tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/1789/feed_itemspontika.nancy@gmail.com's bookmarks2023-04-03T08:16:35-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/73915792023-04-03T08:16:35-04:002023-04-03T08:16:35-04:00Home - Research.fitag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/33658012021-12-01T11:03:27-05:002021-12-02T08:36:03-05:00OSF | Open Research Toolkit<p>From the abstract: The Open Research Toolkit was created by Christopher Eaker during Faculty Development Leave, Fall 2021. While this toolkit was designed for librarians for learning open research concepts and skills and teaching them at their institutions, it would be useful for anyone interested in learning more about open research. Any questions related to this content can be directed to the author.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/33257022021-11-09T04:35:18-05:002021-11-09T04:35:18-05:00About the Toolkit - Open Research Toolkit - LibGuides at CAUL - Council of Australian University Librarians<p><span>The Open Research Toolkit was created by the Open Research Working Group, comprising representatives of the </span><a href="https://www.researchmanagement.org.au/" title="https://www.researchmanagement.org.au">Australasian Research Management Society</a><span> (ARMS) and the </span><a href="https://www.caul.edu.au/" title="https://www.caul.edu.au">Council of Australian University Librarians</a><span> (CAUL) with advisors from ARC, NHMRC, ARDC and CAUDIT.</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/33047382021-10-27T10:49:44-04:002021-10-27T10:49:44-04:00ON-MERRIT D6.1 Investigating Institutional Structures of Reward & Recognition in Open Science & RRI | Zenodo<p>This document reports on the research conducted under Task 6.1 “Investigating institutional structures or reward and recognition in Open Science & RRI”. Our work assesses the extent to which Open Science (OS) and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) are embedded in promotion processes at research performing institutions and analyses the disparity between what is valued by institutions and what is valued by researchers in the context of promotion processes.</p>
<p>The deliverable presents two original research studies contributing to a better understanding of current reward structures, incentives and practices as they are applied across geographical boundaries:</p>
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<li>The first study provides a systematic analysis of institutional Promotion, Review and Tenure policies (PRT) to determine the extent to which they, at this point in time, embed OS and RRI indicators. This study builds on Task 3.1 in which an initial international dataset of PRT policies was collected and annotated.</li>
<li>The second study is based on an international survey of active researchers. It aims to assess their attitudes towards OS and RRI as well as their experience with the application of assessment indicators in PRT processes at their institutions. Additionally, it aims to identify promising incentives that would encourage researchers to practice OS and RRI.</li>
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<p>Our findings hence show that researchers are ready for change. Yet as we look ahead to what those changes might be, we must be careful not merely to propagate the “tyranny of metrics” responsible for many of the ills within the current system. Simply uncritically introducing further indicators accounting for OS/RRI practices may do more harm than good. We hence close with considerations of the need to change not just indicators, but rather norms, and with provisional recommendations for policy-makers, institutions and researchers (to be developed in later ON-MERRIT tasks)</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27928232020-10-15T10:15:28-04:002022-06-07T22:23:21-04:00CORE Recommender now supports article discovery on arXiv | arXiv.org blogFrom the archive blog post: "arXiv readers now have a faster way to find articles relevant to their interests. From an article abstract page, readers can simply activate the CORE Recommender to find additional open access research on similar topics."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27402942020-07-28T11:01:13-04:002020-07-31T09:08:17-04:00The never-ending story | Research Information<p>"At the same time, the REF open access mandate had just been announced, stating journal articles and some conference proceedings had to be publicly accessible within three months of acceptance for publication in order to be eligible for submission for the post-2014 research excellence framework. Given the double-whammy of easier depositing and REF urgency, WestminsterResearch saw self-deposits rocket from less than one per cent to more than 99 per cent while practice-based/non text-based entries mushroomed by 246 per cent.</p>
<p>‘The Haplo repository and REF open access mandate came at a similar time and the combined power of both led to this massive increase in self-deposits,’ highlights Watts. </p>
<p>‘The mandates really helped people to comply to open access,’ she adds. ‘And we believe that factors contributing to more practice-based research included vastly improved templates and fields for these outputs... in the past, the repository just couldn’t take this content.’</p>
<p>Following these results and the looming REF2021, WestminsterResearch switched to a full Haplo open source-set up in 2018, and entries have continued to rise. As Watts put it: ‘I don’t think we’d have been able to support the increase in open access deposits without this rise in self-depositing.’..."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27353372020-07-21T11:59:39-04:002020-07-21T11:59:39-04:00Εθνικό Σχέδιο για την Ανοικτή Επιστήμη<p>From Google Translate: </p>
<p>"Open Science is the new model of practices, tools and collaboration for the production and distribution of scientific work and research results, with direct scientific, economic and social impact. Open Science is already Europe's critical priority for sustainable development, better production and exploitation of research results, collaboration, and the democratization of knowledge. Open Science combines principles that characterize, among others, Open Access to scientific publications, research data, research software, and research infrastructure and services."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26932122020-05-27T06:39:15-04:002020-05-27T06:39:15-04:00Open Access 2007 - 2017: Country and University Level Perspective - Open Research Online<p><span>Each year the number of Open Access (OA) papers is gradually increasing. We carried out a study investigating 400 universities from 8 countries to examine: i) the total number of OA papers per country, ii) proportion of OA papers published by representative universities in each country classified into three tiers of research quality: high, middle and low, iii) how universities within the same country compare to each other and iv) the growth of OA papers in countries per year. We conclude that among the analysed countries the UK and USA rank first and second respectively, while Russia and India are positioned towards the bottom of the list. We observe no link between the proportion of OA papers published by authors at a university and the university ranking, with some universities in the middle university rank tier having a larger proportion of OA papers than those in the high tier.</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26736752020-05-01T10:39:38-04:002022-05-26T10:28:55-04:00Research outputs repository systems purchasing | Jisc<p>Our service enables you to purchase a research repository from pre-qualified suppliers who conform to sector standards around the management of digital research outputs.</p>
<p>Our stringent processes comply with EU procurement rules so you can also rest assured that the suppliers chosen will provide you with the best value and quality of service.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26340522020-03-09T12:59:05-04:002022-04-06T03:56:47-04:00ZenodoLiving by these principles, Zenodo strives to make available architecture, implementation, practices and statistics. Please see for example the infrastructure page. We are also aiming to have these certified.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26316742020-03-06T08:17:39-05:002020-03-06T08:45:10-05:00Open Access Directory – A resource for making sense of the open access landscape | Impact of Social Sciences<p><em>The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a wiki of factual lists on the subject of open access. Designed to make sense out of the chaos of different information about open access, in this post </em>Nancy Pontika<em> recounts why the OAD was created and outlines how it forms an important knowledge base for anyone seeking to learn about open access and its development.</em></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/25182282019-09-22T06:07:12-04:002020-09-01T10:15:48-04:00ESAC – Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges<p>ESAC aggregates data and relevant facts for the <a href="https://esac-initiative.org/about/apcmarket/">open access market</a> in general and a number of major publishers in particular in order to illustrate and better assess the development of the scholarly publishing market as it transitions to open access.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/25182292019-09-22T06:08:40-04:002019-09-22T06:08:40-04:00About · INTACT<p><span>INTACT aims at establishing transparent and efficient procedures to manage article processing charges (APC) for open access publications. The project is based on the understanding that the transition from a subscription based market towards open access can only be achieved if higher education and research institutions and their libraries collaborate and work with publishers on both parameters and lean workflows.</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24834062019-06-05T04:34:33-04:002019-06-05T16:55:54-04:00Internal Contradictions with Open Access Books - The Scholarly Kitchen<p><a href="http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/">Knowledge Unlatched (KU)</a> is back in the news. Founded as a not-for-profit open access (OA) book publisher by Dr. Frances Pinter, the organization has gone through a couple iterations until re-emerging as a for-profit company headed by Dr. Sven Fund. (Despite its for-profit status, KU continues to use its old URL, with a .org domain.) KU is now hard at work on developing its program, including its business model. A major piece of this, recently announced in an interview by Fund, is the <a href="https://publishingperspectives.com/2019/05/sven-fund-knowledge-unlatched-open-research-library-open-access-2019/">Open Research Library</a> (ORL), which aims to be a comprehensive collection of all OA books, of which there are now (according to KU) about 15,000-20,000, with approximately 4,000 more being added every year. KU can aggregate all these books, which have many publishers, because of the terms of their Creative Commons (CC) licenses, which encourage reuse and sharing. And that is what has set off a seismic disturbance.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24834082019-06-05T04:38:30-04:002022-10-10T10:27:22-04:00Plan U: Universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates<p>Preprint servers such as arXiv and bioRxiv represent a highly successful and relatively low cost mechanism for providing free access to research findings. By decoupling the dissemination of manuscripts from the much slower process of evaluation and certification by journals, preprints also significantly accelerate the pace of research itself by allowing other researchers to begin building on new results immediately. If all funding agencies were to mandate posting of preprints by grantees—an approach we term Plan U (for “universal”)—free access to the world’s scientific output for everyone would be achieved with minimal effort. Moreover, the existence of all articles as preprints would create a fertile environment for experimentation with new peer review and research evaluation initiatives, which would benefit from a reduced barrier to entry because hosting and archiving costs were already covered.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24834072019-06-05T04:37:42-04:002019-06-05T04:37:42-04:00Scientists Call on Funders to Make Research Freely Available Immediately, “Plan U” Proposal Published Today | LJ infoDOCKET<p><a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000273">In a new article in the open-access journal <em>PLOS Biology</em></a>, Richard Sever and John Inglis from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Mike <span>Eisen</span> from UC Berkeley propose a new solution to these problems, which they call Plan U (for “universal”).</p>
<p>They call on the organizations that fund research – government agencies such as NIH and charities like the Howard Hughes Medical Institute – to require the scientists they support to post drafts of their papers on free websites called “preprint servers” before submitting them to academic journals.</p>
<p>The value of this approach was demonstrated by arXiv (pronounced “archive”), a preprint server in the physical sciences that has been running for 28 years and hosts more than a million papers. bioRxiv (pronounced “bio-archive”), founded by Sever and Inglis in 2013, brought the culture to biology and is growing rapidly as more and more biologists realize the benefits of making their work available early.</p>
<p>As well as making papers available sooner—and to everyone—Plan U should speed up research itself, because other experts can immediately begin building on the work. It should also stimulate evolution of the publication system. “Because preprint servers take care of dissemination, scientific journals don’t have to worry about that part and so have more freedom to experiment with how they do peer review,” Sever said. Servers reduce the barrier to entry for new initiatives, he added, since they no longer have to cover the costs of hosting the papers themselves.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24524202018-07-04T12:14:14-04:002018-07-04T13:33:34-04:00Σεμινάριο για νέους ερευνητές Ανθρωπιστικών και Κοινωνικών Επιστημών για την Ανοικτή Επιστήμη και τη διαχείριση ερευνητικών δεδομένων | Εθνικό Κέντρο Τεκμηρίωσης - ΕΚΤ<p>Social Sciences and Humanities seminar on Open Science and Research Data Management. </p>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24519572018-06-28T09:39:06-04:002018-06-28T09:39:06-04:00Introduction to Text and Data Mining | FOSTER<p><span>The purpose of this introductory course is to provide a starting point to the concepts of Text and Data Mining (TDM), since the field is gradually gaining more attention from funders and researchers. The course is primarily intended for research support administrative staff, but others, such as researchers, librarians and repository managers may also find it useful.</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24027982018-03-22T14:12:44-04:002018-03-24T11:39:18-04:00Releasing 1.8 million open access publications from publisher systems for text and data mining<p>"<em>Text and data mining offers an opportunity to improve the way we access and analyse the outputs of academic research. But the technical infrastructure of the current scholarly communication system is not yet ready to support TDM to its full potential, even for open access outputs. To address this problem, <strong>Petr Knoth</strong>, <strong>Nancy Pontika</strong> and <strong>Lucas Anastasiou</strong> have developed the CORE Publisher Connector, a toolkit service designed to assist text miners in accessing content though a single machine interface. The Connector aims to solve the heterogeneity among publisher APIs and assist text miners with data collection, provide a centralised point of access to all openly available scientific publications, and provide a high-performance, constantly updated access interface.</em>"</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23865422018-03-02T08:36:35-05:002018-03-02T08:36:35-05:00Exciting year ahead for open science training! | EIFL<p>"<span>‘Is your institution willing and committed to offer training on open access, open research data and open science as a part of standard training for PhD students?’</span></p>
<p>This is the question we asked <a href="http://eifl.net/where-we-work">our network</a> a year ago. We also offered support in developing such training courses for those who were interested.</p>
<p><span>Six institutions in six countries responded to our call, and sent us expressions of interest and commitment. They are Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), Chinhoyi University of Technology (Zimbabwe), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Ghana), Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania), Nepal Health Research Council (Nepal) and University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)....</span>"</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23206492017-11-23T06:06:15-05:002017-11-24T11:12:18-05:00CORE visits Ethiopia and participates in an Open Science training session – CORE<p><strong>EIFL’s invitation to CORE to take part in a workshop for researchers from developing countries pays dividends for participants and for CORE. </strong></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23206482017-11-23T06:05:31-05:002017-11-23T06:05:31-05:00CORE’s value for developing country researchers | EIFL<p><em>In June 2017, EIFL invited the global open access full text aggregator CORE to take part in an Open Science train-the-trainer course for universities and research institutions in EIFL partner countries. Our guest blogger, Nancy Pontika, CORE Open Access Aggregation Officer, writes about the experience...</em></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23061472017-10-31T15:47:41-04:002017-11-01T11:30:43-04:00Implementing the CORE Recommender in Strathprints: a “whitehat” improvement to promote user interaction – CORE<p>"When the CORE Recommender is deployed a repository user will find that as they are viewing an article or abstract page within the repository, they will be presented with recommendations for other related research outputs, all mined from CORE."</p>
<p>"<span>We discovered that the average time users spent on Strathprints upon arrival increased considerably. 01:29 up from 00:58 – so users typically spent 58% longer on Strathprints, strongly indicative that improvements to the user interface and especially the introduction of the CORE Recommender, was enough to persuade users to defer their bounce and instead read content, or explore alternative content within the CORE Recommender.</span>"</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22388972017-07-03T15:03:03-04:002017-11-01T14:47:08-04:00Open access Tanzania<p>Go to this Facebook page to explore the Open Access work in Tanzania. </p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22243702017-03-20T10:50:09-04:002017-03-20T10:50:09-04:00Analysing Open Science Impact at Open University on FindAPhD.com<p><span>Recently a growing number of research funders have extended their assessment research criteria from solely publication’s impact to the wider societal impact. The applicant is expected to investigate the impact of Open Science publications and demonstrate it using various Open Science processes/methodologies. </span></p>