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Nicky Agate deposited Making the Most of Humanities Commons in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis workshop (session 362 at the 2018 convention) served as an introduction to the nonprofit scholarly network Humanities Commons and its open-access repository, CORE. Attendees learned how to gain more readers while increasing the impact of their work, make interdisciplinary connections, build class blogs and collaborative Web sites, find and…[Read more]
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Joseph Dunne deposited Encounters with the Russian Avant Garde in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoEncounters with the Russian Avant Garde
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Ludovica Price deposited Internet Archiving – The Wayback Machine in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAssignment for the Information Management & Policy (IMP) module for the Library Science Masters at City, University of London. This essay answers the question “is information a resource that can be managed in the same way as gas or water?” by looking at the issues surrounding the archiving of the internet, with particular reference to the…[Read more]
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Ludovica Price deposited Serious leisure in the digital world: exploring the information behaviour of fan communities in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis research investigates the information behaviour of cult media fan communities on the internet, using three novel methods which have not previously been applied to this domain. Firstly, a review, analysis and synthesis of the literature related to fan information behaviour, both within the disciplines of LIS and fan studies, revealed unique…[Read more]
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Keita Bando deposited Innovating the culture of sharing in Scholarly Communications in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago学術コミュニケーションを変革する研究者向けSNS
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Lucy Montgomery deposited A journal is a club: a new economic model for scholarly publishing in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoA new economic model for the analysis of scholarly publishing – journal publishing in particular – is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research scholars) of a public good (new scholarly knowledge). In this model, publishing is communication, as the dissemination of inf…[Read more]
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Lucy Montgomery deposited A journal is a club: a new economic model for scholarly publishing in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoA new economic model for the analysis of scholarly publishing – journal publishing in particular – is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research scholars) of a public good (new scholarly knowledge). In this model, publishing is communication, as the dissemination of inf…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kennison deposited HuMetricsHSS #hssvalues Workshop Twitter Archive in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis spreadsheet captures all the tweets posted using the #hssvalues hashtag, which was used leading up to and for the Humane Metrics in Humanities and Social Science (HuMetricsHSS)’s Value of Values workshop held in East Lansing, Michigan, from 5-7 October 2017.
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Rod Waddington deposited Using innovative and creative methods to negotiate a mine field of emotions: doing action research in a toxic organisation in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDoing action research in your own organisation is a daunting task for novice researches. When the organisation is toxic due to destructive leaders, susceptible followers and a conducive environment it is even more difficult to navigate through the research processes. As an HRD Manager in a TVET college I have personally experience and witnessed…[Read more]
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Rod Waddington deposited Using innovative and creative methods to negotiate a mine field of emotions: doing action research in a toxic organisation in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDoing action research in your own organisation is a daunting task for novice researches. When the organisation is toxic due to destructive leaders, susceptible followers and a conducive environment it is even more difficult to navigate through the research processes. As an HRD Manager in a TVET college I have personally experience and witnessed…[Read more]
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Rod Waddington deposited Using innovative and creative methods to negotiate a mine field of emotions: doing action research in a toxic organisation in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDoing action research in your own organisation is a daunting task for novice researches. When the organisation is toxic due to destructive leaders, susceptible followers and a conducive environment it is even more difficult to navigate through the research processes. As an HRD Manager in a TVET college I have personally experience and witnessed…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Building it Better Together: Columbia University Libraries, the Modern Language Association—and You? in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHow might scholarly societies, libraries, and other nonprofit partners work together towards an expansive vision of scholarly communication outreach and dissemination that goes beyond institutional and national boundaries? The author discusses the Modern Language Association’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Building it Better Together: Columbia University Libraries, the Modern Language Association—and You? in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHow might scholarly societies, libraries, and other nonprofit partners work together towards an expansive vision of scholarly communication outreach and dissemination that goes beyond institutional and national boundaries? The author discusses the Modern Language Association’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Building it Better Together: Columbia University Libraries, the Modern Language Association—and You? in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHow might scholarly societies, libraries, and other nonprofit partners work together towards an expansive vision of scholarly communication outreach and dissemination that goes beyond institutional and national boundaries? The author discusses the Modern Language Association’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoI’ve uploaded the readings we assigned HuMetricsHSS workshop participants to the Files section of this group.
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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: The Use of Bibliometrics for Assessing Research: Possibilities, Limitations and Adverse Effects to
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoStefanie Haustein and Vincent Larivière
Abstract Researchers are used to being evaluated: publications, hiring, tenure and funding decisions are
all based on the evaluation of research. Traditionally, this evaluation relied on judgement of peers but, in
the light of limited resources and increased bureaucratization of science, peer review is…[Read more] -
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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: Generous Thinking: Introduction to
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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: The Invisible Labor of Minority Professors to
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoAuthor: Audrey Williams June
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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence to
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]
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