Research data is essential to scholarship. The value of research data and its management has been increasingly recognized by policy makers and higher education institutions. A deep understanding of disciplinary practices is vital to develop culturally-sensitive policy, tools and services for successful data management. Previous research has shown that data practices vary across sub-fields and disciplines. However, much less is known about how disciplinary cultures shape data practices. There is a need to theorise research data practices based on empirical evidence in order to inform policy, tools and services. The aim of the thesis is to examine the interrelation between data practices and disciplinary cultures within geography. Geography is well-established and multidisciplinary, consisting of elements from the sciences, social sciences and humanities. By examining a single discipline this thesis develops a theoretical understanding of research data practices at a finer level of granularity than would be achieved by looking at broad disciplinary groupings such as the physical and social sciences. Data collection and analysis consisted of two phases. Phase one was exploratory, including an analysis of geography department websites and researcher web profiles and a bibliometric study of collaboration patterns based on co-authorship. Phase one aimed to understand the disciplinary characteristics of geography in preparation for Phase two. The second phase consisted of a series of 23 semi-structured interviews with researchers in geography, which aimed to understand researchers data practices and their attitudes toward data sharing within the context of the sub-discipline(s) they inhabited. The findings of the thesis show that there are contrasting intellectual, social and data differences between physical and human geography. For example, intellectually, these two branches of geography differ in terms of their research objects and methods; socially, they differ in terms of the scale of their collaborative activities and the motivations to collaborate; furthermore, the nature of data, how data is collected and data sharing practices are also different between physical and human geography. The thesis concludes that differences in the notion of data and data sharing practices are grounded in disciplinary characteristics. The thesis develops a new three-dimensional framework to better understand the notion of data from a disciplinary perspective. The three dimensions are (1) physical form, (2) intellectual content and (3) social construction. Furthermore, Becher and Trowler s (2001) disciplinary taxonomy i.e. hard-soft/pure-applied, and the concepts urban-rural ways of life and convergent-divergent communities, is shown to be useful to explain the diverse data sharing practices of geographers. The thesis demonstrates the usefulness of applying disciplinary theories to the sphere of research data management.

Submitted by Éder Freyre (ederfreyre@icict.fiocruz.br) on 2011-09-05T19:08:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertação_final_conceicao.pdf: 984492 bytes, checksum: 59dc9b02b7a705b20ebb56911f97b9c2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-09-05T19:08:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertação_final_conceicao.pdf: 984492 bytes, checksum: 59dc9b02b7a705b20ebb56911f97b9c2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Laboratório de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / A pesquisa analisou o papel do repositório institucional como um novo ambiente informacional para abrigar e disseminar a informação científica, produzida no âmbito de instituições de pesquisa em C & T, destacando-se a finalidade de reuso e elegendo o Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Icict) / Fiocruz como espaço privilegiado de investigação. As transformações na comunicação científica decorrentes do advento da Internet ensejaram a revisão de literatura, que abarcou autores de estudos clássicos sobre comunicação científica bem como autores que examinam tais mudanças nos dias atuais, considerando temas como os movimentos pelo acesso livre e o repositório digital como estratégia política destes movimentos. No centro destas alterações, buscou-se focalizar o conceito de reuso da informação em suas várias acepções. Além do Icict, tomou-se como campo empírico da pesquisa duas experiências de repositórios, um implementado no Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) / Brasil e outro na Universidade do Minho / Portugal. Para a coleta de dados, foram utilizados questionários aplicados a professores que coordenam disciplinas ou módulos nos cursos de pós-graduação lato sensu do Icict e foram realizadas duas entrevistas com os gestores dos mencionados repositórios. Constatou-se que o repositório institucional, embora seja um novo espaço informacional, já encontra na literatura e junto a atores significativos dos ambientes acadêmicos e de pesquisa, grande aceitação. Indica-se, porém, que as questões como direito autoral e auto-arquivamento sejam aprofundadas. Quanto ao reuso da informação, verificou-se que é um tema reconhecido como relevante, mas ainda pouco focalizado pela literatura da área da Ciência da Informação e pouco conhecido no meio acadêmico e informacional. No entanto, viu-se que a importância do reuso já é reconhecida para apoiar atividades de ensino que, neste sentido, pode beneficiar-se do repositório e, neste, do reuso da informação. Considera-se, portanto, o tema do reuso um rico veio a ser explorado pelos estudos da área da Ciência da Informação. / The present research examined the role of an institutional repository as a new informational environment for housing and disseminating scientific information; produced in the field of research institutions of Science and Technology, by highlighting the purpose of reuse of information and by electing Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Icict) / Fiocruz as a privileged space of research. The transformations in scholarly communication due to the advent of the Internet called for a literature review, which included authors of classical studies on scientific communication, as well as authors who examine these changes in today’s society, considering issues such as the movements for open access and digital repository as a political strategy of these movements. Central to these changes, we sought to focus on the concept of reuse of information in its various meanings. Besides Icict, two other repositories were taken as an empirical field research experience, one implemented at Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) / Brazil and another from the Universidade do Minho / Portugal. For the data collection, questionnaires were applied to teachers who coordinated courses or modules in the post-graduation lato sensu courses of Icict and two interviews were conducted with the managers of the other listed repositories. As a result, it was observed that the institutional repository, although it is a new informational space, has a wide acceptance in the literature and by important actors in the field. It is indicated however, that detailed issues such as copyright and self-archiving should also be addressed. This was confirmed by the scientific literature and by other significant actors of academia and research. As for the reuse of information, it was observed that the theme was recognized as relevant, but poorly focused on by the literature of Information Science and little is known in the academic and informational fields. However, it was noted that the importance of reuse has been recognized as a support for teaching activities. In this way, these teaching activities may benefit from the repository and by the reuse of information. We consider, therefore, that the issue of reuse is a rich field to be explored by studies of the area of Science Information.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T12:21:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Jose Nivaldo Mangueira de Assis.pdf: 67462372 bytes, checksum: cc2959adde55c85922e1ab661b130f47 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-17 / Presente in various fields of research and becoming one of the most fascinating themes generators with recognized potential incentive, especially among young, the Astronomy has not found its place in the context of science teaching in Brazil and not even part of the curricullum of our basic education. Given this framework, we assume as hypotesis that the study of some topics of astronomy can achieve results satisfactory results in the classrooms of high school. So considering some experiences already lived in informal teaching of astronomy, this paper we investigate the possibilities and limitations of proposal for teaching some contents of astronomy, taught in connection with other sciences listed in the curriculum of schools. The survey was developed from a focus group composed of eight students from the public state of Rio Grande do Norte in the city of Passa e Fica. The group participated with special classes that involved workshops and use of innovative technologies. In this context the participants were invited to an ongoing evaluation process, gathering the necessary support to carry out a qualitative study that discussed and analyzed the results ofof the application of topics from astronomy to students through the making of Gnomon, Clock Solar, Stove Solar and Bezel with Lens Sunglasses. / Embora presente nos mais variados campos de pesquisa e constituindo-se um dos mais fascinantes temas geradores com reconhecido potencial mobilizador, principalmente entre os jovens, a Astronomia ainda não encontrou o seu lugar no contexto do ensino de ciências brasileiro e nem se quer faz parte do currículo de nossa educação básica. Considerado este quadro, assumimos como hipótese que, o estudo de alguns tópicos de Astronomia pode alcançar resultados satisfatórios em salas de aulas do Ensino Médio. Assim, considerando algumas experiências já vivenciadas no ensino informal de Astronomia, neste trabalho investigamos as possibilidades e limitações de uma proposta para o ensino de alguns conteúdos de Astronomia, ministrados em conexão com outras ciências constantes do currículo das escolas. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida a partir de um grupo focal composto por oito estudantes da rede pública Estadual do Rio Grande do Norte da cidade de Passa e Fica. O grupo participou de aulas especiais que envolveram a realização de oficinas e utilização de tecnologias inovadoras. Nesse contexto os participantes foram convidados a uma avaliação contínua do processo, reunindo os subsídios necessários para a realização de uma pesquisa qualitativa que discutiu e analisou os resultados da aplicação de tópicos de Astronomia para estudantes através da confecção do Gnomon, do Relógio Solar, do Fogão Solar e da Luneta com Lente de Óculos

Altmetrics derived from Twitter have potential benefits for institutional repository (IR) stakeholders (faculty, students, administrators, and academic libraries) when metrics aggregators (Altmetric, Plum Analytics) are integrated with IRs. There is limited research on tweets mentioning works in IRs and how the results impact IR stakeholders, specifically libraries. In order to address this gap in the literature, the author conducted a content analysis of tweets tracked by a metrics aggregator (Plum X Metrics) in a Digital Commons IR. The study found that the majority of tweets were neutral in attitude, intended for a general audience, included no hashtags, and were written by users unaffiliated with the works. The results are similar to findings from other studies, including low numbers of tweeted works, high numbers of tweets neutral in attitude, and evidence of self-tweets. The discussion addresses these results in relation to the value of tweets and suggested improvements to Twitter metrics based on IR stakeholders’ needs.

Artistic research is a relatively new and understudied topic in scholarly communication within Library and information science. This knowledge deficit, combined with ill-fitting systems and categories, maintains the status of artistic research as something mysterious and different. As a result, knowledge produced through artistic research may not be justly represented in the academic infrastructures, and not be made available with the same integrity as traditional research output. The aim of this study is to map the publishing landscape of artistic research in Sweden and to describe how outputs of artistic research relate to current academic infrastructures. An inductive analysis of the units of academic output listed by the researchers themselves as publications of research shows how they are represented in, and outside of, the archiving systems. The analysis is supported by document theory, Kuhn's theory of scientific paradigms, and the classification theory of Bowker and Star. Findings suggest that publishing practices on the level of each project are influenced by institutional affiliation. Researchers are forced to a trade-off between statistical visibility in institutional repositories and coherent content visualization in extra-institutional channels. The institutional infrastructures designed for traditional output lack guidance for artistic output, which results in in consistency in registration, poor quality of representation, and inconsistent metadata. Channels outside of the institution lack discoverability and statistical visibility.

Opening Up Scholarship in the Humanities: Digital Publishing, Knowledge Translation, and Public Engagement considers the concept of humanistic, open, social scholarship and argues for its value in the contemporary academy as both a set of socially oriented activities and an organizing framework for such activities. This endeavour spans the interrelated areas of knowledge creation, public engagement, and open access, and demonstrates the importance of considering this triad as critical for the pursuit of academic work moving forward—especially in the humanities. Under the umbrella of open social scholarship, I consider open access as a baseline for public engagement and argue for the vitalness of this sort of work. Moreover, I suggest that there is a strong connection between digital scholarship and social knowledge creation. I explore the knowledge translation lessons that other fields might have for the humanities and include a journalist–humanist case study to this end. I also argue for the value of producing research output in many different forms and formats. Finally, I propose that there are benefits to explicitly popularizing the humanities. In sum, this dissertation speculates on past, current, and future scholarly communication activities, and proposes that such activities might be opened up for wider engagement and, thus, social benefit. / Graduate

Rachel Fleming, Ashley Sergiadis, and Rachel Caldwell discuss several ways that academic libraries can help OER adopters and authors improve the impact of their work, make materials more accessible, and ensure continued access.

At East Tennessee State University, an awards program incentivizes instructors to adapt or create Open Educational Resources (OERs) and publish them in Digital Commons@ETSU. Come to this presentation to hear lessons learned from the Digital Scholarship Librarian who supported the instructors during the creation and publication process. The presentation will cover the following topics: copyright, accessibility, promotion, timelines, and assessments.

This study examines stakeholder relationships in the context of rumours of a forthcoming American Open Access mandate which surfaced in December 2019. Empirical material was gathered through the social media network Twitter, and through a data collection exercise of article-length documents on the subject. In the process of theme discovery, material was explored with manual scrutiny, software to produce visualisations of semantic maps and network analyses, and qualitative data analysis. The study is informed by the theoretical framework of boundary objects. The study finds that actor groupings central to the topic were academics, information professionals and Open Access publishers in support of the mandate, and subscription publishers opposed to it. Learned societies occupied the borderlands of the debate in a conflicted role of both publisher and academic champion. Themes uncovered through the study included nationalistic rhetoric, taxpayer value for money, financial imbalance in the publishing ecology, and representation of members by learned societies. The results are used to consider which elements of the communities might act as a boundary object between the groups of actors.

Lowery will provide an overview of altmetrics with a focus on the most recent developments within the field. Topics will include types of altmetrics, tools used to track altmetrics, and applications of altmetrics.