tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/4021/feed_itemsMikeRoy's bookmarks2022-05-13T13:02:51-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/39424192022-04-25T11:36:49-04:002022-05-13T13:02:51-04:00The Journal of Electronic Publishing Issues Call for Papers for a special issue on Open Access. Learn more at https://t.co/xTb0xNAAJu https://t.co/SBAo41IUQX" / Twitter<p>The Journal of Electronic Publishing has issued a Call for Papers for a special issue on Open Access. Learn more at <a href="https://t.co/xTb0xNAAJu">https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/41/</a></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/38499412022-04-08T10:18:17-04:002022-04-13T12:27:06-04:00Journal of Electronic Publishing - Call for Papers: Special Issue on Open Access<p>The <em>Journal of Electronic Publishing</em> is seeking contributions for a special issue on Open Access. This issue to be published in early 2023 aims to provide a comprehensive review of the state of open access. We are interested in articles that look at the big picture. Areas of interest include:</p>
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<li>History of OA</li>
<li>OA by sector — commercial and non-profit</li>
<li>Types of OA publications — journals, monographs, educational resources</li>
<li>Developments in different regions or countries</li>
<li>Descriptions of the current OA Landscape — types of OA (a color chart), impact of funder or institutional mandates (for example, an assessment of Plan S), the state of OA infrastructure, etc.</li>
<li>Economics of OA</li>
<li>Impacts of OA on equity of access for authors and readers</li>
<li>Bad actors in OA</li>
<li>Other interesting topics</li>
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<p>Proposals should include a short (200 or so word) abstract and brief statement or author(s) credentials. Final Manuscripts should be 5,000 to 8,000 words in length. Proposals and questions should be addressed to David Lewis (<a href="mailto:dlewis@iupui.edu">dlewis@iupui.edu</a>). Proposals are due by <strong>May 20, 2022</strong>. Proposals will be reviewed, and accepted proposals will be decided upon by June 3, 2022. Final Manuscripts will be due September 2, 2022.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/32075332021-08-27T11:07:36-04:002021-08-27T11:07:36-04:00UpcPathways to Open Access: The University of California’s Journey(s) Toward an Open and Equitable Model for Knowledge Sharing – Open & Equitable Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Lecture Series<p><strong>September 30th, 2021</strong></p><p><strong>4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (EST) via Zoom</strong></p><p><strong>Hosted by Jill Livingston, Associate University Librarian at Wesleyan University</strong></p><p><strong>This event is free and open to the public, but <a href="https://colgate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qcOiurjgpHtWjMZuHDibFJvqUB-jzKHMh">registration is required</a>.</strong></p><p>The University of California has been making news lately with the “transformative agreements” it is striking with commercial publishers to make UC-authored research articles available via open access. For some, this work marks a significant achievement in the decades-long quest to “flip” the scholarly communications market away from gated (subscription) content and toward an open model that ensures global access to scholarly publications. For others, these agreements fall short by failing to address a number of equity issues that are bound up with resourcing, publisher size/clout, and the question of who gets to publish in the first place.</p><div><img alt="Image of Dr. Catherine Mitchell" src="http://jfinnell.colgate.domains/oberlin/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/d37d00315d057162dac21f8c5ddc0f3b_400x400-1.png"></div><p>In this talk, Dr. Mitchell will argue that many recent conversations about transformative agreements have been too polarized and too polarizing–that, in fact, there is no single intervention that will solve all the problems of access and equity that grip academia, and we are all better served to think in terms of collective and complementary efforts, rather than silver bullets. In discussing UC’s library publishing program and open access policies, as well as their digital special collections and digitization projects, Dr. Mitchell will describe the ways in which each of these services encounters and tackles its own problems of access, equity, and resourcing–and how they all, together with the work of the licensing division, represent UC’s multiple pathways toward open and equitable knowledge sharing..</p><p>Catherine Mitchell, PhD, is the Director of Publishing, Archives, and Digitization at the California Digital Library, University of California. This program provides the University of California research community with innovative open access publishing and distribution solutions, and aggregates world-class digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums throughout the State of California, serving an array of end users including researchers, scholars, students, and the general public. Program services include <a href="https://escholarship.org/">eScholarship</a> (UC’s Open Access IR/Publishing platform, with 85+ journals), <a href="https://calisphere.org/">Calisphere</a> (an open gateway to over two million digitized historical images, texts and recordings), and the Google Books/HathiTrust projects. Catherine is also Operations Director of <a href="https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/">UC’s Office of Scholarly Communication,</a> served on the Library Publishing Coalition’s Advisory Board for six years (two years as President), and is currently Treasurer of the Crossref Board of Directors.</p>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27401272020-07-28T06:50:57-04:002020-07-28T06:50:57-04:00The Frontier Beyond Open Access Publishing? Commoning | David Bollier<p><a href="http://bollier.og">David Bollier </a>, commons scholar and activist, writes a glowing review of <span> </span><a href="https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/y0xy565k/release/2">“Labour of Love:</a><span> An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences,” by Andreas E. Pia, Simon Batterbury, and eleven other colleagues, helping to explain why it is that Open Access really hasn't worked out as hoped. He writes</span></p>
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<p><span>"</span><span>It turns out that the social system for generating, curating and maintain knowledge is critical to how that knowledge can circulate. As more scholars are discovering, open and closed are </span><em>both </em><span>compatible with predatory forms of corporate control – high subscription fees, limited user access, copyright and contract restrictions, encrypted formats, and even outright censorship in response to nations like China.</span></p>
<p><span>Commoning, by contrast, puts the responsibilities and entitlements of commoners as the primary goal. This helps to ensure that peer-generated knowledge is accessible and shared in ways that are free, fair, and respectful. "</span></p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26874342020-05-19T12:00:39-04:002020-05-19T12:49:21-04:00A Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure | Educopia Institute<p>"This <em>Bibliographic Scan</em> by David W. Lewis provides an extensive literature review and overview of today’s digital scholarly communications ecosystem, including information about 206 tools, services, and systems that are instrumental to the publishing and distribution of the scholarly record. The<em> Bibliographic Scan</em> includes 67 commercial and 139 non-profit scholarly communication organizations, programs, and projects that support researchers, repositories, publishing, discovery, preservation, and assessment. </p>
<p>The review includes three sections: 1) Scholarly citations of works that discuss various functional areas of digital scholarly communication ecosystem (e.g., Repositories, Research Data, Discovery, Evaluation and Assessment, and Preservation); 2) Charts that record the major players active in each functional area; and 3) Descriptions of each organization/program/project included in the <em>Bibliographic Scan</em>. </p>
<p>This work has been produced as part of the “<a href="https://educopia.org/mapping-scholarly-communications-infrastructure/">Mapping the Scholarly Communication Infrastructure</a>” project (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Middlebury College, 2018-20)."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24839642019-06-12T09:26:36-04:002019-06-14T15:58:05-04:00Invest in Open Infrastructure: An Interview with Dan Whaley - The Scholarly Kitchen<p>"Dan Whaley from the <a href="http://investinopen.org">Invest in Open</a> initiative answers questions about what IOI is doing, and sets a broad context for the global effort....</p>
<p>Open infrastructure is the solution to all this. For me, open infrastructure is simply shorthand for technology in which the incentives to collaborate and work together are built in by design. That includes elements like open source software, open APIs, open data and open standards, but more fundamentally it’s a mindset in which your reward — either personal or organizational — comes from working together as a community for the benefit of all. </p>
<p>As someone who is product focused, a question I always try to ask is what is the best user experience, regardless of who owns which piece? Does what we’re implementing actually make it easier for people to accomplish their goals? Closed systems often make decisions simply for the sake of preventing or restricting access that create terrible experiences and result in lower utility. Open systems do this too sometimes, but at least the inherent motivations are more likely to be aligned...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24701312018-12-14T09:55:52-05:002018-12-14T09:55:52-05:00The First Step Towards a System of Open Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure – IO: In The Open<p>In this piece, we describe the challenges faced by the community trying to create a scholar-led, community-governed system of scholarly communication, some thoughts on how to overcome these challenges, and propose some 'next steps' that will move us toward this shared vision. (This is based on work being done as part of "Mapping the Scholarly Communications Infrastructure Project" which can be found at<a href="https://scholarlycommons.net/map/"> https://scholarlycommons.net/map/</a> . </p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24684352018-11-29T09:46:43-05:002018-11-29T09:46:43-05:00Scholarly Societies and the Newspaper Problem<p><span>This paper looks at the current economic model of large scholarly societies. This model relies on significant surpluses from publishing operations to fund other activities of the societies. It is argued that this economic model lacks transparency as colleges and universities supply a subsidy to the societies by overpaying for journals and indexes and that they are generally not aware that this is happening. If is further argued that as was the case with newspapers a decade ago, scholarly societies will need to reinvent their economic model. The driving force is likely to be the coming pressure to adopt an Open Access model. Plan S is the current manifestation of this pressure.</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24661212018-10-29T19:38:14-04:002018-10-29T19:38:14-04:00Securing Community Controlled Infrastructure: SPARC’s plan of action<p>Heather Joseph, the executive director of SPARC, discusses SPARC's recent market analysis and resulting action plan for how to reclaim control over the infrastructure needed to support and sustain a community-owned and community-governed system of scholarly communication. </p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24644962018-10-10T15:36:11-04:002022-04-13T10:34:29-04:00Beyond North America: Widening Access and Participation - YouTube VideoAn hour long video of two recently published webinars sponsored by Duraspace. The first half hour features an update from Coleen Campbell on the OA2020 effort. The second is an overview of the work of Redalyc by Arianna Becerril García of Redalyc. Slides from the talk are at https://www.slideshare.net/DuraSpace/92618-beyond-na-presentation-slides .
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24644082018-10-09T16:02:45-04:002018-12-14T13:14:31-05:00Mellon Grant Will Support Revamping Infrastructure for Digital Scholarship<p> A new grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support an effort to study the current state of digital scholarship infrastructure in the U.S. and to help envision a more modernized and sustainable system that would enhance scholarly communication at colleges, universities, and research libraries across the country.</p>
<p>Learn more about the effort at http://scholarlycommons.net/map/ </p>