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Report on UK scholarly reading

ctenopir — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:38:39 +0000

Here is the (long) report on the UK academic staff reading patterns.

http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Reports/ukscholarlyreadingreport/

report on publishing characteristics

ctenopir — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:30:27 +0000

A report my team did for the Publishing Research Consortium on factors that influence reading is the second report listed at this link. They have also sponsored research on peer review and other things. It is a group of publishers, but they put no constraints on the research.

http://www.publishingresearch.net/projects.htm

Stanford/highwire symposium on future of scholarly comm

ctenopir — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:17:23 +0000

Sounds like in March they covered many of the same issues. See report at:

https://lib.stanford.edu/files/Colloquium.Summary.Final_.pdf

Preprint server directory

ctenopir — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:10:09 +0000

OSTI (Office of Scientific and Technical Information) maintains the Eprint Network, which lists available preprint archives by subject. One subject is environmental sciences and ecology and they list many.

http://www.osti.gov/eprints/pathways/environmentalsciencesA.shtml