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- Open Access Week in Croatia: We are the Showmen!
- Academic Libraries Expand Their Publishing Services, but With Limited Resources - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- The promise of another open: Open impact tracking
- What total-Impact brings to the party
- New comparative study to re-examine the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia
- UNESCO and COL release open education policy document for higher education - Creative Commons
- Academics do not have deep understanding of OA - www.InfoToday.eu
- Open Hardware
- R2RC Launches New Open Publishing Guide for Students
- Media Resources: Survey: Physicians See Improvements in E... - Wolters Kluwer Health
- Scholarly publishing presentations
- Open Data, Italy has awoken
- The roles of libraries and information professionals in Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives
- OPEN MINDS TOWARDS OPEN ACCESS: -An interview with members of the FinnOA working grou
- OPEN MINDS TOWARDS OPEN ACCESS: An interview with Ian Watson, Bifröst University in Iceland
- INTERVIEWS WITH LITHUANIAN POLITICIANS AND FAMOUS RESEARCHERS ABOUT OPEN ACCES
- THE MEGA JOURNALS ARE COMING!
- CARROT OR STICK, INCENTIVES OR MANDATES, OR BOTH
- WE HAVE WON THE ARGUMENT ABOUT OPEN ACCESS – NOW WE HAVE TO BRING THINGS TOGETHER AND MAKE IT WORK!
- Springer denies scientist access to her own research
- Times Higher Education - Royal Society to launch into the great wide open
- DuraSpace Launches Open-Source Cloud Service - MarketWatch
- (Some) garbage in, gold out | Michael Nielsen
- Results of the Poll: Do You Have Access to JSTOR?
- Open Access at ISAW — Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
- Access Is a Right: Open Science Summit 2011 | mendelspod.com
- Publishing Services a Major Growth Area for Academic Libraries, Suggests New Research Report
| Open Access Week in Croatia: We are the Showmen! Posted: 02 Nov 2011 07:28 AM PDT |
| Posted: 02 Nov 2011 07:20 AM PDT chronicle.com "Publishing services offered by academic libraries are “expanding and professionalizing,” says a new report based on a survey of library directors at research and liberal-arts institutions. But those publishing operations are often still hampered by a lack of full-time staffing and by the small scale of much of what they do....In good news for advocates of library-based publishing, the report says that more than half of all respondents reported that their institutions have developed or are developing library-based publishing services, and that faculty demand for those services is high....Library-based publishing programs “were originally founded to shake up the scholarly communication system,” and the survey showed that most remain strongly committed to open access, Mr. Watkinson told The Chronicle. But open-access publishing [also] has a pragmatic appeal. It tends to be easier and more economical for library publishing programs that are understaffed...." |
| The promise of another open: Open impact tracking Posted: 02 Nov 2011 07:10 AM PDT Research Remix, (31 Oct 2011) "I’ve been thinking a lot recently about a scholarly Open that hasn’t gotten much attention yet: Open impact tracking. Impact tracking: Usage data from publishers + websites + apps on the objects they host. Downloads and views, but also bookmarks, discussions, posts… indications that people have interacted with the objects in some way. We all know that companies value this information when the digital objects are pointers to consumer products: who is talking about the product? How many people are talking about it? What are they saying? What does it mean? Now imagine that the digital objects are scholarly products. Papers, preprints, datasets, slidedecks, software. Don’t we still want to know who is interested? How many people are interested? What they think, what they are doing with it, whether it is making a difference in their own related work? ..." |
| What total-Impact brings to the party Posted: 02 Nov 2011 07:07 AM PDT |
| New comparative study to re-examine the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia Posted: 02 Nov 2011 07:02 AM PDT Wikimedia blog, (02 Nov 2011) "The Wikimedia Foundation has commissioned a new small-scale study to examine the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia articles. This study, currently being undertaken by Epic, a UK-based e-learning company, and Oxford University, employs greater rigor than the Nature study, involves academics and scholars, and will examine more than just English language entries, and subjects other than solely science. Our hope is that the study’s findings will inspire and inform more extensive, independently funded research related to the quality of information found in Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects...." |
| UNESCO and COL release open education policy document for higher education - Creative Commons Posted: 02 Nov 2011 07:00 AM PDT creativecommons.org "Today UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning jointly released the policy document Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education. The purpose of the guidelines is “to encourage decision makers in governments and institutions to invest in the systematic production, adaptation, and use of OER and to bring them in to the mainstream of higher education in order to improve the quality of curricula and teaching and to reduce costs.” ...The guidelines indicate how the potential of OER can be harnessed to support quality teaching and learning by higher education stakeholders, including governments, higher education institutions, teaching staff, students, and quality assurance, accreditation, and academic recognition authorities. The Guidelines for OER in Higher Education inform the process leading up to the 2012 World OER Congress...." |
| Academics do not have deep understanding of OA - www.InfoToday.eu Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:59 AM PDT www.infotoday.eu "Academics do not have a very deep understanding of open access (OA) publishing, according to a study carried out by the University of Nottingham which was discussed at Internet Librarian International by Willow Fuchs of the University's Centre for Research Communications. Chemists and economists at 11 UK institutions were surveyed to find out about their knowledge of OA, and to probe more deeply into why they do, or do not, make their work available on an OA basis. 130 responses were received. The survey reveals a lack of awareness among certain respondents. Only 64% of respondents were aware that their institutions had a repository - when in fact they all did. 56% of respondents also said that their institutions did not have an OA mandate when in fact they did, suggesting that there is still some way to go to get academics' beliefs and behaviours aligned with institutional policy....When asked why they did not make work available as OA, the most popular responses were 'I need to publish in high impact journals' or 'it is too expensive' - both cases, as Willow Fuchs pointed out, indicating that they are thinking about OA in terms of journals rather than repositories...." |
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| R2RC Launches New Open Publishing Guide for Students Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:06 PM PDT Right to Research Coalition - Full Feed, (27 Oct 2011) "The Right to Research Coalition has announced a new student guide to publishing openly, entitled “Optimize Your Publishing, Maximize Your Impact.” This new resource presents students with the ways in which they can make their research openly available for the widest possible readership and lays out the benefits of doing so – both as authors and as readers. How do you know where to submit your manuscript? What are the factors that go into deciding the most appropriate publication outlet? Which journal will give your article the widest audience? Where to publish is too important of a decision to put off until the end of the research process...." |
| Media Resources: Survey: Physicians See Improvements in E... - Wolters Kluwer Health Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:05 PM PDT www.wolterskluwerhealth.com "Findings come from Wolters Kluwer Health’s Point-of-Care Survey, conducted by IPSOS and targeting more than 300 physicians in the U.S. across primary care and specialty practice groups and organizations....When examining respondents’ individual practices nearly nine in ten physicians believe that improved access to online medical information and resources has improved the quality of care at their own practice or organization. When asked about the top information sources they use to stay current, findings revealed that general browsers such as Google and Yahoo are among the top resources for physicians, after professional journals and colleagues, for accessing information used in the diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care of patients. Meanwhile, 63 percent of physicians report that they occasionally or frequently change their initial decisions related to patient care based on information they access via online resources and support tools...." |
| Scholarly publishing presentations Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:29 PM PDT Days in the Life of a Librarian, (01 Nov 2011) "As a part of Open Access Week, a number of us (Cheri Smith, Collette Mak, Parker Ladwig, and myself [ Eric Lease Morgan]) organized a set of presentations on the topic of scholarly publishing with the goal of increasing awareness of the issues across the Hesburgh Libraries [at the U of Notre Dame]. This posting outlines the event which took place on Thursday, October 27, 2011...." |
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| The roles of libraries and information professionals in Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:01 PM PDT www.surveygizmo.com "The Centre for Academic Practice & Learning Enhancement (CAPLE) and Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS), at the University of Strathclyde are conducting a study about the involvement of the Library as an organizational unit, and of individual librarians and other information science specialists, in OER initiatives. OER (Open Educational Resources) are "digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research" (OECD, 2007). This survey is open to any institution or initiative dealing with OER and/or open content for learning and teaching in an Higher Education context. This includes the creation and release of OER, its dissemination and promotion, the implementation of learning repositories or others management and publishing systems, the aggregation of open educational content, etc. Those projects focused solely on open educational practice are out the intended scope of this survey.... The survey is open for your feedback until Friday, November 4, 2011...." |
| OPEN MINDS TOWARDS OPEN ACCESS: -An interview with members of the FinnOA working grou Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:47 PM PDT OPEN MINDS An interview with members of the FinnOA working group ScieCom Info 7 (3), (2011) "The Finnish Open Access working group (FinnOA) was founded in 2003 in Helsinki by professionals in academia, libraries, learned societies and publishers. FinnOA was started as an informal working group with the aim to promote open access to scientific research. The group has retained its informal status but during the years it has by initiatives and seminars initiated projects for developing an infrastructure for open access in publication archives and publishing of open access scientific journals. Lately the aim of the working group has been to promote a broader spectrum of access to research, including research data. For this article three members of the FinnOA working group; LL.D Marjut Salokannel (chair of FinnOA), Ph.D. Claus Montonen, Head of publishing EevaLiisa Aalto were interviewed about their membership and activities in the working group and how they see the future for open access...." |
| OPEN MINDS TOWARDS OPEN ACCESS: An interview with Ian Watson, Bifröst University in Iceland Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:42 PM PDT OPEN MINDS An interview with Ian Watson Bifröst University in Iceland ScieCom Info 7 (3), (2011) "Ian Watson is assistant professor of social science at Bifröst University in Iceland, editor of the Bifröst Journal of Social Science, and also manages the library at the Reykjavík Academy, an association of Icelandic researchers and scholars. We asked him to talk a little about his views on open access...." |
| INTERVIEWS WITH LITHUANIAN POLITICIANS AND FAMOUS RESEARCHERS ABOUT OPEN ACCES Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:39 PM PDT OPEN MINDS Interviews with Lithuanian politicians and famous researchers about Open Access ScieCom Info 7 (3), (2011) Interviews with three Lithuanian politicians and five Lithuanian researchers on OA. |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:37 PM PDT The Megajournals are coming ScieCom Info 7 (3), (2011) "Mega-journals [like PLoS ONE] were one of the major and hot topics at the 3rd Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, held in Tallinn September 21st–23rd 2011. Videos are available from http://rivervalley.tv/conferences/coasp-2011. The impression gained from the talks at the conference is that Mega-journals are coming to stay, and they will have a disruptive influence on STM publishing in the coming years...." |
| CARROT OR STICK, INCENTIVES OR MANDATES, OR BOTH Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:33 PM PDT Carrot or stick incentives or mandates or both ScieCom Info 7 (3), (2011) "The interest for Open Access has developed quickly within the last couple of years. In June 2010, Oslo University College (OUC) was one of the last Higher Education (HE) institutions to get an institutional repository. Mid-June 2010 the Open Digital Archive at Oslo University College, ODA, went public. This article will look at the key events that resulted in ODA. Furthermore I will present the incentive scheme implemented at OUC...." |
| WE HAVE WON THE ARGUMENT ABOUT OPEN ACCESS – NOW WE HAVE TO BRING THINGS TOGETHER AND MAKE IT WORK! Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:30 PM PDT We have won the argument about Open Access now we have to bring things together and make it work ScieCom Info 7 (3), (2011) |
| Springer denies scientist access to her own research Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:46 PM PDT Science in the Sands, (21 Oct 2011) "From: Dianne O'Leary....On September 9, I wrote to Springer asking for a pdf file of one of my papers [published in Springer's _Numerical Algorithms_]....It took until October 8 for them to answer my request, and they decided that I was not entitled to the pdf file of my own paper....My university does not subscribe to this journal -- too expensive -- so I was wondering if anyone had an idea of how I can obtain this pdf file...." |
| Times Higher Education - Royal Society to launch into the great wide open Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:42 PM PDT www.timeshighereducation.co.uk "Top researchers in biology have yet another publishing option following the launch of a major open-access journal by the Royal Society. Open Biology, which will cover all areas with a molecular or cellular element, aims to compete for high-impact papers with titles such as those in the Cell and Nature stables. It will be the Royal Society’s first wholly open-access journal, and will be overseen by a team of academic serving as subject editors and on the editorial board...." |
| DuraSpace Launches Open-Source Cloud Service - MarketWatch Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:40 PM PDT www.marketwatch.com " DuraSpace, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving the world's scholarly, scientific and cultural records, today announced the launch of its managed cloud service, DuraCloud. As the only managed software service that lets organizations archive content across more than one cloud provider, DuraCloud ensures that irreplaceable documents, imagery and videos are always accessible. A number of the country's most prestigious institutions including MIT, Columbia University, Northwestern University, and Rice University have signed up to use the managed cloud service to preserve digital resources...." |
| (Some) garbage in, gold out | Michael Nielsen Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:25 PM PDT michaelnielsen.org "During a recent talk David Weinberger asked me (paraphrasing) whether and how the nature of scientific knowledge will change when it’s produced by large networked collaborations? It’s a great question...." |
| Results of the Poll: Do You Have Access to JSTOR? Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:23 PM PDT AWOL - The Ancient World Online, (31 Oct 2011) "Two weeks ago I requested the assistance of readers of AWOL [Ancient World Online] in answering the question Do You Have Access to JSTOR? Now that Open Access Week is over, the poll is closed and the results are in. Total votes: 567. Yes I have access to JSTOR 53.3% 302. No I do not have access to JSTOR 46.7% 265. A couple of comments: ..." |
| Open Access at ISAW — Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:20 PM PDT isaw.nyu.edu "In recognition and support of Open Access Week, this post lists digital resources currently available from ISAW [Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, at New York University] and its collaborators under the terms of open licenses...." |
| Access Is a Right: Open Science Summit 2011 | mendelspod.com Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:18 PM PDT |
| Publishing Services a Major Growth Area for Academic Libraries, Suggests New Research Report Posted: 01 Nov 2011 11:44 AM PDT SPARC - Full Feed, (01 Nov 2011) "Publishing services provided by libraries are expanding and professionalizing, suggests a new report released for comment today by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, on behalf of a team of researchers from the libraries of Purdue University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Utah. The report is the result of a year-long study of library publishing services made possible by a collaborative planning grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), with additional support from Berkeley Electronic Press and Microsoft Research. It is available at http://wp.sparc.arl.org/lps....Key findings of the project include: [1] Approximately half (55%) of all respondents to the survey indicated having or developing library publishing services....[2] About three-quarters of the programs publish between one and six journals, the majority of which are only distributed electronically and are less than three-years old....[3] The vast majority of library publishing programs (almost 90%) were launched in order to contribute to change in the scholarly publishing system, supplemented by a variety of other mission-related motivations....[6] The perceived relevance of publishing services to the library’s mission, and the integration of such services into the library’s budget, helps explain the relative lack of emphasis on sustainability planning. Few institutions (15%) have a documented sustainability plan for their publishing services, and only a fifth have evaluated the value or effectiveness of their publishing services. [7] The most prevalent journal publishing platforms reported were Open Journal Systems (57%), DSpace (36%), and Berkeley Electronic Press’s Digital Commons (25%)...." |
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