Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Tagging @ Sub-Document Level(s)?

Colleagues/

Are you aware of any current applications/technologies that allows one to Tag a document at the **Paragraph** (or Chapter) level? (and Not Only At The Document Level)?

I am also interested Tag Cloud technologies that allows for the visualization of Tags associated with selected Paragraphs (or Book Chapters or Other Formal Parts Of A Work).

Thanks!

/Gerry

Saturday, 16 August 2008

T-As-In-Team: Management Through Collaboration

Management Through Collaboration: Teaming in a Networked World (Routledge publishers, 2010)

Charles Wankel / Author and Organizer / St. John’s University, New York, USA /
wankelc@stjohns.edu

The idea is that this book will be produced using an immense network of coauthors. The chapters will present text, examples, and exercises using networking in a globalized world as a prism through which the key management functions are refracted in telling, useful and important ways. This introductory management textbook is using a new authoring structure to create a high quality, cutting-edge, and well-researched book.


The coauthors of this breakthrough endeavor number almost a thousand management educators and researchers in about ninety nations. The twenty-first century global virtual community creating this work is itself an interesting constellation of management phenomena that provides a wide range of exciting management experiences for its members to use as examples in their teaching and writing. More importantly, being part of such a diverse, constantly self-creating, mob of innovators is immense fun! It is our hope that our contributions from Tonga to Peru, from Iceland to Botswana, from Hawaii to Tunisia, from China to Grenada, will reflect our diversity and yet our communality in this increasingly connected world in ways that will engage and excite learners in all the nations of the world.

[http://globally-collaborating.com/]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: MANAGING IN A NETWORKED WORLD
1: Managing the New Workplace: Collaborating in the organization
2: Historical Context of Contemporary Management: From Individual Stars to Winning Teams


PART II: THE ENVIRONMENT OF MANAGEMENT
3: Shaping Corporate Culture
4: Managing in a Global Environment
5: Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
6: Entrepreneurship and E-commerce


PART III: PLANNING
7: Organizational Planning and Goal Setting
8: Strategy Formulation and Implementation
9: Managerial Decision Making
10: Global Management


PART IV: ORGANIZING
11: Organizing in a Networked World
12: Structures for Coordinating in a High Tech World
13: Change at All Levels and Speeds
14: Human Resource Management
15: Diversity in Multicultural Organizations


PART V: LEADING
16: Attitudes, Perceptions, Learning and Stress
17: Leadership in Organizations
18: Motivation in Organizations
19: Communicating in Organizations
20: Teamwork in Organizations


PART VI: CONTROLLING
21: The Importance of Control
22: Information Technology and E-Business
23: Operations and Service Management


[
http://globally-collaborating.com/t/index.html]

AUTHORS

[http://globally-collaborating.com/authors/index.html]

AUTHOR COUNTRY STATS

[http://globally-collaborating.com/c/index.html]

NODAL PROJECT PEOPLE

[http://globally-collaborating.com/n/index.html]

GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Citation Style
Follow The Chicago Manual of Style, newest edition, for citation and other stylistic formats.

Microsoft Word

Textual material for the book should be submitted in Microsoft Word (Windows PC version).

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS


When will I be assigned to a chapter team?

Currently we are registering authors into chapter wikis. As new colleagues join the project, they will be registered within a week's time after completing the authors' survey.

What is the general project timeline?


The draft of the main paper-form textbook is due on December 1st, 2008. However, the digital form and ancillaries can be worked on after that. The book comes out in January 2010.

See Also

"Management Professor Uses 'Crowdsourcing' to Write Textbook"

[http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/]

Sunday, 10 August 2008

Use And Misuse Of Bibliometric Indices In Evaluating Scholarly Performance

Ethics In Science And Enviromental Politics / THEME SECTION / The Use And Misuse Of Bibliometric Indices In Evaluating Scholarly Performance

Editors: Howard I. Browman, Konstantinos I. Stergiou

Quantifying the relative performance of individual scholars, groups of scholars, departments, institutions, provinces/states/regions and countries has become an integral part of decision-making over research policy, funding allocations, awarding of grants, faculty hirings, and claims for promotion and tenure. Bibliometric indices (based mainly upon citation counts), such as the h-index and the journal impact factor, are heavily relied upon in such assessments. There is a growing consensus, and a deep concern, that these indices — more-and-more often used as a replacement for the informed judgement of peers — are misunderstood and are, therefore, often misinterpreted and misused. The articles in this ESEP Theme Section present a range of perspectives on these issues. Alternative approaches, tools and metrics that will hopefully lead to a more balanced role for these instruments are presented.

TITLE PAGE [Preface] ;
Full text in pdf format

Browman HI, Stergiou KI / INTRODUCTION: Factors and indices are one thing, deciding who is scholarly, why they are scholarly, and the relative value of their scholarship is something else entirely
ESEP 8:1-3 ; Full text in pdf format

Campbell P / Escape from the impact factor
ESEP 8:5-7 ; Full text in pdf format

Lawrence PA / Lost in publication: how measurement harms science
ESEP 8:9-11 ; Full text in pdf format

Todd PA, Ladle RJ / Hidden dangers of a ‘citation culture’
ESEP 8:13-16 ; Full text in pdf format

Taylor M, Perakakis P, Trachana V / The siege of science
ESEP 8:17-40 ; Full text in pdf format

Cheung WWL/ The economics of post-doc publishing
ESEP 8:41-44 ; Full text in pdf format

Tsikliras AC/ Chasing after the high impact
ESEP 8:45-47 ; Full text in pdf format

Zitt M, Bassecoulard E/ Challenges for scientometric indicators: data demining, knowledge flows measurements and diversity issues
ESEP 8:49-60 ; Full text in pdf format

Harzing AWK, van der Wal R / Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis
ESEP 8:61-73 ; Full text in pdf format

Pauly D, Stergiou KI / Re-interpretation of ‘influence weight’ as a citation-based Index of New Knowledge (INK)
ESEP 8:75-78 ; Full text in pdf format

Giske J / Benefitting from bibliometry
ESEP 8:79-81 ; Full text in pdf format

Butler L/ Using a balanced approach to bibliometrics: quantitative performance measures in the Australian Research Quality Framework
ESEP 8:83-92 ; Full text in pdf format Erratum

Bornmann L, Mutz R, Neuhaus C, Daniel HD / Citation counts for research evaluation: standards of good practice for analyzing bibliometric data and presenting and interpreting results
ESEP 8:93-102 ; Full text in pdf format

Harnad S / Validating research performance metrics against peer rankings
ESEP 8:103-107 ; Full text in pdf format

Table of Contents

[http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esep/v8/n1/]

Friday, 8 August 2008

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

This fall [Lawrence Lessig is] coming out with his latest book,

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

which argues that the legal system is making criminals out of young people who produce entertaining or informative videos, music, and other art works through piecing together parts of others’ works. He advocates a new type of economy that allows both market competition and people to freely share their art.

Source

[http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3220/in-a-new-book-lessig-says-society-is-turning-artists-into-criminals]

Amazon

The author of Free Culture shows how we harm our children—and almost anyone who creates, enjoys, or sells any art form—with a restrictive copyright system driven by corporate interests. Lessig reveals the solutions to this impasse offered by a collaborative yet profitable “hybrid economy”.

Lawrence Lessig, the reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture war—a war waged against our kids and others who create and consume art. America’s copyright laws have ceased to perform their original, beneficial role: protecting artists’ creations while allowing them to build on previous creative works. In fact, our system now criminalizes those very actions.For many, new technologies have made it irresistible to flout these unreasonable and ultimately untenable laws.

Some of today’s most talented artists are felons, and so are our kids, who see no reason why they shouldn’t do what their computers and the Web let them do, from burning a copyrighted CD for a friend to “biting” riffs from films, videos, songs, etc and making new art from them.Criminalizing our children and others is exactly what our society should not do, and Lessig shows how we can and must end this conflict—a war as ill conceived and unwinnable as the war on drugs. By embracing “read-write culture,” which allows its users to create art as readily as they consume it, we can ensure that creators get the support—artistic, commercial, and ethical—that they deserve and need. Indeed, we can already see glimmers of a new hybrid economy that combines the profit motives of traditional business with the “sharing economy” evident in such Web sites as Wikipedia and YouTube.

The hybrid economy will become ever more prominent in every creative realm—from news to music—and Lessig shows how we can and should use it to benefit those who make and consume culture.Remix is an urgent, eloquent plea to end a war that harms our children and other intrepid creative users of new technologies. It also offers an inspiring vision of the post-war world where enormous opportunities await those who view art as a resource to be shared openly rather than a commodity to be hoarded.

[http://www.amazon.com/Remix-Making-Commerce-Thrive-Economy/dp/1594201722]

Tuesday, 5 August 2008

Using Open Access Models for Science Dissemination | ICTP Workshop, Trieste, Italy, 7-16 July 2008

Using Open Access Models for Science Dissemination / ICTP Workshop, Trieste, Italy / 7-16 July 2008



Directors: E. Canessa, C. Fonda and M. Zennaro (ICTP-SDU, Italy) / International Advisory Commitee: Manjit DOSANJH, John ELLIS, Jens VIGEN (CERN) ; Katepalli R. SREENIVASAN (ICTP) ; Julie WALKER (INASP) ; Philip E. BOURNE (PLoS Computational Biology)

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

A better understanding on what Open Access is, and examples of what it offers to individual scientists and to scientific institutions in Developing Countries, will be presented. The aim of the workshop is not only to introduce the newest technologies in Open Access but also to give participants an extensive hands-on experience on selected techniques.

TOPICS

Participants will be exposed to the tremendous resources and possibilities available to the scientific community including:

  • Potential of Open Access in science
  • Open Source software for Open Access
  • Open Access policy, advocacy and editorial roles
  • Open Access publishing and repository design for science
  • Open Access repositories and eJournals - case studies
  • Web 2.0 for Open AccesS

PARTICIPATION

Scientists and students from all countries which are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the Workshop. As it will be conducted in English, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of this language. Although the main purpose of the Centre is to help researchers from Developing Countries, through a programme of training activities within a framework of international cooperation, students and post-doctoral scientists from advanced countries are also welcome to attend.

PROGRAM

EyA Recordings / Mon 7 July 2008

08:00 – 11:00 / Registration and Administrative Matters

11:00 – 11:30 / Open Ceremony – Jens Vigen (Cern) and ICTP/SDU Team

11:30 – 12:30 / Open Access in Developing Countries – Leslie Chan (Univ Toronto, Canada)

Lunch

13:30 – 14:15 / ”Openness” – Ignasi Labastida (Spain)

14:15 – 15:15 / Institutional vs. Disciplinary Open Archives – Leslie Chan (Univ Toronto, Canada)

15:15 – 15:30 Overview of ICTP Computer Facilities – Johannes Grassberger (ICTP)

15:30 – 16:30 HAL Open Archive System I – Laurent Guillope (Univ. Nantes)
Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:30 HAL Open Archive System II – Laurent Guillope (Univ. Nantes)

EyA Recordings / Tue 8 July 2008

09:00 – 10:00 Open Access vs. Traditional Publishing and Hibrid Models – Ignasi Labastida (Spain)

Coffee Break

10:00 – 11:00 Licensing Models to OA Journals – Ignasi Labastida (Spain)

11:00 – 12:00 SCOAP3: CERN Consortia for Open Access – Jens Vigen (Cern)

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Case Studies of OA from Developing Countries – Leslie Chan (Univ Toronto, Canada)

15:00 – 16:30 Open Source Journal Management and Publishing System: OJS - I – Kevin Stranack (SFU, Canada)

Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:30 Open Source Journal Management and Publishing System: OJS - II – Kevin Stranack (SFU, Canada)

EyA Recordings / Wed 9 July 2008

9:00 – 10:00 Interconnecting Open Repositories: Overview – Ignasi Labastida (Spain)

Coffee Break

10:00 – 11:00 Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS) and the Needs of Developing Countries – Leslie Chan (Univ Toronto, Canada)

11:00 – 12:00 Open Source Journal Management and Publishing System: OJS - III – Ke1vin Stranack (SFU, Canada)

Lunch

14:00 – 14:10 Brief Introduction to SciVee – Lynn Fink (UC San Diego)

14:10 – 15:30 Open Source Journal Management and Publishing System: OJS - IV – Kevin Stranack (SFU, Canada)

Coffee Break

15:30 – 18:30 Using ePrints Repository – Leslie Carr (UK) \

9:30 Get Together Reception

EyA Recordings / Thu 10 July 2008

09:00 – 10:00 Open Access Publishing and Repository Design for Science – “Iryna Kuchma (eIFL.net)”

Coffee Break and Group Photo

10:00 – 11:00 Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net) – Iryna Kuchma

11:00 – 12:00 Case Studies by Participants I

  • Open Young Scientist Forum (YSF) under the UN-GAID e-SDDC– Raed M. Sharif - Syracuse University, New York
  • Implementing Open Access Repository at Ahmadu Bello University– Ezra Shiluba Gbaje
  • Some Aspects of Open Access in Brazil– Waldir Roque

Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 CDS Invenio I – Samuele Kaplun (Cern)

Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:30 Editor and Administrative Processes in ePrints I – Leslie Carr (UK)

EyA Recordings / Fri 11 July 2008

09:00 – 10:00 Open Access Repositories: Case Studies Iryna Kuchma (eIFL.net)

Coffee Break

10:00 – 11:00 How Does E-LIS Work? – Imma Subirats (FAO)

11:00 – 12:00 Maintaining and Populating E-LIS – Imma Subirats (FAO)

Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 CDS Invenio II – Samuele Kaplun (Cern)

Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:00 Editor and Administrative Processes in ePrints II – Leslie Carr (UK)

EyA Recordings / Sat 12 July 2008

09:00 – 10:00 Localising and Configuring ePrints Repository – Leslie Carr (UK)

Coffee Break

10:00 – 11:30 Potential and Advantages of Open Access in Science – Iryna Kuchma (eIFL.net)

EyA Recordings / Mon 14 July 2008

09:00 – 10:00 Open Access Journals: Case Studies – Iryna Kuchma (eIFL.net)

Coffee Break

10:00 – 12:00 Case Studies by Participants II

  • The Central African Pole of Open Access Interconnection– Antoine B. Bagula - Republic of Congo Overview of the UH Computer System and the Virtual Resource Center– Luis Zarrabeitia - University of Havana (UH), Cuba
  • Networking Computing and e-Services at Al-Isra Private University– Roger Sakhel - Amman, Jordan
  • e-Learning for Higher Education Access– Graciela Molina - Tucuman, Argentina
  • Universidad de los Andes Institutional Repository– Rodrigo Torrens, Venezuela
  • e-Learning Portal– Carina P. Marozzini - Bariloche, Argentina

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Case Studies by Participants III

  • Successess and Challenges in e-Journal Utilisation in Malawi– Noel Jambo - Bunda College, University of Malawi

  • The Colombian Digital Library Project– Liliana Melgar - Colombia
    Digital Libraries for Tomorrow: An Overview on the Library of Alexandria– Mandy Taha

  • Open Access Repositories with Subversion (SVN)– Ebenezer Olajuyigbe, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria

  • Information Resource Management Activities of the Manila Observatory– Carina Smaniego and Donna Lyne Sanidad

  • Togo in the Open Access World– Glakpe Komlan

15:30 – 16:30 Open PloS and Topaz Technologies I – Lynn Fink (UC San Diego)

Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 Open PloS and Topaz Technologies II – Lynn Fink (UC San Diego)

EyA Recordings / Tue 15 July 2008

9:00 – 10:00 The African Physical Review eJournal: Overview – T. Shah (ICTP)
Coffee Break


10:00 – 11:00 Open Access Policy and Advocacy – Iryna Kuchma (eIFL.net)

11:00 – 12:00 Open Content License (Creative Commons) for Open Repositories – Iryna Kuchma (eIFL.net)

Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 DSpace: Technical Issues I – Richard Jones (HP)

Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 DSpace: Technical Issues II – Richard Jones (HP)

EyA Recordings / Wed 16 July 2008

9:00 – 10:30 videolectures.net – Sebastjan Mislej (Jozef Stefan Inst., Slovenia)

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00 Open Academic Webcasting with ICTP EyA System – ICTP/SDU Team

Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 e-Learning at CERN – Knut Bjorkli (Cern)

14:30 – 15:00 Final Discussion and Certificates to Participants

Source

[http://sdu.ictp.it/openaccess/program/index.html]

WORKSHOP VIDEO (ALL)

Automatic video recording of the workshop (with synchronized slides) using the ICTP EyA System.

All talks are automatically recorded hourly and published after 20 minutes. Apple QuickTime plugin should be installed for viewing.

[http://sdu.ictp.it/eya/openaccess08.php]

PARTICIPANTS

[http://sdu.ictp.it/eya/openaccess08.php]

BLOG

[http://ictp2008oa.wordpress.com/]

CONFERENCE BOOK: Science Dissemination using Open Access

Full Text Plus

[http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/08/science-dissemination-using-open-access.html]

Sunday, 3 August 2008

Science Dissemination Using Open Access: Table of Contents

Science Dissemination Using Open Access: A Compendium Of Selected Literature On Open Access / Editors E. Canessa and M. Zennaro (ICTP-SDU, Italy).
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) / July 2008 / 207 pp. / ISBN 92-95003-40-3.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: Selected Literature - 1

OVERVIEW - 3

What is Open Access? ..... 5
Who benefits from Open Access? ..... 6
Why is Open Access important? ..... 7
Open Access: “Strong” and “Weak” ..... 7
Six things that researchers need to know about Open Access ..... 9

DECLARATIONS - 13

Budapest Open Access Initiative ..... 14
Berlin declaration on Open Access to knowledge in the sciences and humanities ..... 14
Open letter signed by 25 Nobel Prize winners ..... 16
Open Access to science in Developing Countries ..... 21
Starting a new scholarly Open Access journal in Africa ...... 25
The African Physical Review: An example ...... 28

TYPES OF JOURNALS PUBLISHED - 31
General journals ..... 32
Specialized journals ..... 34
Regional journals ..... 34
Institutional journals ..... 34
Annual reviews ..... 35
Deciding on a publication type ..... 35

GETTINGS PROFESSIONAL - 37

Challenges for new journals ..... 38
Measuring your impact ...... 39
Journal standards and identifiers ...... 40
Building reliable and ongoing content ...... 42
Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) ..... 42

LEGAL FRAMEWORK - 43

The public domain ..... 44
Open content ..... 44
Intellectual property conservancies ..... 44
Creative Commons (CC) licenses ..... 45
Creative Commons licenses: An example ...... 46
About Science Commons ..... 57
Copyleft ..... 58

INSTITUTIONAL OPEN ACCESS POLICIES AND MANDATES: NIH EXAMPLE - 59

Need for the policy ..... 61
Scope of the policy ..... 63
Potential for public misunderstanding of research findings: NIH prospective ..... 64
Version control and quality of manuscripts ..... 65
Potential for acceleration of medical cures ..... 66
Potential economic impact on journal publishers ..... 66
Potential impact on journal peer review ..... 68
Potential impact on scientists ..... 69
Open Access publication and the NIH Public Access Policy ..... 70

ECONOMIC MODELS FOR JOURNAL PUBLISHING - 71

Subscription-based journals ..... 72
Open Access journals ..... 73
Limited Open Access journals ...... 75

FUNDING OPEN ACESSS - 77

Financial sustainability via advertising: A proposal ..... 78
Target specific advertisement ...... 78
Ads by Google ..... 79
Google AdSense ads for Open Access journals ..... 80
A free fully-hosted Open Journal systems platform ..... 81
SCOAP3 ...... 82
Benefits of SCOAP3 ..... 83

GETTING FOUND, STAYING FOUND, INCREASING IMPACT - 85

Getting found: Building the visibility of your journal ..... 86
What are commercial indexes? ...... 86
What are open databases? ..... 87
Open indexes ...... 88
Directories ...... 89
Search engines ..... 90
Open Archive metadata harvesters ..... 92
Libraries ..... 93
The media ..... 95
How to distribute a press release ..... 96

WEB 2.0 AND OPEN ACCESS - 97

The personal research portal (PRP) ..... 98
Social software, Web 2.0 and DIY web technologies ..... 101
‘How to’ hints: a PRP prototype ..... 103
PRP and the knowledge divide ..... 105
Remarks ..... 111

OPEN ACCESS WEBCASTING - 113

Bandwidth consuming technologies ...... 114
Connectivity trends in Developing Countries ..... 115
Enhance your audience (EyA) ..... 116
Digitization of open course content ...... 117
Evaluation andassessment ...... 119
Remarks ..... 120
MIT OpenCourseWare ...... 121
Video communications with SciVee ..... 122

PART II: Software - 125

EPRINTS - 127
EPrints live CD .....128
Using the live CD ..... 129
Storing your archive on a memory stick ..... 130
Restoring your archive from memory stick ..... 132

DSPACE - 133

DSpace FAQ ..... 134

SELF-ARCHIVING FAQ - 143

What is self-archiving?..... 144

OPEN ACCESS ARCHIVES: EXAMPLES - 149

ArXiv e-Print archive ..... 150
Open Access services at ICTP: Scientific publications ..... 151
HAL: Hyper Article en ligne ..... 153
Spir@l: Imperial College digital repository ..... 154
PubMed Central ..... 155

AN INTERNATIONAL OPEN ARCHIVE: E-LIS - 159

Overview ..... 161
The E-LIS organizational model ..... 163
Strategic issues ...... 165
E-LIS policies ...... 167
Submission policy ...... 167
Copyright policies ..... 169
Editorial section ..... 171

OPEN JOURNALS SYSTEM - 175

Step 1: The Journal Manager ...... 177
Step 2: The Author ..... 179
Step 3: The Editor ..... 180
Step 4: The Section Editor ..... 182
Step 5: The Reviewer ..... 183
Step 6: The Copyeditor ..... 184
Step 7: The Layout Editor ..... 185
Step 8: The Proofreader ..... 186
Step 9: The Reader ..... 187

TOPAZ 189

What is TOPAZ? ..... 190
Case study: PLoS ONE journal ..... 191

CDS INVENIO - 193
CDS Invenio ..... 194
Key features ..... 195

Full Text PDF Plus Book

Science Dissemination Using Open Access

Science Dissemination Using Open Access: A Compendium Of Selected Literature On Open Access / Editors E. Canessa and M. Zennaro (ICTP-SDU, Italy).


The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) / July 2008 / 207 pp. / ISBN 92-95003-40-3.

Open Access means aims to remove restrictions that exist on the access to articles and knowledge to the world-wide scholarly community, in particular to those in developing countries. Scientists in these countries still have difficulty in publishing their work due to the lack of access to the network, to their institutional economic difficulties or to the lack of awareness of available Open Access solutions.


The visibility, usage and impact of researchers' own findings can increase with Open Access, as does their power to find, access and use the work of others.

This book aims to guide the scientific community on the requirements of Open Access, and the plethora of low-cost solutions available. A compendium of selected literature on Open Access is presented to increase the awareness of the potential of open publishing in general.

The book also aims to encourage decision makers in academia and research centers to adopt institutional and regional Open Access Journals and Archives to make their own scientific results public and fully searchable on the Internet.

Table of Contents



Using Open Access Models for Science Dissemination ICTP Workshop, Trieste, Italy, 7-16 July 2008

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