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A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution
Open access for machines as well as humans
Overall, we believe this situation demonstrates the need for supporting Open Access to research publications not only for humans to read, but also for machines to access.
Company Information : About Npg
Nature Publishing Group (company description)
Focusing on the needs of scientists, Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. In addition, for this audience, NPG publishes the Nature research journals and Nature Reviews journals, plus a range of prestigious academic journals including…
Core : Three Access Levels To Underpin Open Access
3 types of access to open access content
There are three essential types of access to this content, which we will call access levels. We argue that these access levels must be supported by services in order to create an environment in which OA content can be fully exploited. They are: -Access at the granularity of…
Open access aggregation systems vs academic search engines
The majority of repository aggregation systems focus on the essential problem of aggregating resources for the purposes of providing cross-‐repository metadata search. While search is an essential component of an OA infrastructure, connecting and tying OA repositories together…
Building confidence in open access
The second often discussed issue is that of building confidence in Open Access. Apart from a few successful OA journals, such as those maintained by PLoS or BioMed central, it is still (possibly wrongly) believed that OA journals today typically do not compare in terms of…
Demystifying Networks
Subscription journals are a vestigial organ
The system of pay-to-subscribe journals that spent so many centuries helping the scholarly landscape coordinate and collaborate is now obsolete; a vestigial organ in the body of science. These days, most universities offer free web access and web hosting. These two elements are…
Historical Event-based Access To Museum Collections
Object-driven and event-driven exploration
We argue that collection access through events can remedy these bottlenecks as events provide the context that can link a variety of objects together, providing a more comprehensive overview than facets. To facilitate cross-collection access, we aim to develop an event…
Nature-branded Journal Goes Open Access-only: Can We Celebrate Already? | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
Open access vs publication access
So we made it: the greatest bastions of traditional scientific publishing are clearly signaling support for open access. Can we pop the champagne already? This announcement obviously has positive aspects: for example, lives can be saved in poor countries where doctors may have…
Sick Of Impact Factors | Reciprocal Space
Impact factors hold back open access
These developments go hand in hand with the rise of open access (OA) publishing. Though primarily motivated by the research and societal benefits that will accrue from freeing the dissemination of the research literature, open access is also needed to optimise crowd-sifting of…
Stonehenge Unveils Its £27m Makeover In Time For The Winter Solstice | Culture | The Observer
Winter solstice access at Stonehenge
"The winter solstice, which I prefer to the summer event, has always been less well attended – but that may not be the case this year, because of the visitor centre and with it falling at the weekend. It is the more significant ceremony because it coincides with our Christmas…
Topquadrant Q2-2015 Issue
Information governance
Information governance continues to be the main area of focus for our customers. The growth of complex, diverse data from multiple sources can make governance more difficult. At the same time, growing business reliance on data and analytics creates demands on systems to deliver…