Saturday, July 25, 2015

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SHARE Community Stakeholders Convene Working Meeting in Washington, DC | SHARE

Posted: 25 Jul 2015 12:12 AM PDT

"Sixty individuals—from universities, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies—gathered in Washington, DC, Monday–Tuesday, June 22–23, 2015, for the second SHARE Community Meeting. Participants included SHARE Working Group members, SHARE Notify beta participants, technical partners, and other stakeholders. Most of the meeting was devoted to a small number of breakout task groups to explore specific issues—helping to define SHARE's opportunities, scope out limitations and boundaries, and identify what successful execution will look like and who it will benefit. The invitation-only meeting was made possible with generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ..."

Event - University of Regensburg

Posted: 25 Jul 2015 12:10 AM PDT

[From Google's English] "Scientific publishing is in a serious change. It is becoming increasingly dominated by the possibilities of electronic processing and diffusion of scientific knowledge on the Internet. This is accompanied by changes in publication behavior of scientists. The mini symposium on the scholarly publishing is to explain the current state of things, explain the latest trends and opportunities, and create a campus-wide discussion on the subject of space. This topic touches all scientists and in this mini symposium focus the lecturers in particular to the sciences, in which publications in peer-reviewed journals. A potentially career-critical insight into the changing landscape publication will receive the presentations are primarily aimed at the university administration and professors / -Innen but also academic staff / -inside and budding scientists / -Innen here ..."

PASTEUR4OA announces Regional Policy Workshops for Research Funders and Research Performing Organizations | PASTEUR4OA

Posted: 25 Jul 2015 12:08 AM PDT

"PASTEUR4OA project will bring together research funders and policy makers from research performing organizations throughout Europe in a series of regional meetings that will take place between September 2015 and April 2016 in Spain, Hungary, Greece, Belgium, Italy, Turkey and in the Nordic countries in collaboration with the Rectors' Conference and the Nordic Council of Ministers (the location TBA). The participants will exchange ideas and policy practices and discuss concrete actions to improve existing or develop new Open Access policies aligned with the European Commission's Recommendation to Member States of July 2012 and the Horizon 2020 Open Access requirements. The agendas of these regional workshops will be tailored to the specific needs of the respective target groups (funders or universities/research centers) and the level of Open Access policy development in the region. Workshops will make extensive use of advocacy and other targeted information materials developed by the PASTEUR4OA project to assist the participating policy-makers in designing and implementing their policies. The workshops will include active sessions on good practice in Open Access policies and implementation from funders and institutions; examples and tools on designing policies; presentations and discussion on policy effectiveness; evidence-based information to allow participants to situate better their country and region in relation to other countries/regions in terms of existing funder and institutional policies; advice on how to move forward and direct PASTEUR4OA help with policies, among others. All workshop materials and project advocacy materials along with the workshop results will be available in the PASTEUR4OA website ..."

Why you can’t read scientific research - Well Red, White, and Rosé

Posted: 25 Jul 2015 12:06 AM PDT

"I recently interviewed about fifty winemakers and growers in two countries, and surveyed a few hundred more, about information resources and what they do with them. They didn't complain about scientific research being a bunch of unreadable scientific gobbledygook. But they did complain about research being unreadable – literally, unreadable – because they can't access the darn articles. If you want the guts of someone's research – exactly what methods they used, the data before they're sanitized into tidy conclusions – mega-publishing companies* ask you to pay US $30 or more to buy or even rent the full text of an academic article. Abstracts are usually free and give you a summary of the main idea. But abstracts are no help if you want details. If you're trying to ascertain whether the research relates to your practical work, you probably want details. Seriously, does anyone ever empty their metaphorical pocket money for a single-article access? Ever? You're either fortunate enough to work for a university or company that publishers can blackmail into paying extortionist fees for "institutional access," or you do without. How did this happen? ..."

Publishing Initiatives at PLOS: A Look Back and a Look Ahead - The Official PLOS Blog

Posted: 25 Jul 2015 12:03 AM PDT

"In January 2015, we wrote about exciting developments at PLOS specifically designed to improve the author and community experience.   The changes begun at the end of 2014 included a redesign of our PDF layout into a clean, single column design, reconstructing many of our workflows, implementing continuous publication, and transitioning to a new composition vendor to convert accepted author manuscripts into XML and PDF formats used for online publication.  Now, six months later, we want to provide a status update on those projects and also let you know of still more initiatives planned for 2015-2016 ..."

The changing landscape of scholarly communications - Research Information

Posted: 25 Jul 2015 12:01 AM PDT

" ... Has scholarly communications and scholarly information become the kingmaker of today or is it still king? This, in my view, is a central question for the information services industry and for those professionals who manage scholarly communications services and valuable content, and who are continuing to try to make these services sustainable and viable. To be sure, scholarly communications is in transition, both in its form and format as well as in economic terms, both as raw data and structured content as well as when it is embedded in the electronic processes and services that are continuing to grow and expand in size, form, and function. These transformations also drive many of the changes seen in the pricing and selling of scholarly content and services: from electronic journals to open access business models to professional workflow services. Scholarly content is being paired with greater and greater digital functionality, and this bundling is creating exciting and innovative scholarly services. However, bundling is only effective if it does not cost too much, that is, having too high a price for extra items in a bundle that are unwanted. There was a time, without question, when scholarly communication was king, and generating that content could itself lead to fame and fortune for a variety of players in the scholarly information supply chain. Are we still living in an age where scholarly content is king, or does scholarly communications now play the role of kingmaker – able to create great value but not alone, and only in partnership with other resources? ..."

University of Salford Selects Figshare and Arkivum to Create an Integrated Research Data Management Solution

Posted: 24 Jul 2015 11:55 PM PDT

"Arkivum, the provider of ultra-safe and secure, long-term, large-scale digital data storage and archive services is delighted to announce today that University of Salford has selected an integrated solution from Arkivum and Figshare in order to meet its research data management requirements. With funder mandated expectations on open access to data imposed by researching-funding bodies such as Research Council UK (RCUK) now in force, UK institutions like University of Salford are having to take measures to ensure their research data is stored securely and persistently, with appropriate metadata and made freely accessible on the Internet. University of Salford's new solution enables staff, students and researchers to meet funding-body requirements for open access to data while providing a secure, long-term space for a wide range of content; all on a platform that encourages data discovery, collaboration and re-use. Working together in partnership, Arkivum is providing its large scale, long-term, and assured digital archiving solution and Figshare, its research data management discovery platform which specialises in 'active data'. This new innovative integrated solution meets the key requirements set out by University of Salford by ..."
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