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- Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, über das Projekt
- The Preemptive Publisher « The Scholarly Kitchen
- The effects of open access mandates on institutional repositories in the UK and Germany
- Case Studies on Institutional Open Approaches
- Open peer review by a selected-papers network
| Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, über das Projekt Posted: 30 Mar 2012 05:38 AM PDT www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de From Google's English: "A free and centralized access to information is one of a functioning, modern democracy. The Internet portal Europeana, the European digital library is an important step towards the information society. The German Digital Library brings its share of Germany, a European cultural memory...." |
| The Preemptive Publisher « The Scholarly Kitchen Posted: 29 Mar 2012 06:35 PM PDT scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org " The supreme example of this is arXiv. How in the world did the physics publishers get beaten to the punch on a simple preprint-sharing service? Creating such a service would not have been hard to do. Especially ironic is the fact that the publishers themselves were in a privileged position to hear the complaints that authors had about the traditional publishing system, especially the long delay between the submission of an article and its publication, one of the key motivators for building arXiv. Was Paul Ginsparg the only person on the planet at that time who knew how to use a computer? We can stack up other examples of services that could very well have been conceived of by publishers, but instead were put together by others, who did not necessarily operate with publishers’ interests at heart. Book digitization was something that librarians wanted for years. Did no publisher hear what librarians were saying? It should not have taken Google to come along to get this project started. Or Creative Commons: here is a way to streamline the cumbersome rights and permissions process, which I would think that even the most beady-eyed publishing accountant would agree is a great idea, but it took an academic lawyer (and no friend of copyright), supported by philanthropies, to get this moving. Or there is the orphan works situation, which is silly. Here are books without commercial significance (otherwise they would not have gone out of print), but rather than come up with a practical solution to this, publishers have allowed the cause of orphan works to be taken up by groups who see it as a way to overturn the entire copyright regime. This list could go on and on....Moving an enterprise forward — if you must be a target, be a moving target — is the best defense. The next time you see a presentation of a gee-whiz new technical service, let it be yours...." |
| The effects of open access mandates on institutional repositories in the UK and Germany Posted: 29 Mar 2012 09:46 AM PDT Loughborough University Institutional Repository, (30 Jan 2012) From the Abstract: This research project explores the effects of institutional open access mandates on institutional repositories in Higher Education Institutions in the UK and Germany. Therefore, it analyses the experiences, opinions, and expectations of institutional repository managers from both countries. A thorough literature review and a questionnaire-based survey were conducted to gain background information regarding open access publishing, institutional repositories, and institutional open access mandates. Semi-structured follow-up interviews provide an in-depth insight into the views of institutional repository managers regarding the effects of institutional open access mandates. The results are presented thematically. There is evidence that institutional mandates do have effects on institutional repositories in different ways, e.g. on content deposited and service provision. The effects vary according to the characteristics of repositories and the approach taken by institutions. The research results also indicate that the experiences of institutions with a mandate and the expectations of institutions without one are almost identical across both the UK and Germany, although the developmental context of institutional repositories and institutional mandates in these two countries are very different. |
| Case Studies on Institutional Open Approaches Posted: 29 Mar 2012 08:03 AM PDT Case Studies on Institutional Open Approaches The Open University Open Research Online, The Open University, (23 Mar 2012) Abstract: Interpreting openness has been part of The Open University’s mission since its foundation in 1969. As a distance teaching university it has always developed extensive educational resources for its students and occasionally for a wider audience but the emergence of open educational resources (OER) has challenged the ways in which it both develops and uses such teaching materials, in particular an over-reliance on in-house authoring and embedded third party materials and income from sales and licensing of such content. As educational resources are integral to the university’s teaching and business model a large scale, institution-wide, action research project aligned to University strategic objectives was established to examine the potential impact of OER in those models (with funding support from a US Foundation). Extensive research and evaluation activities plus widespread staff acceptance and experience in the use of OER in various parts of their work has enabled a gradual bottom-up adoption and planned top-down embedding of OER and other aspects of openness into most facets of University work after five years, including a defined open media policy. |
| Open peer review by a selected-papers network Posted: 29 Mar 2012 08:01 AM PDT Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, (24 Jan 2012) A selected-papers (SP) network is a network in which researchers who read, write, and review articles subscribe to each other based on common interests. I show how the SP network can provide a new way of measuring impact, catalyze the emergence of new subfields, and accelerate discovery in existing fields, by providing each reader a fine-grained filter for high-impact. I present a three phase plan for building a basic SP network, and making it an effective peer review platform that can be used by journals, conferences, users of repositories such as arXiv, and users of search engines such as PubMed. I show how the SP network can greatly improve review and dissemination of research articles in areas that are not well-supported by existing journals. Finally, I illustrate how the SP network concept can work well with existing publication services such as journals, conferences, arXiv, PubMed, and online citation management sites. |
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