Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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John Wiley & Sons : The Triological Society and Wiley launch a new open access journal

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:34 AM PDT

"The Triological Society and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. announced today the launch of a new open access publication, Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology. Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology is a peer-reviewed open access journal focused on the rapid dissemination of the science and practice of otolaryngology head and neck surgery. The new title is a companion journal to The Laryngoscope and will publish high-quality, original research across the spectrum of basic and clinical otolaryngology. The journal will publish contributions in the form of comprehensive reviews, research articles, clinical trials, short reports, in-depth perspectives, open-peer commentaries, theoretical and/or translational papers. Negative results and confirmatory studies may also be published as short communications. Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology joins The Triological Society portfolio alongside the highly ranked journal The Laryngoscope as well as the monthly newsmagazine ENTtoday ..."

Presidential Open Access Policy makes UC research accessible to public | Daily Bruin

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:32 AM PDT

"The University of California issued a policy Monday that will allow all scholarly articles written by UC researchers to be freely shared with anyone who wants to access them. The Presidential Open Access Policy will allow University authors to make their research publicly available in the UC's open access database eScholarship unless they obtain a waiver, according to a UC Office of Scholarly Communication press release. Authors can grant rights to their work to the University prior to making any agreements with outside publishers. The policy will also enable authors to publish their work in journals outside the UC database, according to the press release. Publishers formerly had exclusive control of the distribution. The UC Academic Senate, which mostly consists of tenure-track faculty, passed a policy in 2013 that made scholarly articles written by its members freely available. With the new policy, about 30,000 academic appointees, such as adjunct professors, lecturers, post-doctoral students and clinical researchers, can also make their work accessible to the public, said Christopher Kelty, chair of the Presidential Open Access Policy Task Force and an information studies and anthropology professor at UCLA, in an email. The UC system is responsible for over 2 percent of the world's total research publications, according to the press release."

Open Access Week 2015: 'Open for Collaboration'

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:29 AM PDT

"The eighth annual Open Access Week, designed to raise awareness of open access (OA) and related issues, was held Oct. 19–25, 2015. Libraries, universities, research institutes, publishers, research funding agencies, and individual OA advocates used the opportunity to talk, tweet, and share thoughts, success stories, and lessons learned about OA, open data, and open education. This year's theme, Open for Collaboration, highlighted the new opportunities for working together that OA can offer researchers. While OA Week has become a truly community-based initiative, SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) continues to serve as the lead organizer of and driving force behind the international event ..."

William & Mary - Library leads way in open access movement

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:28 AM PDT

"Academic libraries nationwide are beginning to embrace the open access movement, an effort to provide unrestricted online access to research. At William & Mary, one way Swem Library is leading the way is by bringing open educational resources (OER) to the campus.   This fall, Swem launched the university's first pilot OER grants. Supported by the Provost's Creative Adaptation Fund, the grants support the incorporation of open educational resources into courses for the 2015-16 academic year ..."

151028 Open Access And Open Data : Events : University of Dundee

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:27 AM PDT

"Research Councils UK (RCUK) has this summer published a draft Concordat on Open Research Data, which sets out expectations of good practice in publishing research data openly. The Concordat aims to help ensure that research data gathered and generated by members of the UK research community is made openly available for use by others wherever possible. To find out more about data sharing and the expectations of UK, European and US funders come to 'Open Access and Open Data: what do I need to know (and do)?' Lasting an hour, the presentation will cover…"

Year of Open: David Ernst on Open Textbooks, 11/5 | University of Texas at Austin Libraries

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:25 AM PDT

"As skyrocketing costs increasingly affect the perceived value of a college degree and negatively impact retention and graduation rates, what can be done to mitigate financial pressures for students in the academy? Dr. David Ernst discusses how the adoption of open textbooks can help overcome the impediments of access and cost to improve student success outcomes ..."

KELL: Affordable textbooks would lighten university students’ burden | Opinion | dailynebraskan.com

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:23 AM PDT

"It's the week before college. You're panicking about where your classes are, whether or not you'll like your roommate and how soon you're going to get sick of the dining hall food. All of these are valid concerns, but you're forgetting one thing: your textbooks. Just this semester, I've spent $300 on textbooks. Thankfully, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has rental programs, otherwise that number probably would've surpassed $500. So the real questions are, why am I paying so much for textbooks, and is there any way I can pay less? On Oct. 8, five congressmen reintroduced the Affordable College Textbook Act, which was originally proposed in 2013. This act would cut the costs of physical textbooks, as well as encourage the use of free shared online textbooks. Open textbooks are books online that are either sold at a reduced price or free. It's kind of like an access code for an online textbook, but it can be used more than once and is drastically less expensive. This proposal would cut the cost of books by 80 percent. If this act had been in place when I bought textbooks, I would've only spent $60 on them this semester. The cost of college textbooks has increased 812 percent since 1978, compared to tuition which has risen 559 percent. College is becoming harder and harder for people to afford. Students are already spending so much money that textbooks are simply seen as dollar signs flying away. There's so much stress that comes with college that some people may become discouraged when they have to keep spitting out money to keep up with their classes ..."

Innovative Deviance: A Theoretical Framework Emerging at the Intersection of Copyright Law and Technological Change

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:22 AM PDT

[Abstract] This paper explores the relationship between emerging technology-enabled behaviors and established copyright law in the United States. Challenges implicated by recent technological developments have given rise to a consensus among policy-makers, scholars, public interest advocates, and various other stakeholders that copyright reforms are needed. Debates over what shape the potential reforms ought to take have been strident, unrelenting, and seemingly paralyzing to the cause. Meanwhile, courts have continued to adjudicate cases testing the balance between existing copyright doctrines and new methods of creating, managing, and sharing protected works. The paper describes a recent exemplar involving mass digitization, Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, and critically reflects upon the courts' fair use analyses before articulating an emerging theoretical framework for understanding and explaining the intersection of copyright law and technological change based on the sociological concept of innovative deviance.

How compliant is your institution? Meeting RCUK and REF metadata and policy requirements

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:20 AM PDT

"The event will focus on the policy and metadata requirements of RCUK and the UK Higher Education Funding Bodies.   In order to comply with these funders' policies it will be necessary for institutions to record data about their Open Access research outputs in a consistent way. At this event, representatives from RCUK and HEFCE, EPrints software developers and members of the HEI community will discuss the RIOXX metadata application profile, demonstrate the RIOXX plug-in, review REF requirements and see a demo of the new REF OA Compliance Checker plugin for EPrints. Representatives from HE institutions that have already adopted the RIOXX EPrints plugin or have been involved in testing the REF Compliance Checker will be sharing their experiences of implementing these new systems and workflows."

Open Access and Academic Publishing | The Academic Book of the Future

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:17 AM PDT

"Independent information services professional Ian Lovecy suggests that there are a number of questions – philosophical and practical – which need to be answered before open access could be a sound and sustainable method of academic publishing. This post makes no attempt to answer them, but rather to identify them and perhaps open up some of the issues involved to discussion ..."

Working together to promote open access policy alignment in Europe | EIFL

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:13 AM PDT

"High-level representatives of research funding and research performing organizations from 10 Eastern European countries will attend two PASTEUR4OA meetings hosted by Hungarian Academy of Sciences and EIFL. The meetings, under the banner, 'Working together to promote open access policy alignment in Europe', will include delegates from Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia"

BOM@ERCIM — Towards an open access policy for ERCIM

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:12 AM PDT

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Making Open Access work: Making Open Access work: Online Information Review: Vol 39, No 5

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:07 AM PDT

Use the link to access the full text article.  [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.

Digital Education & Innovation | The 3 Users Open Access Makes a Better World For in Online Courses

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 01:57 AM PDT

"Creating a MOOC requires shifts in pedagogy, structure, and content delivery. With Open Access (OA) week wrapping up, we wanted to highlight how important openly accessible content is for online learning, and how DEI is especially supporting the use of open access content for the benefit of three groups: learners, instructors, and researchers ..."

US Court interprets copyleft clause in Creative Commons licenses | TechnoLlama

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 01:54 AM PDT

"During the last decade, a common attack against open source licenses from their opponents stated that the documents were invalid because they had not been tested in court. This type of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) seemed to be very popular with certain unimaginative legal types unwilling to fathom innovative solutions. And of course, such an argument is entirely wrong, a license does not need to be tested in court to be valid, we happily sign and agree to hundreds of Terms of Use and End-User License Agreements that have never seen so much as a legal brief. But yet this myth continued, at least until courts started deciding in favour of copyleft licenses (some cases in this article by Yours Truly). At some point this same strategy was used against Creative Commons licenses, and I cannot count the number of conferences and presentations where a member of the audience asked if they had been tested in court. My answer was the same as with open source, but anyway this strategy waned as the first legal decisions interpreting CC in court came along. We have had a sizeable number of CC cases through the years, and now we can add the case of Drauglis v. Kappa Map Group, LLC to the growing corpus of decisions ..."

Gold OA: the basis for going on (2 of 2) « Walt at Random

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 01:51 AM PDT

"I'll keep this one relatively short, as it's about more direct appreciation of the gold OA research: namely, money. I've already responded to two people who might, conceivably, have money available for this research (neither one even suggested that it could happen), giving the amount I'd want–so I might as well be up-front and provide the options here.   1. The Donations + Purchases Route: Milestones ... 2. Direct Grant Funding or Consulting Contract: Annual Costs ...  3. Part-time Consulting Research ... 4. Redoing the Beall's Lists Investigation ..."

Gold OA: The basis for going on (1 of 2) « Walt at Random

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 01:49 AM PDT

"At this point–seven weeks after The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014 was published–it seems like a good time to discuss the issues surrounding possible continuation of this full-survey research for another year (that is, covering 2015, done in 2016). Part 2 will deal with finances: what it would take to make it happen. This part deals with a related question: Since I'm not depending on this revenue to keep meals on the table or a roof over our heads, why do I need any revenue for it at all? ... Turns out, this is a philosophical question of sorts: Namely, what motivates me to do anything (other than lie around the house, do some housework, read books, watch TV, go for walks and like that)?  That question's been clarified in my own mind over the years since it's become clear that Cites & Insights itself is unlikely to attract significant contributions (the total has never reached the high three figures in a year, much less four figures). Here's how I've worked it out in my own head, although I'm sure it's an incomplete model.  I see four factors: Fun, Interest, Worth/Usefulness/Effectiveness, and Appreciation. Two are internal, two external ..."

Case Study: Implementing Figshare for Institutions with digital humanities in mind - Digital Science

Posted: 28 Oct 2015 01:47 AM PDT

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