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A good blog post summarizing a lot of the issues that keep coming up with standards and metrics.
Author: Michael C. Habib
links for 2010-02-16
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Article by Rafael: “Offering their content through open APIs, publishers and platform providers can present researchers with application building tools based on more comprehensive content. In fact, publishers and platform providers have an opportunity to serve as the host of the new scientific knowledge ecosystem that is evolving.”
links for 2010-02-04 – HKU and Scopus APIs
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Hong Kong University First to Use Scopus API for all HKU Authors Across the InstitutionPress release: “Hong Kong University First to Use Scopus API for all HKU Authors Across the Institution02-03-2010 – Updating Institutional Repository through API Technology -“
links for 2010-01-29
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The Indispensable Man of Open Science: A Talk with Cameron Neylon « Significant ScienceLengthy and detailed interview with Cameron Neylon touching on just about everything related to Open Science.
links for 2010-01-28
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From article about SNIP – “Across a subject field as broad as scholarly communication, assessing journal impact by citations to a journal in a two-year time frame is obviously going to favor those subjects that cite heavily, and rapidly. Some fields, particularly those in the life sciences, tend to conform to this citation pattern better than others, leading to some widely recognized distortions.”
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From article: “Prestige measured by quantity of citations is one thing, but when it is based on the quality of those citations, you get a better sense of the real value of research to a community. Research Trends talks to Prof. Félix de Moya about SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), which ranks journals based on where their citations originate.”
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From article :Bibliometric indicators are not without their own controversies (1, 2) and recently there has been an explosion of new metrics, accompanying a shift in the mindset of the scientific community towards a multidimensional view of journal evaluation.”