Peer review innovations in Humanities: how can scholars in A&H profit of the "wisdom of the crowds"?

Though supported by a large number of scholars in Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) disciplines traditional peer review does not live up to the needs of an efficient scholarly communication system and of quality research control. Therefore journals in STM are experimenting different forms of refereeing in combination with more traditional peer review system. Such is the case of PLoSONE, Biology Direct, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and JIME. However in STM disciplines public peer review is not regarded an alternative to more traditional quality certification forms. It may be the case in the Arts & Humanities. In A&H publishing system peer review is by far a less common practice. Therefore the adoption of a social peer review process could be very useful to foster research in humanities. Scholars in A&H can profit of the interactive evaluation forms of the public peer-review to strengthen the scholarly debate, to foster active international and interdisciplinary discussions, to focus social attention on topics in Humanities, to broaden the borders of the cultural and intellectual discourse among non-scholars (public debate). This paper will provide some examples of how social peer review has been adopted by innovative communities of scholars in humanities to publish new experimental digital book models. In the digital environment the concepts of “document”, of “completeness of a document” and of “evaluation” is fast changing. In a close future in scholarly publishing it might become possible to overcome the rigid distinction between ex-ante and ex-post evaluation as the evaluation process might become an enduring part of the text itsel

Consorzi di biblioteche a confronto: a Parigi l'undicesimo ICOLC autunnale

Report of the ICOLC Fall Meeting, Paris, 25-28 October 200

Il ruolo del bibliotecario nei depositi istituzionali

Institutional repositories are a set of services for authors. Notwithstanding librarians'role to advocate and to promote IRs, to contact and inform authors, to support self-archiving, to curate data and metadata, to address copyright issues is a key factor for the scholarly success of the IRs

Peer-review innovations in Humanities: how can scholars in A&H profit of the “wisdom of the crowds”?

Though supported by a large number of scholars in Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) disciplines traditional peer review does not live up to the needs of an efficient scholarly communication system and of quality research control. Therefore journals in STM are experimenting different forms of refereeing in combination with more traditional peer review system. Such is the case of PLoSONE, Biology Direct, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and JIME. However in STM disciplines public peer review is not considered an alternative to more traditional quality certification forms. It may be the case in the Arts & Humanities. In A&H publishing system peer review is by far a less common practice. Therefore the adoption of a social peer review process could be very useful to foster research in humanities. Scholars in A&H can profit of the interactive evaluation forms of the public peer-review to strengthen the scholarly debate, to foster active international and interdisciplinary discussions, to focus social attention on topics in Humanities, to broaden the borders of the cultural and intellectual discourse among non-scholars (public debate). This paper will provide some examples of how social peer review has been adopted by innovative communities of scholars in humanities to publish new experimental digital book models. In the digital environment the concepts of “document”, of “completeness of a document” and of “evaluation” is fast changing. In a close future in scholarly publishing it might become possible to overcome the rigid distinction between ex-ante and ex-post evaluation as the evaluation process might become an enduring part of the text itself

Digital libraries à la carte 2007: nuove tendenze dalla Ticer (Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources) International Summer School

A brief report on main themes touched by the 2007 edition of TICER International Summer School, Tilburg: digital libraries and related new challenges and opportunities for librarie

Green Road e Gold Road: percorsi interagenti per l'Open Access

Green Road and Gold Road are complementary strategies to Open Access as stated in the BOAI (2002). Presentation focuses on both Green Road and Gold Road most recent achievements. First author discusses strategies and ideas to ingest content in IRs from mandates to economic incentives to new personalized features enriching repositories. Following attention is drawn on OA journals and OA hybrid models. Finally author discusses the idea that the two roads to Open Access will naturally overlap due to IT developments and researchers’ needs. RIOJA, the University of California eScholarship Repository and the Lund Virtual Medical Journal are presented as experiments supporting the idea of Green Road and Gold Road as converging strategies to Open Access

Green Road e Gold Road: percorsi interagenti per l'Open Access

Green Road and Gold Road are complementary strategies to Open Access as stated in the BOAI (2002). Presentation focuses on both Green Road and Gold Road most recent achievements. First author discusses strategies and ideas to ingest content in IRs from mandates to economic incentives to new personalized features enriching repositories. Following attention is drawn on OA journals and OA hybrid models. Finally author discusses the idea that the two roads to Open Access will naturally overlap due to IT developments and researchers’ needs. RIOJA, the University of California eScholarship Repository and the Lund Virtual Medical Journal are presented as experiments supporting the idea of Green Road and Gold Road as converging strategies to Open Access

Novità recenti dal mondo delle statistiche di uso: il protocollo SUSHI e le nuove linee guida dell’ICOLC

E-measures are becoming increasingly essential for digital libraries management. The article deals with the mainfold problems correlated with usage statistics and discuss the new NISO/SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative)Initiative, the protocol to harvest usage statistics in automated way and the Revised guidelines for statistical measures of usage of web-based information resources of ICOLC

Piattaforme digitali per la pubblicazione di contenuti di ricerca: esperienze, modelli open access, tendenze

The paper deals with the issue of digital library publishing services developed by academic libraries. Digital publishing platforms and institutional repositories support the open access paradigm but their relations with university press is still controversial and need to be better explore