Thursday, October 8, 2015

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The Human Network | The Digital Shift

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 09:50 AM PDT

"Too few libraries have committed to helping to build the open, networked library platforms of the future. There are vibrant, growing communities of librarians doing so, especially as part of the open source development and open content worlds, but the total number of participants in these edge communities of librarians, compared to the total number of people working in libraries, is disproportionately tiny...."

First subscription journal flips to open access through OLH | Open Library of Humanities

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 09:43 AM PDT

"The Open Library of Humanities is extremely pleased to announce that the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry will be the first subscription journal to move to the completely open-access model offered by the OLH. The journal, previously published by Gylphi, centres on the poetic writings that have appeared in Britain and Ireland since the late 1950s under various categorizations, for example: avant-garde, underground, linguistically innovative, second-wave Modernist, non-mainstream, the British Poetry Revival, the parallel tradition, formally innovative, neo-modernist and experimental, while also including the Cambridge School, the London School, concrete poetry, and performance writing...."

The Paul G. Allen Ebola Program Awards $11 Million in New Grants, Continuing... -- SEATTLE, Oct. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 09:38 AM PDT

"With a $1.02 million grant, UNOCHA [United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs] will integrate data systems and offer data services to partners across West Africa. It will also enhance its open data platform, the Humanitarian Data Exchange, with new features for data sharing and analysis...."

Federal Register | Policy and Implementation Plan for Public Access to Scientific Publications and Digital Data from Research Funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 09:34 AM PDT

"This Federal Register Notice announces an opportunity for public review and comment on the Policy and Implementation Plan for Public Access to Scientific Publications and Digital Data from Research Funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs....Comments must be received by VA on or before November 6, 2015...."

Open access and open data: international trends and strategic context

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 02:45 AM PDT

"Open access and open data: international trends and strategic context," a presentation on SlideShare by Kathleen Shearer that was given at the Cyber Summit, Banff AB, September 29, 2015.

C&RL News | Maximizing the benefits of open access Strategies for enhancing the discovery of open access content (Bonn, October 2015)

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 02:41 AM PDT

"Editors' note: From October 2015 through June 2016, two insightful colleagues will share their thoughts while they navigate the ever-changing landscape of scholarly communication. They are Maria Bonn, senior lecturer at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Information and Library Science, and Nancy Sims, copyright program librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Each of them will contribute two columns within this period on different topics. Bonn's first column appears this month and discusses the discovery of open access content as we celebrate Open Access Week.

 

Since the early days of the Internet, scholars and researchers have recognized and been eager to exploit the potential of digital technology and networked communication to accelerate and extend the communication and discovery of research findings and of intellectual investigation. This deployment of online communication possibilities only accelerated with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web. Easy and affordable (often free) access to the web helped create the reality of publications that could be distributed free of charge to the end user. The web brought with it the hope of, with economic barriers lowered, a greater economic and geographic reach for those publications than had been possible in a fee-driven print era, and the ensuing hope that greater reach would then result in greater readership and, ultimately, impact. These burgeoning aspirations and interventions and the adoption of web technologies for dissemination culminated, perhaps most famously, in the Budapest Open Access Initiative Declaration of 2002. In the years since the declaration, open access (OA) has become widely adopted, as well as diversified and even commercialized. Whether it has yet to become a cornerstone of "uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation"1 is a matter for debate, a debate that rages throughout the overlapping worlds of research reporting and scholarly publishing."

In this article Bonn discuss her thoughts on the current state of OA and scholarly communications in an article written for Open Access week. Read the full Bonn article here, and keep look out for the Sims article.

New coalition: Big Data/Open Data | TWAS

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 02:31 AM PDT

"Science International is a new coalition of the major international science bodies – the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) – to bring its members' combined international representation and credibility to act as a global voice of policy for science. At its first meeting, to be held from 7-9 December in Pretoria, South Africa, the participating institutions will discuss the topic of big data/open data. "Big data" has emerged as a major opportunity for scientific discovery, while "open data" will enhance the efficiency, productivity and creativity of the public research enterprise and counteract tendencies towards the privatisation of knowledge. In addition, concurrent open publication of the data underpinning scientific papers can provide the basis of scientific self-correction. Efforts by organisations, individuals and society to maximise the benefits of big data, however, will depend on the extent to which there is open access to publicly funded scientific data."

A meeting to occur in South Africa in December 2015 will discuss initiatives to create internationally agreed upon principles and processes to ensure open data. Read full article for all information. 

Open Data Drives Better Collaboration

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 02:27 AM PDT

"Environmental leaders from around the world are in Abu Dhabi this week at the Eye on Earth Summit to discuss how data collaboration can impact sustainable development. It's getting harder to track big data around the environment, but new public-private collaborations are putting key environmental data at everyone's fingertips. That's precisely why the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Eye on Earth Alliance created UNEP Live. "If good data drives better decisions, open data drives better collaboration. We will need both for a sustainable future," says Achim Steiner, the Executive Director of UNEP, Tweeting today from the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi.  UNEP Live creates the space where vital connections happen. Available in 90 languages, countries are able to track their progress toward United Nations sustainable development goals, carbon-emission targets, and other environmental milestones. "

A forum in Abu Dhabi on Open Data driving better collaboration is discussed in this article. View full article for full information.

October is Open Access Month | Open Access @ CUNY

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 02:24 AM PDT

"The LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable has organized resources to support events at CUNY Libraries  planned for Open Access Week (October 19 – 25) and throughout the month of October. The Roundtable decided that CUNY Libraries might want to use the whole month of October to raise awareness of Open Access on our campuses. This is a great time to spread the word about CUNY Academic Works (and to educate faculty on Authors' Rights, Creative Commons, etc.) A great resource for event-planning and keeping track of what's happening on CUNY campuses is the OA / OER Toolkit compiled by members of the Roundtable. Check out the Calendar of CUNY Events,  as well as ideas for events and publicity. We will also post events on this Blog (see next post) if you send the information to us. And you can post your event on the Academic Commons Scholarly Communications Roundtable as well as OAWeek.org and CULIBS. Keep your eyes on this space and the Academic Commons Scholarly Communications Roundtable for news about  CUNY Academic Works that you can publicize on your campuses."

View full blog to read more information about events at CUNY Library and CUNY (City University of New York) during OA Week 2015.

RSS pledges support for proposed open research data agreement | StatsLife

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 02:21 AM PDT

"The RSS has expressed its support of a new agreement on open research data issued by the Open Research Data Forum, whose members include Research Councils UK, JISC, the Wellcome Trust and Universities UK. The draft Concordat on Open Research Data aims to ensure that research data gathered in the UK is openly available wherever possible, but within relevant legal, ethical and regulatory frameworks. Responding to a call for feedback on the draft (PDF), the RSS has expressed support, considering it 'well thought through, and comprehensive with regard to its remit'. Much of the Concordat concurs with various aspects of the RSS's Data Manifesto, such as its call for faster progress on opening up data to boost innovation. 'Open data and access to research needs to be prioritised by the government and by our academic and research industries, especially public access to research that is supported by public funding,' the RSS states in its response. 'Progress in these areas should also help to address the "reproducibility crisis", where advances in science are limited by a lack of collaboration on the underlying data.'"

RSS has expressed agreement with a the Concordat agreement. View full article to read more. 

Research profiles: A tag of one's own : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 12:47 AM PDT

Use the link to access pay-per-view options for the article published in NAture.  "Digital identifiers can sort out different scientists with the same names, and create a lifelong record of their work."

COAR » 8th Conference on Grey Literature and Repositories

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 12:45 AM PDT

"The 8th Conference on Grey Literature and Repositories will take place on October 21, 2015 at the Czech National Library of Technology, Prague. The goal of this annual conference is to present information about grey literature and news from the field in an international context."

Peer Review & Open Access | University Libraries

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 12:44 AM PDT

"Peer review is the process where experts in the field give feedback and comments on a research manuscript, before the paper is passed on to a journal editor, who then decides whether it should be published. In the majority of cases, these are volunteer academics (both the reviewers and editors). Peer review is the supposed gold standard for research articles, designed to apply rigor and scrutiny and weed out the bad research. However, it is important to note that having an article accepted through peer review does not make it correct forever. Open access stands for unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse. Most publishers own the rights to the articles in their journals. Anyone who wants to read the articles must pay to access them. Anyone who wants to use the articles in any way must obtain permission from the publisher and is often required to pay an additional fee. Peer review and open access are compatible.   In this session: Discover sources of quality open access peer review journals. Explore approaches to determining if a journal is legitimate ..."

Cites & Insights --Volume 15, Number 10: November 2015-- A Fair Use Trilogy

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 12:42 AM PDT

"Stepping away from open access for a bit (except for comments below), I set out to deal with a couple of tagged item clusters—and, somehow, wound up with a themed issue: fair use. Two medium-length roundups update the situation with the seemingly-endless Google Books case, which (perhaps unfortunately) is now pretty much all about fair use, not orphan works, and the last few years and possible conclusion of the HathiTrust case. Since both of those turn on fair use, I added a third, shorter essay that clears up other items tagged fair use—and, in the process, adds a few notes about the GSU case. So it's fair use all the way."

questions to ask when you learn of digitization projects | Wynken de Worde

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 12:40 AM PDT

"Some days you wake up and you see announcements of a new project to digitize a collection of primary source materials. Perhaps an archive that covers centuries of technological and commercial changes, perhaps a collection of newspapers that encompasses the history of African-American politics and culture, just to name a couple of purely hypothetical examples. I don't know any details about such agreements and neither do you, unless you happen to be one of the top-level executives at one of the holding institutions for these collections or at one of the companies doing the digitization. And because we don't know any details, we don't know whether such projects are great or not. But we can—and we should—ask some questions when we hear about them: Who financially benefits from such agreements? ... Who is going to have access to the resulting images? ... What will you be able to do with the resulting images? ... How will this impact the ability of researchers to access the original documents?  ..."

Think. Check. Submit. Helping researchers to make informed publication choices.

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 12:36 AM PDT

"A new cross-industry campaign launches today – Think. Check. Submit. The campaign will provide information for researchers, through an online hub at www.thinkchecksubmit.org, about the criteria they should look for when selecting where to publish their research. The volume of research output continues to grow, and recent years have seen an increase in new publishing services and outlets. In March of this year, the CrossRef database alone included over 71 million DOIs, of which 55 million refer to journal articles from a total of over 36,000 journals. (And that is just the tip of the iceberg: thousands of journals in DOAJ use no DOI system at all.) At the same time, we read of stories of malpractice, or questionable publishing, but little in the way of guidance exists when it comes to choosing a journal to publish in.  Think. Check. Submit. is a new campaign coordinated by representatives of organisations from across the industry: ALPSP, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), INASP, the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), ISSN, LIBER, OASPA, UKSG and individual publishers. The campaign will help researchers understand their options, and key criteria they can check before making an informed decision about where to submit ..."
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