Saturday, October 24, 2015

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iCite | Help | NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 07:38 AM PDT

"iCite is a powerful web application that provides a panel of bibliometric information for journal publications within a defined analysis group (where an analysis group can consist of a single article or a very large group of articles). The data produced by iCite can be downloaded as a customized report from the dashboard and could be used to understand the influence of articles within an analysis group. An example application for iCite might be to compare how the influence of a portfolio of articles compares to the remaining articles that come out of grants funded by the NIH....

The Relative Citation Ratio [RCR] is a new metric developed within the Office of Portfolio Analysis (OPA) that represents a citation-based measure of scientific influence of one or more articles. It is calculated as the cites/year of each paper, normalized to the citations per year received by NIH-funded papers in the same field and year. A paper with an RCR of 1.0 has received the same number of cites/year as the average NIH-funded paper in its field, while a paper with an RCR of 2.0 has received twice as many cites/year as the average NIH-funded paper in its field...."

Fake journals: ‘Make in India’ gone wrong - The Hindu

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 03:47 AM PDT

Fake journals make way to publish sub-standard and even highly unethical work, plagarised content with falsified and/or fabricated data and manipulated images.

Open Access Week 2015: A 5 minute interview with an OA Editor | SAGE Connection – Insight

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:47 AM PDT

"Open Access Week 2015 has been filled with the sharing and debate of key issues concerning OA publishing across the scholarly community. To round off our week of interviews and OA discussions, we spent 5 minutes with Jaffar Ali, the editor of the Journal of Reproductive Biotechnology & Fertility, to share with us his insights editing an open access journal."

Welcome to Nordic Perspectives on Open Science | Frantsvåg | Nordic Perspectives on Open Science

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:44 AM PDT

Use the link to access the editorial.

Crystals of Knowledge Production. An Intercontinental Conversation about Open Science and the Humanities | Stern | Nordic Perspectives on Open Science

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:42 AM PDT

[Abstract] In this article two scholars engage in a conversation about open access and open science in research communication with a specific focus on the Humanities.  The two scholars have very different points of departure. Whereas Jean-Claude Guedón has been a professor of Literature in North-America for many years and part of the open access movements since its beginning, Thomas Wiben Jensen is in the early part of his carreer and fairly new to the concept of open access.  The conversation begins with a focus on the Danish national strategy for open access and this strategy's consquenses for the journal NyS where Thomas Wiben is part of the editorial board. However, the conversation brings the reader on an unexpected journey through the history of science communication and through alternative ways of understanding knowledge production as frozen moments or crystals in the Great Conversation of science. It is the hope of the editor and the contributors that the conversation can lead to a debate about innovative ways of communicating and distributing scientific results. 

Open, transparent and honest – the way we practice research | Dorch | Nordic Perspectives on Open Science

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:40 AM PDT

[Abstract] This paper makes the case for Open Science as a means to support and practice Responsible Conduct of Research. Responsible and ethical research practices imply research integrity in terms of transparency, honesty and accountability in all parts of research, being it when attaining funding for research, collecting and analyzing research data, collaborating on research, performing scholarly communication, e.g. authoring and disseminating research etc. Likewise, the topics normally associated with Open Science directly support responsible conduct and in fact, one can argue that Open Science is a ubiquitous prerequisite for good research practice.

A new funding model and improved infrastructure for the Finnish Open Access journals | Ilva | Nordic Perspectives on Open Science

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:39 AM PDT

[Abstract] A new project launched by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and the National Library of Finland will be looking for ways to make Open Access publishing more viable for the Finnish scholarly journals. Most of the journals are published by small learned societies with modest resources. The project will investigate potential new funding models for the OA journals and develop improved technological infrastructure for them.

A&M University Libraries Working To Solve Problem Of Expensive Textbooks

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:37 AM PDT

"Textbooks can be a major expense for college students, but Texas A&M University is working to ease that burden with open access (OA) textbooks. An "open" textbook is an openly-licensed, digital textbook that can be read, downloaded and printed online at no cost, for anyone to use and sharefreely. The Office of Scholarly Communication at the Texas A&M University Libraries is working to implement free OA textbooks for students through Open Educational Resources (OER) which enables access to educational materials for teaching, learning and research resources. To bring additional attention to OA textbooks, the University Libraries has partnered with the Texas A&M Student Government to create the Student Government Textbook Award. Believed to be the first of its kind in the country, the award will be given to a Texas A&M faculty member innovatively using OA textbooks as part of class curriculum ..."

Archivalia: ++Tagesrundschau zur Open Access Week

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:36 AM PDT

[From Google's English] "The preoccupation with the de Gruyter gate Http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/1022484169/hat me unfortunately so fatigued that I could gather very little. *** De Gruyter celebrates its Open Access Activities ..."

Taking open access one step further: The role of SciELO in the global publication landscape | Editage Insights

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:33 AM PDT

"It is exciting to have a conversation with someone who is considered an influential thought leader in global scholarly publishing. In the course of my interview with Abel Packer, co-founder of SciELO (or Scientific Electronic Library Online), I realized that open access is much more than a movement. It is an effort to achieve efficient and commercially viable publication workflows without compromising on the unrestricted accessibility of research. SciELO was first set up as a project that aimed to provide greater visibility and accessibility to Brazilian research published in local journals. Over the years, it has grown to include the support and participation of 15 nations and is now a full-fledged and expanding network of countries working towards and supporting collaborative research and efficient open access publication models. In addition to providing a database of research articles, SciELO makes efforts to improve the quality of Brazilian research journals and encourages international collaboration. In this conversation, Packer traces SciELO's growth and talks about the gap in publication standards and processes between developed and developing countries. He also emphasizes the importance of establishing sustainable open access publication models. Abel Packer is one of founders of SciELO and current Coordinator of the SciELO/FAPESP Program and Advisor of Information and Communication in Science at Fap-Unifesp. Packer has experience in the areas of information science, librarianship, information technology, and information and knowledge management. In the course of a career spanning more than 20 years, he became increasingly involved in the movement to make Brazilian research globally visible and accessible. Using his expertise and understanding of the research publication scenarios in the developing and developed worlds, Packer has made significant contributions to SciELO's efforts to introduce a systematic methodology to track, manage, disseminate, and evaluate published scholarly records. Today, he is considered an influential thought leader in the international open access landscape. Packer holds a Master's degree in Library Science from Syracuse University ..."

Open Access around the world | Unlocking Research

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:32 AM PDT

"For researchers new to Open Access, it can often feel like policies are imposed on them by their institution. This is possibly because the wider context of Open Access has not been explained or revealed to them. In a recent workshop held by the Office of Scholarly Communication we were asked 'whether Open Access was just a UK thing and that the rest of the world were benefiting from the research funded by the taxes that we pay'. The answer is NO! Open Access is a global movement and involves both developed and developing countries. It is true that other people can benefit from our research but we can also benefit from theirs ..."

PhD students urged to sign up to the LERU Statement on Open Access

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:30 AM PDT

"Paul Ayris, Director of UCL Library Services is encouraging PhD students to sign up to the League of European Research Universities (LERU) statement on Open Access, arguing that research funding should go to research, not to publishers. The LERU Statement outlines that Open Access to publications is essential and business models of publishers must support this transition. LERU argue it should be one of the principal objectives of Commissioner Carlos Moedas and the Dutch EU Presidency (January-June 2016) to ensure that this transition happens. The Statement highlights a number of challenges, where researchers pay a separate charge to have their publication produced as an Open Access article (an Article Processing Charge, or APC). While their institutional library is paying a subscription for access to the same content. This leads to the danger of double payment to the publishers, once for the subscription and once for Open Access – known technically as double dipping. The Statement makes clear that Christmas is over, since universities and research funders should not be paying twice for the same content ..."

University of Calgary Press marks five years of open access publishing | UToday | University of Calgary

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:28 AM PDT

"It has been five years since the University of Calgary Press published its first open access book. Grey Matters: A Guide to Collaborative Research with Seniors, by authors Nancy Marlett and Claudia Emes at the University of Calgary, was released on Oct. 22, 2010. Now, the press has more than 60 open access titles. It remains one of only three university presses in Canada that makes books freely available online, in addition to a hard copy format ..."

Your Questions Answered on open access

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:26 AM PDT

"Open access means making peer reviewed works freely available in digital form, so that anyone with internet access can use them, without financial, legal or technical barriers. It allows users to download, copy, print and distribute works, without the need to ask for permission or to pay. To the mark the eighth annual Open Access Week, we asked what readers wanted to know about the initiative ..."

How to do open access without paying

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:23 AM PDT

"As part of Open Access Week 2015 John Murtagh, Manager of LSHTM Research Online gives a briefing on how researchers can make their work Open Access without having to pay for it via the Gold Open Access route. Over 90% of journals allow a final draft version of the paper to be self-archived in a research repository - making that research OA. John outlines what OA is, the different types and methods currently available in publishing and how researchers can achieve. Also covered is how to keep your self-archiving author rights using an author addendum and how to use Research Online effectively for wider dissemination. Also covered is book chapters and using the SHERPA RoMEO service to searching journal self-archiving policies."

There’s more to Open Access than APCs, right? – ScienceOpen Blog

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:21 AM PDT

"I am the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, ScienceOpen (@tigracc). This OA Week, it gives me great pleasure to publish the first in a series of posts about the strategy behind the evolution of the platform and our drive to reveal the context of OA articles which we believe is a powerful and disruptive mechanism in the next wave of the OA movement ..."

Manuscripts of DOE-funded research now available open access

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:19 AM PDT

"Elsevier is one of many publishers that began opening manuscripts on our platforms this month for US Department of Energy grant recipients. These efforts are coordinated by CHORUS — the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States — established by the publishing industry to help funding bodies implement policies on public access (as open access is often known in the US). For global Open Access Week, we share information about CHORUS and take you behind the scenes to show you how we're implementing it at Elsevier ..."

Digital Science launches GRID - a New, Open Database Offering a Unique Insight into Research Organisations Across the Globe

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:17 AM PDT

"Digital Science today launched the Global Research Identifier Database (GRID), a free, easy-to-use online database that opens up information about research organisations around the world to data scientists, developers and innovators within academic and commercial organisations. The GRID dataset addresses the problem of messy and inconsistent data on research institutions, ensuring that each entity is included correctly and only once. Built in-house by Digital Science, the online database contains 50,000 manually curated institutional names, along with unique identifiers and geo-location information across 212 countries. The data are derived from openly accessible funder and publication sources such as the NIH reporter, PubMed and the UK Gateway to Research. It includes the majority of institutions worldwide that have received research funding and is openly available under a CC-BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international licence, which allows the user to share or adapt the content available for any purpose, even commercially. GRID aims to ..."

bjoern.brembs.blog » Predatory Priorities

Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:14 AM PDT

"Over the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about so-called 'predatory publishers', i.e., those corporations which publish journals, some or all of  which purport to peer-review submitted articles, but publish articles for a fee without actual peer-review. The origin of the discussion can be traced to a list of such publishers hosted by librarian Jeffrey Beall. Irrespective of the already questionable practice of putting entire corporations on a black list (one bad journal and you're out?), I have three main positions in this discussion ..."
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