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EPISCIENCES ? an overlay publication platform
No full textThis paper delineates the main characteristics of the Episciences platform, an environment for overlay peer-reviewing that complements existing publication repositories, designed by the Centre pour la Communication Scientifique directe (CCSD[1]) service unit. We describe the main characteristics of the platform and present the first experiment of launching two journals in the computer science domain onto it. Finally, we address a series of open questions related to the actual changes in editorial models (open submission, open peer- review, augmented publication) that such a platform is likely to raise, as well as some hints as to the underlying business model
Information needs of researchers in a bibliographic databases environment: a literature review
No full textThis article presents a literature review whose aim was to identify the reported information needs of researchers when they consult bibliographic databases. Initially, 192 articles were retrieved using Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar databases. After applying the criteria for exclusion, the number of articles was reduced to 16, which is already an indicator of the small number of studies on this specific topic. The results show that it is hard to identify the information needs of researchers. They also show that the researchers have been requiring information with a higher degree of granularity. We conclude that although the available studies provide important information about the researchers? information needs and hints on how to address them, there is a need for more in-depth studies. The results of these deeper studies may be useful to serve as an indication for the creation of new procedures and tools, including those based on new metadata elements drawn to improve search results on Linked Open Data tools
Shared service components infrastructure for enriching electronic publications with online reading and full-text search
No full textA major requirement for electronic publishing systems is the availability of rich and intuitive mechanisms that enhance the user experience of viewing and searching online electronic documents such as books, monographs and journal papers. This work concerns a set of infrastructural components and their utilization for the creation of related coherent services and features for end users. We present a set of sophisticated platforms, tools and mechanisms that have been employed in real-life cases for implementing document viewing and full-text search features, shared among application instances of various types. Challenges encountered and the provided solutions are discussed
How Can Libraries and Other Academic Institutions Engage in Making Data Open?
No full textIn this paper we will address the questions of what and where the value of open access to research data might be and how libraries and related stakeholders can contribute to achieve the benefits of freely sharing data. In particular, the emphasis will be on how libraries need to acquire the competence for collaboration to train and encourage researchers and library staff to work with open data. The paper is based on the early results of the RECODE project, an EU FP7 project that addresses the drivers and barriers in developing open access to research data in Europe (http://www.recodeproject.eu)
The implementation of the European Commission recommendation on open access to scientific information: comparison of national policies
No full textTwo years after the publication of the European Commission recommendation on open access to scientific information, the critical threshold of accessibility to fifty percent of papers has been crossed. However, this figure is an average and the implementation of the EC recommendation varies from one country to another. The topical issue now is to observe the different steps of implementation and to wonder about the reaseons of such a disparity. In order to suggest many elements of the response, this research compares the different levels of implementation in the EU28
ELPUB Digital Library v2.0: Application of semantic web technologies
No full textThis paper presents the ongoing efforts to further develop the ELPUB digital library, which highly supported the dissemination of published materials within the community in the past years. elpub.scix.net has been serving the ELPUB-community since a decade, predominantly aiming to archive the output of the annual conferences. Doubtless, there is still a need for a platform to maintain the ?collective memory? of the association and so far over 700 entries from 17 conferences were recorded. The repository, which utilized the SciX-technology, delivered the user access to the individual papers and made the data available via an OAI-interface as well. However, in the course of time digital library technology evolved and an association dedicated to Electronic Publishing ought to be at the forefront of novel developments. For this reason a shift was performed towards the Architexturez platform(library.elpub.net) aiming to implement advanced semantic web features. Especially the display of evolving topics and their gradual development is appealing and moreover the aggregation of individual bibliographies. Many of the features were designed in consultation with research communities in, among others, architectural computing and real estate.While deploying features and capabilities are well established in the digital library domain, the system is designed to support further research by the ELPUB community and this paper will elaborate on the transition and deliver an overview on the current prospects along with the technical capabilities
plosOpenRExploring FP7 funded PLOS publications
No full textThis case-study presents possible fields of applications for alternativescience measures on grant-supported research publications. The study is basedon plosOpenR, a set of functions for the statistical computing environment R.plosOpenR facilitates access to the application programming interfaces (API) providedby Open Acces publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) and OpenAIRE,a Open Access infrastructure for European funded research. These functions canbe furthermore used to visually explore PLOS-Article Level metrics, a collectionof alternative science impact measure. 1,166 publications acknowledging fundingwithin the Seventh Framework Programme of the EU are reported. Distributed over624 projects, alternative metrics based on this sample and corresponding collaborationnetworks are presented. Findings reveal the potential of reusing data, thatare made openly and automatically available by publishers, funders and repositorycommunity
Towards an e-Publishing library service in Humanities and Social Sciences: a feasibility study
No full textThe paper describes a methodology used to analyze the editorial production of CNR Institutes belonging to the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). This analysis is considered a pre-requisite to design a feasibility study to develop an e-publishing service tailored to HSS. To reach this aim the paper describes in particular the characteristics of currently published products defining a set of quality indicators that can help designing a future e- publishing service
Making Social Interactions Accessible in Online Social Networks
No full textRecently, online social networks, OSNs, have gained significant popularity and are among the most popular ways to use the Internet. Additionally, researchers have be- come more interested in using the social interaction networks, SINs[1], in order to fur- ther enhance and personalize their services[2]. OSNs are also redefining roles within the publishing industry, allowing publishers and authors to reach and engage with readers directly[3]. However, SINs are not very easily available as of today through the cur- rent APIs provided by most OSNs. Such applications would therefore spend tremendous amount of time trying to gather the required SINs for their services. Therefore, our re- search problem is how we can design a system that makes social interactions in OSNs accessible. This also refers to the problem of how to crawl OSNs in a structured way, which is the focus of this short paper
Making sense of a flat list of terms intoLinked Open Data SKOS vocabularies
No full textThe emergence of the Web in 1991, within the CERN (European Organisation forNuclear Research) in Gen?ve, Switzerland, was a milestone in the history of humanity,changing the way communication, democratizing access to information and knowledge.With the Web, humanity passes into a stage of collective intelligence(1), whereeveryone, except the info-excluded, has the possibility to shareinformation.TheWebwas inventedby the visionary British scientist, TimBerners-Lee.He suggested the so-called global hypertext system