Sunday, June 21, 2015

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Walt at Random » Blog Archive » The Open Access Landscape: 17. Mathematics

Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:41 AM PDT

"Mathematics includes statistics. The topic includes the highest percentage of no-fee journals outside of the humanities and social sciences, although most articles are in fee-charging journals. In all, there are 228 journals, publishing 13,190 articles in 2013 and 14,750 in 2014 ..."

Small scholar-led open access publishing | Sustaining the Knowledge Commons / Soutenir les savoirs communs

Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:36 AM PDT

" ... The not-for-profit scholar-led sector of scholarly publishing is still very large and active in scholarly publishing; even many of the journals published by commercial publishers are actually partnerships with scholarly societies, or in effect scholarly society publishers that have outsourced some of the work to commercial companies. It should come as no surprise that at about the turn of this century – about the time of the official start of the open access movement – the underlying conditions pushing scholars to outsource the work of publishing change, thanks to the internet. In the 1980's and 1990's, there were free online journals, but not that many; it wasn't easy to publish online, for many people this required equipment, software and expertise that they didn't have. Today, this is no longer the case. Anyone with a computer and internet connection can publish a blog, using free software. This has led to what Edgar & Willinsky, reporting on a survey of over 900 journals using the open source Open Journal Systems, describe as a renaissance of scholar-led publishing. As I discuss in my 2013 First Monday article, the figures reported by the journals in this survey suggest the potential for a fully open access scholarly publishing system that costs a small fraction of what academic libraries (the major source of support for scholarly journals) currently spend, on average, for scholarly journals on a per-article basis ..."

ORCID pilot tests nuts and bolts of implementation in universities - Research Information

Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:31 AM PDT

"The unique identification of researchers has long been a challenge for those trying to manage and use research information effectively, making it difficult to link publications, data and other research activities to the right researcher, say Verena Weigert and Rob Johnson In this context, ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) emerged as a potential solution which has gained significant traction both in the UK and internationally; it has been widely endorsed by major UK funders, sector bodies and professional associations representing research management, library and IT staff in higher education (HE). Building this consensus has been an important first step on the way to improving the integration of systems and processes that underpin the research lifecycle through the embedding of ORCID identifiers. Then, just over a year ago, in a bid to understand how ORCID could work most effectively for UK universities and their researchers, Jisc and the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA) launched a project in which eight HEIs implemented ORCID identifiers in their systems and workflows: we have interviewed stakeholders, monitored universities' progress and have now published a report that details their experiences, identifies difficulties and successes and suggests some practical first steps for others to follow ..."

Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Agriculture

Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:28 AM PDT

Use the link to access the program for the recent event.  

Australian Open Research Data Showcase, Hyatt Hotel Canberra | Ministers' Media Centre

Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:24 AM PDT

"Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here to open the Australian Open Research Data Showcase hosted by the Australian National Data Service. This event highlights the richness and diversity of Australia's research data collections. It's always a privilege to hear about the work supported by the Government's commitments to ANDS and other facilities funded through NCRIS since it was introduced by the previous Coalition Government in 2006. In the nearly decade since, we have come a long way. We can see around us the variety of data collections generated and curated by Australian research institutions. These collections range from the very broad, like Policy Online, a research database providing free and open digital access to thousands of public policy resources, one I am sure I have used myself, to the very focused, like the University of Queensland's Australian Wheat Collection, which provides a centralised access point for Australian wheat breeders and researchers. Some are relatively small such as the University of Melbourne's Australian Drosophila Data Collection, which contains invaluable data on tiny Drosophila, or fruit flies, while others Are extraordinarily large such as the University of Sydney's EarthByte collection, which provides rich geological and geophysical datasets for gradually building a four-dimensional Earth model, showing Earth science data through time and space. This event shows how opening data collections for wider use has a multiplying effect, as these collections support researchers to increase and improve research, producing better quality data in higher volumes and often faster ..."

Gold OA Pilot Webinar for OpenAIRE NOADs_20150519

Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:14 AM PDT

"On May 19th, 2015 an EIFL-hosted webinar was delivered to OpenAIRE NOADs on the EC FP7 Post-Grant Gold Open Access Pilot. The presentation summarized the progress achieved so far, explaining the Pilot policy guidelines and providing an insight into the central system developed by OpenAIRE for funding request collection and processing."

How offsetting schemes can reduce APC costs | Jisc Scholarly Communications

Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:04 AM PDT

"In order to manage the transition to open access publishing, Jisc Collections has been working with publishers to implement offsetting mechanisms in which payments for journal subscriptions and article processing charges (APCs) are offset against each other to reduce the overall cost to institutions. A number of publishers have now implemented offsetting schemes for their subscribers and we can already see this having an effect on the cost of APCs. One publisher, SAGE, has a scheme which gives a flat-rate heavily discounted APC price to institutions who subscribe to their journal package. The discount applies to all APCs in hybrid journals (i.e. subscription journals which have the option of making individual articles open access). Jisc Collections works with institutions to collect open data on their APC expenditure which means that we can compare expenditure on APCs in 2013 and 2014 to monitor the uptake of SAGE's offer and see what effect it is having (this data is openly available). From a sample of 22 UK higher education institutions, 20 APCs were paid to SAGE in 2013 and 229 in 2014. So more than ten times the number of APCs were paid, increasing SAGE's proportion of institutions' total APCs from 0.9% to 3.6%. Because of the offsetting discount SAGE did not receive ten times the income, but the revenues generated from these APCs still rose from £16,426 in 2013 to £85,836 – a fivefold increase. This increase in revenues was twice as large the average increase recorded across all publishers. By being an early adopter of APC offsetting schemes, this publisher increased their revenue and market share, while higher education institutions benefitted from sharply lower prices (the average APC paid to SAGE from this same sample of data was £821 in 2013 and £376 in 2014). If the same number of APCs had been charged at full price then institutions would have needed to pay an extra £100,000. However, the bulk of the savings were made by just one institution, which made use of the offer by paying 159 APCs at the discounted rate ..."
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