Tuesday, March 24, 2015

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Digital Scholarship Librarian

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 08:32 AM PDT

"The Digital Scholarship Librarian provides expertise, information management, technical and organizational skills to the realization of the Library's Scholarly Communication Program's strategic goals and initiatives in a highly collaborative environment. Coordinates and implements those aspects of the Program that provide faculty, students, and staff with current information, education, tools, and resources. Helps support new models for the dissemination of the results of research, scholarship, teaching, and learning. Participates in the planning, development, and management of a Digital Scholarship Center and of the institutional digital repository of Dartmouth research...."

A conceptual model of Open Access Institutional Repository in Indonesia academic libraries: A conceptual model of Open Access Institutional Repository in Indonesia academic libraries: Library Management: Vol 36, No 1/2

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 01:53 AM PDT

Use the link to access pay-per-view options for the article published in the journal Library Management available from Emerald.  "Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to attempt to build a conceptual model of Open Access Institutional Repositories (OAIR) in Indonesia academic libraries, viewed from knowledge management (KM) perspective. Design/methodology/approach – Literature-based conceptual analysis of previous studies related to open access, institutional repositories viewed from KM perpective. Findings – The conceptual model of OAIR emphasizes three variables – people collaboration, process, and technology functions. These variables, with their many elements, are integrated together in order to help the university or Higher Education (HE) institution in capturing its own scholarship produced as a whole. Besides, that integration aims at facilitating knowledge sharing so as to enrich knowledge content and to enhance global access. A process chart of OAIR based on the conceptual model is built to illustrate knowledge content recruitment in Indonesia academic libraries. Research limitations/implications – The conceptual model proposed in this paper is not yet formally tested. It needs more research to understand the Indonesian context of OAIR to build a more accurate model, based on the experiences in developing and implementing OAIR in Indonesia HE institutions. Originality/value – Many academic libraries in Indonesia develop OAIR to increase the visibility of the scholarship of the parent HE institution. It is significant to view the practice of OAIR in academic library from the KM perspective. KM implementation is almost unheard of in Indonesia universities. However, The OAIR phenomenon in Indonesia academic libraries can be viewed as a KM initiative."

Highlights from the inaugural issue of ACS Central Science | EurekAlert! Science News

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 01:40 AM PDT

"Today, ACS is launching its first open access multidisciplinary research journal. Aspiring to communicate the most novel and impactful science developments, ACS Central Science will feature peer-reviewed articles reporting on timely original research across chemistry and its allied sciences. Free to readers and authors alike, original research content will be accompanied by additional editorial features. These additional editorial features include news stories contributed by the Society's award-winning science journalists, invited topical reviews (called Outlooks) from acknowledged experts around the world, and provocative First Reactions, in which leading thinkers provide incisive summaries and reflections on research presented in the journal and other issues of scientific importance ..."

Interview with David Lippman of Pierce College | Opensource.com

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 01:30 AM PDT

"I learned about David Lippman from an article on TeamOpen and realized I needed to talk to him more about his work in open education and open source. David is a professor at Pierce College and has saved students a million dollars with his shared textbooks. He also built IMathAS, a free, open source math assessment and course platform ..."

Jim Sensenbrenner and Eddie Bernice Johnson Reintroduce Public Access Bill - Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 01:23 AM PDT

"Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) today reintroduced the Public Access to Public Science (PAPS) Act. This legislation would ensure public access to published materials concerning scientific research and development activities funded by federal science agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Weather Service (NWS). An embargo period is included to help balance publishers' needs with public access goals. PAPS builds on efforts by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) ..."

Open, or not Open, Research Data ?

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 01:19 AM PDT

Use the link to access the full text document in French.  

Trials | Full text | Sharing data from clinical trials: the rationale for a controlled access approach

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 01:10 AM PDT

Use the link to access the full text article from BMC Medicine.  "Background The move towards increased transparency around clinical trials is welcome. Much focus has been on under-reporting of trials and access to individual patient data to allow independent verification of findings. There are many other good reasons for data sharing from clinical trials. We describe some key issues in data sharing, including the challenges of open access to data. These include issues in consent and disclosure; risks in identification, including self-identification; risks in distorting data to prevent self-identification; and risks in analysis. These risks have led us to develop a controlled access policy, which safeguards the rights of patients entered in our trials, guards the intellectual property rights of the original researchers who designed the trial and collected the data, provides a barrier against unnecessary duplication, and ensures that researchers have the necessary resources and skills to analyse the data. Methods We briefly discuss the practicalities of our current approach to data sharing, including ensuring that data are discoverable and how to deal with old studies. We describe data sharing activities at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit. Results One hundred and three data sharing activities were logged from 2012 to 2014 from external and internal applicants. The motivations are varied, but none have been for replication of the primary results. Conclusions For any request to share data, we note the important role of independent reviewers as well as reviewers who know the study well, and present some of the key questions that all reviewers should ask when deciding whether a request is reasonable. We consider the responsibilities of all parties. We highlight the potential for opportunity costs. Clinical trial data should be shared for reasonable requests but there are many practical issues that must be explicitly considered."

Open Access - Making Sense : Booking open: Uncovering researcher behaviours and engagement with Open Access, 20 May, Oxford Brookes University

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 12:56 AM PDT

" ... Last April the Hefce report - Policy on open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (2014/7) highlighted the need for behaviour change if researchers are to engage with the OA agenda. One year on, what have institutions done to encourage behaviour change?   Do you want to understand researchers better?  Do you want to learn new techniques to embed culture change and improve your services?  Come and hear about how you can use ethnography and behavioural change analysis to understand your researchers, analyse your current practices and achieve the behaviour change required ..."
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