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Making data in PhD dissertations reusable for research
No full textInternational audienceHow can an academic library contribute to make data submitted together with PhD dissertations useful for further research? Our paper provides some recommendations for information professionals, based on a review of studies and projects and on empirical evidence from a content analysis of data sources and types from 300 print and digital dissertations in social sciences and humanities (1987-2013) and a survey on data management conducted with the scientists and PhD students of the University of Lille 3 in April and May 2015. Acknowledgment: With funding from MESHS, Lille (France)
Grey literature in French digital repositories: a survey
No full textThe impact of open archives on the availability and selection of scientific and technical information is growing. Yet, there is little empirical evidence on the deposit and processing of grey literature in digital repositories. The purpose of this communication is to provide a survey on grey literature in French open archives, e.g. institutional and subject-based digital repositories. The survey is based on a selection of 40 representative French digital repositories. The different archives are selected through national and international registries of OAI repositories, e.g. OpenDOAR, ROAR, BASE, EPrints, DSpace, University of Illinois OAI-PMH Data Provider Registry, Scientific Commons, Webometrics. The selection follows a defined set of criteria (located in France, living archive, size). The repositories are shortly described (type of repository, scientific domain, software, size, language, institution). Five aspects are analysed for each digital repository: 1. typology of grey documents (in particular, theses and dissertations, reports, conference proceedings, working papers, courseware); 2. part of grey literature in the whole archive (in %); 3. specific metadata related to grey literature; 4. quality control and policies (evaluation, validation); 5. conditions of access to the full text. Whenever possible, data on development (evolution of deposit) and usage (statistics of access and downloads) are added. These information and data are linked to the characteristics of the repositories mentioned above, and specific features of grey literature are discussed. Furthermore, the question if the New York definition of grey literature applies to the content of digital repositories is discussed. The communication provides an overview of the preservation and dissemination of grey literature in French digital repositories, contributes to the discovery of French grey literature and open archives, and moves forward the debate on the future of grey literature in the environment of digital repositories.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes, Pratt student commentaryXAInternationa
Hidden Treasures: Opening Data in PhD Dissertations in Social Sciences and Humanities
No full textInternational audiencePURPOSE The paper provides empirical evidence on research data submitted together with PhD dissertations in social sciences and humanities. APPROACH We conducted a survey on nearly 300 print and electronic dissertations in social sciences and humanities from the University of Lille 3 (France), submitted between 1987 and 2013. FINDINGS After a short overview on open access to electronic dissertations, on small data in dissertations, on data management and curation, and on the challenge for academic libraries, the paper presents the results of the survey. Special attention is paid to the size of the research data in appendices, to their presentation and link to the text, to their sources and typology, and to their potential for further research. Methodological shortfalls of the study are discussed, and barriers to open data (metadata, structure, format) and legal questions (privacy, third-party rights) are addressed. The conclusion provides some recommendations for the assistance and advice to PhD students in managing and depositing their research data. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS Our survey can be helpful for academic libraries to develop assistance and advice for PhD students in managing their research data in collaboration with the research structures and the graduate schools. ORIGINALITY There is a growing body of research papers on data management and curation. Produced along with PhD dissertations, little is known about the characteristics of this material, in particular in social sciences and humanities and the impact on the role of academic libraries. Acknowledgment: With funding from MESHS, Lille (France)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
ETD4OA. Electronic theses and dissertations for open access
No full textInternational audienceThe poster presents a proposal for the European Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. H2020 supports the achievement and functioning of the European Research Area in which researchers, as well as scientific knowledge and technology circulate freely, by strengthening cooperation both between the Union and the Member States, and among the Member States, in particular through the application of a coherent set of rules. Also, a set of activities aims at optimizing the use of national facilities by integrating them into networks and opening their doors to all European researchers.The project “Electronic Theses and Dissertations for Open Access” (ETD4OA) will support the coordination of European infrastructures and open access (OA) policies in the field of electronic theses and dissertations. Together with stakeholders and OA initiatives, it will address barriers and access restrictions, and it will take actions (active communication, recommendations, advice) to promote and develop input, openness and impact of ETDs in existing open repositories and portals. The objectives of the ETD4OA project are:1.to produce and disseminate reliable and consistent empirical data on the processing of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in a wide set of European countries with their different infrastructures and legal environments, in particular to address the problems and variations of access restrictions;2.to contribute to the coordination of open access policies regarding ETDs in the European research era and to build a sustainable European community focusing on the open access to research theses;3.to contribute to the understanding and development of the acceptance, uptake and usage of open access ETD infrastructures, by the research communities, by industry and business and by the Internet community;4.to develop practical and helpful guidelines and recommendations in order to raise awareness about the challenge, and to support cooperation with developing regions and countries, in order to increase the part of ETDs which are widely and fast disseminated in institutional repositories without any restrictions as the standard solution.The European infrastructure for this already exists, with the interconnection of institutional repositories and other open archives and concurrently registered which can be searched by the DART-Europe portal. The ETD4OA project has not the ambition to develop a new infrastructure or prototype. Instead, today, the problem of open access to ETD lies upstream in local contexts that facilitate decisions in favor of embargoes or restricted access (on-campus access, intranet). To put it in a simple way, pipes exist, but it lacks the fuel and the pressure.The input to the central portal varies depending on the country and the research field and the institution. To increase the OA-percentage is a problem on many levels, technical (workflow) as well as legal, administrative (regulatory) and tradition and ethics. The answer proposed by the project is awareness raising, lobbying at the national and European policy level, a thorough communication net both for candidates as well as for the responsible local staff, as well as the production of training material for them.ETD4OA aims at increasing the use of national facilities, i. e. institutional repositories and OA infrastructures, by integrating them into an emerging network of the people, those responsible and involved for European research theses. Its aims are to exploit synergies between national and Union initiatives by setting up partnerships between relevant policy makers and funding bodies or advisory groups, in order to facilitate the development of global research infrastructures and the cooperation of European infrastructures with their non-European counterparts (in particular US and Russia), ensuring their global interoperability and access.Some of the research questions the project will address: Which are the (apparently) increasing demands by the authors for keeping the document not open to the public for fear of copyright infringement, e. g. of figures used? Is there increasing pressure of commercial publishers to not allow OA distribution if a book is planned? Are there more recent other ways of posting an ETD in OA which are not seen and thus not counted by the institutional repository network, such as for instance institutional servers, personal websites, gold OA journal publications? Language barriers may lead to publish a thesis as a book to make use of the publisher's editorial office.The project is coordinated by the GERiiCO laboratory at the University of Lille 3 (France) and the ISN Oldenburg (Germany). Actually more than ten member states take part in the project, represented by public or private institutions, experts and networks. ETD4OA has been submitted within the H2020 project call H2020-INFRASUPP-2014-2, “Support to innovation, human resources, policy and international cooperation”, a sub call of the H2020-INFRASUPP-2014-2015 program
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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