Showing posts with label Metrics in the Arts and Humanities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metrics in the Arts and Humanities. Show all posts

Monday, January 19, 2015

Metrics in the Arts and Humanities


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Posted: 16 Jan 2015 06:37 AM PST
"The focus of the fund would be the development of effective and affordable health technologies related to type III and type II diseases and the specific research and development needs of developing countries in relation to type I diseases, taking into account the principles formulated by the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination, namely delinkage of the delivery price from research and development costs, the use of open knowledge innovation, and licensing for access."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 03:35 AM PST
"WHEREAS, the primary mission of the University of Washington is the advancement, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge; and WHEREAS, the current system for production and distribution of scholarly works is increasingly unsustainable and restricts rather than increases access to and the dissemination of research conducted at the University of Washington; and WHEREAS, open access to scholarly work generated at the University of Washington will contribute to the advancement of the University's primary mission, as well as increase the public visibility and scholarly impact of the University's researchers; therefore, LET IT BE RESOLVED, THAT, the GPSS calls upon the faculty of the University of Washington to adopt an open access publications policy that facilitates free and public access to the scholarly peer reviewed articles produced by University of Washington students, staff, and faculty; and THAT, University of Washington students, staff, and faculty provide to the appropriate party of the University, no later than date of publication, an electronic copy of the author's final version to be deposited in an open access repository; and THAT, this policy applies to all scholarly peer-reviewed articles authored or co-authored by current UW students, staff, or faculty, except for any articles published before the adoption of this policy, as well as any articles for which the student, staff, or faculty member has entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of said policy; and THAT, the University of Washington waives application of this policy for a particular article upon written notification by an author or co-author; and THAT, this policy does not in any way prescribe or limit the venue of publication; and THAT, the University of Washington encourages and supports student, staff, and faculty publication in open access journals; and THAT, the University of Washington Libraries provide relevant, current information regarding journal publishers, pricing, and authors' rights to departments and individual faculty members; and THAT, the University of Washington continuously evaluate its open access publications policy to ensure that such a policy is most effective at ensuring the public's access to scholarly peer-reviewed articles produced by University of Washington students, staff, and faculty; and THAT, the University of Washington Administration provide sufficient resources to the Libraries and to academic units to better foster these efforts; and THAT, the GPSS calls upon the Student Senate of the ASUW and the Faculty Senate of the University of Washington to adopt similar resolutions in support of a robust and clearly defined open access policy; and THAT, a copy of this resolution be forwarded to GPSS President Alice Popejoy, ASUW President Christina Xiao, Faculty Senate Chair Kate O'Neill, Interim Director of Information Resources and Scholarly Communication Gordon Aamot, and Vice Provost for Digital Initiatives and Dean of University Libraries Betsy Wilson."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 03:32 AM PST
"The London-based publisher of Nature and Scientific American, Macmillan Science and Education, announced today that it will merge with Berlin-based Springer Science+Business Media, one of the world's largest science, technology, and medicine publishers. Together, the duo will generate an estimated $1.75 billion in annual sales and employ some 13,000 people.  The German Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, which owns Macmillan Science and Education, will own 53% of the new company. BC Partners, a private equity firm that owns Springer+Business Media, will hold the rest. In 2013, BC Partners bought Springer in a deal worth approximately $3.8 billion ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 03:29 AM PST
"The publisher of science magazines Nature and Scientific American is merging with private equity-owned peer Springer Science+Business Media, creating a group with 1.5 billion euros ($1.75 billion) in annual sales and 13,000 employees. Germany's Holtzbrinck, which owns Nature publisher Macmillan Science and Education, will combine the majority of its activities with BC Partners' Springer unit, which among other publishes scientific, technical and medical books and journals. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group will hold 53 percent in the joint company, with BC Partners holding the rest, the companies said in a joint statement on Thursday. The private equity group aims to eventually divest its holding in the publishing business entirely, BC Partners Managing Partner Ewald Walgenbach said ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 03:22 AM PST
"Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Holtzbrinck) and BC Partners (BCP) announced today that they have reached an agreement to merge Springer Science+Business Media (owned by funds advised by BCP) in its entirety with the majority of Holtzbrinck-owned Macmillan Science and Education (MSE), namely Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and the global businesses of Macmillan Education. This is a strategic transaction by Holtzbrinck and BCP aimed at securing the long-term growth of both businesses. It will create a leading global science and education publishing house with the opportunity to better serve its authors, the research community, academic institutions, learned societies and corporate research departments, as well as to extend its reach within the education and learning markets. Both companies have a highly complementary portfolio in terms of products (journals, books, databases and workflow tools) and end-markets (academic institutions, corporate research departments and individuals). The merged businesses will continue to offer the leading brands on which researchers, teachers and information professionals rely. Upon completion of the transaction, the new group will be under joint control of Holtzbrinck and funds advised by BCP with Holtzbrinck retaining a 53% share. The management board of the new company will be composed of four members: Derk Haank (Chief Executive Officer), Annette Thomas (Chief Scientific Officer), Martin Mos (Chief Operating Officer) and Ulrich Vest (Chief Financial Officer). The supervisory board will be composed of Stefan von Holtzbrinck (Chairman/Holtzbrinck), Ewald Walgenbach (Vice-Chairman/BCP), Michael Brockhaus (Holtzbrinck), Hans Haderer (BCP), Christian Mogge (BCP) and Jens Schwanewedel (Holtzbrinck). Further details regarding the joint venture's organisational structure will be disclosed once the businesses are combined. The transaction is subject to approval by various competition authorities, and this is expected during the first half of 2015 ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 03:20 AM PST
"The merger of Macmillan Science and Education and Springer was announced on 15 January. The deal, negotiated by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, which owns Macmillan, and BC Partners, the private equity group that owns Springer, will create a publishing group with 13,000 employees and an annual turnover of around €1.5 billion (£1.2 billion). The merger will include Macmillan-owned Nature Publishing Group, the academic book publisher Palgrave Macmillan and textbook division Macmillan Education. However, it will exclude Macmillan Education's US higher education business and certain other Holtzbrinck companies, including science technology company Digital Science ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 02:59 AM PST
"A new industry report explores ways authors, research institutions and publishers are grappling with the increasing move toward open access mandates by governments. The report, entitled, Making Open Access Work for Authors, Institutions, and Publishers [pdf], is based on an October roundtable hosted by the Copyright Clearance Center. It was written by consultant Rob Johnson ... The report addresses: author management, streamlining the APC process, copyright and licensing, management and billing of APCs, standards and interoperability, and reporting and compliance. It also provides some case studies.  The conclusion of the report is: 'The current approach to APC management is highly fragmented and undermined by differences of approach between nations and academic disciplines, inefficiencies in process and scarcity of resources. Opportunities exist to overcome many of these issues through improvements in data-sharing and development of common identifiers and vocabularies, but these must be placed in the context of broader trends and continuing uncertainties over the future of academic publishing' ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 02:56 AM PST
"SAGE today announces the launch of Academic Pathology, a new open access journal that addresses the innovations in leadership and management of academic departments of Pathology. Sponsored by the Association of Pathology Chairs, the journal will begin publication in 2015 ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 02:54 AM PST
Use the link to access the full text article from the JRC Publications Repository.  "Biodiversity underpins the health of ecosystems and the services they provide to society. Yet biodiversity is in rapid decline globally, despite commitments by world leaders to reduce the rate of loss (1). Monitoring is an essential part of biodiversity conservation, allowing governments and civil society to identify problems, develop solutions, and assess progress (2). Satellite imagery has emerged as a vital tool for monitoring the status of environmental parameters relevant to biodiversity conservation (3-5). Tackling a global challenge like biodiversity loss requires the assembly of global information products. Satellite remote sensing is especially useful at generating consistent observation records of key drivers of biodiversity change (i.e., land cover and land use dynamics, climate variables, and sea surface conditions) at a global level (6-8). A recent review of the needs of the biodiversity research and conservation communities for satellite remote sensing (9) uncovered three factors, which are rooted in government and commercial policies and actions, that ultimately have a disproportionate impact on the utility of satellite data for understanding changes in biodiversity. These factors are data continuity, data affordability, and data access."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 02:50 AM PST
"The many different systems of handling article processing charges (APC) -- a fee used by many open-access journals -- are 'fractured and inefficient' and threatens to undermine the progress of the open-access movement, according to the summary of a roundtable hosted by the Copyright Clearance Center last October. The event, held at University College London, brought together representatives of British universities, companies and publishers to discuss how to make open-access publishing simpler for authors, publishers and readers. Participants at the roundtable focused specifically on the need to engage authors early on, collect metadata, simplify the billing process and adopt common standards to encourage data sharing. The roundtable also produced a 'future narrative' to guide that work: 'We should work towards simplifying and standardizing processes to move towards a sustainable and scalable OA ecosystem which preserves academic freedom and author choice in publishing and makes the research as valuable as possible for the end user,' the narrative reads.
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 02:45 AM PST
"The American Water Works Association today announced that peer-reviewed articles in Journal - American Water Works Association are now available at no cost to view online and download.  While many scholarly publications in recent years have adopted an open access model for their articles, AWWA's Journal is the first publication in the water industry to transition to this model. Journal AWWA, published continuously since 1914, is AWWA's flagship publication and includes both professional and scholarly content, publishing both peer-reviewed and nonpeer-reviewed articles ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 02:43 AM PST
" ... Access to information dominates many of our day-to-day issues: what do we do about this package that just announced a price hike? What contortions will it take to use a smaller budget to keep providing to our students and faculty the resources that they need for their learning and research? How do we make this new interface or this discovery layer that we spent so much on actually work, and how are we going to do it and everything else we do with a smaller staff? This is hard stuff. But the heroes to me are those who step back and think critically about how these matters of local access obscure the vast inequality in access to knowledge that we support when pay those increasingly large invoices to corporations that make a hefty profit margin. These are the librarians who ask the hard questions: How do we provide access not just this budget year but for the long term, not just to our students and faculty but to the world? How do we fix this broken system? I'm inspired by people like Lisa Norberg and Rebecca Kennison who work like crazy to analyze the culture of scholarly publishing and propose something bold and difficult and really big. Like the folks who have launched the Library Publishing Coalition. Like my friends in the Oberlin Group who have worked hard to imagine new ways to do open access scholarly monograph publishing collaboratively. We need to make sure that open access doesn't become another business model for those already entrenched in the one that got us into this fix. The librarians doing this hard work are the ones who take access seriously ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 02:31 AM PST
"Let's face it: library budgets haven't gotten any better over the past few years. In fact, many have continued to decline. Yet investment in IRs and scholarly communication is on the rise, and the number of institutional repositories worldwide, at institutions of all shapes and sizes, continues to climb. Why is that? More and more colleges and universities have come to recognize that the IR is an essential part of any campus infrastructure, and an indispensable library service. The IR is part of core campus strategies for institutional funding and visibility, student learning and recruitment, and research. Join us to learn how libraries can position the IR as a necessary campus investment. Drawing from the Digital Commons community of nearly 400 institutions, the webinar will share data and examples of necessary IR services and their real-world impact on all corners of campus: faculty, students, centers and departments, and the institution as a whole. We encourage you to invite stakeholders from outside the library who would like to understand the myriad ways that an IR connects to the campus mission. Presented by Irene Kamotsky, Director of Strategic Initiatives, bepress Digital Commons ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 02:28 AM PST
"The Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is announcing the first-ever broad availability of clinical trial data for medical devices and diagnostics by a company. This historic expansion of data sharing is made possible through collaboration with Johnson & Johnson. In this groundbreaking move, results from the clinical trails of the Medical Devices and Diagnostics businesses of Johnson & Johnson will be made available to researchers through an agreement with the Yale YODA Project. This establishes a fully independent intermediary to manage requests and promote data use, just as it has done with its pharmaceutical clinical trial data. The YODA Project will continue to act as a bridge between investigators and Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceutical and device and diagnostics businesses. Under the arrangement, the YODA Project will approve or deny requests from investigators for de-identified patient data associated with the pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostic clinical trials conducted by Johnson & Johnson companies. This expanded scope that now includes device and diagnostic studies is another step forward in the continuing evolution of open science in clinical medicine ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 02:22 AM PST
" ... In the first development, a preliminary report from the prestigious Institute of Medicine lends strong support to the open data movement. The IOM report states that investigators should be required to establish a data-sharing plan at the same time the trial is registered. The report includes detailed recommendations for when and how the data should be made available. Among the major recommendations: data underlying a trial analysis should be made available within 6 months after journal publication, and all data should be made available no later than 18 months after the last patient visit in the trial. In the second development, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project announced that Johnson & Johnson is expanding its plans to share data. The company had previously announced that it planned to share data from its large drug portfolio. Now the company has announced that it will also share data from its device and diagnostic trials — a first in the field. YODA will act as 'a fully independent intermediary to manage requests and promote data use,' said YODA. The project will have 'full control' over the data ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 01:41 AM PST
Use the link to access the guide.  
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 01:33 AM PST
"openaddressesuk.org allows you to submit any number of addresses to help build an Open National Address Dataset. Please contribute, even if only to add your own address and please forward the link to your family, friends and contacts. Open Addresses has been set up after a two year debate led by the Open Data User Group (ODUG) asking the Government to make a single set of national address data open and available for use by everyone. Addresses and location co-ordinates are a crucial part of our National Information Infrastructure. We need to know where things are! This (non-personal) data can also be used to link other open data together for analysis across sectors like health, transport and education, so that better public services can be designed for the future, based on actual evidence about how things work now, rather than sentiment and assumption. Address data is important for all types of businesses, to help them build and deliver products and services, so this data has a direct impact on the economy too. At the moment there are several different 'national' address datasets, not a single accurate central repository - which I found unbelievable when I started working in this area! The main one - AddressBase is controlled and sold by GeoPlace (a joint venture between the Ordnance Survey and the Local Government Association). The use of AddressBase is restricted by the Ordnance Survey (a publicly owned body). The OS sells our address data and also other mapping data back to the government/public sector and to the private sector. Our national address data is also restricted from mainstream use because the bulk postcode data, the Postcode Address File (PAF), was sold into private ownership with the privatisation of the Royal Mail last year. This was a huge mistake with the result that the Royal Mail now has lightly regulated control over all public and private sector use of the main address dataset for the nation as it charges the government and other organisations to use postcodes. Because of the importance of address and location data the beneficial use of almost all our public data is restricted by the Ordnance Survey and/or the Royal Mail. This incredible, economically inefficient, mess has been allowed to persist for many years by successive governments. Aside from the argument of principle that the public should have access to this data as a 'public good' which is funded through taxation, this hasn't been such a big problem in the past. Now, in an increasingly digital society/economy, it is a massive problem/issue. Other countries like The Netherlands and Denmark have solved this problem and made their address data open and free to use, and have reaped the benefits, sadly we have not. Hence this project, funded by the Release of Data Fund where Open Addresses is stepping up to the challenge of building an alternate national address dataset from scratch. The goal is that this address data will be open for use by anyone without third party intellectual property restrictions. Please give Open Addresses your support by clicking on the link above and helping them crowd-source the address data. They will do the rest!"
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 01:31 AM PST
Use the link to access the schedule of events.  "The theme in January is Open Access. We're bringing together presenters from the Library, Research & Contracts Support Office and IEEE, to help you to develop your understanding of topics relating to parts of Domain D of the Researcher Development Framework: Engagement, influence and impact. Join us for an informal 20 minute session. Just turn up, no need to book ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 01:14 AM PST
"Employees of Tilburg University from February but must see how they get on articles from the journals Science and Nature. The central library has terminated the contract with both blades and thus saves his own words 21 527 euros per year.  'It's a nasty decision to take, but there were few other options,' says director Marc van den Berg of the Tilburg library. He points out that the budgets for subscriptions have shrunk, while the blades are unchanged expensive. A complication, he says, is that many scientific journals are offered in large packages of dozens of titles. Over there are so-called Big Deals concluded with publishers. It can not be tampered now because the Dutch universities together publishers try to force so-called open access: free papers for which the authors pay.Van den Berg: 'Beyond the Big Deals for Science and Nature are only titles that reciting really tap . Which are very expensive, and there is the fact that they have relatively few users in Tilburg, because we have no beta-faculty or university hospital. ' Who in Tilburg still needs an article from Science or Nature, which can separately purchase for $ 20 or 30 euros each, at the expense of the faculty ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 01:07 AM PST
"Routledge Books Open Access is a new initiative that allows authors and their funders to publish open access (OA) research monographs. Upon publication, Routledge Books Open Access titles will immediately be made available to access and download freely under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. It is a project by our books division to complement our well-established Routledge and Taylor & Francis Open Select journals programmes. It encompasses books on all subjects covered by Routledge and our other imprints in the humanities, social sciences and behavioural sciences. In establishing this programme, Routledge is responding to wider developments within the scholarly research community and to those scholars seeking innovative and alternative publishing models to the well-established and traditional formats. It is a service for our authors and those funders who wish to support open access publication ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 12:59 AM PST
[From Google's English] "In 2014, the Open Access Week, International Open Access Week, celebrated its 7th year.  Free access is to the maximum dissemination and the fastest possible scientific knowledge to both peers and to the general public for the results of the research will benefit everyone, whatever their means. Nicolas Perry , professor at Arts & Métiers Paris Tech (Bordeaux Campus), evokes his experience and publication practices in open access."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 12:56 AM PST
"The health care giant Johnson & Johnson has agreed to make detailed clinical trial data on its medical devices and diagnostic tests available to outside researchers through a collaboration with Yale University, making it the first large device manufacturer to systematically make such data public. The announcement came on the same day that the Institute of Medicine, of the National Academy of Sciences, called on all sponsors of clinical trials to share detailed study data with outside researchers and recommended that such data be made available within 30 days of a product's approval. The dual developments are part of a broader shift toward making clinical trial data more publicly available and follows years in which the industry resisted calls to share its research with outsiders, claiming such moves would expose trade secrets and violate patient privacy. Continue reading the main story RELATED IN OPINION Op-Ed Contributor: Give the Data to the PeopleFEB. 2, 2014 Medtronic, another large device maker, had previously allowed Yale to evaluate data on a controversial spinal treatment, but the agreement with Johnson & Johnson is the first time a device manufacturer has made data available in a systematic way ..."
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 12:52 AM PST
The Institute of Medicine on Wednesday released four recommendations to address practices that often have left relevant medical research unpublished and useful data unattainable by independent researchers. The guidelines could represent a sea change in how the research enterprise is thinking about its responsibilities, say advocacy groups, ethicists and academic researchers. The recommendations outline major changes to how results of medical studies are handled in the United States, including timetables for the sharing of adverse event summaries and analyzable data sets.
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 12:48 AM PST
"Tomorrow I will be speaking at the HEFCE Metrics and the assessment of research quality and impact in the Arts and Humanities workshop, commissioned by the independent review panel. Here are some notes on what I am planning to say. These are just brief notes for a ten-minute talk. They're not particularly nuanced but I thought they were worth sharing ..."
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