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Academic blogging consequences for Open Science: a first insight into their potential impact
No full textSocial media have been analysed in different studies and from different perspectives, and the findings show that they can constitute new forms of impact indicators of scientific activities, intended at large and not limited to the publication. Therefore, new forms of research evaluation are emerging as alternative to the traditional citation-based metrics. Initially based on web links or download numbers (webometrics) the new evaluation methods have evolved into alternative metrics, or “altmetrics”, based on the set of activities covered by social media services.
In view of the above, the paper concentrates on academic blogging as a form of scholarly communication in the Open Science context, and on the disciplinary areas of the Humanities and Social Science as privileged domain to be investigated.
The OpenEdition initiative is analysed as a complete infrastructure for the digital resources for the Humanities and Social Sciences and as a concrete exemplification of quality filters applied to these (relatively) new media.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Grey Literature citations in the age of Digital Repositories and Open Access
No full textThe work measures grey citations in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 and then describes the features of GL documents cited in different areas of knowledge: Computational Linguistics, Computer Science and Engineering. With the aim of surveying a wide and varied range of resources, we selected a sample data based on the bibliographical references of articles contained in four journals - all indexed by Scopus Citation Database and ISI Web of Science, with an Impact Factor (IF) over the last three years - and two proceedings of international conferences held in 2012 and 2014.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Extracting value from grey literature: processes and technologies for aggregating and analysing the hidden "big data" treasure of organizations
No full textGrey literature can be a valuable source of information about organizations’ activities and, to a certain extent, about their identity. Some of the major problems that hinder their full exploitation are the heterogeneity of formats, the lack of structure, the unpredictability of their content, the size of the document bases, which can quickly become huge.
The collection and mining of grey literature can be applied to individual organizations or classes of organizations, thus enabling the analysis of the trends in particular fields. To this end, some techniques can be inherited from the best practices for the management of structured documents belonging to well identified categories, but something more is needed in our case. Obvious steps are: identifying sources, collecting items, cleansing and de-duplicating contents, assigning unique and persistent identifiers, adding metadata and augmenting the information using other sources. These phases are common to all digital libraries but further steps are required, in our opinion, in the case of grey literature in order to build document bases of value. In particular, we think that an iterative approach would be the most suitable in this context, one including an assessment of what has been collected in order to identify possible gaps and start over with the collection phase.
We think that big data technologies, together with information retrieval and data and text mining techniques, will play a key role in this sector. This “bag of tools” will certainly facilitate the management, browsing and exploitation of large document bases that belong not only to a single organisation but also, for example, to a large number of organizations working in a particular sector.
This on the one hand opens new scenarios regarding the type of information that can be extracted,Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Copyright Reform and the Library and Patron Use of Non-text or Mixed-Text Grey Literature: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches and Opportunities for Change
No full textProblem/Goal: What is the current state of use rights in the copyright law specific to libraries and related institutions regarding the use of non-text or mixed text grey literature? Are those exceptions sufficient? If not, what recommendations for change can be made?
Research Method/Procedures: This paper assesses the adequacy of existing use rights in the copyright law specific to libraries and related entities applicable to the collection, preservation, access, dissemination and use of grey literature in non-text or mixed text formats. The study is timely, the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights is reviewing world copyright laws and considering drafting an international protocol addressing use rights for libraries and archives. While previous studies have focused on copyright and grey literature or on copyright reform, an analysis that combines these lenses (grey literatures, non-text or mixed text formats and copyright review and reform) has not been undertaken. This analysis presents a content review of the copyright use provisions (known as “exceptions and limitations”) from the copyright law of those countries represented by presentation participants (excluding poster participants) at GL-12 through GL-16. The specific focus is on a particular country’s section of the copyright law that is dedicated, where extant, to libraries, archives, and related entities. The impact of the law on the collection, preservation, access, dissemination, and use of non-text works, such as images, sound recordings, audio visual works, etc., or on mixed-text works (i.e., multimedia) in grey literature collections of libraries and archives is discussed. The following factors, among others, will be applied in the analysis: qualification, preservation, replacement, reproduction, distribution, inter-library loan (including cross-border sharing), and digitization. The review will evaluate the shortcomings of the existing copyright law. Recommendations for change are offered to grey and policy advocates at the national and international legislative and policy-making venues to raise awareness of the shortcoming of existing copyright laws and offer direction for positive change regarding use of grey collections. Such change would be consistent the Articles 8 and 9 of the Pisa Declaration 2 on Policy Development for Grey Literature relating to collection, access and use of grey literature.
Results: The results will demonstrate the current copyright of many countries in the GL conference community are inadequate when applied to non-text or mixed-text sources. Recommendations indicate opportunities for change that grey literature proponents can use to influence policy makers, effect positive change, and ensure the future retention, access, and use of grey collections.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Situation surrounding grey literature of academic research in Japan
No full textIn recent years, significant changes have been occurred to the environment surrounding the academic information distribution in Japan. In 2013, publishing of doctoral dissertations via the internet was obliged to authors. In 2015, Expert Panel on Open Science based on Global Perspectives, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan released the report named “Promoting Open Science in Japan”. In this report, they recommend to promote “Open Science”. Also, in 2008 a subject repository project named “Repository of Archaeological Reports” launched. To activate these movements about grey literature, it is important to support researchers in deepening their understanding about Open Science, and to cooperate with other section of university in order to build physical and technical support system for researchers.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Grey Literature Sources in Historical Perspective: Content Analysis of Handwritten Notes
No full textThis paper describes historical perspective of grey literature in comparison to the postulates of Serbian enlightenment in the 18th century. The theoretical part of this paper describes comparative analysis between main postulates of grey literature given in Pisa Declaration on Policy Development for Grey Literature Resources (Pisa, Italy) on May 16, 2014 in comparison to the first manifest of Serbian enlightenment written by one of the greatest Serbian enlightener Zaharija Orfelin. Orfelin has written this manifest in the preface of the Journal Slaveno-Serbian Magazin, founded in Venice (Italy) in 1768.
The second part of this paper describes the handwritten notes, as one of the grey literature forms, made by Zaharija Orfelin on the books in his private library. This library presents one of the first private Serbian libraries from the 18th century, it is a rich collection of the most representative books from that period in different languages (German, Italian, French, Russian, Latin and Slaveno-Serbian) and represents invaluable cultural heritage. Using the method of content analysis, this paper describes these handwritten notes, and their role as grey literature source in reconstructing the biography of Zaharija Orfelin compensating for lack of other primary biographical and historical printed sources.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Data: Is it Grey, Maligned or Malignant?
No full textCancers, growths, past events, social issues, conditions, and trends are each proverbially described as on a spectrum from maligned to malignant and scientists, physicians, journalists, commentators, politicians and other specialists offer opinions and commentary on what frames the answer to this question of the title. This paper explores not just the color and tone of data, but attempts to resolve what characterizes whether data is maligned or malignant. Hues of greyness distinguish the perils of failing to share, publish nor make accessible research data and the contemporary consequences to scholarship and open access are critical objectives in today’s information arcade. Access to data is determined by those who can afford it, discover and know about it, and can thus manipulate it. Grey literature can take the offensive approach to further the role of data, and promote it to advance the common good, contribute to social responsibility and human actions. Data, while increasingly ubiquitous and abundant is the driver of evidence-based foundations, and the link to academic credibility, communication, discourse, dialogue, and the platform for greater open access. Grey data, possessing some of the attributes of grey literature, difficult to identify, acquire and access, when endangered or threatened, not archived or preserved, requiring methods to organize, sort and stratify, forces nontraditional publishing to pursue data publication to enhance perpetual access and new interpretations for its utility in future learning and research applications. We know that there is a somewhat elevated likelihood that open data policies lead to more widespread knowledge and information sharing, greater self-confidence among information providers and scholars alike, but we know less of whether these patterns have any short or long term benefits or disadvantages for individuals or society and of the factors that moderate and mediate these effects. In the meantime, the new reality is that data is central to the work of science, social sciences and basic human conditions of health and wellbeing and data policies mostly proceed from a grey containment to this new reality. The argument that as libraries become active publishers by digitizing content, creating new content, supporting researchers by addressing new domains and formats, that other interpretations of grey data and data more generally are increasingly plausible and that further research on the factors moderating and mediating the effects of data management is needed. This paper explores the continuum for data from maligned to malignant and anticipates data approaching the benign stage emphasizing new hues of grey and open access.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Analysis of Collection and management of the Korea National RandD Report
No full textThe term ‘National R AND D Program’ has been widely used in a Korean society, but it is quite new as a legal term. Recently, its legal concept from the perspective of the unified semantics was defined, and the regulation on its scope has been established. In particular, ‘National R AND D Program’ was officially used as a legal term for the first time in ‘Special Act on Innovation in Science and Technology (No. 5340) enacted in April 1997. In the Regulation on the Management of National R AND D Programs, ‘National R AND D Program’ is defined in Article 2 as follows: “An R AND D program in science and technology, in which a certain R AND D project is chosen and partially or wholly funded by the government or public organization in accordance with the related law. It refers to all programs except for the basic programs promoted by government-funded research institutes in accordance with Paragraph 1 of Article 2 of Act on the Establishment, Operation and Fostering of Government-funded Research Institutes”. In particular, because the national R AND D report, one of intangible research outcomes among national R AND D programs, contains important matters on R AND D such as R AND D method and results, it is the final outcome of the national R AND D program regardless of its type. Since it is the evaluation standard of the R AND D project and major research outcome as the final outcome which takes place at the end of the R AND D program, the systematic management of related information is especially important. In this sense, the establishment of the information distribution system which makes it possible to collect, manage and use national R AND D reports has been perceived as one of the most important R AND D policies in any country. In fact, each country has systematically managed related duties through a national science and technology information agency. After all, the management of national R AND D reports is a critical part in the management of the research outcomes of national R AND D programs. This study examines the trend of national R AND D report production, progress and assignment of national R AND D programs and current non-disclosure reports, investigates the current collection and management of national R AND D reports by the KISTI, a professional R AND D report management agency in Korea, and proposes a future direction. In addition, the development of an information distribution system and database for national R AND D reports and online services are analyzed.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa
Enhancement of the functions of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency Library’s Fukushima Nuclear Accident Archive using a novel data flagging system that improves the utilization of numerical data on the Internet
No full textRelated to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency Library has accumulated valuable information on Internet. In the Fifteenth International Conference on Grey Literature, we reported the development of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Archive using the DSpace. We have encountered a new, challenging issue of grey literature. In many cases, Internet information contains valuable numerical data. However, identifying the existence of numerical data on Internet sites is difficult, and the metadata created for the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Archive cannot currently be used to distinguish whether such information contains numeric data. Therefore, we have considered a method to identify numerical data and have introduced a “data flagging” system that has been used in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s International Nuclear Information System. In this paper, we introduce the proposed data flagging system and discuss its application to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Archive.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa