Wednesday, January 7, 2015

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OATP primary

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 07:38 AM PST
"The position holder will work collaboratively to grow library initiatives in support of new and emerging modes of digital scholarship and scholarly communication through assessment of campus digital scholarship needs and identifying opportunities to support faculty and student digital scholarship creation, access and preservation...."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 01:07 AM PST
"Charles E. Jones, the Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities in the University Libraries at Penn State, has received the 2015 Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology Award from the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). He was honored at an award ceremony during the organization's annual meeting in early January in New Orleans.  Since its inception in 2009, The Ancient World Online (AWOL), a project by Jones, has offered open access material related to the ancient world, serving archaeological information to more than 1.1 million visitors. The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but it also includes other kinds of networked information as it is available. It regularly lists emerging and existing born digital projects, and it publicizes repositories of digitized scholarship relating to antiquity with a cumulative content of thousands of volumes ..."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 01:05 AM PST
Use the link to access the full text article from PERRJ.  "Research is published in indexed, online scholarly journals so that published knowledge can be easily found and built upon by others. Most scholars rely on relatively few online indexing service providers to search for relevant scholarly content. It is under-appreciated that the quality of indexing can vary across different journals and that this can have an adverse effect on the quality of research. Objective: In this short paper I compare the recall of commonly used online indexers; Google Scholar, Web of Knowledge, Scopus, Microsoft Academic Search and Mendeley Search against a selection of over 20,000 papers published in two different high-volume journals: PLOS ONE and Zootaxa. Results: When using Google Scholar, content in Zootaxa has low recall for search terms that are known to occur in it, significantly lower than the near-perfect recall of the same terms in PLOS ONE. All other indexers tend to have lower recall than Google Scholar except Scopus which outperformed Google Scholar for recall on Zootaxa searches. I also elaborate why Dark Research is undesirable for optimal scientific progress with some recommendations for change. Conclusion: This research is a basic proof-of-concept which demonstrates that when searching for published scholarly content, relevant studies can remain hidden as 'Dark Research' in poorly-indexed journals, even despite expertise-informed efforts to find the content. The technological capability to do full text indexing on all modern scholarly journal content certainly exists, it is perhaps just publisher-imposed access-restrictions on content that prevents this from happening."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 01:00 AM PST
"As we enter 2015, it's a good time to reflect on the state of paleontology and the state of open access. Because I'm a dinosaur paleontologist (my apologies to the other 99% of life that ever lived), this post will of course address that clade in particular! ... Thirty-eight new genera or species of dinosaur were announced in 2014 (according to my count based on a list at Wikipedia and the Dinosaur Genera List), spanning everything from sauropods to tyrannosaurs to horned dinosaurs. Seventeen of these were published in open access or free-to-read journals. This works out to around 45% ..."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:58 AM PST
"Every year for the past few years, the good folks at Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain have put up a list of works that should have gone into the public domain on January 1st had Congress not massively expanded the law. Each year, it's a depressing look at what works should be in the public domain. As a reminder, when these works were created, the creators knew the terms under which they were created and knew that they would have gone into the public domain by now -- and they found that to be more than enough incentive to create those works. Given that, it makes absolutely no sense that these works are not in the public domain. The latest list has many, many examples of classic works that should be in the public domain. Here's a list of famous books from 1958 that should have gone into the public domain ..."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:54 AM PST
"To enable open sharing, discovery and recognition of research data, it's essential to have robust and persistent links between data sets and formal scholarly publications. In this presentation I will discuss "the past, present, and future" of such article-data links, focusing on Elsevier's data-linking program and on the work carried out by the ICSU-WDS / RDA Working Group to set up a universal, open cross-referencing service between articles and data."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:52 AM PST
"It's a new year, and Creative Commons and the Open Policy Network are excited to work with the inaugural group of fellows at the Institute for Open Leadership. The Institute for Open Leadership–or IOL–is an effort  to cultivate new leaders in open education, science, public policy, and other fields on the values and implementation of openness in licensing, policies and practices. The rationale for the Institute is to educate and empower potential open advocates within existing institutional structures in order to expand and promote the values and practices of the idea that publicly funded resources should be openly licensed. We received nearly 100  high quality applications and selected 14 fellows for the first Institute. The fellows come from around the world (12 countries), and reflect a wide range of institutions–from community colleges to government ministries  to public radio. We're hosting the in-person portion of the Institute in California next week. It's important that the Institute help fellows move from theory to reality: a major component of the program requires fellows to develop, refine, and implement a capstone open policy project within their home institution. Creative Commons and the open community will provide mentorship and guidance throughout this process. As the fellows build and eventually implement their policy projects, we'll ask them to share their progress, challenges, and successes. We also plan on running a second Institute for Open Leadership outside of North America – in late 2015."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:50 AM PST
"Governor Dalrymple's budget sets aside $220,000 for funding 'open educational resources.' As Prairie Public's Dave Thompson reports, this is an effort to help save college students money they would be spending on textbooks ..."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:48 AM PST
"There was a lively discussion on Twitter the other day regarding what constitutes a citable piece of scientific work. In particular, Matthew Hahn was concerned about where to draw the line, and he felt that unless something is traditionally published there's no need to cite it. When reading this dicussion, I felt it was muddled by the lack of clear criteria separating citable works from other forms of scientific communication. In my mind, there is a clear distinction between preprints, which I consider to be citable works, and presentation slides or tweets, which are not. To formalize this distinction, I would like to propose four conditions that need to be satisfied for a document to be considered a citable piece of scientific work. The document needs to be: (i) uniquely and unambiguously citable; (ii) available in perpetuity, in unchanged form; (iii) accessible to the public; (iv) self-contained and complete ..."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:45 AM PST
"A free, online library called a digital repository is creating world-wide access to research produced by Iowa State University faculty and students. ISU's digital repository, which is managed by the university library, launched in April 2012 with about 2,100 theses and dissertations that people all over the world could download and read for free. Today, 33,250 different pieces of scholarship are available on the site. Harrison Inefuku, digital repository coordinator, said the repository is one way of increasing the exposure of research being done at ISU ..."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:37 AM PST
"I am very surprised that I could not find any similar question here. It seems to me that researchers from all universities are willing to write papers about their research for free and hand them into a journal to gain reputation. On the other hand, some other researcher do voluntary check the paper in order to examine if the paper is acceptable for the journal. Therefore, the main work is done by researches. The remaining work for the journal is to offer a platform where researchers can communicate and making sure that the reviewer is selected anonymous and to bundle many articles to a journal. Now everyone has to pay a huge amounts for the papers, they are not accessible for free to the general public, even though that most researchers are financed by taxes and only the journal is making profit. Now I wonder, should it not be possible to create a network page for researchers which contains methods to imitate the review process of a paper? So that all papers can be downloaded at the website for free. I guess most researchers would be very happy if everyone could read there work. Also the money that is spend on journals by universities could be spend to this huge network page instead in order to keep it running ..."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:32 AM PST
" ... A number of publishers, including Wiley, have introduced policies to adjust subscription prices for any shift from subscription-funded articles to pay-to-publish open access articles. Journals publishing more open access articles will see price decreases because the publication costs for those articles have already been met. Since non-UK authors don't have the same type and level of funding to pay open access fees, the majority continue to choose to publish under the subscription model, keeping this the predominant publishing model. This means subscription prices haven't decreased significantly and UK institutions continue to pay for journal subscriptions to obtain international research. So the UK is seeing an increase in publishing costs as they pay for both open access and subscription fees. In order to address this, UK library consortium, Jisc Collections have partnered with publishers, including Wiley and Taylor and Francis to pilot offsetting agreements for articles published on an open access basis. The pilot agreement between Wiley and Jisc gives institutions funding both subscription and open access publication charges credits to be used on article publication charges for open access. The amount of the credit is based on the total spend the previous year. Institutions need to have a Wiley Open Access Account set up to be eligible to receive their APC credits. It's estimated that the UK budget for pay-to-publish open access fees from RCUK, the Wellcome Trust and COAF amounts to £33 million. Institutions are, as a result, under increasing pressure from funders to manage and report on open access payments. To help authors with funder compliance and payments when publishing open access, a number of institutions are leading the way by setting up open access funds and allowing their authors to use these funds when publishing in open access journals. However, not much help is available to institutions for managing these 'open access funds'. Typically, it's librarians armed with nothing more than excel sheets and a familiarity with publishers and journal collections who are given the task of managing their institution's open access fund ..."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:27 AM PST
"The IU Libraries provide publishing support to open access journals through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. The Scholarly Communication and Digital Collections Services departments recently collaborated to migrate two open access journals that use XML publishing workflows from XTF and DSpace to OJS. In this presentation, Homenda and Pekala will discuss the history of XML journal publishing projects at the IU Libraries, detailing the recent migration of the Indiana Magazine of History and The Medieval Review to OJS."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:24 AM PST
"We are happy to inform you that the Dutch universities have reached an agreement with the Publisher Springer on Open Access publishing for Dutch (corresponding) authors in 2015 and 2016 ... Under the Agreement, all articles published by corresponding authors affiliated with a Dutch VSNU or NFU member institution will be published in Open Access free of charge for the author. The agreement covers around 1500 journals within the Springer OpenChoice program. Journals from Learned Societies, and journals in BiomedCentral and SpringerOpen are not covered by this agreement. The agreement applies to all articles accepted in the eligible journals as of 1 January 2015.  In the new workflow, eligibility to publish your article as open access under this agreement will be verified by the institution you selected and Springer during the production process. This will require no extra work for the corresponding author, nor extra time in the publication process ..."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:18 AM PST
"[Q] Im not sure why scientists are still publishing in Elsevier journals nowadays. Pre-internet, OK, but now I think journals should be following the model used by the Journal of Machine Learning Research, open on the internet ... [A] Scientists still publish Elsevier because of the so called "impact factor" of some of these journals. As a young researcher currently looking for tenure-track positions in academia I can tell you that it is still extremely important to publish in some of these journals (ex Cell). Unfortunately there are still very few (or none) open access journals that have the same perceived impact. I try to publish in PLoS journals or other open access journals as much as I can but given the chance to publish in higher impact journals I have to take it or risk not having a job in the future. Once you have the job you need to secure funding and so there is always pressure to publish in the 'best' possible journal. The ridiculous thing about this situation is that would be fairly easy to create a new open access and highly prestigious journal in any field if everyone would switch to publishing in these new journals at the same time. You would probably just need to convince some of the leaders in the field to do it. This was how PLoS was born in fact. Unfortunately for the PhD students and postdocs it is hard to do anything about it ..."
Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:13 AM PST
"MIT indefinitely removed Walter Lewin's lectures in December from massive open online course platforms MIT OpenCourseWare and edX, after discovering the retired physics professor sexually harassed a student via the latter learning portal. Lewin, whose teaching antics made him a YouTube sensation, retired from the Institute in July 2009, according to the school, and last taught an online course in the fall of 2013. Following the news that Lewin's lectures would be taken down, current MIT professor Scott Aaronson published a blog post sharing his thoughts on how the school handled the situation. 'I'm someone who feels that sexual harassment must never be tolerated, neither here nor anywhere else,' wrote the associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, who's affiliated with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Yet he went on to write: 'I wish to register that I disagree in the strongest possible terms with MIT's decision to remove Prof. Lewin's lectures from OpenCourseWare — thereby forcing the tens of thousands of students around the world who were watching these legendary lectures to hunt for ripped copies on BitTorrent.' Students have taken to Reddit threads and the comment section of MIT's student newspaper The Tech to voice similar concerns. By making the move MIT did, several argued the Institute was punishing the wrong party: students eager to learn. 'There has to be a certain separation between a person and their work,' wrote one Redditor. 'Are we going to remove Beatles songs because John Lennon abused Yoko Ono? Or the movie 'Braveheart' because of Mel Gibson?' Some critics claimed this was a PR play by MIT to help keep its reputation intact ..."
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