The cloud can be a powerful tool for conducting and managing research. The Librarian's Guide to Academic Research in the Cloud is a practical guide to using cloud services from a librarian's point of ...view. As well as discussing how to use various cloud-based services, the title considers the various privacy and data portability issues associated with web-based services. This book helps readers make the most of cloud computing, including how to fold mobile devices into the cloud-based research management equation. The book is divided into several chapters, each considering a key aspect of academic research in the cloud, including: defining the cloud; capturing information; capturing and managing scholarly information; storing files; staying organized, communicating; and sharing. The book ends by considering the future of the cloud, examining what readers can expect from cloud services in the next few years, and how research might be changed as a result. * Covers a wide range of services, discussing their strengths and weaknesses and showing readers how to use them more effectively * Offers a research perspective for readers who don't know how to connect cloud services with academic research * Contextualises cloud-based services, explaining not just what they do and how they work, but how they can best be used
La cooperación bibliotecaria es en Alemania una tradición anterior a la aparición de internet. Esto se explica, por un lado, por la ausencia de una Biblioteca Nacional “clásica”, entendida como una ...única institución central. Esta ausencia ha sido suplida por las tres mayores bibliotecas alemanas, que se han distribuido la función propia de una biblioteca nacional. Por otro lado, el sistema político federal y la responsabilidad de cada uno de los estados federales en los asuntos culturales, entre ellos las bibliotecas, ha originado que, tanto en el plano regional como interregional, haya habido tradicionalmente una sólida cooperación, al menos entre las bibliotecas científicas. Posteriormente, la llegada de la automatización ha hecho posible la aparición de los catálogos colectivos regionales. Con la entrada en la llamada “era digital”, se ha intensificado aún más la tendencia a la cooperación, de modo que hoy día se puede hablar de una “era de la cooperación”. Muestra de la mayor facilidad y agilidad de la misma son los nuevos servicios, que en muchos casos suministran conjuntamente varias bibliotecas, como las llamadas bibliotecas virtuales especializadas, la adquisición consorciada de licencias de uso de medios digitales, entre las que se incluyen las licencias nacionales, y la creación cooperativa de un archivo digital nacional de larga preservación.
Peer review is the backbone of scientific research and determines the composition of scientific digital libraries. Any systemic issues in peer review - such as biases or fraud - can systematically ...affect the resulting scientific digital library as well as any analyses on that library. They also affect billions of dollars in research grants made via peer review as well as entire careers of researchers. The tutorial will discuss various systemic issues in peer review via insightful experiments, several computational solutions proposed to address these issues, and a number of important open problems. A detailed writeup on the topics of this tutorial as well as a complete list of references is available in 1.
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