; Presentation.

PEER final report

2012-06-24 21:07

The three-year, EU funded PEER project has now published its final report. For this project CIBER analysed the records of downloaded scholarly articles from 10 publishers and six open-access repositories over a 24 month window. The project covered only a small sample of publisher output —15,000 articles with a EU lead author from a sample of 116 journals— but nonetheless included over 7 million downloads each month.

PEER Usage Study 6 month, PEER Usage Study Randomised Controlled Trial, Presentation.

Ten-years on

2012-06-25 11:50

Digital repositories ten-years on: what do scientific researchers think of them and how do they use them? David Nicholas, Ian Rowlands, Anthony Watkinson, David Brown, Hamid R. Jamali Learned Publishing, 25: 195–206 doi:10.1087/20120306

Reflex

2012-06-24 21:25

Reflex, the leading Swiss popular science magazine, is planning a "big ideas" issue on the subject of connectedness and social isolation and how modern technology shapes us. David Nicholas has been interviewed by the magazine about the Google Generation for this future issue.

Certified

2012-06-24 21:44