Digital Repository Now Contains 10,000 Items
The Smithsonian Research Online program recently surpassed the mark of 10,000 publications in the Digital Repository. This collection of digital publications by Smithsonian staff represents a broad...
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Personal Digital Collections
A recent article in BusinessWeek (http://buswk.co/h8pnfS) profiled a Japanese company that provides homes with some needed extra space. A recent startup, Bookscan, offers scanning of personal book...
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Open Access Conference Notes
At the recent Berlin 9 Open Access meeting, a pre-conference session on open access publishing featured speakers who detailed the required innovations in publishing business models necessary to...
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Smithsonian Research Online
During the week of January 16-19th, I visited the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) to discuss several matters relating to the Smithsonian Research Online (SRO) program and to offer...
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Meeting with Federal Science Librarians
Zeiss' New Microscopes No. III I have met with several federal science library groups in recent weeks and among other things felt a great sense of relief on discovering that most of them face the same...
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Processing Digital Library Materials
Smithsonian Research Online homepage Routine processing of library books frequently means using shelves and other spaces as staging areas for incoming and in-process items. As gifts and purchased books...
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Alternative Methods of Research Evaluation
The evaluation of research quality is a task which is attracting attention as the world turns more and more to evidence-based decision making. The work of scientists and historians are regularly...
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Research Collaboration and Identity
Several years ago the National Museum of Natural History hosted a visitor from Science magazine who gave a presentation for authors on strategies for getting published in that journal which boasts a...
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Funding for Open Access Publishing
Open Access The open access (OA) movement has a lot of moving parts. For example it has led some research funding agencies to mandate that research publications resulting from grants should be made...
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Higher Profile for Scholarly Press Publications
Recent Scholarly Press publication One common problem with the Internet is that hyperlinks become outdated without web page editor awareness. Websites change URLs for a host of reasons and...
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Selection as a Service to Readers
A frequently overlooked service that librarians provide to their users is that of selection for collection development. From the universe of available books, this service determines which should be...
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Capturing Open Access Papers for the SRO
As noted elsewhere in this blog, the publication record of Smithsonian scholars includes a growing portion of open access (OA) articles. During 2012, nearly 14% of scientific papers authored by...
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Alternative Journal Purchasing Model
Augustino Ramelli’s book wheel was designed to allow one reader to easily access content from multiple sources. A 16th century notion of dicing up and delivering information. At a recent Open Access...
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Publications from the United States National Museum added to SRO
Thanks to support from the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Research Online (SRO) is adding a large body of legacy publications to its database this year. The source of the data is the...
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Notable Publications from Smithsonian Staff in 2014
Altmetrics donut for the top article for 2014 in Research Online The digital age of publishing scholarly journals allows a wider variety of methods to evaluate usage and readership than that of...
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Changing Library Services
Adaptation among birds Organizations which respond to the changing needs of their clients are the ones that survive well. Here are two examples: Shortly after General Motors began manufacturing cars...
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The Smithsonian will soon develop procedures for complying with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s directive on public access to federally funded research. That means that most...
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5 Myths about the SRO
Readers of the Sunday Washington Post are familiar with the weekly feature called, ‘5 Myths” where misconceptions about certain timely topics are discussed and debunked. (A recent issue clarified some...
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A proposal to change publishing economics
The staff at the Max Planck Digital Library released a white paper earlier this year called, “Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open...
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Top Smithsonian Staff Publications for 2015
The Smithsonian staff publications below are those that have generated the most media and online activity for 2015. Congratulations to those authors whose work has been picked up by news, bloggers and...
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