Hello fellow library enthusiasts!
Our August-September edition of Books & Bytes is full of news:
*TWL is now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moving on from its grant status
under IEG to a full-time contract
*Our *four* new partnerships, including a huge *De Gruyter* donation and a
pilot program with industry leader *Elsevier*
* Lots of updates about our new TWL coordinators, news from Wikimania,
details on a redesigned account distribution platform in the works,
upcoming Wiki Loves Libraries events, and our Fall 2014 conference calendar
* Special Spotlight: "Traveling Through History" - A passionate editor
talks about his experiences using TWL resource Newspapers.com
* Bytes in Brief: Short clips about libraries, open access, and digital
humanities from around the web
You can read it all at:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Au…
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Best,
Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
The Wikipedia Library
Dear Colleagues,
we would like invite you to submit original articles that investigate the
transformations of communication practices, science communication and their
impact on the various areas of academic and scientific life. The aim of the
issue will be to collect the works that represent thought, research and
critical voices on various cultural approaches to these problems.
We suggest the following range of topics:
• Using social media in scholarly communication;
• Science popularization in the Age of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc.;
• Transformations of universities after the spread of the Internet;
• Twitter and Higher Education;
• Websites for scholars: Academia.edu, ResearchGate.net, Mendeley etc.;
• Open Access and Open Science;
• Bibliometric and scientometrics tools in 21st century;
• Evaluation of Science in the context of contemporary scholarly
communication;
• Altmetrics – is it possible to abandon Impact Factor?
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Ewa Rozkosz
Specjalista ds. dokumentacji i informacji naukowej
Dolnośląska Szkoła Wyższa
ul. Strzegomska 55, 53-611 Wrocław
tel. 71 356 15 04
tel. kom. 508 414 413
e-mail: ewa.rozkosz(a)dsw.edu.pl
www.dsw.edu.pl <http://www.dsw.edu.pl>
Hello,
I'm interested in WikiScholar. Specifically, I'd like to work on
integrating upload and download tools for it into Zotero (popular
BibTeX-based AGPL bibliography-scraping tool, community is interested in
collaboration). Uploading existing compatible-copyleft bibliographic
databases might make a good pump-primer.
I understand the Wikischolar project is dormant; one of the Wikimania
abstracts says this is for technical reasons. Besides the scaling
issues, can anyone point me to a good summary of the technical
challenges? Are we waiting on something from Wikidata?
Would a BibTeX skeleton version, for extension once technical challenges
are overcome, be hostable? Hosting costs are the main reason Zotero
hasn't made a public database yet. Would it make a decent part of a
grant proposal?
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:OpenScientist/Open_grant_writing/Open-…
Expert opinions on plausibility, methods, or frankly anything, would be
very welcome. I'm fluent in English, French, and German.
Regards,
Hazel
Dear all, dear Pete,
We're currently running a project for Leicester City Council (UK), seeking
to promote the update and sharing of OER within secondary schools. I really
think this is a visionary step - and I am not aware of other (UK) councils
doing this. The aim is to produce guidance materials for teachers (as well
as ideas for teacher workshops), on the use/re-use/sharing/remixing of OER,
from various aspects (including, but not restricted to, legal
considerations).
We'd love to involve the wider community in this. Is this something that
people on this list would like to take an interest in? Do you want to
participate as a community? Or are there others who would like to
participate individually?
While we are producing a set of pdfs for Leicester, we do want to host the
materials in as many places as possible - and of course could place them in
the relevant wiki spaces - what do you think?
All the best,
Bjoern
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Dr Bjoern Hassler
Centre for Commonwealth Education (Faculty of Education)
& Digital Services (CARET, University Library)
University of Cambridge
Email: bh213(a)cam.ac.uk
Open Educational Resources for Teacher Education
http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/
OER for School-based teacher professional learning in sub-Saharan Africa
http://www.oer4schools.org
Aptivate | (http://www.aptivate.org)
Email: bjoern(a)aptivate.org
Mobile (UK): +44-7952-888939
Web: http://www.sciencemedianetwork.org