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- Der Trend geht zu goldenem Open Access
- Beyond citations: Scholars’ visibility on the social Web
- Survey on Governments’ Open Educational Resources (OER) Policies
| Der Trend geht zu goldenem Open Access Posted: 02 Jun 2012 05:54 AM PDT |
| Beyond citations: Scholars’ visibility on the social Web Posted: 01 Jun 2012 08:31 PM PDT goo.gl Traditionally, scholarly impact and visibility have been measured by counting publications and citations in the scholarly literature. However, increasingly scholars are also visible on the Web, establishing presences in a growing variety of social ecosystems. But how wide and established is this presence, and how do measures of social Web impact relate to their more traditional counterparts? To answer this, we sampled 57 presenters from the 2010 Leiden STI Conference, gathering publication and citations counts as well as data from the presenters’ Web “footprints.” We found Web presence widespread and diverse: 84% of scholars had homepages, 70% were on LinkedIn, 23% had public Google Scholar profiles, and 16% were on Twitter. For sampled scholars’ publications, social reference manager bookmarks were compared to Scopus and Web of Science citations; we found that Mendeley covers more than 80% of sampled articles, and that Mendeley bookmarks are significantly correlated (r=.45) to Scopus citation counts. |
| Survey on Governments’ Open Educational Resources (OER) Policies Posted: 01 Jun 2012 12:10 PM PDT www.col.org Use the link to access the full text report published by UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). More information about COL is available at < http://www.col.org/ABOUT/Pages/default.aspx>. A description for the report reads as follows: “As part of their joint project Fostering Governmental Support for Open Educational Resources Internationally, UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) invited all governments to provide information about their policies in relation to open educational resources (OER) to assess the current and potential uses of this approach to learning and teaching. This report provides an overview of the findings of the COL/UNESCO survey on OER policies and activity across all countries of the world, and puts forward some suggestions for promoting the use and development of OER and overcoming current obstacles to its implementation.” |
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