This paper investigates the patterns of informal scholarly communication on social media as they manifest themselves among scholars at Umeå University. A survey was sent out to the university’s scholars, from PhD students all the way through to professors, and received 747answers from a total of 2646 requests. The survey gathered background data, data on how scholars build and maintain their academic networks via social media, and data on scholars’ use of social media for seeking information. The data thus gathered was interpreted through a comparative analysis. The main hypothesis was that, following the work of Tony Becher and Paul R. Trowler, the various faculties of the university would constitute distinguishable ”tribes” with their own customs regarding using social media for academic purposes. The data was furthermore analysed looking for patterns of use by gender, by academic position, and by the firmness of that position – or, putting it more plainly, job security. The analysis revealed that in terms of networking, the relevant variables were those of gender and academic position, with women being more avid social media networkers than men, and more junior scholars more avid than their seniors. However, in terms of the actual social networks used, there was a distinct tendency for humanist scholars to use Facebook which set them apart from the other three faculties. In terms of information seeking, there was again a finding of the more junior scholars leading the way, but also a clear indication of differences rooted in faculties. The humanist scholars were found to be by some distance more inclined to both seek information on social media, and to help others seeking it on social media, compared to the other faculties. The medical scholars, by contrast, were also by some distance the least inclined to both seeking and helping. As above, the humanists had a marked preference for using Facebook when seeking information through social media.

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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is a fifteenth-century illustrated incunabulum first published in 1499 by Aldo Manuzio in Venice. It delivers the story of two lovers separated by death but united in a dream; in fact, the entire book is a complex, multi-layered dream narrative which gradually unfolds through the interaction between text and image, inviting readers to engage with its rich content in a playful manner. The envisioned “Digital Hypnerotomachia Project" (DHP) aspires to create a platform where the encoded transcriptions and facsimiles of the various early printed editions of this literary work can be comparatively viewed and where users can interact with the text by clicking on annotated words, phrases, or images that lead to associations within, between, and outside the texts; and, ultimately, where users can generate their own annotations and share them with the community of readers. The most important features of such an edition would be, in my opinion, the annotations and tags, that will become the stepping stones towards a better and deeper understanding of the texts, their socio-cultural and literary contexts, and their intertextual relationship, hopefully opening up new pathways for research.  My thesis aims at the creation of a prototype edition, for which I will focus on the first chapter of the book. The aim is to create a parallel edition that will include some of the paratexts and first chapters of the original Italian Aldine edition, the two sixteenth-century French translations, and the sixteenth-century English translation. The omissions, additions, and changes in the early modern translations of the Hypnerotomachia can be quite revealing about the ways in which the text (and its images) was received, interpreted and adapted by early modern learned audiences. Regarding the editorial process, I will move gradually from digitization and transcription to TEI:XML encoding and publication, that is, the development of a user interface, but this will not necessarily be a linear progress, as constant re-evaluation will probably lead to adjustments and reiterations. The most important stage in the editorial process will be the TEI:XML encoding, which I perceive to be an interpretative process. The resulting annotated parallel edition prototype will hopefully show the potential of this type of edition for the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and its translations, and this pilot project may demonstrate its merits for critical comparative analyses of the work in research and in education.

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This disseratition copes with a actual and controversly discussed topic. It is a compilation and knowledgable discussion of central analyses concerning the journals crisis with special regard to electronic publishing as well as initiatives of the open access, selfarchiving and preprint server community. It serves as a source of contributions of different actors in the market for electronic scholarly information, being commercial or uncommercial publishers, scholarly societies, libraries, etc.

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the relationship between the socially constructed genders is manifested in American library science. To visualize gender, bibliometric analyses of peer reviewed articles published in three core journals of library science between 1980 and 2000 inclusive, are performed. The three journals are: College & Research Libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship and Library Quarterly.Questions:1. Does gender affect the publishing process regarding the distribution of female and male authors?2. Does gender influence female and male authors' choice of references?3. Does gender affect the share of citations received by works of women and men respectively?4. Does gender influence collaboration regarding the distribution of co-authoring female and male authors?The bibliometric analyses indicate differences between the shares of female and male authors, as well asdifferences in the attention women and men give to and receive from other female and male authors respectively. It is assumed that there exists a gender contract (an implicit agreement of how men and women are expected to behave towards each other) which is renegotiated during the period of time of this study, seemingly to the benefit of female authors as they are given a larger space in publishing. But concerning citations there is a delay in regard to male authors' tendency to cite works by women. This might indicate that the importance of gender has not diminished but become more subtle and complex. The conclusion is that gender indeed influences publishing, referencing, citation and collaboration processes of library science.

本研究旨在探討海峽兩岸中文電子期刊系統之現況、系統構面與功能，以及發展動機與成功因素，藉由比較研究之描述、解釋、併排與比較四步驟，研究台灣與大陸電子期刊系統的發展現況、中文期刊與電子期刊發展之優勢與面臨之問題、電子期刊系統發展歷史，並歸納兩岸電子期刊系統建置動機與成功因素，以及藉由實證研究以建構中文電子期刊系統的構面與功能，以提出中文電子期刊系統發展之具體模式與建議。 研究結果確立中文電子期刊系統包含出版管理、使用者服務、營運管理三構面，以及19項功能，並加以歸類。出版管理之功能包含：1.論文徵集；2.數位化作業；3.期刊分類與Metadata建置；4.建置資料庫；5.電子全文管理；6.詞彙權威控制；7.論文篩選標準。使用者服務之功能包含：8.資訊檢索與取用；9.引文分析；10.行銷推廣與客戶服務；11.個人化服務；12.電子期刊永久取用；13.加值服務；14.知識社群。營運管理之功能包含：15.收費與帳務管理；16.權利金給付與查核；17.著作權徵集與管理；18.統計報表；19.營運模式。 本論文結論歸納：1.中文電子期刊系統構面與功能；2.台灣電子期刊系統之特色；3.大陸電子期刊系統之特色;4.台灣中文電子期刊系統發展動機；5.大陸中文電子期刊系統發展動機；6.台灣中文電子期刊系統發展成功因素；7.大陸中文電子期刊系統發展成功因素；8.兩岸中文電子期刊系統發展面臨之問題；9.目前大陸在整體中文電子期刊系統之發展居領先地位。 最後建議：1.依據本論文所提出之電子期刊構面與功能改善台灣中文電子期刊系統。2.建議未來國家圖書館與資料庫廠商合作發展台灣全文電子期刊系統。3.建議我國政府擬定全文電子期刊系統建置之長期重點發展計畫。4.建議台灣電子期刊系統建置期刊採編系統平台。5.建議台灣中文電子期刊系統建置引用文獻連結及引文數據分析功能。6.建議台灣中文電子期刊系統建置知識社群功能。7.建議華藝公司中文電子期刊服務系統以收錄台灣期刊為優先考量。 / The purpose of the study was to research the current status, system dimensions and function, as well as the motivation and success factors of Chinese journal systems. Through description, interpretation, juxtaposition, and comparison, this study research the current status of Chinese journal systems, the advantages of development and the problems of Chinese journals and electronic journals, the history of electronic journal systems, summarized the motivation and success factors of Chinese electronic journal systems, and construct Chinese electronic journal systems dimensions and functions by empirical research. Finally come up with the specific model and suggestions of Chinese electronic journal systems. The results of this study established the Chinese electronic journal systems includes 3 dimensions: management of publication, user services, and management of operation, as well as 19 features. management of publication includes: 1. Collection of journal; 2. Digital operations; 3. Journal classification and Metadata construction; 4. Database construction; 5. Electronic full-text management; 6.Vocabulary authority control; 7. Standard of journal selections. User services include: 8. Information retrieval and access; 9.Citation analysis; 10. Marketing and customer services; 11.Personal services; 12.Permanent access of electronic journals; 13.Value-added services; 14.Knowledge Community. Management of the operation includes: 15.Charges and account management; 16.Premium payments and check; 17. Copyright collection and management; 18. Statistics; 19. Mode of operation. The conclusions of the study are: 1. The dimensions and functions of Chinese electronic journal systems; 2. The characteristics of electronic journal systems in Taiwan; 3. The characteristics of electronic journal systems in China; 4. The motivation of Chinese electronic journal system in Taiwan ; 5. The motivation of Chinese electronic journal system in China; 6.The success factors of Chinese electronic journal systems in Taiwan; 7. The success factors of Chinese electronic journal systems in China; 8. The problems of Chinese electronic journal systems in Taiwan and China; 9. At present, China is on the leading position in overall development of Chinese electronic journal systems.. The study make final suggestions as follows: 1. Pursuant the dimensions and function of electronic journals to improve the Chinese electronic journal systems in Taiwan; 2. National Central Library and database vendors can cooperate to develop full-text electronic journal systems in Taiwan; 3. Government can build long-term development plan of full-text electronic journal systems; 4. The proposed system of electronic journals in Taiwan Journal reporters and editors to build system platform; 5. Construct reference links and citation analysis functions to Chinese electronic journal systems in Taiwan; 6. Build knowledge group functions to Chinese electronic journal systems in Taiwan; 7. CEPS should put the first priority on Taiwan Journal collections.

Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2005. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South African science shows a decline in its global competitiveness in that its scholarly publication rate has not kept pace with that of other countries, both developed and developing. This, together with a decline in publication rate especially among junior South African scholars, suggests a structural problem in the South African national system of innovation. A declining publication rate indicates a problem of knowledge diffusion for South Africa, and hints at a possible knowledge generation problem. This assignment limits itself to the dynamics of knowledge diffusion with specific reference to Open Access scholarly communication. Open Access scholarly communication is an overt intervention regarding knowledge diffusion. The marginalisation of science in and of developing countries, leading to a state of knowledge imperialism and knowledge dependence, is addressed, and it is argued that knowledge diffusion and generation are at the heart of longterm economic growth. This assignment has been structured around two core sections, a theoretical framework based in the literature, and empirical study. The central concepts of scholarly communication and Open Access, national information policy (NIP), and national system of innovation (NSI) are elaborated upon in the theoretical framework (Chapters 2 and 3). The empirical part of this study (Chapters 4 and 5) in turn consist of two parts. Both parts used the survey method, however the first part made use of a questionnaire instrument, and the second part made use of a structured record review. Both empirical studies were used to assess levels of activity and extent of adoption of Open Access within a defined South African scholarly community, one discipline-based, the other institution-based. The aims of this study were two-fold: to assess levels of awareness of and investment in Open Access modes of scholarly communication within defined scholarly communities; and to create a benchmark document of South Africa's involvement to date in various Open Access initiatives. The argument is made for the openness of scholarly systems, and furthermore that the disparate and uncoordinated nature of Open Access in South Africa needs a policy intervention. The policy intervention so identified would exist within an enabling policy environment and would be minimally disruptive to the South African science system. Said policy intervention would constitute a National Information Policy since it would address the storage, dissemination, and retrieval of scholarly research output. This assignment recommends the amendment of the current statutory reporting mechanism - used by scholars to report and obtain publication rate subsidies - which would require that scholars make their research available via an Open Access mode of scholarly communication, and moreover, would require scholars to report on having done so. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die wetenskap as praktyk in Suid-Afrika toon 'n afname in internasionale mededingendheid. Laasgenoemde is sigbaar in die tempo waarteen Suid-Afrikaanse vakpublikasies nie tred hou met dié van ander nasies nie, beide ontwikkelde en ontwikkelende lande. Hierdie afname, gepaardgaande met 'n afname in publikasiegetalle van veral junior navorsers, sou kon dui op 'n strukturele probleem in Suid-Afrika se nasionale innovasiestelsel. 'n Afname in die vakpublikasietempo dui daarop dat Suid Afrika 'n probleem het ten opsigte van die distribusie van kennis. Hierdie werkstuk is beperk tot die dinamiek van kennisdistribusie met spesifieke verwysing na 'Open Access' wetenskaplike kommunikasie. 'Open Access' wetenskaplike kommunikasie is 'n eksplisiete intervensie gemik op kennisdistribusie. Wetenskap binne en vanuit ontwikkelende lande word al hoe meer onbelangrik geag en kennis-imperialisme and kennis-afhanklikheid neem toe. Aan hierdie laasgenoemde aspekte word ook aandag geskenk. 'n Deel van die argument wat geopper word is dat kennisdistribusie en kennis-generering kern aspekte van langtermyn ekonomiese groei is. Hierdie werkstuk bestaan uit twee kern afdelings: 'n teoretiese raamwerk gebaseer op 'n literatuuroorsig, en 'n empiriese studie. Die sentrale konsepte van wetenskaplike kommunikasie en 'Open Access', nasionale inligtingsbeleid, en nasionale innovasiestelsels word beskryf in die teoretiese raamwerk (Hoofstukke 2 en 3). Die empiriese deel van hierdie studie (Hoofstukke 4 en 5) bestaan uit twee dele. Beide laasgenoemde dele maak gebruik van 'n opname as metodiek, maar die eerste deel het gebruik gemaak van 'n vraelys, en die tweede deel het gebruik gemaak van gestruktureerde studie van rekords (in die vorm van Webtuistes). Albei empiriese studies was gebruik om die vlak en mate van aktiwiteit rondom 'Open Access' binne 'n beperkte Suid-Afrikaanse wetenskaplike gemeenskap vas te stel. Hierdie gemeenskappe is gedefinieer óf volgens dissipline óf volgens instansie. Die doel van hierdie werkstuk was veelvoudig: om die vlak van kennis van en betrokkenheid by 'Open Access' inisiatiewe vas te stel binne Suid-Afrika; sowel as om 'n basis-dokument te skep insake Suid-Afrika se betrokkenheid tot op hede by verskeie 'Open Access' inisiatiewe. Die argument vir 'n oop wetenskaplike stelsel word gestel. Verder word geargumenteer dat die lukrake en ongekoordineerde manier waarop 'Open Access' tot dusver in Suid-Afrika bevorder is, daarop dui dat 'n intervensie op die vlak van beleid benodig word. Laasgenoemde beleid sou binne die bestaande beleidsomgewing geformuleer word, en sou relatief min ontwrigting meebring in die huidige Suid-Afrikaanse navorsingsopset. Die spesifieke beleid wat ter sprake is, is die nasionale inligtingsbeleid aangesien dit regulasies daarstel ten opsigte van die berging, distribusie, en herwinning van navorsingsuitsette. Hierdie werkstuk stel voor 'n verandering van die huidige statutêre verslagdoeningsmeganisme - wat gebruik word deur wetenskaplikes om verslag te doen oor hul gepubliseerde navorsing om navorsingsubsidie te kry - wat sou vereis dat wetenskaplikes hul navorsingsuitsette beskikbaar stel via 'n 'Open Access' kanaal, en verder, dat navorsers verslag doen oor laasgenoemde.

The master thesis The Langue d'oc in the Scholarly Discourse Before and After The Great French Revolution considers the image of the Occitan language in the lexico-graphical and grammatico-graphical works that have been written between the beginning of the 18th and the mid-19th century. During this epoch, in the framework of a diglossic model, the language in question had been suffering a status of a dominated language. At the same time, however, it had awaken an interest of many scholars whose motivations for their studies ranged from a will to contribute to a proliferation of Francization to an effort to save the Occitan language and restore its own dignity. It is precisely this motivation, as well as the denominations which our authors had given to the language in question and also their strategies for its valorization or devalorization, that this text engages with. The socio-linguistic situation in the Pays d'Oc and the impact of The French Revolution and of its linguistic politics on the presence and the representation of the Occitan are also being examined. These phenomena are studied in the framework of a theory of the formation of nations by Miroslav Hroch as the phase A of the Occitan movement which had remained, at least during this phase, a purely cultural phenomenon, that is to say a...