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At OR2012: Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu enhance access to Open Repositories?

09/07/2012

The paper Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories? will be presented at OR2012 by Brian Kelly, University of Bath, and Jenny Delasalle, University of Warwick. Kelly explains on his blog on ukwebfocus how he got the idea for the paper: "I found that I was author ...

Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity workshops in Zambia

06/07/2012

The In Service Training Trust (ISTT), in collaboration with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) organize in June, July and September 'Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity workshops' in Lusaka, Zambia. Technological innovation is taking place at a breath-taking pace. Simple, open source internet-based applications and services designed to enhance ...

Do Indian farmers over-value institutionally-recognized authorities relative to peer-sourced content?

06/07/2012

In India social hierarchy is important. Is this refelected in the use of information resources via mobile phones? Do users over-value institutionally-recognized authorities relative to peer-sourced content? This is the main question of the article "Power to the Peers: Authority of Source Effects for a Voice-based Agricultural Information Service in ...

Measuring your Research Impact : an Open Access toolkit

05/07/2012

The Measuring your Research Impact (MyRI) project produced an online Open Access tutorial to support bibliometrics training and awareness. It consists of the following three modules: Module 1: Introduction to bibliometrics Module 2: Track your research impact Module 3: Journal ranking and analysis You can run the tutorial on the MyRI website or ...

Focus on the Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertation at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

04/07/2012

The Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations (DLTD) of the University of Sao Paulo was established in 2001, to make scholarly works produced by the university available over the internet. The repository collects research outputs from the university's Schools, Faculties and Institutes, all with a total of 34,293 documents. (20,629 being Masters Dissertations ...