Presentation slides (pptx) The Open Citations Corpus is a database of approx. 6.3 million biomedical literature citations, harvested from the reference lists of all open access articles in PubMed Central. These contain references to approx. 3.4 million papers, which represent ~20% of all PubMed-listed papers published between 1950 and 2010, including all the most highly cited papers in every biomedical field. The Open Citations Corpus web site allows you to browse these bibliographic...

Präsentationsfolien (PDF) Das Linked Open Data University of Münster (LODUM) Projekt zielt auf die Verbesserung der Sichtbarkeit und Transparenz der Universität unter Nutzung von Semantic Web Technologien ab. Hauptziel ist die Verbesserung der Zugänglichkeit von Forschungsergebnissen (Publikationen, Forschungsdaten, Modellen, Methoden und Software), um transparente und reproduzierbare Forschung zu gewährleisten. Dieser Linked Science Ansatz setzt auf einen verbesserten Austausch von...

Presentation slides (pptx) Scholarly publishing is fundamentally broken at essentially all levels starting with basic functionality and ranging to access, incentives, attribution, archiving, share/re-use and cost/benefit. What could be the feasible alternatives which would move scholarly publishing closer to a modern, IT-based system? A system which assists scientists in sorting, filtering and discovering relevant scientific findings? Which provides open access to tax-payer-funded...

Sue Polanka, Head, Reference and Instruction, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Wright State University, discusses ebooks in libraries and bringing those ebooks to end-users.

John Cox, Managing Director, John Cox Associates, discusses the developing area of licenses and business models for the sale of ebooks.

Michael Smith, Executive Director of the International Digital Publishing Forum, presents on the EPUB standard during the NISO/BISG Standards Landscape Forum at the American Library Association. More information about the program is available at: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/ala09/bisg

Andy Weissberg, VP of Identifier Services at Bowker presents on the International Standard Text Code during the NISO/BISG Standards Landscape Forum at the American Library Association. More information about the program is available at: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/ala09/bisg

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