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- Universities Yelp as Elsevier Pulls Back on Free Access
- Just How Open? Evaluating the “Openness” of Course Materials in Massive Open Online Courses
- The Impact of Open Access on Collection Management
- Open and Editable: Exploring Library Engagement in Open Educational Resource Adoption, Adaptation and Authoring
- Predatory Publishing: How Not To Fall Prey by Craig Arthur
- Contextualizing Copyright: Fostering Students’ Understanding of Their Rights and Responsibilities as Content Creators
- How open data can improve agriculture -- FCW
- Donors create fund to support Open Data for Development | International Open Data Conference 2015
- Open Impact Day
- Open Textbooks Fill Digital Shelves » Village Gamer
- Open access campaign in Zambia | EIFL
- Gold OA: Requesting funds for post-grant FP7 publications?
- Calenda - Open Access and managing research data in 2020
| Universities Yelp as Elsevier Pulls Back on Free Access Posted: 31 May 2015 07:32 AM PDT "The publisher, Elsevier, has told universities that have built their own online repositories of journal articles written by their researchers that they now must respect waiting periods typically lasting a year or two before allowing free access to Elsevier-owned content. Elsevier is describing the policy shift as merely a reiteration of what it always has required. "We are now communicating our embargoes more clearly," Alicia Wise, the publishing company's director of access and policy, said on Thursday. But representatives of universities and their researchers are crying foul, saying Elsevier is reneging now that a movement to create university repositories — web-based storehouses of articles — is rapidly gaining momentum...." |
| Just How Open? Evaluating the “Openness” of Course Materials in Massive Open Online Courses Posted: 31 May 2015 12:33 AM PDT Use the link to access the full text article. " ... As more universities enter this still burgeoning field, the libraries that support these institutions are challenged with myriad issues, ranging from copyright and fair use through potential reference support of MOOC students, to the more minute details of liaison work with faculty partners. Some of these challenges have begun to be addressed within academic libraries. In October 2012, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) published an Issue Brief by author Brandon Butler that focused on five legal and policy-related issues regarding MOOCs and research libraries: use of copyrighted works in instructional materials, the assignment of copyrighted works for outside reading, copyright status of materials created by faculty for their MOOC courses, if notice-and-takedown provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act apply to MOOCs, and disability and accessibility.5 OCLC Research and the University of Pennsylvania hosted a two-day conference in March 2013, 'MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge,' which brought together leading authorities on copyright, open access, e-learning, information literacy, and learning technologies to discuss the wide range of issues that MOOCs raise for libraries, including those addressed in the ARL Issue Brief.6 In March 2014, Carmen Kazakoff-Lane published a white paper with the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) that undertakes an environmental scan of MOOCs, Open Educational Resources (OERs) and the potential impact for libraries in the open education movement.7 ..." |
| The Impact of Open Access on Collection Management Posted: 31 May 2015 12:29 AM PDT Use the link to access the full text article. "Open access (OA) is a relatively new concept in the long history of published scholarly communication. Although there were already some open access journals in 2002, many point to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) held in that year as the beginning point of the 'open access movement.' The BOAI called for freely available literature which permits "users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself."1 Since the BOAI, the open access movement has continued to grow and change, and in 2013 David Lewis predicted that over the next ten years, OA would 'become the dominant mode for scholarly journal publishing' and recommended that academic libraries 'continue to support open access initiatives: institutional deposit mandates; support for open access journals; or funding of open access author fees.'2 Collection management was also expanding in the 2000s with the addition of access management: the need to facilitate effective and efficient access to electronic materials while still managing physical collections.3 In 2011 Emilie Delquie asked if the philosophy of collection management was evolving from just collecting information to "'hooking' users up with information?"4 This article examines if and how the integration of OA materials has changed collection and/or access management activities within academic libraries ..." |
| Posted: 31 May 2015 12:25 AM PDT Use the link to access the full text article. "Introduction ... Open Educational Resources (OER) have saved students millions of dollars in textbook costs and greatly expanded access to a wide variety of educational materials for countless numbers of students and life-long learners. OER have also saved teachers time and effort by allowing them to reuse, modify, and build on materials developed by other teachers. After a brief discussion of OER and foundations of open licensing, this article presents a number of opportunities for libraries, particularly those situated at research universities ..." |
| Predatory Publishing: How Not To Fall Prey by Craig Arthur Posted: 31 May 2015 12:20 AM PDT Use the link to access the full text article. |
| Posted: 31 May 2015 12:17 AM PDT Use the link to access the full text article. "Intersections between scholarly communication and information literacy are increasingly being explored by librarians, both on campuses and in conversations with colleagues.1 Traditional information literacy instruction topics are related to the core issues in scholarly communication, although often instruction librarians and scholarly communication librarians address these issues from different directions. An over-arching theme to these issues is one of openness: who can access what, from where, for how long, to what end. As a scholarly communication librarian at a mid-size liberal arts university that in the past two decades has strengthened its research profile, I view faculty as my primary constituency. Nevertheless, through our credit-bearing library instruction program, and close ties to the Graduate School in support of our Electronic Theses and Dissertations program, I frequently interact with students. Through guest lectures and targeted support, I have opportunities to instruct students on copyright, author rights, open access, and the scholarly publishing system. In so doing, I help them understand their roles as creators and contributors to the knowledge ecosystem ..." |
| How open data can improve agriculture -- FCW Posted: 31 May 2015 12:13 AM PDT "What: A report from the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative on the impact open data will have on agriculture, 'How Can We Improve Agriculture, Food and Nutrition With Open Data?' Why: Global food demand will 'nearly double' by 2050. GODAN's report argues that this problem can be solved through open data leading to more efficient decision making, fostering innovation, and increasing transparency ..." |
| Donors create fund to support Open Data for Development | International Open Data Conference 2015 Posted: 31 May 2015 12:08 AM PDT "Open Data offers an important opportunity to support development goals and spur new social innovation. Recognizing the need for open data work that enhances global cooperation, reduces duplication, and supports the scaling of development solutions that work, a group of Donors have joined together to support a program that funds innovative open data initiatives around the developing world. The initial donors comprise of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), UK's Department for International Development (DFID), the World Bank (WB), and Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). The Fund, managed by IDRC, has firm commitments for a total value of $6.8M (CDN) for the next 2 years. The Fund builds on the OD4D program coordinated by IDRC, which is a platform for funding a diverse array of open data research and action. The OD4D program objectives for 2015-2016 are: To help developing country governments, entrepreneurs, and civil society create and implement national and global action plans to harness open data for development; To support developing country governments to plan, execute, and manage national open data initiatives; To increase re-use of open data in developing countries by supporting appropriate data standards, guidelines, solution-driven applications, and demand-side capacity, helping to bring about social and economic innovation; To better understand the relationship between open data initiatives and socioeconomic development, informing the quality and reach of future open data initiatives; and In addition, four main principles guide the network and its members: Research and learning, Empowerment of leadership from developing countries, Efficient coordination and, Creation, access and reuse of global public goods and assets ..." |
| Posted: 31 May 2015 12:04 AM PDT "Open Impact Day is a one day conference that will emphasize the impact of open data initiatives on the lives of the world's poorest populations. The day will include engaging panel discussions, inspiring lightening talks, and smaller breakout sessions from leading open data organizations so that participants walk away with a comprehensive understanding of using open data initiatives to improve development outcomes." |
| Open Textbooks Fill Digital Shelves » Village Gamer Posted: 30 May 2015 11:57 PM PDT "Post-secondary students and instructors in B.C. will be able to access more than 120 open textbooks as dozens of new skills training titles hit digital shelves this fall. Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson made the announcement at the third-annual BCcampus OpenTextbook Summit in Vancouver. The summit brought together members of the open textbook community, including students and instructors from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Participants offered talks and presentations to demonstrate the growth and potential of the open textbook movement ... Government kick-started the Open Textbook Project with BCcampus in 2012 by providing $1 million in funding for open textbooks in the most highly-enrolled first and second year subjects. In 2013, government made a platform commitment and provided further funding of $1 million to develop 20 additional open texts in skills and technical subjects by September 2015. The Open Textbook Project will see 50 new titles added this fall – more than double the expected number ... The Open Textbook Project is the first of its kind in Canada. There are currently more than 70 open-license titles available online, which means students can download and print these texts for free and instructors can adapt content to fit the needs of their students. More than 50 faculty members at public post-secondary institutions throughout the province currently participate in the project, and it is estimated that 5,400 students in B.C. have saved up to $700,000 to date by using open textbooks ..." |
| Open access campaign in Zambia | EIFL Posted: 30 May 2015 11:40 PM PDT "EIFL Open Access Programme Manager Iryna Kuchma will launch the Open access campaign in Zambia – a new six-month project with the Zambia Library Consortium (ZALICO) that will advocate for open access (OA) publishing and sharing in Zambia. The project aims to increase OA uptake through OA policy formulation and to increase OA publishing activities to improve accessibility and visibility of research. Institutional research managers, researchers and lecturers, students, librarians, journal editors and publishers from five ZALICO member institutions: University of Zambia (Zambia's largest university with over 24,834 students), Copperbelt University, National Science Technology Council, National Institute for Public Administration and Evelyn Hone College will meet to discuss the role of OA in research, increasing visibility and impact of research output; why should local content go OA and sharing good practice experience from OA journal – Medical Journal of Zambia; research in today's digital environment and OA publishing ..." |
| Gold OA: Requesting funds for post-grant FP7 publications? Posted: 30 May 2015 11:26 PM PDT Use this service to request and monitor funding for Open Access publishing fees as described in the EC FP7 post-grant Gold Open Access Pilot. Researchers: request funding through a guided process Project Coordinators: see funding opportunities and monitor project results Institutions: claim funding on behalf of your researchers, monitor your institution's FP7 post-grant traffic Publishers: deliver information on APCs, manage invoices, monitor journal FP7 post-grant traffic ... SOME IMPORTANT INFO ... Only publications that fulfill our guidelines and technical requirements will be funded. Please read carefully before you proceed. Our service integrates data from various sources (CORDA, OpenAIRE, CrossRef, 'Open access article processing charges May 2014' database by Heather Morrison) so as to make the process as user-friendly as possible. Let us know how we can improve ..." |
| Calenda - Open Access and managing research data in 2020 Posted: 30 May 2015 11:15 PM PDT [From Google's English] "Universities Paris Descartes and Paris Diderot organized on 29 and 30 June 2015 a two-day training on "Open access and management of data in 2020: integrate new expected in your research projects." These events are part of the European project FOSTER (Open Science Facilitate Training for European Research) sponsored by the European Commission. They address priority: engineers and responsible for European projects; researchers, teacher-researchers and PhD students interested in such projects; professionals IST likely to accompany them ..." |
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