Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items) |
- Altmetrics in the wild: Using social media to explore scholarly impact
- Projekt:Europeana Awareness - Wikimedia
- Survey on open access in FP7
- Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing
- Pricing principles used by scholarly open access publishers
- Open access central funds in UK universities
- Annotum: launching a peer-reviewed journal online for free
| Altmetrics in the wild: Using social media to explore scholarly impact Posted: 22 Mar 2012 07:25 AM PDT arXiv.org > cs > arXiv:1203.4745, (20 Mar 2012) From the Abstract: In growing numbers, scholars are integrating social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional communications. The online, public nature of these tools exposes and reifies scholarly processes once hidden and ephemeral. Metrics based on this activities could inform broader, faster measures of impact, complementing traditional citation metrics. This study explores the properties of these social media-based metrics or "altmetrics", sampling 24,331 articles published by the Public Library of Science. |
| Projekt:Europeana Awareness - Wikimedia Posted: 21 Mar 2012 07:23 PM PDT se.wikimedia.org "Europeana Awareness is a Best Practice Network, led by the Europeana Foundation, designed to: [1] publicise Europeana to users, policy makers, politicians and cultural heritage organisations in every Member State so as to encourage the use and contribution of content, raise awareness of cultural heritage as an economic driver and promote knowledge transfer [2] promote its use by a broad public for a variety of purposes including recreation and hobbies, research, learning, genealogy and tourism – engaging users via user generation of content, creation of digital stories and social networking, [3] develop new partnerships with 4 key sectors which are currently underexploited by Europeana: public libraries; local archival groups; broadcast organisations and open culture re-users (programmers, developers, researchers and activists), [4] put in place new distribution channels for Europeana content working with the tourism sector, [5] further encourage cultural institutions to continue to provide content in particular by: raising awareness of the opportunities provided by the new Europeana Licensing framework; developing mechanisms for collective rights management; and increasing the amount of content in Europeana that can be freely re-used...." |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2012 07:20 PM PDT ec.europa.eu "The European Commission launched in August 2008 the open access pilot in FP7....Grant beneficiaries are expected to deposit peer-reviewed research articles or final manuscripts resulting from their projects into an online repository and make their best efforts to ensure open access to those articles within a set period of time after publication. In addition to the pilot, FP7 rules of participation also allow all projects to have open access fees eligible for reimbursement during the time of the grant agreement....In May 2011, the Commission identified the 811 projects designated at the time and sent a questionnaire to all project coordinators....The majority of respondents find it easy or very easy to have time or manpower to self-archive peer-reviewed articles and also to inform the Commission on the failure of their best efforts to ensure open access to the deposited articles....Identifying a new, satisfactory publisher is rather difficult for the majority of respondents, yet 40 % of respondents with an opinion find it easy or very easy.....Half of respondents do not know or have no opinion about which publishers to be in contact with regarding their open access publications....Respondents reported a total of 534 articles deposited or to be deposited in a repository, out of which 406 are or will be open access....Reasons given for not providing open access are firstly a publisher’s copyright agreement that does not permit deposit in a repository, followed by lack of time or resources....The majority of respondents did not know about the possibility to request full reimbursement of publication costs during the lifespan of FP7 projects...Only eight projects among all respondents reported the use of reimbursement of open access publishing so far....Three quarters of those respondents with an opinion would agree or strongly agree with an open access mandate for data in their research area...." |
| Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing Posted: 21 Mar 2012 09:13 AM PDT Science 335 (6068), 542 (20 Dec 2012) Abstract: Despite their shortcomings (1–4), impact factors continue to be a primary means by which academics “quantify the quality of science” (5). One side effect of impact factors is the incentive they create for editors to coerce authors to add citations to their journal. Coercive self-citation does not refer to the normal citation directions, given during a peer-review process, meant to improve a paper. Coercive self-citation refers to requests that (i) give no indication that the manuscript was lacking in attribution; (ii) make no suggestion as to specific articles, authors, or a body of work requiring review; and (iii) only guide authors to add citations from the editor's journal. This quote from an editor as a condition for publication highlights the problem: “you cite Leukemia [once in 42 references]. Consequently, we kindly ask you to add references of articles published in Leukemia to your present article” (6). Gentler language may be used, but the message is clear: Add citations or risk rejection. |
| Pricing principles used by scholarly open access publishers Posted: 21 Mar 2012 09:11 AM PDT Learned Publishing 25 (2), 132 (2012) Abstract: The article processing charge (APC) is currently the primary method of funding professionally published open access (OA) peer-reviewed journals. The pricing principles of 77 OA publishers publishing over 1,000 journals using APCs were studied and classified. The most commonly used pricing method is a single fixed fee, which can either be the same for all of a publisher's journals or individually determined for each journal. Fees are usually only levied for publication of accepted papers, but there are some journals that also charge submission fees. Instead of fixed prices, many publishers charge by the page or have multi-tiered fees depending on the length of articles. The country of origin of the author can also influence the pricing, in order to facilitate publishing for authors from developing countries. |
| Open access central funds in UK universities Posted: 21 Mar 2012 09:08 AM PDT Learned Publishing 25 (2), 107 (2012) Abstract: This paper reports on the extent to which higher education institutions in the UK have set up central funds and similar institutionally co-ordinated approaches to the payment of open access article-processing charges. It presents data demonstrating that central funds have only been set up by a minority of institutions and that the number of institutions has not changed significantly between 2009 and 2011. It then explores the barriers to the establishment of such funds and discusses recent developments that might lower these barriers. Finally, it provides a case study of the development of the central fund at the University of Nottingham in the UK and considers the sustainability of such an approach. |
| Annotum: launching a peer-reviewed journal online for free Posted: 21 Mar 2012 09:07 AM PDT Learned Publishing 25 (2), 99 (2012) Abstract: Despite the growth of numerous open and free tools for creating, curating, and publishing content on the Internet, the process of authoring and publishing scholarly journals remains an expensive, time-consuming process that can require significant up-front investment and technical expertise. Annotum, an open source, open access, open process authoring and publishing system based on WordPress, provides a simple, free tool for creating peer-reviewed scholarly journals online. |
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