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Clay Shirky: Can Open Source Be Traced To The 17th-Century? : NPR

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 06:19 AM PDT

"New media expert Clay Shirky explains how the ideas behind open source have been used for centuries: from the Enlightenment to the digital era."

ContentMining in Neuroscience

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 06:18 AM PDT

"How content mining , especially of diagrams, can help neuroscientists to read the literature effectively ..."

Q: Why Open Data Is an Opportunity for the Private Sector - Nextgov.com

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 06:17 AM PDT

"As federal agencies start implementing the 2014 Digital Accountability and Transparency Act -- which requires them to publish spending data in standard formats -- a few tech startups see an opportunity to make money. One of those companies is 8-year-old Seattle-based tech company Socrata, whose customers include the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the state of Maryland and the City of Austin. Socrata sells software products designed to help governments upload datasets. In advance of an upcoming customer conference in Washington, Socrata CEO Kevin Merritt chatted with Nextgov about the company's federal business. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity ..."

Science is best when the data is an open book

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 06:15 AM PDT

" ... To me it's clear: researchers should routinely examine others' raw data. But in many fields today there is no opportunity to do so. Scientists communicate their findings to each other via journal articles. These articles provide summaries of the data, often with a good deal of detail, but in many fields the raw numbers aren't shared. And the summaries can be artfully arranged to conceal contradictions and maximise the apparent support for the author's theory. Occasionally, an article is true to the data behind it, showing the warts and all. But we shouldn't count on it. As the chemist Matthew Todd has said to me, that would be like expecting a real estate agent's brochure for a property to show the property's flaws. You wouldn't buy a house without seeing it with your own eyes. It can be unwise to buy into a theory without seeing the unfiltered data. Many scientific societies recognise this. For many years now, some of the journals they oversee have had a policy of requiring authors to provide the raw data when other researchers request it ..."

How Trade Agreements Harm Open Access and Open Source » infojustice

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 06:14 AM PDT

"Open access isn't explicitly covered in any of the secretive trade negotiations that are currently underway, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Trade In Services Agreement (TISA). But that doesn't mean that they won't have a negative impact on those seeking to publish or use open access materials. First, online publishers sometimes apply TPM (Technological Protection Measures, which implement DRM) to works that have been published under open access licences, or place such works behind paywalls, thereby frustrating the intention of the author that the works should be made freely available. In both cases, circumventing the TPM or paywall block, in order to gain access to the work as the author intended, can be a civil or criminal offense ..."

Author Services It’s the latest Open Access Week research story

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 06:13 AM PDT

"We're celebrating OA Week with a series of stories from researchers who published OA in the last few years. Read Shannon Johnson's story, as she tells us why she chose to publish OA, what the experience was like, and what the impact of her research has been."

Scholastica Blog — The Open Access Stories: Amy Vilz & Molly Poremski...

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 06:12 AM PDT

"Welcome Amy Vilz and Molly Poremski to The Open Access Stories blog series! Share this story and your own on Twitter by using the hashtag - #MyOAStory. Molly Poremski is the International Languages & Literatures Librarian at the University at Buffalo and Amy Vilz is University Archivist at the University at Buffalo Libraries. Molly and Amy launched The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections in 2014. The journal is committed to providing current research and relevant discussion of practices in a special collections library setting ..."

Open research policy and advocacy — Vitae Website

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 05:43 AM PDT

"Since the first scientific journals were established in the 17th century, academic researchers have published their methods and results without direct payment. There have always been barriers to accessing research outputs however - both for those within and those outside the scientific community. Examples of barriers are the cost of buying journals, language or formats that hamper understanding and lack of awareness of the research. Before the advent of the internet there were efforts to broaden access to academic research but from the 1990s, digital files, the internet and the world wide web have offered new possibilities for how this can happen ..."

Penn State Technology Allows Faculty and Students to Build Their Own Textbooks from OER -- Campus Technology

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 05:41 AM PDT

"Penn State researchers have been piloting a technology that allows faculty (and students) to build e-textbooks algorithmically using keywords to gather together materials from open resources. The tool, called BBookX, lets users generate textbooks chapter by chapter, adding materials by using keywords to find relevant resources, which can then be culled and organized, even edited by the user. Keywords are used to find an initial set of resources; adding the most relevant resources to a chapter then allows the algorithm to refine results for additional materials. Users can rearrange the materials within a chapter or reorganize entire chapters on the fly through a click-and-drag interface ..."

Springer Nature Open Research Day - BioMed Central blog

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 05:39 AM PDT

" ... As part of international Open Access Week, Springer Nature Open Research Day was held in Beijing on Oct. 20th. Chief Executive Officer of Springer Nature, Derk Haank, and President of Springer Nature in Great China, Charlotte Liu, gave a warm welcome to all attendees and reaffirmed Springer Nature's commitment to open access ..."

Backlash after Frontiers journals added to list of questionable publishers : Nature News & Comment

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 05:38 AM PDT

"Researchers on social media have been split by the decision of academic librarian Jeffrey Beall to add the Frontiers journals to his 'blacklist' of 'questionable publishers'.  His website Scholarly Open Access maintains a list of journals that may be 'predatory publishers' — a term Beall coined to cover publications that charge scientists fees to publish research papers, but that do not offer standard publishing services such as peer review or that make misleading claims about their journals on issues such as impact factors or indexing.  Critics spoke out against Beall's blacklisting of Frontiers, maintaining that the open-access publisher is legitimate and reputable and does offer proper peer review ..."

Open Access at the tipping point - Scholarly Communications @ Duke

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 05:37 AM PDT

"As readers of this blog almost certainly know, this week was Open Access Week, and it's been heartening to see all of the stories about how open access is creating new opportunities for scholarship, and transforming scholarly communication. It's also been interesting to see organizations that one might not think of as being open access proponents proclaiming their OA bona fides this week. On Tuesday this press release from Nature came across my Twitter feed. I shared it with my colleagues Kevin and Haley, joking that our job was done and we could go home, now that even in Nature over 60% of published research articles were open access under Creative Commons licenses. Even though Nature neglects to mention in this release that they are bringing in a lot of money from open access through high article processing charges (they aren't doing this just to be nice) I still think it's an important milestone because it shows that open access is becoming the norm, even in mainstream, high visibility journals. I'm optimistic that this is another indicator that we're on our way to some kind of tipping point for open access, where other effects will come into play ..."

University of Michigan Press Director Discusses Open Access Monographs in Couper PBK Lecture - Hamilton College

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 05:34 AM PDT

"Hamilton welcomed Charles Watkinson as its speaker for the Couper Phi Beta Kappa Lecture on Oct. 20. Watkins is the director of University of Michigan Press and associate university librarian for publishing at University of Michigan Library. His talk, titled "Open Access Monographs: Why Should Authors, Librarians, and Administrators Care?" explored the impact of the emerging open access movement on scholarly publishing. Watkinson began his lecture on Open Access with an anecdote from his days as an archaeology student. When his professor had asked him to consult a rare manuscript available at the New York Public Library Watkinson was pleasantly surprised that, thanks to the efficiency of the NY Library system and the priorities of Dick Couper as its president, he gained access to the materials he sought within only two hours. The preservation, discoverability, and access of the public to rare materials are all priorities of the Open Access movement about which he went on to speak. Watkinson provided an overview of the University of Michigan's unique publishing model ..."

1. Scientists or shareholders? | Publishing blog | Royal Society

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 05:31 AM PDT

"As part of our Publishing350 programme to mark the anniversary of the world's first scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions, we held a series of debates on the Future of Scholarly Scientific Communication. During Open Access Week we reflect on a couple of the sessions covering profit and sustainability in scientific publishing ..."

New Open Access Policy

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:33 AM PDT

"On October 19, 2015, the Senate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus approved a University Policy on Open Access to Research Articles. This policy grants the University a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise all rights under copyright to the scholarly articles produced by faculty members. In the policy, the faculty observed that Open Access, by providing the widest possible dissemination for research, enhances benefits to the state, region, and world while also raising the visibility and profile of the researchers at the University. Under the policy, researchers will retain copyright to their work. Work published before adoption of the policy is exempt from it. Further waiver provisions are available for specific articles upon request ..."

Columbia Libraries Participate in Eighth Annual Open Access Week | Columbia University Libraries

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:32 AM PDT

"Open Access Week, a global event now entering its eighth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they've learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.  Columbia University Libraries is committed to making scholarly research free and available to the public online in a number of ways ..."

DE GRUYTER – Traditional Scholarly Publisher’s Shift Towards Open Access. The Facts Behind the Numbers | Open Science

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:31 AM PDT

"De Gruyter Open published 11,115 papers in fully open access journals in 2014. 11,276 articles were published under De Gruyter's brand in hybrid journals (of which a small part was also open access). In 2015, the company will probably publish 12,898 papers in fully open access journals and 12,673 in hybrid venues. So it is very likely that the group will publish more open access than conventional articles this year. There is a growing discussion about the protracted 'transition to open' period for which research institutions have to pay for both subscription to traditional venues and publication fees for publishing in open access journals. The people participating in the discussion about this phenomenon stress the fact that academic publishers benefit from keeping revenues from these two sources, and therefore will never be keen to transform all their journals to open access. They also use the 'double dipping' notion to address the fact that some publishers may be paid twice for the same content, by charging publication fees for keeping some particular journal article open, but still selling subscription to the whole journal, which is partially toll access (this is the called 'hybrid open access') ..."

Assessing Open Data Assessment – What do we Want to Measure? | International Open Data Conference 2015

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:29 AM PDT

" ... So why do we want to look at the data about open data in the face? What are we trying to get out of it? The answer is simple, we try to see what our action did, how did we perform, and hopefully to learn from it how we can get better. It requires a lot of work, but it is an investment for our future work. The question then should not be why we measure our open data efforts, but even simpler than that – what do we want to measure? How can we measure effectively so we can work better in the future? In the last International Open Data Conference (IODC) that took place in May 2015, we set up an open data measurement track. We tried in our workshop to tackle these four subjects: develop an open data assessment roadmap; refine the open data common assessment framework; grow the network of researchers; and develop domain specific assessments: starting with national statistics ..."

Open Access: A Growing International Movement | Open Government Data Platform India Blog

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:26 AM PDT

"Open access is a growing international movement that uses the internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. Encouraging the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, the open access movement is gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers put their weight behind it. The theme highlights the ways in which collaboration both inspires and advances the Open Access movement. The theme also emphasizes the ways in which Open Access enables new avenues for collaboration between scholars by making research available to any potential collaborator, anywhere, any time ..."

Open access advocacy in Zambia | EIFL

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:22 AM PDT

"Zambia Library Consortium (ZALICO) has launched a national open access (OA) advocacy project that aims to transform Zambia's research landscape. The project is supported by EIFL, and aims to encourage OA uptake through advocacy, OA policy formulation, and to increase OA publishing in order to improve accessibility and visibility of research. During events to launch the advocacy project (a series of three-day workshops held on 10-12 June), it became clear that there has been great progress with respect to OA in Zambia, but there is still work to be done to embed OA in research processes. I was happy to take part in the workshops, and to share ideas with over 50 research managers, researchers and lecturers from six ZALICO member institutions ..."

EIFL welcomes adoption of national open access strategy in Slovenia | EIFL

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:20 AM PDT

"The Government of the Republic of Slovenia has adopted the National Strategy of open access (OA) to scientific publications and research data in Slovenia 2015-2020. The Slovenian and English versions of the National Strategy, which was formally adopted on 3 September 2015, are available on the webpage of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. EIFL welcomes the new strategy, which arises out of a public consultation process. EIFL and the OpenAIRE and PASTEUR4OA projects supported the consultation process by providing a joint submission ..."

10 YEARS AND GOING STRONG: COBESS! | EIFL

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:19 AM PDT

"This year, the Consortium des Bibliothèques de l'Enseignement Supérieur de Senegal (COBESS) celebrate their 10th anniversary. COBESS will mark the occasion by hosting a major event to showcase its contribution to higher education and research in Senegal. The event will take place from 2 - 6 November in Dakar, Senegal's capital city. Over the past 10 years, COBESS has become a leading advocate for open access to research, increased access to e-resources and for improved national and international copyright laws for libraries. COBESS has valued EIFL's support over the years ..."

EIFL hopeful on South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill | EIFL

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:17 AM PDT

"South Africa's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) recently held a public consultation on the Copyright Amendment Bill, as part of a review to modernize national copyright law for the digital era and in line with international developments. In its submission to the consultation, EIFL commends DTI for the stated purpose of the Bill to increase access to knowledge, access to education and learning materials, and for persons with disabilities. EIFL endorses the 'Joint Comments on the South African Copyright Amendment Bill 2015' (alternative link), the product of a collaboration by an international team of academics from South Africa and the US. The EIFL Draft Law on Copyright (2014), itself the result of an international consultation, is referenced extensively in the Joint Comments ..."

Everything you wanted to know about Open Access … 5 great blogs from #OAweek | The Knowledge Exchange Blog

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:12 AM PDT

"This week has been Open Access Week – an annual global event which is a chance for the academic and research community to discuss the benefits of Open Access, and inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. We've a particular interest in how the open access agenda is evolving. As an information service, one of our aims is to support evidence-based policymaking and increase the availability and uptake of research within practitioner communities. We also have a lot of librarians and information professionals in our research team – so understanding what's happening in the publishing world is something we follow as part of our own CPD. With this in mind, here's the five blogs we've seen this week which our team found most interesting …"

The “Salvador Declaration on Open Access: the developing world perspective” completes 10 years | SciELO in Perspective

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:12 AM PDT

"Open access means unrestricted access to and use of scientific information. It has growing support worldwide and it is received with enthusiasm and high expectations in the developing world. Open Access promotes equity. For the developing world Open Access will increase scientists and academics capacity to both access and contribute to world science. Historically the circulation of scientific information in developing countries has been impeded by a number of barriers including economic models, infrastructure, policies, language and culture. Consequently, WE, the participants of the International Seminar on Open Access – parallel meeting of the 9th World Congress on Health Information and Libraries and the 7th Regional Congress of Information in Health Sciences agree that ..."

What's the future for Open Knowledge? - Institute of Development Studies

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:10 AM PDT

"Recent years have seen a rapid rise in demand for the adoption of open knowledge approaches by the development community – something that IDS, as a long time advocate, welcomes. But through our long engagement in this area we also recognise that smaller knowledge providers and users, including many based outside Europe and North America, often lack the technical capacity and resources to engage effectively in this area. This in turn means that they might not benefit from the increased visibility and reach for their ideas that open knowledge approaches potentially offer. It was this concern that led to the creation of Open Knowledge Hub. The project, with initial funding from DFID, brought together a group of international partners to create a new collaborative 'hub' that pays particular attention to supporting the sharing of content from these smaller organisations. The Hub itself, OKHub.org, builds on emerging approaches from the Open Access and Open Data movements to share open-licensed metadata (bibliographic data and links) about research documents, organisations and other materials. The idea is that by pooling our technical expertise and sharing what we learn, project partners can support each other to collectively adopt these approaches - something that individually we would struggle to achieve ..."

Ways Wake Forest promotes open access | ZSR Library

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:06 AM PDT

"To bookend Open Access Week with my previous post about the Google Books win, I wanted to quickly highlight ways Wake Forest promotes open access ..."

Open Access publishing does not have to be expensive! | BU Research Blog

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 03:57 AM PDT

"As it is Open Access Week I would like to clarify one of the Open Access publishing myths.  One of the common replies I receive from academics colleagues when raising Open Access publishing is that it is (too) expensive. This is, of course, true for many academic journals, but not all are expensive.  Soem don't even charge a processing fee at all.  Infamously, The Lancet Global Health charges an article processing fee of US $4750 upon acceptance of submitted research articles.  More moderately priced scientific journals still charge anything up to about £1,500 per article ..."

Universitat de Barcelona - The University of Barcelona signs up the LERU statement on open access

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 03:42 AM PDT

"Coinciding with the Open Access Week, the rector of the University of Barcelona, Dr Dídac Ramírez, has signed up the statement Moving Forwards on Open Access elaborated by the League of European Research Universities (LERU). The document calls upon the European Commission to strongly support open access policies in order to ensure that research funding goes to research, not to publishers ..."

It is time for higher level decisions to support a sustainable Open Access model! | Stockholm University Press Blog

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 03:41 AM PDT

"During the EC Workshop on Alternative Open Access Publishing Models (#AlterOA on Twitter) workshop in Brussels recently, we could see that the Open Access and Open Science movement is ready for the next stage, i.e. to become the new standard for scientific communication. There's however a few more obstacles to conquer before we reach the dream that Roberto Viola, Directory General of DG Connect, laid out in his opening address: To have all universities and stakeholders connected through an open information cloud ..."

#oaweek - Early Modern and Open Access | Frühneuzeit blog RWTH

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 03:38 AM PDT

"It is International Open Access Week, now already for the eighth time. 'Open Access and Historical Sciences - need opportunities, problems,' lit Lilian country in 2009, where she focused on in 2008 went online portal Perspectivia.net. A not flawless overview of the historical sciences has open-access.net. In October 2015 Tobias Wulf complained under the title '#nopenaccess in the science of history' that 'it almost twenty years after the emergence of the first professional scientific websites still no offers for online publishing in the history (and probably also in general humanities) science out there that would be effectively enforced' ..."

Bypassing Interlibrary Loan Via Twitter: An Exploration of #icanhazpdf Requests

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 03:36 AM PDT

[Introduction] Twitter has emerged as a popular social media platform for many scientists and scholars. Priem and Costello estimate that one out of every forty scholars, defined as faculty, postdoc, or doctoral student, in the United States and the United Kingdom is a registered Twitter user.1 What's more, they are using the platform to share scholarly material. Moriano et al. have demonstrated that the number of tweets containing links to scholarly publications increased substantially from 2011 to 2013; similarly, they also increased as a percentage of overall twitter traffic.2 Their analysis also noted that certain publishers' content is shared more than others. The top domain names tweeted in their sample were: nature. com, arxiv.org, sciencemag.org, wiley.com, and sciencedirect.com. While the interdisciplinary nature of these domains makes it difficult to draw conclusions about Twitter use rates by specific academic discipline, Priem and Costello concluded that no one academic discipline was significantly overrepresented on Twitter.3 Apart from everyday social use of the microblogging service, scholars are clearly using Twitter to increase their professional networks, organize prepublication review of working papers and manuscript drafts, offer post-publication critique,4 disseminate published research,5 and share pre-prints.6  ...

Proposal would reduce cost of textbooks | The Columbus Dispatch

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 03:31 AM PDT

"This past summer, the Class of 2015 set a record. Unfortunately, it's not one that we should celebrate. The Class of 2015 set the record for the most student debt in U.S history. While not the biggest, one of the most overlooked costs of college is textbooks. The College Board recommends students budget $1,200 per year for textbooks and supplies — that's almost 40 percent of tuition at a community college. This October, Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Al Franken, D-Minn.; and Angus King, I-Maine; and U.S. Reps. Ruben Hinojosa, D-Texas, and Jared Polis, D-Colo., introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act. The act aims to tackle the high prices of traditional publishers by encouraging the use of openly licensed textbooks. Open textbooks are faculty-written and peer-reviewed, just like traditional textbooks, but published under a license that allows the public free access online or affordably in print (usually $10-$40 for a hard copy) ..."

Your Questions Answered on open access | University of Cambridge

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 02:23 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 ..."

Open Access | jenks library

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 02:22 AM PDT

"It's Open Access Week 2015, a time in the year where we can stop to think intentionally about the way in which we interact, access, publish, and receive our information.  As students in an undergraduate college you are use to accessing scholarly information in a particular way.  You go through one of our library databases or browse some academic journals and find articles of interest for your studies.  Because you are students at an institution that has resources such as library databases you have the ability to access any article contained within these databases. But there are so many out there who do not have this same access to information.  That is, in part, the purpose of the Open Access initiative ..."

Scholastica Blog — The Open Access Stories: Sean Michael Morris,...

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 02:21 AM PDT

"Today we welcome Sean Michael Morris to The Open Access Stories blog series! Share this story and your own on Twitter by using the hashtag - #MyOAStory. Sean Michael Morris is a digital teacher and pedagogue, with experience in networked learning, MOOCs, digital composition and publishing, collaboration, and editing. He has been working in digital teaching and learning for 15 years. Morris is also Co-Director of Hybrid Pedagogy, an open access journal that explores the relationship between pedagogy and scholarship ..."

‘Documenting Ferguson’ ​free, online archive created by Washington University Libraries | Newsroom | Washington University in St. Louis

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 02:20 AM PDT

"Washington University Libraries, the library system of Washington University in St. Louis, is collecting and preserving photographs, video and other content for the digital repository 'Documenting Ferguson.' Free and accessible to all, the online collection will serve as a lasting source of information regarding the Aug. 9 death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and the ensuing protests and unrest. Washington University librarians are accepting images, video, audio, artwork and stories related to the memorials, community meetings, rallies and protests occurring in Ferguson and the surrounding areas. Donors must be able to demonstrate clear copyright of materials ..."

LPC | Library Publishing Directory 2016

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 02:15 AM PDT

"Announcing the 3rd edition of the Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition is pleased to announce publication of the 2016 Library Publishing Directory, which highlights the publishing activities of over 100 college and university libraries.  Published just in time for Open Access Week, the Directory illustrates the many ways in which libraries are actively transforming and advancing scholarly communications in partnership with scholars, students, university presses, and others. In documenting the breadth and depth of activities in this field, this resource aims to articulate the unique value of library publishing; to establish it as a significant and growing community of practice; and to raise its visibility within a number of stakeholder communities, including administrators, funding agencies, other scholarly publishers, librarians, and content creators.  

Strategic Plan 2016-2020 Public Draft: Positioning the United States Copyright Office for the Future | U.S. Copyright Office

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 02:13 AM PDT

"Register of Copyrights Maria A. Pallante today released a public draft of the Copyright Office's Strategic Plan, setting forth the Office's performance objectives for the next five years. Reflecting the results of four years of internal evaluations and public input, the Strategic Plan lays out a vision of a modern Copyright Office that is equal to the task of administering the Nation's copyright laws effectively and efficiently both today and tomorrow. It will remain in draft form for 30 days to permit public feedback, and will take effect on December 1, 2015 ..."

Making your Repository or Open Access Journal OpenAIRE compatible with OA Horizon 2020 requirements | Foster

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 02:05 AM PDT

"Course for Repository managers, Data archives managers, Librarians, Journal editors and publishers, Data providers, Research managers and administrators."

Open Access to publications in Horizon 2020 | Foster

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 02:04 AM PDT

"The purpose of this course is to inform the researchers on how to comply with the H2020 mandate by depositing their publications in open access. Based on a total of 3 hours, the objectives are: [1] Understand the value of the H2020 mandate [2] Comply with the H2020 OA Mandate [3] Reuse the publications in Horizon2020 ..."

Open Science to Scientific Research | Foster

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 02:02 AM PDT

"The following course is a general introduction to the various components and philosophies of Open Science, that can directly enrich each step of the scholarly lifecycle (Open Notebook Science, OpenData, Open Research Software, Open Access). The overall objective of the course is to provide an introduction to why Open Science is essential to rigorous, reproducible and transparent research, as well as to future research evaluation criteria focused on societal impact ..."

Where to from here? Open Access in Five Years | Unlocking Research

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 02:01 AM PDT

"As part of the Office of Scholarly Communication Open Access Week celebrations, we are uploading a blog a day written by members of the team. Thursday is a piece by Dr Arthur Smith looking to the future."

Top 10 publishers in DOAJ (by number of titles) 2014 to 2015 | Sustaining the Knowledge Commons / Soutenir les savoirs communs

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 01:59 AM PDT

"There have been a few changes in the collection of fully open access journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals in the past year, as demonstrated by the following chart. While Hindawi and BioMedCentral remain the largest publishers (by number of journals, not number of articles), traditional publisher De Gruyter has gone from no titles in DOAJ in 2014 to 3rd largest DOAJ publisher and Elsevier is now the 7th largest DOAJ publisher by number of journals. Figures are based on an analysis of publisher by size drawn by DOAJ metadata downloaded in May 2014 and May 2015. Full data is available in the OA APC dataverse ..."

RIOXX: RIOXX now supported by 30 institutional repositories

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 01:57 AM PDT

"I'm very pleased to note that the number of instituional repositories declaring support for RIOXX has reached 30! This number has trebled in 6 months which is a healthy rate of adoption. This is due to the growing adoption of the Jisc-funded ePrints plugin. It would be good to see some other systems listed: there are, I believe, ongoing developments to introduce RIOXX support into other repository systems. Who will be next? Will it be DSpace? Will it be Hydra? Watch this space…."

Open access and monographs | Scholarly Communication

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 01:53 AM PDT

"The open access discussions have, for the past decade or so, focused on journal articles, and increasingly conference proceedings. But now the focus is starting to move towards making publicly funded monographs open access ..."

OA monograph costs | Scholarly Communication

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 01:52 AM PDT

"Where does the money come from? The majority of University and scholarly society presses that publish on open access monographs do not charge authors or readers, except for those ordering print copies.The OAPEN-UK HSS Researcher Survey (between Feb-May 2012) examined the source of funding for research underpinning authors' last HSS monograph and found that only 22% came from research council grants, whereas 62% came from core university funds or self-funding. The Open Book Publishers membership scheme (OBP) is a new agreement from Jisc Collections that supports the publication of Open Access research monographs. By joining this scheme, member institutions will support the publication of at least twelve new Open Access research monographs every year. For an annual fee of £270 member institutions can also offer all staff, students and alumni with a discount on any print copies of OBP titles. Any print sales to member institutions are offset against membership fees in the following year ..."

Open access monograph publishing options | Scholarly Communication

Posted: 25 Oct 2015 01:50 AM PDT

Use the link to access the annotated list of University open access ePresses
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