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OpenVIVO is a free and open-hosted semantic web platform that anyone can join and that gathers and shares open data about scholarship in the world. OpenVIVO, based on the VIVO open-source platform, provides transparent access to data about the scholarly work of its participants. OpenVIVO demonstrates the use of persistent identifiers, the automatic real-time ingest of scholarly ecosystem metadata, the use of VIVO-ISF and related ontologies, the attribution of work, and the publication and reuse of data-all critical components of presenting, preserving, and tracking scholarship. The system was created by a cross-institutional team over the course of 3 months. The team created and used RDF models for research organizations in the world based on Digital Science GRID data, for academic journals based on data from CrossRef and the US National Library of Medicine, and created a new model for attribution of scholarly work. All models, data, and software are available in open repositories.

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This study examined in three phases whether managerial communication processes differ in more and less successful mergers. In Phase 1, employees at four recently merged financial institutions were interviewed, and published accounts of mergers were reviewed to develop several broad hypotheses regarding how managerial communication activities (participative, supportive, informative, and directive) influence merger success during each stage of merger implementation. Next, criteria were established to assess the human resource dimension of merger success, and an instrument was developed to identify two more and two less successful recently merged financial institutions. In Phase 2, the hypotheses were tested, using a pattern matching multiple case study. None of the four managerial communication processes consistently occurred more frequently in the more successful mergers. In Phase 3, several contingencies were identified which appear to influence the communication needs of employees in acquired organizations. These relate to particular merger stages, settings, message characteristics, and inferences about communicators.