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- Engaging undergraduates in scholarly communication Outreach, education, and advocacy
- Design & Development of Institutional Repositories: Problems and Perspectives
- Why PMC & UKPMC Should Harvest From Institutional Repositories
- Do Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations Diminish Publishing Opportunities in the Social Sciences and Humanities?
- RoMEO grønt lys for Open Access til forskningen : Et kvantitativt studie af RoMEO grøn selvarkivering inden for LIS
- Computational modeling in cognitive science: a manifesto for change
- Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access
| Engaging undergraduates in scholarly communication Outreach, education, and advocacy Posted: 12 Apr 2012 07:08 AM PDT College & Research Libraries News 73 (4), (01 Apr 2012) Undergraduate student awareness of, and engagement with, issues such as open access, public access, creator rights, and the economics of publishing should become part of our mission and vision of undergraduate education so students can become effective advocates for access to their own work, or for access to research that can aid them in becoming informed and critical researchers, consumers, and citizens. Undergraduate students are a prime audience for outreach and education efforts around scholarly communication issues. They are highly aware of the cost of their education and resources that support and enrich it, especially when it comes to the cost of textbooks and student loans. |
| Design & Development of Institutional Repositories: Problems and Perspectives Posted: 12 Apr 2012 07:03 AM PDT IR@NAL, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, (28 Mar 2012) Only an image of the book cover is provided. Abstract: This book attempts to study the Problems and Perspectives in Design and Development of Institutional Repositories (IR). The serial crisis lead to Open Access Movement in the world with the emergence of its prominent channel; the IRs - an Organization based service for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. IRs provide visibility, preserve the heritage, enhance prestige of the institution, prorogate/promote the research and facilitate interaction among the scientists/academicians. This study has evaluated major IRs set up in the world and especially in India in terms of IR software (commercial and open), infrastructure, archival issues, subject, document type and language in depth resulting in the evolution of suitable different IR models both in global and national context. Based on the interactions of IR managers/administrators both from world’s and India’s leading IRs and user community of scientists and academicians, key factors successful for sustainability, expertise, sound policies, guidelines and standards for establishing IRs have been evolved both at world wide and national levels. |
| Why PMC & UKPMC Should Harvest From Institutional Repositories Posted: 12 Apr 2012 05:11 AM PDT openaccess.eprints.org PubMed & PubMed Central are wonderful resources, but not nearly as resourceful or wonderful as they easily could be... |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 04:50 AM PDT College & Research Libraries, (05 Apr 2012) Pre-print. Abstract: An increasing number of higher education institutions worldwide are requiring submission of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) by graduate students and are subsequently providing open access to these works in online repositories. Faculty advisors and graduate students are concerned that such unfiltered access to their work could diminish future publishing opportunities. This study investigated social sciences, arts and humanities journal editors' and university press directors' attitudes toward ETDs. The findings indicate that manuscripts which are revisions of openly accessible ETDs are always welcome for submission or considered on a case by case basis by 82.8% of journal editors and 53.7% of university press directors polled. |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 04:44 AM PDT IVA, Det Informations-videnskabelige Akademi, Royal School of Information and Library Science, Copenhagen, (05 Mar 2012) RoMEO green-light for Open Access to scholarly research – A quantitative study on self-archiving of Toll Access articles within LIS. From the Abstract: This thesis aims at investigating the influence of green OA in a changing scholarly field of digital communication by asking the basic research question: To what extent do authors within library and information science (LIS) take advantage of RoMEO green OA publisher permissions to self- archive an e-print (i.e. pre –or post-print) of their research article in a digital repository? The survey in this publication study examines the scientific use of self archiving rights of authors on three levels of analysis, which are methodologically conducted by quantifying green OA output from the scientific search engines, Google Scholar and OAIster to determine the: 1) accessibility, 2) visibility, and 3) productivity of RoMEO green OA research articles self-archived by the authors. The data set has been collected across a randomly selected sample of Toll Access articles (n=1997) published in six core journals within the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) in a 5-year publication window from 2006-2010. The sample means of the survey reveal an almost three times higher RoMEO green OA availability of journal articles in GS (37%) than the retrieval performance of OAIster (13%), which to comparable statistical evidence of green OA within LIS is surprisingly high. It is reported that less than 1% of the most prolific authors are responsible for 25 % of the retrieved OA articles in GS generally deriving from the highly reviewed half of the Toll Access journals in the sample, peaking with an availability of 54 % e-prints originally published in the American journal JASIST. The significant gap in the recall ratios of the search engines is mainly due to distributed practices of self-archiving of articles resulting in a lack of repository interoperability with the protocol for metadata harvesting applied in OAIster, whereas GS is capable of indexing OA content far beyond this scope. Consequently, the deposits of authors within the examined sample could gain wider dissemination possibly leading to improved visibility, when made upon an informed choice of knowledge about the different web impacts of digital archiving practices. |
| Computational modeling in cognitive science: a manifesto for change Posted: 12 Apr 2012 04:29 AM PDT In Topics In Cognitive Science (in press). From the Abstract: We propose that the modeling community adopt three simple guidelines that would ensure that computational models would be accessible to the broad range of researchers in cognitive science. We further emphasize the pivotal role that journal editors must play in making computational models accessible to readers of their journals. |
| Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access Posted: 12 Apr 2012 04:22 AM PDT United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), (2012) From the Introduction: The overall objective of the Policy Guidelines is to promote Open Access in Member States by facilitating understanding of all relevant issues related to Open Access. Specifically, it is expected that the document shall: ◾ Enable Member State institutions to review their position on access to scientific information in the light of the Policy Guidelines; ◾ Assist in the choice of appropriate OA policy in the specific contexts of Member States; and ◾ Facilitate adoption of OA policy in research funding bodies and institutions by integrating relevant issues in the national research systems. Thus, the Policy Guidelines are not prescriptive in nature, but are suggestive to facilitate knowledge-based decision-making to adopt OA policies and strengthen national research systems. |
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