William Kruskal: My Scholarly and Scientific Model

2013 William Allan Award: My multifactorial journey.

I want to begin by expressing my sincerest appreciation to The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) for this wonderful recognition and award; Vivian Cheung, Evan Eichler, and Stanislas Lyonnet for their nominations; and Evan Eichler for his very kind introduction. I want to thank each of you who are here today and particularly my wife and my daughters, who seldom get to hear what I have be...

My scientific first-born

Some vignettes from the career of Professor Bezalel Peleg. More than fifty years ago, during the academic year 1957–1958, I assisted Prof. Shmuel Agmon in an undergraduate course on the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable, in the mathematics department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Agmon gave the lectures, and I was in charge of the exercises. Every week I would assign exercises ...

Documents and the communication of scientific and scholarly information: Revising and updating the UNISIST model

In 1971 UNISIST proposed a model for scientific and technical communication. This model has been widely cited and additional models have been added to the literature. There is a need to bring this model to the focus of information science (IS) research as well as to update and revise it. There are both empirical and theoretical reasons for this need. On the empirical side much has happened in t...

Scholarly communication and bibliometrics: I. Scholarly communication model Literature Review

This article represents a literature review that has two parts. Her is talking about the first part: scholarly communication model. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest both in scholarly communication as a research area and in the application of bibliometrics as a research method. This article is a compilation of scholarly communication models at the intersection of scholarly...

Open Access publishing and scholarly communications in non-scientific disciplines