tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hubs/oatp/user/EllenPhillips/atom 2019-01-16T10:35:38-05:00 TagTeam social RSS aggregrator tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2471910 2019-01-16T10:35:38-05:00 2019-01-16T10:35:38-05:00

<p><span>Digital scholarship and electronic publishing among the scholarly communities are changing when metrics and open infrastructures take centre stage for measuring research impact. In scholarly communication, the growth of preprint repositories over the last three decades as a new model of scholarly publishing has emerged as one of the major developments. As it unfolds, the landscape of scholarly communication is transitioning, as much is being privatized as it is being made open and towards alternative metrics, such as social media attention, author-level, and article-level metrics. Moreover, the granularity of evaluating research impact through new metrics and social media change the objective standards of evaluating research performance. Using preprint repositories as a case study, this article situates them in a scholarly web, examining their salient features, benefits, and futures. Towards scholarly web development and publishing on semantic and social web with open infrastructures, citations, and alternative metrics—how preprints advance building web as data is discussed. We examine that this will viably demonstrate new metrics and in enhancing research publishing tools in scholarly commons facilitating various communities of practice. However, for the preprint repositories to sustain, scholarly communities and funding agencies should support continued investment in open knowledge, alternative metrics development, and open infrastructures in scholarly publishing.</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2471836 2019-01-15T08:44:22-05:00 2019-01-15T08:44:22-05:00

<p><span>President Trump today signed into law the </span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2852">Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act</a><span>, a sweeping, government-wide mandate requiring U.S. federal agencies to publish all non-sensitive government information – including federally-funded research – as open data.</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2469905 2018-12-11T15:37:27-05:00 2018-12-11T15:37:27-05:00

<p>UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State is among the first universities to commit funds to an initiative designed to support the peer-reviewed, open access monographs known as Toward Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME).</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2469904 2018-12-11T15:30:44-05:00 2018-12-11T15:30:44-05:00

<p>Open educational resources, or OER, are an increasingly popular solution to the problem of students being unable to afford textbooks that cost hundreds of dollars</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2469683 2018-12-08T18:17:39-05:00 2018-12-08T18:17:39-05:00

<p>[Very short announcement]</p> <p><span>The University of California is proposing revisions to the Presidential Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations. </span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2469537 2018-12-06T21:23:48-05:00 2018-12-06T21:23:48-05:00

<p><span>Plan S, the contentious program that a group of European science funders hopes will end scholarly journals' paywalls, has fleshed out its rules—and softened its tone a bit. In seven pages of implementation guidance released this week, the funders explain how grantees can abide by Plan S. But some critics say the document—which is up for public discussion for 2 months—remains too restrictive.</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2469536 2018-12-06T21:18:45-05:00 2018-12-06T21:18:45-05:00

<p><span>Academic publishing is a $25 billion-a-year industry dominated by a handful of publishers with unfair business practices, the documentary claimed. Through interviews, it discussed issues of equity, access and public impact at the core of the paywall debate. </span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2469379 2018-12-05T14:59:50-05:00 2018-12-11T16:41:34-05:00

<p>In a huge boost to the open-access movement, librarians and funders in China have said that they intend to make the results of publicly funded research free to read immediately on publication. The move, announced at an open-access meeting this week in Berlin, includes a pledge of support for Plan S, a bold initiative launched in September by a group of European funders to ensure that, by 2020, their scientists make papers immediately open.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2469461 2018-12-06T10:40:02-05:00 2018-12-11T06:40:48-05:00

<p>Sci-Hub, the popular pirate site that bypasses paywalls to illicitly host millions of pay-to-read scientific papers, is being blocked in Russia after a court in the country ruled against the site.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2469830 2018-12-11T06:37:04-05:00 2018-12-11T06:37:04-05:00

<p><span>Takeaways from the </span><a href="https://www.ithaka.org/conference">ITHAKA Next Wave 2018</a><span> conference.</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2469828 2018-12-11T06:28:48-05:00 2018-12-11T06:28:48-05:00

<p><span>Central Louisiana Technical Community College (CLTCC) in partnership with the Rapides Parish Library will host a press conference on Thursday, Nov. 29 to announce the college’s use of Open Educational Resources (OER) for transferable General Education classes and other first-year classes.</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2469903 2018-12-11T15:27:00-05:00 2018-12-11T15:27:00-05:00

<p>Dal Libraries is launching its first in-house produced open textbook, Environmental Science: A Canadian Perspective by renowned conservation biologist and Dalhousie faculty member Bill Freedman (1950–2015).</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2469829 2018-12-11T06:34:25-05:00 2018-12-11T06:34:25-05:00

<p>Jisc and Elsevier have signed an agreement setting out how they will work together to support institutions to comply with UK open access policies, as part of their Open Science partnership.</p> <div> </div>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2467538 2018-11-16T14:59:05-05:00 2018-12-11T15:40:19-05:00

<p>North Dakota’s investment of $110,000 in open educational resources saved students at the state’s public institutions at least 10 times that amount -- and likely much more -- in textbook costs over two academic years, according to a new report from the state auditor’s office.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2469827 2018-12-11T06:26:52-05:00 2018-12-11T06:26:52-05:00

<p><span>In the case of open educational resources (OERs) -- free course materials, openly licensed and able to be used and mixed with permission -- student learning and millions of dollars are at stake. As enrollment pressures and funding shortcomings continue to shape higher education decision making, many schools switch to OERs. Clearly, free is cheaper than alternatives. Clearly, more students, especially low-socioeconomic-status ones, will be better able to afford a textbook and even education in general. But are OERs as good as traditional, albeit costly, resources? It is too early to tell from the research so far.</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2461332 2018-08-30T21:57:47-04:00 2018-08-30T22:02:28-04:00

<p>FreightWaves’ editorial staff got a curious email from the executive editor at the Journal of Commerce this morning. One of our staff writers covered a story we’ve written about for months—the trucker strike that crippled Brazil and its aftermath—and had cited a quote that appeared in a JOC article, linking back to the original source. We’ve always respected the JOC as an institution (founded in New York in 1827) and thought JOC’s writers were some of the best in the industry. The Journal of Commerce clearly does not feel the same way about FreightWaves. In fact, JOC’s executive editor told us that their new intellectual property policy prohibits FreightWaves from ever quoting or linking to JOC’s articles again.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2454555 2018-07-31T11:55:09-04:00 2018-07-31T11:55:09-04:00

<p>Copyright has been subjected to robust challenge by the rise of digital technology and the internet, and within copyright law, one of the most pressing problems is the status of orphan works: in-copyright works whose authors cannot be found. This paper surveys international laws dealing with orphan works, both extant and proposed, discusses models for diligent searches for rights holders, canvasses problems associated with those rights holders’ re-emergence, and proposes a number of minor and major reforms aimed at resolving the orphan works problem</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2454554 2018-07-31T11:45:28-04:00 2018-07-31T11:45:28-04:00

<p>This publication shows how research and innovation is changing rapidly. Digital technologies are making the conduct of science and innovation more collaborative, more international and more open to citizens. Europe must embrace these changes and reinforce its position as the leading continent for science, for new ideas, and for investing sustainably in the future</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2454375 2018-07-28T14:12:57-04:00 2018-07-28T14:20:21-04:00

<p>PNAS has taken another step toward ensuring worldwide dissemination of scientific knowledge by giving 81 developing countries free and immediate online access. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2454373 2018-07-28T13:56:18-04:00 2018-07-28T13:56:18-04:00

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2450711 2018-06-12T16:04:16-04:00 2018-07-28T11:01:25-04:00

<p>Open PDF in Browser</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2471913 2019-01-16T10:41:33-05:00 2019-03-31T16:04:54-04:00

<p>The process of completing a dissertation is stressful—deadlines are scary, editing is hard, formatting is tricky, and defending is terrifying. (And, of course, postgraduate employment is often uncertain.) Now that dissertations are deposited and distributed electronically, students must perform yet another anxiety-inducing task: deciding whether they want to make their dissertations immediately open access (OA) or, at universities that require OA, coming to terms with openness. For some students, mostly in the humanities and some of the social sciences, who hope to transform their dissertations into books, OA has become a bogeyman, a supposed saboteur of book contracts and destroyer of careers.</p> <p>This chapter examines the various access-related anxieties that plague graduate students. It is a kind of diagnostic and statistical manual of dissertation anxieties—a "Dissertation Anxiety Manual," if you will—describing anxieties surrounding book contracts, book sales, plagiarism, juvenilia, the ambiguity of the term <em>online</em>, and changes in scholarly research and production.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2454553 2018-07-31T11:31:54-04:00 2020-09-13T12:19:19-04:00

<p>The ethical case for Open Access (OA) (free online access) to research findings is especially salient when it is public health that is being compromised by needless access restrictions. But the ethical imperative for OA is far more general: It applies to all scientific and scholarly research findings published in peer-reviewed journals. And peer-to-peer access is far more important than direct public access. Most research is funded so as to be conducted and published, by researchers, in order to be taken up, used, and built upon in further research and applications, again by researchers (pure and applied, including practitioners), for the benefit of the public that funded it – not in order to generate revenue for the peer-reviewed journal publishing industry (nor even because there is a burning public desire to read much of it). Hence OA needs to be mandated, by researchers' institutions and funders, for all research.</p>