Implementing Open Access

Intervention à la préconférence au congrès LIBER 2004 organisée par SPARC Europe. Présentation du programme de développement de l\u27information scientifique en ligne (accès, OAI) en Allemagne mené par la Société Max-Planck pour le développement de la science

Open Access from a research organization’s view

Intervention à la 33e conférence générale annuelle de la Ligue des bibliothèques européennes de recherche (Liber)

The Value of New Scientific Communication Models for Chemistry

This paper is intended as a starting point for discussion on the possible future of scientific communication in chemistry, the value of new models of scientific communication enabled by web based technologies, and the necessary future steps to achieve the benefits of those new models. It is informed by a NSF sponsored workshop that was held on October 23-24, 2008 in Washington D.C. It provides an overview on the chemical communication system in chemistry and describes efforts to enhance scientific communication by introducing new web-based models of scientific communication. It observes that such innovations are still embryonic and have not yet found broad adoption and acceptance by the chemical community. The paper proceeds to analyze the reasons for this by identifying specific characteristics of the chemistry domain that relate to its research practices and socio-economic organization. It hypothesizes how these may influence communication practices, and produce resistance to changes of the current system similar to those that have been successfully deployed in other sciences and which have been proposed by pioneers within chemistry.National Science Foundation, Microsof

Searching for temporal patterns in the time series of publications of authors in a research specialty

In this paper we report results of our investigation of temporal patterns in the publication activity of authors in a research specialty. We base our analysis on Web of Science data for a field in the physical and chemical sciences from 1991‐2012. We determine the research groups in the field by clustering the co‐author network and generate our sample for this analysis by selecting the most productive author of each co‐author cluster to represent the activity of that group. Whereas a statistical time series analysis did not reveal any specific patterns, a time series clustering approach generated a grouping of time series that correlates with the structural network position (‘node role') of the respective authors in the clustered co‐author network. This work is part of a long‐term research project employing a mix of qualitative and network analytic methods to investigate field‐specific differences in collaborative patterns.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111080/1/meet14505101039.pd

Mapping the temporal evolution of scientific community structures

We present results from tracking the temporal evolution of community structures within a research specialty. This extends our previous work in which we generated static community maps that combine co‐author networks and direct citation networks derived from 20‐years of publications in the research specialty. Here, we explore how the temporal evolution of these maps can be used to provide insights into the historical evolution of a field as well as extract more accurate snapshots of the community structures at a given point in time. Such time resolved mappings are an important component in our mixed method approach that integrates network analysis with ethnographic field studies to investigate field‐specific communication and collaboration behaviors in scientific communities (Velden & Lagoze 2013). Evaluating these maps in qualitative interviews with field experts will be the next step in our research.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111255/1/meet14505101143.pd

Libre accès à l\u27information scientifique : pré-conférence au 33e congrès LIBER (2004) (Le)

Communications faites lors de la préconférence au Congrès LIBER (2004) organisée par la Scholarly Publishnig and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC Europe) sur le thème du libre accès à l\u27information scientifique en ligne. David Prosser : Progress on the road to Open access ; Heather Joseph : Bundled Journals : From Big Deals to Fair Deals ; Theresa Velden : Implementing Open Access ; Stephen Pinfield : Institutional repositories in practice ; Kurt De Belder : New directions and roles for university libraries