Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- We are living in Occupied Scholarly Territory
- Cite Datasets and Link to Publications | Digital Curation Centre
- How to establish a successful institutional repository in a small or medium-sized academic institution
- The OA Interviews: InTech’s Nicola Rylett
- Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research
- Open Access Fees Project: Final Report
- with freedom comes responsibility: open publishing
- Stevan Harnad, On Designing Green Open Access Self-Archiving Mandates for Universities and Research Funders on Vimeo
- International Open Access Week is October 24-30 - MIT News Office
- We shouldn't have to pay twice for UBC's research | The Ubyssey
| We are living in Occupied Scholarly Territory Posted: 26 Oct 2011 05:20 AM PDT |
| Cite Datasets and Link to Publications | Digital Curation Centre Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:39 AM PDT www.dcc.ac.uk "This guide will help you create links between your academic publications and the underlying datasets, so that anyone viewing the publication will be able to locate the dataset and vice versa. It provides a working knowledge of the issues and challenges involved, and of how current approaches seek to address them. This guide should interest researchers and principal investigators working on data-led research, as well as the data repositories with which they work...." |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2011 02:17 AM PDT SOAR: Shocker Open Access Repository, Wichita State University, (21 Oct 2011) (Slides, pptx) Presented at the KLA CULS Fall Conference, Manhattan, KS, October 21, 2011. Abstract: The presentation is focused on a concept of an institutional repository designed for a medium-sized or small colleges and universities. This concept takes into consideration the needs of smaller institutions and the niche institutional repository may fill. Practical steps for the establishment of a successful repository in a smaller institution are discussed as well as the functions of a repository in a smaller institution. The new repository service is observed from the point of views of its major constituencies: faculty, students, and administration. |
| The OA Interviews: InTech’s Nicola Rylett Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:23 PM PDT Open and Shut?, (25 Oct 2011) "The...Open Access (OA) publisher InTech...appears to inhabit a strange binary world: while some accuse it of repeatedly spamming researchers, and preying on the vulnerabilities and egos of researchers in order to make money, the company itself maintains that it is a victim of misinformation and misperception, and that it has a growing and happy customer base. As evidence of the latter, it cites a survey that it commissioned earlier this year. 81% of those responding to the survey, says InTech’s new marketing director Nicola Rylett, rated their publishing experience with the company as either 'excellent' or 'good'....[T]he publisher has acknowledged problems with its peer review in the past, and when I drew Rylett’s attention to a chapter in one of its recently published books she agreed that the quality was “unacceptable”. It also seems fair to conclude that the company’s marketing techniques leave a lot to be desired. However, Rylett insists that InTech is addressing these issues. To that end, she explains, it is currently recruiting a new middle and senior management team. It seems clear that InTech has proved very successful in selling its pay-to-publish services to thousands of researchers around the world. But can it persuade the wider research community, the scholarly publishing industry, and the Open Access movement to endorse it?..." |
| Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:00 AM PDT JISC Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG), (Oct 2011) From the Introduction: With increasing technological possibilities, there is interest in how ‘Open Access’ publication may provide greater potential to stimulate impacts from HE research and scholarly study and in particular for innovation and upstream technology transfer. Wider European research has already shown some utility and impact for Open Access in the private sector and this study now seeks to review the position in the UK. The focus of the current study is not on assessing private sector demand, but on identifying, mapping and reviewing practical illustrations of benefits. In particular, the study was asked to look at: - Identifying and, where possible, quantifying tangible and attributable benefits in Open Access engagement to university research outputs. - Identifying success factors and recurrent enablers to realising these benefits. - Establishing illustrations of what and how benefits were realised, the timescale for realisation and transferability of that experience. The study was also asked to review the quality of available evidence, how this might be addressed and to propose an evidence-based typology of Open Access engagement and benefit realisation over the short, medium and longer-term. |
| Open Access Fees Project: Final Report Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:53 AM PDT JISC Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG), (Sep 2011) From the Introduction: Between 2009 and 2011, JISC Collections has undertaken three separate, yet linked, projects relating to the emergence of gold open access as an alternative business model for scholarly journals. The focus of this third phase was around the so-called hybrid model of OA publishing and the extent to which this can be seen as an optional model offered by publishers or a transitional one as part of the move away from subscription-based to fully Gold OA. It began with a series of in-depth one-to-one interviews with stakeholders within the Research Councils, other funding bodies, publishers and representatives from universities including librarians, institutional repository managers and research management. Interviewees were invited to answer a series of questions about the principles of the hybrid journal model, their attitudes towards it, the management of open-access fees at their organisation and their policy. |
| with freedom comes responsibility: open publishing Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:36 AM PDT Benlog, (05 Sep 2011) " Starting today, I will not publish nor review papers destined for closed venues. Academic publications should be available for the world to read, to learn from, to build upon. If you’d like me on your program committee, if you’d like me to review a journal publication, if you’d like me to help with a paper, please understand that I will refuse if the conference/journal isn’t truly open...." |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:21 AM PDT |
| International Open Access Week is October 24-30 - MIT News Office Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:40 AM PDT |
| We shouldn't have to pay twice for UBC's research | The Ubyssey Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:38 AM PDT ubyssey.ca "As a society, we are paying for science and then we’re paying to read about it. And make no mistake, access to science is expensive. Here at UBC, students and faculty are lucky enough to have access, through the library, to many of the articles that they need for learning and research. But even though they spend significant portions of their budgets on journal subscriptions (at UBC we pay $9 million per year for access to approximately 65,000 journals), most university libraries can’t keep pace with rising subscription costs. In 2008, the subscription price for Brain Research was $21,744 and the Journal of Applied Polymer Science $16,859—and astronomical subscription prices mean significant profits. Those high costs are passed on to students through high tuition fees, and when libraries can’t keep up with high journal prices, they’re forced to cut subscriptions to many journals. As students, when we don’t have access to the latest science in a particular field, it can negatively impact our education and research...." |
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