Friday, March 27, 2015

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Trustworthiness: Self-assessment of an Institutional Repository against ISO 16363-2012

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 10:29 AM PDT

Abstract:  Today, almost every document we create and the output from almost every research-related project, is a digital object. Not everything has to be kept forever, but materials with scholarly or historical value should be retained for future generations. Preserving digital objects is more challenging than preserving items on paper. Hardware becomes obsolete, new software replaces old, storage media degrades. In recent years, there has been significant progress made to develop tools and standards to preserve digital media, particularly in the context of institutional repositories. The most widely accepted standard thus far is the Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification: Criteria and Checklist (TRAC), which evolved into ISO 16363-2012. Deakin University Library undertook a self-assessment against the ISO 16363 criteria. This experience culminated in the current report, which provides an appraisal of ISO 16363, the assessment process, and advice for others considering embarking on a similar venture.

Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Kansas - Job details

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 09:07 AM PDT

"The University of Kansas Libraries seeks a dynamic, innovative and collaborative individual to join the Office of Scholarly Communication and Copyright.  This individual will work with faculty, staff, and students to convey an understanding of the changing modes of scholarly communication, open access and copyright issues, and scholarly publishing."

For open-access clarity, adopt rule on exception | News | Times Higher Education

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 02:28 AM PDT

"Research Councils UK should adopt the same exception to its open access policy as the UK funding bodies to relieve confusion. That is one of the recommendations of RCUK's first independent review of its open access policy, published on 26 March. The policy came into force in April 2013 but controversy over some of its provisions led RCUK to commit to a series of reviews, starting in 2014. The review panel, chaired by former University of Leicester vice-chancellor Sir Bob Burgess, concludes that it is too early to assess the effects of many aspects of the policy, such as embargo periods and licensing ... The panel, which includes learned societies, publishers and librarians, says funders should highlight where their policies are equivalent and differ because even when they believed their policies were similar, this was not always the perception ..."

UC Davis gets grant to look at open access to scholarship :: UC Davis News & Information

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 02:22 AM PDT

"The University of California, Davis, University Library and the California Digital Library will lead a major new project, with an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to help define the future of open access to scholarship. 'Pay It Forward: Investigating a Sustainable Model of Open Access Article Processing Charges for Large North American Research Institutions' is a yearlong effort to study the implications of new funding models for scholarly communications, particularly the use of article processing charges, and determine their sustainability for research universities in the United States and Canada ..."

IGI Global Launches Hybrid Open Access Initiative | IGI Global

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 02:16 AM PDT

"IGI Global, an international publisher of progressive academic research, is proud to announce a new open access initiative allowing individuals and institutions unrestricted access to content published in scholarly, peer-reviewed publications. Unlike traditional subscription-based publishing models, open access content is available without having to purchase or subscribe to the book or journal in which the content is published. In order to better serve the academic community and meet the needs of our authors, IGI Global is pleased to join the Open Access movement by bringing the Hybrid Open Access model to several of its established subscription-based journals. For more information and to view the 13 journals selected for inclusion in this program, visit http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/open-access/ ..."

Wiley are charging for access to thousands of articles that should be free - Ross Mounce

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 02:12 AM PDT

"Wiley are currently (3PM 2015-03-26) charging for access to thousands of articles that should be free to access. They have recently (legitimately) taken control of a journal called Limnology and Oceanography from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO). The association makes clear in its guidelines for the journal that all articles are placed into Free Access after three years (source). Yet today, I see that Wiley is selling access to articles from Limnology and Oceanography for $45.60 USD (inc. tax). I know this because I bought access to an article myself. Screenshot at the bottom. In fact volumes 41 (1996) to 1 (1956), consisting of thousands of articles are currently on sale at Wiley. Some Questions ..."

‘New public database’ hopes to make medical research less difficult | Customs Today Newspaper

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 02:08 AM PDT

"Science needs your private data to speed up breakthroughs. Researchers find it increasingly hard to recruit participants. Apple did its part earlier this month with Research Kit and made an attempt to get users involved in medical studies. But it soon ran into its share of limitations. Now Open Humans Network, a new public database, hopes to make medical research less opaque. The site finds a connection between people who want to share their medical data with researchers in need of that information. It relies on people who, given the choice, will feel encouraged to share their personal data on an open, research platform. Jason Bobe, project director, calls it "open-sourcing your body." As a public resource, the network doesn't guarantee privacy. The data is valuable yet identifiable. The system hopes to draw people in, but it doesn't take their private information lightly. If you're willing to contribute data, you will first fill out a questionnaire to demonstrate your understanding of the risks involved in relinquishing control of your personal information. After passing the consent process, you can create a member profile to participate in one of three listed studies: Harvard's Personal Genome Project, American Gut's study of microbial diversity and Go Viral's surveillance of flu-like virus. And if you're a researcher, you can tap into the public data available or connect your study to the network to access more members for their data. According to the creators of the project, there are people who are willing to make their private information public for the greater good. The Knight Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invested $1 million in the network for its potential to change the way medical discoveries are made ..."

New Open Humans Network Democratizes Patient Data for Research - iHealthBeat

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 02:01 AM PDT

"On Tuesday, researchers launched an open-sourced database to let individuals share their personal biological data with researchers, Newsweek reports (Richardson, Newsweek, 3/24).  The Open Humans Network, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Knight Foundation, aims to foster medical innovation by democratizing health-related data that traditionally have been kept private, according to Fortune (Lorenzetti, Fortune, 3/24) ..."

Next Steps in our Efforts to Promote Open Government at HHS | HHS Blog

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 01:52 AM PDT

"The three pillars of Open Government -- transparency, collaboration and participation -- are critical to achieving our mission of providing all Americans with the opportunity to live healthy, productive lives. Sunshine Week offers a great opportunity to share some exciting strides we are making at the Department of Health and Human Services toward promoting greater levels of openness and transparency. In our effort to champion Open Government practices, HHS is expanding public access to financial data and to the results of our funded scientific research.  As outlined in our most recent HHS Open Government Plan, all HHS Operating Divisions are actively engaged in releasing data, engaging user communities, and building tools that can support the public's ability to use our data.  One of our most notable accomplishments is the Health Data Initiative, a massive effort to unlock the vault of data that our agencies collect or maintain.  To date, HHS has made over 1,800 datasets accessible to the public through healthdata.gov.  Our goal now is to maximize the value of HHS information by ensuring that our stakeholders have access to the fullest spectrum of health and human service data in formats that are readily consumable and lend themselves to meaningful re-use.  Two of our newest initiatives have the potential to revolutionize the way in which HHS data are utilized and consumed ..."

HHS expands public access to financial records - FierceGovernment

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 01:47 AM PDT

"The Health and Human Services Department is expanding access to some of its data as a way to engage more with the public, says a March 16 HHS statement.  So far, HHS has made over 1,800 datasets accessible to the public through healthdata.gov, it says in the statement."

More government sites should be API-enabled, says open data advocate - Computerworld

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 01:40 AM PDT

More Australian government departments and agencies should make APIs available so that people can discover information faster, according to open government advocate Pia Waugh. Speaking at the AIIA Navigating the Internet of Things conference in Canberra, Waugh, who works for the Department of Finance, cited the Australian Bureau of Statistics as an example of an agency with an API-enabled website. With more than 1000 federal government websites — and more in state government — it can be difficult for consumers to find out the right place to go for help, she said.

Open Access morning trading: challenges and opportunities for the University of Lyon - Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 - 5 May 2015

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 01:30 AM PDT

"How to reconcile the economic issue, authors' rights, direct access to research results, and more open access to research data? The University of Lyon organizes a morning of exchanges around the open access to scientific publications ..."

Visions of the future for academic publishing - BioMed Central blog

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 01:08 AM PDT

"This month sees the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions – the world's first science journal – which is still published today. Much of our contemporary approach to publishing research began with the launch of that journal, but what does the future hold?  Philosophical Transactions' first editor, Henry Oldenburg, famously conceived the principle functions of publication in a research journal in 1665 as registration, validation, dissemination and archiving. He also carried out an early form of peer review where he asked colleagues for opinions on manuscripts outside his area of expertise – though peer review as we know it wasn't widely accepted until the 20th century.

Journal publishing has evolved – a little – since 1665. We all recognise the typical format of the scientific article and support the concept of the final published article as an immutable version of record, fixed at a point in time. The published article has become an important element in the assessment of an individual's or an institution's research; in fact, one of the most widely used measures of success in research is citations to the publications resulting from that research.  To what extent has this evolution led to a gold standard system, and is this as good as it gets? Or are we constrained by standards developed while we printed articles on paper, bound them and posted them in the mail?  The first journals were launched in order to disseminate research more widely than was possible through personal networks, but now it seems that the traditional format of the article and journal is restricting dissemination.  Could the growing support for themes such as openness, accessibility, collaboration and effectiveness, driven by technology and social communications, radically change the format and role of the research article and journal publishing?  At the recent BioMed Central roadshows in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland, four of my colleagues took a look at journal publishing and cast their eyes to the future. We hope our thoughts – captured below – provoke the same discussion and debate that our audiences took part in ..."

Impact of Social Sciences – Gold open access in practice: How will universities respond to the rising total cost of publication?

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 12:53 AM PDT

"As open access begins to enter the mainstream of scholarly communication, we need to monitor carefully how it is working in practice. 'Gold' open access, the publication of OA articles in journals, is becoming more common, and since it is often funded by pre-publication article-processing charges (APCs), we need to be fully aware of its costs as well as its benefits. This is particularly the case since the Gold model is favoured by a number of research funders in the UK and elsewhere (including Research Councils UK and large medical research charities, such as Wellcome), who make funds available to their grant holders to pay APCs. These researchers, and others, are now paying APCs not just to fully-OA journals, but also to the increasing number of subscription journals which also offer OA options for articles (the 'hybrid' OA model). Whilst some people have suggested that the hybrid model may act as a transition mechanism to move subscription journals to open access, such a transition will only work if, as income from APCs rises, subscriptions are reduced commensurately (so-called 'offsetting'). If that does not happen, then academic institutions will end up paying more – supporting both the traditional subscription model and the OA model simultaneously ... Concern is now growing in the higher education community that this is exactly what is happening – that the 'total cost of publication' is rising for institutions and that this is due to publishers 'double dipping' ... Working with Jisc and Information Power Ltd, we gathered data from 23 UK higher education institutions (HEIs) comprising their APC payments, costs of administering APCs and subscriptions. From these data we were able to learn a great deal about the current state of the APC market and also carry out some modelling on the total cost of publication for those HEIs. We wanted to do this work to help build an evidence base to inform ongoing policy development and future negotiations between HEIs and publishers. We wanted in particular to find out what institutions were actually paying, not just look at list prices.

We found that APC payments in the UK have really taken off since 2012 (the year the RCUK policy kicked in), with payments by the 23 HEIs rising from less than £1 million in 2012 to more than £4 million in 2013 (see Table 1) ..."

Open Access and the Graduate Experience featuring Nick Shockey | University of Texas Libraries

Posted: 27 Mar 2015 12:22 AM PDT

"As the core informational resources needed to succeed beyond the undergraduate experience have become less accessible to those wanting to continue their education, graduate students from around the world are increasingly coming together to promote open access to research. While in Austin to meet with legislators, Nick Shockey — Director of Programs & Engagement for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and founding Director of the Right to Research Coalition — will visit The University of Texas at Austin to talk about his work with student groups around the world and share concrete ideas for how graduate students at the university can advocate for increased access to the work they create through the creation of open access (OA) policies. Students will have an opportunity to learn how to be part of an international effort to improve the way research is shared and elevate their own research profile. Open access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. OA is closely related to open data and open education — parallel movements designed to increase access to and reuse of both data and educational resources. What are the new OA requirements at various granting agencies? How would a university OA policy improve overall research at UT?  And why does OA matter? Shockey will touch on these questions and more for attendees who want to have a better understanding of or get more involved with the issues surrounding broader access to public research ..."
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