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<p class=MsoNormal>Colleagues/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I am pleased to announce the addition of several major
additions to the _Scholarship 2.0_ blog_<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>/Gerry <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>>>> Citation Distortions > Unfounded Authority <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Conclusion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Citation is both an impartial scholarly method and a
powerful form of social communication. Through distortions in its social use
that include bias, amplification, and invention, citation can be used to
generate information cascades resulting in unfounded authority of claims.
Construction and analysis of a claim specific citation network may clarify the
nature of a published belief system and expose distorted methods of social
citation. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://tinyurl.com/nj9gm4">http://tinyurl.com/nj9gm4</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>>>> From Publishing to Knowledge Networks:
Reinventing Online Knowledge Infrastructures <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Abstract<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Today’s publishing infrastructure is rapidly changing. As
electronic journals, digital libraries, collaboratories, logic servers, and
other knowledge infrastructures emerge on the internet, the key aspects of this
transformation need to be identified. Here, the author details the implications
that this transformation is having on the creation, dissemination and
organization of academic knowledge. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The author shows that many established publishing principles
need to be given up in order to facilitate this transformation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Overview<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>1. Leveraging information technology for science 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>1.1. Motivation 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>1.2. Analytical focus 5<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>1.3. Objectives 7<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>1.4. Approach 7<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2. Characteristics of scientific knowledge infrastructures 9<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.1. Theoretical analysis 10<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.2. Empirical analysis: Emerging knowledge infrastructures
34<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.3. Visions of scientific knowledge infrastructures 55<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2.4. Synthesis 57<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>3. Structure of scientific knowledge 83<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>3.1. Objectives 83<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>3.2. Theoretical foundations 87<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>3.3. Object-oriented model of scientific knowledge 102<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>3.4. Elements of scientific knowledge 124<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>4. Implications 187<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>4.1. Feasibility: IS Cybrarium 187<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>4.2. Conclusion 196 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://tinyurl.com/l5a86b">http://tinyurl.com/l5a86b</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>>>>The Scientific Paper in the Age of Twitter /
Walter Benjamin and Biz Stone <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>One need only to imagine what tweets, twoops, formal
corrections, and comments might decorate these passages on PLoSOne today.
Pauling, Chargaff, Avery, Meselson, Cairns, Donohue, Perutz, Franklin, and
Wilkins would have had their say:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>This structure has novel features COMMENT: YEAH! HYDROGEN
BONDING, LINUS!) which are of considerable biological interest. COMMENT: FOR
WHICH I WROTE THE CHEMISTRY, ERWIN FORMAL CORRECTION: IT’S THE GENETIC
MATERIAL, YOU FOOLS!, GENES! OSWALD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing
FORMAL CORRECTION: BASE PAIRING A/T=G/C, ERWIN we have postulated immediately
suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. COMMENT: LIKE
WHAT? CONSERVED? SEMI? MATT COMMENT: MORTAL OR IMMORTAL? CAIRNS <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We are much indebted to Dr. Jerry Donohue for constant
advice and criticism, especially on interatomic distances. FORMAL CORRECTION:
SEZ YOU! I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE KETO TO ENOL TAUTOMERS. YOU KNEW SQUAT FROM THE
CHEMISTRY! JERRY We have also been stimulated by a knowledge of the general
nature FORMAL CORRECTION: I SHOWED YOU THEIR PICTURES, MAX of the unpublished
experimental results and ideas of Dr. M. H. F. Wilkins, Dr. R. E. Franklin FORMAL
CORRECTION: YOU PEEKED, "DARK LADY" and their co-workers at King’s
College, London COMMENT: OUR TWO FOLLOWING PAPERS ARE DATA, YOURS IS A LEAP,
MAURY.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://tinyurl.com/koh89f">http://tinyurl.com/koh89f</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>>>> viXra.org: An Alternative Archive Of e-Prints
In Science And Mathematics <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>It has been founded by scientists who find they are unable
to submit their articles to arXiv.org because of Cornell University's policy of
endorsements and moderation designed to filter out e-prints that they consider
inappropriate. ViXra is an open repository for new scientific articles. It does
not endorse e-prints accepted on its website, neither does it review them
against criteria such as correctness or author's credentials.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In part viXra.org is a parody of arXiv.org to highlight
Cornell University's unacceptable censorship policy. It is also an experiment
to see what kind of scientific work is being excluded by the arXiv. But most of
all it is a serious and permanent e-print archive for scientific work. Unlike
arXiv.org it is truly open to scientists from all walks of life.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://tinyurl.com/nhhv7u">http://tinyurl.com/nhhv7u</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>>>> Rejecta Mathematica: Caveat Emptor <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Rejecta Mathematica is a real open access online journal
publishing only papers that have been rejected from peer-reviewed journals in
the mathematical sciences.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://tinyurl.com/cvapwo">http://tinyurl.com/cvapwo</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>>>> Reinventing Academic Publishing | 1 > 2 >
3 / James Hendler <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Conclusion <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>It's time for us as computer scientists to take a leading
role in creating innovation in this area. Some ideas are simple—for example,
providing overlay journals that link existing Web publications, thus increasing
the visibility (and therefore impact) of research that cuts across fields.
[snip] <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In my next column, I'll discuss current ideas regarding new
technologies for academic communication that we as a field might be able to
help bring into being, and some of the obstacles thereto. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://tinyurl.com/mz23fy">http://tinyurl.com/mz23fy</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>>>> Reinventing Academic Publishing Online. Part I <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>While current computing practice abounds with innovations
like online auctions, blogs, wikis, twitter, social networks and online social games,
few if any genuinely new theories have taken root in the corresponding “top”
academic journals. Those creating computing progress increasingly see these
journals as unreadable, out-dated and irrelevant. Yet as technology practice
creates, technology theory is if anything becoming even more conforming and
less relevant. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We attribute this to the erroneous assumption that research
rigor is excellence, a myth contradicted by the scientific method itself.
Excess rigor supports the demands of appointment, grant and promotion
committees, but is drying up the wells of academic inspiration. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Part I of this paper chronicles the inevitable limits of
what can only be called a feudal academic knowledge exchange system, with
trends like exclusivity, slowness, narrowness, conservatism, self-involvement
and inaccessibility. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://tinyurl.com/mq9r9x">http://tinyurl.com/mq9r9x</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>EnJOY!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Happy Sunday/Monday/Tuesday !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>/Gerry <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Gerry McKiernan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Science and Technology Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Iowa State University Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Ames IA 50011<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <a href="mailto:gerrymck@iastate.edu">gerrymck@iastate.edu</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>There Are No Answers, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed
/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined
'Cyberspace<o:p></o:p></p>
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