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- Assessing the authority of free online scholarly information
- Open access institutional repositories for scholarly communication: A developing country perspective
- Alexander Howard: Open Government Data Earns Bipartisan Congressional Support in Washington
| Assessing the authority of free online scholarly information Posted: 10 Oct 2011 04:09 AM PDT Scientometrics, (02 Oct 2011) (Subscription access required. Online preview.) From the Abstract: As the Internet has become a ubiquitous tool in modern science and scholarly research, evaluating the authority of free online scholarly information is becoming crucial. However, few empirical studies have focused on this issue. Using a modified version of Jim Kapoun’s “Five criteria for evaluating web pages” as framework, this research selected 32 keywords from eight disciplines, inputted them into three search engines (Google, Yahoo and AltaVista) and used Analytic Hierarchy Process to determine the weights. The first batches of results (web pages) from keyword searching were selected as evaluation samples (in the two search phases, the first 50 and 10 results were chosen, respectively), and a total of 3,134 samples were evaluated for authority based on the evaluation framework. The results show that the average authority value for free online scholarly information is about 3.63 (out of five), which is in the “fair” level (3 ≤ Z < 4) (Z is the value assigned to each sample). About 41% of all samples collected provide more authoritative scholarly information. Different domain names, resource types, and disciplines of free online scholarly information perform differently when scored in terms of authority. In conclusion, the authority of free online scholarly information has been unsatisfactory, and needs to be improved. |
| Open access institutional repositories for scholarly communication: A developing country perspective Posted: 10 Oct 2011 03:57 AM PDT UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA Digital Repository, (04 Oct 2011) In Asia Pacific Conference Library & Information Education & Practice, 22-24 June 2011, Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside, Malaysia. From the Abstract: The major focus of the present study is to familiar with different initiatives of building OAIR (Open Access Institutional Repository) and Open Access (OA) in Bangladesh. In pursuing the above objectives, the present research posed the following research questions (RQs) that will guide the study as well. How OAIR can be used as an effective tool for scholarly communication? What is the present status of the OAIR and OA initiatives in Bangladesh and what are the prospects of OAIR in Bangladesh? An analysis of the appropriate literature was carried out, focusing on papers explicitly referring to changing roles of OAIR. The study performed online searches and substantial amount of literature has been reviewed. Literature collected through internet, personal visits, and secondary sources of information has been analyzed. Findings reveal that OAIR is very important for the scholarly communication and Bangladesh is not far behind to get the fullest advantages of the OAIR. It is suggested some directions for building OAIR and OA initiatives in Bangladesh. It is believed that faculty and research scholars will be able to publish their research output in the proposed IR to visible their scholarly research output globally. This study no doubt will foster more research on OAIR for the improvement of Open Access scenarios in Bangladesh. |
| Alexander Howard: Open Government Data Earns Bipartisan Congressional Support in Washington Posted: 09 Oct 2011 02:45 PM PDT |
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