Wednesday, October 7, 2015

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Impact of Social Sciences – Permission to tweet? The underlying principles of good science communication are all about sharing.

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 02:53 AM PDT

"Terry Wheeler was at the 100th annual conference of the Ecological Society of America last week. Alongside community shifts towards openness, the rise of Twitter has led to a huge shift in the way science is shared. But with little explanation from the organisers, a confusing opt-in policy for live-tweeting was implemented. Social media is one of the most powerful tools scientists have to explain what we do and why it matters. We should be doing more, not less, to make sure the great science gets out ..."

Study finds huge increase in articles published by 'predatory' journals | Inside Higher Ed

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 02:52 AM PDT

"The rise of open-access publishing, combined with pressure on academics to get published, has caused a spectacular increase in the number of articles spewed out by 'predatory' journals, according to researchers at Finland's Hanken School of Economics. Such journals, of which there are thousands, charge authors hundreds of dollars in return for lackluster or nonexistent peer review and rapid publication. According to Cenyu Shen and Bo-Christer Bjork, the co-authors of 'Predatory' Open Access: A Longitudinal Study of Article Volumes and Market Characteristics,' the journals dumped more than 420,000 articles into the market in 2014, up from 53,000 in 2010 ..."

Opening Public Institutions: OER in North Dakota and the Nation, 2015

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 02:49 AM PDT

[From the Executive Summary] "A survey of all North Dakota University System (NDUS) faculty was conducted to measure the awareness and adoption of open educational resources (OER) prior to implementing a statewide OER project and faculty training ..."

“Predatory” journals are distorting the brave new world of open science

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 02:47 AM PDT

"The modern, digital era of peer-reviewed science is changing the way high-quality research is being released. As soon as a study has been validated for accuracy, it's almost immediately published online and covered by a dozen websites before the end of the working day. It can create a sense of collaboration, with more people finding ways to tackle serious challenges such as cancer and climate change. Or it can increase global competitiveness, with discoveries leading to new products and services. However, there's been a huge proliferation in recent years of new, obscure open-access journals, potentially hindering quality and verification ..."

Innovative and Engaging Communications | GlobalHigherEd | Inside Higher Ed

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 02:46 AM PDT

"I am convinced that the dramatic communications revolution we are experiencing is and will continue to transform research, teaching and academe beyond anything we are familiar with now in the next twenty years. So, how might we succinctly envision these changes and start to prepare for the scholarly world of the possible future? Or as I was asked recently by a university Vice-President of Research, 'what are the implications of digital media for post-secondary institutions?' Many of us are still getting our heads around these questions – myself included – and follow with great interest the work of those like John Willinsky, Leslie Chan, and John Wilbanks. The purpose of this article is, therefore, to reflect on the actual and potential role of ICTs in research, teaching and scholarly communication, and to humbly offer in the conclusion my own suggestion that the time has come for a new 'knowledge commission.' Hence, the intended audience is those who are new to the file and others who may be wondering, where could we take it from here? ..."

OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS: AN OVERVIE | Chowdhury Sen | Global Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 02:39 AM PDT

[ABSTRACT] Open access journals are considered to be the future of scholarly journals due to their unique features. But at the same time various flaws are also found to be present in the system. The article, here aims to review the benefits and weaknesses of the open access system of publication.

Dublin City University becomes first Irish institution to join OLH | Open Library of Humanities

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 02:38 AM PDT

"Dublin City University is excited to join the Open Library of Humanities, becoming the first Irish University to do so. Christopher Pressler, DCU's Director of Library Services said, 'DCU has a strong history in supporting Open Access, and as Ireland's University of Enterprise we are very pleased to add our support to the OLH.' DCU also holds the Co-Chair, (with University College London) of the European OA portal to e-theses, DART-Europe. The University is ranked highly in the World Top 100 under 50 Years Old and is known as a dynamic and adventurous institution. DCU Library Services will be pleased to work with Schools and Faculties in contributing academic content to OLH, and will also use its own Historic Collections Research Centre to publish new research through OLH ..."

Faculty Senate wants work published through Open Access | Campus | iowastatedaily.com

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 02:35 AM PDT

"Faculty Senate President-elect Jonathan Sturm wants to have all ISU authors publishing their work for free through Open Access within the next three years. Within the next year, Sturm plans on pushing through a measure in the Faculty Senate that will be a philosophical guideline. This lays out the groundwork for having authors at Iowa State publish their work, so it is available to anyone for free. Many academic journals and repositories require readers to pay a fee to access the research and data by authors, blocking many works from reaching audiences that do not have the resources to pay for increasingly expensive journal subscriptions ..."

October 1 NISO Training Thursday: Using Alerting Systems to Ensure OA…

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 02:34 AM PDT

Use the link to access the presentation.  

How Open Data Can Help Caribbean Development

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 02:32 AM PDT

"Across the Caribbean, governments are moving their essential services to digital platforms and generating more data than ever. Yet much valuable public information remains locked away in proprietary systems, beyond the reach of Caribbean innovators and end users. A growing number of open data initiatives aim to change this, but it won't be easy. 'The Caribbean can benefit tremendously from open data as part of its development agenda,' said Bevil Wooding, Internet Strategist, in a presentation on Open Data at the 13th Strategic ICT Seminar of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union held in Tortola, British Virgin Islands on 30th September 2015. His call to make more government data available was timely, as he addressed an audience that included several government ministers and officials from across the region. Extracting maximum value from data is increasingly becoming a base-level requirement, as governments aim to measure progress and demonstrate achievements ..."

Final whitepapers for establishing international and interoperable rights statements released

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 02:22 AM PDT

"Over the past fifteen months, representatives from the Europeana and DPLA networks, in partnership with Creative Commons, have been developing a collaborative approach to internationally interoperable rights statements that can be used to communicate the copyright status of cultural objects published via the DPLA and Europeana platforms. The purpose of these rights statements is to provide end users of our platforms with easy to understand information on what they can and cannot do with digital items that they encounter via these platforms. Having standardized interoperable rights statements will also make it easier for application developers and other third parties to automatically identify items that can be re-used. We also anticipate that these statements will be used by other cultural heritage aggregators across the globe, and see these statements as the initial effort towards international interoperability around standardized rights statements. In May of this year, we released two draft white papers on the recommendations for standardized international rights statements, one on the rights statements and one on the technical framework to support the statements. Both white papers received a tremendous amount of community response.  After considering the community feedback and making significant edits to both white papers and the list of statements, we are pleased to share with you today the final versions that describe our recommendations for establishing a group of rights statements, and the enabling technical infrastructure. These recommendations include a list of shared rights statements that both the DPLA and Europeana can use depending on the needs of our respective organizations ..."

Storing and Sharing Files Using the Digital Repository Service | Northeastern University Libraries

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 01:59 AM PDT

"Curious about Northeastern's Digital Repository Service? This session will include a demonstration of uploading, searching, and browsing in the DRS, an overview of highlighted DRS content, and a forum to ask questions about the DRS and how it's being used at Northeastern. Repeated on October 13."

Textbook Affordability and Open Educational Resources | Northeastern University Libraries

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 01:58 AM PDT

"Nancy Pawlyshyn, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Graduate Education program, will be joined by representatives from Academic Technology Services and Snell Library to discuss how Open Educational Resources can be implemented in the classroom as alternatives to high-cost traditional textbooks."

Creating Interactive Open Educational Resources | Northeastern University Libraries

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 01:55 AM PDT

"This course will show you the basics of using Storyline to create interactive educational resources. You'll learn how to incorporate multimedia, create your own text, audio, and image content, and create interactive features. Finally, we'll discuss options for publishing on the web."

Think. Check. Submit. (How to Have Trust in Your Publisher.) | The Scholarly Kitchen

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 01:54 AM PDT

"Today sees the launch of 'Think. Check. Submit.' (TCS), a campaign to help researchers learn who they can trust when they are seeking to publish their work. The campaign is co-ordinated by ALPSP, DOAJ, INASP, ISSN, LIBER, OASPA, STM, UKSG, and individual publishers including BioMed Central, Springer Nature and Ubiquity Press ..."
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