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    Argument structure and specific language impairment: retrospect and prospect

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    This article reflects a collaboration between the Universities of Groningen and Reading of which Frans Zwarts was the promoter. One of the outcomes was a close attention to the learning of various aspects of argument structure by children with specific language impairment (SLI) in Dutch and English. At that time and since, the focus on deficits in grammatical morphology in these children has left verb complementation as something of a syntactic Cinderella. Here we review the findings from our studies in the 1990s. We confirm that children with SLI in both languages have problems with verb specificity, with argument structure alternations and with resultative verb predicates. The very limited number of subsequent studies on verb syntax appear to support our findings. We conclude that this is an area which will repay further scrutiny – it is high time argument structure received an invitation to the ball

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Het belang van publiceren in OpenAccess

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    Tijdens een van de Open Accesslounges in de nationale Open Accessweek 2009 tekende rector magnificus Frans Zwarts met (toen nog onder-) bibliothecaris Marjolein Nieboer een protocol dat de ondersteuning van de bibliotheek garandeert bij onderzoeksaanvragen in het kader van het Europese onderzoeksprogramma FP7. De EU Open Access pilot stelt hierbij als voorwaarde dat de resultaten Open Access beschikbaar komen. Daarbij sprak hij de volgende rede uit.

    Variations on the Author

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    “Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis

    Het belang van publiceren in OpenAccess

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    Tijdens een van de Open Accesslounges in de nationale Open Accessweek 2009 tekende rector magnificus Frans Zwarts met (toen nog onder-) bibliothecaris Marjolein Nieboer een protocol dat de ondersteuning van de bibliotheek garandeert bij onderzoeksaanvragen in het kader van het Europese onderzoeksprogramma FP7. De EU Open Access pilot stelt hierbij als voorwaarde dat de resultaten Open Access beschikbaar komen. Daarbij sprak hij de volgende rede uit

    Mededelingen

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    In december 2012 werd in de Universiteitsbibliotheek het boek ‘Van knekelhuis tot kloppend hart’ gepresenteerd, over de geschiedenis van de Bibliotheek van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen van 1615 tot heden. De oud-bibliotheekmedewerkers Alex Klugkist en Sybren Sybrandy werkten enkele jaren aan dit boek, waarvan het eerste exemplaar door Frans Zwarts, voorzitter van de Vereniging Vrienden van de Bibliotheek, werd aangeboden aan Berber Klugkist-Wesseling, weduwe van de in 2012 overleden Alex Klugkist

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more sophisticated methods
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