tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hubs/investinopen/user/investinopen/atomItems tagged by investinopen in [IOI] Open Infrastructure Tracking Project2022-11-15T04:14:36-05:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/52924392022-09-19T09:16:17-04:002022-11-15T04:14:36-05:00The scholar-led.network-Manifesto (extended English version)We are the scholar-led.network, a group of like-minded individuals who collaborate on, and advocate for, an independent non-profit publishing culture beyond APCs and BPCs. Our manifesto summarizes our central critique of the current system of scholarly publishing and identifies action points for fair, resilient, and diverse publishing.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/51562482022-09-09T06:14:30-04:002022-09-09T06:14:30-04:00Research: open source software in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico | The GitHub Blog<p>For the past 3.5 years, GitHub Tech for Social Good has explored the intersection of open source software (OSS) in the social sector. In April 2020, we published our first research report on the topic, which focused on OSS that was built in high-income countries, like the United States. We learned of key challenges the social sector faces when building or using OSS, such as budgeting for required labor costs, creating sustainability with limited funding, and finding volunteer support. We shifted our geographic focus for our new report. Many of the OSS that the social sector builds, including digital public goods, are deployed in low- and middle-income countries. In order for us to encourage inclusive design and development, we needed to understand more about OSS communities and the challenges they face in these countries. We selected four low- and middle-income countries that have strong tech ecosystems: India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico. Alongside our research partner, OBI Digital, our OSS research project connected us with 53 experts and 578 survey responses.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/47652642022-08-17T10:36:23-04:002022-08-17T10:36:23-04:00"Some Lessons from Participatory Grantmaking and Meditations on Power for the Field"<p>In 2019, the Fund for Shared Insight, a national funder collaborative seeking to improve philanthropy by promoting high-quality listening and feedback in service of equity, created a participatory process of design, grantmaking, and implementation. The full initiative is still underway, but at this moment, we, Shared Insight’s learning and evaluation partner, want to reflect on and share back what we are learning from extant data review, observations of meetings and events, conversations with staff, and data collected at up to three time points from those involved in the participatory processes. </p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/47652632022-08-17T10:35:18-04:002022-08-17T10:35:18-04:00More than Money: Participatory Grantmaking and Perceptions of Power | Fund for Shared Insight<p>Practices that seek to disrupt typical power relationships have grown in visibility and uptake over the last few years, including participatory grantmaking, which changes “the role of foundations from arbiters of what gets done to facilitators of a process in which they work with other organizations and non-grantmakers to designate priorities and act.”1 In 2019, Fund for Shared Insight launched a participatory grantmaking effort called the Participatory Climate Initiative. The funders were curious about extending the ethos of listening and feedback to organizations engaged in advocacy, building on prior work with direct-service nonprofits and a landscape scan from the Aspen Planning and Evaluation Program, “Meaningfully Connecting with Communities in Advocacy and Policy Work.” One of the explicit goals of the initiative included: “Experiment with participatory grantmaking to help elevate beneficiary voice and share power.”</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/47594912022-08-15T10:17:29-04:002022-08-15T10:17:29-04:00Global Goods Maturity - Digital Square<p><span>This resource reflects the maturity model baseline assessments and the latest reassessment of global goods funded through Digital Square. All maturity model assessments are *self-reported* by the funded organization leading the software development of the global good.</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/45660202022-07-18T14:55:40-04:002022-07-18T14:55:40-04:00Public Interest Technology at SFE | Siegel Family Endowment<p><span>Public Interest Technology, or PIT for short, is an ecosystem of technologists, designers, researchers, and more that promotes the public interest in the development, utilization, regulation, and transfer of technological tools and approaches. Technology has upended the way we learn, communicate, work, civically engage, and more. Too often, tech designers and tech companies prioritize speed and scale—ignoring values like trust and equity. The emerging and evolving public interest technology ecosystem is creating opportunities to prioritize values like equity, in the tech field. </span></p>
<p><span>This growing field holds massive opportunities for people excited to use technology and digital solutions to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges. From creating software that connects real time public health data to hospital systems, to building data models to map municipal climate impact, PIT elevates our digital infrastructure through cutting edge solutions designed to address today’s biggest problems in ways that are equitable, inclusive and accountable to the public.</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/44888202022-07-07T08:52:26-04:002022-07-07T08:52:26-04:00Persistent Identification of Instruments | RDA<p>Instruments play an essential role in creating research data but they are often only identified in the scientific literature using free text. Through the use of globally unique, persistent identifiers (PIDs), it is now common practice to establish traceable links between research assets. This webinar introduces the Outputs of the RDA Persistent Identification of Instruments Working Group. Of particular focus are the metadata schema for persistent identification of instruments and the proposed solutions for publishing PIDs for instruments at established PID providers. Participants will learn of numerous infrastructures that have adopted the PIDINST Schema as well as B2INST as an EUDAT prototype service for low-barrier registration and persistent identification of instruments.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/44888192022-07-07T08:51:32-04:002022-07-07T08:51:32-04:00Mapping open and internationally relevant open science capacity building and training modules | UNESCO<p>UNESCO is mapping open science capacity building and training modules, and is looking for existing links and resources about building capacity for open science infrastructures (using, creating, managing, investing in, etc.)</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/44443072022-06-30T11:55:58-04:002022-06-30T15:12:01-04:00PageBreak conference | 27-28 October 2022, San Francisco, CA USA<p>"Building on the best of Books in Browsers and Tools of Change, PageBreak is a community-driven conference focused on sharing the ways that the publishing industry is moving beyond traditional models and embracing emergent technologies, workflows, and processes.</p>
<p>We seek to foster a community of people who are excited about building change together, and willing to try new things.</p>
<p>Whether you're an industry veteran thinking about the future of publishing, an entrepreneur launching your own publishing-related business, a student of publishing and media, or anyone with curiosity, vision, and interest in learning about new ways of interacting on the web, you are welcome at PageBreak 2022.</p>
<p>The two-day in-person event will feature engaging talks and panels, with ample opportunities to network, brainstorm, and socialize in an "unconference" style. </p>
<p>PageBreak is fundamentally focused on sharing our visions for the future, and discussing what’s needed to get us there."</p>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/44190952022-06-27T11:30:27-04:002022-06-27T11:30:27-04:00Internet2/CNI Cloud Storage Briefing Papers Now Available - Internet2<p>In fall 2021, Internet2 and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) co-sponsored two Executive Roundtables discussing issues around cloud storage in the research and education community.
<span>The first of the roundtables,</span><span> </span><span><em>Managing the Video Avalanche: Instructional Materials and Institutional Records </em></span><span>(September 28, 2021)</span><span><em>,</em></span><span> </span><span>focused on topics arising from the growth in demand for video storage coupled with the sudden shift to remote operations during the pandemic. The</span><span> </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B-JLisVeqQs0cDTfYO5difj2x6GQpokd/view?usp=sharing">briefing document</a><span> </span><span>summarizes the key points Dave Long and Mike Espey from the University of Iowa discussed in outlining the university’s approach to applying retention policies to all video recordings stored in its Panopto video system.</span></p>
<p>The second Roundtable, <span><em>The End of Infinite Storage: Practical, Behavioral, and Policy Implications </em></span>(October 19, 2021), centered on issues raised by the shift of major commercial providers away from flat fee pricing for unlimited storage in their online collaboration services. The <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FP6HI4bRqDXOAAJv94weB-ISBKyrE_0Z/view?usp=sharing">briefing document</a> provides an overview of the challenges facing research and education institutions as they take a new look at managing the storage in ways that make data accessible and its preservation efficient and affordable.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/42333632022-06-01T12:43:40-04:002022-06-01T14:10:53-04:00Swiss National Science Foundation joins cOAlition S | Plan S<blockquote>
<p>cOAlition S is excited to welcome on board the <a href="https://snf.ch/en">Swiss National Science Foundation</a> (SNSF) – one of the European leaders supporting Open Access – as the latest organisation to join the international consortium of research funding and performing organisations committed to delivering full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/42272372022-05-31T19:42:15-04:002022-06-01T04:59:51-04:00Securing Open Source Software at the Source: Creating a Center for Open Source Software Infrastructure and Security | Ashwin Ramaswami, Schmidt Futures | June 11, 2021<p>summary: "Secure software supply chains are imperative to national security. When software supply chains come under attack, hackers and foreign adversaries compromise software to gain access to critical infrastructure, conduct espionage, and destroy information. As demonstrated by recent cyberattacks against SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange, software supply chains are exposed and will continue to face assaults by nefarious actors unless the United States takes action to secure them.</p>
<p>• A critical foundation of both public and private software supply chains is open source software (OSS). In fact, approximately 98% of codebases1 contain OSS components.2 However, OSS is substantially supported by software engineers working on a volunteer basis who do not always prioritize security, potentially endangering our crucial software supply chains.</p>
<p>The federal government can play a greater role in safeguarding software supply chains by securing open source development in two ways:</p>
<p>1. Identifying and cataloging critical software in need of support; and 2. Funding critical improvements in open source software security.</p>
<p>These recommendations reflect Recommendation 4.1.1 of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission Report.3</p>
<p>As Congress prepares the upcoming FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), one way to accomplish these recommendations is to include the establishment of a Center for Open Source Software Infrastructure and Security...."</p>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/42164612022-05-30T13:07:16-04:002022-06-07T10:12:51-04:00COOPERATION AGREEMENT AMONG REDCLARA/LA REFERENCIA AND REDALYC"The aim of this cooperation is to: Promote metadata interoperability between Diamond Open Access and Green Open Access in general, and between the regional platforms Redalyc and LA Referencia in particular, with the objective of maximizing the open access visibility of regional scientific and technical output. Facilitate the availability of scientific output published in Diamond Open Access scientific journals in institutional repositories, national nodes and LA Referencia, as well as in evaluation systems and CRIS platforms. Collaborate in the development of open software that improves the quality of metadata, compliance with international guidelines, preservation and retrieval of research products, with the clear objective of generating regional public goods that support the implementation of national and regional Open Science policies. Generate and participate in discussion and exchange spaces with other initiatives in the region to jointly contribute to the design of new metrics and research evaluation mechanisms based on Open Science inputs, products and processes. ..."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/41298862022-05-19T13:07:04-04:002022-06-08T13:17:03-04:00Data on Purpose 2022: “Putting the ‘Public Interest’ Before Technology”tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/41297272022-05-19T11:49:11-04:002022-05-19T13:11:53-04:00Discussions on Open Science in Hungary - OpenAIRE Blog | 19 May 2022<p>"In 2021, important discussions began on Open Science among various stakeholders from research, university leadership and policy making areas in Hungary. From May 28th, 2021, the University of Debrecen University and National Library (UDUNL) and Governmental Agency for IT Development (KIFÜ) host online events regularly to keep up the conversation on national Open Science practices, the benefits of FAIR research data management and the importance of collaborative science in the Hungarian research community while highlighting the unique advantages EOSC holds for researchers. Since then, four Hungarian Open Science Forums have been held, the last one barely a month ago.</p>
<p>The first Hungarian Open Science Forum – or NOSCI (National Open Science Cloud Initiative) Forum – focused on introducing the current state of Open Science in the country, covering the participation in the NI4OS-Europe project, the contributions Hungarian institutions make to raise awareness around EOSC services and more. Through this first online event organizers were able to examine opinions of the audience regarding necessary support using research infrastructure services.</p>
<p>The second Hungarian Open Science Forum focused on National Open Science Strategies in different countries. On representative from UDUNL, and one from KIFU introduced the open access development, research evaluation processes, and research data management strategies 11 nations...."</p>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/34340292022-01-23T09:41:45-05:002022-01-23T11:31:34-05:00How University Libraries Can Protect Data and Scientific Freedom - The Wire Science<p>"Julia Reda from the Society for Civil Rights (GFF) has long been dedicated to the assertion of fundamental rights in the conflict area surrounding copyright and data protection. In the interview she explains the role libraries and digital infrastructures play in this complex topic and why it is so important for these institutions to build their own infrastructure and focus on green Open Access instead of financially supporting publishing houses to build up a parallel and commercial infrastructure...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/34330562022-01-22T07:35:27-05:002022-05-09T04:32:31-04:00COIs Informational Sessions Recap: Video, Slides, Notes | Invest in Open Infrastructure"COIs Informational Sessions Recap: Video, Slides, Notes
Last week, we held two public information sessions via Zoom to introduce the newly launched Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs). We presented details on the catalog's ideation, research process, design, prototyping, and plans for future expansion...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/34306332022-01-20T10:49:11-05:002022-03-23T03:17:56-04:00Invest in Open Infrastructure - YouTube<p>"Description</p>
<p>Invest in Open Infrastructure is a non-profit initiative dedicated to improving funding and resourcing for open technologies and systems supporting research and scholarship. We do this by shedding light on challenges, conducting research, and working with decision makers to enact change."</p>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27674772020-09-10T11:24:53-04:002020-09-10T11:24:53-04:00Open Science Africa: Principles and Actions for Global Participation - LIBSENSE - WACREN Spacestag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27674562020-09-10T10:43:49-04:002020-12-07T12:08:48-05:00COPIM – Revenue Models for Open Access Monographs 2020 | Zenodo<p>"A report by the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs project (COPIM) analysing the open access economic models in use today in scholarly publishing. The report examines academic monograph publishing in the context of today’s challenging monograph publishing environment: from Covid-19 and budget cuts, to print sales, funder mandates, and research evaluation.</p>
<p>Launched in 2019, and funded by Arcadia and Research England, the COPIM project is an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access (OA) book publishers and infrastructure providers. It is fostering community-owned, open systems and infrastructures to enable OA book publishing to flourish.</p>
<p>This project report builds on a decade of studies written by OA advocates and consultants around the world, and updates their research to describe the environment and economics of OA publishing in 2020. The report will eventually become one component of a practical ‘toolkit’ that COPIM will produce on how presses might transition to sustainably publishing OA monographs...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27592122020-08-27T18:58:29-04:002020-08-27T18:58:29-04:00Fourth Quarter, 2019 update | The Open Source Software Health Index Projecttag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27591472020-08-27T15:08:08-04:002020-08-27T15:08:08-04:00Sustainable Open Access – What’s Next? - The Scholarly Kitchentag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27591462020-08-27T15:03:40-04:002020-08-27T15:03:40-04:00Why figshare? Choosing a new technical infrastructure for 4TU.ResearchData | Open Workingtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27576302020-08-25T13:26:27-04:002020-08-27T20:31:19-04:00Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27576292020-08-25T13:25:24-04:002020-08-25T13:25:24-04:00Decentering Whiteness in LIS – Colin Rhinesmithtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27576282020-08-25T13:24:51-04:002020-08-25T13:24:51-04:00UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited negative impact - Daily Bruintag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27576272020-08-25T13:24:33-04:002020-08-25T13:24:33-04:00Open Statement: Why UC terminated journal negotiations with Elsevier - Office of Scholarly Communicationtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27574922020-08-25T10:56:27-04:002020-08-25T13:24:11-04:00Survey of Academic Library Use of Open Access Materials<p>"This survey studies how colleges and universities use open access resources as a supplement to or replacement for academic journals and other materials. Although the primary focus of the report is on scholarly publishing, especially academic journals, some questions relate to other information vehicles such as textbooks, audio-visual resources and print books.</p>
<p>As a response to the COVID crisis many colleges and universities are turning to open access resources and this report gives highly detailed data on the extent of use of a broad range of specific open access resources including but not limited to Google Scholar, Google Books, LOCKSS, the Directory of Open Access Journals, PubMed Central, arXiv, bioRxiv, MedRxiv, ResearchGate the Directory of Open Access Books, OAPEN, the Online Guide to Open Access Journals, PDQY, Open Access Theses and Dissertations, the Registry of Research Data Repositories, MedEdPortal, the Open Access Directory, OpenDOAR, the Free Music Archive, EBSCO Open Dissertations, Science.Gov, OpenStax, MERLOT, Lumen Learning, the Open Course Library, Boundless and Saylor Academy.</p>
<p>The report also looks at use of interlibrary loan, direct appeals to authors and at pirating sites such as Sci-Hub as ways to fulfill patron demand after subscription cancellations. The study also gives detailed data on the use of, and perception of the skill level in using, digital object identifiers to track and find open access and other available free or low- cost materials. Study participants also comment on what they are doing to publicize open access resources to their patrons, and what training they are providing in their discovery and use. </p>
<p>Just a few of the 132-page report’s many findings are that:</p>
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<li>37% of those sampled turn to interlibrary loan as their first choice in replacing content to which they have lost access.</li>
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<li>The Resource – Open Access Theses and Dissertations – was used very frequently by 5.71% of survey participants and frequently by 20%.</li>
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<li>63% of US-based colleges and universities in the sample produced a guidebook, listserv or LibGuide on how to locate and use open access resources."</li>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27216282020-07-01T12:18:15-04:002020-07-01T17:49:13-04:00UK Research and Development Roadmap - GOV.UK<p>"Research has rapidly improved our understanding of COVID-19. Supported by rapid action by funding bodies, scientists around the world have directed their efforts to this global priority, working collaboratively across countries and disciplines, and sharing findings openly and quickly. Rapid targeted funding has enabled researchers and policy makers to join up to clarify and tackle pressing questions and has enabled businesses to collaborate in new ways to address national needs. For example, the COVID-19 Genomics UK consortium has achieved rapid sequencing of over 50% of all the SARS-CoV-2 genomes in the world. The UK has led the world’s largest randomised control trial for COVID-19, with findings helping the sickest patients not only in the UK but all around the world. We should aspire to this level of openness, connectivity and pace across our whole R&D system....</p>
<p>Crucially, we must embrace the potential of open research practices. First, we will require that research outputs funded by the UK government are freely available to the taxpayer who funds research. Such open publication will also ensure that UK research is cited and built on all over the world. We will mandate open publication and strongly incentivise open data sharing where appropriate, so that reproducibility is enabled, and knowledge is shared and spread collaboratively. Second, we will ensure that more modern research outputs are recognised and rewarded. For example, we will ensure that digital software and datasets are properly recognised as research outputs, so that we can minimise efforts spent translating digital outputs into more traditional formats. Third, we will consider the case for new infrastructure to enable more effective sharing of knowledge between researchers and with industry to accelerate open innovation where possible...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27152922020-06-23T12:15:51-04:002020-06-23T12:15:51-04:00Update to The Landscape Analysis – Community-Owned Infrastructuretag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27021012020-06-05T14:33:54-04:002020-06-05T14:33:54-04:00Rethinking Research Assessment: Ideas for Action – DORAtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27018282020-06-05T10:13:40-04:002020-06-05T10:13:40-04:00Webinar: Conceptualizing a US Research Software Sustainability Institute - Webinar Detail - Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI)tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26914302020-05-24T16:15:52-04:002020-05-27T11:28:08-04:00Preprinting a pandemic: the role of preprints in the COVID-19 pandemic | bioRxiv<p>Abstract: The world continues to face an ongoing viral pandemic that presents a serious threat to human health. The virus underlying the COVID-19 disease, SARS-CoV-2, has caused over 3.2 million confirmed cases and 220,000 deaths between January and April 2020. Although the last pandemic of respiratory disease of viral origin swept the globe only a decade ago, the way science operates and responds to current events has experienced a paradigm shift in the interim. The scientific community has responded rapidly to the COVID-19 pandemic, releasing over 16,000 COVID-19 related scientific articles within 4 months of the first confirmed case, of which at least 6,000 were hosted by preprint servers. We focused our analysis on bioRxiv and medRxiv, two growing preprint servers for biomedical research, investigating the attributes of COVID-19 preprints, their access and usage rates, characteristics of their sharing on online platforms, and the relationship between preprints and their published articles. Our data provides evidence for increased scientific and public engagement (COVID-19 preprints are accessed and distributed at least 15 times more than non-COVID-19 preprints) and changes in journalistic practice with reference to preprints. We also find evidence for changes in preprinting and publishing behaviour: COVID-19 preprints are shorter, with fewer panels and tables, and reviewed faster. Our results highlight the unprecedented role of preprints and preprint servers in the dissemination of COVID-19 science, and the likely long-term impact of the pandemic on the scientific publishing landscape.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26866862020-05-18T14:00:15-04:002020-05-18T14:00:15-04:00A Manifesto for the Digital Shift in Research Librariestag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26829202020-05-13T09:47:23-04:002020-05-13T09:47:23-04:00HIRMEOS – OPERAStag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26768222020-05-05T15:41:38-04:002020-05-05T15:41:38-04:00Coalition Publica Coalition Publi.catag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26757872020-05-04T15:36:11-04:002020-05-04T15:36:11-04:00York U Libraries creates new, globally accessible COVID-19 research guide | Research & Innovationtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26757862020-05-04T15:35:39-04:002020-05-04T15:35:39-04:00HOME - Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Library Research Guide - LibGuides at York Universitytag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26729432020-04-30T13:15:31-04:002020-05-10T12:46:15-04:00Open science: Now is the time for Canadians to speak up | Canadian Science Publishing<p>The United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is actively crafting a formal <a href="https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/open_science_brochure_en.pdf" title="UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science"><em>UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science</em></a><em>. </em>The proposed statement would articulate internationally shared values and basic principles, point to concrete measures on open access and open data, and support a better distribution of science in the world.</p>
<p>It is clear that Canada would be well served by a national consensus on the relevant issues: one that is informed by multi-stakeholder consultations that involve scientists, research institutions, government, civil society, Indigenous groups, and youth. To this end, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO (CCUNESCO) has prepared a background paper (<a href="https://en.ccunesco.ca/-/media/Files/Unesco/Resources/2020/04/UNESCORecommendationOpenScienceCanadianPerspectives.pdf" title="Toward a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science: Canadian Perspectives"><em>Toward a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science: Canadian Perspectives</em></a><em>) </em>to help stakeholders consider the issues.</p>
<p>The Canadian paper not only reflects input from open science experts, but also the <a href="https://en.ccunesco.ca/networks/youth-network" title="CCUNESCO Youth Advisory Group">CCUNESCO Youth Advisory Group</a> (YAG). The Canadian Commission for UNESCO actively advocates for young people as key partners in its programs and through the YAG, it has developed a highly regarded model for youth engagement. YAG members, who represent every region in Canada, participate in CCUNESCO initiatives in their communities as well as national projects such as that embraced by the CCUNESCO open science paper.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26666422020-04-23T07:05:17-04:002020-04-26T06:58:32-04:00Open science: after the COVID-19 pandemic there can be no return to closed working | Australian Academy of Science<p>Open science: after the COVID-19 pandemic there can be no return to closed working</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26649572020-04-21T07:00:44-04:002020-04-22T08:49:33-04:00Kim TingleyCoronavirus Is Forcing Medical Research to Speed Up<p>What does it mean for science — and public health — that scientific journals are now publishing research at warp speed?</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26651122020-04-21T08:55:23-04:002020-04-22T08:49:14-04:00SUNY negotiates new deal with Elsevier<p>As the SLC negotiated with Elsevier, we sought a contract that was affordable, sustainable and transparent, and that will help build a future where scholarly information is openly available.”</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26643332020-04-20T08:05:23-04:002020-04-20T08:05:23-04:00OSF | The Small World Network of College Classes: Implications for Epidemic Spread on a University Campustag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26628292020-04-17T13:22:47-04:002020-04-17T13:22:47-04:00Peer Review: Publishing in the time of COVID-19 | eLifetag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26621472020-04-16T14:42:39-04:002020-04-16T14:42:39-04:00Preparing for Future Disruption: Hybrid, Resilient Teaching for a New Instructional Age | Learning Innovationtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26621462020-04-16T14:39:27-04:002020-04-16T14:39:27-04:00HathiTrust provides emergency access to U collection | continuum | University of Minnesota Librariestag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26621452020-04-16T14:39:09-04:002020-04-16T14:39:09-04:00Library boosts digital resources for teaching, learning | Cornell Chronicletag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26605362020-04-14T16:07:20-04:002020-04-14T16:07:20-04:00COVID-19 Resources – Australasian Open Access Strategy Grouptag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26604932020-04-14T14:52:56-04:002020-04-14T14:52:56-04:00Towards Coherence through Collective Action - YouTubetag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26598182020-04-13T18:04:04-04:002020-04-13T18:04:04-04:00Biⓐnca Kramer on Twitter: "First quick analysis of number of papers made available in PMC as part of the Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative, and how many have a CC-license (as per cc license[filter] in PMC) https://t.co/6RuLAWuraH" / Twittertag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26598162020-04-13T17:58:44-04:002020-04-13T17:58:44-04:00Sustainable Scholarship Initiative - UNCtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26598172020-04-13T17:59:06-04:002020-04-15T13:43:53-04:00University drastically cuts Elsevier subscriptions - The Well : The Well<p>"<span>On April 8, the University Libraries announced that</span><span> </span><a href="https://thewell.unc.edu/2020/04/09/carolina-will-not-renew-elsevier-contract/">Carolina would end a long-standing subscription contract</a><span> </span><span>with academic publishing giant Elsevier when it expires April 30. Instead of paying Elsevier’s package price of $2.6 million for nearly 2,000 journals, Carolina will subscribe to a</span><span> </span><a href="https://library.unc.edu/collections/elsevier-subscribed-titles">much smaller set of individual Elsevier titles</a><span> </span><span>(395) for $1.6 million. The University will use part of the savings to provide on-demand, free access to the publisher’s other journals through interlibrary loans and a third-party expedited delivery service.</span></p>
<p>University Librarian Elaine Westbrooks, Vice Provost for University Libraries and University Librarian, talked with The Well about the decision and the changes it will bring to campus...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26595392020-04-13T08:18:17-04:002020-04-13T08:18:17-04:00OPEN incubator - NCSUtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26595372020-04-13T07:41:54-04:002020-04-13T07:41:54-04:00PLOS and Annual Reviews thread on Open Access business modelstag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26581382020-04-10T12:59:40-04:002020-04-10T14:04:48-04:00Elsevier Update - SUNY Libraries Consortium (SLC) - SLC Guides at SUNY System Administration<p>"<span>The </span><strong>State University of New York</strong><span> (SUNY) has opted not to renew its “big deal” with Elsevier for ScienceDirect in favor of a short list of titles to which campuses across the system will have access. </span><strong>SUNY</strong><span> is the largest comprehensive university system in the United States, and its negotiation efforts were led by the </span><strong>SUNY Libraries Consortia</strong><span> (SLC) over a period of a year-and-a-half. While both parties negotiated in earnest and tried to come to acceptable terms for </span><strong>SUNY</strong><span> to maintain access to the full ScienceDirect package, in the end there was considerable disagreement around the value proposition of the “big deal”. While Elsevier did make some accommodations in recognition of our requirements, a vast difference remained between their proposed charges and our assessment of the value of the collection....</span></p>
<p><span> </span><span>Access to the ScienceDirect “big deal” terminated on April 1, 2020...."</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26581742020-04-10T13:43:52-04:002020-04-10T13:43:52-04:00FOSS Responders – FOSS Responderstag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26581372020-04-10T12:58:14-04:002020-04-10T12:58:14-04:00State University of New York Steps Away From the “Big Deal” with Elsevier (Office of the Provost)tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26581342020-04-10T12:55:05-04:002020-04-10T12:55:05-04:00Philanthropy_and_COVID-19tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26581352020-04-10T12:55:42-04:002022-03-23T04:10:13-04:00National Platform Open Science | Netherlands | 2019<p>"Summary</p>
<p>... Many national initiatives have already been launched. A major boost is required if these initiatives are to be coordinated and the great ambition realised. That is why this Plan lists the ambitions and provides details of the parties intending to take action, as well as the timeframes within which they believe they can realise their objectives.</p>
<p>The key ambitions are:</p>
<p>Full open access to publications in 2020. Continue the Dutch approach for all Dutch research organisations and research areas whilst recognising their differences and similarities.</p>
<p>To make research data optimally suited for reuse. To set clear and agreed technical and policy-related preconditions to facilitate reuse..."</p>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26581322020-04-10T12:54:39-04:002020-04-10T12:54:39-04:00tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26581212020-04-10T12:46:01-04:002020-04-10T12:46:01-04:00Request for Ideas (3/31-4/24) | Educopia Institutetag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26508652020-03-31T15:04:37-04:002022-05-19T06:27:12-04:00Next Generation Library Publishing | Educopia Institute"In this project, Educopia, California Digital Library (CDL), and Strategies for Open Science (Stratos), in close partnership with LYRASIS, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and Longleaf Services are working to advance and integrate open source publishing infrastructure to provide robust support for library publishing. Our project goals include:
Creating a more balanced, effective academic publishing ecosystem that aligns with academic values and increases choice, opportunity, and innovation via compelling library publishing solutions;
Developing tools and standards that allow better integration of campus repository systems and publishing workflows across the lifecycle of scholarly research;
Establishing sustainable, community-governed, open solutions that rival best-of-breed commercial tools and advance scholarly communication in important ways...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26498552020-03-30T13:09:15-04:002020-04-14T16:08:16-04:00COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) | Semantic Scholar<blockquote>
<h2>A Free, Open Resource for the Global Research Community</h2>
<p>In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the <a href="https://allenai.org/">Allen Institute for AI</a> has partnered with leading research groups to prepare and distribute the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a free resource of over 45,000 scholarly articles, including over 33,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community.</p>
<p>This dataset is intended to mobilize researchers to apply recent advances in natural language processing to generate new insights in support of the fight against this infectious disease. The corpus will be updated weekly as new research is published in peer-reviewed publications and archival services like <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/">bioRxiv</a>, <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/">medRxiv</a>, and others.</p>
<p><a href="https://cord-19.apps.allenai.org/">CORD-19 Explorer</a> is a quick and easy way to search the CORD-19 corpus, or you can download the complete data below.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26339652020-03-09T11:04:44-04:002020-04-16T14:38:38-04:00The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak highlights serious deficiencies in scholarly communication | Impact of Social Sciences<p>"As research and government responses to the COVID-19 outbreak escalate in the face of a global public health crisis, Vincent Larivière, Fei Shu and Cassidy R. Sugimoto reflect on efforts to make research on this subject more widely available. Arguing that a narrow focus on research published in high ranking journals predominantly in English has impeded research efforts, they suggest that the renewed emphasis on carrying out open research on the virus presents an opportunity to reassess how research and scholarly communication systems serve the public good....</p>
<p>This is a positive step, but it does not go far enough to address public needs. The papers and book chapters that have been liberated by this measure represent only a tiny proportion of the available literature on coronavirus. According to the Web of Science (WOS), 13,818 articles have been published on the topic of coronaviruses since the late 1960s. More than half (51.5%) of these articles remain closed to access. The coronavirus is admittedly a large family of viruses and one might question relevance of older works to the current outbreak. However, as an example, the three papers on COVID-19 published in the February 15th issue of the Lancet relied on 69 distinct WOS-indexed papers, of which 73.2% are in the set of 13,818 coronaviruses papers. The oldest reference in these papers is to 1988, underscoring the fact that although the corona virus may be novel, research on the corona virus in fact draws on a long tail of often closed research literature....</p>
<p>The embeddedness of this scientific literature within much wider streams of research also highlights the limitations of this approach. The 13,818 coronavirus articles cite more than 200,000 articles—from virology to cancer and from public health, to genetics and heredity (Figure 1). Less than one third of the cited articles from which the “coronavirus articles” drew information and inspiration were other “coronavirus articles”. ..."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26228632020-02-21T14:43:19-05:002020-06-23T11:16:01-04:00Read-and-Publish Open Access deals are heightening global inequalities in access to publication. | Impact of Social Sciences<p>"The problem, however, is illustrated by Springer Nature’s European quartet: The read-and-publish strategy is making global inequality worse. Nearly all the deals involve wealthy northern European countries or rich North American institutions like the University of California system. The practical effect is to grant selective OA authorship rights—with all their citation and visibility benefits—to scholars from the affluent West. If <a href="https://www.openaccess.nl/en/in-the-netherlands/publisher-deals">you’re Dutch</a>, your Springer Nature article will appear OA by default; if you’re not, chances are that you’ll need $3,000 to $5,000 for that privilege. The OA citation-and-visibility advantage is one of the <a href="https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/996823e0-8104-4490-b26a-f2f733f810fb">best-established findings</a> in the scholarly communication literature. In practice if not by intent, the read-and-publish deal-makers are buying that advantage for their constituent-scholars. Scholarly publishing is <em>already</em> stratified along North-South lines—making read-and-publish an insult to long-standing injury....</p>
<p> For the Plan S architects, the deals are <a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/addendum-to-the-coalition-s-guidance-on-the-implementation-of-plan-s/principles-and-implementation/">“transitional and temporary,”</a> to give way to full open access by 2025. That’s if all goes well, and if the plan withstands <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/02/19/publishers-express-concern-about-unintended-consequences-plan-s">aggressive lobbying</a> from big publishers. There’s no surprise that Springer and SAGE find the agreements appealing in the meantime: They lock in libraries subscription spending while winning short-run Plan S compliance.</p>
<p>It’s this leg-up to the legacy publishers that critics find objectionable. The deals offer, in Roger Schonfeld’s phrase, <a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/06/26/will-europe-lead-open-access/">“to crown the existing major publishers as the OA Royalty.”</a> ...</p>
<p>More fundamentally, the move to fold in author fees is an implicit endorsement of the <a href="https://items.ssrc.org/parameters/the-library-solution-how-academic-libraries-could-end-the-apc-scourge/">deeply flawed APC regime</a>—one that lowers barriers to readers only to raise them for authors. For scholars in the Global South—and in the humanities and social sciences everywhere—the APC option is <a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2019/11/06/latin-americas-longstanding-open-access-ecosystem-could-be-undermined-by-proposals-from-the-global-north/">laughably</a><a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2019/11/06/latin-americas-longstanding-open-access-ecosystem-could-be-undermined-by-proposals-from-the-global-north/"> beyo</a><a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2019/11/06/latin-americas-longstanding-open-access-ecosystem-could-be-undermined-by-proposals-from-the-global-north/">nd</a><a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2019/11/06/latin-americas-longstanding-open-access-ecosystem-could-be-undermined-by-proposals-from-the-global-north/"> reach</a>. Yes, some publishers offer fee waivers, but the system is <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3464868#.Xk7Nwac1ifD">limited,</a><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3464868#.Xk7Nwac1ifD"> shoddy, and patronizing</a>—a charity band-aid on a broken system....</p>
<p>The short-run effect of read-and-publish and its variants, then, is to amplify the voices—through the OA visibility and citation advantage—of scholars from rich countries and universities. There are indeed other paths to publish open access: There’s the ramshackle APC waiver system, of course, and many natural scientists have their fees covered by funders. Nearly half of all OA articles are published in no-fee journals—so-called “diamond” titles that operate on a shoestring or through third-party subsidies. As a barrier to authorship, the APC regime has some gaps...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/25515942019-11-07T10:36:53-05:002020-04-10T13:04:42-04:00Unpaywall Journals<p>"Unpaywall Journals is a data dashboard that combines journal-level citations, downloads, Open Access statistics and more, to help librarians confidently manage their serials collections...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24880932019-08-08T09:53:08-04:002023-09-18T09:01:52-04:00Mind the Gap<p>"The number of open source (OS) online publishing platforms, i.e. production and hosting systems for scholarly books and journals, launched or in development, has proliferated in the last decade. Many of these publishing infrastructure initiatives are well-developed, stable, and supported by a small but vigorous distributed community of developers, but promising new ventures have also recently launched.</p>
<p>The notable increase in the number of OS platforms suggest that an infrastructure ‘ecology’ is emerging around these systems. Distinguishing between systems that may evolve along competitive lines and those that will resolve into a service ‘stack’ of related, complementary service technologies will help potential adopters understand how these platforms can or should interoperate.</p>
<p>In 2018 the MIT Press secured a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation to conduct a landscape analysis of open source publishing systems, suggest sustainability models that can be adopted to ensure that these systems fully support research communication and provide durable alternatives to complex and costly proprietary services. John Maxwell at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver conducted the environmental scan and compiled this report.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>We are posting the final report on PubPub and invite readers to share their comments on the findings and recommendations...."</p>
<p> </p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24808552019-05-03T13:48:13-04:002020-06-05T14:33:32-04:00How Journals and Publishers Can Help to Reform Research Assessment - Science Editor<p>"...</p>
<ol>
<li>Cease the promotion of journal impact factors (<a href="https://msphere.asm.org/content/1/4/e00184-16">ref</a>)5</li>
<li>Provide article metrics and indicators (<a href="https://www.plos.org/article-level-metrics">ref</a>)33</li>
<li>Adopt the CRediT taxonomy for author contributions (<a href="https://msphere.asm.org/content/1/4/e00184-16">ref</a>)33</li>
<li>Ensure that all reference data deposited with Crossref is open (<a href="https://i4oc.org/">ref</a>)26</li>
<li>Require authors to make all key data available according to FAIR principles (<a href="https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/">ref</a>)19</li>
<li>Follow the data citation principles (<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018259/">ref</a>)17</li>
<li>Encourage the use of unique identifiers (eg RRIDs; <a href="https://scicrunch.org/resources">ref</a>)18</li>
<li>Require authors to use ORCIDs (<a href="https://orcid.org/content/requiring-orcid-publication-workflows-open-letter">ref</a>)25</li>
<li>Publish peer review reports and author responses along with the article (<a href="https://asapbio.org/letter">ref</a>)21</li>
<li>Examine ways to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the publishing process (<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/04/11/400515.full.pdf">ref</a>)31 ..."</li>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24772362019-03-22T10:04:34-04:002020-04-30T15:51:19-04:00Open Scholarship Policies and Technologies: The European Research Library as a Model for Advancing Global Scholarly Communication<p>"This project site is the compilation of all the materials, outputs, and tangents from my Fulbright-Schuman research fellowship. I am sharing them as a collated research object because each piece informed the others, due to the nature of this kind of fellowship being an all-encompassing life/professional experience.</p>
<p>It is my hope that in sharing these artifacts, the Fulbright will be demystified, especially for librarians and information scientists. Also, I hope the collection of these together will inspire more research about what role libraries will continue to play in the advancement of a more open global scholarly environment...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27253412020-07-06T17:26:19-04:002022-04-06T03:46:01-04:00Plan S is a grand plan, but the devil is in the detail: Robin Crewe on Open Access in South Africa - International Science Council"The Europe-led ‘Plan S’ initiative for Open Access scientific publishing has been warmly received in South Africa, with the National Research Foundation expressing ‘in principle’ support. Yet South Africa already has compliant local solutions embedded within the research funding landscape, says Professor Robin Crewe...."