tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/1762/feed_itemsConnotea Imports2013-03-10T10:29:34-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/279672012-07-31T12:19:34-04:002013-03-10T10:29:34-04:00petersuberOpen Access Success Stories"This website was developed by Knowledge Exchange to provide success stories from the four partner countries and beyond showing the successes gained in making research outputs available in open access....The Knowledge Exchange partners are...<span>Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF), </span><span>German Research Foundation (DFG), </span><span>Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom, </span><span>SURF in the Netherlands...."</span>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/336222012-07-31T17:25:21-04:002012-10-08T09:52:25-04:00petersuberIt’s not just about citation counts anymore"'Faculty want more than just citation counts,' says Brad Matthies, IR Manager and Access Services Librarian at Butler University (http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/). He finds that article download reports provide Butler authors with the additional, immediate feedback they aren’t getting elsewhere. Matthies reports that his dean absolutely loves the monthly download reports. So do faculty—the most excited tell their colleagues about the repository too. For repositories struggling with faculty engagement, usage reports can provide the hook an IR manager needs to get faculty’s <div>attention. Time and again, we hear from IR managers something like, 'Once our faculty members start to get those monthly download reports for their articles, they come back to me with more articles to post.'"</div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/317812012-07-31T15:24:21-04:002012-10-08T09:33:07-04:00petersuberOpening Australia's archives | Creative Commons Australia"<span>Creative Commons Australia is very proud to announce that our sister research project, </span><a href="http://www.ip.qut.edu.au/opening_access_to_australian_archives">Opening Australia’s Archives</a><span>has released a first version of its </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org.au/research/openarchives/opening-australias-archives-open-access-guidelines-version-1">Open Access Principles for Australian Collecting Institutions</a><span>.</span>"tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/274142012-07-31T12:05:41-04:002012-10-08T09:22:12-04:00petersuberRSP Embedding Guide"<span>This </span><a href="http://www.rsp.ac.uk/embeddingguide/">guide</a><span> has been published by the Repositories Support Project and will help institutions to get the best value from their institutional repositories through integration with other university systems, particularly research management systems.</span>"tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/351612012-07-31T19:07:51-04:002012-10-08T09:06:58-04:00petersuberAdvice on filling your repository"<span>I was moved to produce this by Hugh Glaser’s remarks that no-one was prepared to offer advice to beginners or people transitioning to a properly mandated repository. This advice is not new. It has been said by many others in part, and I have been preaching it in Australia and New Zealand for at least five years. It is however firmly based on experience, and knowledge of what works and what doesn’t in many universities, right around the world.</span>"tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/78062012-04-02T12:36:09-04:002012-10-08T08:56:28-04:00petersuberThe network of repositories in the Netherlands: Infrastructure for open access to knowledge"The SURFshare programme (2007–2011) – the successor to the DARE programme – built on this <div>knowledge infrastructure for Open Access to research results. Amongst other things, the programme focuses on improving this infrastructure and on the expansion – possible in part because of this infrastructure – of scientific and scholarly communication via enhanced publications, collaboration environments for researchers (“collaboratories”), and access to research</div>data."tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/288192012-07-31T12:50:44-04:002012-10-08T08:22:42-04:00petersuberCriteria for successful repositories | Murray-Rust's blog: A Scientist and the web "<span>In thinking about data repositories I have been thinking about repositories in general and what makes them successful. I’m going to start by suggesting some principles for success. These are based on the repositories I use and the repositories set up in our group.</span>"tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/300582012-07-31T13:43:57-04:002012-10-07T20:35:22-04:00petersuberOpen Access Repositories Resource Pack (OARRPack)"<span>The University of Glasgow has been commissioned by JISC to create an Open Access Repositories Resource Pack (OARRPack) for the UK’s Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG). This is aimed at encouraging UK universities to adopt Open Access and the open agenda...</span><span>The pack will be aimed at both university senior managers and at repository managers and other staff charged with implementing open access policies. </span><span>It will provide a mix of the high level information necessary to enact institution-wide policy changes and the practical details needed in order to implement these policy changes.</span><span>"</span>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/260342012-07-23T10:01:30-04:002012-10-07T21:16:36-04:00petersuberMarketing & getting buy-in<span>Several suggestions for "internal" and "external" marketing efforts are explored; included as examples are "presentations," "demonstrations," and "individual appointments" for marketing the repository and generating interest in deposit.</span>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/294892012-07-31T13:24:00-04:002012-10-07T16:57:23-04:00petersuberBest practices and policies in institutional repositories development: The Ktisis case"Libraries worldwide have realized the importance of institutional repositories in the intellectual life and output of an institution. Institutional repositories are now clearly recognized as essential infrastructure in the digital world. An institutional repository is a means for the institutions to manage the product of their academic research and to increase accessibility to that product. Generally, institutional repository development is still in the process of establishing guiding principles and best practices, through established cases which can be used to learn development <div>options and risks. This paper begins with a brief description of the implementation process of Ktisis, the open access institutional repository of the Cyprus University of Technology, and continues to describe the set of activities used in the strategic plan of Ktisis. Among those activities was the definition of the promotional plan, the engagement in the international community and the definition of the Ktisis policy of use."</div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/391842012-08-01T01:32:50-04:002012-09-16T16:21:29-04:00eekilcerCarrots and Sticks: Some Ideas on How to Create a Successful Institutional Repository"In this article, we tackle the ubiquitous problems of slow adoption and low deposit rates often seen in recently created institutional repositories. The article begins with a brief description of the implementation process of RepositoriUM, the institutional repository of the University of Minho, and moves on to thoroughly describe the set of activities included in a strategic plan specially designed to undertake the previously outlined problems. Among those activities are the development of an adequate promotional plan, development of value-added services for authors, engagement in the international community and definition of a self-archiving mandate policy. The article also provides some figures on the results of the strategic plan and explores future initiatives being devised to further increase the adoption of the repository."tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/264832012-07-29T14:47:03-04:002012-07-31T11:39:28-04:00petersuberOffene Pforten für Open AccessAn interview with Heinz Pampel on OA.tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/264762012-07-29T12:16:06-04:002012-07-31T11:39:30-04:00petersuberGlobal Roads Data"A consortium of groups, led by International Council for Science's Committee on Data for Science and Technology (ICSU-CODATA) Global Roads Data Development Working Group, is developing a digital, public domain global road map under the name Global Roads Open Access Data Set (gROADS)....The gROADS initiative is sponsored by CODATA, is an approved task of the UN-GAID e-SDDC (UN Global Alliance on ICT for Development Open Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries), and is endorsed by the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) and GISCorps of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)...."tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/266122012-07-31T11:39:30-04:002012-07-31T11:39:30-04:00petersuberIs Algebra Necessary? - NYTimes.comtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/259642012-07-21T10:52:04-04:002012-07-31T11:39:31-04:00petersuberTable Of Contents: St Antony's International ReviewThe May 2012 issue of St Antony's International Review (STAIR) is devoted to "The Knowledge Commons: Research and Innovation in an Unequal World".tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/259032012-07-20T11:28:58-04:002012-07-31T11:39:32-04:00petersuber“The Wikipedia Journal” — Crowdsourcing als Open Access-Geschäftsmodell?From Google's English: "A few days ago, met the international conference Wikipedia Academy 2012 in Berlin. There was at the initiative of the physician James Heilman including a proposal discussed, the originally been blogging three years ago by Wikipedia-author Liam Wyatt was, 'Let us (or more) Wikipedia journals found! The idea sounds a bit like squaring the circle: the very well known, should the work of many volunteer based and technically well-developed platform Wikipedia, the proposal also provide space for essays of individual authors (or closed-writing team), including "traditional "Quality assurance through peer review concludes with" finished "versions of articles...."tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/259002012-07-20T10:07:32-04:002012-07-31T11:39:33-04:00petersuberDealing with open access publication fees – the situation in Germany in 2010An article in German with this English-language abstract: Along with the dynamic development of open access, the question of how to handle open access publication charges is increasingly discussed. German research organisations have been involved in this discussion as part of their activities within the Priority Initiative “Digital Information” of the “Alliance of German Science Organisations” since 2008. In 2010 they commissioned a survey among universities and research institutions, focusing on their practice in dealing with publication charges. As a result, it became clear that these organisations are aware of the issue. For their members, they seek to develop mechanisms to facilitate publishing in author fee-based open access journals. In general, an overview of the open access strategies of the organisations shows an ongoing transformation process from a subscription-based towards an open access publishing system. However, the survey results also point to challenges. The article gives an overview of open-access related activities and developments in German research organisations and presents the results of the survey on handling of open access publication charges among academic institutions in Germany.tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/256472012-07-17T11:56:09-04:002012-07-31T11:39:34-04:00petersuberEmbracing an Innovation Stimulus Package by Betsy Masiello, Derek Slater :: SSRNAbstract: Over the past several years, Google has partnered with a number of thought leaders to evaluate and quantify the Internet’s impact on the broader macro-economy. Our work has demonstrated that the Internet has a truly phenomenal impact on economic activity and opportunity, contributing to 21% of GDP growth across the G-20 from 2005-2010. However, since 2008 the global economy has fallen into a state of malaise. GDP growth is slowing worldwide and employment is stagnating as we enter a period some are calling “muddling through.” There is widespread recognition that neither a fiscal stimulus nor a prolonged period of austerity will truly remedy the situation. We believe there remain untapped opportunities to innovate across a range of critical macroeconomic activities by applying core characteristics of the Internet, which has been a source of such astounding innovation in the past decade. What we propose here will not be a panacea for our current economic ills, but by embracing the Innovation Stimulus Agenda we outline, we believe policymakers can move the economic needle in meaningful, positive and sustainable ways. [PS: At pp. 21-24 the authors argue that OA mandates create economic stimulus.]tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/266132012-07-31T11:39:36-04:002012-07-31T11:39:36-04:00petersuberIs A Petition Calling For A Pardon Of The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde 'Offensive'? | Techdirttag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/266142012-07-31T11:39:36-04:002012-07-31T11:39:36-04:00petersuberSaturday Morning Breakfast Cerealtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/266152012-07-31T11:39:37-04:002012-07-31T11:39:37-04:00petersuberSaturday Morning Breakfast Cerealtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/266162012-07-31T11:39:39-04:002012-07-31T11:39:39-04:00petersuberCardiac Arrest: Hospital Refuses to Give Widow her Husband’s Hearttag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/253602012-07-12T16:22:58-04:002018-08-29T14:21:02-04:00petersuberTaking Digital Transformation to the Next Level: The Contribution of the DFG to an Innovative Information Infrastructure for Research<p>"Grants awarded under the Electronic Publications Programme will continue to focus on establishing open access as a publishing model. Preference should be given to the “gold road” to open access, i.e. the quality-controlled initial publication of scientific articles in an electronic medium that uses an open-access business model. It permits open-access provision of digital objects under legally protected conditions that also enable the comprehensive reuse of publications. Legal uncertainty has been seen as a significant obstacle in following the classic “green road”, which entails the additional provision of a copy of a subscription publication....Conversion of subscription journals to open access. The conversion of publication practices to the gold road of open access will result in organisational changes at universities and research institutes. Some of the resources for the purchase of scholarly literature and information will have to be shifted in order to set up publication funds. The DFG is aware that this change will impose an additional financial burden as long as journal subscription and licensing costs continue to coexist. To allow gradual reduction of these additional expenses, funding will not primarily encourage the inception of new open-access journals but rather provide targeted incentives for converting prestigious journals that are currently subscriptionbased into open-access publications....Hybrid models and national open-access licensing. As the system transitions, the transparency of hybrid open-access publishing models, and thus the cost correlation between subscription contracts and open-access publication fees, must be analysed carefully and transparently in pilot projects. Project processes and results should be documented accurately for the scientific community in order to make successful models for converting publishing practices available as best practices. In addition, the DFG will combine its support for the national licensing of electronic journals with funding for open access in order to move existing approaches and models into the direction of national open-access licensing....Monographs in open access. Depending on the respective scientific communities, open access will spread at different speeds and with different emphases. Transformation processes will therefore have to be organised jointly with the respective research communities. Different scientific disciplines prefer different publication formats. In order to ensure that open access will also benefit book-oriented disciplines, targeted support will go to projects that develop and test suitable models for access to monographic publications free of charge...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/250762012-07-08T11:59:12-04:002012-08-17T19:03:20-04:00abernardHome | CiteBankUse the link to access CiteBank: an open access repository for biodiversity publications. “CiteBank is an open access platform to aggregate citations for biodiversity publications and deliver access to biodiversity related articles. CiteBank aggregates links to content from digital libraries, publishers, and other bibliographic systems in order to provide a single point of access to the world’s biodiversity literature. CiteBank also stores and provides access to content, such as articles or chapters relevant to biodiversity, contributed by publishers and other copyright holders. CiteBank is a project of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL).”tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/250972012-07-09T09:05:37-04:002012-07-31T11:39:39-04:00petersuberReforming Copyright Is Possible - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education"The failure of the Google Book settlement, however, has not killed the dream of a comprehensive digital library accessible to the public. Indeed, it has inspired an alternative that would avoid the risks of monopoly control. A coalition of nonprofit libraries, archives, and universities has formed to create a Digital Public Library of America, which is scheduled to launch its services in April 2013....The DPLA aims to be a portal through which the public can access vast stores of knowledge online. Free, forever....Had Congress not bowed to pressure from industries with a stake in copyright, especially Hollywood, to extend existing copyright terms several times in the past 40 years, all works published before 1956 would now be in the public domain and available for inclusion in the DPLA....[F]air use can be part of the solution. Many orphans that nonprofit libraries want to make available online are fact-intensive works, written by scholars for scholars, whose motivation is to share knowledge. Insofar as such works are unavailable commercially and their rights-holders cannot be located, there is no risk of harm to any existing or potential market for the works, an important factor in fair-use cases....The fastest way to achieve a more comprehensive digital library is for Congress to create a license so that digital libraries could provide public access to copyrighted works no longer commercially available....At an abstract level, the licensing option seems attractive. It resembles the basic framework of the recently enacted French law authorizing the national library to digitize out-of-commerce works. However, France has at least three advantages over the United States....After the Google Book settlement failed, I outlined a legislative package in the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts that would bring about virtually all of the benefits envisioned by proponents of the settlement without the downsides of a Google monopoly. In brief, I recommended: 1) creating a privilege to scan in-copyright works for preservation, indexing, and text mining of the works; 2) allowing orphan works to be made available on an open-access basis; 3) expanding the right of libraries and others to improve access for those who have trouble reading print; 4) ensuring that reader-privacy interests are respected....Copyright law needs considerably greater reform than the measures I've discussed. Copyright should be shorter in duration, more balanced, more comprehensible, and normatively closer to what members of the public think that it means or should mean. Although we are not likely to get comprehensive reform anytime soon, perhaps we can persuade Congress to make some more modest reforms. We know it is now possible for the cultural and scientific heritage of humankind to be made available through a universal digital library such as the DPLA. It would be a grievous mistake not to bring that future into being when it is so clearly within our grasp."