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The Wikipedia Library/OA week/Progress - Meta

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 08:07 AM PDT

How Wikipedia improved its articles about OA during OA Week.

Groundbreaking University of California policy extends free access to all scholarly articles written by UC employees

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 06:26 AM PDT

"Today the University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide. Building on UC's previously-adopted Academic Senate open access (OA) policies, this new policy enables the university system and associated national labs to provide unprecedented access to scholarly research authored by clinical faculty, lecturers, staff researchers, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students and librarians – just to name a few. Comprising ten campuses, five medical centers, three national laboratories and nearly 200,000 employees, the UC system is responsible for over 2% of the world's total research publications. UC's collective OA policies now cover more authors than any other institutional OA policy to date...."

Program Coordinator (Job ID: 32314) - HigherEdJobs

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 03:24 AM PDT

"Familiarity with and understanding of copyright, intellectual property, and related information policy and legal concerns of academic libraries, including an awareness of open access issues and considerations.  Ability to adapt to changing conditions in academic libraries and the flexibility and desire to learn new skills as scholarly communication continues to evolve at UofL and elsewhere...."

Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship - Investing in the Future

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:33 AM PDT

"We set out to collect inspiring, impactful stories of how open science and scholarship have driven personal and research success.  Like contest author and librarian Brianna Marshall writes of her experience at OpenCon 2014, we think every smart, thoughtful, funny and moving story in this collection make openness feel inevitable.  The experiences, accomplishments, and innovations shared by our contest authors exemplify the diverse ways early career scholars are working to, as Ross Mounce describes, enrich the ways science is communicated. We could not be more proud!   It's cliché, but true - we wish we could award every story.  Our reviewers were obviously inspired, and we hope the visibility and openness of the ARCS2015 collection will drive new collaborations and recognition for all. Now on to our winners…congratulations to Shreejoy Tripathy and Bastian Greshake! ..."

An Open-Source Project to Rebuild Palmyra | Architect Magazine | Technology, 3D Technology, Building Technology, Construction Technology, Preservation, Historic Preservation, Surveying, Research

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:31 AM PDT

"A group of online activists is crowdsourcing the preservation of one of the most significant heritage sites in the world while pressuring for the release of a key advocate for free-access Internet in Syria. Launched earlier this week, New Palmyra is an online archive and data repository that seeks to re-construct its ancient namesake city, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, using models generated from photos gathered by Syria-based open-access-Internet advocate Bassel Khartabil from 2005 until his arrest by the country's Assad regime in 2012.  The city, which had long been a desert oasis, rose to prominence under Roman rule in the 1st-century A.D. The ruins of its structures, which married Greco-Roman building styles with Persian influences, were discovered and made public by travelers to the region during the 17th and 18th centuries. Since then, the site has informed architecture and archaeology, among other fields, but in the past year has been all but obliterated at the hands of ISIS, which has controlled Palmyra since May ..."

EIFL and partners announce new open access project in Palestine | EIFL

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:23 AM PDT

"EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) is delighted to announce a new project, 'Open Access  in Palestine', with Palestine Polytechnic University and the Palestinian Library and Information Consortium (PALICO), which is an EIFL partner consortium. Most Palestinian universities have not yet embraced open access (OA). The project aims to raise awareness about OA and to provide an opportunity for libraries and the research community to share knowledge and information about the benefits of OA. The project will reach out to researchers and research administrators, librarians and information technology staff in the PALICO community ..."

Journals free for authors

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:22 AM PDT

"Following requests from many scientists who have concerns about paying author's fees to get their research published in a journal (whether it is an open-access or a traditional journal), we are starting below a list of Free High Quality Journals, which do not charge any article fees. To keep focused, we will only list journals directly relevant to the field of gene regulation. Free -- determined by whether the author is mandatory required to pay for the publication in the journal or not (this excludes optional payments, such as optional open-access, optional color figures, optional language correction services, etc). Some open-access journals declared that they temporarily allow free submissions (e.g. for the first several years); such journals will be also included in the list below. High quality -- determined by the overall journal's quality as based on the composition of the editorial board, editorial policies, thorough peer-review, reasonable Impact Factor (if the journal is >3 years old), and/or reasonable journal ranking within its scientific field. Google Scholar and other free Open Science tools will be used for the quantitative assessment. We do not use IF and journal's ranks to stratify journals, only to prove that all the journals below are good enough to be included in this list ..."

ORCID auto-update launch a 'game changer' - Research Information

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:20 AM PDT

"ORCID, the non-profit organisation that is working to address the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by providing a registry of persistent identifiers for researchers, has announced the launch of Auto-Update functionality, in collaboration with Crossref and DataCite. Now, ORCID registrants who use their unique ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript or dataset can opt to have their ORCID record automatically updated when their work is made public. In addition, other systems that have integrated the ORCID APIs and connected a researcher's ORCID record – their faculty profile system, library repository, webpage, funder reporting system – can also choose to receive alerts from ORCID, allowing research information to move easily and unambiguously across multiple systems. Crossref and DataCite, also non-profit organisations, are leaders in registering DOIs (digital object identifiers – a unique alphanumeric string assigned to a digital object) for research publications and datasets.  Each DOI is associated with a set metadata and a URL pointer to the full text, so that it uniquely identifies the content item and provides a persistent link to its location on the internet. Between them, Crossref and DataCite have already received almost a half a million works from publishers and data centres that include an ORCID iD validated by the author/contributor. With Auto-Update functionality in place, provided the researcher includes her/his ORCID iD at submission, information about these works can transit (with the researcher's permission) to her/his ORCID record ..."

ORCID: What, Why, How? -- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics -- October 21, 2015

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:19 AM PDT

Use the link to access the presentation.

Global directory of open access databases launched | The Indian Express

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:18 AM PDT

"Dr Girish Sahni, director general, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) launched LOADB — the listing of open access databases, a portal developed by CSIR URDIP showcasing databases in multiple areas of science and technology that are available freely for public use. The objective is to create a web-enabled, linked, classified and categorised collection of Open Access Databases which can be accessed from a single portal ..."

OA and the research lifecycle 7: disseminating your research | Research Support Hub

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:16 AM PDT

Use the link to access the guide.

Scholastica Blog — The Open Access Stories: Richard Poynder, Reporter...

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:14 AM PDT

"Today we welcome Richard Poynder to The Open Access Stories blog series! Share this story and your own on Twitter by using the hashtag - #MyOAStory. Richard Poynder is an independent journalist and blogger specializing in information technology, scholarly communication, professional online database services, open science, e-Science, and intellectual property. He takes a particular interest in the Open Access Movement, which he has been following the development of for more than a decade ..."

The research deposited in repositories is not always freely or easily available | Editage Insights

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:12 AM PDT

"In the course of our conversation with well-known independent journalist/blogger Richard Poynder, we asked him to share his experience with accessing published research and interacting with publishers. Richard reveals that he finds it challenging to communicate with publishers and that publishers should become more accountable to their readers. Interestingly, Richard admits that even though institutional open access repositories are supposed to provide 'free access,' he sometimes struggles to get access to research because of login constraints. When asked to share his views about the theme of the 2015 International Open Access Week 'Open for Collaboration,' Richard tells us that collaboration is not as strong or common as it could be. There should be a centralized collaborative effort to improve the global implementation of open access. Richard is well known for his work, most of which he publishes on his blog Open and Shut? Among Richard's most popular publications are three series of interviews. The blog-based open-access book The Basement Interviews includes Richard's interviews with leading advocates of the various open and free movements. The Open Access Interviews and The State of Open Access series document Richard's conversations with open access advocates and practitioners. Richard is also moderator of the Global Open Access List (GOAL). Over the years, Richard's work has received a lot of attention. Stevan Harnad, well-known open access activist, described Richard as the 'chronicler, conscience, and gadfly laureate' of the open access movement ..."

While free content is to be welcomed, the way it is paid for can create new problems | Editage Insights

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:10 AM PDT

"Most of the time, the people who talk or write about scholarly publishing are academicians, librarians, authors, publishers, or editors themselves and their perspectives stem from their personal knowledge and experiences. But for independent journalist/blogger Richard Poynder, being a non-academic does not get in the way of high-quality reporting. Richard is well known for his work, most of which he publishes on his blog Open and Shut? Among Richard's most popular publications are three series of interviews. The blog-based open-access book The Basement Interviews includes Richard's interviews with leading advocates of the various open and free movements. The Open Access Interviews and The State of Open Access series document Richard's conversations with open access advocates and practitioners. Richard is also moderator of the Global Open Access List (GOAL). Over the years, Richard's work has received a lot of attention. Stevan Harnad, well-known open access activist described Richard as the 'chronicler, conscience, and gadfly laureate' of the open access movement. Speaking to Richard is no less than a revelation. He is knowledgeable, insightful, and candid – an ideal interviewee! Since we had a lot of things to discuss with Richard, we decided to break this interview into four parts. In this first segment, we get him to tell us about his early work and how he developed an interest in scholarly publishing. Richard also shares some of the real challenges he faces as an independent blogger/journalist."

Increased openness is the best way to tackle ethical problems in research and publishing | Editage Insights

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:09 AM PDT

"We are in conversation with Richard Poynder, an independent journalist/blogger who is passionate about scholarly communication and open access. In the first segment of this interview series, Richard mentioned that along with providing open access to research articles, it is important to develop workable business models, but sometimes this can lead to an unforeseen set of problems. In this segment, Richard elaborates on this statement and talks in detail about APCs and paywalls. He also tells us how publishers are not as transparent as they should be and suggests that, amongst other things, greater transparency could address the problems created by the emergence of predatory publishers. Authors, says Richard, can be equally guilty when they succumb to publication and career advancement pressures, and adopt unethical publication practices as a result. Richard is well known for his work, most of which he publishes on his blog Open and Shut? Among Richard's most popular publications are three series of interviews. The blog-based open-access book The Basement Interviews includes Richard's interviews with leading advocates of the various open and free movements. The Open Access Interviews and The State of Open Access series document Richard's conversations with open access advocates and practitioners. Richard is also moderator of the Global Open Access List (GOAL). Over the years, Richard's work has received a lot of attention. Stevan Harnad, well-known open access activist, described Richard as the 'chronicler, conscience, and gadfly laureate' of the open access movement ..."

Open access: Myth versus fact | Editage Insights

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:05 AM PDT

"Arguably, open access to research is one of the hottest topics of discussion among academics and publication industry professionals. Open access publishing offers several benefits to researchers, the most significant one being making their research accessible to the world. But a lot of researchers and authors have reservations about making their work freely available online. Their misconceptions about open access publishing could prevent them from opting for it. It's International Open Access Week and it's a good idea to close this global event on a positive note. So, we bring you the top six myths about open access publishing and clear these misunderstandings for you."

How scientists are dealing with an online, open-access future - OmniFeed

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:04 AM PDT

"It's Open Access Week, during which professional nerds everywhere celebrate the slow march toward free and open scientific research for all.  And while journalists and science enthusiasts like me are excited by the slow, upward trend in open access-publishing, not everyone is all for this academic shift. Those people naturally include subscription-based, traditional journals. But they also include some scientists. Here's why ..."

Wikipedia, open access, and The Wikipedia Library

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:01 AM PDT

"Wikipedia is built by summarizing and citing what reliable sources already say. Academic journals are reliable sources, but often prohibitively expensive for Wikipedia contributors to access. There is a social movement called 'open access' which demands public access and reuse rights from academic journal publishers. I feel strongly about this movement. I stepped up the Wikipedia community outreach I had been doing after the 2011 arrest of Aaron Swartz, which happened because of his open access advocacy. About a year after he was arrested I set up a Wikipedia article on The Cost of Knowledge protest against Elsevier and set up WikiProject Open Access on Wikipedia, which was my attempt to help people organize to promote the idea of open access. 'Open access' for various reasons, is a difficult concept to express. I care for the idea, and I care about the state of the advocacy movement. Jake Orlowitz established The Wikipedia Library in a Wikimedia Foundation grant-funded project in 2013. The Wikipedia Library is a program to connect Wikipedia contributors to source materials to which they can refer with citations when adding content to Wikipedia. In theory, it would connect contributors to any kind of source. However, before The Wikipedia Library existed Wikipedians had their own systems for sharing access to some kinds of reference materials, and were already adept at sharing access to content which was free to read online. Considering its mission, and considering the gap in ability between an independent volunteer and a collective project which could speak for the community, The Wikipedia Library skewed its work focus to provide a service that Wikipedians could never crowdsource. That service was to solicit publishers for free online subscription accounts to commercial publications and then provide those accounts to Wikipedia contributors who seemed likely to use them to develop Wikipedia articles. Here is the process ... In September Michael Eisen, co-founder of PLOS and giant in the open access social movement, tweeted criticism of The Wikipedia Library. As a result of that that, Glyn Moodycame to know about The Wikipedia Library and criticized it in an article. Jake followed with a response on the Wikimedia Foundation blog. In response to that post, Michael posted more criticism on his blog. As a result of all this, my colleague Pete Forsyth arranged for a public discussion to be convened in which Jake, Michael, and a UCSF open access guy (Rich Schneider, with whom I am not acquainted) will have a discussion about open access and Wikipedia and The Wikipedia Library. This happens next week in the context of Open Access Week, which has always been a flexibly scheduled commemoration.  So that is the context. I wish to give my own responses to the ideas in the critical blog posts and provide my own criticism of Wikipedia. I am sharing this with the panelists before their talk next week. At the end I give suggestions for how Wikipedians and the open access community could work together more effectively ..."

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-10-21/Op-ed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 01:56 AM PDT

"How does the public learn about science? How do you? Most basic science literacy comes from primary and secondary school education. Of course, college can offer more formal scientific training, and, perhaps you got some of that, too. Yet, even if you are a practicing researcher, even if you are a world leading expert in this or that field, even still, science as a whole is bigger and mercilessly more diverse than your expertise will ever be. It turns out that, in many ways, you are just like everybody else and you read the science section of your favorite newspaper or magazine, maybe watch a science show, or listen to a science podcast. Yet, in those more serious or desperate moments, when the stakes are really high, perhaps challenged over coffee as to when the Cambrian Explosion started, you turn to Wikipedia. But why? Teachers say you can't trust it. You certainly can't cite it in your senior thesis. Don't even mention it in a scholarly, scientific, article submitted for peer review. So when you think you know about the Cambrian explosion and egos are at stake, can you turn to Wikipedia? You can. In a recent study (currently under review), my colleagues Misha Teplitsky, Grace Lu, and I looked at the world's 50 largest Wikipedias (the English language Wikipedia is just one of hundreds) to learn about the sources of the scientific information contained in them and whether those sources are reputable ..."

AcaWiki non-summary – Mike Linksvayer

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 01:54 AM PDT

"Six years ago I helped launch AcaWiki, a site based on Semantic MediaWiki (software for which I had very high expectations, mostly transferred to Wikidata) for summarizing academic research. A substantial community failed to materialize. I've probably been the only semi-consistent contributor over its entire six years ... This has held true even given AcaWiki's tiny size to date: I regularly look back at summaries I've written to remember what I've read, and wish I summarized much more of what I've read, because most of it I've almost totally forgotten! I recommend summarizing papers even though it is hard.  Much harder still and more valuable are literature reviews. These were envisioned to be a part of AcaWiki, but I now think that every Wikipedia article should effectively be a literature review (and more). A year ago I blogged about an example of Wikipedia article as literature review led by James Heilman. Earlier this year Heilman wrote a call to action around a genre of literature review, Open Access to a High-Quality, Impartial, Point-of-Care Medical Summary Would Save Lives: Why Does It Not Exist? (which of course I summarized on AcaWiki). I have a partially written commentary on this piece but for now I can only urge you to read Heilman, or start with and improve my summary ..."

Making Open Access work: The “state-of-the-art” in providing Open Access to scholarly literature | InfoDoc MicroVeille

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 01:50 AM PDT

[Abstract] Purpose  The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of one of the most important and controversial areas of scholarly communication: Open Access publishing and dissemination of research outputs. It identifies and discusses recent trends and future challenges for various stakeholders in delivering Open Access (OA) to the scholarly literature. Design/methodology/approach  The study is based on a number of interrelated strands of evidence which make up the current discourse on OA, comprising the peer-reviewed literature, grey literature and other forms of communication (including blogs and e-mail discussion lists). It uses a large-scale textual analysis of the peer-reviewed literature since 2010 (carried out using the VOSviewer tool) as a basis for discussion of issues raised in the OA discourse. Findings  A number of key themes are identified, including the relationship between "Green" OA (deposit in repositories) and "Gold" OA (OA journal publication), the developing evidence base associated with OA, researcher attitudes and behaviours, policy directions, management of repositories, development of journals, institutional responses and issues around impact and scholarly communication futures. It suggests that current challenges now focus on how OA can be made to work in practice, having moved on from the discussion of whether it should happen at all. Originality/value  The paper provides a structured evidence-based review of major issues in the OA field, and suggests key areas for future research and policy development.

Open access: a personal take | The Future of Publishing

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 01:24 AM PDT

"I have a few reservations about Open Access. In some respects, that's hardly surprising. After all, I work for a big publisher – not, admittedly, an Elsevier, but still one of the world's largest university presses, one of those not-for-profit organisations whose deep differences from the likes of Elsevier are too commonly elided in the recurrent syllogism that 'Elsevier is a publisher; Elsevier is a profiteer; publishers are profiteers.'   On the other hand, it's also very surprising indeed. I'm an instinctive socialist who broadly supports concepts like Labour's long-abandoned Clause Four, who still regards 'the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange' as a laudable aspiration, and who would happily vote to renationalise the railways, for starters. On that basis, why wouldn't I support a system that seeks to liberate scholarly research from private enterprise and make it freely available to those who need it?   A third factor in this complicated relationship with open access is that I'm also a humanities researcher manqué; an English graduate with an unfinished PhD thesis (which celebrated its twentieth anniversary last year; there wasn't a party). As it happens, the debate on open access that I attended last Friday – the prompt for all this self-indulgent soul-searching – took place at Cambridge's Divinity School, where I sat the last of my undergraduate exams in English twenty years ago ..."

Research

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 01:21 AM PDT

"There's enough money in the publishing system for universal open access. What's needed is a global agreement to coordinate the switch, says Ralf Schimmer. Since the turn of the millennium, open access has become an established principle. Innovations such as mandates and repositories, along with detailed advocacy and guidelines, have the common aim of moving the researcher towards open access. There has been substantial progress: 13 per cent of scientific papers are published with immediate open access; institutional repositories are mushrooming; and there is a constant stream of initiatives. Nevertheless, it is worth pausing to ask why the traditional pre-web publishing system that locks content behind a paywall is still alive and thriving. How is it that a model so clearly dysfunctional and outdated in the context of a modern, web-based ecosystem has not only survived but is more profitable than ever? What is required to accelerate the transition to open access? Maybe there is a need to change tack. Rather than pushing researchers towards open access, would it be better to take open access to researchers by making it a feature of their daily routines? What would that mean? ..."

Making science open to everyone - easternblot.net

Posted: 26 Oct 2015 01:17 AM PDT

"I get the impression that people see me as two entirely different people: On the one hand, there's the Eva who supports open science and helps scientists get their work out. On the other hand, there's the Eva who is always talking about how science integrates with art, music, travel, cities, books and everything else. Okay, I'll admit: I feel like I'm these two separate people myself sometimes. But here's the thing: these issues are related. Both are about transparency of scientific research, and about making science more collaborative and inclusive. You can't expect non-scientists to care about (funding) science if they never see it anywhere and don't realize it's already all around them. And if they're funding it, they should also be able to see where it ends up. Maybe they won't understand all the data, but they'll get some of it. The world isn't divided into researchers on one side and complete idiots with no interest in science on the other side. There is an entire spectrum of people, some of whom are very interested in science and would love to be more involved or able to access the work that researchers do. Sometimes that's through accessing the literature directly, and other times that's by learning more about science through media they already consume. There isn't a lot to bridge the two issues at the moment, though. Articles that are open access are not easy to find or digest for people with a casual interest in science, and a lot of science in popular culture doesn't offer links to real scientists and their research. I'm encouraged by a lot of what I saw at the recent Wikipedia Science Conference, and inspired by some of the work of ContentMine that would make it possible to sift through articles systematically. I think we can find a way to bridge open science with accessible science information for everyone. Let's do it!"
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