Thursday, January 15, 2015

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Jan 2015 update on Jisc’s OA work wrt journal articles | Jisc Scholarly Communications

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 03:45 AM PST

"Happy new year to all, if it's not already too late to say that. New year already seems a long time ago. I've been asked to provide an update of Jisc's OA work for various forthcoming meetings and thought this might be a generally useful thing to make available, since it indicates both what we're doing and what we plan to do over the next few months. It's not as specific as i'd like in some places, but i'll try to fill in some of the gaps here as we go through the month. Here's the update [MS Word, 7 pages] ..."

Open Access Ambassadors Conference December 3rd-4th

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 03:43 AM PST

"On December 3rd to 4th, the first Max Planck OPEN ACCESS AMBASSADORS conference took place organized by Max Planck Digital Library in cooperation with the Max Planck PhDnet. Who are the OPEN ACCESS AMBASSADORS? Inspired by the first satellite conference during the Berlin 11 conference series in November 2013, the idea of a novel OA-campaign within the Max Planck Society was born: To strengthen the idea of Open Access within the community of young researchers, we wanted to train early career researchers, who are sent as representatives from each Max Planck Institute to become OPEN ACCESS AMBASSADORS. They should become advocates for Open Access and Open Science in order to carry these concepts into their local research communities. The Ambassadors' conference was meant to be the initial spark. We were delighted at the opportunity to include the campaign in the EU project FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research). FOSTER is an European-wide training program that will help researchers, postgraduate students, librarians and other stakeholders to incorporate Open Access approaches into their existing research methodologies ..."

Copyright Clearance Center Announces Findings From Open Access Roundtable Discussion With UK Institutions and Publishers | Business Wire

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 02:33 AM PST

"Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, recently brought together institutions from the UK and publishers from both the US and UK for an Open Access roundtable discussion to explore the implications of managing Open Access fees on a large scale. During this meeting, held at University College in London, the attendees examined a number of issues related to fragmentation, approach and processes, including ways vendors can play an expanded role in addressing the challenges. CCC published the group's findings in a report written by Rob Johnson, Founder and Director of Research Consulting ..."

An Evaluation of Beall’s Paper "Five Scholarly Open Access Publishers" from 2012| BLOG – Scientific Research Publishing

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 02:30 AM PST

"This evaluation is about the paper: BEALL, Jeffrey, 2012: Five Scholarly Open Access Publishers. The Charleston Advisor, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 5-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.5260/chara.13.4.5 It is a comparative review about 5 Open Access journal publishers. One of the publishers examined is SCIRP. This evaluation of Beall's paper only considers SCIRP. The paper is wrong in some parts and most importantly it is so outdated ..."

Journal publishing prices need to go down, not up - Open Access Archivangelism

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 02:26 AM PST

"Today's transitional period for peer-reviewed journal publishing -- when both the price of subscribing to conventional journals and the price of publishing in open-access journals ('Gold OA") is grossly inflated by obsolete costs and services -- is hardly the time to inflate costs still further by paying peer reviewers. Institutions and funders need to mandate the open-access self-archiving of all published articles first ('Green OA'). This will make subscriptions unsustainable, forcing journals to downsize to providing only peer review, leaving access-provision and archiving to the distributed global network of institutional repositories. The price per submitted paper of managing peer review -- since peers review, and always reviewed for free -- is low, fair, affordable and sustainable, on a no-fault basis (irrespective of whether the paper is accepted or rejected: accepted authors should not have to subsidize the cost of rejected papers). Let's get there first, before contemplating whether we really want to raise that cost yet again, this time by paying peers."

ASTRO Seeks Editor for New Open-Access Journal

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 02:22 AM PST

"The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is seeking an editor for its new open-access journal. This new, online-only, open-access journal will provide practical and clinical information for the radiation oncology community and complement ASTRO's two highly successful journals, International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics (Red Journal) and Practical Radiation Oncology (PRO). The new open-access journal will be published online-only and will be supported by article processing charges. The incoming editor will work closely with ASTRO's Board of Directors, and the editors and staff of Red Journal and PRO to finalize the new journal, build the editorial board for the journal, and begin soliciting and reviewing papers. The new open-access journal is expected to launch online in late 2015, and access to accepted and published manuscripts will be free of charge without a subscription. Additional details about the new journal, including the title, will be announced when finalized later this year ..."

Open access needs simple and standard processes, say institutions - Research Information

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 02:16 AM PST

"The move towards a sustainable open access system needs simplified and standardised process, according to participants of a meeting hosted by Copyright Clearance Center (CCC). The organisation recently brought together institutions from the UK and publishers from both the US and UK for an open access roundtable discussion to explore the implications of managing open access fees on a large scale. During the meeting, held at University College in London, attendees examined a number of issues related to fragmentation, approach and processes, including ways vendors can play an expanded role in addressing the challenges. CCC published the group's findings in a report written by Rob Johnson, founder and director of Research Consulting. He said: 'We should work towards simplifying and standardising processes to move to a sustainable and scalable open access ecosystem which preserves academic freedom and author choice in publishing and makes the research as valuable as possible for the end user.' Johnson said the roundtable was characterised by a shared desire among the attendees to work collaboratively to make article processing charges (APCs) easier to manage, despite the uncertainties in the marketplace. The institutions and publishers issued the following statement at the close of the event: 'We should work towards simplifying and standardising processes to move to a sustainable and scalable Open Access ecosystem which preserves academic freedom and author choice in publishing and makes the research as valuable as possible for the end user.' In his report, Johnson wrote: 'The current approach to APC management is highly fragmented and undermined by differences of approach among nations and academic disciplines, by inefficiencies in process, and by scarcity of resources. Many of these issues could be alleviated through improvements in data sharing and development of common identifiers and vocabularies, but these must be placed in the context of broader trends and continuing uncertainties over the future of academic publishing.' Attendees included the American Chemical Society, Aries Systems, British Medical Journal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics (IEEE), Imperial College London, Jisc, Nature Publishing Group, University College London, University of Exeter, University of Glasgow, University of Huddersfield, University of Kent, and University of St. Andrews."

Court: HathiTrust does not violate copyright law - The Michigan Daily

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 02:14 AM PST

"A lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild in the fall of 2011 against five HathiTrust Digital Library institutions, including the University, formally concluded Jan. 6 ... According to Mike Furlough, the University's executive director of HathiTrust, the lawsuit has been formally settled. HathiTrust is a coalition that compiles millions of digitized titles from its 100-plus academic and research library partners and the University is one of its founding members. Its website, hathitrust.org, gives users around the world the ability to conduct full-text searches of its 13 million volumes. It further preserves works —many of which would otherwise only be available in their print copy forms — by maintaining them online and provides book access to people with certified print disabilities. The original lawsuit cited allegations of copyright infringement against the University and four other HathiTrust contributors — Indiana University, University of Wisconsin, Cornell University and the University of California system.  Similarly, the Authors Guild filed an additional lawsuit against Google for its digitization of works. The Authors Guild filed the lawsuit believing that these universities' digital HathiTrust collections infringed upon copyright laws, citing the fact that HathiTrust did not ask the permission of copyright holders before digitizing their works ..."

An Experiment in Open Science – My fermentation journal | Food Matters, Scientific American Blog Network

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:50 AM PST

"I'm a strong believer in the notion that science, especially academic science that is performed with public money, should be openly accessible to everyone. I'm sort of on the radical fringe of this belief, as I think that not only published results, but lab notebooks, and in-process stuff as well should be shared.  Alas, since science is also collaborative, I can't actually make this choice on my own. There are structural impediments to openness – namely, since publications are the only currency that matters, leaked data/ideas could be grabbed by someone else. If they publish, there's no mechanism to give me credit for what I produced. In my fantasy future, scientific publications could link to blog posts/personal web pages as citations (so my posts could have an 'impact factor'), but this is not the world we live in ..."

Scholarly Communications Outreach Librarian | VCU Libraries

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:43 AM PST

"The Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Scholarly Communications Outreach Librarian. The successful candidate for this newly created position will develop and deliver programs that expand the university community's awareness of mainstream and alternative publishing and emerging scholarly expression mediums (including open access publishing), confident assertion of fair use and author rights in the use of digital and print materials for teaching and research, copyright decisions, metrics and related emerging measures of scholarly impact of publications. The incumbent will work closely with library digital technologies staff responsible for digital publishing and preservation programs and the development of the VCU Libraries' digital repository and publishing platform, as well as staff throughout the library system engaged in teaching, supporting research, and developing educational outreach to faculty and students. The successful candidate will join a culturally and academically diverse faculty of the highest caliber ..."

Open Data in Public Transportation | PublicCEO

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:40 AM PST

"As cities experience an influx of new residents looking for a car-free lifestyle, reliability and predictability of public transportation becomes an essential amenity. Long gone are the days of a paper timetable updated on a quarterly basis. Tools such as trip planners and real-time arrival information for buses, trains, subway, and other modes help citizens understand their options to make better decisions for their commutes and day-to-day travels. In recent years, the provision of open transit data has become the norm for local governments and transit authorities. The organizations have realized open transit data's key benefits such as the ability to dynamically update their schedules and provide instant updates on service to riders. This short video from StreetFilms (from 2010) explores the earlier days of open data in transit and explains the benefits of accessible transit data. Now cities and transportation departments across the country have set up developer portals and created APIs (application programming interfaces) to give the public the ability to create tools and visualizations with their data. Here are some sample data portals offered by major cities and transit authorities ..."

Science: Research impact and Open Access for Biologists

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:38 AM PST

"In this session we will look at various ways of assessing research impact from traditional methods to newer techniques which attempt to assess impact through news reports, readership statistics and social media ..."

arXiv Hits 1 Million Submissions | Cornell University Library

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:34 AM PST

"It all started with an electronic bulletin board — one computer on one scientist's desk. Now, more than two decades later, arXiv is a driving force in scientific communication. It draws in thousands of researchers every day, operating with a permanent staff and a $1M budget. As an open-access service, it allows scientists — from diverse disciplines encompassing physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science and more — to share research before it's formally published. A million papers have now been uploaded to the repository ..."

The Texas Digital Library: A Model Collaboration | EDUCAUSE.edu

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:32 AM PST

Use the link to access the full text article from Educause Review.  "Key Takeaways: [1] The Texas Digital Library is a consortium of 20 institutions that offers its members virtual storage and data access, along with long-term preservation of digital collections and data management. [2] This article highlights how the TDL addresses the specific needs and goals of four collections at three very different universities — Baylor, Trinity, and Texas A&M. [3] As an exemplary consortial solution, the TDL's members work collaboratively to leverage best practices in curation, metadata, usability, and data integrity for the long haul."

The Commons of Scholarly Communication: Beyond the Firm | EDUCAUSE.edu

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:25 AM PST

"An old tale, said to arise from Zen Buddhist tradition, recalls an ancient monastery's abbot who kept a practice of teaching the novices each evening. Seeing the gathering, a cat living on the grounds would choose that moment to vocalize in the way of cats, hoping for attention. The exasperated abbot directed that the cat be tied up for the teaching period so as not to distract the novices. After some years, the abbot died and was replaced by another abbot; some time after that, the cat died and was replaced by another cat. Centuries later, scholars of comparative religion visit the monastery to observe and write on the contemplative significance of the monastery's unique practice of tying up a cat before the evening meditation period begins. Practices born in utility have a funny way of becoming a cultus. What once was designed for very practical purposes takes on, to later participants, sacred significance. The ways of our ancestors become more than tools; they become institutions mediating value and meaning. That is not necessarily a bad thing; traditions teach values. But as James Russell Lowell lyricized in The Present Crisis (1844–45): 'New occasions teach new duties; time makes ancient good uncouth.' When the ways in which certain social institutions unfold in practice no longer reflect the realities of the society they serve, or fail to account for emergent practices that better accomplish the same purpose, what should be a straightforward assessment of practicality instead becomes a fraught contention over practices infused with meaning—like tied-up cats. Contemporary debates over open access in publishing strike me as an example of such a phenomenon. Much heat, if not great light, has been generated by contention over the danger this idea poses to structures carefully built over the past century and more to provide an ecosystem in which scholarly communication might flourish. What has been forgotten is that the structure by which such things are accomplished is not an end in itself but is, rather, only a means. Arguing over whether open access can be sustainable, or whether it may inflict wanton damage on the already delicate state of publishers' balance sheets, may be engaging; but in a fundamental way, this is simply the wrong conversation. It is a confusion of structure (a 'how') for substance (a 'what'). It is similar to arguing over whether the codex is heretical because it is not a scroll, when the real question is whether one or the other does a better job of communicating the information each contains. In any given sphere, structures for production arise as the result of the interplay of a variety of factors. These have been eloquently and comprehensively explored by Yochai Benkler in The Wealth of Networks.1 Benkler takes note of the long-standing view in economics that what separates things produced by markets from things produced by firms is simply the force of transaction costs; whichever structure provides a path to lower transaction costs will be the structure that dominates production in a given sphere ..."

Scholarly Communication and Citizen Science at FORCE2015 conference, Oxford

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:19 AM PST

"The FORCE2015 Research Communication and e-Scholarship Conference, hosted by the University of Oxford's e-Research Centre, took place on 12-13 January 2015. It brought together over 250 participants eager to explore the changes in the scholarly communication context and explore what this change means in practical terms. One of the areas of focus was citizen science ..."

Unleashing the Potential of Open Data in Russia

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:17 AM PST

"In recent years there has been an explosion in the development of Open Data – evolving from a highly specialized subject into one of global relevance and influence. Open Data is an increasingly important component in the design of social and economic policies – in developed and developing countries alike; it is increasingly institutionalized by governments, businesses, civil society organizations and international institutions ..."

Science AMA Series: I am Michael Eisen, Professor of Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. I co-founded the Public Library of Science, publisher of open access journals including PLOS ONE. AMA! : science

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:12 AM PST

"Every year, scientists around the world publish around 2,000,000 papers describing new ideas, techniques and discoveries. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these papers - around 85% - are published in subscription journals that place these papers behind paywalls, effectively rendering them inaccessible to anyone not affiliated with a major research university with a large library budget. Thus most of the world's population - including many scientists, and most teachers, students, health care workers, patients, journalists, policy makers and the interested public - do not have access to one of humanity's greatest creations - the published scientific and medical literature. Absurdly, scientists give their papers to publishers for free - and often even pay for the privilege of having their paper appear in a subscription journal - forcing libraries across the world to pay to access them. The money involved is staggering - science publishers take in close to $10 billion a year in revenue - an insane amount of money to waste in an era when science funding has been cut to the bone. I am Michael Eisen, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has been working for the last 15 years to change this system. In 2000 I and two colleagues founded the Public Library of Science a non-profit publisher of scientific journals dedicated to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. PLOS publishes a series of journals that use a business model - known as open access - in which the costs of publishing are paid upfront by universities, government agencies and other sponsors of science, and every paper we publish is made immediate freely available for anyone to access, download and reuse. Although we were widely dismissed at the beginning, PLOS and the open access movement we helped launch is in the ascendancy. One of our titles - PLOS ONE - is now the biggest journal in the world, and virtually every publisher is jumping onto the open access bandwagon ..."

Five Predictions for Academic Publishing in 2015 | Publishing Technology

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:06 AM PST

"While trade publishing is arguably still in the middle of its first digital disruption, the academic publishing landscape is in a much more mature stage of development. Indeed the biggest disruption to face academic publishing has been the rise of open access journals, which are now considered as part of the 'new normal' of the sector. Last year we explored what the post-open access future for academic publishing might look like in two high profile panel events at The London Book Fair and Frankfurt Book Fair. This week we're taking the insights we gained from those events and our own view of the market to make our predictions for scholarly and academic publishing in 2015 ..."

Building Community Engagement in Data Citation and Open Access to Data: A Sloan-ICPSR Project | Sloan Challenge Grants Program

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 12:52 AM PST

"The Building Community Engagement project, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is designed to promote practices that increase confidence in science: open access to research data, greater transparency in the production of data, and closer links between publications and the data on which they are based. Another goal is to explore ways to ensure long-term sustainability of repositories providing open access to data. The project has supported three meetings ..."
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