Tuesday, October 6, 2015

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UK ORCID technical and community support co-ordinator | Jisc

Posted: 06 Oct 2015 02:48 PM PDT

"Jisc is establishing a consortium agreement for UK universities to take advantage of the Open Researcher and Contribution Identifier (ORCID). This is to ensure a co-ordinated approach to ORCID implementation in the UK and to reduce to the cost of ORCID implementation, building on what has been learnt during the Jisc-ARMA ORCID pilot.

 

The purpose of this role is to provide technical support to research information practitioners and developers in ORCID consortium member organisations. The technical support will be dedicated to accelerating the speed with which universities can implement ORCID and to minimise the learning curve...."

About Round 2 – Knowledge Unlatched

Posted: 06 Oct 2015 02:11 AM PDT

"The Round 2 packages include 78 new titles covering topics in the Humanities (Anthropology, Literature, History) and Social Sciences (Politics, Media & Communications) from 26 respected scholarly publishers including the following university presses: Amsterdam, Brandeis, Dartmouth, Cambridge, Colorado, Duke, Edinburgh, Fordham, Leiden, Liverpool, Manchester, Michigan, Monash, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Temple, Toronto and Yale, plus Berghahn Books, Bloomsbury Academic, Brill, De Gruyter, Pluto Press, Routledge and Ubiquity Press. Titles in the Pilot Collection have so far been downloaded globally over 35,000 times in 167 countries. The new collection will also be hosted on OAPEN and HathiTrust on a Creative Commons licence, preserved by CLOCKSS and Portico, and MARC records will be provided. Libraries will again have the opportunity to share the cost across many libraries globally in order to fund Open Access publishing. How To Pledge The pledging period is open from 6 October 2015 until 31 January 2016. There are eight packages of around ten titles each within the Round 2 Collection ... KU is inviting libraries to pledge a capped maximum of $3,891 to unlatch the Round 2 Collection of 78 titles from 26 recognised publishers which is just under $50 per book. Libraries need to pledge to a minimum of six packages in order to participate, although we hope that you will pledge to unlatch them all. The minimum pledge needed to unlatch six packages is $2,643. If more than 300 libraries from around the world sign up, the amount paid by each library will be adjusted down. This is because the Title Fee represents the basic cost of publishing a monograph and is a fixed amount ..."

University of Michigan Joins edX as a Charter Member | edX Blog

Posted: 06 Oct 2015 02:08 AM PDT

"We are pleased to welcome The University of Michigan to edX. U-M joins as a Charter Member with plans to offer 20 new courses on edX over the next two years. Michigan's first edX MOOC is Finance for Everyone: Smart Tools for Decision-Making and is now open for enrollment. Taught by Professor Guatam Kaul, this introductory finance course will examine tools and frameworks for learners to apply to making smart financial and everyday decisions. Professor Kaul, who serves as University of Michigan Digital Education & Innovation's first Innovator in Residence, is a huge proponent of MOOCs for both global online learners and students enrolled on campus. He said participation in the nonprofit edX platform will allow even more learners to develop a better understanding of finance. Michigan's next two MOOCs, open for enrollment in the coming months, will focus on data science ethics and learning analytics ..."

The Evolution of Scholarly Access and Sharing: A Summary - Digital Science

Posted: 06 Oct 2015 01:47 AM PDT

"As part of a continuing series, we recently broadcast our third Digital Science webinar on the evolution of scholarly access and sharing. The aim of these webinars is to provide the very latest perspectives on key topics in scholarly communication. Attendees were able to learn about the ways readers access and engage with content, why groups like the STM Association's Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCN) Working Group were set up and their motivations, and the importance of open access to scholarly research communication ..."
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