- Library Science and Information Systems
- Open Education and E-Learning
- Library Collection Development and Digital Resources
- Digital Communication and Language
- Wikis in Education and Collaboration
- Research Data Management Practices
- Web and Library Services
- Copyright and Intellectual Property
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing
- Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Digital Games and Media
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Data Quality and Management
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Expert finding and Q&A systems
- Diverse Musicological Studies
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Topic Modeling
University of Pittsburgh
2012-2024
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
2024
Open Geospatial Consortium
2024
Invest in Open Infrastructure
2024
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
2024
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2022
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
2022
Digital Scholar (United States)
2022
Tokyo Institute of Technology
2022
University of Zurich
2022
<ns4:p>Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are multifaceted and complicated by disparate often polarised viewpoints from engaged stakeholders. At current stage, has become such a global issue that it is critical for all involved in publishing, including policymakers, publishers, research funders, governments, learned societies, librarians, academic communities, be well-informed on history, benefits, pitfalls of Access. In spite this, there general lack...
<ns4:p>Peer review of research articles is a core part our scholarly communication system. In spite its importance, the status and purpose peer often contested. What role in modern digital communications infrastructure? Does it perform to high standards with which generally regarded? Studies have shown that prone bias abuse numerous dimensions, frequently unreliable, can fail detect even fraudulent research. With advent web technologies, we are now witnessing phase innovation experimentation...
Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are multifaceted and complicated by disparate often polarised viewpoints from engaged stakeholders. At current stage, has become such a global issue that it is critical for all involved in publishing, including policymakers, publishers, research funders, governments, learned societies, librarians, academic communities, be well-informed on history, benefits, pitfalls of Access. In spite this, there general lack consensus...
<ns4:p>Peer review of research articles is a core part our scholarly communication system. In spite its importance, the status and purpose peer often contested. What role in modern digital communications infrastructure? Does it perform to high standards with which generally regarded? Studies have shown that prone bias abuse numerous dimensions, frequently unreliable, can fail detect even fraudulent research. With advent Web technologies, we are now witnessing phase innovation experimentation...
This study investigated several factors presumed to influence the intelligibility of song lyrics. Twenty-seven participants listened recordings musical passages sung in English; each passage consisted a brief phrase by solo voice. Six vocalists produced corpus phrases. Eight hypotheses derived from common phonological and prosodic principles were tested. Intelligibility lyrics was degraded: (i) when archaic language used; (ii) words set melismatic rather than syllabic contexts; (iii) rhythm...
<ns4:p>Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are multifaceted and complicated by disparate often polarised viewpoints from engaged stakeholders. At current stage, has become such a global issue that it is critical for all involved in publishing, including policymakers, publishers, research funders, governments, learned societies, librarians, academic communities, be well-informed on history, benefits, pitfalls of Access. In spite this, there general lack...
<ns4:p>Peer review of research articles is a core part our scholarly communication system. In spite its importance, the status and purpose peer often contested. What role in modern digital communications infrastructure? Does it perform to high standards with which generally regarded? Studies have shown that prone bias abuse numerous dimensions, frequently unreliable, can fail detect even fraudulent research. With advent web technologies, we are now witnessing phase innovation experimentation...
Twenty listeners were exposed to spoken and sung passages in English produced by three trained vocalists.Passages included representative words extracted from a large database of vocal lyrics, including both popular classical repertoires.Target set within or carrier phrases.Sung phrases selected melodies.Roughly quarter all an unaccompanied soloist misheard.Sung showed seven-fold decrease intelligibility compared with their counterparts.The perceptual mistakes occurring vowels replicate...
A case study of a World Warcraft guild explores the relationship between participatory surveillance, public discipline, empowerment, and fun. The under investigation in this paper is self-labeled "safe space" for female, LGBT, other minority members gaming population. To promote safe space environment, guild's actively enforce prohibitions against offensive language. comparison made surveillance model employed by top-down policies discipline enacted parent company, Blizzard Entertainment;...
On Twitter, retweets function as a method of reporting speech and spreading the talk other users. We propose that changes to interface mechanisms Twitter have led coexistence two complementary forms retweeting. The Preserving Retweet, enabled by interface, directly reports retains attribution original author, but it does not allow for any modification or indication stance. Adapting user-created norm studied boyd et al. (2010), allows users option add comments pre-existing tweets resulting in...
This article describes a half-day preconference that focused on the library as publisher. It examined how movement from print to online publication has impacted roles of libraries and their ability take new publishers. The session explored benefits becoming publishers, discussed Open Access, what it is not its importance scholarly communication. A detailed case study publishing operations University Library System at Pittsburgh was presented an example successful program. provided...
Previous research on faculty publication venue choice at R1 institutions reveals tension between the benefits of open access and institutional pressure for to publish in specific journals review purposes. How does this percolate through regional campuses with different priorities, what can these contexts reveal about publishing practices priorities kinds faculty? In study, authors used content analysis transcripts interviews sixteen from an institution better understand perception...
The creation and dissemination of reproducible research is receiving ever-growing attention in discussions on best practices publication education. A key element these appropriate citation data sources. In this presentation we describe one scholar-led initiative to increase awareness the value scholarly communication across discipline linguistics. 
 Practices linguistics are varied; it primarily a data-driven social science, which inferences about properties language, human cognition,...
In this paper we argue that the framing of open access through language adopted by a variety stakeholders serves to inhibit uptake publishing mechanisms complexity and cognitive load. Using both quantitative qualitative methods, analyze tiers decisions confront authors seeking information online about access. We conclude is for most part prohibitively complex introduces contradictory interpretations executions act motivate phenomenon known as status quo bias. The only reliable method...