Items tagged by flavoursofopen in [IOI] Open Infrastructure Tracking Project https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/investinopen/user/flavoursofopen TagTeam social RSS aggregrator   Hillen, H., & Steiner, T. (2026, June 3). Thoth 1.0: Open Metadata, Dissemination, Archiving, Usage Statistics, and Websites & Catalogues for OA books. Thoth Open Metadata. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20749899 --- Abstract:  This presentation slidedeck supported a webinar held on June 3, 2026, which introduced Thoth 1.0, the major new release of the Thoth platform. At Thoth Open Metadata, openness and interoperability lie at the heart of everything we do. Developed by publishers and for publishers, we believe in empowering presses to leverage the power of open infrastructures that support collaboration, transparency, and flexibility - without any kind of platform lock-in. That commitment shapes every aspect of the Thoth ecosystem: from our open-source software and CC0 metadata to our open APIs and direct integrations with other community-led publishing platforms and infrastructures. Over the past several years, Thoth has grown from a dissemination system developed in the context of the Copim communtiy, into a trusted non-profit open metadata management and dissemination platform used by more than 100 publishers across the globe. Thoth 1.0 marks a major new step forward, introducing a redesigned interface, enhanced multilingual metadata support, expanded dissemination workflows, reusable publisher catalogues and websites, and improved reporting and usage metrics capabilities. In this webinar, the Thoth team demonstrated: the new Thoth 1.0 platform and interface open and interoperable metadata workflows integrations with wider community infrastructures and services reusable publisher catalogues and websites dissemination and reporting / usage statistics workflows for OA books how Thoth supports publishers in maintaining control over their own metadata and workflows Whether you are already working with Thoth or are interested in hearing more about open, community-governed infrastructure for scholarly publishing, this webinar is for you. A streamable video recording of the webinar is also available on Youtube and the Internet Archive. Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:05:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/20749899 oa.infrastructure oa.books oa.dissemination oa.archiving oa.usage oa.data oa.metrics oa.catalogues oa.hosting oa.thoth_open_metadata publishing metadata   Ball, C., Shaw, T., & Steiner, T. (2026, June 11). Open Book Collective, Open Journals Collective, and Thoth: Collaborating for a sustainable Diamond OA future. oa.talk, online. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20639612     This webinar explores the work of three organisations working to support Diamond open access book publishing: Open Book Collective (OBC), the Open Journals Collective (OJC), and Thoth Open Metadata (Thoth). These organisations work with publishers on a global scale, and this includes in Germany. For example, OBC’s members include meson press, Verfassungblog, and Verlag Barbara Budrich. OJC supports German-language journals, including Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung. Thoth hosts metadata from OBC publishers alongside many others, including Mohr Siebeck Universitätsverlag Kiel, and Universitätsverlag Potsdam.   In this context, the session examines how collaborations between these contexts could be relevant to and potentially more deeply connect to existing Diamond Open Access collaborations in Germany and other German-language contexts. Earlier this year, the Open Book Collective (OBC) and the Open Journals Collective (OJC) announced that they had signed a Memorandum of Understanding signaling their formal collaboration. In a joint statement, the OBC and OJC stated that “at a time when the open access landscape can feel fragmented and crowded, this partnership is a reminder that Diamond open access will only thrive if the infrastructures underpinning this model of equitable open access work together, share knowledge, and exemplify the values they stand for – collaboration, not competition”. This collaboration exemplifies the spirit of ‘scaling small’, featuring “intentional collaborations between community-driven pro­jects that promote a bibliodiverse ecosystem” (Adema and Moore, 2021).   In the first part of this webinar, Caroline Ball (OBC) and Tom Shaw (OJC) will each introduce their initiative and provide concrete examples of where collaborations with the other initiative is shaping their work.In the second part, the focus will shift to collaborations undertaken by an infrastructure developer. Toby Steiner (Thoth) will introduce the work of Thoth Open Metadata and use the case of Thoth’s collaborations with OBC to explore the wider potential of collaborations between open infrastructure providers, publishers, and libraries that come together within the context of the two Collectives.The webinar will conclude with a collective discussion about the potential concrete collaborations might have to change current academic publishing and financial models within universities. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:17:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/20639612 oa.books oa.business_models oa.no-fee oa.infrastructures oa.journals oa ojc oa.obc oa.thoth_open_metadata oa.collaboration funding Adams, Jenni, Miranda Barnes, Samuel Moore, Stephen Pinfield, and Siddharth Soni. ‘Openness in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Documenting Open Research Practices Beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report)’. United Kingdom: MORPHSS Project, 6 February 2026. https://doi.org/10.17613/h10rz-qk035. Summary: Conceptual frameworks of 'Open Science' and their implementation by funders, journals, institutions and other organisations have been criticised on the grounds that they are tailored primarily to quantitative research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. This report details the findings of work by the Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MORPHSS) project to identify and catalogue open research practices in the arts, humanities and (primarily qualitative) social sciences in order to reveal the nuanced and discipline-specific approaches to openness that take place in AHSS. We identify 30 open research practices in AHSS, among which we observe six key forms of openness: process openness, evidentiary openness, availability of outputs, the accessible communication of research, participatory openness and epistemic openness. Based on those identified, we find that open research practices in AHSS are diverse, extending beyond the suite of practices emphasised within dominant accounts of Open Science. We document the implications of this work for efforts to develop more discipline-inclusive ways of supporting, regulating and measuring openness, and offer recommendations for key stakeholders in the research space.   Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:48:00 -0500 https://works.hcommons.org/records/h10rz-qk035 oa.hss oa.humanities oa.science oa.openness oa.concepts oa.reports oa.morphss "The University Library has decided not to renew its licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports). This means that, as of 1 January 2026, UU staff, UMC Utrecht staff and UU students will no longer have access to Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports.   Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on Open Science. Closed commercial databases, such as Web of Science, are not in line with our desire to work with open research information as much as possible. The UU signed the Barcelona Declaration in 2024 to this effect.   The use of Journal Impact Factors is also not in line with our vision of Open Science. At UU, we recognise and reward research and researchers based on the quality of their research, not on the impact factor of the journal in which the researcher published. Or on the number of publications and citations.  With the funds freed up by not renewing the licence, we will continue to invest in open source research and infrastructure." Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:26:00 -0400 https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026 oa.metrics oa.web_of_science oa.utrecht.u "Do you want to learn more about what it’s like to publish an open access (OA) book? Join this free online event which brings together researchers funded by the European Research Council (ERC) to talk about their experiences with OA book publishing. Three researchers from different academic disciplines who have published OA books and series will reflect on their experiences and the lessons they learned. There will be plenty of time for audience questions, so come along and find out more about how OA book publishing works! The event is hosted by the Open Access Books Network (OABN) with the kind support of the ERC Executive Agency." Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:31:00 -0400 https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/meeting/register/3UqEuu0RSt6UFIoYromyZA oa.oabn oa.books publishing events This blueprint shows how Diamond Open Access can be designed as a joint project involving six different stakeholder groups and what specific expertise each of these groups contributes. Diese Blaupause zeigt, wie Diamond Open Access als Gemeinschaftsprojekt sechs verschiedener Akteursgruppen gestaltet werden kann und welche spezifische Expertise jede dieser Gruppen einbringt.   Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:03:00 -0400 https://graphite.page/doa-blaupause/ oa.no-fee oa.publishers oa.infrastructures publishing libraries germany western_europe https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11781635 Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for scholarly communication. By deploying theoretical literature on science and technology studies, care ethics, and the commons, the book critically interrogates open access and reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing. A case study of Plan S—the multifunder European policy for open access publishing—explores its tendency to rehearse all the failures of commercialisation. Through critical engagement with the open access landscape, the book reveals the shortcomings of market-centric and policy-based approaches to open access book and journal publishing, particularly their tendency to reinforce conservatism, commercialism, and private control of publishing. Going forward, Publishing Beyond the Market explores the importance of collectivity and democratic governance within the transition to open access publishing. It suggests that developing a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape through a series of presses that are each managed by working academics could offer a productive counterpoint to marketised systems of open access and subscription publishing. In weaving themselves together in order to "scale small" these publishing initiatives would act as a counter-hegemonic project based on mutual reliance and care. By illustrating how these projects build toward a commons-based publishing future, and how they may complement other approaches to publishing within university presses and libraries, the book culminates in an argument for the infrastructures, policies, and forms of governance needed to nurture such a collective vision. Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:04:00 -0400 https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/h989r611r oa.books oa.infrastructures oa.care oa.commons oa.coalition_s publishing libraries Edited by Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli, Carolina Valente Pinto .expub | exploring expanded publishing is the final publication of a two-year collaborative project exploring the infrastructures, politics, and networks of contemporary publishing. How can publishing infrastructures become more sustainable, modular, and open? What formats could fully embrace the long-standing promises of multimedia publishing? What does the future of publishing look like beyond platform monopolies and print/digital binaries? Part reader, part toolkit, part living archive, this book gathers essays, interviews, and hybrid publishing tools — from podcasts to print-on-demand, stream-based releases to online collaborative writing. Written and edited collaboratively using Etherport — an open-source tool linking live writing to web-to-print publishing — the book reflects the very practices it investigates: decentralized, modular, transmedial, and open-ended. . This book is the outcome of the two-year research project .expub | Exploring Expanded Publishing, initiated and supported by the Creative Europe grant. The project brought together four institutions and publishing initiatives from across Europe: Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam), Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art (Ljubljana), NERO Editions (Rome), and Echo Chamber (Brussels). The first section includes contributions by: Sepp Eckenhaussen, Geert Lovink, Ezequiel Soriano, Annette Gilbert, Jordi Viader Guerrero, and Ilan Manouach. The second section documents a series of conversations held at NERO Editions in Rome, from July 2–4, 2024. Consortium members — Lorenzo Micheli Gigotti, Marcela Okretič, Janez Fakin Janša, Ilan Manouach, Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli, and Carolina Valente Pinto — interviewed: Clusterduck, Silvio Lorusso, Thomas Spies, Irene de Craen, Geoff Cox, Gijs de Heij, Yancey Strickler, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Dušan Barok. We thank them for their time and generosity in sharing their thoughts and ideas. Editors: Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli, Carolina Valente Pinto Project Coordination: Tommaso Campagna Interview Moderators: Carolina Valente Pinto, Marta Ceccarelli Editorial Assistance and Tagging: Ruben Stoffelen, Salome Berdzenishvili, Anielek Niemyjski Audio-Visual Recording & Editing: Tommaso Campagna Proofreading: Ruben Stoffelen, Marta Ceccarelli, Chloë Arkenbaut, Anielek Niemyjski, Sepp Eckenhaussen Development of publication tool Etherport: Gijs de Heij (Open Source Publishing) Design, Web Development & Custom Typography: Alix Stria Printer: GPS Group Typeface: Junicode by Peter S. Baker Published by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2025. ISBN: 978-90-835209-5-7 Contact: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) Email: info@networkcultures.org Web: www.networkcultures.org Order a copy or download this publication at: www.networkcultures.org/publication2025. This publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). To view a copy of this license, visit www.creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-sa/4.0./ This project has been funded with the support from the European Commission through the Creative Europe Program.   Mon, 14 Jul 2025 05:42:00 -0400 https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/expub-exploring-expanded-publishing/ oa.books oa.experiments oa.infrastructure publishing Björn Brembs, Adrian Lenardic, Peter Murray-Rust, Leslie Chan, & Dasapta Erwin Irawan. (2023). Mastodon over Mammon - Towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7652771 Tue, 21 Feb 2023 07:13:00 -0500 https://zenodo.org/record/7652771 infrastructure social_media mastodon oa.societies oa.social_media oa.networking oa.mastodon oa.journals oa.infrastructure scholcomm monopoly Alex McLean, writing for on his blog about the treasure hunt required to find OA copies of his new book, despite a $15,000 subvention to MIT Press: Although all copies of the book are openly licensed into the creative commons, some are nonetheless paywalled. Indeed, the ebook is has wide digitally distribution to the kindle, apple, google, kobo etc ebook stores where you can buy access to this creative commons license for $25.99. Unfortunately, the digital rights management (DRM) imposed by the store makes it difficult to benefit from the freedom to share and modify the text that the open license grants you. So really, you are paying $25.99 to lose benefits. And: Worse, the MIT Press website steers you towards these digitally-rights-managed, $25.99 paywalls and away from the otherwise identical free-to-download ebook that we paid the subvention for. If you click the big ‘ebook’ button, which tantilisingly has no price next to it (screen shot below), you are directed to the Penguin Random House commercial distribution of it: To track down a free ebook, you have to instead click on the ‘resources’ tab, and find a link to the epub or mobi ebook download there. Of course, this isn’t a mere resource for the book, but the actual book, so that’s a bit like hiding the free download behind a door that says ‘beware of the leopard’. The PDF version is on still another page, where it’s divided into 15 separate chapter downloads. McLean considers this buried-OA a “kind of performance done to placate” funders—a fair read. MIT, which is rightly praised for its fee-free OA initiatives, cites the need to recoup costs and promises some minor fixes to their standard layout. Good. McLean’s point still holds: the full PDF (single download) and ebook versions should be at least as prominent as the paid options.   Tue, 21 Feb 2023 06:50:00 -0500 https://www.jeffpooley.com/2023/02/performing-openness-in-academic-publishing/ oa.books oa.mit_press publishing This is the latest post in a series announcing resources created for the Scholarly Communication Notebook, or SCN. The SCN is a hub of open teaching and learning content on scholcomm topics that is both a complement to an open book-level introduction to scholarly communication librarianship and a disciplinary and course community for inclusively sharing models and practices. IMLS funded the SCN in 2019, permitting us to pay creators for their labor while building a solid initial collection. These works are the result of one of three calls for proposals (our first CFP was issued in fall 2020; the second in late spring ‘21, and the third in late fall 2021).   Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:42:00 -0500 https://lisoer.wordpress.ncsu.edu/2023/01/09/new-to-the-scn-publishing-values-based-scholarly-communication/ oa.oer oa.values oa.lis oa.books publishing libraries A serious game about Open Science topics, practices, and challenges through odd comparisons. Sun, 13 Nov 2022 08:31:00 -0500 https://christophedony.pubpub.org/pub/openscientometer/release/1 oa.open_science oa.games oa.practices oa.teaching Hum just unveiled their latest whitepaper – Turning Disparate Data Into Solid Gold – a complete guide to data for scholarly publishers.  Inside the report, readers will learn:  Foundations for customer data you should (or shouldn’t) be collecting Strategies to manage data privacy How different technology solutions stack up Key capabilities scholarly publishers should look for in a CDP “If making sense of data were easy – everyone would be using theirs,” said Dustin Smith, Hum’s President and Co-founder. “There are some big challenges ahead for scholarly publishers, and data can help answer a lot of the questions publishing organizations are facing. This resource breaks down exactly what you need to know about your data sources, the type of data you should be collecting, and walks you through actionable strategies to solve common publisher use cases.”  You can download a free copy of the whitepaper here.   Thu, 10 Nov 2022 11:36:00 -0500 https://www.sspnet.org/community/news/hum-releases-the-complete-guide-to-data-for-scholarly-publishers/ oa.data oa.reports publishing "This webinar will discuss the implications of un impeded vendor and publisher access to usage data generated by our users and discuss potential solutions, including the potential of contractual opt-outs or overrides. It will cover: – The lack of informed consent on the part of library users – The lack of transparency over what data is collected (potentially over and above what libraries have access to) and what is done with that data – The ethical and privacy issues of permitting such unfettered surveillance of users’ reading behaviour – The pedagogic ramifications of defining engagement and learning solely by metrics and statistics..." Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:01:00 -0500 https://nag.org.uk/event/data/ event data privacy libraries Anyone using or observing Twitter will be well aware of the recent purchase of the company, which throws the future of the platform into, at best, uncertainty, and at worst, turmoil. In response, many scholars have been considering a move to Mastodon, a non-profit, federated alternative social network. Being federated, Mastodon requires access to a server (here’s more on how Mastodon works), which is where we come in. In response to community requests and our own recognition of the potential in this moment, we are launching hcommons.social, a Mastodon server open to all scholars (which we take to include: researchers, librarians, instructors, students, staff and anyone else with an active interest in research and education.) While we expect this space to lean Humanities-heavy, we leave it up to users whether it feels like the place they want to be. To start, there will be no limit on sign-ups, though we will review that policy over time as we learn more about the costs and overhead of managing the server. We’ve moved quickly to get this up and running, and are doing so in the spirit of experimentation. We’ve never done this before. Many of the people who use it will probably not have either. So we’re going to have to figure things out together! To start, we are putting in place: Server rules that prioritize harm reduction and will be enforced via… A clear moderation policy, And if you’re new to Mastodon, a wonderful HC user has created an excellent guide to getting started. [...]   Tue, 08 Nov 2022 04:30:00 -0500 https://team.hcommons.org/2022/11/07/humanities-commons-launches-mastodon-server-open-to-scholars/ infrastructure fediverse mastodon oa.social_media oa.mastodon oa.fediverse governance humanities_commons Wenaas L (2022) Choices of immediate open access and the relationship to journal ranking and publish-and-read deals. Front. Res. Metr. Anal. 7:943932. doi: 10.3389/frma.2022.943932 The role of academic journals is significant in the reward system of science, which makes their rank important for the researcher's choice in deciding where to submit. The study asks how choices of immediate gold and hybrid open access are related to journal ranking and how the uptake of immediate open access is affected by transformative publish-and-read deals, pushed by recent science policy. Data consists of 186,621 articles published with a Norwegian affiliation in the period 2013–2021, all of which were published in journals ranked in a National specific ranking, on one of two levels according to their importance, prestige, and perceived quality within a discipline. The results are that researchers chose to have their articles published as hybrid two times as often in journals on the most prestigious level compared with journals on the normal level. The opposite effect was found with gold open access where publishing on the normal level was chosen three times more than on the high level. This can be explained by the absence of highly ranked gold open access journals in many disciplines. With the introduction of publish-and-read deals, hybrid open access has boosted and become a popular choice enabling the researcher to publish open access in legacy journals. The results confirm the position of journals in the reward system of science and should inform policymakers about the effects of transformative arrangements and their costs against the overall level of open access.   Fri, 21 Oct 2022 06:18:00 -0400 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2022.943932/full oa.norway oa.ta oa.rankings oa.metrics publishing The endorsers of this document urge all organizations, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, to uphold libraries’ rights and interests to use, re-use, adapt, aggregate, and share metadata that describes library collections to serve the public interest, without restriction or limitation. Mon, 12 Sep 2022 04:45:00 -0400 https://www.icolc.net/statements/icolc-statement-metadata-rights-libraries libraries metadata licensing by Sarah Lippincott The Next Generation Library Publishing project is building a sustainable open source alternative to commercial publishing platforms, expanding choices for values-driven publishers of all sizes. We are on the brink of realizing our vision as we move the pilot implementations of our software stack into production-ready service offerings.   Fri, 09 Sep 2022 06:37:00 -0400 https://educopia.org/from-vision-to-reality/ oa.us oa.longleaf oa.educopia usa publishing dspace libraries repositories platforms open_source_software americas janeway northern_america americas Overview of the Role The Open Research Librarian is a critical member of the Library’s Research and Teaching (R&T) Directorate working closely with the Associate Director (R&T) on the ongoing delivery and development of a high quality dynamic suite of library research services, partnerships and programmes in support of the university’s research objectives and strategies. The successful individual will be a strong advocate for open research approaches and principles, in the University. This role is continuously evolving and provides an excellent opportunity for someone to shape future services. Currently the role includes line management responsibility for a library assistant. Duties and Responsibilities Please refer to the job description for a list of duties and responsibilities associated with this role. Qualifications and Experience The successful individual will have a degree and a postgraduate qualification in Library and Information Studies or equivalent Have at least three years’ experience in an academic library or equivalent In addition, the successful individual must have: The ability to work effectively and flexibly in a team based environment The ability to engage proactively with the academic community, building and maintaining effective partnerships and relationships Knowledge of the open research landscape, current developments, future trends Experience and knowledge of working with, or managing an institutional repository Knowledge of digital content and metadata standards The ability to manage competing demands successfully, be highly motivated, proactive and flexible Excellent communication, interpersonal, written and presentation skills Excellent creative problem solving skills and ability to develop and apply innovative solutions Excellent digital literacy skills including knowledge of key office software applications and relevant library systems A commitment to continuing professional development and training Salary Scale: Assistant Librarian - € 41,162- € 56,545 Appointment will be commensurate with qualifications and experience and in line with current Government pay policy Closing date: 16th September 2022 Fri, 09 Sep 2022 04:58:00 -0400 https://www.dcu.ie/sites/default/files/inline-files/BC220503%20Assistant%20Librarian%20%28Open%20Research%29%20Advert.pdf oa.jobs libraries jobs labour ireland I’m delighted to say that Martin Paul Eve will be joining Crossref as a Principal R&D Developer starting in January 2023. As a Professor of Literature, Technology, and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London- Martin has always worked on issues relating to metadata and scholarly infrastructure. In joining the Crossref R&D group, Martin can focus full-time on helping us design and build a new generation of services and tools to help the research community navigate and make sense of the scholarly record. Fri, 26 Aug 2022 02:46:00 -0400 https://www.crossref.org/blog/martin-paul-eve-is-joining-our-rd-group-as-a-principal-developer/ infrastructure metadata pids people crossref developers labour  by Felix Reda Bei der Debatte um das Wissenschaftstracking stand bislang vor allem die Sensibilisierung für den Datenschutz im Vordergrund. Das ist ein wichtiger erster Schritt, denn nur wenn Forschende sich darüber bewusst sind, dass ihr Forschungsverhalten Klick für Klick überwacht und kommerziell verwertet wird, können sie sich dafür engagieren, dieser Praxis Einhalt zu gebieten. Doch wie so oft bei Datenschutzthemen droht sich Fatalismus breitzumachen, wenn die Debatte in der Problembeschreibung steckenbleibt. Viel zu wenige Universitäten bieten ihren Forschenden proaktiv eine eigene, datenschutzsensible Software-Infrastruktur an, die kollaboratives wissenschaftliches Arbeiten auch institutionenübergreifend ermöglichen würde. Große Teile der wissenschaftlichen Literatur sind ausschließlich über die Portale der kommerziellen Wissenschaftsverlage verfügbar, die mit verwirrenden Cookie-Bannern aufwarten. Allein sich einen Überblick zu verschaffen, welche Daten ein Konzern wie Elsevier über einen gespeichert hat, ist ein aufwändiges Unterfangen[1]. Im ohnehin schon stressigen Forschungsalltag ist es unrealistisch, dass einzelne Forschende sich selbst vor dem Tracking durch diese Unternehmen schützen, indem sie deren Produkte meiden.   Thu, 18 Aug 2022 02:46:00 -0400 https://jtphil.de/?p=1127 oa.surveillance publishing germany western_europe by Kathleen Fitzpatrick The Commons team is delighted to have been awarded one of the inaugural FAIROS RCN grants from the NSF, in order to establish DBER+ Commons. That’s a big pile of acronyms, so here’s a breakdown: the NSF is of course the National Science Foundation, one of the most important federal funding bodies in the United States, and a new funder for us. The FAIROS RCN grant program was launched this year by the NSF in order to invest in Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) by supporting the formation and development of Research Coordination Networks (RCN) dedicated to those principles. We have teamed up with a group of amazing folks at Michigan State University who are working across science, technology, engineering, math, and more traditional NSF fields, all of whom are focused on discipline-based education research (DBER) as well as other engaged education research methodologies (the +). Our goal for this project is to bring them together with their national and international collaborators in STEM education to create DBER+ Commons, which will use — and crucially, expand — the affordances of the HCommons network and promote FAIR and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, Ethics) practices, principles, and guidelines in undergraduate, postbaccalaureate, graduate, and postdoctoral science education research activities.   Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:04:00 -0400 https://team.hcommons.org/2022/08/16/nsf-grant-for-new-stem-focused-commons/ infrastructures grant nsf stem oa.open_science oa.nsf oa.education oa.dber+_commons oa.care usa fair funding platforms humanities_commons americas northern_america americas oa.usa.nsf oa.usa oa.stem oa.platforms oa.humanities_commons oa.funding oa.fairos oa.fair by Andrea Mannocci, Miriam Baglioni, Paolo Manghi Scholarly repositories are the cornerstone of modern open science, and their availability is vital for enacting its practices. To this end, scholarly registries such as FAIRsharing, re3data, OpenDOAR and ROAR give them presence and visibility across different research communities, disciplines, and applications by assigning an identifier and persisting their profiles with summary metadata. Alas, like any other resource available on the Web, scholarly repositories, be they tailored for literature, software or data, are quite dynamic and can be frequently changed, moved, merged or discontinued. Therefore, their references are prone to link rot over time, and their availability often boils down to whether the homepage URLs indicated in authoritative repository profiles within scholarly registries respond or not. For this study, we harvested the content of four prominent scholarly registries and resolved over 13 thousand unique repository URLs. By performing a quantitative analysis on such an extensive collection of repositories, this paper aims to provide a global snapshot of their availability, which bewilderingly is far from granted.   Tue, 09 Aug 2022 03:08:00 -0400 https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12879v1 repositories open_science linkrot accessibility "The British Academy has published its first Open Access monograph as part of efforts to widen the reach of the scholarship it funds.... The British Academy Monographs series has been published since 1998 in partnership with Oxford University Press. It provides an opportunity for Academy-supported early career researchers to produce substantial contributions to scholarship. The Academy has published an Open Access Journal since 2013 but this is the first time it has done so for its monographs...." Fri, 05 Aug 2022 05:45:00 -0400 https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/readership-boost-for-monographs-after-british-academy-switches-to-open-access/ oa.books oa.british_academy uk northern_europe europe Mit der OER-Strategie als lernende, langfristige Strategie will das BMBF deshalb zum einen mit allen Akteuren Antworten und Konzepte zu zentralen Fragen digitaler Bildungsmaterialien entwickeln. Zum anderen zielt das BMBF darauf, zusätzliche und nachhaltige Impulse in der digitalen Bildung und für eine insgesamt veränderte Lehr- und Lernkultur zu setzen. In welcher Form dafür dauerhafte OER-Strukturen in Deutschland sinnvoll und notwendig sind, wird im Licht der sich entwickelnden Bildungsmedien- infrastrukturen zu prüfen sein. Ein Sowohl-als-auch von kommerziellen und freien Bildungsmaterialien ist sinnvoll und notwendig. Wie ein Miteinander gestaltet werden kann, ist wichtig für die Weiterentwicklung von Bildungsmedien. Das BMBF will die Mehrwerte von OER beim Zugang und der Gestaltung von Bildungsprozessen gezielt mit den anerkannten Stärken kommerzieller Bildungsressourcen und mit den Ansätzen innovativer Medienanbieter verbinden. Dafür sind auch bislang in Deutschland fehlende und nicht ausgelotete Kooperationsmodelle und Vergütungsstrukturen bei offen lizenzierten Bildungsmaterialien zu explorieren. Das BMBF will bei der Etablierung von OER Innovationen fördern. Dazu dienen anwendungsorientierte Begleitforschungsprojekte, die die Vernetzung von OER-Akteuren vorantreiben. Die gezielte Entwicklung und Bereitstellung offener Bildungsmaterialien in praxisorientierten Lehr- und Lerngemeinschaften wird das BMBF dabei zusätzlich durch Software-Projekte unterstützen. Anknüpfend an Ergebnisse der OERinfo-Förderlinie soll die lernende OER-Strategie dabei Handlungsfelder der Strategie verbinden, weiterentwickeln und in Förderrichtlinien umsetzen. Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:54:00 -0400 https://www.bmbf.de/SharedDocs/Publikationen/de/bmbf/3/691288_OER-Strategie.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=4 oa.strategies oa.oer oa.education oa.practices germany metadata oer education strategies german western_europe Over the past three years, Library Publishing Workflows—an IMLS-funded (LG-36-19-0133-19) project of Educopia Institute, the Library Publishing Coalition, and twelve partner libraries—has been fostering conversation about the workflows library publishers use to publish journals, how libraries have developed their journal publishing services, and the major challenges they face in their day-to-day work. We have also released a wide range of materials—from workflows to documentation tools to reflections—to support library publishers in their work. As the project winds down, we wanted to provide a round-up of all of the major project outputs. Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:22:00 -0400 https://mailchi.mp/educopia/lpw-final-roundup educopia projects libpub oa.workflows oa.tools oa.educopia publishing libraries UKRI has published updated information to support funded research organisations and researchers to meet its new open access policy. Thu, 28 Jul 2022 03:42:00 -0400 https://www.ukri.org/news/open-access-policy-update-july-2022/ a.new oa.books oa.policies ukri funders uk northern_europe europe by John Warner Writing in Inside Higher Ed, University of Texas at Austin history professor Steven Mintz sounded the alarm about a crisis in education that probably isn’t on the radars of most people, declaring, “The Humanities’ Scholarly Infrastructure Is in Utter Disarray.” That sounds bad! But … what is the “humanities’ scholarly infrastructure”? Most understand that in addition to teaching, college professors in humanities disciplines also do “research.” “The humanities’ scholarly infrastructure” is the mechanism that allows that research to be produced and disseminated. These journal articles, conferences, seminars, and edited volumes are where original ideas and concepts that will eventually become the boogeymen of right-wing moral panics first take shape, as the sum total of our collective knowledge is advanced. This published research becomes the criteria by which the vast majority of tenure-track faculty at selective institutions—particularly those at elite private and public research universities—are evaluated for tenure and promotion. Someone has to do all the work of reading, vetting, editing, and publishing all that scholarship—as well as organizing and attending and presenting at those meetings. The people doing that work are, typically, the same folks who are tasked with producing the original research: tenure-track and tenured college faculty, and those who hope to land that kind of job. But this system is breaking down. As Mintz declares, “Editors … are desperate to find scholars to review articles, prospectuses and book manuscripts.” Department chairs needing external reviewers for candidates for tenure and promotion are struggling to find willing participants. [...]   Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:50:00 -0400 https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/07/humanities-academics-working-conditions-state-of-academic-labor.html oa.peer_review oa.humanities oa.incentives Abstract:  Large public knowledge graphs, like Wikidata, contain billions of statements about tens of millions of entities, thus inspiring various use cases to exploit such knowledge graphs. However, practice shows that much of the relevant information that fits users' needs is still missing in Wikidata, while current linked open data (LOD) tools are not suitable to enrich large graphs like Wikidata. In this paper, we investigate the potential of enriching Wikidata with structured data sources from the LOD cloud. We present a novel workflow that includes gap detection, source selection, schema alignment, and semantic validation. We evaluate our enrichment method with two complementary LOD sources: a noisy source with broad coverage, DBpedia, and a manually curated source with narrow focus on the art domain, Getty. Our experiments show that our workflow can enrich Wikidata with millions of novel statements from external LOD sources with a high quality. Property alignment and data quality are key challenges, whereas entity alignment and source selection are well-supported by existing Wikidata mechanisms. We make our code and data available to support future work.   Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:08:00 -0400 https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00143 wikidata linked_open_data We'd like to understand who our users are, how they value PubPub, and and how we can better service publishing communities. If you can, please fill out the following survey. It should take less than 5 minutes to complete, and can be filled out anonymously, or you can leave your email address if you'd like us to follow up with you. Your individual survey responses will not be shared with anyone outside of Knowledge Futures, Inc. We may use non-personalized, aggregated survey data to publish public reports about our users and communities. Thu, 21 Jul 2022 07:23:00 -0400 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEhD01rI9WkKXgfGYBpKIhnx2I8slJVZqsP2LiSD2QxW-ACg/viewform pubpub surveys From January 1 to December 31, 2019, 615 new Communities were created on PubPub. The previous fall, in October 2018, we had made a pivotal change: we launched a public “Create your Community” button, enabling anyone at all to create a publishing space on the platform. The positive trend line of growth—and the Community experimentation and feedback that followed—is now what drives our roadmap, Community Services, and endless learning. Across 2020 and 2021, 2,601 additional new Communities joined PubPub. This June, someone out there created our 4,000th Community. [...] Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:48:00 -0400 https://help.pubpub.org/pub/9f0qxzvi/release/1 pubpub publishing community knowledge_futures_group Join us to lead the development of training in data stewardship and Open Science across Europe! Tue, 19 Jul 2022 07:25:00 -0400 https://www.academictransfer.com/en/314868/skills4eosc-training-coordinator/ oa.jobs oa.open_science oa.rdm jobs labour eosc Join the Research Data Services at TU Delft & 4TU.ResearchData as trainer for Research Data Management & Digital skills Tue, 19 Jul 2022 07:24:00 -0400 https://www.academictransfer.com/en/315113/trainer-for-research-data-management-digital-skills/ oa.jobs oa.rdm jobs labour The Infrastructure Developer will be responsible for designing, supporting, and improving the research technology infrastructure used by the MESH Research team (http://www.meshresearch.net) at Michigan State University, including the systems supporting Humanities Commons and other projects within the College of Arts & Letters. The Infrastructure Developer will work with colleagues to design and develop these systems and will maintain their security and stability, as well as that of the data they contain. This role will be ideal for a developer interested in connecting to and understanding the enterprise systems being deployed by MSU as a whole, while being in a position where experimentation and implementation are not only desired but encouraged. Our projects provide the opportunity for creativity and innovation that may not be possible on a centrally located cloud computing team. The person in this position will: Manage and develop our existing AWS and other backend infrastructure Collaborate with team members and other IT professionals at MSU and beyond to build, deploy, and maintain services that support our projects and priorities Work with the team to design, develop, and test highly scalable systems to support future platform expansion Improve logging, instrumentation, graphing, and monitoring Monitor data and server security and audit systems for vulnerabilities Document systems and processes so that they can be managed by others on the team when you’re away Track and resolve user and team issues Monitor service costs and make optimizations to keep our AWS bill in check Design a backup strategy and maintain a disaster recovery plan Respond to the occasional late-night server alert, and come up with ways to correct and prevent their causes The ideal candidate will demonstrate experience with the skillset below. However, we invite you to apply even if you have not currently mastered all of the skills listed. We seek someone with the ability to collaborate and to expand their technical skill set in creative ways; we’re happy to discuss whether you have the experience and approach we need for this role.   Tue, 19 Jul 2022 07:18:00 -0400 https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/511498/infrastructure-developer-information-technologist-ii jobs labour oa.jobs humanities_commons Santos-Hermosa G and Atenas J (2022) Building Capacities in Open Knowledge: Recommendations for Library and Information Science Professionals and Schools. Front. Educ. 7:866049. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2022.866049 The impact openness to knowledge is having, not only in the Higher Education (HE) sector but at the public and institutional policy level, is largely due to the efforts of information professionals and researchers, and thanks to these two groups, initiatives such as open access (OA), open education (OE), and open science (OSC) have changed the way in which research is being taught, conducted, and communicated. Openness is a way to democratise access to knowledge developed through public funds, and this movement has been led by informational professionals worldwide; however, we have observed that to a large extent, professional development in different areas of openness is rather self-taught, informal, mentored, or continuous, but not formalised in information science, documentation, or scientific educational programmes. In this exploratory research, we gathered evidence on how (or if) openness to knowledge is being taught by reviewing a series of syllabi from undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Library and Information Science (LIS) schools sampled from universities that either (a) are leading the agenda in OA, OSC, or OE; or (b) have policies in OA, OSC, or OE; or (c) have national/federal mandates, policies, or regulations regarding OA, OSC, or OE and also from a range of non-formal and/or lifelong learning training programmes offered in these same three areas. We found that while LIS schools are not providing formal training to gain skills and competencies in openness, their libraries are offering different kinds of training in this respect. On the other hand, the good intentions and openness awareness of policies have not yet materialised in actions to ensure capacity building. Research implications aim to influence the development of capacity building in open knowledge, by providing solid evidence for enhancing curriculum advancement in LIS schools and by proposing some recommendations in this direction.   Sun, 17 Jul 2022 01:00:00 -0400 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2022.866049/full libraries openness open_science open_education recommendations Silvio Peroni, David Shotton; OpenCitations, an infrastructure organization for open scholarship. Quantitative Science Studies 2020; 1 (1): 428–444. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00023 Abstract OpenCitations is an infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open citation data as Linked Open Data using Semantic Web technologies, thereby providing a disruptive alternative to traditional proprietary citation indexes. Open citation data are valuable for bibliometric analysis, increasing the reproducibility of large-scale analyses by enabling publication of the source data. Following brief introductions to the development and benefits of open scholarship and to Semantic Web technologies, this paper describes OpenCitations and its data sets, tools, services, and activities. These include the OpenCitations Data Model; the SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies; OpenCitations’ open software of generic applicability for searching, browsing, and providing REST APIs over resource description framework (RDF) triplestores; Open Citation Identifiers (OCIs) and the OpenCitations OCI Resolution Service; the OpenCitations Corpus (OCC), a database of open downloadable bibliographic and citation data made available in RDF under a Creative Commons public domain dedication; and the OpenCitations Indexes of open citation data, of which the first and largest is COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref Open DOI-to-DOI Citations, which currently contains over 624 million bibliographic citations and is receiving considerable usage by the scholarly community. Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:14:00 -0400 https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/1/1/428/15580/OpenCitations-an-infrastructure-organization-for citations metadata services opencitations pids Martín-Martín, A., Thelwall, M., Orduna-Malea, E. et al. Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations’ COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations. Scientometrics 126, 871–906 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03690-4 Abstract New sources of citation data have recently become available, such as Microsoft Academic, Dimensions, and the OpenCitations Index of CrossRef open DOI-to-DOI citations (COCI). Although these have been compared to the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS), Scopus, or Google Scholar, there is no systematic evidence of their differences across subject categories. In response, this paper investigates 3,073,351 citations found by these six data sources to 2,515 English-language highly-cited documents published in 2006 from 252 subject categories, expanding and updating the largest previous study. Google Scholar found 88% of all citations, many of which were not found by the other sources, and nearly all citations found by the remaining sources (89–94%). A similar pattern held within most subject categories. Microsoft Academic is the second largest overall (60% of all citations), including 82% of Scopus citations and 86% of WoS citations. In most categories, Microsoft Academic found more citations than Scopus and WoS (182 and 223 subject categories, respectively), but had coverage gaps in some areas, such as Physics and some Humanities categories. After Scopus, Dimensions is fourth largest (54% of all citations), including 84% of Scopus citations and 88% of WoS citations. It found more citations than Scopus in 36 categories, more than WoS in 185, and displays some coverage gaps, especially in the Humanities. Following WoS, COCI is the smallest, with 28% of all citations. Google Scholar is still the most comprehensive source. In many subject categories Microsoft Academic and Dimensions are good alternatives to Scopus and WoS in terms of coverage. Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:12:00 -0400 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-020-03690-4 metadata citations Abstract: "OpenCitations is an independent not-for-profit infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open bibliographic and citation data by the use of Semantic Web (Linked Data) technologies. OpenCitations collaborates with projects that are part of the Open Science ecosystem and complies with the UNESCO founding principles of Open Science, the I4OC recommendations, and the FAIR data principles that data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. Since its data satisfies all the Reuse guidelines provided by FAIR in terms of richness, provenance, usage licenses and domain-relevant community standards, OpenCitations provides an example of a successful open e-infrastructure in which the reusability of data is integral to its mission." by Chiara Di Giambattista, Ivan Heibi, Silvio Peroni, David Shotton Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:15:00 -0400 https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07476 metadata citations opencitations Abstract:  Overlay journals are characterised by their articles being archived on public open access repositories, often already starting in their initial preprint form as a prerequisite for submission to the journal prior to initiating the peer-review process. In this study we aimed to identify currently active overlay journals and examine their characteristics. We utilised an explorative web search and contacted key service providers for additional information. The final sample consisted of 35 active overlay journals. While the results show an increase in the number of overlay journals in recent years, the current presence of overlay journals is diminutive compared to the overall number of open access journals. The majority of overlay journals publish articles in the natural sciences, mathematics or computer sciences. Overlay journals are commonly published by groups of scientists rather than formal organisations and overlay journals may also rank highly within the traditional journal citation metrics. Nearly none of the investigated journals charge fees from authors, which is likely related to the cost-effectiveness of the overlay publishing model. Both the growth in adoption of open access preprint repositories, and researchers willingness to publish in overlay journals will determine the models wider impact on scholarly publishing.   Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:25:00 -0400 https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03383 journals We launched Sustaining the Commons in 2020 in order to inform our community about a series of then-forthcoming changes to the network and its governance. We were moving the hosting and fiscal sponsorship for the network from its founder, the Modern Language Association, to Michigan State University, as well as migrating the repository infrastructure from Columbia University Libraries to MSU Libraries. We had also just received an Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and as a result we were embarking on a period of significant fundraising, which we hoped would allow us to build a five-year runway to both financial and technical sustainability. We’ve made excellent progress since then, and so we’ve reframed this site as a space that will allow us to continue to communicate with our users, with our current and potential participating organizations, and with our funders, in the most open transparent way possible. We plan to use this site to keep you updated on the processes and results of our network governance structure; on the technical work we’re embarked upon (and ways that you can get involved); on our community development work; on our financial operations and the support we receive from funders, organizational and institutional partners, and individual users; and on our network policies...." Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:09:00 -0400 https://sustaining.hcommons.org/ humanities_commons