[Apologies for cross-posting]
Comments onÂ
 Open Access FAQÂ
of German Alliance of Scientific OrganisationsÂ
Allianz der deutschen Wissenschaftsorganisationen
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/22617/
Stevan Harnad
Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Sciences
Institut des sciences cognitiv
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From: Lawson, Gerald J. gela -- nerc.ac.uk
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Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:32 AM
Subject: Re: Use of Web of Science Web Services?
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Les, thanks for this.
1) Good news
I definitely agree that it would be great to have quality assessment tools and
best practices for repositories and their contents. The Webometrics ranking does
not offer this, nor claims to do so. Before going into the challenge of
heterogeneity in evaluating the quality of a repository and its res
I fully agree with Isidro that "Perhaps the problem is not with the Rankings
themselves, but with authorities not applying quality criteria in the evaluation
of such classifications".
But feeding tools for ranking is also part of the problem. Witness this
quotation from one of Eugene Garfield's
Dear colleagues,
In my country sometimes we said: "the best is enemy of the good" and certainly
there are far better tools for analyzing empirically the OAI but at this moment
the key objective is IMPACT and according to my personal experience several
universities are promoting their institutional
