Chine : une déclaration des droits de l’homme sur Internet

Chine : une déclaration des droits de l’homme sur Internet

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Universidades portuguesas valorizadas em estudo internacional

New European strong performers are Norway, Spain and Portugal, mostly due to an impressive increase of their Open Access repositories. But France is still suffering of the large fragmentation of their higher education system

Colleges and Universities and Open Access Initiatives

New July edition of the Webometrics Ranking

Parabéns

pessoal daUniversidade do Minho (e do seu Repositorium) - nº 100 no Top Europa,

e da B-on, e da Universidade de Aveiro, e por aí fora.

Obras públicas não são só as feitas de betão.

A lista das 114 entidades universitárias portuguesas incluídas neste ranking (centenas de países, milhares de instituições envolvidas) está aqui

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Será que a rainha da branca de neve está no facebook?

A tecnologia fornece-nos espelhos, não transforma a realidade.

Her research also seems to support Ms. boyd’s contention that social media “mirrors and magnifies” our social divisions, rather than removes them. “We can use technology as a tool to connect with people, but we can’t assume that it will eliminate all of the serious issues we have to face in this country,” Ms. boyd said at PDF. “Pervasive social stratification is being reified in a new era. If we don’t address this head-on, inequality will develop deeper roots that will further cement divisions in our lives.”

Does Social Networking Breed Social Division? - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com

Fonte: gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com

Studies suggest that users of Facebook and MySpace are breaking down along class and racial lines.

Fazer contas de economista ao Open Access

Open Access—What Are the Economic Benefits? A Comparison of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark

"[...] Analysis focuses on comparing three alternative models for scholarly publishing, namely: subscription publishing, open access publishing and self-archiving. To ensure that meaningful comparisons could be made, the self-archiving models explored include the peer review, certification and quality control functions necessary for formal scholarly publishing.
We estimate that in an open access world:
• Open access or ‘author-pays’ publishing for journal articles (i.e. ‘Gold OA’) might bring net system savings of around EUR 70 million per annum nationally in Denmark, EUR 133 million in the Netherlands and EUR 480 million in the UK (at 2007 prices and levels of publishing activity);
• Open access self-archiving without subscription cancellations (i.e. ‘Green OA’) might save around EUR 30 million per annum nationally for Denmark in a worldwide ‘Green OA’ system, EUR 50 million in the Netherlands and EUR 125 million in the UK; and
• The open access self-archiving with overlay services model explored is necessarily more speculative, but a repositories and overlay services model may well produce similar cost savings to open access publishing.
The cost-benefits of the open access or ‘author-pays’ publishing model are very similar across the three countries. In terms of estimated cost-benefits over a transitional period of 20 years, open access publishing all articles produced in universities in 2007 would have produced benefits of around 2 to 3 times the costs in all cases, but showed benefits of 5 to 6 times costs in the simulated alternative ‘steady state’ model for unilateral national open access, and benefits of around 7 times the costs in an open access world. [...]"
(source: Knowledge Exchange, 23/06/09 / via DigitalKoans, 01/07/09)

RBE no olhar do Norte

QUE VIVA A BIBLIOTECA ESCOLAR!

FINALMENTE... “nasceram” [institucionalmente] as bibliotecas escolares! A mãe é a PORTARIA há dias conhecida [V. aqui] que institui a Biblioteca Escolar como o centro nevrálgico da aprendizagem e da escola.

Parabéns ao Ministério da Educação que, só ao fim de treze anos, teve a literacia suficiente para assumir a necessidade daquilo que os Professores bibliotecários têm defendido apaixonadamente ao longo desses anos, com empenho e dedicação muitas vezes incompreendidos.

Apesar de ser um passo decisivo na caminhada para um melhor ensino-aprendizagem, poderão, no futuro, ser problemáticos os efeitos da execução desta portaria, se não forem acautelados alguns aspectos que ficaram esquecidos. Entre estes aspectos salientamos a ainda nula referência aos Auxiliares de Acção Educativa, dado o seu papel essencial na constituição das equipas para o funcionamento, manutenção e estabilidade dos serviços da Biblioteca Escolar.

Podemos, mesmo assim, comemorar os 13 anos da RBE com esta primeira e boa notícia:

Nasceu a Biblioteca Escolar!... Que viva a Biblioteca Escolar!

Daqui, 2009.06.27

Loulé 2009, bibliotecas escolares