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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Scholarly Communication"”.
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Temporal Evolution of Scholarly Communication
… postwar period until now. My main concern is how scholarly communication “adapted” to the constant, enormous growth of publications. Were the sciences able to stay integrated despite this pressure of growth, or did they fragment into disparate disciplines and fields? The results show that …
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An international multidisciplinary analysis of scholarly communication through investigating citation levels
… be used in new ways to enhance understanding of scholarly communication. It investigates four aspects of scholarly communication: characteristics of highly cited articles, citation levels of collaborative articles, citation levels of multi-disciplinary articles, and patterns of annual citation of …
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Electronic resources and institutional repositories in informal scholarly communication and publishing
… of the increasingly copious amount of scholarly electronic resources produced by academics. To date most research has focused on the impact for formal scholarly publishing. The purpose of this exploratory study is to discover the impact of IRs on the visibility and use of digital …
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Scientific Data Collections: Use in Scholarly Communication and Implications for Data Curation
The landscape of scientific production and scholarly communication is changing: Networked connectivity, the availability of data in digital forms and the development of computing tools are helping to bring about changes in the way science is conducted and communicated. These changes are having an …
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Information extraction from digital social trace data with applications to social media and scholarly communication data
… starts by identifying social media data and scholarly communication data as a special case of digital social trace data (DSTD). This identification allows us to utilize the graph structure of the data (e.g., user connected to a tweet, author connected to a paper, author connected to authors, …
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Towards the establishment and implementation of an institutional repository at the University of Cape Town (UCT): a case study
The concepts of open access and scholarly publishing are still gaining momentum in Africa, especially South Africa. Increasingly, institutional repositories are being planned and developed by universities throughout the world especially in the first world countries, which have taken the lead. …
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National and international university departmental web site interlinking: a webometric analysis
… of links may reflect patterns of informal scholarly communication in the way that citations can be used to illustrate formal scholarly communication. University web site interlinking has consequently been extensively investigated, but much less is known about departmental interlinking, i. …
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"Welcome, fellow toastmasters": The history and membership of a public speaking phenomenon
… most recognized organization for voluntary oral communication practice in the world. Due to the dearth of scholarly communication research regarding TI, this thesis details the history, educational structure, and program dynamics of the organization. Literature review included the nature and …
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Rethinking Gaming & Representation Within Digital Pedagogy: An Instructor’s Guide
… technological mediums as an alternative form of scholarly communication.</p>
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Measuring the impact of research outputs from the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) on the scholarly domain and in social media, 1995-2015
Scholarly communication has changed with the growth in technology, particularly the internet and the social web. The changes include a broader definition of the scholarly communication format, and the role of social media in the research process, amongst others. This study sought to record the body …
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Scholarly Collaboration In Engineering Education: From Big-Data Scientometrics To User-Centered Software Design
… a clear disciplinary orientation. If the gaps in scholarly collaboration continue to be prevalent within the entire community, it will become increasingly difficult to sustain community memory. This will eventually inhibit the propagation of innovations and slow the movement of research findings …
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Electronic Preprint Distribution: a Case Study of Physicists and Chemists at the University of Maryland
As use of the Internet for scholarly communication increases, many scientists from several disciplines including Astronomy, Mathematics, and Physics are using electronic networks to distribute preprints. The innovation of electronic preprint archives on the web, specifically those set up by Paul …
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A critical analysis of the participation of the University of Cape Town community in the advancement of open scholarship: towards a strategy for the promotion of open scholarship
… OS, particularly open access (OA), emerged in scholarly communication to bring radical change in scientific publishing through making publicly funded research immediately available to the reader at no cost. The University of Cape Town (UCT) has embraced the openness philosophy through …
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Mining Scholarly Publications for Research Evaluation
… management. At the same time, with the amount of scholarly literature rapidly expanding, recognising key research that presents the most important contributions to science is becoming increasingly difficult and time-consuming. This creates a need for effective and appropriate research evaluation …
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Increasing the Reach, Usage, and Impact of Scholarly Content
Scholarly communication is facing an information overload crisis. There are now over 8,000 new papers published daily. Aside from the difficulty readers face in keeping up with the literature, the deluge of papers is making it less likely for any given paper to be read, used, and ultimately cited. …
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Thematic research collections: Libraries and the evolution of alternative scholarly publishing in the humanities
… methodologies, novel forms of evidence, and new communication technologies. In the humanities, scholars are confronting and often pioneering innovative modes of viewing, reading, interacting with, collecting, interpreting, contextualizing, and sharing their sources and derived evidence. From …
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Investigating the library research support services in the Faculty of Education, University of Namibia (UNAM): A Hifikepunye Pohamba Campus focus
… and individual research needs and changes in scholarly communication. A mixed methods approach was used to collect and analyse both quantitative and qualitative data. Data was collected using two sampling methods. They are: a census which was conducted for academics and convenience sampling …
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Investigating the library research support services in the Faculty of Education, University of Namibia (UNAM): a Hifikepunye Pohamba Campus focus
… and individual research needs and changes in scholarly communication. A mixed methods approach was used to collect and analyse both quantitative and qualitative data. Data was collected using two sampling methods. They are: a census which was conducted for academics and convenience sampling …
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Developing a holistic framework for assessing research impact in South African higher education institutions, using a research-intensive university as a case study
Scholarly communication has become less linear, less opaque and less rigid than before as both the research process and the end products are being transformed inexorably. The impact of research goes beyond academia, research also impacts society, and thus academic reward systems need to also be …
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Beyond “Data Thrifting”: An Investigation of Factors Influencing Research Data Reuse In the Social Sciences
<p>The development of e-Research infrastructure has enabled data to be shared and accessed more openly. Policy mandates for data sharing have contributed to the increasing availability of research data through data repositories, which create favorable conditions for the reuse of data for purposes …
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