Wednesday, January 28, 2015

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Ireland: The Transition to Open Access | Open Access Working Group

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 02:08 AM PST

"Open Knowledge are a partner in the PASTEU4OA project, reinforcing open access strategies and policies at a national level and facilitating their coordination among EU Member States. As part of the project activities a series of country case studies are being published. Open Knowledge have delivered a case study looking at Ireland's transition to Open Access. It includes a brief description of Ireland's higher education and research infrastructure, and an overview of the scholarly communication systems including publisher output. This is followed by a short history of the development of Open Access policies in the country, including all aspects of implementation and supported infrastructures. The case study concludes with a look at challenges and on-going issues such as measuring the socio-economic impact of Open Access across Irish society and the economy, and capacity building. The case study is available as a PDF and was written by Stuart Dempster at Dempster Associates for Open Knowledge ..."

The Dark Side Of Open Data: It's Not Only How Much You Publish, But How And Why

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 02:03 AM PST

"A few days ago, the World Wide Web Foundation established by Sir Tim Berners-Lee released the second edition of the Open Data Barometer, a report on the impact and prevalence of open data initiatives around the world. Turns out the UK government is the "most transparent" in the world, when it comes to public access to official data, with US and Sweden in second and third place respectively. That's fantastic, isn't it? Opening the data (which already belongs to the public, as it is produced with taxpayers' money) can expose corruption and abuse, provide new insights on sensitive topics, help engage citizens in important debates, improving, in the end, the overall quality of democracies. So, kudos to the British and God forgive the Kenyans, whose country has fallen from to 22nd to 49th in the Barometer's rankings. Shame on them. Or, at least, that's how the prevailing narrative goes ..."

DPLA’s Strategic Plan « News & Announcements – Digital Commonwealth

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 01:56 AM PST

"DPLA (The Digital Public Library of America) has just released its Strategic Plan for 2015-2017.  This is significant to us because the Digital Commonwealth in partnership with BPL is a service hub for DPLA. The DPLA plan is organized into four major initiatives: Complete the hub network so all collections and item types have an on ramp to DPLA Build out the technology platform to be flexible and extensible providing for further growth and diversification Pursue a global outreach program Achieve sustainability through diversification of revenue sources by the end of 2017 These initiatives support DPLA's mission to provide a discovery portal, a stable platform, and free access to all for the digitized cultural heritage of America. Click here for a more detailed breakdown of goals and objectives ..."

Digital Publis Library of America: Strategic Plan 2015-2017

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 01:53 AM PST

"Top Priorities: Complete the service hub network across the United States so that every collection that wishes to be a part of DPLA can become so. Diversify our holdings so that all kinds of institutions, item types, geographical regions, and topics
are adequately represented."

Can Open Access Journals transform Market Research? | Blog - BRIDGEi2i Analytics Solutions

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 01:48 AM PST

"... Many different 'open' methods trace their origins to open source or free software paradigm. Free software movement started in 1980s against the practice of limiting the access to the source code of a software. Over the years it has shown that free availability of the resource does not impact the economic benefit of the entities operating in this sphere. The selling proposition for the companies became services rather than the products. In the past open source generated a significant interest among the software enthusiasts. Open source delved into the concepts of open design, open data, open access and many other 'open' movements that focused on increasing transparency and information sharing. The underlying theme for these movements has been to free-up knowledge for a larger social benefit ... Open data has empowered many to analyse and come up with interesting products and services. From retrieving data spread across different locations, open data shifts the balance towards making sense out of available data. The open data project of many governments have brought about more transparency in public systems. In 2009, the US government started a website to release a lot of government data in the public domain ... Academic researchers play an important role in diffusing the techniques developed by them among the marketing practitioners and intermediary organisations. A study published byInternational Journal of Research in Marketing explores the relationship between marketing science research and marketing practitioners. There is a dissonance between the various stakeholders in terms of the areas where the marketing research have higher impacts. Nevertheless, the techniques such as segmentation tools were results of the research in marketing ... The products and tools that marketing professionals use are derived from the academic research and this involves collaboration between the industry and academic experts. The 20 articles identified by the study to have had the most impact among marketing practitioners are restricted by subscription. The journals which publish these studies have also been viewed by a lesser number of practitioners indicating that the the ideas flow in limited spaces with higher sophistication. Accepting open access in research paradigm would improve the dissemination of ideas among a larger group of enterprising individuals who lack financial resources.  The marketers and businesses have to be keen on garnering the benefits of open access ..."

News 2015 - ProQuest, University of Michigan Library and Bodleian Libraries Provide 25,000 Early Modern Books as Open Access Text

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 01:37 AM PST

"The full text of more than 25,000 titles from the acclaimed ProQuest resource Early English Books Online (EEBO) are now openly available on the websites of the University of Michigan Library and the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. The new open access titles are the result of work of the Text Creation Partnership (TCP), a longstanding effort to transcribe early modern print books, creating standardized, accurate XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions. Through funding from ProQuest, Jisc and a collective of libraries, these text files are jointly owned by more than 150 libraries worldwide, creating a significant database of foundational scholarship ..."

The Open Access Advantage in Legal Education’s Age of Assessment - Jotwell: Lex

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 01:34 AM PST

"Open access (OA) scholarship is available online, without fees, and free of restrictive copyright and licensing provisions. As institutions of higher education implement a more metrics-driven paradigm, law schools are increasingly attentive to the quantification of both individual faculty and aggregate law school impact. Citation counts are one means of quantifying these impacts. Donovan, Watson, and Osborne build on their 2011 article, Citation Advantage of Open Access Legal Scholarship, which demonstrated that open access resources have a great impact on legal scholarship, (103 Law Lib. J. 553, 557). In this article, they work to develop a systematic and scientific explanation for why open access scholarship has a citation advantage in the legal education context. The authors' research shows that articles published simultaneously as print and open access law review articles provide at least a 50% citation advantage over their print-only law review counterparts. More specifically, they find that the aggregate cumulative OA advantage for new and retrospective works combined is about 53%; the OA advantage of newer works published during the years 2007-2012 is about 60%. Their research also indicates that OA articles are more heavily cited in the years immediately following an article's publication and that OA articles tend to "command greater attention over the lifespan of the work" (Donovan et al, at 8). The authors also explore the measurement of the OA advantage to a law review as it relates to the institution's ranking in the U.S. News & World Report. They conclude that the greatest OA advantage is for a journal whose home institution is in tier 2, 3, or 4 of the U.S. News & World Report law school ranking. For those tiers, the aggregate cumulative OA advantage for new and retrospective works combined is about 51% compared to an OA advantage of new works published during the years 2007-2012 of about 89% for tiers 2 and 3, and 81% for tier 4. For journals at tier 1 schools, the OA impact decreases significantly because journals at higher ranked institutions have high levels of exposure even without OA. In this tier, the aggregate cumulative OA advantage for new and retrospective works combined is about 11% compared to an OA advantage of new works published during the years 2007-2012 of about 16%. As the authors point out in their conclusion, this article is a sobering reminder that readily available information on the Internet will often be the first, and in some cases the only, source consulted. Consequently, OA publishing offers faculty the potential opportunity to increase their work's exposure in the field by being readily available, and therefore, is fertile ground for the OA citation advantage. According to Donovan, Watson, and Osborne, the OA citation advantage for a law review article is threefold: an OA article gets attention sooner; about half of the citations to an OA article will be from the first six years of the publication's existence; and OA articles receive attention for a sustained period of time that exceeds the length of attention received by its non-OA counterparts. Depositing faculty scholarship in an open access repository, whether in SSRN or in an educational institution's repository, is a simple, tasteful way that faculty can promote their scholarship while supporting the open access movement."

Press Release: LYRASIS to Become Exclusive North American Membership Partner for Open Library of Humanities

Posted: 28 Jan 2015 01:31 AM PST

"LYRASIS is pleased to announce that it has entered into a partnership to become the exclusive membership and administrative agent for the Open Library of Humanities in North America. With a strong history of productive partnerships in the open access field, including Knowledge Unlatched, Reveal Digital, and SCOAP3, LYRASIS is at the forefront of the rapidly changing scholarly communications landscape.   The Mellon-funded Open Library of Humanities offers a new, extremely cost-effective and equitable business model for journals to achieve gold open access in the humanities sphere. Rather than concentrating the burden of payment on the individual authors or their institution when work is accepted (as do many existing publishers), the OLH is supported by a consortium of libraries who all share the cost. In this way, we can fairly pay for the labor of publishing on a not-for-profit basis while also ensuring that anyone whose work meets the high-standards of peer review can be published with no author fee ..."
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