Saturday, October 3, 2015

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Scholarly Communication Librarian

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 10:49 AM PDT

"The OSU Libraries and Press (OSULP) invites applications for a full-time (1.0 FTE), 12-month, tenure track Assistant Professor position. 

This is a tenure-track faculty position reporting to the Head of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services. The successful candidate will implement services and instruction in support of the broadest possible dissemination, impact, and use of scholarly and intellectual output. The librarian will join an agile and innovative department and library that is responsible for the development of the ScholarsArchive@OSU institutional repository (the 36th ranked institutional repository in the world) and internationally recognized digital collections...."

Executive Editor (STM, Open Access) job with MORGAN HEALEY | Guardian Jobs

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 10:24 AM PDT

"Our client, an innovative scientific publisher based in London requires a new Executive Editor who will be responsible for the leadership, strategic direction, management and growth of a portfolio of new open access journals. This is a key role within the company; you will have responsibility for defining the editorial strategy and delivering an exciting, new, innovative range of open access journals within the STM and HSS arena, which will be crucial to the success of the company...."

Open Science Q&A

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 08:30 AM PDT

"Welcome to Open Science Q&A, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of the community. If you participated in the Open Science beta at StackExchange, please reclaim your user account now – it's already here! ..."

The Optical Society launches solution to enable public access of research | EurekAlert! Science News

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:33 AM PDT

"The Optical Society (OSA) announced today that it has implemented a technology solution that effectively supports U.S. federal agency public access requirements and helps authors comply with governmental mandates to make their federally funded articles publicly available after a 12-month embargo. By partnering with CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States), OSA enables an option for readers and agencies to easily discover federally funded articles published by OSA and to then access the full-text of these articles directly on OSA's platform, OSA Publishing. The first wave of federally funded research articles from OSA will be made available on 1 October--exactly 12 months after the Department of Energy (DOE) implemented its public access policy--and OSA is the second publisher worldwide to complete implementation of their CHORUS solution ..."

University Libraries to host open access week events - WDAM-TV 7-News, Weather, Sports-Hattiesburg, MS

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:31 AM PDT

"University Libraries will participate in Open Access Week Oct. 26 – 30 to provide The University of Southern Mississippi's academic and research community the opportunity to learn about the potential benefits of open access, particularly those related to student research. Open Access Week is a global event now entering its ninth year and through a series of events, University faculty and students will be able to attend sessions on open access theses and dissertations, undergraduate research and a debate in which two of the University's graduate students with experience in publishing will discuss the pros and cons of open access. Although all events are focused on student scholarship, the presentations are open to the public ... The schedule of events for the week is as follows ..."

Open Access Could Mean Authors Pay to Publish

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:30 AM PDT

" ... APS has long been a supporter of open access, as underscored by its 2009 statement, balancing its innovative initiatives with the need to maintain the viability of its publishing responsibilities. For several years, APS has offered its journals free of charge to all public libraries and high schools for use on their premises. APS has also allowed journal authors to freely post the accepted, author-formatted manuscript on personal or institutional websites and on arXiv. Finally, APS has worked with other scientific publishers (See APS News, August/September 2015) to create the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS). But as new policies are enacted and immediate open access becomes more widespread, it is likely that APS will have to alter its publishing practices if it is to continue providing the physics community with affordable, top-quality journals ... Throughout the world, almost all scientific publishers of high-quality journals rely on subscriptions to support peer-review operations, editing, composition, and archiving. But if governments begin to compel publishers and authors to make articles freely available immediately after publication or if the vast majority of authors simply choose to make their work freely available immediately after publication, subscribers would have no reason to continue paying for content. The subscription model would vanish, and publishers would have to find other sources of revenue to support the services they currently provide, especially peer review.  At present the 'time to free access' set by U.S government directives is 12 months. But pressure to reduce the time has been building both in the U.S. and elsewhere. Pending legislation (H.R. 1477, 'The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2015,' also known as FASTR) in the U.S. House of Representatives, for example, would require access "as soon as practicable" but no later than six months (SeeAPS News, August/September 2015). Similar legislation is under consideration in France. And in the UK, Research Council policies in place since 2013 are setting the 'time to free access' on a glide path to zero ... APS believes that it won't be long before the 'time to free access' will shrink to zero both at home and abroad. In that case, the way APS currently pays for peer-review operations will no longer be viable. And APS and other scientific publishers will likely have to adopt an 'author pays' model. Unless they have access to other sources of revenue, authors will have to use their research grant money, institutional funds or cash from their own pockets to cover the cost of publication (which may be in excess of two thousand dollars per article). Moreover, a change to an author-pays model would especially harm researchers with small grants or no grants at all. And if federal science budgets remain fixed, the amount of money available for conducting research would decline ..."

Open Access: what it is and what's going on? - Open Access Week

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:24 AM PDT

"The Open Access movement originated within the research community and, amongst other benefits, was intended to significantly improve access to research across the world. More recently there has been an emphasis on open access as a means of complying with institutional or funder policies, but this event plans to get back to basics by covering exactly what open access is (and isn't), why it is a good thing and how open access (and open practices in general) can bring about new opportunities for collaboration and increase the impact of research. The seminar, which will feature speakers from the University Library and all three faculties, will be of interest to academics and PGRS across disciplines and research support staff."

⚡Presentation "UoE Open Access Research and Research Data Management Policy for PGR Students Open Access and Data Curation Team."

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:23 AM PDT

Use the link to access the presentation.

Open Science Workshop 20.10.2015 - OAviikko - University of Helsinki Confluence

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:21 AM PDT

"Discover best practices in research data management, consult an international data service team, gain a hands-on experience in green Open Access, get yourself an ORCID profile, present your own research topic, bring your own data for description and sharing, and get helpful tips."

Rocky road to open access - Open access - Research Information

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:18 AM PDT

"It's no secret that technology has thrown scholarly publishing into a state of flux. The digitisation of content, easy-to-use software, and the ever-growing opportunity to spread your words across the Internet has prompted academics and publishers to reassess how research is published. For many in the UK, open access is the answer, as indicated by recent requirements from the nation's two most significant providers of public funding, Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the Higher Education Funding Councils for England (HEFCE). In short, each has recently introduced policies for UK research organisations to make published outputs openly accessible. However, the road to open access is anything but short. 'We always said this would be a journey and not an overnight switch,' highlights Mark Thorley, chair of the RCUK Research Outputs Network and head of Science Information for the Natural Environment Research Council. 'We've seen issues over the cost of implementation, administrative processes and also policy compliance reporting,' he adds. 'But we're also seeing an increasing volume of research available as open access, so the policy is making a difference.' For Thorley, open access is a no-brainer ..."

The Mission Bay Manifesto on Science Publishing

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:14 AM PDT

" ... So I decided to issue a kind of challenge to them to not just take steps on their own, but to agree collectively to take them together. My motivation for this particular tactic is that when I ask individual scientists to do things differently, they almost always respond that they would love to do things differently, but can't because the current system requires that {they | their trainees | their collaborators} have to publish in {insert high profile journal here} in order to get {jobs | grants | tenure}. However, in theory at least, this reluctance to 'unilaterally disarm' would go away if a large number of faculty, especially at a high-profile place like UCSF agreed to take a series of steps together. I focused on faculty – tenured faculty in particular – because I agree that all too often publishing reform efforts focus on young scientists, who, while they tend to be more open to new things, also are in the riskiest positions with respect to jobs, etc… My goal was to address in one fell swoop three different, but related issues: Access. Too many people who need or want access to the scientific and medical literature don't have it, and this is ridiculous. Scientists have the power to change this immediately by posting everything they write online for free, and by working to ensure that nothing they produce ever ends up behind paywalls. Impact Factors. The use of journal title and impact factors as surrogate for the quality of science and scientists. Virtually everyone admits that journal title is a poor indicator of scientific rigor, quality or importance, yet it is widely used to judge people in science. Peer-review. Our system of pre-publication peer-review is slow, intrusive, ineffective and extremely expensive. And here is what I proposed (it's named after the Mission Bay campus where I gave my talk) ..."

Open for Collaboration: an introduction to open scholarly communication practices

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:10 AM PDT

"This session will examine collaboration between three important stakeholders in the open access process: author, library and publisher. We will provide an overview of the open access landscape as it currently stands, the publishing models available and drivers of OA, as well as addressing how the dynamic between library, researcher and publisher is impacted by the rise of open access research. Carolyn Kirby (Taylor & Francis), will provide a publisher perspective, including examples of how we have worked with libraries and researchers to advance open access. David Walters (Brunel University Library) will complement this with the perspective of the library, sharing experiences on how they have implemented procedures and services in response to the shift towards OA. Dr Christopher Daley (Brunel University Academic) will give an insight into how the evolving scholarly publishing landscape is benefiting his research and teaching activities. We hope that this one hour session will shed light on the many ways that all three parties can collaborate and work together to ensure that open access thrives within UK academic community in the future."

Gold or Green: The debate on open access policies

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:07 AM PDT

" ... Now, more than 10 years later, the Open Access movement has matured, in the sense that it is widely known by all agents of science communicaƟ on—whether they be authors, publishers or librarians. Moreover, it has acquired remarkable insƟ tuƟ onal support from universiƟ es, research funding agencies, and the European Union, among others. This maturity is also confi rmed by the many studies on Open Access published in the intervening years and focusing on scienƟfi c journals, repositories, authors, legal aspects, etc. These have been parƟ ally compiled by Bailey in two bibliographies [2,3]. In addiƟ on, this topic has been dealt with in texts of wider disseminaƟ on ... Open Access advocates are convinced that science communicaƟ on would be improved if all academic content was accessible on the Internet, unrestricted and free of charge. But, when will this vision become reality? How long will it take for all or most scienƟfi c publicaƟ ons to be openly accessible? ..."

EBSCO: Serials Price Projections for 2016

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:04 AM PDT

"Each year, EBSCO surveys a wide range of publishers and reviews historical serials pricing data in order to provide our customers with serials price projections to assist them in budgeting for the upcoming renewal season. While based upon careful analysis, we recommend customers exercise caution when using these projections as they rely on historical trends and current estimates ... 2016 Price Projections ... At the time of writing, we expect the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic/medical libraries for 2016 (before currency impact) to be in the range of 4 to 6 percent ... Market Dynamics Overview ... Within the U.S. academic library market, budgets are showing modest improvements. Outside the U.S. we are still seeing a number of instances of continued library budget contraction. This varies country by country but even in countries seeing on average flat or slightly increasing budgets, budget pressures continue as budget growth for materials is not keeping pace with the increase in serial costs. Libraries continue to spend large sums on publisher electronic journal packages (also known as 'Big Deals,') which continue to consume a higher percentage of the library spend year over year. This leaves less of the library's materials budget available for a shrinking number of smaller publishers.  Librarians continue to favor the purchase of e-content over print and packaged content over individual subscriptions. Librarians are analyzing the use and cost-effectiveness of purchased content on a granular level and evaluating if package content options provide value for spend ... E-Journal Packages and Usage-Driven Content decisions ... The debate on e-journal packages is likely to continue for some time. The pricing and costeffectiveness of these purchases continue to be examined with a more critical view because they consume a larger proportion of library material budgets as their annual price increase generally continues to outpace library budget growth. Another reason for the intense review of large packages is the increasing availability of title-level usage statistics within a package or collection ... Emerging alternative metric tools are also now being employed by librarians to add additional data points regarding the quantify use of materials ... Open Access ... Publishers continue to explore Open Access (OA) models, whether gold or green OA or some form of increasingly popular hybrid models. Publishers continue to search for a way to incorporate OA models into their offerings in a way which works for both libraries and publishers. One new pricing model that appears to have gained some traction in select areas is the notion of Gold OA where the article is funded by the author's institution and then the institution receives a credit from the publisher off the cost of the publisher's package for all articles from that institution's authors published in the package and for which the author's institution paid an Article Processing Charge (APC). It remains to be seen if this model will hold or whether other alternative approaches to OA will emerge and change the playing field ..."

Argentina Proposes a 100-Year-Plus Copyright Extension on Photography | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 12:55 AM PDT

"A new front has opened in publishers' global war on the public domain. Lawmakers of Argentina's ruling party are proposing a vast extension of copyright terms on photography—from 20 years after publication to 70 years after the photographer's death. That means that the term of restriction of photographic works would be extended by an average 120 years. The law would extend copyrights on works retroactively, so a lifetime of photos that are already in the public domain would be re-captured by copyright. That would bring about a huge amount of legal uncertainty over works that have already been shared, remixed, sold, and modified in innumerable ways. If this bill passes, many tens of thousands of photographs that have been uploaded into cultural archives, including Wikipedia, may have to be erased from the Internet or else they could face civil, or even criminal prosecution failing to do so. This is why Argentinian digital rights organization, Fundación Via Libre has launched a campaign to fight back against this destructive term extension. They sent a letter to Argentinian lawmakers earlier this week, urging them to conduct proper, public-interest impact assessment and open it to public debate before moving forward with a bill that would have such sweeping impacts on the cultural commons. Now, EFF is one of 38 digital rights and access to knowledge groups urging Argentinian lawmakers to drop this proposal. The letter states (translated from Spanish) ..."

Argentina Plans To Increase Copyright In Photos From 20 Years To Life Plus 70 Years, Devastating Wikipedia | Techdirt

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 12:52 AM PDT

"As Techdirt has pointed out, copyright extensions are bad enough, but retroactive ones are even worse, since the creation of the work has already occurred, so providing additional incentives makes no sense, even accepting the dubious idea that artists think about copyright terms before setting to work. Moreover, copyright extensions are a real kind of copyright theft -- specifically, stealing from the public domain. If you think that is just rhetoric, it's worth looking at what is happening in Argentina. As a post on the Wikimedia Argentina blog explains (original in Spanish), a proposed law would extend the copyright in photos from 25 years after an image was taken (or 20 years from first publication) to life plus 70 years -- a vast extension that would mean that most photos taken in the 20th century would still be in copyright. That's a big problem for Wikipedia in Argentina, since it is using photographs that have passed into the public domain under existing legislation. If the new law is passed in its current form, large numbers of photos would have to be removed: 'Wikipedia would have to erase nearly all the photos of twentieth century history: the mere exposure without consent of the new rightsholders would be a crime. Not only Wikipedia: even the General Archive of the [Argentinian] Nation would become illegal and 40 million Argentines would be left without access to their historical memory.' It's a great but sad example of how copyright can destroy culture on a massive scale. Let's hope that law doesn't pass."

Open Access at Oxford » Oxford launches ‘Act on Acceptance’

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 12:49 AM PDT

"Oxford's Act on Acceptance campaign started today, in preparation for open access & the next REF and to boost the accessibility of our research. The message, to all academics and researchers employed by the collegiate University, is: •deposit all your newly-accepted journal articles and conference papers into ORA •do it through Symplectic Elements •do it within 3 months of the date of acceptance •start now. The Bodleian team will check copyright and licensing conditions, create an ORA record and make the full-text available after the embargo period. Go to Act on Acceptance to find out more and Deposit your work. If you have any questions please contact our email helpline: openaccess@bodleian.ox.ac.uk."

Expensive academic publications | SYN

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 12:45 AM PDT

"The costs of academic publications threaten to surge out of reach for universities and research institutes. In 2012–2016, the national subscriptions for the five largest academic journal packages will total nearly €64 million. In the Vice-Rector Keijo Hämäläinen's opinion, digitisation has made academic publishing more efficient but has also made it more expensive to access research publications ... Academic journals are a lucrative business. For example, Elsevier, the largest academic publishing house, posted an operating profit of nearly €1.1 billion in 2014 (37% of its revenue), while that of its parent company, RELX Group, amounted to nearly €2.5 billion. The profit margins of other large academic publishers (such as Springer, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis) have also been around 30% in recent years.  According to Per Mickwitz, Research Director of the Finnish Environment Institute, large journal subscriptions have no viable competitors ... The funding cuts to research resources laid out in the Government Programme will have an impact on the negotiations. The working group is seriously considering the possibility of the contract negotiations falling through because of the terms not being acceptable in Finland's current situation. If no contract is signed, access to important research data may be hampered ... The Open Science and Research Initiative, launched by the Ministry of Education and Culture, aims to make Finland a leading country in open science and research by 2017. Openness enables new scientific discoveries and insights.  According to Vice-Rector Hämäläinen, the vision of open science also influences the negotiation strategy ..."

 

Careful reading and questionable extrapolation « Walt at Random

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 12:42 AM PDT

"On October 1, 2015 (yesterday, that is), I posted 'The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014: malware and some side notes,' including this paragraph ... 'Second, a sad note. An article–which I'd seen from two sources before publication–that starts by apparently assuming Beall's lists are something other than junk, then bases an investigation on sampling from the lists, has appeared in a reputable OA journal and, of course, is being picked up all over the place…with Beall being quoted, naturally, thus making the situation worse. I was asked for comments by another reporter (haven't seen whether the piece has appeared and whether I'm quoted), and the core of my comments was that it's hard to build good research based on junk, and I regard Beall's lists as junk, especially given his repeated condemnation of all OA–and, curiously, his apparent continuing belief that author-side charges, which in the Bealliverse automatically corrupt scholarship, only happen in OA (page charges are apparently mythical creatures in the Bealliverse). So, Beall gains even more credibility; challenging him becomes even more hopeless' ... The article is ''Predatory' open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics' by Cenyu Shen and Bo-Christer Björk; it's just been published ..."
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