Conveners
Posters and Minute Madness Sessions
- Jean-Blaise Claivaz
OpenAIRE has now been in 24/7 operation for almost seven years. As a well-established human and technical network for supporting and monitoring European Open Science policy implementation, we are always looking for ways to keep pace with the quickly-evolving Open Science agenda and European research infrastructure landscape.
OpenAIRE’s ambitious plan for the future will advance our aims of...
The benefits of “ harnessing the collective intelligence” have been proven across the web e.g. Waze, Google Maps. Community based annotation is exemplary of the Web 2.0/3.0 phenomena; using the Web to “harness” the collective intelligence is central to the business models for the evolution of the Web 3.0. Within this realm, Google maps and Waze are among the most successful publicsourcing...
Hyku is a the result of the 30-month project, 'Hydra in a Box', funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services in the US. A partnership between the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Stanford University and DuraSpace, the project is nearing completion and will deliver a next-generation repository solution called 'Hyku'. Hkyu is built on-top of the existing Hydra framework, and...
The number of scholarly research papers being published is gradually growing; it is estimated that approximately 1.5 million of research papers are produced each year and about 4% of them are offered via open access (OA) journals . The high volume of scientific papers introduces new opportunities for content discoverability and facilitates a growth in various scientific disciplines via text...
Most scientific organizations have established bibliographic databases to collect and present the scholarly output generated by their researchers and research projects. Additional requirements arise from increasing OpenAccess requirements by funders more and more paired with direct data delivery (e.g. Horizon 2020). To alleviate the burden of administrative reporting JOIN² has broadened the...
Social Media: A Source of Research Data and a Scholarly Communication Tool: Insights from an in-depth Analysis of Tweets Related to Swine Flu and Ebola
Wasim Ahmed, Prof. Peter A. Bath, Dr Gianluca Demartini
Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Abstract
This research project is the first...
In Finland, most academic journals are published by small scholarly societies. The main sources of income for the journals are usually subscriptions, society funding collected from membership fees, and government subsidy.
About 45% of the 95 Finnish journals receiving government subsidy get by with less than 10.000 euros a year, and only a handful of them have an annual budget of more than...