an article by Jonathan Griffin (PLS, London, UK) published in Interlending & Document Supply Volume 44 Issue 2 (2016)
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to describe a unique service offering by UK public libraries that provides access to over 15 million academic articles for free.
Design/methodology/approach
The approach is descriptive.
Findings
The service has been a success with users, but more training for staff, as well as promotion, is needed.
Social implications
The study will be potentially important for enabling access to a vast amount of published academic articles for a wide section of UK citizens.
Originality/value
The first article on this service is aimed specifically at the LIS community.
Showing posts with label open_access. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open_access. Show all posts
Friday, 7 October 2016
Friday, 19 April 2013
MOOCs of Hazard: Will online education dampen the college experience? Yes. Will it be worth it? Well...
an article by Andrew Delbanco published in New Republic (29 April issue)
In the spring of 2011, Sebastian Thrun was having doubts about whether the classroom was really the right place to teach his course on artificial intelligence. Thrun, a computer-science professor at Stanford, had been inspired by Salman Khan, the founder of the online Khan Academy, whose videos and discussion groups have been used by millions to learn about everything from arithmetic to history.
And so that summer, Thrun announced he would offer his fall course on Stanford’s website for free.
He reorganised it into short segments rather than hour-long lectures, included problem sets and quizzes, and added a virtual office hour via Google Hangout. Enrolment jumped from 200 Stanford undergraduates to 160,000 students around the world (only 30 remained in the classroom).
A few months later, he founded an online for-profit company called Udacity; his course, along with many others, is now available to anyone with a fast Internet connection.
Continue reading
In the spring of 2011, Sebastian Thrun was having doubts about whether the classroom was really the right place to teach his course on artificial intelligence. Thrun, a computer-science professor at Stanford, had been inspired by Salman Khan, the founder of the online Khan Academy, whose videos and discussion groups have been used by millions to learn about everything from arithmetic to history.
And so that summer, Thrun announced he would offer his fall course on Stanford’s website for free.
He reorganised it into short segments rather than hour-long lectures, included problem sets and quizzes, and added a virtual office hour via Google Hangout. Enrolment jumped from 200 Stanford undergraduates to 160,000 students around the world (only 30 remained in the classroom).
A few months later, he founded an online for-profit company called Udacity; his course, along with many others, is now available to anyone with a fast Internet connection.
Continue reading
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Mendeley's open data for science and learning: a reply to the DataTEL challenge
an article by Kris Jack, Maya Hristakeva, Rosario Garcia de Zuniga and Michael Granitzer (affiliation(s) not provided) published in International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning Volume 4 Number 1/2 (2012)
Abstract
In this paper two open access data sources, provided by Mendeley Ltd., are described in detail.
The first data source is a snapshot of 50,000 user libraries, enabling researchers to test collaborative filtering algorithms for scientific paper recommendation.
The second data source is Mendeley’s API that provides access to 50 million research articles, crowdsourced from over 1.5 million users. This API allows researchers to build third party applications on top of real-time and large-scale data.
By providing data sources for the study of collaborative filtering, metadata extraction, deduplication and related research, Mendeley hopes to enable researchers in these domains to better collaborate and share knowledge, ultimately encouraging good research practices and advancing the state of scientific knowledge.
Abstract
In this paper two open access data sources, provided by Mendeley Ltd., are described in detail.
The first data source is a snapshot of 50,000 user libraries, enabling researchers to test collaborative filtering algorithms for scientific paper recommendation.
The second data source is Mendeley’s API that provides access to 50 million research articles, crowdsourced from over 1.5 million users. This API allows researchers to build third party applications on top of real-time and large-scale data.
By providing data sources for the study of collaborative filtering, metadata extraction, deduplication and related research, Mendeley hopes to enable researchers in these domains to better collaborate and share knowledge, ultimately encouraging good research practices and advancing the state of scientific knowledge.
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Is free inevitable in scholarly communication? The economics of open access
an article by Caroline Sutton (President of the Open Access Publishers Association) published in College and Research Libraries News Volume 72 Number 11 (December 2011)
Opening paragraph
In this article I would like to make the case that a change in the delivery of scientific content and in the business models for delivering scholarly communication was inevitable from the moment journals moved online, even if much of this change is yet to come. By applying a thesis put forth by Chris Anderson in his 2009 book Free1 I will argue that given that scholarly journals are now digital products, they are subject to very different economic principles and social forces than their print ancestors.
1 Chris Anderson, Free. How today’s smartest businesses profit by giving something for nothing (Hyperion: New York, 2009).
Full text (PDF 4pp (A5))
Contains a useful bibliography
Opening paragraph
In this article I would like to make the case that a change in the delivery of scientific content and in the business models for delivering scholarly communication was inevitable from the moment journals moved online, even if much of this change is yet to come. By applying a thesis put forth by Chris Anderson in his 2009 book Free1 I will argue that given that scholarly journals are now digital products, they are subject to very different economic principles and social forces than their print ancestors.
1 Chris Anderson, Free. How today’s smartest businesses profit by giving something for nothing (Hyperion: New York, 2009).
Full text (PDF 4pp (A5))
Contains a useful bibliography
Sunday, 18 November 2007
The EU and Open Access
from Information Research
Read Tom's post here
Thanks, as usual, to Peter Suber for drawing attention to the documents and minutes of an EU meeting on open access. It seems that no general point of access to the files exist, since Peter gives links to each, and I (Tom Wilson at Information Research) have searched the European site without success.However, the point I want to make (and I begin to seem like a rusty record) relates to the so-called 'green' and 'gold' routes to open access. One of the points arising out of the discussions and reported in the minutes is:
Read Tom's post here
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