Friday, April 24, 2015

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CrossRef’s DOI Event Tracker Pilot | CrossTech

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 01:52 AM PDT

"So have you been wondering what we've been doing since we posted about the experiments we were conducting using PLOS's open source ALM code? A lot, it turns out. About a week after our post, we were contacted by a group of our members from OASPA who expressed an interest in working with the system. Apparently they were all about to conduct similar experiments using the ALM code, and they thought that it might be more efficient and interesting if they did so together using our installation. Yippee. Publishers working together. That's what we're all about ... CrossRef members are interested in knowing about 'events' relating to the DOIs that identify their content. But our members face a now-classic problem. There are a large number of sources for scholarly publications (3k+ CrossRef members) and that list is still growing. Similarly, there are an unbounded number of potential sources for usage information ... Finally, there is a broad and growing audience of stakeholders who are interested in seeing how the literature is being used. The audience includes publishers themselves as well as funders, researchers, institutions, policy makers and citizens ..."

DOI Event Tracker Project - OASPA

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 01:47 AM PDT

"One of the reasons that OASPA exists is to identify ways in which publishers can work together to promote 'best practices for maintaining and disseminating OA scholarly communications'.  Last year, several OASPA members started to explore how they might work together in the area of article metrics.  Their reasoning was that such metrics would be much more useful if they were collected in a more consistent fashion and made available as openly as possible, so that data could be compared easily across journals and publishers. Thanks to the great people at CrossRef, these conversations have evolved into the DOI Event Tracker project.  You can read much more about this in two recent CrossRef blogposts from Geoffrey Bilder and Joe Wass."

How to comply with funders’ open access policies | Exchanges

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 01:43 AM PDT

"With more and more funding agencies establishing policies and mandates for open access publishing, we know that navigating the various requirements can be difficult and time consuming for authors. Every funding agency seems to have slightly different specifics to their open access policies and each paper has multiple authors with multiple funding agencies supporting their research. The following three steps will help you comply with your funder mandates when publishing your research: Step 1: Learn the details of the open access policies of the funders supporting the research in your paper. Authors can use funders' policy listings such as SHERPA/JULIET or publisher versions; for example Wiley, Nature Publishing Group and BioMed Central have similar listings. Wiley has recently launched a new institution and funder Open Access Policy Finder*, searchable by Funder and Institution ..."

Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On | Periodicals Price Survey 2015

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 01:39 AM PDT

" ... Budget pressure remains constant. The overall economy appears to be growing and expanding, but the public sector is still not experiencing growth sufficient to return to pre–Great Recession levels when adjusted for inflation. According to reports from the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO), overall state spending has increased 9.4% over prerecession levels, increasing from $687 billion in 2008 to an expected expenditure of $752 billion in 2015. However, calculating inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), 2015 expenditures will fall short of the $772 billion that would be needed just to keep up. According to the NASBO report, "Budget growth has remained below the historical average throughout the recovery period. And growth in general fund revenues in fiscal 2014 was minimal, with collections below projections in a number of states." Funding for K–12 education has seen some relief, as a total of $11.1 billion was added to state budgets in 2015, and higher education also saw a healthy increase of $4.4 billion. But despite several years of modest increases, overall budgets have not returned to prerecession levels of spending when adjusted for inflation. The stagnation in public spending is reflected in budgets for higher education and libraries. In a 2015 survey of college and university chief academic officers conducted by Gallup and Inside Higher Ed, only 14% of chief academic officers strongly agree that the financial situation at their institution has improved in the past year, and 66% reported that they reallocate funds to support academic programs rather than finding new revenues to support them. The Chronicle of Higher Education also reports the mixed economic message, as appropriations increased 5% for 2015, but half the states are still appropriating less than they were five years ago ... Discussion of the budget pressure and long-term viability of the large e-journal package, or Big Deal, continued in 2014 with publication of a number of studies, including one by Bergstrom, Courant, McAfee and Williams, 'Evaluating big deal journal bundles,' in which the authors examined many elements of e-journal packages including pricing and cost-­effectiveness. The debate on Big Deal e-journal packages is likely to continue for some time. Some 57% of library respondents to the 2014 EBSCO Budgeting and Trends Survey reported that they would consider breaking up e-journal packages, subscribing only to the most used titles in the bundle to achieve their budget goals; 77% respondents indicated that they were likely to renegotiate multiyear agreements for lower overall prices and/or price caps. Some 74% of publishers responding to the same survey indicated that they were likely to offer smaller subsets of content in the coming year; 78% of publisher respondents thought that the Big Deal would be around in four years (2019). In an evaluation of more than 3,000 e-journal packages handled by EBSCO for 2014, the average price increase was 6.6% ... Open access (OA) continues to develop, but some financial analysts, such as Sami Kassab, executive director at investment firm Exane BNP Paribas, now believe that OA may no longer be a pressure point on commercial publishing. OA has not been the disruptive force on commercial publishing for which many had hoped ..."

Internet Portal Open Access: Internet Portal Open Access: Article

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 01:29 AM PDT

"Following a thorough overhaul of the technology and content, we are pleased to announce the relaunch of the information platform open-access.net! Since 2007, open-access.net has been the central source of information on Open Access (OA) for libraries, research funders, and scholars and scientists in the German-speaking area. With funding from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts (MWK) of the State of Baden-Württemberg, we have now been able to do a thorough overhaul of the information platform, which was originally developed within the framework of a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The overhaul was coordinated by the University of Konstanz. The tried-and-tested structure of the website has been retained. Hence, in addition to comprehensive information on the subject of OA, we continue to offer target-group-oriented and discipline-specific content that provides users with clearly-structured, quick, and efficient access to relevant topics.   We would like to sincerely thank all those who were involved in creating the new platform. Ulrich Herb, Marco Tullney, and Michael Weller, in particular, participated in the revision of the content, while Daniel Beucke, Nils Windisch, and their team were responsible for the overhaul of the technology. We would also like to thank all the experts from the OA community who contributed to the creation of the discipline-specific content, and Miriam Geoghegan for the translation into English. To enable us to expand open-access.net and to keep it up to date, we look forward to your suggestions and support!"

Open | International Livestock Research Institute

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 01:24 AM PDT

"In 2010, ILRI's management committee adopted an ILRI strategy on research publishing. This said that the institute would intentionally move towards making its research and other products more accessible. It also talked of open access and agreed that ILRI information products would have a creative commons license. This was the start of a concerted move towards more open information and data products, platforms and services at ILRI. Here you can find links to important policy and planning documents. You can also find links to platforms where we publish our knowledge openly. We also point to several other stories and resources about our open experiences ..."

TACC’s Wrangler Opens to Scientists

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 01:19 AM PDT

"The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University, and the University of Chicago today announced that Wrangler, a groundbreaking data analysis and management system, is now in early operations for the open science community. The system is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which includes $6 million for deployment plus additional funding for operations ..."

Problems with the use of images in open textbooks | Tony Bates

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 01:15 AM PDT

"If you have downloaded my open textbook, 'Teaching in a Digital Age' in pdf or Modi format for the iPad or Kobo, you may have noticed that many of the images I have liberally used throughout the book do not fit on the page or have become separated from their 'frame' (the green and black lines before and after the images), in the downloaded versions ... Here is an example (I have reduced the size of both images) ... You can see the image has been removed from the frame and dropped into the next page ... This happens primarily because the html version read on computer screens or laptops scrolls, while the pdf and mobile device versions are paginated. What fits nicely on a scrolled screen does not always fit a paginated version because the image is too large to fit within the remaining page space, so it is bounced to the next page. This is made worse by my having artistically framed the images. The frames are independent objects from the image though so do not move with the image when it is 'bounced' ... So what should I do now? The html version works beautifully, but even reducing the size of graphics and moving them won't solve the problem for the exported versions, because each exported version is different in the way it handles the lay-out. I could go through the whole book and remove the frames but there are over 100 images and graphics throughout the book ... This is where I really need your advice. OK, so it isn't perfect as a pdf or on an iPad, but is it good enough? My wife says I'm crazy to worry about this ('It's the content that matters'), and my best friend accused me of being a compulsive-obsessive personality (that's what good friends are there for, to tell you the truth), and he said if people don't like it, they can use their laptop, but my wife and my friend are not the audience for this book. You are, and if this is a problem for you, I need to know. So what's your advice on this? Don't worry about it, or find a solution, and if so, what? ..."

SoftwareX - Journal - Elsevier

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 01:11 AM PDT

"SoftwareX aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today's research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all research domains.SoftwareX also aims to stress the importance of the software developers who are, in part, responsible for this impact ..."

Elsevier Announces the Launch of SoftwareX -- AMSTERDAM, April 22, 2015 /PR Newswire UK/ --

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 01:06 AM PDT

"Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of a new concept journal, SoftwareX. The online-only journal provides a dedicated publishing home for all software which fundamentally impacts the research process, but traditionally would not be acknowledged or reported on systematically. SoftwareX is an open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed open source software. As conducting research across disciplines becomes more computer-driven, scientists increasingly need to develop code, software and other computational tools to help them get through various elements and stages of their research. With the launch of SoftwareX, this software can now get the recognition as a scientific publication and as such will also be systematically organized, curated, indexed and shared through research databases. This allows for the wider scientific community to find, evaluate, credit, reuse or build on valuable software development that has been previously done. The journal forms an outlet, dissemination channel and sharing platform for software applications and the articles include summaries of where the software has already been used and its impact. Articles published in SoftwareX also display software metadata such as the version, operating system, programming language and the license under which the software is published. All software will be available within the journal's repository on GitHub. The journal will be under the editorship of Dr. Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, Dr. Frank Seinstra, Netherlands eScience Center, The Netherlands, and Dr. David Wallom, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK ..."

The open access dilemma: how can costs be financed?

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 12:58 AM PDT

Use the link to access pay-per-view options for the article published in the journal Information Development.  "Open access is an idealistic concept that has both good and less good impacts in the scholarly communication system. The good side is that it sends a strong message to journal publishers who charge exorbitant prices; the bad side is that it potentially inhibits the survival of small journal publishers. In this commentary, the open access (OA) cost model of academic journals is discussed from the point of view of a Latin American researcher, addressing the questions of how this affects the region, and if there is a possible fair funding journal solution."

OA policy and Open Government Partnership Initiative | EIFL

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 12:26 AM PDT

"Open Government Partnership Initiative (OGP) provides an international platform for domestic reformers committed to making their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. OGP has 65 participating countries, which include among others the following EIFL partner countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, Ukraine, as well as Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi. In OGP countries government and civil society announced the commitment to work together to develop and implement ambitious open government reforms. On February 11, 2015, the government of Slovak Republic approved the OGP Action Plan 2015, prepared by the Office of the Plenipotentiary of the Government for the Development of the Civil Society. The Action Plan includes open access (OA), open data and open education policies in addition to traditional OGP open government and open justice initiatives. This approach is quite unique and I think should be replicated in other countries ..."

Taylor & Francis Online :: Commentary: Open Access, Open Business, Closed Fairness! - Accountability in Research - Volume 22, Issue 4

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 12:22 AM PDT

Use the link to access pay-per-view options for the article published in the journal Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance.  "A strong trend to move from print to online publication is largely perceived in scientific and nonscientific fields. A growing number of publishers increasingly opt for online publication as an option or a compulsory alternative. From readers' perspective, this is a highly appreciated facility, but from the author's, things are different mainly because of excessive article processing charges (APC) that make the open access system sometimes as a hindrance for many authors but a lucrative enterprise for many shareholders, enticing the most traditional and conservative publishers."

Current trends of the open access digital repositories in Library and Information Science | Ganaie | International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology

Posted: 24 Apr 2015 12:12 AM PDT

Use the link to access the full text article from the International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology.  [Abstract] "The present study aims to identify the status of Open Access (OA) repositories in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) worldwide. Current study is based on the data collected from the Directory of the Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR). Data collected is systematically analyzed based on selected parameters viz: geographical distribution, software usage, language diversity, operational status, repository type, subject coverage and content management policies. The findings clearly reveal that Open Access (OA) repositories in the field of Library and Information Science are gaining momentum worldwide as 99 LIS repositories are registered in OpenDOAR contributed by many countries. The United States is leading contributing 16 repositories followed by United Kingdom (12) and Germany (8) respectively. Most of the repositories were hosted by different academic and research institutions with a contribution of 77 repositories. In terms of software used by the corresponding repositories it was found that most of them preferred DSpace (41), followed by EPrints (17). The English was seen as the most preferred language in terms of content language, it was found that 74.75% of the content was published in English language, followed by German and Spanish (9.09% each). While evaluating the operational status, 81.82% repositories were found operational with 6.06%, broken and 2.02% repositories were found closed respectively. Content-wise information shows that majority of the repositories archived journal articles (70.71%) followed by conference & workshop papers and thesis and dissertations (56.57%) each. Patents were found less archived forming only 1.01% of the total archived content type. Regarding the content submission policy to the repositories, it was found that a majority of 74 (74.75%) repositories have an undefined policy while as 13 (13.13%) repositories have 'defined' policy. The study brings to light status of only 99 repositories registered in the open-DOAR (Directory of open access repositories) as on March 11-13, 2013."
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