Wednesday, October 14, 2015

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Partial Credit: The 2015 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology | Inside Higher Ed

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 09:02 AM PDT

"Faculty members and administrators strongly support...efforts to reduce the price of course materials....Virtually all respondents (93 percent of faculty members and 98 percent of administrators) say course materials are too expensive, and an overwhelming majority (82 percent, 92 percent) say cost should be a significant concern when instructors assign course readings. Open educational resources rate as one popular strategy, with 92 percent of faculty members and 97 percent of administrators saying instructors should assign more of them...."

Harvard Law School Library Update | Harvard Library Portal

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 07:13 AM PDT

"[The] "Free the Law" project [from the Harvard Law School Library] aims to digitize the entire body of US caselaw and make it available to the Harvard community and the world in an open-access database. We are excited to announce that this project entered the production phase over the summer with the establishment of a partnership that allowed us to fully staff the project. Details of that partnership will be revealed later this fall. We estimate there are 42,000 volumes and 40 million pages to scan. We're scanning at a rate of 400–600,000 pages per week and thanks to work done in the pilot and proof-of-concept phases, we hit the 10-million-page milestone on September 17...."

Commissioner Moedas and Secretary of State Dekker call on scientific publishers to adapt their business models to new realities - European Commission

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 04:20 AM PDT

"Speaking at a bilateral meeting with Sander Dekker, the Dutch Secretary of State for Education, Culture and Science, Commissioner Moedas reiterated the strong commitment of the European Commission to open access to scientific peer reviewed publications, which is a cornerstone of one of his top priorities – the policy on Open Science."

College Students May Soon Get Relief on Textbook Costs - Story | Southwest Missouri - Springfield, Branson, Ozarks | OzarksFirst | KOLR 10 and KOZL Z27

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 04:13 AM PDT

"Huge savings on textbooks may soon be in store for college students. An Illinois senator aims to do this by going digital through open textbooks. The Affordable College Textbook Act would basically provide an alternative to traditional textbooks, which according to the College Board, can cost students an average of $1,200 every year. It's a costly necessity for college students ..."

The Winnower | Organized Open Science

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 04:11 AM PDT

"Over a year ago I committed to adopting more transparent research practices. Since then I have been adding projects and registrations to my Open Science Framework account (https://osf.io/sa9im/). Over time, and with new students joining the lab and new collaborations with colleagues being established, many of these research projects are at different stages of completion. I have also been asked, many times, variations of this question: "What information should I include in the files to put on the OSF?"; as well as this question: "When should I put this information on the OSF?". Answering these questions has helped create informal guidelines for how we do open science in our lab, but I realized recently that there was in fact a lot of variation within the lab regarding what information was included in the files posted to each project page, the number of files posted, when they were being posted, the timing of registering projects, and if/when projects were being made public. I felt the need to get my open science organized. I decided to use my OSF account to create an organizational system that is open and transparent. Check it out: https://osf.io/jrd8f/. The public project page includes some templates for different types of disclosure forms for research projects that all lab members and other collaborators can easily access. These templates indicate the types of information I typically prefer to be made available for my research projects, but of course not all of these disclosures are needed for every research project; these are guidelines, not inflexible rules. The page also includes an excel sheet to keep track of different OSF milestones for each research project. This is a master file listing all of our research projects that also includes links to the project and registration OSF pages, and asks the person taking the lead on a research project to indicate if she or he has put the information in question together into disclosure files and uploaded these files to the OSF. All lab members can then check to see the OSF status of each project, and quickly link to other lab members' projects/registrations for tips on how to create the disclosure files (e.g., formatting, organization of the information, how much information presented, and so on). The excel file is empty right now—our lab is just getting started with this new organizational system. It will start to fill up soon ..."

University Libraries to Host Open Access Week Discussion Panel Oct. 22 - University Relations - Western Illinois University

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 04:11 AM PDT

"In celebration of Open Access Week (Oct. 19-25), Western Illinois University Libraries will present an open access discussion panel at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 in the Leslie F. Malpass Library Garden Lounge. The panel discussion is open free to the public ..."

Open Access: Publishing opportunities and hurdles | Victoria University | Melbourne Australia

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 04:09 AM PDT

"VU Library invites all researchers to a talk by Virginia Barbour, Executive Officer of the Australasian Open Access Support Group, and a lively debate by a panel of VU researchers including Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Research Training) Professor Warren Payne."

Stodden to deliver Open Access Week keynote at VA Tech | www.lis.illinois.edu

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 04:07 AM PDT

"Open Access Week 2015 will be recognized around the world October 19-25. GSLIS Associate Professor Victoria Stodden will deliver the keynote address for Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's OA Week celebration. Her talk, 'Scholarly communication in the era of big data and big computation,' is sponsored by the Virginia Tech's University Libraries, Division of Computational Modeling and Data Analytics in the College of Science, Department of Computer Science, Department of Statistics, Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA), and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. Stodden's keynote event will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 22, at Davidson Hall ..."

The HardiBlog: The Green and the Gold: perspectives on open access publishing

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 04:06 AM PDT

"This seminar is part of International Open Access Week. Open access is a hot topic, bringing challenges and opportunities for universities and researchers, with different models operating worldwide. The seminar features presentations by two NUI Galway academics, Dr. Emer Mulligan and Professor Tim O'Brien, who have an editorial role in journals operating Green and Gold models. There will also be an overview of the University's Open Access Policy, recently adopted by Academic Council, along with a demonstration of new features available on the ARAN (Access to Research at NUI Galway) system managed by the Library ..."

Laborjournal online: Under robbers

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 04:04 AM PDT

[From Google's English] "The British journalist and blogger Richard Poynder has a radical proposal published on how the proliferation of so-called predatory could counteract Open Access publisher. In addition to the predatory Journals themselves and their academic editors would have to be publicly pilloried. Researchers should be quenched to give up their names for science damaging rip. And no signboards on the Editorial Board would the dubious journals difficult to fool other scientists and to enrich them. The phenomenon of predatory Journals and publishers is a dark side of Open Access (OA) movement, which seems more and more degenerate. Because with the robbery-publishing is obviously a lot of money to earn ..."

How Digital.Bodleian will open access to over 1 million extraordinary images | CILIP

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 04:00 AM PDT

"On 14th October 2015 I'll be speaking at RLUK's conference, Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities, and ahead of that I would like to tell you the story of Digital.Bodleian, which we launched in July this year. Digital.Bodleian brings together 25 years of digitisation of our unique collections under a single interface. Public engagement and support to digital scholarship are key strands of our strategy, and Digital.Bodleian was designed to draw in people from all walks of life to our collections as well as to engage the researchers who are our traditional user base ... Up until the launch of Digital.Bodleian, like most academic libraries, our digitised collections were disseminated on-line in separate silos, in discrete project-driven websites. These have been incredibly popular with the academic communities they serve, but their functionality for public discourse has been limited. Because many of them were developed some time ago, they are restricted by technology and they demonstrate, sometimes quaintly, that design trends have moved on ... With Digital.Bodleian we had a clear vision: to draw in new audiences, provide a more modern service to academics, and to unite the collections in a more contemporary and engaging way, using innovative technology. The result is that we now have over 120,000 freely available digitised images accessible to users worldwide, and at least another 1.5 million images which we hope to release over the course of the coming year.  Three principles have guided the development of Digital.Bodleian. Those principles are: [1] Open collections: using open licences that allow people to use and re-use the images for education and research, without payment of a fee or the need to separately obtain copyright permissions. You can see our licence terms here [2] Open standards for metadata and APIs that allow the collections to be shared with as few technical barriers as possible. So we are using the Dublin Core metadata standard, and the International Image Interoperability Framework, or IIIF set of APIs.(I'll come back to IIIF in a minute). [3] Open software, allowing the community to benefit from our technical development. The software which powers the user interface ofDigital.Bodleian was developed by Armadillo Systems in partnership with the Bodleian Libraries. Armadillo have made plans to make this software open-source. We have also implemented the British Library's 'universal viewer', a fully open-source viewing interface based on the Wellcome Player, developed by Digirati and the British Library ..."

Open access policy propels UK ahead of global trends

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 03:51 AM PDT

" ... A year after the original Finch Report, a second report recommended that a process should be set up to gather indicators of how things were progressing in the transition to open access. It also recommended the establishment of a body to keep the conversation going between the different stakeholders in open access in the UK. In response to this, Universities UK established an independent body in 2014: the Open Access Coordination Group. The group commissioned a team including Elsevier, the University of Sheffield, Research Consulting and us at Research Information Network to assess the transition to open access in the UK. We were asked to monitor the implementation of the Finch Report recommendations and collect and analyze evidence to show the state of play of open access in the UK. The resulting report – Monitoring the Transition to Open Access – shows the strength of the UK's open access publishing activity ..."

What's so Wrong with the Impact Factor? Part 2 - Digital Science

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 03:48 AM PDT

"In last week's perspective I asked the question 'What's wrong with the Impact Factor? Part 1'. Anybody who's followed the debate over the years will be familiar with many of the common objections to the metric – Here's an example of a blog post on the subject. But how valid are the common objections? Does the Impact Factor (IF) really harm science? If so, is the IF the cause or just a symptom of a bigger problem? Last week I focused on the mathematical arguments against IF. Principal among those is that IF is mean when it should be a median. This week, I'm going to look more closely at the psychology of IF and how it alters authors' and readers' behavior, potentially for the worse ..."

FP7 post-grant Open Access publishing funds pilot | FP7 gold pilot

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 03:47 AM PDT

"The EC has launched a Pilot to fund OA publications for finalized FP7 projects through the OpenAIRE project. The European Commissions's  'Communication and Recommendation on access to and preservation of scientific information' and Recommendation C(2012) 4890 on access to and preservation of scientific information (July 2012), identified a need to consider 'whether and under what conditions open access publication fees can be reimbursed after the end of the grant agreement'. As a consequence, a pilot funding instrument to support Open Access publishing for post-grant FP7 projects has been initiated.  The post-grant Open Access Pilot provides an additional instrument to improve access to research results from FP7 projects, but does not affect authors' choice on how their project publications are made Open Access.  The FP7 post-grant pilot is being developed in the context of the OpenAIRE2020 project, and is aligned with the Open Access infrastructure and support network provided by OpenAIRE.  The current FP7 post-grant Open Access Pilot should not be confused with the previous FP7 Green Open Access Pilot launched in August 2008 ..."

Moedas urges publishers to get serious on open access - Science|Business

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 03:44 AM PDT

"EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas has called on publishers to stop resisting open access, telling them they need to be part of this fundamental change in the way science operates ... In parallel, Moedas said, 'Digital technologies [will] inevitably have the same ground-breaking impact on scientific publishing as they have already had on the media, music, film and telecommunication industries.'   In open access publishing, the author, not the reader, pays the publishing costs.  Advocates include scientists, libraries and universities, which take a dim view of paying subscriptions that run into the thousands of euros per year, to get access to the outputs of publicly-funded research. Instead, government-financed science should be made available on the Internet immediately, free for anyone.  Opponents of open access, including many private and non-profit publishers, argue unrestrained access would make journals financially unviable and undermine the peer-review and article selection system that has underpinned scientific publishing for centuries.  Moedas issued the statement  at a meeting on Monday with the Dutch minister for education, culture and science, Sander Dekker, whose government last year said 60 per cent of research articles authored by Dutch scientists must be open access by 2019, and 100 per cent by 2024.  Since then, Dutch universities have reached outline agreements on open access with three publishers, Springer, Wiley and Sage, but are in a standoff on the issue with Amsterdam-based Elsevier, the largest journal publishing house in the world ..."

Rethinking Interdisciplinarity in The Hub at Wellcome Collection: New open access publication from Palgrave Macmillan

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 03:41 AM PDT

"Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences is a landmark open access publication from Palgrave Macmillan, co-authored by Felicity Callard (Durham University) and Des Fitzgerald (Cardiff University), that addresses key questions and challenges for those working across many and varied disciplines.  Drawing on their own experiences of conducting research on a large scale across the fields of social science and neuroscience, Callard and Fitzgerald create a frank, candid account of the contemporary interdisciplinary scene. Written entirely from The Hub at Wellcome Collection, a flagship interdisciplinary research space in London, Rethinking Interdisciplinarity considers what it is like to actually carry out this kind of research at the start of the twenty-first century ..."

Sharing and Preserving Research Output - OA2015 - LibGuides at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 03:38 AM PDT

"Join KAUST Researchers to discuss different practices of sharing research output, and the benefits of these practices not just for advancing scientific research, but also the long-term preservation of research output for new and unanticipated uses."

Communicating Your Research: Essential Topics - OA2015 - LibGuides at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 03:37 AM PDT

"Support services available during the writing and publication process. Role of the repository in tracking, preserving and providing access. How to better spread awareness of research. Tools available to see indications of impact. Evaluation of research effectiveness."

Open Access and research impact: using altmetrics to track attention to your research Tickets, Uxbridge | Eventbrite

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 03:36 AM PDT

"Interested in using altmetrics to understand the broader interest in your research? This session will provide an introduction to altmetrics, and explain how and why it is becoming increasingly important in ensuring researchers can demonstrate the impact of their work. We'll also discuss altmetrics and open access, and how you can track attention to your open access research outputs."

Promoting your Work: Exploring Open Access Publications - LibCal - University of Southampton Library

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 03:35 AM PDT

"Did you know that Open Access publishing makes your research available for free to readers around the world? Research has shown that publishing in Open Access can increase your citations. RCUK and Wellcome have Open Access policies, which require you to make your scholarly papers available through Open Access. Other funders may have their own Open Access policies. HEFCE has recently announced that the next REF exercise will require users to make their work available through Open Access. Attendees will have the opportunity to share their experiences of using Open Access resources and ask any questions they might have about making research available via Open Access."

The role of arXiv, RePEc, SSRN and PMC in formal scholarly communication

Posted: 14 Oct 2015 03:21 AM PDT

Abstract

Purposes - The four major Subject Repositories (SRs), arXiv, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and PubMed Central (PMC), are all important within their disciplines but no previous study has systematically compared how often they are cited in academic publications. In response, this article reports an analysis of citations to SRs from Scopus publications, 2000 to 2013.

Design/methodology/approach - Scopus searches were used to count the number of documents citing the four SRs in each year. A random sample of 384 documents citing the four SRs was then visited to investigate the nature of the citations.

Findings - Each SR was most cited within its own subject area but attracted substantial citations from other subject areas, suggesting that they are open to interdisciplinary uses. The proportion of documents citing each SR is continuing to increase rapidly, and the SRs all seem to attract substantial numbers of citations from more than one discipline.

Research limitations/implications - Scopus does not cover all publications, and most citations to documents found in the four SRs presumably cite the published version, when one exists, rather than the repository version.

Practical implications – SRs are continuing to grow and do not seem to be threatened by Institutional Repositories (IRs) and so research managers should encourage their continued use within their core disciplines, including for research that aims at an audience in other disciplines.

Originality/value - This is the first simultaneous analysis of Scopus citations to the four most popular SRs.

 
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