Tuesday, February 3, 2015

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10 points to understand everything about Open Access

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:52 AM PST

[From Google's English]  "The movement of open access has been launched with a great idea: making research results available to all in open archives and open journals. Now he conquers the world for the benefit of authors, researchers, students, libraries, publishers, universities and research centers. And, just as important, for the benefit of the public, whatever their training and careers."

PeerJ–A PLOS ONE Contender in 2015? | The Scholarly Kitchen

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:50 AM PST

"PeerJ is entering its fourth year of operation, which may not sound like a long time for a new publisher, but in the world of start-ups, four years is often when its founders begin to seriously evaluate their future. In my last post, I reported that PeerJ was growing, publishing more papers and attracting more authors, although it was not clear whether the company was moving toward financial stability. In a crowded market of multidisciplinary open access journals, I argued that the success (or failure) of PeerJ would be determined when it received its first Impact Factor, which will be announced in mid-June with the publication of Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Report. The purpose of this post is to estimate PeerJ's first Impact Factor and discuss its implications. As of this writing, PeerJ has not been indexed in the Web of Science's Core Collection–the dataset from which the Journal Citation Report (and the Impact Factor) are derived. However, it is still possible to estimate PeerJ's first Impact Factor by searching the references of other papers indexed in the Core Collection. This called a Cited Reference Search, and it is one of those amazingly powerful tools that is largely overlooked by most Web of Science users. For publishers, cited reference searches can reveal how authors cite your journals, and how sloppy and error-prone some authors can be ... So how is PeerJ going to perform? If we include 402 citations in the numerator and 231 citable items in the denominator, we arrive at a base score of 1.740. This figure doesn't include self-citations (citations from PeerJ in 2014 citing other PeerJ articles published in 2013), since PeerJ articles are not yet indexed in the Web of Science. While self-citation rates can be particularly high in specialist journals for which there are few other journals publishing articles on the same topic, multidisciplinary biomedical journals generally have low self-citation rates. For PLOS ONE, self-citation rates affecting their Impact Factor calculation range from 8% to 14%. If PeerJ is comparable, we are looking at a first Impact Factor between 1.879 and 1.984.  How does this compare to PLOS ONE?  ..."

Preparing for impact - Institutional repositories - Research Information

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:47 AM PST

Stanford's institutional repository was set up in 2006 and the university launched its self-deposit user interface in 2013. Today this only has depositors numbering in the hundreds – despite Stanford having thousands of academics. 'It started as a preservation repository and still has a strong preservation focus,' said Cramer. 'We have not pushed it, but rather made it available to see where it resonates with researchers. But uptake has been disappointing ... While uptake has been disappointing, researchers have been keen to use the repository to store theses and supplementary data,' said Cramer. 'Usage is increasing organically, as researchers realise the benefits of using the repository. We are also adding more functionality and funders are also starting to require the storage of data and research outputs.'  This added functionality is just one of the factors that are driving up usage. Attitudes are changing with respect to the long-term availability and re-use of data and information. Researchers are also increasingly having to show that their work has impact. While this is not currently a big driver in the US, Cramer believes it will be in the future.  One university has found analytics to be an important tool to persuade academics to use its repository. The first thing you see when you click on the repository for the University of Wollongong in Australia is a world map which in real-time shows you the location of users who are downloading content from the repository.  'It's a great visual tool, but more importantly it has helped us engage with the academics,' said Michael Organ, manager for repository services at the University of Wollongong in Australia. Like Stanford, Wollongong has found it difficult to encourage academics to use the repository ..."

Gill Heart Institute cardiologist launches journal dedicated to VADs | EurekAlert! Science News

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:42 AM PST

"Maya Guglin, MD, PhD, Director of Mechanical Assisted Circulation at the University of Kentucky's Gill Heart Institute, has launched The VAD Journal, a publication focused exclusively on mechanical assisted circulation ...  A ventricular assisted device, or VAD, is an implantable device that helps the heart do its job when it is too weak or diseased to perform effectively on its own. Originally designed as a means to maintain circulation until a donor heart could be found, VADs are now gaining popularity as a destination therapy for patients with heart failure.  The VAD Journal will be an open access publication, meaning that its content is available online without significant financial, legal or technical barriers ..."

The VAD Journal | Heart Institute | University of Kentucky

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:31 AM PST

"The VAD Journal is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed open access publication devoted to all aspects of mechanical assisted circulation and advanced heart failure. Our goal is to address topics and issues related to mechanical assisted circulation and to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas among professionals from various specialties working with ventricular assist devices (VADs) and other means of mechanical assisted circulation, with a focus on clinical studies, and with the ultimate goal of improving patient care.  The journal aims to appeal to a multidisciplinary group of specialists, including cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, vascular surgeons, radiologists, interventional radiologists, cardiovascular anesthesiologists, cardiac imaging specialists, bioengineers, and basic science researchers in advanced heart failure and mechanical assisted circulation. This multidisciplinary exposure is a specific motivation for the development of this journal. Currently, articles related to VADs are orphans in journals devoted to cardiac transplantation, bioengineering, and cardiothoracic surgery.  Completely dedicated to heart failure, mechanical assisted circulation, and VADs, the VAD Journal presents the spectrum of clinical studies including basic science findings, experimental studies, surgical, medical, and diagnostic aspects of patient care. Case reports are also welcome. An online edition will enhance the reader's experience with high quality images and videos. We anticipate broad, forum-style discussions of challenging cases. We will publish papers immediately after copy-editing is done.  We intend for the VAD Journal to differ from existing journals in several ways:  The journal will be online only, and therefore we will be publishing new papers as soon as they are copyedited. In this way, we will effect a more rapid dissemination of new findings and ideas. We will attempt to publish all accepted articles within six weeks of submission.  The journal is peer-reviewed but unlike the majority of established journals, we will not only keep reviewers anonymous, but also keep reviewers blinded to authors' names, institutions, and countries of origin, to ensure fair and unbiased reviews. Each manuscript (after being initially screened by the Editor-in-Chief or an editorial board member) will be sent to at least two independent reviewers.

We know that reviewing manuscript can be time consuming and we appreciate those who agree to serve as reviewers. As a way of compensating our reviewers' effort, we will publish some of their more interesting commentaries. If a commentary is selected by the Editor-in-Chief, the reviewer will be notified and offered an opportunity to modify this commentary for publication."

How Open is Your Research? « SPARC Europe

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:27 AM PST

"SPARC Europe has developed a tool to help you visualise how open you are in the way you manage and disseminate your research and teaching output. This includes various forms of scientific publications from monographs to journals or reports; data and Open Education Resources. What policies or strategies do you have in place to support your Open Science openness efforts? Create your institution's visualisation on openness in a radar graph by clicking on this link."

Welcome to ETD 2015 India | etd2015india.in

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:23 AM PST

"ETD 2015 is an international symposium and gathering of current and future researchers and practitioners in the area of Electronic Theses and Dissertations. The event will be held on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Campus, New Delhi, India during 4th - 6th November 2015. The theme for the ETD 2015 is "Evolving Genre of ETDs for Knowledge Discovery". It will provide delegates the unique opportunity to network, share experiences and discuss current good practices from around the world, enabling researchers and practitioners to chart a future course of action. The last symposium was held recently in Leicester, UK (ETD 2014) and some of the previous major meetings were in Hong Kong (ETD 2013); Peru (ETD 2012); Cape Town, South Africa (ETD 2011); Austin, Texas, USA (ETD 2010); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (ETD 2009); Aberdeen, Scotland (ETD 2008); Sydney Australia (ETD 2005); Berlin, Germany (ETD 2003); with the first meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, in June 1998. ETD Symposium is being organized for the first time in Indian subcontinent. It will give an opportunity to the library and information professionals from this region and neighbouring countries to attend the international symposium which is of high relevance to one and all. This will also reinforce NDLTD objective to promote Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETDs) activities in the developing countries. The professionals will get an opportunity to interact with delegates and prominent speakers from developed countries and learn about the best practices being followed and advocated by them. The event of ETD 2015 will provide an international forum where professionals and practitioners will deliberate upon the challenges and problems which they encounter while setting up ETD Archives."

A step toward compatibility with GPLv3 - Creative Commons

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 02:16 AM PST

"Together with the Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons has officially proposed the GNU General Public License version 3 as a candidate for compatibility with CC BY-SA version 4.0. The announcement was made on the CC license development mailing list on January 29th, kicking off what will be at least a month-long discussion period before a final compatibility determination is made. This proposal is significant because it would bridge a gap between two of the most widely-used copyleft licenses for code and content. Currently, developers are sometimes reluctant to integrate BY-SA content into GPL projects because of uncertainty about how the two licenses work together. Eliminating obstacles to remix between licenses so similar in aim and spirit is precisely what the compatibility mechanism in BY-SA was designed to do. However, there are differences between the two licenses that pose issues for the CC and FSF communities to consider before declaring compatibility. Over the next several weeks, we will be leading a public discussion about those topics, ensuring the final decision will be informed by community input. We encourage anyone interested to join the discussion by signing up here. GPLv3 is the second candidate for ShareAlike compatibility considered by Creative Commons. The Free Art License version 1.3 was considered under CC's established compatibility process and criteria and was declared compatible in October 2014."

Crowdfunding Access to Archives | Backtalk

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 01:34 AM PST

"Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University (NU), Boston, and his colleagues are studying how information went 'viral' in 19th-century America, when newspapers and periodicals published short works of fiction, poetry, and other prose. Before modern copyright law, it was common for editors to reprint these texts, originally published elsewhere. The texts moved around the country through this network, resulting in a shared print culture. Cordell's research seeks to identify these shared texts, to examine which were reprinted and why, and to map how they traveled and changed as they passed from publication to publication. To begin, Cordell and David Smith, an NU professor of computer and information science, downloaded the text of the entire corpus of pre-1860 newspapers available from the Library of Congress's Chronicling America website. They performed a computational analysis using algorithms they developed to identify matching texts. Thus far, the project team has identified thousands of viral texts, including minor pieces by major authors who were more influential than previously recognized. They have also mashed up the data with other open data to reveal connections between viral texts and the expansion of railroads, the establishment of political boundaries, and local population characteristics ... Yet, according to Cordell, there are 'glaring holes' in his research. His data includes no content from Massachusetts—and Boston was a major publishing center of the time. There is also very little available to him from New York or Philadelphia, also vital to the period. He lacks this content because it is locked up in commercial databases. Although his institution subscribes to a number of these databases, the ability to download the text for analysis is unavailable ... Before the digital era, libraries and cultural institutions entered into agreements with vendors to microfilm their collections and market the microfilm to other libraries, enabling broad access to the content that was not previously possible. As these vendors now build digital archival products, they have returned to the libraries to negotiate rights to resell the content in digital form.  Still, it is not only these legacy microfilm collections that are being marketed to libraries digitally. A perusal of the websites of Adam Matthew, Alexander Street, EBSCO, Gale, ProQuest, and Readex shows that they are working with libraries and other institutions to create newly digitized archival collections at a prolific rate ... There is an alternative for libraries that want to digitize archival collections and make them freely available to all. There have been a number of recent initiatives that use crowdfunding to cover the costs of making materials available via open access, for example, SCOAP3 for journals in high-energy physics, Knowledge Unlatched for scholarly ebooks in the humanities and social sciences, and Open Library of Humanities for articles and books in the humanities. For the digitization of archival materials, a similar initiative is Reveal Digital.  Founded in 2011, Reveal Digital relies on libraries to crowdfund specific digitization projects.  Its initial effort, Independent Voices, will result in the digitization of over one million pages of alternative press periodicals in the collections of partner libraries. Digitized materials will initially be available only to libraries providing financial support for the project, but after an embargo period, the content will become fully open access and the full-text corpus will be available for data mining ..."

Peer-Review and Quality Control - Open Access Archivangelism

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 01:19 AM PST

Many physicists say — and some may even believe — that peer review does not add much to their work, that they would do fine with just unrefereed preprints, and that they only continue to submit to peer-reviewed journals because they need to satisfy their promotion/evaluation committees. And some of them may even be right. Certainly the giants in the field don't benefit from peer review. They have no peers, and for them peer-review just leads to regression on the mean. But that criterion does not scale to the whole field, nor to other fields, and peer review continues to be needed to maintain quality standards. That's just the nature of human endeavor. And the quality vetting and tagging is needed before you risk investing the time into reading, using and trying to build on work -- not after. (That's why it's getting so hard to find referees, why they're taking so long (and often not doing a conscientious enough job, especially for journals whose quality standards are at or below the mean.) Open Access means freeing peer-reviewed research from access tolls, not freeing it from peer review... Harnad, S. (1998/2000/2004) The invisible hand of peer review. Nature [online] (5 Nov. 1998), Exploit Interactive 5 (2000): and in Shatz, B. (2004) (ed.) Peer Review: A Critical Inquiry. Rowland & Littlefield. Pp. 235-242. http://cogprints.org/1646/ Harnad, S. (2009) The PostGutenberg Open Access Journal. In: Cope, B. & Phillips, (Eds.) The Future of the Academic Journal. Chandos. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/265617/ Harnad, S. (2010) No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed. D-Lib Magazine 16 (7/8). http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21348/ Harnad, S. (2014) Crowd-Sourced Peer Review: Substitute or supplement for the current outdated system? LSE Impact Blog 8/21 August 21 2014 http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/08/21/crowd-sourced-peer-review-substitute-or-supplement/
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