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The coronavirus pandemic has illustrated the lack of a holistic approach in implementing Open Science (OS), leading to an inability to fully utilise its potential to inform prompt, evidence-based policy responses. In this view, this study aims to identify and categorise the factors influencing the adoption of OS and proposes possible actions for de...
This paper outlines the functionality of the South Korea’s National Science and Technology Information Service (NTIS), maintained by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI). NTIS is a “one-stop shop” portal federating information on national R&D projects from multiple databases and metadata aggregators, including links to...
Open Science (OS) – an emerging global trend driven by advances in digital technologies and government’s commitment to greater transparency and value for money of publicly funded research – is at its early stages, even in countries with high R&D expenditures, such as South Korea. This study provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of Korea’s...
The term “hybrid” has been used in many ways relating to hybrid library professionals; libraries that combine an academic and corporate purpose or a library and museum’s purpose; the use of hybrid instruction methods; a library that combines public and private spaces; reactions of libraries to hybrid open access; and hybrid professionals.
A aplicação de estratégias de gestão da informação híbrida em bibliotecas públicas proporciona à sua estrutura organizacional o desenvolvimento de políticas públicas favoráveis ao desenvolvimento de comunidades, na medida em que contribui para o bom funcionamento da instituição. O problema desta pesquisa vinculou-se ao potencial que as bibliotecas...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has become a major milestone encouraging a change from traditional scholarly communication practices and policies in favour of greater openness, sharing, and reuse. Interviews with South Korean and Australian experts has helped to highlight the factors that either enable or limit the impact of Open Science during a pub...
This paper contributes to “Open Science” theory, with a specific focus on Open Science data generated by scholars. To this end, a mixed- method systematic literature review, including science mapping techniques, was conducted. Our preliminary results reveal the potential of Open Science as a domain for interdisciplinary research. A keyword co-occur...
Cambridge Core - Intellectual Property - Information Law - by Charles Oppenheim
Review of the main concepts about copyright. Among the topics discussed are: ownership, joint ownership, assignments, licenses, permissions, infringements, exceptions, unpublished works, orphan works, artificial intelligence generated work rights, patents, trade marks, performers rights, moral rights, Sci-Hub, risk management and calculation, etc.
Semi-structured interviews with South Korean experts were conducted to explore enabling and limiting factors influencing open commutation of scholarly outputs and data in public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 outbreak. The study provided a set of contextual/external, institutional/regulatory, resource, and individual/motivational factors...
The No-nonsense Guide to Legal Issues in Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - by Charles Oppenheim July 2012
Cambridge Core - General - Information Science in Transition - edited by Alan Gilchrist
The No-nonsense Guide to Legal Issues in Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - by Charles Oppenheim July 2012
The No-nonsense Guide to Legal Issues in Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - by Charles Oppenheim July 2012
The No-nonsense Guide to Legal Issues in Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - by Charles Oppenheim July 2012
The No-nonsense Guide to Legal Issues in Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - by Charles Oppenheim July 2012
Information Science in Transition - edited by Alan Gilchrist December 2013
The No-nonsense Guide to Legal Issues in Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - by Charles Oppenheim July 2012
The No-nonsense Guide to Legal Issues in Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - by Charles Oppenheim July 2012
The No-nonsense Guide to Legal Issues in Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - by Charles Oppenheim July 2012
Purpose
The purpose of this article is to examine Nick Moore¹s information policy matrix and how it has been used by Moore and others.
Design/methodology/approach
This study involved secondary search and a bibliographic study of the impact Moore¹s work has had on other authors.
Findings
It is clear that there have been two quite separate train...
A review is provided of the current state of play for the Marrakesh Treaty providing exceptions to copyright, allowing those with visual disabilities or organisations acting on their behalf to make accessible copies of works, in order to assist those with such visual disabilities. A key feature of this Treaty is the fact that it is the first intern...
Discussion of how e-lib fits in with research into electronic libraries, presented at a one-day seminar organised by the Library and Information Research Group held in September 1997 at the University of Hertfordshire.
[perspective] Lorsque certains blocages techniques et juridiques auront été surmontés, le text mining ou exploration automatique des contenus ouvrira d’immenses perspectives pour la littérature grise, comme le démontre le retour d’expériences de certains champs scientifiques qui y recourent déjà.
This letter provides some additional perspectives on the development of British information science. The authors have been personally involved in the discipline since the early 1970s and have had the privilege of knowing many of the pioneers in information science research and exploitation. The opportunity is taken add some personal perspectives to...
The ideas of textual or data mining (TDM) and subsequent analysis go back hundreds if not thousands of years. Originally carried out manually, textual and data analysis has long been a tool which has enabled new insights to be drawn from text corpora. However, for the potential benefits of TDM to be unlocked, a number of non-technological barriers...
The research access/impact problem arises because journal articles are not accessible to all of their would-be users; hence, they are losing potential research impact. The solution is to make all articles Open Access (OA; i.e., accessible online, free for all). OA articles have significantly higher citation impact than non-OA articles. There are tw...
Purpose – To explore the use of LexiURL as a Web intelligence tool for collecting and analysing links to digital libraries, focusing specifically on the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH). Design/methodology/approach – The Web intelligence techniques in this study are a combination of link analysis (web structure mining), web server log...
The main characteristics of cloud computing services are explained and the clauses typically included in contracts between suppliers and customers of such services are discussed. Storing data on a cloud service can be more comfortable for an organization and cheaper than local storage, but it involves several risks. Recommendations are given on how...
Cambridge Core - Intellectual Property - The No-nonsense Guide to Legal Issues in Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - by Charles Oppenheim
This article recommends that the UK Higher Education Funding Councils adopt a policy requiring that they will in future only consider outputs that are available under a Creative Commons licence when assessing the quality of UK academic research. Such a policy would offer many benefits for universities, for researchers, and for society at large. Alt...
The development of the information superhighway will lead to changes in society (in particular, the way we work and interact with the rest of society) as profound as, or even more profound than, those caused by the invention of printing, the industrial revolution, or the development of the railways. In a rapidly changing environment, it might appea...
The article describes the background to the development of the DREaM project, which is aimed at expanding the range of skills of UK-based researchers in the LIS field, and at developing a network of active researchers, both in academia and amongst LIS practitioners. The project, which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council involves t...
Increasing interdisciplinarity has been a policy objective since the 1990s, promoted by many governments and funding agencies, but the question is: How deeply has this affected the social sciences? Although numerous articles have suggested that research has become more interdisciplinary, yet no study has compared the extent to which the interdiscip...
This article identifies some legal problems that can arise in the use of cloud computing services. Despite the exciting opportunities that cloud computing offers to individuals and organizations, care must be taken not to minimize potential legal problems. These potential problems and possible ways forward are identified. Readers are strongly urged...
This study used a bibliometric method to find quantitative evidence of publication and citing patterns within UK academia.
The publications of a random sample of UK research—active academics for each of the years 2003 and 2008—were collected and
analysed to gather data regarding referencing practices, along with any identifiable trends between the...
In the past, the UK's Research Assessment Exercises have relied heavily on assessment by a panel of experts in the particular Unit of Assessment that the researchers being evaluated happened to work in. It was therefore quite a surprise when the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, announced that in future, research evaluations would be...
There have been a large number of studies carried out in which scores in the United Kingdom's Research Assessment Exercise have been correlated against citation counts. Subjects that have received scrutiny include Civil Engineering, Psychology, Business and Management Studies, Library and Information Management, Genetics, Archaeology and Music. Som...
This article investigates the awareness of scholarly authors toward open access repositories and the factors that motivate their use of these repositories. The article reports on the findings obtained from a mixed methods approach which involved a questionnaire returned by over 3000 respondents, supplemented by four focus groups held across Europe...
This paper studies the correlations between peer review and citation indicators when evaluating research quality in library and information science (LIS). Forty-two LIS experts provided judgments on a 5-point scale of the quality of research published by 101 scholars; the median rankings resulting from these judgments were then correlated with h-,...
Purpose
This review aims to show, broadly, how the h ‐index has become a subject of widespread debate, how it has spawned many variants and diverse applications since first introduced in 2005 and some of the issues in its use.
Design/methodology/approach
The review drew on a range of material published in 1990 or so sources published since 2005. F...
Research was undertaken that examined what, if any, correlation there was between the h-index and rankings by peer assessment, and what correlation there was between the 2008 UK RAE rankings and the collective h-index of submitting departments. About 100 international scholars in Library and Information Science were ranked by their peers on the qua...
A knowledge economy has been defined as one in which the generation and exploitation of knowledge has come to play the predominant part in the creation of wealth. It is not simply about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge; it is also about the more effective use and exploitation of all types of knowledge in all manner of economic activities. On...
To determine influences on the production of a scientific article, the content of the article must be studied. We examined articles in biogeography and found that most of the influence is not cited, specific types of articles that are influential are ...
This paper studies the correlations between peer review and citation indicators when evaluating research quality in library and information science (LIS). Forty-two LIS experts provided judgments on a 5-point scale of the quality of research published by 101 scholars; the median rankings resulting from these judgments were then correlated with h-,...
Social tagging is one of the major phenomena transforming the World Wide Web from a static platform into an actively shared information space. This paper addresses various aspects of social tagging, including different views on the nature of social tagging, ...
Purpose
The purpose of this article is to review the research on human‐computer interfaces for library‐based commercial online information retrieval (IR) systems.
Design/methodology/approach
The review first focuses on basic interface issues for information retrieval such as interface style, end‐user searching, query formulation, relevance feedbac...
Purpose
This paper sets out to present a brief history of electronic licensing initiatives before considering current practices for managing licences to electronic resources. The intention is to obtain a detailed understanding of the requirements needed for a registry of electronic licences that will enable usage terms and conditions to be presente...
Many studies have found a positive association between high citation and collaboration, in that collaborative research is in general more highly cited than non-collaborative research. This paper describes an investigation into the extent to which the association between high citation and collaboration for Economics articles published in 2000 varies...
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can makeuse of patent information (such as detailed technical descriptions ofinventions and inventors' and applicants' names) in various ways.Thediscussion is based primarily on a 1997 study of United Kingdom-based SMEs. Surveys were received from 390 SMEs and 23 were selected for interviews. Thefirms, whi...
The full report and supporting documents, and a briefing are available to download from http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/communicating-knowledge-how-and-why-researchers-pu This report looks at how researchers publish and why, including the motivations that lead them to publish in different formats and the increa...
This is a report from a JISC commissioned project. It is also available at: http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/279/ It is becoming increasingly clear that effective and efficient management and reuse of research data will be a key component in the UK knowledge economy in years to come, essential for the efficient conduct of research and its disseminat...
This conference paper was presented at the 31st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy: http://www.privacyconference2009.org/home/index-iden-idweb.html This paper builds on original work undertaken as part of a team of researchers into Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), defined as a systematic risk assessment tool that can be usefu...
This article was subsequently published in the journal Computer Law & Security Report [Elsevier / © The authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02673649. Whilst this paper was submitted in response to referee comments, it may not exactly match the final published versions. In July 2007, the UK...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the relative effectiveness of a range of search tools in finding open access (OA) versions of peer reviewed academic articles on the world wide web.
Design/methodology/approach
Some background is given on why and how academics may make their articles OA and how they may be found by others searchi...
Purpose
This paper aims to provide an update to the last major review by Burrull and Oppenheim of legal aspects of information management in relation to the web.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper reports developments in the primary areas of law in relation to the internet since 2004. Topics covered include: copyright, domain names and trademar...
This article published was published in the journal, Journal of the American Society for Information Science [© 2008 ASIS&T] and the definitive version is available at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946195/grouphome/home.html Four subjects, ecology, applied mathematics, sociology and economics, were selected to assess whether there...
Inter-gender differences in research performance of Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) scientists in the area of biology
and biomedicine are analysed by means of bibliometric indicators (SCI, 1996–2000). Productivity of both men and women increases
with scientific category, and inter-gender differences are not found within each category. Wome...
The research investigates whether a relationship exists between motivation and publication productivity of UK academic Information Scientists. A motivational questionnaire survey was performed, and citation analyses undertaken to determine the publication and citation count of the 45 respondents. Findings demonstrate significant differences in moti...
The last couple of years have brought a rise in the number of institutional repositories throughout the world and within UK Higher Education institutions, with the majority of these repositories being devoted to research output. Repositories containing teaching and learning material are less common and the workflows and business processes surroundi...
A review of recent developments in electronic publishing, with a focus on Open Access (OA) is provided. It describes the two main types of OA, i.e. the `gold' OA journal route and the `green' repository route, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of the two, and the reactions of the publishing industry to these developments. Quality, cost...
Introduction. This study aimed to explore research assessment within the field of music and, specifically, to investigate whether citation counting could be used to replace or inform the peer review system currently in use in the UK. Method. A citation analysis of academics submitted for peer review in Unit of Assessment 67 in the 2001 Research Ass...
The research access/impact problem arises because journal articles are not accessible to all of their would-be users; hence, they are losing potential research impact. The solution is to make all articles open access (OA, i.e., accessible online, free for all). OA articles have significantly higher citation impact than non-OA articles. There are tw...
Introduction. We examine the role of the digital repository manager, discuss the future of repository management and evaluation and suggest that library and information science schools develop new repository management curricula.
Method. Face-to-face interviews were carried out with managers of five different types of repositories and a Web-based...
The research access/impact problem arises because journal articles are not accessible to all of their would-be users; hence, they are losing potential research impact. The solution is to make all articles open access (OA, i.e., accessible online, free for all). OA articles have significantly higher citation impact than non-OA articles. There are tw...
This paper describes the process of creating a controlled vocabulary which can be used to systematically analyse the copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) of journal publishers with regard to self-archiving. The analysis formed the basis of the newly created Copyright Knowledge Bank of publishers’ self-archiving policies. Self-archiving terms appear...
In July 2007, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office commissioned a team of researchers, coordinated by Loughborough University, to conduct a study into Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs). This was with a view to developing PIA guidance for the UK. The project resulted in two key deliverables: a study of the use of PIAs in other jurisdictions, ide...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the content and usability of a sample of 50 UK MPs' web sites.
Design/methodology/approach
Score sheets were developed for the evaluation of web sites based on an extensive review of the relevant literature. In addition, a questionnaire was sent to all MPs who had a web site at the time of the resea...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to report an investigation into the social and citation networks of three information scientists: David Nicholas, Peter Williams and Paul Huntington.
Design/methodology/approach
Similarities between citation patterns and social closeness were identified and discussed. A total of 16 individuals in the citation n...
This paper compares two JISC-funded surveys. The first was undertaken by the Rights MEtadata for Open Archiving (RoMEO) project and focused on the rights protection required by academic authors sharing their research outputs in an open-access environment. The second was carried out by the Rights and Rewards project and focused on the rights protect...