Items tagged by EllenPhillips in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/user/EllenPhillips TagTeam social RSS aggregrator 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. Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:35:00 -0500 https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/7/1/6 oa.new oa.preprints oa.metrics oa.infrastructure oa.scholcomm oa.versions President Trump today signed into law the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act, a sweeping, government-wide mandate requiring U.S. federal agencies to publish all non-sensitive government information – including federally-funded research – as open data. Tue, 15 Jan 2019 03:44:00 -0500 https://sparcopen.org/news/2019/huge-win-open-data-united-states/ oa.new oa.government oa.usa oa.psi oa.data oa.legislation oa.mandates oa.policies 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). Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:37:00 -0500 https://news.psu.edu/story/550598/2018/12/05/academics/tome-grant-funds-available-penn-state-open-access-monographs oa.new oa.books oa.publishers oa.tome oa.funding 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 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:30:00 -0500 https://www.masslive.com/expo/news/erry-2018/12/382c4718bf6849/at-one-massachusetts-college-s.html oa.new oa.oer oa.textbooks oa.colleges oa.books oa.economics_of [Very short announcement] The University of California is proposing revisions to the Presidential Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations.  Sat, 08 Dec 2018 13:17:00 -0500 https://news.ucmerced.edu/content/comment-period-policy-open-access-theses-and-dissertations oa.new oa.embargoes oa.hei oa.consultations oa.policies oa.policies.universities oa.universities oa.etds 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. Thu, 06 Dec 2018 16:23:00 -0500 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6418/983 oa.new oa.plan_s oa.europe oa.policies oa.mandates oa.policies.funders oa.funders oa.implementation 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.  Thu, 06 Dec 2018 16:18:00 -0500 http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/12/documentarian-take-down-paywalls-open-access-scholarship oa.new oa.publishing oa.journals 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. Thu, 06 Dec 2018 11:41:00 -0500 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07659-5 oa.mandates oa.policies.funders oa.offsets oa.oa2020 oa.funders.public oa.policies oa.funders oa.new oa.plan_s oa.china oa.asia 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. Thu, 06 Dec 2018 01:40:00 -0500 https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/sci-hub-blocked-in-russia-following-ruling-by-moscow-court/3009838.article oa.russia oa.new oa.copyright oa.sci-hub oa.litigation oa.guerrilla Takeaways from the ITHAKA Next Wave 2018 conference. Mon, 03 Dec 2018 01:37:00 -0500 https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-12-03-elsevier-faces-tough-questions-about-its-business-model-during-library-and-publishing-conference oa.new oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.elsevier 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. Wed, 28 Nov 2018 01:28:00 -0500 https://www.kalb.com/content/news/CLTCC-to-announce-cost-savings-from-use-of-open-educational-resources--501456201.html oa.new oa.oer oa.hei oa.economics_of 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). Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:27:00 -0500 https://www.dal.ca/news/2018/11/27/the-future-is-open.html oa.new oa.oer oa.textbooks oa.books 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.   Mon, 26 Nov 2018 01:34:00 -0500 https://www.researchinformation.info/news/jisc-and-elsevier-collaborate-open-access-compliance oa.new oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.policies oa.elsevier oa.compliance oa.jisc 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. Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:40:00 -0500 https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/11/16/north-dakota-audit-reports-significant-cost-savings-after-oer oa.usa oa.usa.nd oa.economic_impact oa.economics_of oa.new oa.oer 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. Wed, 14 Nov 2018 01:26:00 -0500 https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/views/2018/11/14/what-we-dont-yet-know-about-open-educational-resources-opinion oa.new oa.oer oa.textbooks oa.books 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. Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:02:00 -0400 https://www.freightwaves.com/news/it-appears-weve-upset-the-joc oa.new oa.journals oa.publishers oa.copyright oa.fair_use 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 Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:55:00 -0400 http://simoncollinson.com/for-great-justice/ oa.fair_use oa.copyright oa.recommendations oa.legislation oa.orphans 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 Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:45:00 -0400 https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/open-innovation-open-science-open-world-vision-europe oa.open_science oa.stem oa.europe PNAS has taken another step toward ensuring worldwide dissemination of scientific knowledge by giving 81 developing countries free and immediate online access.  Sat, 28 Jul 2018 10:20:00 -0400 http://www.pnas.org/content/99/9/5751.full oa.south oa.stem oa.policies.journals oa.gold oa.pnas oa.business_models oa.journals Sat, 28 Jul 2018 09:56:00 -0400 https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2015/10/13/the-janus-faces-of-open-access-publishing-guest-post-by-dr-frederick-domann/ oa.publishing oa.stem oa.business_models oa.gold oa.predatory oa.quality oa.journals Open PDF in Browser Tue, 12 Jun 2018 07:01:00 -0400 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2133397 oa.industry oa.patents oa.hei oa.libre 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. 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 online, and changes in scholarly research and production. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 11:04:00 -0500 https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_pubs/286/ oa.scholcomm oa.hei oa.publishers oa.etds oa.students oa.authors oa.ecr 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. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 07:19:00 -0500 https://peh-med.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1747-5341-2-31 oa.publishing oa.green oa.gold oa.ethics oa.mandates oa.recommendations oa.medicine oa.lay oa.repositories oa.policies oa.journals oa.advantage