Items tagged by ioi_ab in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/user/ioi_ab TagTeam social RSS aggregrator "...In late June, I began to experiment with a plug-in the Wikimedia Foundation had built for ChatGPT. At the time, this software tool was being tested by several dozen Wikipedia editors and foundation staff members, but it became available in mid-July on the OpenAI website for subscribers who want augmented answers to their ChatGPT queries. The effect is similar to the “retrieval” process that Jesse Dodge surmises might be required to produce accurate answers. GPT-4’s knowledge base is currently limited to data it ingested by the end of its training period, in September 2021. A Wikipedia plug-in helps the bot access information about events up to the present day. At least in theory, the tool — lines of code that direct a search for Wikipedia articles that answer a chatbot query — gives users an improved, combinatory experience: the fluency and linguistic capabilities of an A.I. chatbot, merged with the factuality and currency of Wikipedia...." https://web.archive.org/web/20230718101549/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/magazine/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html Tue, 18 Jul 2023 03:41:00 -0400 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/magazine/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html oa.new oa.ai oa.tools oa.infrastructure oa.wikipedia oa.reuse "...Through this pilot Fund, IOI intends to: Partner with at least (3) networks, focusing on networks with a strong existing service relationship to a set of communities or institutions, a public commitment to open research principles, and a specific opportunity for using funds to develop open infrastructure adoption among members Raise $5-7M USD to support these network collaborations for 3-5 years, providing direct funding and strategic support to enable the adoption of open infrastructure for those networks and their members, with a focus on infrastructures enabling immediate and equitable open access to data and content. Create a mechanism to expand the pool of funders for open infrastructure, including calling for commercial service providers and others who derive significant value from the open ecosystem to reinvest in the open systems from which they profit...." Mon, 17 Jul 2023 03:22:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/ioi-2024-fund-leveraging-networks-as-key-drivers-of-change/ oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.libass oa.ioi oa.funders oa.consortia oa.profits oa.sdgs oa.south "We are revamping our communications and engagement strategy, and as a result, this is the last ‘What We are Working On’ blog post we are publishing for now. Stay tuned for new and exciting knowledge offerings from the IOI team! In the meantime, you can sign up to our newsletter to receive the latest updates from IOI...." Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:40:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2023-07-07/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "Canada's federal research granting agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) ("the agencies") – are announcing a review of the Tri-Agency Open Access (OA) Policy on Publications ("OA Policy"), with the goal of requiring that any peer-reviewed journal publications arising from agency-supported research be freely available, without subscription or fee, at the time of publication. The renewed OA Policy will be released by the end of 2025. The agencies are committed to increasing the dissemination of research results and accelerating knowledge mobilization by ensuring peer-reviewed articles resulting from agency-funded research are freely and immediately available...." Thu, 06 Jul 2023 05:09:00 -0400 https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-funding/policies-and-guidelines/open-access/presidents-canadas-federal-research-granting-agencies-announce-review-tri-agency-open-access-policy oa.new oa.canada oa.funders oa.policies oa.government oa.policies.funders oa.funders oa.surveys "We are excited to hear that you plan to apply to the Open Infrastructure Fund! Below, we provide some guiding questions to help you think through and prepare for an application.   What is the problem/need that the proposed work addresses? A main goal of the Open Infrastructure Fund is to address real needs in the community. In the proposal, please share your understanding of the needs of your community or the issue at hand - who is affected, what caused the issue, what is the evidence for the need, and what is the impact of not addressing it? How does the proposal align with the goals of the Fund? At IOI, we believe that in order for access and participation in research and scholarship to be equitable and inclusive, the tools that underpin them should be similarly designed. Therefore, in your application, please tell us how your proposed work will strengthen the resilience and sustainability of open infrastructure(s) and how this work would further equity in research. Consider the groups that being excluded or marginalized by the the ways that research and scholarly communication infrastructures are currently developed, maintained, implemented, or governed. Show how your proposal would seek to meaningfully and concretely advance their access and participation in research and scholarship. How is the proposed work open? Illustrate how your plan to build your project with a community of users, supporters, collaborators, and others impacted by the work...." Thu, 06 Jul 2023 04:27:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/open-infrastructure-fund-questions-to-consider-for-a-good-application/ oa.new oa.funding oa.cft oa.funders oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "...The Publishing Librarian works within the Discovery Services Unit under the supervision of the Assistant Dean. The Library Publishing team is focused on sustainable open publishing, with a pedagogical focus on new practitioners and a commitment to supporting our campus in its engagement with the scholarly communication ecosystem. The successful candidate will work in collaboration with scholars from a variety of backgrounds, including faculty, librarians, students, and the broader community to conceive, enact, advance, and sustain digital, open, library-centered publishing and scholarship. This position has broad latitude to collaborate with partners within and outside the university to pursue advancements in areas including but not limited to new conceptions and outputs of library publishing, publishing workflows and competencies, digital publishing platforms, publishing pedagogy, and digital humanities. Publishing librarians often team with liaison librarian colleagues to support scholarly communication and copyright initiatives in the university. This position also supports Wayne State University library’s institutional repository (currently Bepress’s Digital Commons) in collaboration with the Library Publishing team, including ETD management, journal publishing, and outreach to students and faculty for projects appropriate to the IR. Essential Job Functions: Collaborate with partners inside and outside the library to conceive and support open scholarship, repository services, and other publishing-related initiatives. Translate ideas developed in collaboration with partners into actionable workflows and infrastructure in the library, with an emphasis on open digital models...." Thu, 06 Jul 2023 01:11:00 -0400 https://guides.lib.wayne.edu/publishing/publib oa.new oa.jobs oa.usa oa.libpub oa.librarians oa.usa.mi "SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE, MIT Libraries, to work on key aspects of the Libraries' scholarly communications program by supporting the planning, preparation, and delivery of its education and outreach activities. Will serve as the primary person identifying and acquiring faculty-created content to deposit into the Open Access (OA) Articles collection and support implementation of the Libraries' open access agreements with publishers and other initiatives.  Responsibilities include supporting the scholarly communications librarian with the preparation, marketing, and delivery of scholarly communications education and outreach content and programming; supporting the implementation of MIT's open access policies by searching for faculty papers, evaluating paper versions, depositing papers, and adding metadata in DSpace@MIT (the Libraries institutional repository); serving on the repository services and support team and the scholarly communications initiatives team; participating in other group processes to standardize, document, and maximize efficiencies in team workflows; and keeping up-to-date with news and trends in scholarly communications, open access, and open scholarship. ..." Fri, 30 Jun 2023 05:12:00 -0400 https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/details.cfm?JobCode=178435288&Title=Scholarly%20Communications%20Associate oa.new oa.jobs oa.usa oa.libraries oa.usa.ma oa.scholcomm "We’re thrilled to share that The Michael J.Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) has signed up to use OA.Report to help implement its Open Access Policy. OA.Works currently supports Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) open access policy implementation, and through ASAP’s partnership with MJFF and collaborative discussions, OA.Works and MJFF agreed to work together on open access policy implementation. Some areas we’re especially excited for OA.Report to support include: Tracking the research they’re funding, and producing open data that can be used to demonstrate the foundation’s impact to the public via their scientific publications page. Accurately assessing their Open Access Policy..." Thu, 29 Jun 2023 01:38:00 -0400 https://blog.oa.works/mjff-starts-using-oa-report-to-measure-oa-policy-compliance-demonstrate-its-impact/ oa.new oa.funders oa.monitoring oa.compliance oa.policies oa.tools oa.implementation oa.mjuff oa.oa-works oa.policies.funders oa.funders "The office hours sessions for the Open Infrastructure fund have kicked off! This Monday, we held the first of three sessions that are aimed at giving more information to potential applicants of the Open Infrastructure Fund on crucial eligibility criteria and factors to consider before putting in a proposal. The next office hour session will be on Monday, June 26, 2023, at 09:00 UTC. You can register for the session at this link. The fund aims to strengthen sustainability and resilience and increase the adoption of open infrastructure that underpins research and knowledge creation. Read our English and Spanish blog posts for more information on the application process. The application deadline is July 31, 2023. Last week, we facilitated our workshop on exploring how public-private partnerships can contribute to the sustainability of research in Africa. The workshop, which took place in Somerset West, South Africa, was a success and brought together a diverse set of stakeholders from across the continent in both public and private sectors. We will share a blog post with the key takeaways from the discussion next week...." Fri, 23 Jun 2023 02:18:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2023-06-23/ oa.south oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.events oa.africa oa.events oa.funders "Previously, we shared a draft report on our preliminary investigation into defining open scholarly infrastructure and invited your comments and questions. We now share the final version of this report. IOI strives to build on the efforts of others working to improve funding and resourcing for the open infrastructure on which scholarly research relies. As an organization, one of our aims is to enhance our shared understanding of infrastructure in scientific research and scholarly communication. We believe that a more profound understanding of this area will have substantial consequences for how organizations providing research and scholarship services are supported and engaged with. This report serves as an initial stage in a continuous process that the organization intends to refine and develop over time. In this preliminary investigation, we first examined a body of literature that includes works across the fields of anthropology, scholarly communications, international development studies, science and technology studies, and infrastructure studies. We synthesized the characteristics and dimensions defined in the literature we reviewed to produce the initial draft, which we then opened for public comments for two weeks. Our research team then synthesized the feedback from the community to create the final report that we hope gives more divergent perspectives that have enriched our understanding of open infrastructure in research and scholarship...." Wed, 21 Jun 2023 05:06:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/final-report-defining-open-scholarly-infrastructure/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.definitions oa.terminology "An exploratory assortment of ChatGPT responses to prompts related to open infrastructure for research and scholarship. Arranged by theme based on tags developed by the Open Access Tracking Project." Sat, 10 Jun 2023 05:35:00 -0400 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bzUWAzBGjnXl-TBjqqiBvS-A30AoSsfjqe59ao83a9k/edit oatp.notice oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.ai Video recordings from the Library Publishing Forum 2023. https://librarypublishing.org/program/ Fri, 09 Jun 2023 08:09:00 -0400 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6K6BoNZK7y7Lu41qZE9u4A5FdaTC9PM1 oa.new oa.lpc oa.libpub oa.libraries oa.publishing oa.video "We are now accepting proposal submissions for the IOI Open Infrastructure Fund. The fund aims to strengthen sustainability, resilience and increase the adoption of open infrastructure that underpins research and knowledge creation. 60% of the total fund amount of $130,000 has been ring-fenced for initiatives from Low and Middle-Income Economies (LMIEs). Read our English and Spanish blog posts for more application process and eligibility information. We also have set up office hours (bilingual) in June and July to provide a dedicated space for the IOI team to field any questions about the fund. The application deadline is July 31, 2023. We are now less than a week away from our workshop in South Africa that will focus on how Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) can enhance the sustainability of research infrastructure in Africa. The workshop will happen on June 12, 2023, adjacent to the 2023 Open Repositories Conference in Somerset, South Africa...." Fri, 09 Jun 2023 07:13:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2023-06-09/ oa.south_africa oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.cft oa.africa oa.south "The fund aims to strengthen sustainability and resilience and increase the adoption of open infrastructure that underpins research and knowledge creation. Funding of 5,000-25,000 USD will be given to selected projects that focus on one of the following areas: capacity building, strengthening community governance, and critical shared infrastructure. Find out more about the Fund on this page. During the session, our Engagement Lead Emmy Tsang will share more about the objective, scope, and application and evaluation processes of the Fund. We’ll also answer your questions about the Fund...." Thu, 08 Jun 2023 10:08:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/community/oi-fund-office-hours/ oa.spanish oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.events oa.events oa.funders "Abstract: This paper introduces CORE, a widely used scholarly service, which provides access to the world’s largest collection of open access research publications, acquired from a global network of repositories and journals. CORE was created with the goal of enabling text and data mining of scientific literature and thus supporting scientific discovery, but it is now used in a wide range of use cases within higher education, industry, not-for-profit organisations, as well as by the general public. Through the provided services, CORE powers innovative use cases, such as plagiarism detection, in market-leading third-party organisations. CORE has played a pivotal role in the global move towards universal open access by making scientific knowledge more easily and freely discoverable. In this paper, we describe CORE’s continuously growing dataset and the motivation behind its creation, present the challenges associated with systematically gathering research papers from thousands of data providers worldwide at scale, and introduce the novel solutions that were developed to overcome these challenges. The paper then provides an in-depth discussion of the services and tools built on top of the aggregated data and finally examines several use cases that have leveraged the CORE dataset and services." Knoth, P., Herrmannova, D., Cancellieri, M. et al. CORE: A Global Aggregation Service for Open Access Papers. Sci Data 10, 366 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02208-w Thu, 08 Jun 2023 04:43:00 -0400 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02208-w oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.core oa.tools oa.case oa.repositories oa.green oa.mining "The OASPA annual conference brings the open access community together to discuss new developments and innovations in scholarly publishing, and unite in our shared goal to enable research around the world to be openly accessible. The 2023 online conference will encourage participants to work towards making equitable open scholarship a reality and will address many timely and fundamental topics relating to open scholarly communication. The conference will take place online from 19 -21 September 2023 to ensure wide participation and the opportunity to welcome everyone for collective reflection on our endeavours to ensure scholarship is open and accessible to all. The Program Committee now invites organisations and individuals to submit a proposal to us for ‘Poster Lightning Talk’ presentations. These are short talks showcasing new projects, ideas or initiatives accompanied by a poster (guidelines will be provided)...." Wed, 07 Jun 2023 11:16:00 -0400 https://oaspa.org/call-for-posters-for-the-2023-oaspa-conference/ oa.new oa.cfp oa.events oa.oaspa oa.publishing oa.publishing "In February, we ran a pilot ResearchEquals Cohort. Seven sessions spread over four weeks, and five cohort graduates. Regardless of whether we continue, this is a delightful memory already. We met fantastic folk, learned from one another, and had fun. We’ve had some space and time to reflect on this, and with that it’s high time to evaluate and announce when the next Cohort will take place. We intended the  ResearchEquals Cohort to be a peer learning programme, to make learning something fun and less intimidating. We wanted to create a supportive space for cohort members to practice modular publishing, such that we can start growing this practice. We didn’t succeed on every front, but it’s been a tremendous first try...." Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:07:00 -0400 https://libscie.org/pilot-evaluation-researchequals-cohorts/ oa.new oa.publishing oa.training oa.open_science oa.r= "...The debates we have today about our current, half-broken system are preoccupied with the present, or perhaps the near future. That’s as it should be. But it’s worth looking back at the manifestos and prognostications of earlier eras. ...I’ve annotated Bean’s table, which details journal ownership on the eve of the Depression. Societies published half of all journals, with university presses accounting for another fifth. The commercial presses? Just 10%. Bean (1895–1974) lived to see what happened next. In the decades after World War II, Pergamon and Elsevier bought or founded hundreds of journal titles. Today, of course, just five obscenely profitable firms publish most of the world’s scholarship. Bean’s ratios, in effect, have been reversed. In the two decades since Budapest, the oligopolists have managed to price out authors. Now they’re skimming the behavioral cream and selling that too. If Franklin, Bean, and the others have anything to tell us, it’s that it doesn’t have to be this way." Tue, 30 May 2023 08:10:00 -0400 https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/oda3grnj/release/1 oa.new oa.history_of oa.publishing oa.societies oa.usa "...We welcome Sarah Lang and Daechan Kim to the team! As our Business Development and Partnerships Lead, Sarah will be working closely with our Executive Director Kaitlin Thaney to build support for our first fund, set to launch in 2024, as well as to further the development of our fundraising and business partnership strategy. We are also excited to have Daechan, a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, join the team over the summer to research governance models for the open science cloud infrastructure project (see below). Additionally, Jerry Sellanga transitions to the new role of Engagement Coordinator, Networks, and starts full time this month. Our Research Team is starting interviews with project partners for the open science cloud infrastructure in Latin America and Africa project. In this project, we will be conducting initial research in governance activities and co-designing  and piloting an early-stage governance and sustainability plan. The Engagement team is preparing for our upcoming workshop on building sustainable research infrastructure in Africa through exploring public-private partnerships, taking place alongside Open Repositories 2023 in June, in Somerset West, South Africa...." Fri, 26 May 2023 08:47:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2023-05-26/ oa.people oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "This day-length conference continues in the tradition of the previous 20 years by drawing on the expertise of scholarly associations, university presses, librarians, researchers, and more to provide participants with exciting discussions around the needs of those working in the humanities. This year’s program will examine how the transition to open access and the emergence of new technologies will shape the future of these disciplines. In addition to thought-provoking keynotes and expert panels, the event will include plenty of time for interactivity and discussion, providing a forum for stakeholders to come together and identify trends, share best practices, and set priorities that reflect the needs of the humanities community...." Fri, 26 May 2023 04:07:00 -0400 https://www.niso.org/events/2023-niso-humanities-roundtable oa.ssh oa.ssh oa.niso oa.new oa.humanities oa.events oa.books oa.events "The Association views Open Access (OA) to scholarship as an ideal fully in line with our mission, and a practice that must align with our values. The majority of member presses continue to explore OA publishing projects, and the Association works to support active learning and productive advocacy around OA modes of publishing.  The Open Access Committee is charged with developing resources, recommendations, and knowledge for our global community. To this end, the committee has published a draft resource list, curated to help university presses navigate the many different models, developing infrastructures, and growing expectations in OA publishing. The Committee has also continued inviting representatives from OA initiatives, such as OASPA, the Books Analytic Dashboard, and OpenStax, to present on their work to the committee. In 2022, on the heels of a new US Office of Science and Technology Policy memo outlining expansive OA expectations for federally funded research, the Committee coordinated a community hangout to share information, ideas, and concerns...." Wed, 24 May 2023 09:32:00 -0400 https://2023annualreport.up.hcommons.org/opening-access/ oa.new oa.publishers oa.publishing oa.up oa.aup oa.usa oa.tome oa.books "...Baldwin’s latest book, “Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All,” looks at the history and future of the open access movement. And fittingly, his publisher made a version of the book available free online. This professor is not arguing that all information should be free. He’s focused on freeing up scholarship made by those who have full-time jobs at colleges, and who are thus not expecting payment from their writing to make a living. In fact, he argues that the whole idea of academic research hinges on work being shared freely so that other scholars can build on someone else’s idea or see from another scholar’s work that they might be going down a dead-end path. The typical open access model makes scholarly articles free to the public by charging authors a processing fee to have their work published in the journal. And in some cases that has caused new kinds of challenges, since those fees are often paid by college libraries, and not every scholar in every discipline has equal access to support. The number of open access journals has grown over the years. But the majority of scholarly journals still follow the traditional subscription model, according to recent estimates. EdSurge recently connected with Baldwin to talk about where he sees the movement going...." Wed, 24 May 2023 09:21:00 -0400 https://www.edsurge.com/news/2023-05-23-will-ai-chatbots-boost-efforts-to-make-scholarly-articles-free oa.people oa.new oa.interviews oa.audio oa.ai "At its launch in 2018, cOAlition S announced that its members would, for a “transition period,” fund open access fees for journals covered by “transformative” agreements. ...As cOAlition S recently communicated, the transition period is ending; beginning in 2025, funders adhering to Plan S will no longer support the agreements. What is more, a growing chorus of stakeholders, including the Ivy Plus librarians in the US and a coalition of UK-based researchers, are calling for an alternative, collective funding model for OA. At the same time, collective funding experiments as well as conditional open models (such as Subscribe to Open)—in which neither authors nor readers pay—are reporting promising results around the globe.  This webinar features perspectives on the emerging landscape of collective and conditional open models from publishers and will be followed this year by a second webinar focusing on the perspective of funders. The webinar will be chaired by Raym Crow of SPARC and Chain Bridge Group.  Panellists: Vivian Berghahn of Berghahn Books, Evgeniya Lupova-Henry of Quartz OA and Judith Fathallah of Lancaster University. With thanks also to Demmy Verbeke of Leuven University for organising this webinar. ..." Fri, 19 May 2023 10:31:00 -0400 https://oaspa.org/webinar-funding-open-access-after-the-transformation/ oa.new oa.funding oa.events oa.oaspa oa.plan_s oa.collective_action oa.publishers oa.events oa.funders "I write to announce that University Librarian Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, who is also a professor in the School of Information and an affiliate professor of the Department of Economics, will be retiring from campus in June 2024.  Under Jeff’s leadership, the Library has helped the university advance its strategic priorities and support the research, teaching, and learning missions of the UC Berkeley community. Key accomplishments, in partnership with colleagues, have included the following: Doubling the Library’s annual philanthropic funding and securing nearly $97 million in funding for three capital projects.  Co-chairing the University of California team that has made it possible for 54% of UC-authored articles to be published open access. Establishing the Library’s scholarly communications office, which provides the campus community with more than 3,800 copyright, intellectual property, and information policy consultations a year...." Fri, 19 May 2023 09:50:00 -0400 https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/05/17/jeffrey-mackie-mason-university-librarian-announces-retirement/ oa.new oa.people oa.hei oa.usa oa.u.california "Open-access models of scholarly publishing finally became mainstream, benefiting society during a time of crisis during the Covid-19 pandemic. This forced many presses to reenvision what success means in a model that is not predicated on revenue generation, harkening back to university presses' roots in supplying scholarly books and journals that would not otherwise generate revenue in the mainstream publishing world.  Speakers   Jason Gosnell, Marine Corps University Press, Deputy Director/Senior Managing Editor Angela Anderson, Marine Corps University Press, Director Megan Hall, Athabasca University Press, Associate Vice President, Learner Experience (interim) Anthony Cond, Liverpool University Press, Chief Executive Natalia Grygierczyk, Radboud University Press, Director Lara Speicher, University College London, Head Of Publishing..." Wed, 17 May 2023 06:45:00 -0400 https://whova.com/web/TnWNpmx@0XFs-4pSD9eGZ-KC4mIi63bDAaefeNv8ogA=/Agenda/ oa.new oa.events oa.publishers oa.up oa.publishing "...Reporting to the Head of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, the Digital Publishing Specialist will manage editorial and production workflows including those related to publication metadata, digital archiving, and document transformation. The incumbent will act as part of the Library’s effort to offer high quality, open access publishing services to the Urbana-Champaign campus and beyond through the Illinois Open Publishing Network (https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/) and related scholarly communication efforts...." Wed, 17 May 2023 06:39:00 -0400 https://www.arl.org/jobs/job-listings/a0I6T00000aCHYnUAO/ oa.new oa.jobs oa.usa oa.libpub oa.publishing oa.usa.il "...To better align with the changing scholarly communications landscape, MUSE has created a new department for Library & Publisher Partnerships. With many of our partner publishers now reporting to libraries, and many libraries now delving into publishing activities, MUSE seeks to create more connections between these two key constituencies. Kelley Squazzo has been appointed Director of Library & Publisher Partnerships, and will oversee both the current publisher relations and library sales teams at MUSE. ... As the information landscape becomes increasingly complex, MUSE has also created a new department to ensure its ability to provide robust updates in real time, and elevate the global impact of the scholarship on the platform. The growth of open access content and new channels for discovery require that MUSE effectively engage with broader and more diverse audiences than ever before. Melanie Schaffner will lead this department in the newly-created position of Director of Communication, Marketing, and Engagement, managing the internal and external marketing resources for the organization.... Project MUSE has also expanded its capacity in business operations and intelligence by welcoming back Lance Tieperman, in the newly-created position of Business Operations Manager. Tieperman was previously with MUSE in an inside sales and library support role, and also has experience in procurement with Johns Hopkins University and as a buyer/analyst with T. Rowe Price...." Wed, 17 May 2023 06:34:00 -0400 https://about.muse.jhu.edu/news/new-organization oa.new oa.publishers oa.people oa.project_muse "Africa PID Alliance is a project by Helix Analytics Africa and Training Centre in Communication (TCC-AFRICA), which, encompasses a community of PID enthusiasts in and from Africa aiming to lead and realize a FAIR sharing of access to data using Persistent Identifiers in innovation, research, and technology within the cultural, scientific and cross-industry ecosystems. We provide the following solutions to achieve robust PIDs Digital Object Identifiers (DOI); Personal Data Protection (Control & Compliance); Data Auditing & Reporting..." Wed, 17 May 2023 06:17:00 -0400 https://www.helixanalyticsafrica.org/solutions/persistent-identifiers/ oa.standards oa.south oa.pids oa.new oa.dois oa.authors oa.africa Abstract: "Persistent Identifiers are the pillars of an interoperable, persistent and reliable Open Research Infrastructure. This is the reason why a lot of countries/regions and organizations took the initiative to contribute to this network and help promote the use of PIDs through their academic and publishing ecosystems.    The objective of this document is to structure the feasibility, implementation and manageability of the project. A survey on the African continental level will shed light on or provide insights on the need of a DOI Registration Agency tailored to the continental context. One of the innovations that this agency will bring is a specific prefix for Africa that will provide; Ownership to African researcher over their content..." Nabil Ksibi, Joy Owango, & Sara. (2023). Africa PID Alliance Digital Object Identifiers Registration Concept Note (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7924069 Wed, 17 May 2023 06:12:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/record/7924069 oa.standards oa.south oa.pids oa.new oa.dois oa.authors oa.africa "Description: Open access seeks to make research globally available and discoverable for the long-term and not only in times of crisis. While considerable progress has been made towards realising this ambition, financial, equity, and other barriers remain. This high-level session will bring together stakeholders from major regional and global initiatives, and IFLA, that seek to create more inclusive, diverse, and sustainable means of achieving open access. The contribution of open access to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, UNESCO Open Science Recommendations, and a rights-based approach to access to information will be explored, together with practical examples for implementation at regional and local levels. These include the need for a diversity of models, sustainable funding, and underpinning infrastructure. The session will also focus on the recommendations from IFLA’s 2022 statement and call to action on open access, and progress towards implementation. A strong global position that makes space for regional diversity and needs is critical to achieving open access, and in turn, to a positive and inclusive open research and open science culture. Opportunities must be taken to strengthen networks among libraries and stakeholders and the voices of all regions. The session will conclude with recommendations on how to continue to build these networks and partnerships so that key priorities and barriers to equity at global, regional and local levels can be identified and addressed. This session is currently scheduled to take place 15:15-16:00 on Monday, 21 August 2023 and is expected to attract around 300 delegates. Each speaker will give opening remarks, followed by a panel discussion." Tue, 16 May 2023 05:01:00 -0400 https://iflawlic2023.abstractserver.com/program/ oa.south oa.new oa.netherlands oa.libass oa.infrastructure oa.ifla oa.events oa.economics_of oa.events English translation: "Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is excited to announce our upcoming funding call for the Open Infrastructure Fund, which marks the next step in our Collective Funding Pilot. This call will provide funding to projects that support the development of open research infrastructure services, with the aim of strengthening sustainability and resilience and increasing the adoption of open infrastructure that underpins research and knowledge creation. Open Infrastructure Fund (pilot) at a glance: Areas: capacity building, strengthening community governance, critical shared infrastructure Where you are based: anywhere in the world; 60% of these funds are reserved for individuals and organizations in Low and Middle Income Economies (LMIEs) and/or services that are widely adopted by communities in LMIEs. Level of funding: 5,000-25,000 USD Duration of award: projects of any duration up to 2 years, starting between November 1 and December 31, 2023. Deadline for applications: July 31, 2023..." Mon, 15 May 2023 09:42:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/fondo-de-infraestructura-abierta-cfp/ oa.spanish oa.south oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.cft "Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is excited to announce our upcoming funding call for the Open Infrastructure Fund, which marks the next step in our Collective Funding Pilot. This call will provide funding to projects that support the development of open research infrastructure services, with the aim of strengthening sustainability and resilience and increasing the adoption of open infrastructure that underpins research and knowledge creation. Open Infrastructure Fund (pilot) at a glance: Areas: capacity building, strengthening community governance, critical shared infrastructure Where you are based: anywhere in the world; 60% of these funds are reserved for individuals and organizations in Low and Middle Income Economies (LMIEs) and/or services that are widely adopted by communities in LMIEs. Level of funding: 5,000-25,000 USD Duration of award: projects of any duration up to 2 years, starting between November 1 and December 31, 2023. Deadline for applications: July 31, 2023..." Mon, 15 May 2023 09:39:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/open-infrastructure-fund-pilot-cfp/ oa.south oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.cft "...Who we are talking to: Caxton Murira, Science for Africa Foundation, on their efforts to partner with like minded organizations to advance research software engineering in Africa as well as potential collaborations between IOI and the SFA Foundation. Jo Howarth, Open Supply Hub on how they are working to enhance access to supply chain data from factories as a public good. Discussion also touched on the operationalization of the upcoming IOI Open Infrastructure Fund. Sergio Santamarina, UNPAZ Library, to learn about their work supporting their researchers and scholars in publishing open access and sharing their data openly, and the challenges they face. Pragya Chaube and Moumita Koley, Indian Institute of Science DST-Centre for Policy Research, to learn more about their open science community building and advocacy work in India. Eunice Mercado-Lara, Open Research Funders Group, to learn more about the Open and Equitable Model Funding Program and to explore areas of synergy between our work...." Mon, 15 May 2023 00:26:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2023-05-12/ oa.people oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "The Library Publishing Coalition Board seeks applications for the Library Publishing Curriculum Editorial Board. Created in partnership with the Educopia Institute as part of a project generously funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Library Publishing Curriculum is an ongoing program of the LPC. The Editorial Board identifies maintenance and development needs for the Curriculum, oversees (and occasionally performs) that work, and promotes the wide adoption and use of the Curriculum. The Editorial Board functions on a cohort model, with all volunteer terms starting at the same time (July 1, 2023) and running for three years. Leadership for the group is provided by the Editor-in-Chief (a three-year dedicated position) and the group chair (an annual, rotating position held by an Editorial Board member). We are currently recruiting for 4 regular members (who will join 5 members from the previous cohort who opted into a second term) and the Editor-in-Chief. All interested volunteers should apply to serve on the Editorial Board. Those who are interested in the Editor-in-Chief position can complete an additional application step to be considered for the role. Those who are interested in serving as Editorial Board chair at some point during their three-year term will have an opportunity to indicate their interest. ..." Thu, 11 May 2023 03:28:00 -0400 https://librarypublishing.org/2023-call-library-publishing-curriculum-editorial-board/ oa.new oa.cfp oa.libpub oa.lpc oa.libraries oa.publishing oa.volunteers Google Translate: "SPARC Europe announced on April 30 that it will participate in the "OBF (Open Book Futures) *1" project. SPARC Europe will provide advice based on its experience in establishing and operating the SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) and its connections with IOI (Invest in Open Infrastructure). In addition, Work Package 2 of the program "Open Book Collective" started as part of COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) and Work Package of "Opening the Future"*2, a program related to OA (Open Access) e-books. It plans to improve the recognition of the outreach activities of 3, consider new opportunities for OA scholarly books, and build a sustainable infrastructure. *1 One of the projects aimed at developing OA publishing of academic books based on COPIM. Led by Lancaster University, funded by Arcadia and RED (Research England Development) Fund. Partner with Jisc. *2 CEU (Central European University) Press's OA academic book subsidy program, based on the S2O (Subscribe to Open) model, with the aim of sustainably transitioning books to OA...." Wed, 10 May 2023 12:53:00 -0400 https://jipsti.jst.go.jp/sti_updates/2023/05/14209.html oa.sparc_europe oa.new oa.japanese oa.infrastructure oa.copim oa.books oa.open_book_collective "The Scholarly Communication and Copyright Librarian develops, coordinates and promotes the growth of the Library’s scholarly communications programs and services, including outreach, training and support to faculty, students, and staff on copyright, fair use, open access, open education and scholarly publishing.  The incumbent also provides specialized research consultations and instruction services in these areas. The Scholarly Communication and Copyright Librarian supports digital scholarship by promoting the use of DigitalGeorgetown (DG), the Library’s institutional repository, as well as other scholarly communication tools provided by the Library. The incumbent advances the Library's scholarly communication initiatives by developing and maintaining collaborative partnerships within the Library and with faculty, staff and students, in order to facilitate a seamless, interdisciplinary, and university-wide network supporting faculty and students in research publication and impact...." Wed, 10 May 2023 06:32:00 -0400 https://georgetown.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Georgetown_Admin_Careers/job/Lauinger-Library-3rd-Floor/Scholarly-Communication-and-Copyright-Librarian---Georgetown-University-Library_JR15449 oa.new oa.jobs oa.usa "The MIT Press today announced that it has received a $10 million gift from Arcadia—a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage, and promote open access to knowledge—to establish the Arcadia Open Access Fund. The new fund will support the MIT Press’s ground-breaking efforts to publish open access books and journals in fields ranging from science and technology to the social sciences, arts, and humanities. It will also help the MIT Press continue to develop tools, models, and resources that make scholarship more accessible to researchers and other readers around the world. “We are incredibly grateful to Arcadia for this generous gift,” said Amy Brand, Director and Publisher of the MIT Press. “The new endowment makes it possible for the MIT Press to build on and sustain its influential publishing programs. With this enduring support for open books and journals, we can use our power as an academic publisher to expand public understanding of scholarship and science and to democratize participation in research.” Arcadia is providing an outright endowment gift of $5 million, as well as a $5 million “challenge” gift to incentivize other funders by matching their support of MIT’s open publishing activities...." Mon, 08 May 2023 07:38:00 -0400 https://mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-press-receives-10-million-endowment-gift-for-open-access-to-knowledge/ oa.new oa.mit oa.funding oa.funders oa.publishing oa.arcadia oa.mit_press oa.up oa.books oa.journals oa.endowments "AAAS and other groups warn of rise of inequalities from implementation of White House request Sixteen US scientific societies and associations have called for studies of scholarly publishing costs, as the country’s largest biomedical research funder deliberates on how to respond to government requirements on open access to papers. Last year, the White House asked federal research funders including the National Institutes of Health to ensure immediate open access to publications reporting work they have supported. Individual funders have leeway over the implementation, and the NIH recently sought input on its plan to comply...." Mon, 08 May 2023 04:36:00 -0400 https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-usa-federal-agencies-2023-5-us-societies-call-for-studies-of-scholarly-publishing-costs/ oa.new oa.societies oa.publishing oa.paywalled oa.costs oa.usa oa.compliance oa.ostp oa.economics_of "The “Open Science – From Policy to Practice” conference will highlight different perspectives of shaping, implementing and embedding Open Science. The aim is to exchange knowledge, share best practices and to discuss how Open Science can contribute to strengthening sustainable futures and democracies in and beyond the European Union. The event will take place in Stockholm on 16–17 May 2023 and will be streamed to facilitate online participation. Access to, and sharing of research results and data. The understanding of, and engagement in research. Direct involvement of stakeholders and citizens in the research process. ...Join policy makers and other stakeholders from across Europe to discuss ways to embed and transfer Open Science policies into practice at different levels and sectors...." Mon, 08 May 2023 01:51:00 -0400 https://oppenvetenskap.se/ oa.new oa.events oa.sweden oa.open_science oa.policies "The Metascience 2023 Conference, at the National Academy of Science (NAS) Building in Washington, DC, is a global gathering to connect the study of science across disciplines, methodologies, and regions. It follows the inaugural Metascience 2019 Symposium held at Stanford University and Metascience 2021 Conference held virtually....If you’re unable to join us in person, we are excited to announce that we are offering a free virtual streaming option, that will allow anyone, anywhere in the world, to view the conference from the comfort of their own home. The virtual streaming option will provide access to all of the talks and panels occurring in the main auditorium from 8:50 am EDT each day through 5:30 pm EDT. Support for live streaming capabilities at Metascience 2023 is provided by Astera Institute...." Mon, 08 May 2023 01:47:00 -0400 https://metascience.info/details/ oa.new oa.events oa.open_science oa.usa "...Summary of the Discussions:  The online meeting brought together over 80 participants from 35 countries.  All the regions were represented with attendees from universities; research institutes; cultural associations; education institutes and education initiatives; citizen science experts; National Academies  of  Science;  associations  of  universities;  librarians;  open  science  and  open  education  initiatives;  research  funders;  open  access  publishers;  private  sector  science  services;   intergovernmental   organizations;   Permanent   Delegations   to   UNESCO;   and   UNESCO Category 2 Center and UNESCO Chairs. The key messages can be summarized as follows:  With the Working Group, UNESCO has prepared an index of thematic open science infrastructures supporting sharing of knowledge and information in UNESCO’s science priority areas. The  Group  identified  the  following  key  issues  to  consider  when  developing  open  science infrastructures:  adequate    and    sustainable    funding; cost  recovery,  commercialization  and  integration  of  the  views  of  the  private  sector; coordination  and  communication  among  actors  seeking  to  create,  use  and  sustainably support open science infrastructures.  Equity  in  access  to  the  digital  tools,  skills  needed  for  engagement  of  different  open  science actors and multilingualism were identified as key prerequisites for meaningful engagement and dialogue among open science practitioners at multiple scales, from individual researchers to country level. Digital  knowledge  identifiers  were  recognized  as  a  way  to  maximize  the  benefits  of  knowledge sharing.   As  for  next  steps,  the  following  actions  were  highlighted  as  priorities  through  the  discussions of the Group: Identification    of    good characteristics of existing knowledge sharing platforms, including ways to promote and support multilingualism; Identification    of    ideal criteria for open and interoperable systems, as well as the ways to illustrate effective interoperability and coordination among knowledge-sharing platforms at multiple scales...."   Tue, 02 May 2023 21:24:00 -0400 https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000385262.locale=en oa.unesco oa.open_science oa.new oa.infrastructure "Scholarly communication and adjacent positions are now standard in most academic institutions, but do new librarians feel prepared? Join us in May to discuss what training you received (or what you wish you'd received), where you learn about new developments, and what you would tell people who are starting in these positions. We will use Etherpad with a moderator to have an engaging and anonymous conversation regarding MLIS education and scholarly communication. Also, as part of May’s call, we will begin conversations around this year’s Open Access Week theme, Community over Commercialization..." Tue, 02 May 2023 05:02:00 -0400 https://www.opencon.community/may_2023_librarian_call oa.new oa.events oa.opencon oa.librarians oa.training oa.scholcomm oa.lis "CS&S is proud to cross-post the announcement that Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) has received a generous grant of USD 1 million from the Mellon Foundation to catalyze investment in and adoption of open infrastructure in research. This grant will support the further development and productization of the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs) and the testing of critical models and strategies to widen the pool of investors in open infrastructure...." Tue, 02 May 2023 03:35:00 -0400 https://www.codeforsociety.org/news/ioi-receives-1m-from-the-mellon-foundation-to-scale-the-catalog-of-open-infrastructure-services-cois oa.new oa.mellon_foundation oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.funding "We are pleased to announce that ICOR’s inaugural public webinar is scheduled for May 17, 10:30am – 12pm ET;  please join us by registering here.  Incentivizing Collaborative Open Research (ICOR) was founded in early 2020 with a small gathering of open science advocates, funders, practitioners and institutional leaders interested in taking constructive and immediate action to increase research transparency and accelerate scientific breakthroughs. The ‘Strategic Circle’ agreed that use of publications and associated metrics was incentivizing the wrong behaviors, leading competition over collaboration. To shift incentives, the strategists mapped out changes needed throughout the research lifecycle, as illustrated on our home page from early proposal of a research project to assessment of its outcomes...." Mon, 01 May 2023 17:53:00 -0400 https://incentivizingopen.org/2023/04/icors-inaugural-public-meeting-community-dialog-on-evidence-based-implementation-of-open-collaborative-research/ oa.new oa.events oa.best_practices oa.open_science oa.case oa.icor oa.implementation Google translate: Abstract: "Scholarly communication is a complicated industry, with numerous players and multiple mechanisms for communicating and reviewing materials created in an increasing variety of formats by researchers from around the world. In turn, the researcher who intends to use the products of this system wants to discover, access, and use relevant and reliable materials with as little effort as possible. The task of making this complex sector efficient and, at the same time, bringing its many aspects together seamlessly for the reader (or, increasingly, for a computer user) is supported by an infrastructure, much of it shared by multiple publishers. . In this landscape review, we aim to provide a high-level overview of the shared infrastructure that underpins scholarly communication. The purpose of this landscape review is to provide an overview of the shared infrastructure that we intend to examine in a larger project on the strategic context that has driven and will continue to drive the development of this infrastructure. This project will include a needs analysis of which parts of the shared scholarly communication infrastructure are working well and which can be improved, culminating in recommendations on where additional or revised collective action and community investment is indicated." Rieger, Oya Y., and Roger C. Schonfeld. « Common Scholarly Communication Infrastructure Landscape Review. » Ithaka S+R. Ithaka S+R. 24 April 2023. Web. 26 April 2023. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.318775 Mon, 01 May 2023 02:37:00 -0400 https://universoabierto.org/2023/04/26/panorama-de-las-infraestructuras-comunes-de-comunicacion-academica/ oa.surveys oa.spanish oa.new oa.ithaka oa.infrastructure "One week ago at MozFest, we began the process of rethinking and updating the Open Definition for today’s challenges and contexts. ...Key Takeaways: Diversity – It was recognised that the original Open Definition process was mostly carried out by people with a fairly high-level profile, but little diversified.  Governance – It is necessary to design a new governance model for the Open Definition to seek an even greater consensus than before. There is a need to actively and radically include people from other origins, races, genders, classes, etc., and in a way that everyone feels a constituent part of the process. Misuse – One of the biggest problems when it comes to open content today is the misuse and abuse of the word open, used to describe technologies and contexts that actually do not satisfy any of the criteria defined by the Open Definition. Participants mentioned the need for mechanisms for reporting misuses, or how the definition could have a more supervisory/validating role. Ethics – There was a discussion about the term “for any purpose” which, according to the current definition, is an essential part of what makes content open. Some arguments revolved around the concepts of “responsible use” (like in Responsible AI Licences), or “do no evil”. Universality – There were also debates about the universality of the concept. Some argued that there should be a single generalised definition, while others pointed out the need to make the definition always dynamic and context-related. Language – Many pointed out that the Open Definition should abandon jargon, legal, economic and technical vocabularies to adopt a more accessible and easy-to-understand language, especially for those who are not familiar with the concept. Considering the above, we at the Open Knowledge Foundation are happy to announce that: We are absorbing the feedback and organising ourselves to take the first formal step: proposing a governance model to guide discussions in the coming months. We are reactivating the official Open Definition discussion forum, where the past conversations took place. Anyone who would like to contribute is welcome to join. We are slowly revamping and editing the Open Definition website (open to contributions via GitHub) and preparing it for the upcoming discussions...." Mon, 01 May 2023 00:22:00 -0400 https://blog.okfn.org/2023/03/30/debriefing-the-open-definition-workshop-at-mozfest/ oa.new oa.definitions oa.terminology oa.okfn oa.events "...Want to join the IOI Team? We have four open vacancies. We are seeking talented individuals to fill four new open positions: Product Lead, Engagement Coordinator (Infrastructure), Research Data Analyst, and Django Developer. These new team members will support the further development of our Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs) prototype as well as the exploration of new models to attract additional investment into open infrastructure globally. These roles are fully remote - applicants worldwide can apply. Visit our website for a detailed look at the job descriptions and apply if interested! We need your input to help shape our collective funding pilot. IOI is gearing up to launch the calls for proposals for a 130,000 USD pilot fund to support and increase the adoption of open, community-led infrastructure services for research and scholarship. As part of our resolve to advance more open, transparent, and participatory funding of open infrastructure worldwide, we are running a design survey to help further refine the calls for proposals for three areas, including grant size and eligibility. The deadline to participate in the survey is May 8, 2023, and we would love to hear from you! Who we are talking to: Wole Abu, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, on potential mechanisms of engaging for-profit entities in Africa to reinvest in open infrastructure initiatives. Kim Parker and Martin Mogga, Research4Life, to learn more about their work in facilitating institutions in low-and middle-income countries with online access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content as potential future collaborations between R4L and IOI. Amanda Casari, Google Open Source, on some emerging questions looking at funding and resourcing for open source software and infrastructure...." Sun, 30 Apr 2023 22:35:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2023-04-28/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.consultations oa.jobs "...We partnered with the West and Central Africa Research and Education Network (WACREN) last month to host a workshop in Accra, Ghana on March 15, 2023. The theme was “charting common pathways for collective action in advancing open infrastructure in Africa”. The workshop was a prelude to the annual WACREN Conference – an annual gathering that brings together researchers, librarians, open infrastructure funders, government officials, and National Research and Education Network (NREN) leaders and other stakeholders to chart common pathways to promote innovation, investment in infrastructure and service development to boost the capacity of the evolving African digital education and research landscape. Our goal for this workshop was to facilitate a conversation between participating research funders, NREN leadership, government officials, and other key stakeholders, for them to share their understanding of the importance of open research infrastructure and the challenges and opportunities they face in their work to develop, maintain, and adopt shared infrastructure. The workshop was also a chance for the IOI team to listen to and learn from open infrastructure practitioners in Africa. This listening process is critical to ensure that our work and engagements in the long term are additive to what the African open science community is building and responsive to the dynamics of the continent...." Wed, 26 Apr 2023 22:27:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/collaboratively-exploring-solutions-to-the-funding-challenge-for-open-infrastructure-in-africa/ oa.south oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.ghana oa.funding oa.africa English translation: "At our Funders Summit last year, we started our collective funding pilot with the goal to experiment with and learn from building a more collective, open and transparent funding process, in which we serve real community needs through centring the voices of those who are most impacted by/under-represented in funding decision-making. We are now launching a design survey for this next phase of the pilot. We would like to invite everyone, particularly those voices mentioned above, to fill in the survey to help inform how this funding will be distributed. The survey is also an opportunity for anyone to express interest in joining the advisory panels for the funding calls that we aim to launch in mid-May...." Tue, 25 Apr 2023 22:07:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/piloto-de-financiamiento-colectivo-el-diseno-de-una-convocatoria-de-financiamiento/ oa.surveys oa.spanish oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.consultations oa.funders "The Iowa State University Library is seeking applications for a dynamic and forward-thinking Repository Services Librarian who will work collaboratively within and outside of the Digital Scholarship and Initiatives (DSI) department to lead the digital repository unit. DSI is comprised of specialists that support digital collections, digital scholarship, and the digital repository. The Repository Services Librarian will manage the digital repository and supervise a staff of three in support of digital repository services and a platform which provides free, open access to digital materials that embody the scholarly, cultural, and creative activities of Iowa State University. Example services include the facilitated deposit of research material and publications as well as the maintenance of ISU research profiles and support for the ISU open access initiatives.   The Repository Services Librarian will be instrumental in the continued success of the digital repository, now in its 10th year, by liaising with participating repository faculty and staff, departments, and the Graduate College on the evolution and value of the digital repository and digital repository services. The Repository Services Librarian will evaluate programs, services, policies, and processes of the unit and will work collaboratively with other library units and departments to meet the goals of DSI and the library. As part of their work, the Repository Services Librarian will participate in discussions and working groups focused on library resource discovery, open scholarship and scholarly communication, and collection development...." Tue, 25 Apr 2023 04:44:00 -0400 https://isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJobs/job/Ames-IA/Digital-Repository-Services-Librarian_R11604 oa.new oa.jobs oa.usa oa.libraries oa.repositories oa.usa.ia "Libraries give access to and facilitate use of information. Libraries of all types carry out preservation initiatives, build knowledge platforms, and develop programmes and services for the benefit of their users. Yet the ability to undertake these activities is not entirely in the hands of libraries, nor librarians. A key factor in determining what they can and cannot do is copyright law. When copyright law works well, its legal framework enables libraries and supports the vital and unique contribution these institutions and the profession make. A positive example, in the science and education space, is the rise of Open Access (OA). This recognises that the best interests of society are served not by paywalls, but by maximising access, use and re-use. Of course, the transition to OA is far from complete, and key challenges do remain. This edition therefore looks at progress made and what we need to do next, including an article from the team behind IFLA’s latest OA statement, as well as the people working on our OA vocabularies project. There is also a snapshot of just a few of our other volunteer units working to make inclusive open access a reality around the world...." Mon, 24 Apr 2023 02:40:00 -0400 https://www.ifla.org/news/ifla-newsletter-april-2023/ oa.new oa.ifla oa.librarians oa.libraries oa.culture oa.ch "At our Funders Summit last year, we started our collective funding pilot with the goal to experiment with and learn from building a more collective, open and transparent funding process, in which we serve real community needs through centring the voices of those who are most impacted by/under-represented in funding decision-making. We are now launching a design survey for this next phase of the pilot. We would like to invite everyone, particularly those voices mentioned above, to fill in the survey to help inform how this funding will be distributed. The survey is also an opportunity for anyone to express interest in joining the advisory panels for the funding calls that we aim to launch in mid-May...." Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:52:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/collective-funding-pilot-designing-a-funding-call/ oa.surveys oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.consultations "...The United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library and UNESCO will host a virtual panel addressing mechanisms towards an equitable scholarly publishing ecosystems for the SDGs and beyond. In this session, attendees will hear concrete recommendations from experts for generating greater access to scientific knowledge in service of the SDGs and the need for a Global Science Commons.    The discussion will be presented as a side-event during one of the most important 2-day global forums the United Nations delivers annually, the 8th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals. The event will take place on 2 May 2023 from 10:00AM - 11:30AM EDT (New York Time). Panelists: Dr. Virginia Barbour, Director, Open Access Australasia Dr. Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Dr. Tshiamo Motshegwa, Director, African Open Science Platform (AOSP) Dr. Ana Persic, Program Specialist, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Mr. Thanos Giannakopoulos, Chief Librarian, UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library Moderator: Mx. Meg Wacha, Scholarly Communications Officer, UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library..." Thu, 20 Apr 2023 10:51:00 -0400 https://www.un.org/library/os oa.new oa.events oa.dei oa.publishing oa.unesco oa.sdgs Google translate: "DataCite, ORCID and ROR are pleased to invite the Latin American research community to participate in an event entirely dedicated to persistent identifiers and open science in the region. Aimed at research directors and managers, librarians and technical staff, in this meeting we will talk about the benefits of persistent identifiers and how their adoption contributes to open science and a more open and robust research ecosystem. Use cases from Argentine and international institutions will be presented and there will be ample space for discussion and networking. Registration is free but places are limited..." Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:23:00 -0400 https://info.orcid.org/event/identificadores-persistentes-pids-y-la-ciencia-abierta-en-america-latina/ oa.spanish oa.pids oa.orcid oa.new oa.latin_america oa.events oa.argentina oa.events oa.south "...Our team is growing - 4 new jobs available at IOI. To support the growth and development of COIs from an initial prototype to an integrated service that is representative of the open infrastructure landscape, we are recruiting for four new roles. The four roles available are Product Lead; Engagement Coordinator, Infrastructure; Research Data Analyst; and Django developer. All these roles are fully remote, allowing applicants worldwide to apply. The application deadline is May 15, 2023. For further information, visit our website. IOI Team in Argentina for in-person events. Next week, our Engagement Lead Emmy Tsang and Research Data Analysts Tania Hernandez and Naomi Penfold will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the workshop on accelerating open science in Latin America organized by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Tania and Emmy will lead a participatory budgeting exercise to identify open infrastructure needs in Latin America. The trio will also be at csv,conf where Tania will be presenting on our funding trends work...." Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:55:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2023-04-14/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.jobs "Library publishing has a long history, coming into its own with the Internet, the proliferation of open source and proprietary publishing platforms, the rapid expansion of formal library publishing programs globally, and a vibrant international community of practice nurtured by the  Library Publishing Coalition and  IFLA’s Special Interest Group .  Today, hundreds of libraries globally are engaged in numerous aspects of publishing, from local, informal initiatives, to extensive, diverse, and sophisticated formats.  The growth of this area of library activity knows no bounds and continues to grow exponentially, gaining added impetus with open science, EDI, and bibliodiversity imperatives. The satellite seeks to explore how the growth of this passionate and energetic work by library publishers is impacting three areas of high value for society:  (1) Library Publishing Supporting open science; (2) Library Publishing Supporting open pedagogy; and (3) Library Publishing Supporting an educated society. The SIG Program Committee enthusiastically solicits and welcomes proposals in each of our featured areas, with the aim of inspiring and engaging the IFLA community as our professionals pursue goals that are at the heart of library missions and values.... Date:  Saturday, August 19, 2023 –  9:30 – 5:00 p.m. Location:  Koninklijke Bibliotheek / Royal Library of the Netherlands, Den Haag...." Fri, 14 Apr 2023 07:54:00 -0400 https://2023.ifla.org/cfp-satellite-library-publishing/ oa.new oa.cfp oa.libpub oa.impact oa.publishing oa.netherlands oa.librarians oa.events "1-hour webinar hosted by the Forum for Open Research in MENA (F.O.R.M.) in collaboration with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). **Limited Seats Available** **French Language Presentation** In this 1-hour webinar, Professor Kamel Belhamel (Managing editor of DOAJ), will explore the open access landscape in Northern Africa. The first half of the webinar will look at the barriers faced by scholarly publications when looking to develop and implement open access publishing practices. In the second half of this webinar, Professor Kamel will discuss the benefits for open access journals of being indexed in DOAJ, give some tips on DOAJ evaluation metrics, and explain what editorial boards can do to maximise their chances of acceptance into the index...." Fri, 14 Apr 2023 07:26:00 -0400 https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wYI1oSDYRSSI3WhBfb3BTQ oa.new oa.mena oa.events oa.doaj oa.africa oa.events oa.south "The OAI series of meetings have a tradition of maintaining as broad a focus as possible on community engagement and taking an encompassing look at aspects of ‘Open’. The poster session is a valuable way to highlight good practice and develop ideas from a wide range of sources, backgrounds and experiences. We are inviting submissions for a digital call for Posters under the theme: Open Science in our time. Call has been extended through April 30th, 2023...." Mon, 10 Apr 2023 04:24:00 -0400 https://oai.events/oai13-call-for-posters/ oa.new oa.cfp oa.events oa.scholcomm "OAI13 – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held virtually from 4-8 September 2023. Make sure to visit the website or follow @OAI_GE on Twitter to be kept informed about the program! ... Session 1: Open Science in times of conflict Session 2: Ownership of scholarly infrastructure Session 3: Diamond Open Access Session 4: Implementing the UNESCO recommendations on Open Science Session 5: Research Evaluation... Organising bodies: CERN, University of Geneva" Mon, 10 Apr 2023 04:21:00 -0400 https://oai.events/oai13/ oa.unesco oa.no-fee oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.events oa.cern oa.scholcomm oa.events "...Under the theme Synergizing Global Efforts to Expand the Access to Scholarly Scientific Knowledge, we discussed that the access should be free, immediate, and universal, high subscription and Article Processing Charges levied by journals must be reduced, the establishment of Interoperable inter-linking of national repositories with international repositories/ archives, and having Open Access mandate to make knowledge outputs of public-funded scientific research widely available. The third theme was on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Science & Technology (S&T). The participating countries shared their work in advancing access to the under-represented, under-privileged, marginalized, minority as well as tribal/ native communities in the larger scientific enterprise. In the session, the Inclusion of Traditional Knowledge Systems (TKS) in formal system of knowledge through due scientific validation process, and Recognizing the potential of language diversity and addressing the bottlenecks in accessing scientific knowledge were also discussed.  It was agreed upon that the scientific advisers play a critical role in shaping policy choices by providing evidence-driven science advice and that the in the spirit of cooperation and dialogue, it is the responsibility of chief science advisers to collaborate and engage in international dialogue to address transboundary issues affecting the entire scientific enterprise so that the science and technology can benefit all. The deliberations and engagement on the topics discussed today will continue until August 2023, when the next meeting is scheduled, in which a Science Policy Communiqué will be released...." Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:06:00 -0400 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1911981 oa.policies oa.new oa.government oa.events oa.g20 oa.uk oa.turkey oa.south_korea oa.south_africa oa.saudi_arabia oa.russia oa.mexico oa.latin_america oa.italy oa.indonesia oa.india oa.germany oa.france oa.china oa.canada oa.brazil oa.australia oa.argentina oa.japan oa.usa oa.europe oa.events oa.south oa.asia "Welcome to the Publishers Learning and Community Exchange. Things are best achieved by working together. Here at the Publishers Learning and Community Exchange we aim to make it easier for you to find solutions to problems, access the most relevant information, gain a better understanding of publishing processes and standards, and share experiences and best practices. We realize that the sheer number of agencies involved in regulating and preserving scholarly content is in itself a challenge, and can be very confusing for new organizations. We envisaged the PLACE as a ‘one stop shop’ to information to support publishers in adopting best practices the industry developed. We also hope that by setting the information service as a forum, we will encourage open exchange with publishers who aspire to do things right. Please browse through the topics of interest. Please ask questions in response to posts already existing on this forum, and by starting new topics within any of the forum categories (you will need to register as a user to do that). Please don’t hesitate to introduce yourself briefly to colleagues in this community and read others’ introductions...." Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:43:00 -0400 https://theplace.discourse.group/ oa.publishers oa.place oa.oaspa oa.new oa.doaj oa.discussions oa.cope oa.best_practices oa.crossref oa.publishing "The Publishers Learning And Community Exchange (PLACE) at theplace.discourse.group is a new online public forum created for organisations who wish to adopt best practices in scholarly publishing. It has been co-developed by four organisations – Crossref, DOAJ, Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA). When OASPA recently asked our Scholar Publisher members if they needed publishing support, 70% said that they did. They also said they seek connection with other scholar publishers...." https://theplace.discourse.group/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:41:00 -0400 https://oaspa.org/introducing-the-publishers-learning-and-community-exchange-place/ oa.publishers oa.place oa.oaspa oa.new oa.doaj oa.discussions oa.cope oa.best_practices oa.crossref oa.publishing "Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) has received a generous grant of USD 1 million from the Mellon Foundation to catalyze investment in and adoption of open infrastructure in research. IOI is a fiscally sponsored project of Code for Science & Society. This grant will support the further development and productization of the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs) and the testing of critical models and strategies to widen the pool of investors in open infrastructure. COIs is designed as a resource for funders, users, and other interested stakeholders looking to make informed decisions about the open infrastructure services for research and scholarship. ... With this grant, we will be able to further develop the utility, usability, and value of COIs into a fully functional web application ... In addition, the grant will support our exploration of strategies to engage for-profit and non-profit companies serving the scholarly communications and research sector in reinvesting revenue derived from open knowledge and open research activities back into the underlying open infrastructure and services that underpin knowledge production. This targeted engagement and analysis approach to explore further diversification of funding sources is a critical next step to finding viable solutions towards creating a vibrant, viable, and sustainable ecosystem of open infrastructure services...." Tue, 04 Apr 2023 04:39:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/ioi-receives-1m-from-the-mellon-foundation-to-scale-the-catalog-of-open-infrastructure-services-cois/ oa.new oa.monitoring oa.mellon_foundation oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.cois oa.business_models oa.jobs Google translate: "...This book discusses in full how to run institutional repository applications. The initial stage is given an understanding of how to run a server and its supporting devices in implementing an institutional repository. Next is an understanding of several institutional repository applications that already exist such as the Walanae version of Omeka, Eprints and Difoss. The material that follows provides an overview and practical tips for developing some of the features that are already available at the application development stage. And finally, it explains in detail how to run the service API on Eprints so that it can become a database for developing eprints as a center for other applications such as statistical application services, digital preservation monitoring applications, and others...." Published: Jakarta: ISIPII [Association of Indonesian Library and Information Professionals], 2023 Mon, 03 Apr 2023 04:13:00 -0400 https://www.isipii.org/berita/buku-perangkat-pendukung-sistem-repositori-institusi-basic-expert oa.training oa.south oa.repositories oa.new oa.libass oa.indonesian oa.indonesia oa.repositories "Austin Peay State University seeks an enthusiastic, innovative, and collaborative team member for the Scholarly Engagement Librarian. This 12-month, tenure track position reports to the Director of Library Services and will develop, coordinate, and promote access to scholarly resources with an emphasis on education, outreach, and advocacy. Provides training and support to faculty, students, and staff on intellectual property, copyright, fair use, open access, open education, and scholarly publishing. Advances and promotes the use of ASPIRE, APSU’s institutional repository, as well as other scholarly interdisciplinary communication tools provided by the library. Monitors the scholarly communication landscape, including funding and publishing trends, to keep colleagues informed. Collaboratively develops and supports curricular and co-curricular programming in the area of research and creative activities...." Mon, 03 Apr 2023 02:16:00 -0400 https://apsu.peopleadmin.com/postings/15366 oa.new oa.jobs oa.usa oa.hei oa.repositories oa.usa.tn "Northwestern University Libraries seek a Digital Publishing and Repository Librarian committed to open scholarship and providing innovative services to faculty and students for creating and publishing original educational and scholarly materials. This role is integral to the Libraries’ collaboration across campus and the wider academic community in the planning, execution, and assessment of a variety of digital publishing ventures. Digital publishing services include project management, production, metadata, design, hosting, and archiving for digital publications, including Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Access (OA) journals, and OA monographs in collaboration with Northwestern faculty, students, and other scholars and campus partners. Current digital publishing projects include the peer-reviewed journal Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, monographs and websites for Northwestern University's Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, and OER created through the Affordable Instructional Resources (AIR) Faculty Grant Program. As the service manager for Arch, Northwestern’s institutional repository the Digital Publishing and Repository Librarian promotes faculty deposits to Arch and collaborates with other library departments to report user feedback to improve overall experiences. The Digital Publishing and Repository Librarian keeps abreast of trends and best practices in library-based publishing, especially in relation to OA, OER, open science, digital humanities, and new methods of publishing in digital formats. This role also actively participates in planning and implementing new initiatives that transform digital scholarship within the Libraries, across the University, and throughout the scholarly publishing domain...." Mon, 03 Apr 2023 02:13:00 -0400 https://www.carli.illinois.edu/digital-publishing-and-repository-librarian-northwestern-university oa.new oa.jobs oa.usa oa.libraries oa.repositories oa.usa.il "The Library Publishing Forum (May 8–11, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. ETD) is virtual this year! Here are the latest updates on registration, program, and keynotes. Register now! The registration fee is a super affordable $25 USD for the whole Forum. However, we do not want cost to be a barrier to participation for anyone, so a waived-fee ticket option is also available for those who need it. ...Full session descriptions are linked on the website and will also be available on our Sched site to registered attendees. ...Opening and closing keynotes for the conference will focus on ethical issues in the library publishing environment. Our two speakers are Dorothea Salo,  Deborah Poff..." Mon, 03 Apr 2023 01:23:00 -0400 https://librarypublishing.org/2023-library-publishing-forum-updates-registration-program-keynotes-and-social-events/ oa.new oa.events oa.lpc oa.libpub oa.publishing oa.libraries "The OA Diamond and Institutional Publishing Landscape Survey has just launched. View the questionnaire in full here. With the survey, we hope to map how Institutional Publishing is currently organised in order to understand existing challenges and develop resources, tools,  policies, and strategies which support the Institutional Publishers and associated stakeholders. The survey will remain open until 30 April. DIAMAS will create a registry of “institutional publishing service providers” through the landscape mapping conducted in the survey, building a community ready to share knowledge and collaborate. A series of best practices, policy recommendations, and guidelines will be created to help strengthen the community and set evidence-based quality standards. Questions are aimed at Institutional Publishing Services Providers (IPSPs) from the European Research Area...." Thu, 30 Mar 2023 20:55:00 -0400 https://diamasproject.eu/oa-diamond-and-institutional-publishing-landscape-survey/ oa.new oa.diamas oa.publishing oa.surveys oa.europe oa.no-fee oa.journals "Conference Agenda: Overview and details of the sessions of this conference...." Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:50:00 -0400 https://www.conftool.net/or2023/sessions.php oa.south_africa oa.south oa.repositories oa.new oa.events oa.africa oa.repositories oa.events "Liverpool University Press (LUP) and CEU Press are pleased to announce that the library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is a new member of the Opening the Future (OtF) programmes at both publishers.  The library has chosen to sign up to: At CEU Press: the Library Selection Package, which contains 50 eBooks ...At LUP: the Modern Languages Package which contains 37 eBooks ... The library will retain access to all of these books with both presses in perpetuity after three years of membership.  The library’s membership fee allows both presses to make new books open in ways that do not burden authors that don’t have research grants to pay BPCs. LUP and CEU Press use OtF membership funds to publish only new frontlist OA titles and have between them already published 13 titles all fully funded by the programme. Further books are in the production pipeline at both presses and will be released as further OtF funding accrues...." Thu, 30 Mar 2023 02:44:00 -0400 https://www.openingthefuture.net/news/97/ oa.new oa.books oa.up oa.libraries oa.publishers oa.no-fee oa.business_models oa.u.tennessee oa.opening_the_future "The Academic Library as Scholarly Publisher Bibliography includes over 300 selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports about academic libraries' digital publishing programs from 1989 though 2022. While academic libraries have published a variety of digital publications during this period, this bibliography primarily covers the open access publishing of scholarly books, journals, and other serials. It provides an overview of academic library publishing efforts and then covers pioneering library publishing projects in the 1980s and 1990s, librarian-led association and unaffiliated publishing projects in the 1990s, library-based publishing since 1999, new university presses established by libraries, library and university press mergers/partnerships, and library technical publishing infrastructure. It includes full abstracts for works under certain Creative Commons Licenses. It is available as a website and a PDF file (52 pages)." Wed, 29 Mar 2023 07:09:00 -0400 https://digital-scholarship.org/alsp/alsp-print.pdf oa.new oa.publishing oa.history_of oa.libpub oa.libraries "As more funder open access policies are launched—and more researchers are covered by one or more requirements—there is an increasing need to support authors in fulfilling the varied terms of these policies. With a mission to build tools so that open access is easy and equitable, OA.Works has focused on providing support to faculty, funders, and libraries to make compliance as easy as possible. Join the next OpenCon Library Community Call on Tuesday, April 11th, at 12pm ET / 9am PT for a conversation with Joe McArthur, director of OA.Works, about emerging tools to support compliance and what kinds of future support would be most helpful for libraries...." Tue, 28 Mar 2023 22:08:00 -0400 https://www.opencon.community/april_2023_librarian_call oa.new oa.events oa.compliance oa.oa_works oa.tools "We are excited to share that we’ve launched a groundbreaking AI subsystem that is specifically tailored for publishing platforms. This subsystem will empower partners to build AI features into their workflows and enable us to include AI capabilities in the publishing platforms we build for organizations. ... This brand new subsystem is built with the latest machine learning algorithms, and it’s designed with the specific needs of our publishing partners in mind. We’re confident that the subsystem is intuitive and easy to leverage, and we’re eager to see how our partners will use it to drive their publishing businesses forward. The AI subsystem offers a wide range of possibilities for partners, including automated image recognition and tagging, natural language processing for text analysis, predictive analytics for forecasting and trend analysis, and personalized recommendations based on user behavior...." Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:51:00 -0400 https://coko.foundation/blog/introducing-our-groundbreaking-ai-subsystem.html oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.coko oa.ai oa.publishing "Join CHRIS BOURG in conversation with author PETER BALDWIN about the history & promise of the open access movement....Open access (OA) could one day put the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips. But the goal of allowing everyone to read everything faces fierce resistance. In Athena Unbound, Peter Baldwin offers an up-to-date look at the ideals and history behind OA, and unpacks the controversies that arise when the dream of limitless information slams into entrenched interests in favor of the status quo. In addition to providing a clear analysis of the debates, Baldwin focuses on thorny issues such as copyright and ways to pay for “free” knowledge. He also provides a roadmap that would make OA economically viable and, as a result, advance one of humanity’s age-old ambitions...." Wed, 22 Mar 2023 07:36:00 -0400 http://blog.archive.org/2023/02/28/book-talk-athena-unbound/ oa.new oa.events oa.history_of oa.debates "Do you want to learn more about Dryad, LA Referencia and ROR, the infrastructures selected for the 4th funding cycle of Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS)? Join LIBER, EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) and SCOSS for a 75-minute webinar focused on these critical open infrastructures for science and scholarship, the services they provide, and how your institution can support them through SCOSS...." Wed, 22 Mar 2023 02:07:00 -0400 https://libereurope.eu/event/keeping-open-infrastructure-open-the-scoss-4th-pledging-round-info-session/ oa.infrastructure oa.scoss oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.events oa.events oa.funders "...Who we are talking to: Al Kags and Esther Njagi, Open Institute, to learn more about their work with governments, community-based organizations, and citizens in driving community participation in local resourcing decisions. Declan Ottaro, Ushahidi, to understand more about their crisis response platform and their work in community building and ensuring data privacy and platform reliability. Our Executive Director Kaitlin Thaney, Engagement Lead Emmy Tsang, and Communications Associate Jerry Sellanga are at the WACREN 2023 conference this week to speak with and learn from their participants...." Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:10:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2023-03-17/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure In 2023, the SciELO Program launches the SciELO MarketPlace as a platform to promote the supply and demand of scholarly communication products and services compatible with the methodologies and technologies of the SciELO Publication Model, being projected as an important advance for the scholarly communication infrastructure in the countries of the SciELO Network. ... SciELO MarketPlace is an evolution of SciELO’s policy and procedures to certify companies from Brazil and abroad that are qualified in the provision of products and services in line with SciELO’s methodologies and standards for the production of journals and articles with more than ten years of experience. These companies decisively contributed to the improvement of SciELO journals and to the national research communication infrastructure. From these experiences, SciELO MarketPlace is projected as a notable advance based on an online platform initially in Portuguese and in the future multilingual that will bring together the competitive offer of a growing number of scholarly communication products and services and the informed purchase by well-defined mechanisms of selection and evaluation. The SciELO Program will implement SciELO MarketPlace by means of the Fundação de Apoio à Universidade Federal de São Paulo (FapUNIFESP), responsible for the administrative and legal management of the SciELO Brazil Collection, in partnership with Bradoo, a company specialized in customizing services based on ERP Odoo, which is an Integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) that will provide reliability, maintenance and updating of its functionalities. The MarketPlace is primarily intended to serve the research communication of the SciELO Network, but it will be accessible and publicly available to any user...." Fri, 17 Mar 2023 01:19:00 -0400 https://blog.scielo.org/en/2023/03/16/scielo-marketplace/ oa.latin_america oa.scielo oa.portuguese oa.new oa.latin_america oa.journals oa.infrastructure oa.brazil oa.platforms oa.scholcomm oa.south oa.publishing "FORCE2023 will be online 18-20 April. An inspiring line-up of speakers will discuss their perspective on the theme of Thinking/Acting: The Global and the Local. We will explore tensions between local ways of knowing and globally-imposed standards, and share insights on local academic citizenship and global systems of knowledge production, evaluation, and science communications....FORCE11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Individually and collectively, we aim to bring about a change in modern scholarly communications through the effective use of information technology...." Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:45:00 -0400 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/force23-tickets-576271622937 oa.new oa.training oa.events oa.force11 "In August of this year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced new guidance that requires all federal agencies to define, by 2025, policies that ensure immediate public access to federally funded research publications in agency-designated repositories. These policy changes have the potential to dramatically increase access to public research, but they also come with implementation challenges. These agency-designated repositories can have highly variable submission requirements and capabilities, and research institutions often have their own open access policies and guidelines, which introduce additional expectations. Taken together, all of these requirements place a considerable burden on researchers who wish to comply with all applicable public access policies with minimal effort. The Public Access Submission System (PASS) was designed specifically to address these challenges. PASS was created to take into account the requirements of multiple federal agency and institutional repository systems and to guide researchers through the deposit process, ensuring that all of the necessary information is collected at one time and then submitted to all of the required deposit endpoints...." Panellists: Bill Branan, Senior Manager, Open Source Programs Office and Digital Research & Curation Center, Johns Hopkins University John Kellerman, Eclipse Public Access Submission System (PASS) Program Manager, Eclipse Foundation Sayeed Choudhury, Director of Open Source Programs Office, Carnegie Mellon University Tue, 14 Mar 2023 04:39:00 -0400 https://www.cni.org/topics/ci/how-the-public-access-submission-system-is-ideally-suited-to-address-the-new-ostp-memorandum oa.funders oa.video oa.tools oa.repositories oa.policies.funders oa.policies oa.pass oa.new oa.events oa.eclipse_foundation oa.deposits oa.repositories oa.ostp oa.events oa.usa oa.funders "The Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is pleased to release our 2022 Annual Report, highlighting the range of activities we have undertaken in conjunction with our members to accelerate the pace of discovery; reduce information-sharing gaps; encourage innovation; and promote equity, evidence-based policy making, and reproducibility. We look forward to further collaborating with our members and the broader cross-sector community in the coming year to advance open practices and incentives." Tue, 14 Mar 2023 01:25:00 -0400 https://www.orfg.org/news/2023/3/2/orfg-releases-2022-annual-report oa.new oa.funders oa.orfg "As both agencies and institutions prepare for the implementation of the 2022 OSTP Memo, there are a variety of ways libraries can support this work—both on campus and in advocacy to ensure agency plans lead to strong policies. Join the next OpenCon Library Community Call on Tuesday, March 14th, at 12pm ET / 9am PT to discuss how libraries are preparing for the 2022 memo to take effect, what additional types of support could help in this preparation, and the important role libraries can play in advocacy around implementation. Katie Steen-James, SPARC’s Manager of Public Policy & Advocacy, will join the discussion and walk through the first opportunity for libraries to help shape the implementation of the memo in the NIH’s recently announced Request for Information on their plan to implement the 2022 memo.  Note: This call is open to those working in libraries and academic institutions rather than vendors, who are asked to respect the purpose of these calls for candid discussion...." Mon, 13 Mar 2023 23:39:00 -0400 https://www.opencon.community/march_2023_librarian_call oa.new oa.events oa.usa oa.ostp oa.libraries oa.implementation "...Our new logo and visual identity represent a fresh start for IOI. Designed in collaboration with Zack Adell, an experienced designer based in Nairobi, Kenya, the new branding features a modern, bold design that keeps elements of simplicity and clarity. The new logo highlights the fundamental, intersecting, and additive natures of our work. The use of bright colours and clean lines help to convey our commitment to transparency, accessibility, and openness. The globe visual element signifies our desire to build with a global community. The hand-drawn arrows and brush strokes add authenticity, creativity, and playfulness to our designs...." Mon, 13 Mar 2023 07:04:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/introducing-our-new-logo-and-visual-identity/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "The ESEAP Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team invites you to submit a program idea for Wikimania. The program submission form is available in Arabic, English, French, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. We are working on including Indonesian. Submissions are accepted from Tuesday, February 28 until Tuesday, March 28, 2023....The theme for Wikimania 2023 is Diversity, Collaboration, Future. It is intended to be cross-cutting and to apply as a lens to all programming ideas. Your submission should have elements connecting to at least one of these. A lot of what we do every day in Wikimedia – on the projects or in the community – is already reflective of the theme and very much in line with how the ESEAP regional collaboration identifies and operates...." Mon, 13 Mar 2023 04:32:00 -0400 https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/Submissions oa.new oa.cfp oa.wikipedia oa.events "...During the months of March and April, we will conduct initial exploratory research focusing on three regions: Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Our research team has conducted desk research to identify key stakeholders to reach out to each of the world regions and are in the process of setting up interviews and designing a conversation guide for this work. You can find out more on our Regional Research project webpage. We’re prioritizing research on Africa and Latin America in particular. Later this month, members of the IOI team will be in Ghana to learn more about open infrastructure needs and funding and to connect with key stakeholders in the region. Similarly, next month, we'll be in Argentina, joining csv,conf,v7 and the “Accelerating Open Science in Latin America” workshop hosted by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to learn more about needs and funding in Latin America.. At the same time, we've started a virtual listening tour of India. We hope to later expand the tour to include other countries in the vast Asian continent. This exploration is fundamental in informing and shaping key pieces of work that we’re looking to advance this year, including the next phase of the collective funding pilot, funding trends research, the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs), and the fund we’re aiming to launch in 2024...." Fri, 10 Mar 2023 01:26:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/exploring-open-infrastructure-needs-in-latin-america-africa-and-asia-a-new-research-project/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.india oa.ghana oa.events oa.argentina oa.latin_america oa.africa oa.asia oa.events oa.south "...Here, we present an initial exploration of funding for open infrastructure services by analysing grant information reported by funders from 2010 to 2020. Based on our previous work to define key terms and concepts and identify available data sources, we iteratively collected and analysed information on cash grants from 28 open infrastructure service providers and 21 funders. The compiled dataset is made available on Zenodo. The goal of this exploration is to identify trends in funding allocation as well as gaps in funding information. Our investigation also aims to craft more questions on resource allocation that can be explored in future studies using financial data and input from stakeholders within the space...." Thu, 09 Mar 2023 03:31:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/exploring-funding-for-open-infrastructure-services-preliminary-observations-and-next-steps/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.economics_of oa.funding "Abstract: This research study aims to measure the Open Access (OA) friendliness of National Institutes of Technology (NITs) of India that are listed in the overall category of NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework), 2021 by taking into consideration four important OA parameters – i) OA publication share; ii) OA licensing scenario; iii) citation impact of OA publications; and iv) altmetric scores of OA publications. It deals with 64,485 publications of the selected 11 NITs during the period from 2012 to 2021 (10 years), citations received by these publications (5,42,638 citations), and altmetric attention scores of the documents (5,213 publications) during the period under study. A data carpentry tool, namely OpenRefine, and open access bibliographic/citation data sources such as Unpaywall, Dimensions, and Altmetric.com have been deployed to accomplish this large-scale study for ranking NITs by their Open Access Friendliness (OAF). The OAF indicator, as applied in this study, is a distributed weightage based 100-point scale built on top of the aforesaid OA parameters. The ranking framework shows that Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat (est. in 1961) has achieved the top position with a score of 52.12 (out of 100), but in totality only 3 NITs (out of the selected 11 NITs) crossed the 50 per cent mark in the adapted OAF scale." Roy, A., & Mukhopadhyay, P. (2022). Assessing Open Access Friendliness of National Institutes of Technology (NITs) A Data Carpentry Approach. DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, 42(5), 331-338. https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.42.5.18263 Thu, 09 Mar 2023 03:21:00 -0500 https://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/djlit/article/view/18263 oa.south oa.rankings oa.new oa.licensing oa.india oa.impact oa.hei oa.data oa.citations oa.altmetrics "As a member of the UK’s prestigious Russell Group, Manchester University is recognised as a world-leading research institution. You can read more about the University’s commitment to Open Access (OA) at their website here. Thanks to Manchester University’s support, the flourishing of a more bibliodiverse landscape for scholarly books is better assured. By becoming a member of the Open Book Collective, libraries have the opportunity to evaluate, compare, and support a bespoke range of small-to-medium Open Access book publishers and groups that are building important technical infrastructure for the creation and curation of OA books, and are also able to combine initiatives in any way they see fit, as well as support the OBC as a whole, thereby enabling libraries to support OA books in ways that allow them to demonstrate that their investments in OA books have broad impact in multiple sectors of the landscape of scholarly communications. The OBC, and the librarians who support it, are committed to a more equitable landscape for OA books and moving away from author-facing Book Processing Charges, our members are committed to collaborative, horizontal modes of working together on opening access to scholarly books for readers globally, without monetary, technical, or other barriers...." Mon, 06 Mar 2023 06:56:00 -0500 https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/kb284k7b/release/2 oa.uk oa.u.manchester oa.open_book_collective oa.new oa.libraries oa.hei oa.books "FORCE2023 will be online 18-20 April. An inspiring line-up of speakers will discuss their perspective on the theme of Thinking/Acting: The Global and the Local. We'll explore tensions between local ways of knowing and globally-imposed standards, and share insights on local academic citizenship and global systems of knowledge production, evaluation, and science communications...." Mon, 06 Mar 2023 03:34:00 -0500 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/force11-annual-conference-registration-539236710517 oa.new oa.events oa.force11 "...We are launching an exploratory research project to better understand open infrastructure needs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The aim is to better understand the initiatives, people, and issues involved in scholarly infrastructure in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Read more on the research. In two weeks, we will host our first-ever in-person workshop in Africa in collaboration with the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN). The event will bring funders, intermediaries, and open infrastructure service providers together to explore common mechanisms to further investment in open infrastructure in Africa. It will feature representatives from organizations including the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), and the Ghanaian Academic and Research Network (GARNET). More details are on this page. A fresh new look for IOI coming soon. Since the start of the year, our Outreach and Engagement team, in collaboration with Zack Adell, has been working on developing a new brand identity for IOI. Stay tuned for more updates as we begin the rollout of our new identity in the coming weeks...." Fri, 03 Mar 2023 04:01:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2023-03-03/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "...it is critical we explore how to sustain a viable and vibrant ecosystem of preprints infrastructure that is independent of commercial publishers – this is not yet assured. This infrastructure includes servers through which preprints are shared online, as well as tools and services that support the use of preprints. arXiv is a preprint server that is considered essential in several communities in physics, computer science and other quantitative disciplines. Despite successfully building a revenue model that shares the burden between Cornell University, the Simons Foundation and several members and supporters, arXiv’s “funding is still outpaced by [their] growth” – the server hosts over 2 million preprints already and is growing by 10% each year. And while arXiv has been supporting more and more scholars to share and discover preprints, the team behind it has been through significant changes in leadership and is dealing with the urgent need to modernize their 30-year-old technology. As a former Executive Director of arXiv noted, “[arXiv’s success] may not last forever”. Similarly, the recent news that Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has renewed its financial support for the leading preprint servers in biology and medicine, bioRxiv and medRxiv is welcome relief, but this support is temporary, and the team must find a way to continue in the long run. Unfortunately, without greater transparency in the governance of bioRxiv and medRxiv, we do not know if there is anything stopping them from being acquired by a commercial publisher...." Thu, 02 Mar 2023 05:04:00 -0500 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/03/02/lack-of-sustainability-plans-for-preprint-services-risks-their-potential-to-improve-science/ oa.repositories oa.repositories.preprints oa.sustainability oa.preprints oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.economics_of oa.risks oa.repositories oa.preprints "Clemson Libraries seeks a dynamic, driven, and collaborative Department Head for Open Scholarship to provide leadership and expertise at Clemson Libraries. The Open Scholarship Department includes services such as open educational resources, scholarly communications, experiential learning, research data services, and digital humanities/scholarship.  The department also houses learning spaces including the Scholars’ Lab, the Adobe Studio and Makerspace. The Department Head of Open Scholarship (OS) will be responsible for planning, implementing, and managing a newly created open scholarship department that provides support for digital scholarship, digital literacy, data literacy, digital preservation, faculty research, Open Access initiatives and advocacy, and scholarly communication.  The department head will play an active role in recruiting and retaining faculty librarians and staff for the department. The department head will also collaborate with faculty, administrators, and staff to create meaningful partnerships with campus groups including the Division of Research, Clemson Computing & Information Technology, Graduate School, the Office of General Counsel, etc.  This position requires a high degree of collaborative leadership and initiative and will be critical to the Libraries’ strategic growth as an R1 institution. Clemson Libraries faculty are members of the academic community, with responsibilities in the areas of librarianship, scholarship, and service. This is a 12-month tenure-track faculty position and works under the direction of the Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning, and Research...." Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:01:00 -0500 https://apply.interfolio.com/121678 oa.new oa.jobs oa.usa oa.usa.sc "...We are joining the OBC because we believe that the best future for academic book publishing lies in collectively funded, equitable open access for books. We believe in the value of non-profit, community-owned open infrastructures to underpin this shift, and we support collaborative ways of working to achieve our goals. The OBC reflects all these values. The Collective realises the strength of collaboration and mutual effort in two ways: firstly, because it brings together a range of OA book initiatives that share core values and are seeking collective funding, forming a powerful collection of books and initiatives and making it easier for libraries to find, assess and support the OA books that these initiatives have to offer; secondly, because a proportion of the revenue a press receives from libraries via the OBC will go into a development fund to which any open access press or initiative can apply in order to strengthen their work...." Wed, 01 Mar 2023 23:57:00 -0500 https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/open-book-publishers-joins-the-open-book-collective/ oa.publishers oa.new oa.copim oa.books oa.academic_led oa.obp oa.open_book_collective "Tell us about your research & how you use the Internet Archive to further it! We are gathering testimonials about how our library & collections are used in different research projects & settings. From using our books to check citations to doing large-scale data analysis using our web archives, we want to hear from you! Share your story now!" Wed, 01 Mar 2023 06:40:00 -0500 http://blog.archive.org/2023/02/21/how-do-you-use-the-internet-archive-in-your-research/ oa.new oa.cfp oa.authors oa.internet_archive "Developing, maintaining, and sustaining fit-for-purpose community infrastructure is a challenge in the higher education and research sectors, particularly when the technology and policy environments are in flux. Ithaka S+R has conducted a variety of projects and studies touching on these issues over several years. Today, I’m pleased to share that we are launching a new study focusing on shared infrastructure in support of scholarly communication, with support from STM Solutions. The Project For some time, shared infrastructure has been a key enabler for delivering the services that authors and readers need from scholarly communication. Services like reference linking, repositories, identifiers, single sign-on, and digital preservation have supported the digital transformation of scholarly publishing, enabling new and improved services and achieving real efficiencies for all stakeholder communities. Looking ahead, it is necessary to sustain and in some cases improve existing shared infrastructure, even as next generation shared infrastructure must be developed to support the research community.... As part of this project, we will be conducting interviews this spring with individuals from major stakeholder groups, including infrastructure providers, researchers, open science community members, publishers, and librarians, among others. This spring, we will publish a landscape overview of shared infrastructure for scholarly communication. Over the summer, we will issue a draft report of our findings to allow for broad input. We expect to publish the final report in the fall.... And, with respect to shared infrastructure, we have just launched a project with the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and other partners to design and prototype a shared community infrastructure that will support collections and collecting, with our work focused on governance and sustainability issues for this collaboration...." Wed, 01 Mar 2023 04:07:00 -0500 https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/supporting-shared-infrastructure-for-scholarly-communication/ oa.new oa.ithaka oa.infrastructure oa.sustainability oa.repositories.consortial oa.repositories oa.preservation oa.pids oa.governance oa.repositories oa.scholcomm "We started running Twitter bots in 2017, when Liberate Science was only a side project. First we launched the PsyArxiv bot. Later, we launched bots for the MetaArxiv (2020) and EdArxiv (2021) preprint servers. Six years in, we are shutting down these Twitter bots. You may have already noticed they are no longer posting any new preprints since February 13th (previously 9th). There are several things that motivate us to stop the preprint bots’ operations. It includes the exodus from Twitter overall; it includes the recent announcement that Twitter API access is no longer free. It includes that the community has taken it upon itself to offer replacement bots on Mastodon.   We offered preprint bots for free all these years, but that does not mean it was free to run this. We had to run a custom RSS feed service (based on Jeff Spies’ osfpreprints-feed; run on Glitch for $99/year). Automating a bot is free and easy if there is relatively little volume. Especially for PsyArxiv, the amount of preprints grew so rapidly that we had to upgrade our automation and costs went up to ~$600 per year (using Zapier). This is also why the 1,500 free post limit proves too uncertain in the long run...." Tue, 28 Feb 2023 03:32:00 -0500 https://libscie.org/shutting-down-our-preprint-bots/ oa.twitter oa.preprints oa.new oa.negative oa.liberate_science oa.discoverability oa.apis oa.preprints "Sarah Lippincott will present on the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) Project which she is leading. The Next Generation Library Publishing project aims to transform the scholarly communication landscape by empowering academic libraries and their collaborators. Library publishers provide a crucial complement and potential competitive alternative to commercial publishing. But they require robust, flexible, interoperable tools, workflows, and service providers to fulfill their potential. NGLP is building these resources in ways that meet the unique needs of library publishers and concretely align with academic values. This webinar will be recorded." Fri, 24 Feb 2023 05:15:00 -0500 https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-next-generation-library-publishing-nglp-project-tickets-530655102697 oa.nglp oa.new oa.libpub oa.events oa.events "The Knowledge Access & Resource Management (KARM) Department in the Libraries at West Virginia University is seeking applications for an Institutional Repository Librarian. The Institutional Repository Librarian is responsible for managing the West Virginia University Institutional Repository and related technologies, with a focus on metadata to facilitate discovery, acquisition, and assessment of collections, and identity management to increase the impact of WVU's intellectual output.  Collaborating with institutional stakeholders to acquire and promote the University's digital and open scholarship and to maintain compliance with federal funding mandates, this position provides customer service and outreach to West Virginia University faculty, staff, students, and research affiliates, evaluates and implements third party integrations, and serves as workflow manager for projects within and across Libraries open publishing initiatives and the KARM Department. The Institutional Repository Librarian reports to the Head of Metadata Services in KARM...." Thu, 23 Feb 2023 06:47:00 -0500 https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/details.cfm?JobCode=178287707&Title=Institutional%20Repository%20Librarian%20%2D%20Libraries oa.new oa.jobs oa.usa oa.usa.wv oa.ir oa.repositories "...The University of San Diego's Copley Library is a progressive, forward-thinking organization and seeks an energetic, dynamic, and enthusiastic individual for a 12-month tenure-track Senior Electronic and Open Content Librarian. Reporting to the Dean of the University Library and working under the direction of the Associate Dean, Head of Collections, Access, and Discovery, the Senior Electronic and Open Content Librarian leads innovation in the library's licensed and open resources. This librarian is responsible for the acquisition and management of electronic continuing resources, including databases and journals, through subscriptions, open content, and transformative agreements for Copley Library. The librarian plays a key role in the institution's work to promote open and equitable access to scholarly information. The librarian serves as liaison to one academic department. The Senior Electronic and Open Content Librarian trains and supervises two staff positions and works with the Acquisitions and Cataloging Librarian, the Digital Initiatives Librarian, SCELC staff, and library faculty to transform the collection towards open...." Thu, 23 Feb 2023 06:45:00 -0500 https://joblist.ala.org/job/senior-electronic-and-open-content-librarian/68107431/ oa.new oa.jobs oa.usa oa.usa.ca "In this course, participants will gain an understanding of the scholarly communications landscape and will learn the basics on academic publishing issues, copyright, Open Access, and institutional repositories." Wed, 22 Feb 2023 09:41:00 -0500 https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/152-introduction-scholarly-communications/?attribute_pa_session=2023-07-jul oa.new oa.training oa.librarians oa.scholcomm oa.courses "...This class is an introduction to IRs both practically and conceptually. It covers the role of IRs in higher education and libraries and dives into the nuts and bolts of IR administrative responsibilities, including policy writing, online content management, editorial workflows, permissions and access restrictions, and outreach strategies. Most critically, this course provides a foundational knowledge base or IR managers navigating the complicated world of open access publishing...." Wed, 22 Feb 2023 09:39:00 -0500 https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/276-institutional-repository-management-and-outreach/?attribute_pa_session=2023-06-jun oa.new oa.librarians oa.training oa.repositories oa.ir "...we now launch a new blog post series, Library Publishing Through the IFLA Global Lens. This series will showcase the work of library publishers around the world, provide an opportunity to get to know the people who are working in this exciting field of librarianship, and highlight the diversity of perspectives on and approaches to library publishing globally. Our first two contributors are Jill Claassen [JC] and Devin Soper [DS]. Describe your work in library publishing? JC: I work at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Libraries, in Cape Town, South Africa and oversee scholarly communication and publishing. Library publishing started in 2016, when the library didn’t have much skills in this area, but we were able to call on the assistance of the Public Knowledge Project initially.  At that time, we published our first open access journal, which was a student journal and then started publishing open monographs and textbooks. We now have six open access journals, and 23 open access monographs and textbooks, with a lot of the skills now self-taught amongst the staff, using Open Journal Systems (OJS) and Open Monograph Press (OMP). This diamond open access publishing service ensures that local publications are available, accessible and discoverable to an African audience, first and foremost, and then to the rest of the world. We have two full time staff in the scholarly communication and publishing section at UCT Libraries. However, as our Research and Learning’s (one of two divisions in UCT Libraries) structure is based on functional librarianship, library publishing is one of the services that form part of the job description of library staff. Thus, we are able to have a thriving library publishing service at UCT because we have a flexible staff structure. DS: I work at Florida State University (FSU) Libraries in Tallahassee, Florida, where I lead a small team that supports our library publishing program, Florida State Open Publishing (FSOP)...." Wed, 22 Feb 2023 03:15:00 -0500 https://www.ifla.org/news/partners-in-library-publishing/ oa.new oa.libpub oa.usa oa.south_africa oa.hei oa.universities oa.florida_state.u oa.u.cape_town "This index for Open Science capacity building is designed to connect you to existing resources to foster learning about open science as well as to support teaching open science. The content was collected by means of an open survey launched in 2022 and with input from the UNESCO Working Group on Open Science Capacity Building...." Mon, 20 Feb 2023 03:21:00 -0500 https://www.unesco.org/en/open-science/capacity-building-index oa.new oa.training oa.open_science oa.unesco "The University of Kansas Libraries have signed a pair of renegotiated deals aimed at supporting open access and broadening the reach of KU-generated research. Through a pair of transformative read-and-publish agreements with Elsevier — the world’s largest scientific publishing company — and Cambridge University Press — the world’s oldest university publisher — KU Libraries have increased the number of scholarly journals available for reading to KU students and researchers and will cover the costs of open access article processing charges (APCs) for eligible articles by KU corresponding authors, broadening the potential reach of the work. In a three-year agreement with Elsevier, the KU community will maintain existing access to more than 2,000 journals, while covering APCs for KU corresponding authors who opt in to publish articles as open access. Historically, publishers have used a subscription model in which authors publish in a journal and their content remains behind a paywall for journal subscribers only. In an open access publishing model, articles are available to all readers regardless of subscription status, often under a Creative Commons license that enables sharing and reuse. While not all open access is supported by APCs, they have become a common model. Subscription journals that publish some open access articles on payment of an APC are referred to as hybrid open access...." Mon, 20 Feb 2023 01:28:00 -0500 https://today.ku.edu/2023/02/17/university-kansas-libraries-sign-transformative-open-access-agreements-elsevier-cambridge oa.offsets oa.new oa.hei oa.elsevier oa.u.kansas oa.up oa.elsevier oa.usa oa.cup "Naomi Penfold, our Research Data Analyst, shared insights from a recent meeting on preprint review on sustainable business models for preprint review services. Naomi moderated a panel discussion at the recent event convened by ASAPbio, EMBO, and HHMI. Read the full event recap. Our Engagement team and our partners at the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) are planning our upcoming workshop in mid-March in Accra, Ghana. The event aims to bring together funders, intermediaries, and open infrastructure service providers to chart common pathways for open infrastructure in Africa. More details on this page, and please email contact [at] investinopen [dot] org if you’re interested in attending. We are moving forward with expanding our team! In the past weeks, we’ve been reviewing applications and conducting interviews for the Business Development and Partnerships Lead and Research Lead roles. We hope to be able to share more, soon! Our research team is designing landscape studies of open infrastructure needs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. We aim to have better insights into the areas of needs, opportunities, and stakeholders to further engagement by the end of March...." Fri, 17 Feb 2023 02:46:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2023-02-17/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "Globally, there's increasing acknowledgement that open, community-driven infrastructure is important, and we see that the discussions regarding its development and adoption are starting in Africa. Open infrastructure has huge potential to facilitate innovation, advance science and research, and help bridge inequities in society. This invite-only session will bring together key open infrastructure providers, funders, and intermediaries both from Africa and beyond to discuss challenges hindering the adoption of open infrastructure and the opportunities that can be leveraged through collective action to further the adoption and development of open infrastructure that centers the needs of the African community...." Thu, 16 Feb 2023 04:34:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/community/wacren-ioi-workshop/ oa.south oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.ghana oa.events oa.collective_action oa.africa oa.events "Over the past 18 months, AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, eLife, PREreview, and the Training Centre in Communication Africa (TCC Africa) have collaborated to develop a peer-review training workshop called Open Peer Reviewers in Africa, tailored to the region-specific context of African researchers. Together we co-created and openly shared tools and strategies for scholarly literature evaluation, and trained the first cohort of 11 African researchers. With this blog post we aim to summarize the fruits of this collaboration, and highlight the profile and work of the 5 trainees who have moved on to be open peer review trainers themselves...." Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:44:00 -0500 https://content.prereview.org/open-peer-reviewers-in-africa-a-train-of-trainer-program/ oa.training oa.south oa.preprints oa.peer_review oa.new oa.open_peer_review oa.africa oa.preprints "Wellcome Trust and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Partners with DataCite to Build the Open Global Data Citation Corpus. Aggregated references to data across outputs will help the community monitor impact, inform future funding, and improve the dissemination of research. DataCite is pleased to announce that The Wellcome Trust has awarded funds to build the Open Global Data Citation Corpus to dramatically transform the data citation landscape. The corpus will store asserted data citations from a diverse set of sources and can be used by any community stakeholder. This webinar is the virtual kick-off and shows a conversation between DataCite, Wellcome Trust, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, EMBL-EBI, COKI, OpenAIRE, and OpenCitations. For more information, please read this DataCite blog post: https://doi.org/10.5438/vjz9-kx84..." speaker slides: - Open Data Citation Corpus – Project Motivation – Christine Ferguson (Wellcome Trust), slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7638435 - DataCite Looking Ahead – Global Data Citation Corpus for All Data Citations – Matthew Buys (DataCite), slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7634709 - Building the Open Global Data Citation Corpus – Chan Zuckerberg Initiative – Ana-Maria Istrate (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative), slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7634893 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 05:28:00 -0500 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRTZXaJuxT8 oa.video oa.new oa.datacite oa.citations oa.ogdcc "The SciELO 25 Years Week will bring together a series of events that will be designed as a global forum for face-to-face and online discussion on the state of the art and perspectives on the execution and communication of open science research and its contributions to the development of collections of research communication objects operated by SciELO with a focus on journals of increasing quality that the SciELO Network indexes, publishes, and interoperates. The evolution, current status, and future perspectives of the open science modus operandi, the importance of public policies, advancement of infrastructure and knowledge, characteristics for different thematic areas, different types of research, different operating models and contributions to research progress and its communication will be articulated in the agenda of the SciELO 25 Years Week in the dimensions of scientific impact, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (IDEIA)." Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:46:00 -0500 https://www.sympla.com.br/evento/scielo-25-anos-scielo-25-years-scielo-25-anos/1862833 oa.latin_america oa.scielo oa.new oa.latin_america oa.events oa.brazil oa.events oa.south "...This meeting brought together preprint review initiative leads with funders, publishers, and researchers to discuss policies and practices that could encourage the adoption and development of preprint review in biology. There are different views on the future for preprint review: as a replacement for journals, a complement to the existing system, and/or a training exercise to grow and diversify the reviewer pool. Overall, this meeting highlighted the opportunity to use preprints to build a more collegial and constructive culture of peer review (than that typically experienced at journals). While the focus of the meeting was on policies and practices to encourage the adoption of preprint review, including how to incentivize researchers to contribute reviews, we noted some specific needs and gaps to consider in relation to investing in open infrastructure: Efforts to encourage adoption need funding. As well as investing in the technical infrastructure enabling preprint review, we heard the call for funders to support initiatives that encourage scholars to try out preprint review, and that nurture the envisaged culture of collegiality. This support could be provided directly by funders through programmes for the scholars they fund and indirectly through investment in adoption-focussed projects by initiatives. In particular, in this nascent phase of preprint review, now is an opportune moment to fund initiatives focussed on improving diversity and inclusion in the scholarly communications process. Preprint servers will need to evolve alongside preprint review initiatives to support a seamless experience for scholars. If preprint review is to be seen as a trusted and valuable contribution, and something worthwhile for researchers to read and use, it will be important to communicate its value clearly from the points at which researchers interact with preprints. Major points of interaction today are through two of the largest preprint servers for the life sciences, bioRxiv and medRxiv. We heard several users report how preprint reviews are not easy to find on the current site design, and that the banner on each preprint stating it has not been reviewed can be misleading. The banner text for preprints that have received reviews has recently been updated to read “This is a preprint. It has not been certified by a journal but peer reviews are available”. We also heard the rationale behind current design decisions at bioRxiv. We think it will be important for preprint server(s) and review services to continue to improve their user experience and design to meet the evolving needs of users. Several technology requirements for preprints as a whole, including review services, have already been noted. Drawing upon the ethos of open source development here, it may be helpful for preprint infrastructure funders to nurture an ecosystem that centers the needs of a diverse research community in design processes. It’s too early for preprint review initiatives to have a plan for financial sustainability...." Wed, 08 Feb 2023 04:57:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/next-steps-for-preprint-review-infrastructure/ oa.preprints oa.peer_review oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.repositories.preprints oa.repositories oa.privacy oa.economics_of oa.platforms oa.infrastructure oa.open_peer_review oa.repositories oa.preprints "This workshop introduces participants to Open Science practices with a special focus on pre-prints in the MENA region, looking at what they offer to researchers and to the scientific community as a whole. Pre-prints are complete written descriptions of research outputs that authors are willing to make public. They include submissions under review and those that have been rejected or not submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. While the concept of pre-prints was initially contentious, the need for rapid evaluation and dissemination of vitally important research during the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the pace of the Open Access movement and encouraged the growth of pre-print publications for rapid and open sharing of new findings and receiving feedback...." Wed, 08 Feb 2023 01:52:00 -0500 https://council.science/events/open-science-dissemination-of-scholarly-knowledge/ oa.new oa.events oa.preprints oa.training oa.ecr oa.mena oa.open_science oa.south "The FORCE11 annual conference held online from April 18-20 will discuss open science in global and local contexts. We’re inviting proposals for lightning talks (particularly from those in Asia) that explore the theme of tensions between local ways of knowing and globally-imposed standards, and share insights on local academic citizenship and global systems of knowledge production, evaluation, and dissemination. Whether you see global and local contexts in research communications and infrastructure coming into conflict or creating synergies – take an opportunity to share your perspective.  To enable a truly global dialogue on this important topic, we especially encourage proposals from colleagues based in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as Africa and Latin America....Topics... Translating international efforts into local efforts  Learning form collaboration in local setting (In)equity in the research ecosystem Local needs vs. global interests Local and global systems and infrastructure Diversity, equity, and inclusion in scholarly communication..." Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:05:00 -0500 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyZ6H1awEZSGCBefW2alyDL5WwnzLhI9KwXSZd0OwdJPJdEg/viewform?mc_eid oa.new oa.dei oa.cfp oa.asia oa.force11 oa.events oa.africa oa.latin_america oa.south "...At CS&S, we’re exploring where open has and hasn’t delivered on promises of more access, transparency, and equity. As we do so, we contend that understandings about open access, community governance, and freedom to (re)use need to be critically revisited and refined. Here we outline three hypotheses to guide an assessment of the central values of open work: 1. Open access to governance.  Open access to code, data, and research is not enough. Widening access must include pathways to stewardship and ownership, not simply entry or use. The incorporation of open source within for-profit structures is showing us that wider access has more often facilitated better extraction of data from more users than it has delivered democratization of knowledge or tools. Foregrounding pathways to stewardship and ownership for tech users will shift the ways in which underrepresented communities can engage, leading not only to different representation in positions of power, but also, potentially, different forms of power. Which is why more specificity when we ask, open access to what? is just the beginning. 2. Develop multi-polar power. “Decentralization” is not enough. The push for decentralization without a concurrent proposal for alternative structures of power masks existing hierarchies and exclusions. Building on the first hypothesis regarding open pathways to governance, advocacy for open infrastructure must be decoupled from blanket disavowals of power. Decentralized networks also host and harbor power. The question is: what forms of it are we interested in developing?..." Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:05:00 -0500 https://www.codeforsociety.org/news/3-hypotheses-for-open-workers oa.principles oa.new oa.labor oa.infrastructure oa.dei oa.academic_led "...Objective: The Working Group will continue the discussions in view of the development of: an UNESCO Index of Open Knowledge Sharing Platforms, targeting UNESCO priority themes (open science, water, ocean sciences, geosciences, disaster risk reduction, biodiversity and climate change)... "To support the implementation of the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, UNESCO in collaboration with its partners will be developing a series of supporting tools - technical briefs, fact sheets, guidelines and training materials - that will constitute an online ‘living’ Open Science Toolkit accessible to all and easy to use, reuse, expand and update. To produce the toolkit and its different components, UNESCO will mobilize its Global Open Science Partnership and convene ad-hoc Open Science Working Groups around 5 key priority/high impact areas: Open Science policies and strategies; Open Science financing and incentives; Open Science infrastructures; Open Science capacity building; Open Science monitoring framework..." Mon, 06 Feb 2023 02:37:00 -0500 https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/third-meeting-working-group-open-science-infrastructures oa.unesco oa.open_science oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.events oa.events "Speaker Ryan McGranaghan, Orion Space Solutions, Louisville, CO. Summary: A knowledge commons is a combination of intelligent information representation and the openness, governance, and trust required to create a participatory ecosystem whereby the whole community maintains and evolves this shared information space. This talk introduces the topic of a knowledge commons as a a foundation for open, inclusive, plural science and welcome discussion around how the commons can help create a more flourishing community...." Fri, 03 Feb 2023 04:47:00 -0500 https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/30961 oa.new oa.events oa.open_science oa.data oa.usa oa.usa.nasa "...Who we are talking to: Hannah Wang, Educopia, to find out more about their work on the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative Planning project that aims at advocating for community-supported distributed digital preservation service options and designing a service model for collaboration that ensures the authority, sustainability, and viability of these options. Jochai Ben-Avie, Connect Humanity, on their work to connect the unconnected and provide financing for communities in need. John Inglis and Richard Sever, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, to follow up on conversations about supporting governance and diversification of funding strategies for biorXiv and medrXiv. Christopher Wood, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, to explain the work of IOI and reflect on the open infrastructure needs (digital and non-digital) in Latin America as well as the elements that limit the flourishing of projects such as limited financial resources, formation of human resources, and barriers around cross-institutional collaborations...." Fri, 03 Feb 2023 04:35:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2023-02-03/ oa.people oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "In celebration of the ten-year anniversary since the launch of the project of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), an award-winning, academic-led, diamond open access journal publisher, and the five-year anniversary of Janeway, its ground-breaking open-source scholarly publishing platform, we are holding a symposium to explore future directions for Janeway engineering and open access publishing. Since its launch, the Janeway and OLH team has built an international, award-winning, and critically acclaimed platform and is widely recognised to be one of the foremost academic-led publishers of open access scholarship in the humanities. As we look forward to the next five years, we aspire to consolidate our position as a leading open source scholarly publishing platform, innovate our software in line with user needs, and bring together our community to both increase visibility and make Janeway the very best platform of its kind. Accordingly, Janeway and OLH staff are hosting a symposium which will include presentations on best practice, future developments and breakout sessions to hear from our community as we work together to make these a reality. We are therefore calling on members of the Janeway, OLH and open access communities to submit short abstracts for presentations, round tables, or breakout sessions. Please consider this an invitation to share innovative current practices, ambitions for Janeway, or aspirations for open access publishing more broadly...." Fri, 03 Feb 2023 04:00:00 -0500 https://www.openlibhums.org/news/618/ oa.uk oa.new oa.janeway oa.events oa.cfp oa.platforms oa.infrastructure oa.europe oa.events oa.publishing "...The Foundation seeks a Program Assistant for the Public Knowledge program.   Public Knowledge supports those who steward and make available to the public the knowledge embodied in humanities scholarship and the cultural record. We work with a range of university, public, and other local, national, and global libraries, archives, and presses that are foundational to the production, distribution, and preservation of this knowledge. Our overall programmatic goal is to help build an informed, heterogenous, and civically engaged society. Summary Reporting to the Manager of Strategic Initiatives and Planning, the Program Assistant will provide grant management, administrative, and logistical support for the program. They will participate in various collective activities in Public Knowledge (PK) and at the Foundation, and on occasion may take on special assignments...." Fri, 03 Feb 2023 02:46:00 -0500 https://mellon.org/about/careers/program-assistant-public-knowledge/ oa.new oa.jobs oa.funders oa.usa Annual sympoisum hosted by the University of San Diego, US. Fri, 03 Feb 2023 02:31:00 -0500 https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2023/ oa.new oa.events oa.usa oa.libraries "As a member of the Public Services Team reporting to the Head of Instruction & Research, this library faculty position will identify, develop, promote, deliver, and assess services and programs that will enhance and expand the Library's scholarly communication initiatives surrounding open access OA publishing, open educational sources (OER), copyright, intellectual property rights management, and emerging digital scholarship that will advance the scholarly output of UNF faculty and students. The incumbent will represent the library in campus, regional, state, and national scholarly communication efforts...." Fri, 03 Feb 2023 01:10:00 -0500 https://www.higheredjobs.com/admin/details.cfm?JobCode=178264751&Title=Scholarly%20Communication%20Librarian oa.new oa.jobs oa.usa oa.schocomm oa.usa.fl "...While decentralised initiatives such as Quartz OA and Libraria promise to unlock crowdsourcing tools to alleviate financial hardships for non-commercial Open Access journals, a wider discussion still needs to take place across the higher education sector and—one could add—society at large, about how best to remove the economic, legal, and technological barriers to accessing research findings. Ultimately, this is a question of ownership: who owns the research we collectively produce and who, if anyone, should be able to profit from it? In the meantime, at a bare minimum universities, research funders, and national consortiums should set aside substantial funding to support the ethical, non-profit Open Access ecosystem. In practical terms, this means earmarking funding for already established non-profit Open Access publications and providing incentives, resources, and support to allow editorial boards to ‘flip’ journals currently being published through agreements with commercial publishers to ethical Open Access models...." Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:58:00 -0500 https://universitetslararen.se/2023/02/01/the-lack-of-resources-for-ethical-open-access-journals-hurts-academia-and-the-public/ oa.new oa.journals oa.recommendations oa.consortia oa.funding oa.redirection oa.budgets oa.gold oa.economics_of oa.obstacles "...TIND's products and services are built on the foundation of the Invenio digital library framework, an open source technology born at CERN. If you're a hacker, make sure to check out this awesome software!..." Fri, 27 Jan 2023 10:39:00 -0500 https://www.tind.io/ir oa.repositories oa.new oa.ir oa.infrastructure oa.cern oa.repositories "In our engagements with infrastructure service providers, one of their biggest challenges we’ve repeatedly heard is the need for more stable funding for infrastructure services. Providers are developing more innovative strategies to sustain their work. However, through our conversations and analysis of funding trends, it became apparent that funding in the open infrastructure space remains largely unpredictable, and many providers continue to search for more stable and reliable sources of revenue to ensure the sustainability of the services they provide. In understanding how a stable and reliable model for funding open infrastructure in research and scholarly communication could be architected, we looked at how public utilities, in particular water utilities, are funded around the world. Today, we share a report from our preliminary investigation into water utility funding. Drawing on some of the preeminent literature and guidance on the topic from widely respected organizations (the OECD, WHO, and IRC), we highlight some key lessons for funding a robust infrastructure of open services. Key to this is understanding knowledge as a public good, like water, electricity, and natural gas, and how these vital public goods are best funded for reliable, robust, and sustainable supply in the long term...." https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7076158 Thu, 26 Jan 2023 02:50:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/funding-open-infrastructure-as-a-public-utility-a-preliminary-investigation-in-water-utility-funding/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.economics_of "Wellcome Trust and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Partners with DataCite to Build the Open Global Data Citation Corpus Aggregated references to data across outputs will help the community monitor impact, inform future funding, and improve the dissemination of research DataCite is pleased to announce that The Wellcome Trust has awarded funds to build the Open Global Data Citation Corpus to dramatically transform the data citation landscape. The corpus will store asserted data citations from a diverse set of sources and can be used by any community stakeholder. Interested community stakeholders are invited to join the virtual kick-off and participate in a conversation between DataCite, Wellcome Trust, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, EMBL-EBI, COKI, OpenAIRE, and OpenCitations. The slides and recording will be shared afterwards through the DataCite Zenodo Community and YouTube Channel, respectively...." Thu, 19 Jan 2023 02:51:00 -0500 https://datacite.zoom.us/webinar/register/4716730177447/WN_Ed3_Bu0bRT-NB4npCPbk-g oa.new oa.events oa.datacite oa.data oa.citations oa.events oa.metadata oa.ogdcc "...Day 3, 8 June 2023 – Public day – Conference & AGM Plenary Panel V – Scientific Publishing: A global perspective from early-career researchers on open access dissemination of scientific discovery & data sharing..." "...The AGM will be held in connection with an International Conference of Young Scientists. In interactive panels, the Conference will address new technology and innovation to tackle grand challenges, along with the role of early- to mid-career scientists and scholars in contributing to global, national and regional solutions...." Mon, 16 Jan 2023 22:05:00 -0500 https://conference.globalyoungacademy.net/ oa.south oa.rwanda oa.events oa.ecr oa.authors oa.africa oa.events "Slightly delayed as we enjoyed a long holiday break (happy new year! ) - here's our quarterly activity round-up. We've had a really intense but rewarding quarter - huge thank you to everyone who has been part of this work..." Mon, 16 Jan 2023 04:14:00 -0500 https://twitter.com/InvestInOpen/status/1613912225185693698 oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "...Throughout the event, we were very grateful to have Bianca Kramer, Katherine Skinner, and Elena Denaro acting as our “learning partners”. They observed and noted the dynamics and conversations as the event progressed. Below, we share our event reflections as an asynchronous discussion between Bianca, Katherine, and Emmy Tsang, IOI’s Engagement Lead. Bright spots -- There’s an appetite for new strategies for investing. Katherine: The positive tempo and tone and the deep participation by many of the attendees signal that there is a hunger for these discussions and that IOI is a team that can provide the grounding (research), the convening space, and the facilitation to help that process forward. The Summit provided building blocks for future conversations and actions. Katherine: This event helped establish shared knowledge and built some connections. It opened a vibrant space for discussion over what information, organized in what ways, might help to inform decision making around funding. Some sessions gave connection points between participants and interest in use cases. Can this initial energy be built upon so that it moves from passive interest to active opinions? What information and settings could enable this transition to happen, even for a handful of the participants? Tensions -- The need to define terms. Katherine: One of the consistent themes throughout the event was the marking of troublesome terms and ones that different participants may have been using differently from one another. Terms that arose included Open, Infrastructure, Governance, Community (along with Community-based, Community-led, Community-governed, and Community-owned), Data, Equitable, Diversity, Funders, Incentive. Values, Venture Capital, ROI, Transparency, Nonprofit/not-for-profit, Critical Infrastructure, etc. For the future, it might be helpful to pose the question “why do we need strong definitions in order to move forward and how do we build strong-enough definitions so that this isn’t a continued barrier?”. The sense of missing definitions stalls action – it also points to some sense of fear (of being misunderstood, of funding the wrong thing, of being led astray by data)...." Fri, 13 Jan 2023 04:52:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/funders-summit-2022-key-lessons/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.funding "...This 18th edition will be a collaboration among volunteers, chapters and user groups of the Wikimedia East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific (ESEAP). Wikimania 2023 will run from 16-19 August in Singapore. There are 30 weeks, 4 days, 19 hours, 53 minutes and 44 seconds until Wikimania 2023. (refresh) This year’s theme is Diversity. Collaboration. Future. Diversity. Wikimania will be an opportunity to showcase ESEAP as an example of inclusion: different volunteer groups, individuals, and affiliates, at different stages of development, different cultures but closely involved in an equitable way. Collaboration. As a distributed growth mechanism, Wikimania will be a way to learn and share new knowledge like tools usage, organizing events / online campaigns, solving a Wiki-related problem and many others. Future. Wikimania is also significant to many Wikimedians as Wikimania 2023 will also be a forum to discuss implementing the Wikimedia Movement Strategy (#Wikimedia2030) and discuss other future-thinking topics. Note: We are still setting up the pages for Wikimania 2023. For more details visit: m:Wikimania 2023...." https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2023 Thu, 12 Jan 2023 19:13:00 -0500 https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Wikimania oa.new oa.events oa.singapore oa.wikipedia "Universities and higher education institutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are starting to join the open science movement, recognising its potential to enhance the accessibility, inclusivity and sustainability of higher education systems and research communities. But there are many challenges. An indication of interest in open science in the region was the registration of more than 1,000 delegates – in person and virtually – for the first ever Forum for Open Research in MENA (FORM) gathering held in Egypt last year. Open science topics will be discussed again at the second FORM forum, which will be held in the United Arab Emirates in October 2023, and at the International Conference on E-Science and Open Science in Dubai from 20-21 December 2023. University World News interviewed higher education experts to get their views on the significance of having a vision for open science, and the challenges facing open science in the MENA region along with ways to deal with it. Open research status Out of 22 Arab states, only 12 countries have open access publishers including Iraq (85), Egypt (70), Algeria (28), Morocco (28), Saudi Arabia (18), Qatar (12), Syria (11) United Arab Emirates (9), Oman (7), Yemen (6), Tunisia (5) and Libya (5), according to the Directory of Open Access Journals. Nabil Ksibi is an engagement lead for ORCID – a global non-profit that connects research and researchers – specialising in the Middle East and Africa. He said: “Adopting open research good practices would help a lot in making research activities in the MENA region FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable), which are also important principles to consider in order to move forward with the whole schoolroom ecosystem. “The MENA region, however, is still very young in terms of open research adoption,” Ksibi told University World News. “We are still missing huge knowledge on how the open infrastructure is working and how institutions can work together with open calls in between systems (machine to machine connections).”..." Thu, 12 Jan 2023 07:02:00 -0500 https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20230111140335759 oa.open_science oa.obstacles oa.new oa.middle_east oa.mena oa.events oa.unfamiliarity oa.misunderstandings oa.africa oa.events oa.south "Open Science is the principle and practice of making research products and processes available to all, while respecting diverse cultures, maintaining security and privacy, and fostering collaborations, reproducibility, and equity. Federal agencies are celebrating 2023 as a Year of Open Science, a multi-agency initiative across the federal government to spark change and inspire open science engagement through events and activities that will advance adoption of open, equitable, and secure science...." "...Science.gov is the U.S. contribution to WorldWideScience.org, which provides access to science information from more than 70 nations..." Thu, 12 Jan 2023 04:56:00 -0500 https://open.science.gov/ oa.new oa.usa oa.government oa.open_science oa.funders oa.funders.public oa.policies oa.policies.funders oa.ostp oa.funders "Out with the old, In with the new! Almost 20 years after the ‘Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities’: APE 2023 calls for action. Since 2004 a lot of progress has been made in Open Access, but in spite of the DEALS and a fast-growing number of transformative agreements, we are still far from a world with unlimited exchange of information. We need fewer barriers and better technology for equitable access and sustainable preservation. The multi-platform approach is hard to navigate through for researchers, librarians and information specialists. Are we prepared for the global flip? Trust, peer review, research integrity and existing technology that might bring us closer to solutions are not yet fully integrated in today’s workflows. In our (mostly) open world, creating, distributing and consuming information has never been easier..." Thu, 12 Jan 2023 04:39:00 -0500 https://academicpublishingeurope.com/program/ oa.new oa.germany oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.events oa.europe "Taking place at the University of Nairobi, but co-organized with Centre for Integrated Training and Research in ASAL Development CETRAD, the University of Bern (Institute of Social Anthropology ISA, Centre for Development and Environment CDE), and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Swiss TPH, Basel, Switzerland) and the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS), the discourse on commons and commoning will be prominently staged so as to broadly explore the contributions of the concept of the commons to build resilience in and beyond crises.... Conference sub-themes include: "Opportunities and challenges of digital commons-- This theme focuses on the relation of the digital world and the commons and discusses different forms of commons created by digitization. It also deals with potential and real ownership of technologies and information sharing, including debates on open source information and publication such as the creative commons (e.g. issues of various forms of participation, inclusion (sharing) and exclusion (licencing). Ostrom’s design principles of robust institutions for the commons are put to scrutiny, as are other typical commons themes: issues of maintenance, control (monitoring) and sanctioning. Digital technologies reopen debates on power, gender and control, on inclusion and exclusion. In addition, digital means enable access to information on common-pool resources via the widespread use of mobile phones. Papers in this theme will explore the extent to which information technologies offer new perspectives on the commons debate, and whether these add value to the core concepts and approaches." Accepted panels organized by conference sub-theme: https://2023.iasc-commons.org/conference-panels/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 21:16:00 -0500 https://2023.iasc-commons.org/ oa.south oa.new oa.kenya oa.events oa.africa oa.events "...Track C: Content Management. Moderator: Richard P. Hulser, President, Richard P. Hulser Consulting. Content management is an important aspect of libraries ecosystems. Providing equitable and open access to information helps ensure the future of libraries as a cornerstone of information management. Hear from our speakers on where they see the future of knowledge, content, collections, and how to achieve open access...." Wed, 11 Jan 2023 09:06:00 -0500 https://computersinlibraries.infotoday.com/2023/Program.aspx oa.new oa.events oa.libraries oa.usa "Join us for presentations and a discussion about our rights to access, create, and publish information here in this era of networked technologies. This event features academics and practitioners who are digging into thorny questions like: How as a society might we balance copyright protections with free and equal access to information? Where does our individual right to privacy end and the public’s right to know begin? What is needed to reify and further the mission of providing equitable access to digital infrastructure? How might we utilize this infrastructure to the benefit of our communities? 60-ish minutes of presentations will be followed by a 30-minute forum. Please come through to listen, find community, and participate in this necessary conversation." "This event is a co-production between METRO Library Council and Library Futures." Wed, 11 Jan 2023 08:56:00 -0500 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuc-moqDwtHdK6hBMF4IAUU8b7jAIPCzx9 oa.new oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.labor oa.infrastructure oa.debates oa.libraries oa.usa "Please use this form to submit proposals to conduct a course at the FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) 2023, which will be held virtually July 31 -  August 4, 2023. Courses will take place for three consecutive days, on August 1, 2, and 3. Please see last year's abstracts (https://force11.org/fsci/post/course-list-with-abstracts-2022/) to get a sense of our topics and how courses are typically structured.  Submission deadline: Monday, January 16, 2023 The Course Chair is the point of contact for the course. Additional contributors may be listed in the next section. The FSCI Program Committee will deliberate on proposals through February 2023 to finalize the selection of courses and will notify all applicants shortly thereafter. Registration will open in April...." "...Enhancing the Global Impact of Open Scholarship is the FSCI 2023 theme and will shape plenary events. As open scholarship expands worldwide through increased public access to publications, data, and other research components, we seek to harness the potential of this sharing to enhance its impact on improving the knowledge and wellbeing of individuals worldwide. Courses that can exemplify this theme are highly desirable...." Mon, 09 Jan 2023 08:14:00 -0500 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0awPTOof74qNUymGImeEVXFe4vsdRdO9qog5DmmeezO--CQ/viewform oa.new oa.cfp oa.scholcomm oa.impact oa.courses oa.events oa.force11 oa.training "Today, Icebreaker One announces Open Net Zero search at https://opennetzero.org. It is a starting point for net-zero data infrastructure built to address commercial, non-commercial, government and public needs.  It’s designed to help make net-zero data discoverable, accessible and usable. There is a lot of Open Data related to net zero (e.g. company disclosures) and we aim to make this far more discoverable than it is today.  However, much of the data needed to drive net-zero decisions is not openly licensed or free for anyone to use. We aim to make this data more discoverable. To address restricted usage, we are building a Trust Framework for data sharing. This enables Shared Data to be discovered and licensed at scale.  We are not building a ‘database’ of all the data. We are working with partners [see below] to enable all the data to be more discoverable using open standards. Ideally, anyone should be able to make their own search engine or build their own data lake based on these open standards.  ..." Mon, 09 Jan 2023 03:43:00 -0500 https://icebreakerone.org/2022/09/22/open-net-zero-can-we-build-a-web-of-net-zero-data-for-everyone/ oa.new oa.data oa.standards oa.climate "This short book introduces an R package, bookdown, to change your workflow of writing books. It should be technically easy to write a book, visually pleasant to view the book, fun to interact with the book, convenient to navigate through the book, straightforward for readers to contribute or leave feedback to the book author(s), and more importantly, authors should not always be distracted by typesetting details. The bookdown package is built on top of R Markdown (http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com), and inherits the simplicity of the Markdown syntax (you can learn the basics in five minutes; see Section 2.1), as well as the possibility of multiple types of output formats (PDF/HTML/Word/…). It has also added features like multi-page HTML output, numbering and cross-referencing figures/tables/sections/equations, inserting parts/appendices, and imported the GitBook style (https://www.gitbook.com) to create elegant and appealing HTML book pages. This book itself is an example of how you can produce a book from a series of R Markdown documents, and both the printed version and the online version can look professional. You can find more examples at https://bookdown.org...." Mon, 09 Jan 2023 03:19:00 -0500 https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/ oa.tools oa.software oa.publishing oa.new oa.books "It’s a new year and at OurResearch we’re starting off 2023 full steam ahead! We’ve revamped the OpenAlex documentation so that it’s easier to get started, and easier to find the fields and filters that are available in the OpenAlex API. It should take less “clicks” to find what you need. Poised for growth The major change we made was to highlight the core entities (works, authors, etc) in OpenAlex, giving them their own up-front space. OpenAlex grew considerably in 2022, not only in number records, but also by the number of ways that you can filter, group, and search scholarly data. This new approach provides more room to add and document filters. We can better describe the unique search capabilities available in each entity. Overall, it sets us up to grow again in 2023...." Mon, 09 Jan 2023 03:12:00 -0500 https://blog.ourresearch.org/openalex-documentation-improvements/ oa.openalex oa.new oa.metadata "An exploratory assortment of ChatGPT responses to prompts related to open access to research and scholarship. Arranged by theme based on tags developed by the Open Access Tracking Project...." Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:47:00 -0500 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bjdw7Vq4n6SYJSShTdRd5qWOiC_qFUuh7xu0D1Fqp7o/edit oatp.notice oa.new oa.ai "...The Technical Team Manager leads a development team responsible for the technical architecture, operations, and continued evolution of systems and services for the Publishing, Archives, and Digitization (PAD) program at the California Digital Library (CDL). Working closely with the group’s Director, Associate Director, and Senior Product Managers, the incumbent will help support vital and innovative services for the University of California community, including but not limited to: eScholarship, UC’s open access publishing and institutional repository platform; Calisphere, an open gateway of digitized primary source materials from cultural heritage institutions at UC and throughout California; and technical processes supporting CDL’s coordination of UC’s participation in HathiTrust.  The incumbent will also work with other technical leaders at CDL to provide cross-organizational technical strategic guidance, planning, and decision making, and will collaborate with staff from other organizations with whom CDL partners.  The Technical Team Manager will actively manage a team of developers to ensure that systems provided by the group are reliable, robust, and efficient; effectively meet service goals and the needs of end users; and conform to relevant domain and development best practices and standards.  The incumbent will also be responsible for assigning projects, tasks, and other responsibilities to direct reports, as well as supporting their ongoing professional growth...." Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:43:00 -0500 https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2023/01/04/cdl-job-posting-technical-team-manager/ oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.usa.ca oa.usa oa.jobs oa.publishing "An exploratory assortment of ChatGPT responses to prompts related to open infrastructure for research and scholarship. Arranged by theme...." Sat, 07 Jan 2023 06:54:00 -0500 https://docs.google.com/document/d/13hHemsmqnEL_O7tr1XVebA4Kgm9RVlBKrxXhBBStrtg/edit?usp=sharing oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.ai "Prompt: Write a new business plan for Elsevier that incorporates the Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). ChatGPT response: Executive Summary: Elsevier is a global publisher of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) research, with a long history of publishing high-quality research and a strong reputation in the scholarly community. However, in recent years, there has been growing demand for open access to research and a shift towards more open and collaborative approaches to scholarly communication. In response to this shift, Elsevier is introducing a new business plan that incorporates the Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). Key Elements of the New Business Plan: Increased support for open access: Elsevier will increase its support for open access publishing, including the establishment of a new open access journal platform and the expansion of its open access book program......." Thu, 05 Jan 2023 09:35:00 -0500 https://pad.education/p/POSI_business_plan_by_ChatGPT oa.publishers oa.principles oa.posi oa.new oa.humor oa.elsevier oa.infrastructure oa.elsevier "...We’re seeking a Business Development and Partnership Lead and a Research Lead! These are both leadership positions, responsible for working with the Executive Director to lead the direction of IOI’s next phase of growth and development in diversifying funding modes and scaling our research offerings and impact. Find more information and application links at this link: https://investinopen.org/jobs/ We shared more resources and lessons from our Funders Summit. In this blog post, we discussed the design, results, and lessons learnt from the collective fund pilot at the Summit. We advanced our strategic planning for 2023. Building on our Strategic Roadmap, the team met to further discuss priorities and capacity for 2023. We will focus on providing funding recommendations and investment guidance for research infrastructure. This involves plans to expand the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs), as well as working closely with funders, decision makers, and other partners to apply our research, test recommendations, support open infrastructure providers, and design and fundraise for our first collective fund. We hope to share more in January!..." Fri, 16 Dec 2022 09:49:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-12-16/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.jobs Google translate: "Do you have a passion for Open Science? Are you that ambitious connector and director and do you want to actively contribute to making Open Access and Open Science truly the norm in the coming years? Then this vacancy at NWO is for you. Apply and become part of our team! Minister Dijkgraaf recently announced extra investments so that Open Science really becomes the standard in scientific research in the coming years. NWO has been asked to coordinate this by setting up a temporary Open Science directing body, following the example of other directing bodies at NWO, such as SIA and NRO. A budget of € 20 million per year is available for this for the next 10 years. The coordinating body will work closely with universities, medical centres, universities of applied sciences and service organizations such as SURF, DANS, 4TUdata and the university libraries. Now that the goal of 100% Open Access to scientific articles in the Netherlands is within reach, new challenges are emerging. How do we extend Open Access to other publication types? How do we arrive at more transparent, cost-effective and equitable publication models in which the academic community is less dependent on market parties? And: how do we ensure that all that contentnot only Open Access but also actually accessible to the wider society? As a program leader, you have an important role in stimulating these innovations. You are the connector, director and inspirer in this area. You have a clear vision on the development of the scientific communication system. You have a good reputation in the Dutch Open Access community or can demonstrably build it up quickly. You are actively committed to continuing to work with that community, libraries and other organizations to renew that landscape towards a more open system of scientific publishing and thus to the full transition to Open Science...." Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:18:00 -0500 https://www.nwo.nl/vacatures/programmaleider-open-scholarly-communication oa.new oa.jobs oa.dutch oa.netherlands "At our first Open Board + Community meeting of 2023, we’ll talk about our ongoing work with partners to add images from DPLA to Wikimedia and Wikipedia and hear from representatives from Wikimedia and the DPLA community about the potential of Wikimedia and Wikipedia to dramatically increase the visibility and use of library collections." Tue, 13 Dec 2022 10:50:00 -0500 https://dpla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9mzUrwQkRIqf5ToJkSzzGw oa.new oa.wikimedia_commons oa.dpla oa.usa oa.events "Soon Stockholm University is to launch its own publishing platform where researchers can publish articles with open peer review and with an open license. A pilot of the platform will be released during Open Access Week 2022, where 50 researchers affiliated with Stockholm University will participate and try the tool for a few months, before it is made available to others as well. Interviewed in this video clip is Wilhelm Widmark, Senior Advisor to the President with operational responsibility for Open Science at Stockholm University, and Abeni Wickham, founder of SciFree and developer of the platform. The interview was originally published in the staff web cast Panorama in September 2022, led by Stefan Nyman at the Communication Team at Stockholm University...." Tue, 13 Dec 2022 10:03:00 -0500 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miOaGxMt5ms oa.new oa.swedish oa.video oa.platforms oa.hei oa.universities oa.publishing oa.sweden "The fourth annual Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD22) was a free virtual event held on Thursday, December 1, 2022 (1:00-4:30 pm Eastern time) and Friday, December 2, 2022 (10:00 am - noon Eastern time). The NIRD22 final program schedule is available. This collection is a repository of conference materials and is hosted by the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass Chan Medical School...." Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:27:00 -0500 https://repository.escholarship.umassmed.edu/handle/20.500.14038/51367 oa.new oa.repositories oa.green oa.usa oa.events "Open Science practices are yet to get momentum in the South Asian region. Considerable digital, technological and knowledge divides exist between and within South Asian countries. The adoption of open science practices holds a significant promise of progress for the STI ecosystem of this region. But with the promise of a better ecosystem come immense challenges as well. Developing policies for open science, investing in open science infrastructure, transforming scientific culture and incentivisation and investing in capacity building are some of the essential and primary requirements. To address the challenges of fostering an open scientific framework and culture within this region’s STI ecosystem, we are organising OSSAN IDEATHON 2022, a first-of-its-kind event that aims to invite tangible solutions to facilitate open science in the region of South Asia. Students, academics, developers, Open Science enthusiasts, practitioners, researchers, and academics from diverse academic and professional backgrounds from South Asia are invited to share their unique, creative ideas on a set of challenges to facilitate Open Science in South Asia and build a foundation for collaboration among South Asian countries through innovative projects, applications and infrastructures...." https://www.codeforsociety.org/eventfund/calendar/ossan-ideathon Tue, 13 Dec 2022 04:27:00 -0500 https://ossan2022.net/ideathon/ oa.south oa.new oa.events oa.cfp oa.asia oa.events oa.open_science "Open Book Collective is a non-profit that connects academics, librarians, publishers, and service providers to collectively sustain the infrastructures, relationships, and organizations vital for the success of open access book publishing. Through the Open Book Collective platform, publishers and publishing service providers can offer research institutions the option to financially support their work through library membership programs. Librarians can access the platform to explore and assess different initiatives, support Open Access collections, and manage their subscriptions. OBC’s legal and governance structure ensures it can’t be co-opted for profit, and that stakeholders have a meaningful say in its future. We provide financial support to new open access initiatives and connect book publishers to sustainable revenue streams. Open Book Collective is helping build a world where open access books are produced and distributed collaboratively and anti-competitively, without technical or economic barriers. ..." Mon, 12 Dec 2022 02:20:00 -0500 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9EoaeZQhI0 oa.video oa.publishers oa.new oa.funding oa.business_models oa.books oa.academic_led oa.publishing oa.funders oa.books oa.openbookcollective oa.open_book_collective oa.publishing "Tennessee State University is seeking to fill a twelve month tenure track position for a Scholarly Communications Librarian at the Brown-Daniel Library in Nashville. The incumbent will be responsible for Open Access Initiatives and will assume leadership for the library’s OER program. They will provide vision, planning and an operational agenda for the library’s institutional repository, Digital Scholarship@TSU, and will promote its research and publishing use for faculty, staff and students. They will serve as the library’s resource person for copyright, fair use and author rights. The successful candidate will have embedded librarians duties, serve as a liaison to assigned departments and teach information literacy classes. Faculty status requires the ability to publish research and participate in conferences...." Wed, 07 Dec 2022 02:56:00 -0500 https://jobs.tnstate.edu/postings/5759 oa.new oa.jobs oa.usa oa.hei oa.oer oa.scholcomm oa.usa.tn "As 2022 draws to a close, join us for a Figshare webinar that looks ahead to the next 10 years of open data. What should the roadmap of open data uptake look like in academia? Figshare celebrated their 10th anniversary in 2022 and have been reflecting on 10 years of providing leading repository software to universities, publishers, funders, government agencies, pharmaceutical organizations, labs and more. As we embark on the next phase of our journey, this webinar will take stock of the current landscape of Open Data and what the coming years could bring for Figshare and the community as a whole. 2022 also saw the so-called ‘seismic’ OSTP memo and in January 2023, the NIH’s new Data Management and Sharing Policy will take full effect. During our webinar we’ll discuss the rise of national and international open data mandates and what they mean for publishers, universities and importantly researchers themselves...." Mon, 05 Dec 2022 04:39:00 -0500 https://www.digital-science.com/events/the-next-10-years-of-open-data/ oa.new oa.data oa.figshare oa.events oa.predictions "As an enabler and a funder in open infrastructure, one of our key goals at Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is to conduct research to better understand and articulate the foundational needs for open infrastructure services, such that they are viable in the short-term and sustainable in the long term. To this end, in this investigation, we worked to design and test measures that will enable us to better understand the financial health of nonprofit providers and enablers in this space. In this report, we outlined key patterns we observed in the nonprofits’ financial risk and strengths and resource allocation, and clarified sector needs for both funders and providers such that resources can be better allocated...." Mon, 05 Dec 2022 04:22:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/financial-health-of-nonprofits-in-research-and-scholarship-whats-working-and-what-needs-improvement/ oa.sustainability oa.revenues oa.repositories oa.new oa.ioi oa.business_models oa.nonprofit oa.economics_of oa.repositories "What we are working on: We published a report from our exploration into the financial health of nonprofits in research and scholarship. Using financial ratio analysis, we conducted a baseline assessment on the financial health of nonprofit organizations in the open scholarship and research ecosystem and explored general guidelines for decision makers to improve the financial health of organizations they fund – find out more in this blog post. We shared a summary and resources from our Funders Summit. Last month, we brought together 80 funders, budget holders, and other key stakeholders involved in the financing and resourcing of open infrastructure to discuss what to fund in open infrastructure for research and scholarship and how to fund it. Access slides, recordings, and other related resources from the Summit from this blog post. We are hiring a Business Development and Partnership Lead. This role will be instrumental to the next phase of IOI’s growth and development as we look to diversify our funding modes and streams, as well as grow uptake and investment of open infrastructure by institutions and funders globally. More details and application link on this page...." Mon, 05 Dec 2022 04:19:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-12-02/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.jobs oa.funders "The Iowa State University Library has pursued open access through our journal negotiations and agreements since 2018. Today, approximately one third of our subscription spending has been shifted to support open access through a variety of open business models, including Read and Publish, Subscribe to Open, and cooperative Diamond approaches. Our strategy, however, continues to evolve as the landscape continues to evolve. The Nelson OSTP memo, for example, will no doubt lead to changes that will require adjustments to our approach. And there will no doubt be other tweaks ahead as we work with our campus stakeholders to ensure Iowa State’s future research publications do not wind up behind a paywall, limiting social impact and exacerbating information inequity. But the equity focus during the OA transition can’t be limited to the reader. We must also ensure equity for authors.... We now bring up waiver and discount programs during our negotiations. Specifically, we ask publishers to commit to following these unofficial best practices: Waiver and discount eligibility criteria meets unfunded and underfunded author need regardless of discipline, country, institution, or affiliation...." Wed, 30 Nov 2022 23:35:00 -0500 https://openisu.pubpub.org/pub/zrn6kbq9/release/1 oa.usa oa.hei oa.authors oa.fees oa.negotiations oa.publishers oa.libraries oa.dei oa.waivers "2022 has brought us many changes. Some are good, some not so much. Join us on December 13 at 12pm ET/9am PT for a guided question and answer session to discuss how we're all doing and explore some sticky schol comm topics. We will be using Etherpad which allows for full privacy and anonymity to shape a discussion...." Wed, 30 Nov 2022 03:37:00 -0500 https://www.opencon.community/december_2022_librarian_call oa.new oa.opencon oa.events oa.librarians "We will be organizing the 2023 edition of the Open Publishing Festival together with Coko. Save the date: 13-17 November 2023. Organizing the Open Publishing Festival aligns perfectly our virtual-first event policy. We got inspired by the Festival at the start of the pandemic, and are excited we will co-organize it. We will be expanding in the 2023 edition of the Open Publishing Festival!  If you are interested, please suggest a session. It can be any kind of publishing—fact, fiction, art of any kind. Any kind of format, tool, or project—podcasts, software, video, books, articles, organisations, processes, methodologies, VR/AR - all of it! Anything that is open publishing! Are you interested to help with the 2023 edition? We are looking for sponsors and wranglers..." Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:31:00 -0500 https://libscie.org/organizing-the-open-publishing-festival/ oa.new oa.events oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.cfp oa.tools "Between October 31 and November 4, 2022, Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) organized our first Funders Summit, where we brought together over 80 funders, budget holders, and other key stakeholders involved in the financing and resourcing of open infrastructure to collaboratively explore and discuss a shared framework for investment in open research infrastructure and test out building an alternative funding mechanism. As outlined in our strategic plan, we recognize the need for global cooperation and coordination to increase and sustain open infrastructure investment at an ecosystem-wide level. In our many conversations with stakeholders throughout the past years, we have also come to understand the desire for more evidence-based strategic guidance and recommendations for funders looking to invest more meaningfully in open infrastructure, as well as the need to test new models and interventions. In organizing this Summit, we aimed to: Go beyond the “usual suspects”, to bring together diverse stakeholders from around the world, from those representing inter-governmental organizations to those from the broader digital and/or public infrastructure space. Share key research and data to spark discussions and challenge assumptions on what to fund and how to fund. Create a safe space for experimentation, to test out an alternative means to collectively fund open infrastructure and for all participants – including IOI – to learn from the experience. Below, we share a summary of the discussions at the Summit, as well as links to recordings, slides, and other related resources. We’ll reflect on the collective fund pilot run during the Summit and key lessons we learnt in the following weeks.... The shared notes and complete recordings remain accessible to Summit participants. The links and ways to access these additional artefacts can be found on our HackMD page."  https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/Funders-Summit-2022 Tue, 29 Nov 2022 07:35:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/funders-summit-2022-summary-and-resources/ oa.video oa.slides oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.events oa.events oa.funders Slides from a presentation at the "2022 conference of the European Citizen Science Association taking place on 6-8 October in Berlin. It was presented on 7 October. ... The video ...available via https://youtu.be/-yYzATI9U6M .   Abstract: Wikipedia formed the nucleus of the Wikimedia ecosystem of open knowledge websites. This session will provide an introduction to the citizen science aspects of this ecosystem. Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org) is a multilingual collaborative platform that democratizes data curation similar to how Wikipedia democratized the curation of encyclopedic information. It is tightly integrated with all language versions of Wikipedia and its sister sites, and it collects, reuses and provides structured public domain data across all areas of knowledge from all around the world. Wikidata meets the requirements of the FAIR principles to make data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable, and it allows people to collaborate who do not share a common language. With about 25,000 volunteer contributors each month that collaborate openly, Wikidata blends open science and citizen science approaches. The human contributors are aided by hundreds of automated or semi-automated tools that perform repetitive tasks at scale, based on community-agreed standards. Together, they have aggregated over 13 billion RDF triples on the platform that can be queried via a dedicated SPARQL endpoint and other means, which aids in quality control of the database content and workflows, and facilitates knowledge discovery within the corpus. Thanks to a combination of extensive examples, help pages, tutorials, user interface design and other mechanisms, this endpoint is gentle to users across various skill levels for the SPARQL query language. This way, Wikidata also democratizes access to and participation in the Semantic Web. The software underlying Wikidata is Wikibase (http://wikiba.se/). It is open source and openly licensed..." Mietchen, Daniel. (2022, October 4). Interactions between citizen science and the ecosystem around Wikipedia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7134994 Tue, 29 Nov 2022 02:59:00 -0500 https://zenodo.org/record/7134994 oa.new oa.wikidata oa.citizen_science oa.reuse oa.wikipedia oa.slides "...The Annual G20 Scorecard – Research Performance 2022, has been created by the Institute for Scientific Information™ at Clarivate to coincide with this year’s G20 Summit hosted by Bali. It includes both a written summary and an array of graphs and exhibits that highlight the research performance of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mainland China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. Jonathan Adams, Chief Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate and a co-author of the annual report said: “Our Annual G20 Scorecard provides a consistent benchmark of regional research economies for governments, funders and research institutions. “The yearly assessment of comparative metrics allows us to accurately compare performance and to spot early warning signs of any changes to investment, as the G20 respond to the climate and health challenges of the future.” The research profiles within the report are selective, highlighting chosen topics of current policy interest that identify good signals of the health of the research base for each G20 member. Key factors that contribute to impactful research are laid out for each and benchmarked...." Each country's research profile includes statistics on "Open Access (OA) research publication, where the author or funder pays instead of the reader or a university library paying via journal subscription, is increasing in response to demands from research funders – including governments (see Global Research Report: The Plan S Footprint). The trends and patterns in OA research publication are shown in a graph and a Research Footprint." Data sources on open access (via Web of Science): DOAJ, Unpaywall. Mon, 28 Nov 2022 23:43:00 -0500 https://clarivate.com/news/clarivate-annual-g20-scorecard-report-reveals-insights-into-worlds-leading-research-economies/ oa.latin_america oa.unpaywall oa.uk oa.turkey oa.south_korea oa.south_africa oa.saudi_arabia oa.russia oa.registrationwalled oa.new oa.mexico oa.metrics oa.latin_america oa.italy oa.indonesia oa.india oa.germany oa.g20 oa.france oa.doaj oa.disciplines oa.clarivate oa.china oa.canada oa.brazil oa.australia oa.argentina oa.japan oa.germany oa.europe oa.usa oa.south oa.asia "Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) hosted its first Funders Summit on October 31-November 4, 2022. This invite-only event took place online, and was open to those involved in the financing and resourcing of open infrastructure. Over the course of the week, participants helped to shape a pilot of a collective funding mechanism for open infrastructure. Participants discussed funding trends in open infrastructure; explored collective funding mechanisms and their feasibilities; and worked together to shape a first iteration of a collective funding mechanism for open infrastructure. More information: https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/Funders-Summit-2022" Mon, 28 Nov 2022 08:06:00 -0500 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaSiTjUGK3lcoUQF1F1p66bb_apF1MVmg oa.video oa.spanish oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.french oa.funders "IGI Global is continuing to advocate for open science and research – both through its commitment to publishing quality open access materials and now also serving as the founding member of the Association of Global Open Science and Research (AGOSR). The mission of AGOSR is simple, to create an environment that fosters an inclusive approach to the accessibility and innovation of open access research by working with publishers, librarians, and researchers worldwide to cultivate principles, share practices, and to also host and distribute open access content within the global research community....Currently, AGOSR is inviting university presses, libraries, publishers, as well as research associations, societies, and institutions to join in this movement. In addition to benefiting from frequent discussions and news surrounding various open science and research developments and initiatives, members can benefit from having their open access content integrated into the AGOSR Open Access Repository. If you are interested in participating in this movement and/or having any content integrated into the open access repository, please contact AGOSR here. About IGI Global: Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA with a subsidiary office (IGI Science and Technology, Ltd.), operating out of Beijing, China, IGI Global is a leading medium-sized independent academic publisher of international scientific research. They are committed to facilitating the discovery of pioneering research that enhances and expands the body of knowledge available to the research community through traditional and open access publishing workflows. Working in close collaboration with expert researchers and professionals from leading institutions, IGI Global publishes quality peer-reviewed content across 350+ topics in 11 core subject areas, including business, computer science, education, engineering, healthcare, social sciences, and more. With over 150,000+ industry-leading researchers and experts worldwide contributing to IGI Global’s publications, they ensure that each contains the most emerging and timeliest research.... " Mon, 28 Nov 2022 03:48:00 -0500 https://www.igi-global.com/newsroom/archive/igi-global-launches-new-open/5361/ oa.repositories oa.publishers oa.platforms oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.cfp oa.agosr oa.repositories "Below is the final program for the conference. Note that due to the flipped format of the conference, participants will have to get acquainted with videos, papers and posters published before the conference.... Keynote: Open Science policies at the University of Edinburgh: Putting policy into practice... Rights retention, open licensing and copyright. Reforming the policy landscape... Open Access Monographs: COPIM & Making Mandates Reality... Keynote: Open Science Infrastructure as a key component of Open Science... Future pathways of a sector in transition. A socio-technical system perspective on the scholarly publishing market and Open Access..."   Sun, 27 Nov 2022 22:45:00 -0500 https://site.uit.no/muninconf/program-2/ oa.norway oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.events oa.events "This article documents a series of meetings designed to identify the needs of African Open Access publishing communities and stakeholders. We also present some raw outcomes and briefly outline the next steps after a 2-year pause due to COVID disruptions. ... Next Steps: WACREN has taken these discussions forward in the pan-African LIBSENSE initiative to build a coalition and look for funding and support to establish an African-owned service provision that addresses the needs identified under the asserted principles.  The series has also led to further collaboration between WACREN and Coko to pilot trials of the open-source Kotahi scholarly publishing platform, adapted to include some of the features identified in the meetings within an African-owned-and-operated context and exploited for its support of divergent workflow pathways. The ultimate goal is to promote bibliodiversity with interoperable and decentralised publishing infrastructure governed by the African community. The coalition welcomes like-minded parties interested in ensuring that accessibility, affordability and adaptability are kept at the centre of the dialogue to ensure that the African research and education community continues to contribute to the global quest to open research for the betterment of humanity." Oaiya, O., Kuchma, I., & Hyde, A. (2022). Identifying the needs of African Open Access publishing communities. Commonplace. https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.cafce143 Sun, 27 Nov 2022 22:37:00 -0500 https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/z0aeozz0/release/1 oa.training oa.surveys oa.south oa.obstacles oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.events oa.benin oa.africa oa.events oa.publishing Dissemination via Indieweb.Social (an instance of Mastodon) of the Open Infrastructure Tracking Project (OITP), maintained by Invest in Open Infrastructure. Much of OITP's content comes from the Open Access Tracking Project. OITP runs on TagTeam software.  OITP can also be found on Twitter: https://twitter.com/oitp_ioi     Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:25:00 -0500 https://indieweb.social/@oitp_ioi oatp.notice oa.social_media oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) is now accepting proposals for the 2023 Library Publishing Forum! We are thrilled to offer a virtual forum during the week of May 8 to May 11 (times TBD).  We warmly encourage proposals from first-time presenters and representatives of small and emerging publishing programs. Proposals may address any topic of interest to the library publishing community.  Proposal submissions are welcome from LPC members and nonmembers, including library employees, university press employees, scholars, students, and other scholarly communication and publishing professionals. We welcome proposals from first-time presenters and representatives of small and emerging publishing programs. Please view the Call for Proposals for detailed information about the Forum and the different formats of proposed sessions. The submission deadline is December 16, 2022...." "...We welcome proposals on topics including, but not limited to: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), decolonial approaches to library publishing, intersections of library publishing with broader social issues, university presses, society and association partnerships, funding models, copyright, open access publishing, and Open Educational Resources (OER)...." Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:38:00 -0500 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzzqiZj70aY5Bn660m4kkKBhrjpE3gY4lESQbu08605iQVmQ/viewform oa.new oa.libpub oa.lpc oa.cfp "In its strategic plan, Utrecht University (UU) focuses on Open Science, in which an optimal interaction and collaboration takes place between society, science and scholarship . Open science is inextricably linked to open access: the open availability of research results. UU aims to facilitate a publishing climate in which academic authors publish fully open access. To guide this ambition, the UU has adopted an open access policy in early 2022.  As part of this new policy, investments will also be made in essential open infrastructure that are supportive to open access publishing (for the purpose of indexing, archiving and quality control) and open scholarly communication, provided that these are non-profit and guarantee scholarly quality. As of 2022 UU has made structural financial resources available to support these infrastructures. ..." Tue, 15 Nov 2022 02:50:00 -0500 https://www.uu.nl/en/university-library/advice-support-to/researchers/publishing-support/open-access/open-infrastructure-support oa.sherpa.romeo oa.psyarxiv oa.progress oa.policies oa.pkp oa.orcid oa.oapen oa.netherlands oa.mediarxiv oa.hei oa.funding oa.europe oa.dspace oa.doaj oa.doab oa.infrastructure oa.europe oa.arxiv oa.policies "We hosted our first Funders Summit. More than 60 participants joined us in discussing why, how, and what to fund in open infrastructure. We look forward to sharing out more from the Summit in the next few weeks! We announced the launch of a fund to further investment in open infrastructure globally. The fund will serve to catalyze and deepen investment in under-resourced areas, increase and expand the pool of funders of open infrastructure, and activate a mechanism for bold, higher-risk investments. Over the course of the next year, we will be hosting invited discussions and launching a Community Investment Council to bring transparency and accountability to fund stewardship. You can register your interest to join those conversations via this short survey...." Fri, 04 Nov 2022 09:52:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-11-04/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.budgets oa.funders Sustainability and Innovation in Scholarly Communications The COAR Annual Meeting 2023 took place in Costa Rica on May 16-18, 2023. The meeting was hosted by Consejo Nacional de Rectores (CONARE) and is being jointly organized by CONARE, COAR, and LA Referencia. . The theme of the meeting is Sustainability and Innovation in Scholarly Communications. … Fri, 04 Nov 2022 03:28:00 -0400 https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-annual-meeting-2022/ oa.sustainability oa.spanish oa.repositories oa.new oa.events oa.costa_rica oa.coar meetings annual oa.repositories oa.events "Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is excited to announce that we will be launching a fund to further investment in open infrastructure. The fund will go live in early 2024 and provide targeted support to further our mission to sustain effective digital infrastructure needed for open knowledge to flourish. Read our announcement for more information: https://investinopen.org/blog/ioi-launches-fund-to-deepen-investment-in-open-infrastructure/ The fund will serve as a means to further the following aims: Catalyze and deepen investment in under-resourced areas, addressing gaps that current funding mechanisms fail to support, enhancing access to funding to services outside of the Global North, and drive investment to enhance a more representative and accessible ecosystem. Increase and expand the pool of funders of open infrastructure, including calling for those who extract significant value from the open ecosystem to reinvest in the open systems from which they profit. Activate a mechanism for bold, higher risk investments, including exploring community investment in current infrastructure, to counter the increased corporate control of tools and technologies. Over the course of 2023, IOI will be sharing more about our plans for the fund, and we will also be launching a Community Investment Council. The Council will bring transparency and accountability to fund stewardship, to further build on our efforts to design values-aligned ways to debias funding decisions. You can register your interest to join those conversations via this short survey...." Wed, 02 Nov 2022 07:22:00 -0400 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeY2FMaC8OOIWZDtQc7hszKGawWg33aKqxbXr7FtlY1dnOBIQ/viewform oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.governance oa.funding oa.cfp oa.funders "...On Tuesday, November 8th, Daniel Goodman, one of several authors of the “Open letter to the WHOSTP and Subcommittee on Open Science” join the OpenCon Librarian Community call to discuss the motivations, goals, and experiences of the Open letter. He will also share his future vision for academic publishing through the recently launched Neuromatch Open Publishing initiative. Neuromatch proposes an open publishing platform owned by the community on which work would be free to read and publish, and all data would be made freely and openly available for third parties to build additional services on...." Wed, 02 Nov 2022 05:01:00 -0400 https://www.opencon.community/november_2022_librarian_call oa.publishing oa.policies oa.opencon oa.new oa.librarians oa.events oa.academic_led oa.ostp oa.events oa.usa oa.publishing "Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is excited to announce that it will be launching a fund to further investment in open infrastructure globally. The fund will go live in early 2024 and provide targeted support to further our mission to sustain effective digital infrastructure needed for open knowledge to flourish. ... The fund was announced as part of IOI’s Funders Summit, a gathering of key stakeholders involved in financing and resourcing open infrastructure. It will serve as a means to further the following aims: Catalyze and deepen investment in under-resourced areas, addressing gaps that current funding mechanisms fail to support, enhancing access to funding to communities outside of the Global North, and driving investment to enhance a more representative and accessible ecosystem. Increase and expand the pool of funders of open infrastructure, including calling for those who extract significant value from the open ecosystem to reinvest in the open systems from which they profit. Activate a mechanism for bold, higher-risk investments, including exploring community investment in current infrastructure, to counter the increased corporate control of tools and technologies.... IOI’s fund builds on existing momentum to increase investment for critical, digital, open infrastructure, as seen with the recent commitment by leaders to advance and invest in the use of digital public goods such as open source software, Germany’s launch of the Sovereign Tech Fund to support vital and stable open source technologies, and continued efforts from organizations such as the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS). Over the course of next year, IOI will be sharing more about its plans for the fund via a series of invited discussions. They will also be launching a Community Investment Council to bring transparency and accountability to fund stewardship, to further build on their efforts to design values-aligned ways to de-bias funding decisions. You can register your interest to join those conversations via this short survey." Tue, 01 Nov 2022 07:44:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/ioi-launches-fund-to-deepen-investment-in-open-infrastructure/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.governance oa.funding oa.cfp oa.sustainability oa.funders "We recently welcomed Dryad as an OASPA member in the Supporting Services and Infrastructure (Non-Commercial) category. Dryad joins a growing list of over 200 OASPA members.  We asked  Jennifer Gibson, Executive Director, a few questions so we could learn more about Dryad and its connection to open scholarship and the decision to become an OASPA member.   Tell us a bit about your organisation, the service it provides – and your role within it  Dryad is an open data publishing platform and multi-stakeholder community committed to the open availability and routine reuse of all research data. We work with institutions, publishers and researchers to curate and publish data in a way that enables discoverability and interconnection with other research outcomes and systems. Online since 2008, Dryad has anticipated requirements for data-management and sharing like the latest we’re seeing from U.S. policy makers...." Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:09:00 -0400 https://oaspa.org/welcoming-dryad/ oa.repositories oa.people oa.oaspa oa.new oa.interviews oa.dryad oa.data oa.repositories "OCLC Research is partnering with two Dutch library consortia—Universiteitbibliotheken en Nationale Bibliotheek (UKB) and Samenwerkingsverband Hogeschoolbibliotheken (SHB)—to investigate ways that libraries at universities and universities of applied sciences can improve the discoverability of scholarly, peer-reviewed open access (OA) publications for their communities. ...The Open Access Discovery project is investigating how staff at Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences are integrating scholarly, peer-reviewed OA publications into their users’ discovery workflows, which will provide valuable evidence for other libraries wanting to make their own practices more effective..." Fri, 28 Oct 2022 04:03:00 -0400 https://www.oclc.org/research/news/2022/dutch-lib-consortia-open-access-discovery.html oa.new oa.netherlands oa.oclc oa.hei oa.consortia oa.libraries oa.discoverability "The EcoEvoRxiv community and the eScholarship Publishing program at the California Digital Library (CDL) are delighted to announce a partnership to host the EcoEvoRxiv preprint server at the CDL. The re-launch of EcoEvoRxiv is scheduled to take place during International Open Access Week 2022 (October 24-30). “This relaunch marks a new start and a milestone for EcoEvoRxiv,” says Shinichi Nakagawa, one of its founders. “It is now widely recognized among ecologists, as well as evolutionary and conservation biologists because of their support.”  CDL will host EcoEvoRxiv on Janeway, an open source publishing platform developed by the Centre for Technology and Publishing and the Open Library of Humanities at Birkbeck University of London. The EcoEvoRxiv moderation team will maintain ownership and control over the preprint server, while the eScholarship Publishing team will contribute to the development, support, and maintenance of the Janeway platform. ... October 2022 also marks another important change for EcoEvoRxiv as it has officially become part of SORTEE, the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology...." Wed, 26 Oct 2022 20:36:00 -0400 https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2022/10/19/ecoevorxiv-partners-with-california-digital-library-to-re-launch-preprint-service-on-janeway/ oa.uc.cdl oa.repositories.preprints oa.repositories oa.preprints oa.platforms oa.new oa.janeway oa.infrastructure oa.ecoevorxiv oa.repositories oa.usa oa.preprints "This is a registration form for digital participants at the 17th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing 2022.  The event link will be sent to the registered participants shortly before the event. There will be no registration fees. More information can be found on the conference website. If you wish to participate in the conference in-person, go to the registration page to find the appropriate form...." Wed, 26 Oct 2022 08:33:00 -0400 https://nettskjema.no/a/283636 oa.new oa.events oa.norway oa.publishing oa.scholcomm "The University of Helsinki gives annually a recognition for remarkable open science promotion. The theme for the 2022 Open Science Award was open access publishing. The goal of this year’s Award was to highlight different channels for open access publishing, alternative publishing practices and platforms, and to give credit to researchers and University units who, in their work, have significantly promoted the culture of open access publishing. Nominations were requested from University units, and from the University community via the Flamma intranet. The call for nominees emphasized candidates with merits such as systematic and long-term profile in OA publishing, use and development of new kinds of open publishing platforms or venues, use of open peer review, or participating in discussion or the development of open publishing on the national or international level. The nominations were assessed by the award jury that consisted of Vice-Rector Kai Nordlund, University Librarian Minna Niemi-Grundström, Research Director Krister Lindén, Leading Information Specialist Markku Roinila and Senior Advisor Tiina Käkelä. The jury decided to grant the award to two nominees for significant open access promotion at the University of Helsinki. The award was given to the Helsinki Institute of Life Science HiLIFE, and to the Helsinki Term Bank for the Arts and Sciences. The University of Helsinki Open Science Award was presented at Think Corner on 24 October, in the event Avoimen tieteen iltapäivä [Open Science Afternoon]..." Wed, 26 Oct 2022 08:29:00 -0400 https://www.miragenews.com/university-of-helsinki-open-science-award-was-880734/ oa.new oa.finland oa.awards oa.hei oa.oa_week Google translate: Within the framework of the Open Access Week, CLACSO-FOLEC will participate in the following events:  -Activity “What is Open Science? Challenges and Opportunities» . Expanding open science from the reform in the evolution of research. Organized by the University of Tarapacá. Date: October 24. Hours: 11 a.m. GTM-3. -Webinar "Currently Open Science" , organized by the Coordination of Repositories, Research and Prospective of CONACYT (Mexico), October 26. – International Open Access Week . They organize five Chilean universities, the University of Tarapacá, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, the University of Chile, the University of Concepción and the Central University of Chile. Modality: face-to-face and transmission via YT channels. Date: from October 25 to 28. – 3rd. Arab Open Access Forum , organized by the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies, in collaboration with the Arab Open Access Community (ACOA). Date: October 29 to 31. Virtual mode. – International Open Knowledge Seminar 2022 . Organized by the National Research and Development Agency (ANID) in conjunction with the Consortium for Access to Electronic Scientific Information (CINCEL). Virtual mode. Date: November 10. CLACSO will participate in the Panel “New trends in research evaluation” 11:15 a.m. Panelists: Laura Rovelli, FOLEC-CLACSO coordinator / Rodrigo Costas, senior researcher at the Center for Science and Technology Studies -Leiden University / Frances Downey, head of Research and Innovation Culture – UKRI – Open Science in the Caribbean , University of Puerto Rico and CLACSO-FOLEC, November 15. -Master Talk " Evaluation in times of open science ", within the framework of the Ibero-American Congress of Open Science. Date: November 24. Hours: 4:00 p.m. GTM-3. Modality: virtual. Panelists: Dominique Babini, Open Science and Open Access Advisor at CLACSO / Pablo Vommaro, Director of Research at CLACSO / Laura Rovelli, Coordinator of FOLEC CLACSO..."         Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:33:00 -0400 https://www.clacso.org/semana-internacional-del-acceso-abierto-2/ oa.new oa.spanish oa.clacso oa.latin_america oa.oa_week oa.events oa.repositories oa.south "We’re preparing for our Funders Summit, October 31 - November 4. We’ve confirmed a list of speakers from 360Giving, GivingTuesday, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Wellcome Trust, Simons Foundation, and other stakeholders involved in the financing and resourcing of open infrastructure. We are also finalizing a programme that aims to facilitate the collective shaping of a funding mechanism. Please email contact [at] investinopen [dot] org for an invitation if you’d like to join us! We welcomed Naomi Penfold and Tim Elfenbein to our team! Naomi joins us as a full-time research data analyst - she will be working on building upon the preprint cause research that she has previously worked on. As a research affiliate, Tim will be exploring the importance of labour in developing and maintaining open infrastructure...." Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:48:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-10-21/ oa.people oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.events oa.events oa.funders "The II Congress on Open Data and Metadata in Ecuador, Open Research Data Edition, CODAM 2022, is promoted by Datalat Foundation and the Ecuadorian Network of Open Data and Metadata (REDAM). The Congress aims to promote a space for dialogue between the Government, universities, civil society and private companies on the importance of open data and metadata, as well as the recent advances in the matter at the public policy level...." Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:23:00 -0400 https://datalat.org/congresos/codam-2022/ oa.new oa.data oa.events oa.ecuador oa.spanish oa.latin_america oa.events oa.metadata oa.south "DOAJ and OpenAIRE are pleased to announce a new partnership which will promote collaboration and discovery between the two parties, by sharing metadata and enriching it. The collaboration aims to enhance the discoverability of the journals indexed in DOAJ in two ways: by enhancing DOAJ’s article metadata with metadata from the OpenAIRE Research Graph; and by enabling OpenAIRE to include in the Research Graph the diverse range of journals that DOAJ indexes, thereby increasing the discovery of research in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities from all languages and countries. With this collaboration, DOAJ will become a service registered to the OpenAIRE Catalogue of Services and integrated into EOSC Resources Catalogue...." Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:51:00 -0400 https://blog.doaj.org/2022/10/20/new-partnership-between-doaj-and-openaire-will-make-research-more-accessible/ oa.openaire oa.new oa.journals oa.gold oa.doaj oa.discoverability oa.metadata "Open Access Week 2022 is coming up, October 24-30. This year’s theme is Open for Climate Justice. I hope you'll find good moments to talk with colleagues about OA. To me, that's the main purpose of OA Week. If you can't talk every week with colleagues about OA, then use OA Week as an excuse. Before the pandemic, you could talk from a stage, your office, their office, a hallway, sidewalk, or café table. Now use Zoom or your favorite Zoom alternative. The effectiveness matters more than the setting, and informal personal settings are almost always more effective than formal impersonal ones. Make the case in a way that your colleagues will understand, which you understand because you're their colleague. Lead with direct conversation, not readings. Take advantage of the give and take of conversation. Show that you can answer your colleagues’ actual concerns. Show that you can answer the frequently heard questions, objections, and misunderstandings that might come up along the way. Help your colleagues understand that there's a serious problem and a beautiful solution...." Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:21:00 -0400 https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/boy6rnhd/release/3 oa.new oa.recommendations oa.oatp oa.climate oa.oa_week "The Library Publishing Coalition is pleased to announce the formation of a Canadian Community Development Working Group. Initiated by Canadian LPC members, this 6-month working group will engage Canadian scholarly communications stakeholders to explore  strategies for developing a stronger Canadian library publisher community. This new group provides an opportunity for Canadian library publishers to grow and develop according to their unique national context. ..." Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:44:00 -0400 https://librarypublishing.org/announcing-the-canadian-community-development-working-group/ oa.new oa.lpc oa.canada oa.publishing oa.libpub oa.libraries "Over the past 20 years, the academic publishing market has undergone changes that have led us to a juncture where power is concentrated in the hands of a handful of big companies. To help us understand how this came to be and its implications, we are joined today by Claudio Aspesi, a leading market analyst for the academic publishing market. Claudio is a consultant at SPARC, and has authored several reports about the market power and consolidation of the largest commercial players in this space...." Wed, 19 Oct 2022 09:38:00 -0400 https://knowledgeequitylab.ca/podcast/s3-ep3/ oa.publishing oa.people oa.new oa.monopoly oa.interviews oa.audio oa.economics_of oa.publishing "Science Europe and its public research funding and performing member organisations are committed to support open science as part of a well-functioning research system. Recalling Science Europe’s strategic vision, mission, and values, they strive for open and seamless collaboration between all actors involved in the research process, as well as open access to research outputs. They also support meaningful involvement of societal actors whenever relevant in the research process." https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7214935 Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:57:00 -0400 https://scienceeurope.org/our-resources/direction-paper-open-science oa.new oa.europe oa.policies oa.open_science oa.funders oa.science_europe "...SWIB focuses on Linked Open Data (LOD) in libraries and related organizations. It is well established as an event where IT staff, developers, librarians, and researchers from all over the world meet and mingle and learn from each other. The topics of talks and workshops at SWIB revolve around opening data, linking data and creating tools and software for LOD production scenarios. These areas of focus are supplemented by presentations of research projects in applied sciences, industry applications, and LOD activities in other areas. As usual, SWIB22 will be organized by ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz). The conference language is English...." programme: https://swib.org/swib22/programme.html Wed, 19 Oct 2022 01:41:00 -0400 https://swib.org/swib22/index.html oa.new oa.events oa.lod oa.metadata oa.libraries "The McLaughlin Library at the University of Guelph invites applications for a continuing appointment-track position at the Assistant or Associate Librarian level. The Team: The Research & Scholarship (R&S) team focuses on addressing the systemic issues in scholarly communication by challenging legacy processes in the exploration of new services, approaches, and initiatives. The team is comprised of librarians, professionals, and associates who provide expertise throughout the research and publishing lifecycle. As part of this team, the Research & Scholarship Librarian will actively contribute toward the team’s goals to: Develop services, participate in research, and provide expertise to support research and scholarly communication processes Collaboratively identify, develop, and implement sustainable services and infrastructure in support of open scholarship projects Develop an understanding of the research enterprise on campus and identify needs for support and collaboration Raise awareness of, enable, and advocate for transformation in scholarly communication The Position: Reporting to the Head of the R&S team, the Research & Scholarship Librarian will collaborate with members of the R&S team, other teams in the library (particularly Collections & Content), and units across campus to provide continued support for researcher needs around open publishing, especially as they pertain to the University of Guelph’s institutional repository (IR). The position will be responsible for providing support to members of the campus community through instruction, consultation, and outreach activities. Significant collaborators will include the Office of Research and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Responsibilities for this position will include: Lead the development, advancement, and promotion of open collections in the IR Work collaboratively with stakeholders in the development of strategies to support the creation, discovery, and accessibility of open scholarship across campus..." Mon, 17 Oct 2022 07:17:00 -0400 https://www.uoguelph.ca/facultyjobs/postings/ad22-71.shtml oa.new oa.jobs oa.hei oa.canada oa.librarians oa.scholcomm "Does the new guidance from OSTP regarding open access to federally funded research energize you? Would you like to lead the efforts to ensure that campus researchers are well-informed about procedures for deposit of their scholarly publications? Would you like to be a part of an exciting new team that includes scholarly communications, research data management and wrangling, digital humanities, social sciences data and GIS? This new team, Research and Computational Data Management (RCDM), brings together key positions into a new unit at the University of Georgia Libraries that we believe aligns more with current and future research practices. This new unit is the first step on our organizational change journey. As a library, we are looking to reorganize and realign in order to best meet the needs of the changing research landscape along with the needs of our 40,000+ students. The expenditures of the UGA research community totaled nearly $500 million in 2021. If you’d like to be a part of this exciting time at the University of Georgia Libraries, and you have expertise in the area of Scholarly Communications, please consider applying. The Scholarly Communications Librarian will report to the new Head of Research and Computational Data Management (RCDM) and will work as a part of a team to provide access to the scholarship of the University of Georgia community. The Scholarly Communications Librarian will have a demonstrated commitment to open access, a strong understanding of the publishing ecosystem, open educational resources and knowledge of institutional and disciplinary repositories...." https://www.libs.uga.edu/sites/default/files/employment/scholarly-communications-librarian.pdf Mon, 17 Oct 2022 07:08:00 -0400 https://www.arl.org/jobs/job-listings/a0I6T00000Zo6GnUAJ/ oa.new oa.jobs oa.hei oa.usa oa.librarians oa.scholcomm oa.usa.ga "Laurentian University researchers have received funding in excess of $237,000 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) through its Insight Program. The Insight, Insight Development and Aid to Scholarly Journals grants were awarded to LU’s School of Social Work, School of Liberal Arts as well as the McEwen School of Architecture....Aid to Scholarly Journal grants support Canadian scholarly dissemination by enabling journals to explore innovative activities as well as helping them cover the costs associated with publishing scholarly articles and journal distribution on Canadian not-for-profit platforms. “Insight, Insight Development and Aid to Scholarly Journals grants are critically important for researchers and the training of students that often work side by side with faculty to advance scholarship and knowledge dissemination,” Doctor Tammy Eger, vice-president of research at the university, said in a media release Thursday. “These investments from the federal government ensure that researchers are able to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in fields of social sciences and humanities.”..." Mon, 17 Oct 2022 03:48:00 -0400 https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/laurentian-university-receives-more-than-225-000-to-support-the-humanities-1.6107968 oa.new oa.canada oa.funding oa.journals oa.business_models oa.hei oa.humanities oa.ssh Summary: "Editors play a crucial role in the publication process and are keystones to promoting an inclusive and respectful environment for their contributors. Recognizing that editors are the key to improving equity, diversity, and inclusivity in their journals and books, several publishers have developed formal diversity trainings or written resources for their editors. In this webinar, we will hear from publishers and subject matter experts as they recount their experiences and lessons learned in developing diversity and anti-bias training specifically for editors. " Moderator: Ana Heredia Speakers: Stephanie Pollack, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Lead, American Psychological Association Annie Hill, Editorial Director. American Psychological Association Shaina Lange, Manager, Publication Ethics, American Chemical Society Dr. Joseph Willaims, Associate Professor, University of Virginia, Affirm Consulting LLC, CEO Mon, 17 Oct 2022 03:42:00 -0400 https://sspnet-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t8lCbUefTP2HylGA7zm5Tg oa.new oa.events oa.dei oa.publishers "Do OA and open science represent a set of aligned interests being pushed by the rich and powerful — politicians, funders, lobbyists, and larger commercial operators — to allow for techno-utopian political posturing while they double-dip on their already-plentiful societal advantages and increase the odds that their current advantages grow? However you answer this very leading question, it’s increasingly clear that policies are not being implemented transparently and openly, but rather via a hidden web of relationships, deals, and coordination — from Plan S to OSTP. More and more information is pointing to a gradual, purposeful, and internecine takeover of publishing, not to make it more author-centric, but to make it more funder-centric. The relationships among funders, governments, and oligarchs are often blurry, with lobbyists an indicator that some kind of alignment is in the works. A recent paper in Science and Public Policy about inadequate transparency in the EU’s approach to creating its influential open science policy discusses the role of lobbyists in the paradigm shift from “science 2.0” to “open science” as policies were formulated in Brussels and elsewhere. This was a meaningful shift. Both phrases are vague, but the first is more commonly understood as connoting a digital future based on existing norms. The latter injects a new set of untested norms, with the authors worrying that: '. . . successful projects of openness tend to be exploited on the one hand by powerful commercial actors and, on the other hand, by non-serious or even criminal actors, sometimes working in a grey area.' Given the trail of influence SPARC and ORFG have left in the US through the NLM and the OSTP — in addition to the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) — and their efforts to obscure relationships, roles, and ties to the registered lobbying firm (New Venture Fund [NVF]) that is their fiscal sponsor, some statements in the paper hit familiar notes when it comes to lobbyists on this side of the Atlantic:... Given the power dynamics — with subscription-based journals creating strong filters at the headwaters of various scientific communities, often leading to funded projects being unpublished or published in lesser journals than their funders imagined — it’s little wonder funders changed lanes, entering publishing in order to gain further influence, lower barriers, and put their interests at the headwaters. “Publishers being co-opted by funders” now seems to be the unspoken intent of OA and open science." https://web.archive.org/web/20221010111724/https://www.the-geyser.com/oa-and-its-lobbyists/ Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:15:00 -0400 https://www.the-geyser.com/oa-and-its-lobbyists/ oa.transparency oa.sparc oa.policies oa.ostp oa.objections oa.new oa.negative oa.ethics oa.debates oa.advocacy oa.paywalled oa.funders oa.orfg "Wikidata went live on 29 October 2012 ; in 2022, we are celebrating 10 years of Wikidata together! Let's organize celebration events all around the world. We are hoping to create a huge network of decentralized, local and community-led events, that could take place onsite or online, around October 2022. The goal of these birthday celebrations are to celebrate the achievements of the community, to bring people together, and also to talk about Wikidata to the rest of the world in order to get more people onboard. In various areas of the world, people get together to organize plenty of different birthday events: meetups, workshops, discussions, live streams, editing campaigns... You can have a look at the events calendar below to find events in your area...." Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:37:00 -0400 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday oa.new oa.events oa.wikidata oa.cfp "Full coverage of the three day OASPA Online Conference on Open Scholarship 2022..." Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:14:00 -0400 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIpJXV9MOz0NL2MBhXmyQNMLQB7ZlxG5c oa.new oa.oaspa oa.publishing oa.video oa.events "...Based on a global survey, the report is now in its seventh year and provides insights into researchers’ attitudes towards and experiences of open data. With more than 5,400 respondents, the 2022 survey is the largest since the COVID-19 pandemic began. This year’s report also includes guest articles from open data experts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), publishers and universities...." Thu, 13 Oct 2022 04:14:00 -0400 https://digitalscience.figshare.com/articles/report/The_State_of_Open_Data_2022/21276984 oa.new oa.data oa.surveys "The end-user portal of cOAlition S’ Journal Comparison Service (JCS) launched on 28th September and is now live.  Publishers are being invited by Plan S to populate their transparency data* into the JCS. The JCS is a secure, free, online service aiming to enable those who procure publishing services to better understand what they are paying for. It also represents a way for publishers to achieve greater transparency on their services and related pricing...." Wed, 12 Oct 2022 08:19:00 -0400 https://oaspa.org/plan-s-journal-comparison-service-guidance-and-practical-input/ oa.new oa.monitoring oa.publishers oa.gold oa.comparisons oa.jcs oa.tools oa.plan_s oa.journals "Speakers include: Eileen Fradenburg Joy, Founder and Director of Punctum Books; Marina Zurkow, Multimedia Artist and Instructor at Tisch School of the Arts; Moderated by Matthew Garklavs, Electronic Resources Librarian at Pratt Institute Libraries. In observance of International Open Access Week, Pratt Institute Libraries is hosting a virtual event to showcase its partnership with Punctum Books. Since the theme for Open Access Week this year is "Climate Justice", the program will explore how Open Access publishers like Punctum serve as good platforms for sharing knowledge and expressing ideas on this timely topic...." Wed, 12 Oct 2022 07:54:00 -0400 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pratt-and-punctum-a-program-on-open-access-and-climate-justice-tickets-430399756257 oa.new oa.events oa.oa_week oa.punctum_books oa.publishers oa.climate "Research technology and infrastructure are to be open and community-owned, for science to thrive. This is why the non-profit initiative “Invest in Open Infrastructure” is dedicated to improve funding for open technologies supporting research and scholarship. Emmy Tsang, Engagement Lead at “Invest in Open Infrastructure”, points out what makes an infrastructure open and sustainable and how the Berlin University Alliance can be inspired by their efforts to build a sustainable, collaborative research ecosystem...." Wed, 12 Oct 2022 07:26:00 -0400 https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YpdOupqjgtGtMMHx_mM-dqarrE1m6uFm7M oa.sustainability oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.germany oa.events oa.consortia oa.germany oa.events "Presented by Heather Staines, Senior Strategy Consultant, Delta Think; Jay Flynn, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Wiley. The publishing industry has seen many transitions, but the shift to OA disrupts conventional business models in a way that earlier shifts, like print to digital, did not. The world is moving ahead at different paces with Europe quietly making a major pivot, while the landscape in the US and beyond is significantly more fragmented. Publishers, and in particular society publishers, may find themselves struggling to navigate these developments. Transformative agreements are changing the publication landscape, but their impact on global research production and consumption is uneven. Adding services to content and developing new revenue streams may be one way to navigate this shift, but new models require new infrastructure and new capabilties. This conversation will address the wider trends in the scholarly communication ecosystem, but with a focus on-the-ground experience and practical steps that are being taken now to ensure future sustainability. The session will be an interview format with Heather Staines asking some starter questions then opening up to audience input...." Wed, 12 Oct 2022 07:22:00 -0400 https://www.charleston-hub.com/2022/10/charleston-neapolitan-sessions-part-1-of-3/ oa.new oa.events oa.trends oa.wiley oa.publishers oa.usa "Climate change is a global problem requiring global solutions. To find ways to mitigate for the huge environmental and societal impacts we are facing across the world, scientists and scholars, policy makers, governments, and industry leaders need to connect and collaborate effectively.   Open access publishing has a role to play in facilitating the discourse needed, by ensuring that the most up-to-date research is accessible, re-usable, and available to a wide audience quickly. At OUP, our flagship open access series, Oxford Open, includes several journals which connect researchers working in fields relevant to climate justice and which foster wider, more interdisciplinary collaboration. Below we hear from several of our Oxford Open Editors who elaborate on what this year’s Open Access Week theme “Open for Climate Justice” means to them...." Wed, 12 Oct 2022 06:05:00 -0400 https://blog.oup.com/2022/10/oxford-open-access-climate-justice/ oa.new oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.climate oa.oa_week oa.disciplines Google translate: "Open Access Week in Norway is a collaboration between several subject libraries. They invite you to a series of lectures on topics related to open research, open publishing and the sharing of research data. All lectures are digital and open to all interested parties...." Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:31:00 -0400 https://www.openscience.no/aktuelt/open-access-week-2022 oa.new oa.norway oa.events oa.norwegian oa.oa_week "...What we are working on: We shared findings from our preliminary investigation into supporting open infrastructure for preprints. In exploring preprint services and infrastructure as a case study for how we can support critical research infrastructure, we conducted this preliminary investigation to ask: what is the current situation with preprints and open infrastructure for them, and how could IOI pursue work to further investment and sustain activities in this space? Read our report to find out more.... We are organizing our first Funders Summit, Oct 31 - Nov 4, online! This convening aims to bring together funders, budget holders, and key stakeholders involved in the financing and resourcing of open infrastructure. If you’re interested in joining us, please reach out to contact [at] investinopen [dot] org for an invitation...." Mon, 10 Oct 2022 22:50:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-10-07/ oa.preprints oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.events oa.events oa.funders oa.preprints "Deadline to apply: December 1, 2022 Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue the Global DH Symposium for an 8th year. This will be the Symposium’s first year as a hybrid conference with a multi-day synchronous virtual event and a one-day, in-person event at MSU. The virtual symposium welcomes presentations in English, Spanish, and Chinese and will offer live interpretation between languages. ..." topics include: "...Indigeneity – anywhere in the world – and the digital Surveillance, censorship, and/or data privacy in a global context  Productive failure; failure as a part of DH praxis Cultural heritage in a range of contexts, particularly non-Western Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance Global digital pedagogies and emerging technologies Equity and inclusion in digital access Borders, migration, and/or diasporas and their connections to the digital Multilingualism and the digital..." Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:38:00 -0400 https://msuglobaldh.org/call-for-proposals-english/ oa.new oa.cfp oa.spanish oa.chinese oa.digital_humanities oa.humanities oa.ssh oa.ssh oa.usa "Find out the latest on researchers’ attitudes toward and practices of open data in the seventh installment of the State of Open Data survey and report. The longest running longitudinal survey and analysis on open data practices, this year’s report pulls together a host of contributive pieces addressing the challenges and opportunities found in the survey results. The full report and survey results will be made openly and freely available in mid October 2022...." Thu, 06 Oct 2022 06:31:00 -0400 https://www.digital-science.com/events/state-of-open-data-2022/ oa.new oa.events oa.data oa.surveys oa.attitudes Abstract: "Are transformative agreements really transformative? Is open access (OA) more than a PR tool for commercial publishers, an ornament on an otherwise impenetrable firewall, an air freshener in the landfill of corporate profiteering and shrinking library budgets? Is OA actually open, is it accessible? Where is “the public” in this? Where also is the “public” in “public library”? We pose these questions as the occasion for a critical analysis of the political economy of OA, as well as an opening to a more radical practice. Our panel presents the perspectives of librarians involved in scholarly-communication advocacy and library publishing, alongside that of a scholar-led OA publisher...." Participants: EIleen Joy, punctum books; Dolsy Smith, The George Washington University Thu, 06 Oct 2022 05:25:00 -0400 https://acrl2023.us2.pathable.com/meetings/virtual/ijrpBa5Mb5zDDW6fF oa.new oa.events oa.acrl oa.usa oa.debates oa.librarians oa.offsets oa.objections "Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is hosting its first Funders Summit, happening October 31-November 4, 2022. This invite-only event will occur online, and is open to those involved in the financing and resourcing of open infrastructure. Over the course of the week, participants will work with IOI to help shape the pilot of a collective funding mechanism for open infrastructure. You will: Discuss funding trends in open infrastructure; Explore collective funding mechanisms and their feasibilities; and Work together with other participants to shape a first iteration of a collective funding mechanism for open infrastructure....The programme is designed for us to work together, through reflection and discussions, to shape the pilot for a collective funding mechanism for open infrastructure. IOI will lead in committing $100,000 USD to this pilot. We are seeking additional co-investment and commitment from partners who would like to join us in investing in the open infrastructure necessary for research to thrive. Interested in learning more? Email us at contribute [at] investinopen [dot] org. If you're interested in joining us, please email contact [at] investinopen [dot] org for an invitation...." Tue, 04 Oct 2022 21:17:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/ioi-funders-summit-2022/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.events oa.events oa.funders "...We are concerned that the preprints ecosystem is not yet financially sustainable, with services dependent on substantial voluntary and in-kind contributions that aren’t fully accounted for in financial plans and are not reliable for long-term strategic planning. The majority of preprints are not shared using open infrastructure. Overall, we find the potential of preprints in open scholarly communication is not yet fully realized and is at risk from competition with for-profit, commercial, and other proprietary solutions. While developments in the existing journal publishing ecosystem make it possible to more rapidly share work, we risk losing the opportunity for this activity to be done on community-governed infrastructure built on open source tools that is transparent and accountable to its stakeholders. To address these challenges and concerns, we recommend work to: Raise awareness of the potential benefits and drawbacks of using existing open services for preprints as shared infrastructure. Support research and development (and testing) of business models that could work at a larger scale. Advocate for increased investment in projects and initiatives that support preprints to enable more inclusive and equitable participation in science and scholarship." Tue, 04 Oct 2022 10:24:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/preliminary-investigation-supporting-open-infrastructure-for-preprints/ oa.versions oa.repositories.preprints oa.repositories oa.preprints oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.repositories oa.preprints Summary: "Preprints are being used across multiple scholarly disciplines – at varying levels of adoption. In this research, we asked: what is the current situation with preprints and open infrastructure for them, and how could IOI pursue work to further investment and sustain activities in this space?" Tue, 04 Oct 2022 05:20:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/record/7137126 oa.versions oa.repositories.preprints oa.repositories oa.preprints oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.repositories oa.preprints "The Brandeis Library is recruiting for this exciting new position at a time when there is deep interest in scholarly communication topics across campus! This role is highly collaborative, and the successful candidate must be an active relationship builder and excellent communicator with the ability to work cross-organizationally to develop and communicate library services. Collaborations will include working with researchers from across the disciplines, research service providers within the library (in particular Research and Instructional Services (RIS) librarians), and key campus stakeholders such as the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Office of Institutional Research, and more. We are seeking candidates with a variety of social identities, including those who have been underrepresented in higher education, who possess skills that spark innovation and who are committed to building, engaging with, and sustaining a pluralistic, unified, and just campus community...." Thu, 22 Sep 2022 03:29:00 -0400 https://brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobs/job/Brandeis---Waltham-Campus/Scholarly-Communications-Librarian-for-Research-Infrastructure_R0007111-2?source=HigherEdJobs oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.hei oa.scholcomm oa.usa oa.jobs "Reporting to and working with the Scholarly Communications Officer and Executive Director of Temple University Press, the Assistant Director, Open Publishing Initiatives and Scholarly Communications provides vision, leadership and direction for strategic and operational planning for the Libraries’ open access digital scholarly publishing programs, the institutional repository (TUScholarShare), Library-supported faculty and student open access journals, and the Open Access Publishing Fund, which together form the Center for Scholarly Communication and Open Publishing. Supervises the Library Publishing and Scholarly Communications staff. Serves as the Editor-in-Chief of North Broad Press, a joint Press/Libraries imprint for open educational resources, and oversees all North Broad Press activities, including acquisitions, editorial, production, and marketing. Consults with Temple University Press on openly available digital publishing projects, advises Press staff and scholarly authors on the development and implementation of the same.  Manages the Libraries’ open access journal publishing service, working closely with faculty, student journal managers and editors. Actively seeks out new journals from the Temple community. Oversees ongoing development and expansion of the Libraries’ institutional repository, TUScholarShare in order to help make Temple scholarship freely available online to a global audience.  Leads outreach efforts on behalf of the Libraries to faculty in support of scholarly publication innovations and reforms. Acts as a campus resource on open access publishing and collaborates across campus to further open access initiatives. Strategically plans scholarly programming and events around these topics in collaboration with other groups such as the Office of Research, the Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT), and the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT). Participates in local, regional, and national initiatives related to library publishing, scholarly communications, and open access, in order to support the success of the Libraries’ open publishing services. Performs related duties as assigned...." Thu, 22 Sep 2022 03:27:00 -0400 https://temple.taleo.net/careersection/tu_ex_staff/jobdetail.ftl?job=22003508 oa.new oa.jobs oa.hei oa.publishing oa.usa oa.libpub Google translate: "...Representing the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC Brasil), I had the pleasure of being in Colombia to participate in the PKP Sprint Bogotá 2022, held at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Event in which possible improvements to the OJS, OMP, OPS and OHS software were discussed, as well as practical work on the development of strategies for this purpose. I highlight ten working groups to develop: 1) A way to publish open opinions and adjustments to the review; 2) Improvements in Dataverse plugin compatibility; 3) The implementation of a package of tools through plugins; 4) Educational resources open at PKP School; 5) A server configuration assessment plugin to enhance OJS security; 6) A plugin to facilitate the publication in OJS of multimedia content, such as video and audio; 7) A search engine for OMP; 8) The use of XML for creating and viewing different formats (Lens); 9) A plugin for inclusion of authorship roles according to Credit Casrai in OJS; 10) The translation and improvement of the PKP documentation. In a collaborative way, in a harmonious and productive atmosphere, publishing actors and programmers, under the coordination of Juan Pablo Aperin, voluntarily gathered to reflect on possibilities to expand the PKP's functionalities and, in particular, to qualify the works in the OJS. A very valuable initiative, after all, thousands of magazines will benefit. In a collaborative way, in a harmonious and productive atmosphere, publishing actors and programmers, under the coordination of Juan Pablo Aperin, voluntarily gathered to reflect on possibilities to expand the PKP's functionalities and, in particular, to qualify the works in the OJS. A very valuable initiative, after all, thousands of magazines will benefit. In a collaborative way, in a harmonious and productive atmosphere, publishing actors and programmers, under the coordination of Juan Pablo Aperin, voluntarily gathered to reflect on possibilities to expand the PKP's functionalities and, in particular, to qualify the works in the OJS. A very valuable initiative, after all, thousands of magazines will benefit. ..." Thu, 22 Sep 2022 01:03:00 -0400 https://www.abecbrasil.org.br/novo/2022/07/a-divulgacao-cientifica-impulsionada-pelo-software-open-journal-systems/ oa.latin_america oa.portuguese oa.pkp oa.ojs oa.new oa.latin_america oa.infrastructure oa.code4oa oa.brazil oa.floss oa.south Google translate: "ABEC MEETING Publishing Trends will bring topics that will encourage discussion about current trends and challenges in scientific publishing. The objective of the meeting is to build a broader view of Open Science among scientific editors, whose leading role in the promotion of Open Access, brings important contributions to the elaboration of a new science communication ecosystem capable of dialoguing and including non-specialized audiences and meeting regional demands. . The program brings together national and international experts and has two conferences and three panels that seek to point out the possibilities for dialogue between Open Access and Citizen Science, including the presentation of empirical cases."   Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:46:00 -0400 https://www.abecbrasil.org.br/eventos/meeting_2022/meeting22.php oa.new oa.portuguese oa.brazil oa.events oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.latin_america oa.south oa.publishing "The role of institutional libraries and of publishers continues to evolve along with the changing landscape of research dissemination. Open access publishing has paved the way for a broader open science or open research landscape that emphasizes the importance of sharing research elements across the scientific discovery process. Sharing across the lifecycle supports greater transparency, assists in reproducibility and replicability, and can speed up the dissemination of important research outcomes.  In the US, an increasing number of policies, practices, and guidelines are helping to encourage open practices throughout the research lifecycle -- from data to code to publication. Institutional libraries are responding by providing leadership in the open science environment through activities like expanding support for grant compliance, helping facilitate data reuse, and working with organizations to build the necessary infrastructure to facilitate an open research process. ..." Tue, 13 Sep 2022 09:11:00 -0400 https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/3922898/DADCC5CC3DF9F49EF9FB137BAC5C5222 oa.new oa.events oa.publishers "We launched Wikimedia Enterprise last year with a goal of making it easy to programmatically access data from across the Wikimedia Foundation projects. Since then, we have been busy building a product that can serve the needs of commercial users of any size. Today, we are thrilled to share some of the first customers using this product, in addition to new features that make it easy for anyone to start using Wikimedia Enterprise.  Today, we are excited to announce that: Google has become the very first customer of Wikimedia Enterprise. The Internet Archive will receive full access to Enterprise’s feature set, at no cost, for use in furthering their mission of archiving the Web. Self-service trial accounts are available to anyone to try out Wikimedia Enterprise for their own use. Trial accounts include unlimited free access to a monthly snapshot of the entire Wikimedia Enterprise project archive and 10,000 free requests from our On-Demand API. New product and pricing details are now available, including a pricing calculator to estimate usage cost after a trial, as well as comprehensive product documentation, and a customer service portal with detailed FAQs. We have also added a news page (you are reading it!) to better communicate updates and announcements to current and potential customers...." Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:44:00 -0400 https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/news/hello-world/ oa.new oa.wikimedia oa.business_models oa.reuse oa.tools "While scholarly communication is a well-established subdiscipline within academic libraries and influences so many areas of librarianship, it’s not commonly addressed within LIS education. Lack of formal training may contribute to increased pressure to learn on the job, to burnout, and to elevated experiences of imposter syndrome. There are some understandable barriers to increasing LIS instruction on topics like open access, copyright and fair use, publishing and repositories, research data management, impact measurement, and open education; LIS programs can’t all teach everything, and some scholarly communications topics are relatively new. The issues are complex, they’re based in disciplinary practice, and they change rapidly. Hoping to address the gap in instruction and to provide field-based resources, Maria Bonn (UIUC), Will Cross (NC State), and Josh Bolick (KU) have led the development of the Scholarly Communication Notebook (SCN), a repository of community-designed open resources for teaching about scholarly communication and for doing scholarly communication work in libraries.  Join us on September 13 for a discussion with Maria, Will, and Josh. They'll provide a brief overview of the SCN, highlight some of the excellent contributions of our peers, answer your questions, and invite feedback and discussion. For additional background, attendees may be interested in checking out “OER resources to help equip growing field of scholcomm librarianship” by SPARC or “Taking a page from the Scholarly Communication Notebook to transform LIS education” from CNI Dec. 2021 (slides, recording)...." Mon, 12 Sep 2022 03:56:00 -0400 https://www.opencon.community/september_2022_librarian_call oa.new oa.training oa.scholcomm oa.librarians oa.lis oa.events "...In the end, I think the OSTP policy guidance is a gimmick and not a positive structural step to help scientists or science. There isn’t any word about solving the career suicide pact most STEM trainees enter into when agreeing to pursue a PhD. There isn’t anything about ensuring rigor in results reporting, or efforts to blunt or undo misinformation around scientific findings. There isn’t a word about giving whistleblowers more protections to ensure that labs don’t cheat, or about increasing the penalties under the law if governmental information is removed from public view by partisan hacks (an imminent threat given the rise of certain political personalities). There is no increased demand for universities to aggressively pursue claims of research fraud, or new regulations around research misconduct....The direction OSTP is headed smacks of the same kind of techno-utopian initiatives and mindsets that have confused and exhausted researchers and the public over the past decade. And the Senate-approved Director of the OSTP, when she takes over, may not be pleased with this particular basket of controversies and costs being left to her by the current acting head of the agency. In the end, the new OSTP guidance will give bigger publishers more leverage and better margins — most of whom are not based in the US...."   Fri, 09 Sep 2022 05:53:00 -0400 https://www.charleston-hub.com/2022/09/the-hidden-inequities-in-ostps-new-guidance/ oa.ostp oa.usa oa.debates oa.policies oa.new oa.funders oa.policies.funders oa.mandates oa.data oa.repositories oa.green oa.embargoes oa.objections oa.dei oa.fees oa.economics_of oa.funders "The role of institutional libraries and of publishers continues to evolve along with the changing landscape of research dissemination. Open access publishing has paved the way for a broader open science or open research landscape that emphasizes the importance of sharing research elements across the scientific discovery process. Sharing across the lifecycle supports greater transparency, assists in reproducibility and replicability, and can speed up the dissemination of important research outcomes.  In the US, an increasing number of policies, practices, and guidelines are helping to encourage openness from data to code to publication. Institutional libraries are responding by providing leadership in the open science environment through activities like expanding support for grant compliance, helping facilitate data reuse, and working with organizations to build the necessary infrastructure to facilitate an open research process.  Publishers are likewise exploring new models, technologies, and processes to support greater openness and to shift away from a pay-to-read model. F1000’s innovative publishing model, for example, is designed to fully promote open science practices by requiring FAIR compliant data with submission, allowing for a broad variety of publication types beyond standard journal articles, and using open community peer review to validate research. In this panel discussion, representatives from State University of New York at Stony Brook, Library Journal, F1000 and Taylor & Francis will convene for an interactive discussion about the ways in which institutional libraries are collaborating with partners to advance open science principles, rigor and reproducibility, and research innovations. Speakers: Joseph Lerro - Open Research Business Development Manager, the Americas - F1000 and Taylor & Francis Group Dr. Vitaly Citovsky, Ph.D./SUNY - Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology - State University of New York at Stony Brook Mona Ramonetti, Head of Scholarly Communication, Stony Brook University Libraries Lisa Federer, Data Science and Open Science Librarian, National Library of Medicine..." Wed, 07 Sep 2022 02:09:00 -0400 https://www.libraryjournal.com/event/the-role-of-libraries-in-the-evolution-of-open-research oa.new oa.publishers oa.libraries oa.events oa.hei "In October 2022, we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Wikidata together! For this special occasion, we are creating a collaborative video that will show people from all around the world celebrating Wikidata’s birthday, sharing wishes and appreciation to the Wikidata community, and why they like Wikidata. We would love to invite you to participate in this video! You will find below more information about how to participate. In short: you can film one or several videos and send them through this form before September 18th. Please make sure that your videos have a maximum size of 1GB and filmed in 30 or 60fps. If you need help with filming the video, feel free to contact us. You can also join one of our workshops...." Tue, 06 Sep 2022 08:41:00 -0400 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Celebration_video oa.new oa.wikidata oa.cfp oa.milestones "Second meeting of the Working Group on Open Science Infrastructures. Time Sep 30, 2022 03:00 PM in Paris...." More info: https://www.unesco.org/en/natural-sciences/open-science/implementation#open-science-working-groups Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:08:00 -0400 https://unesco-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlf-mpqzgpG9MBDr_Tl6ybX1LXMP0fSzae oa.unesco oa.open_science oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.events oa.europe oa.europe oa.events "...Working Group: Working Group on Open Science Policies and Policy Instruments. Deliverables: Building upon its first meeting (see the report), the Working Group is preparing: A global index/compendium of open science policies and policy instruments at the national level. Principles for a policy approach to open science - a document forming part of the UNESCO Open Science Toolkit,,," More info: https://www.unesco.org/en/natural-sciences/open-science/implementation#open-science-working-groups Fri, 02 Sep 2022 07:56:00 -0400 https://events.unesco.org/event?id=3234150768&lang=1033 oa.new oa.events oa.unesco oa.policies oa.open_science Summary: "The workshop  introduced the participants to preprinting and preprint peer review. Participants were invited to discuss the opportunities offered by these new approaches to scholarly publishing and peer review, and to reflect on different ways in which these new approaches may complement the traditional journal publishing system. Participants have also been introduced to the Publish Your Reviews initiative, a new community-based initiative developed by one of the workshop organizers together with ASAPbio. Building on the above-mentioned developments, Publish Your Reviews encourages researchers to combine journal peer review with preprint peer review, aiming to increase trust in preprints and to make peer review more efficient." Bosman, Jeroen, Kramer, Bianca, Sondervan, Jeroen, & Waltman, Ludo. (2022, September 1). New Developments in Preprinting and Preprint Review. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7040997 Fri, 02 Sep 2022 04:50:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/record/7040997 oa.new oa.preprints oa.repositories oa.peer_review oa.authors oa.publishing oa.asapbio "We recently welcomed Elsevier  as an OASPA member in the Publisher category. Elsevier joins almost 200 OASPA members. We asked  Laura Hassink, Managing Director for STM Journals, a few questions so we could learn more about Elsevier and its connection to open scholarship and the decision to become an OASPA member.... Why did you decide to join OASPA and what do you hope to get out of your OASPA membership? Providing authors with opportunities to publish open access has been a strong focus of ours since 2009, with the launch of our first open access title, and demonstrated by the rapid expansion of our OA portfolio with on average 100 new OA titles per year over the past 3 years. More broadly, we have developed and implemented a range of initiatives to support Open Science. Our focus on Open Science means that we have often engaged with or even founded collaborative, cross-sector groups to support our goals on openness and transparency. As a membership community supporting and representing open access publishers, we therefore feel that OASPA is an ideal association with which to engage and collaborate. We are looking forward to learning from OASPA’s membership base and contributing to the ongoing discussions and debate about the fast-evolving Open Science landscape.   What are the short and medium-term priorities for your publication in relation to open scholarship?  Our goal is to ensure that our work in Open Science supports a more transparent, inclusive and collaborative world of research...." Fri, 02 Sep 2022 01:31:00 -0400 https://oaspa.org/welcoming-elsevier/ oa.publishers oa.people oa.oaspa oa.new oa.interviews oa.elsevier oa.elsevier "Join experts from the library, copyright, and information policy fields for a series of conversations exploring issues related to digital ownership and the future of library collections. Learn more about this year's Library Leaders Forum at https://libraryleadersforum.org/..." Wed, 31 Aug 2022 09:46:00 -0400 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/library-leaders-forum-2022-virtual-tickets-402640246817 oa.new oa.events oa.librarians oa.libraries "At Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), we believe that good governance is essential to living out the values of openness, transparency, and accountability, centring the interests of the community in the work of organizations acting on their behalf. As we prototype mechanisms to assess the governance of open infrastructure services and scrutinize and evolve our own governance structures and practices, we realize the need to bring additional clarity to this work, for ourselves and other organizations in the open research, scholarly communications, and nonprofit space by asking some essential questions about governance, including: what is good governance, and what is the evidence for why it is important? To address these questions and stimulate further conversations and reflections around current governance practices in this space, we reviewed literature and looked into governance models in two different but related contexts: scholarly communication and open research infrastructure; and nonprofit management. Primarily, we aimed to: define key terms and discussion of how governance is best understood; provide an overview of governance practices and models in the scholarly communication and nonprofit spaces; establish a working definition and a set of essential components for good governance and the benefits of having good governance in place; and investigate the consequences of having inadequate or incomplete governance structures in place...." Wed, 31 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/research/good-community-governance/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.governance oa.academic_led oa.communities Summary: "A proposed framework for governance in the context of scholarly communication and open research infrastructures." Moore, Samuel A. (2022). Community Governance In Scholarly Communication (Version 3). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7035560 Wed, 31 Aug 2022 04:24:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/record/7035560 oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.governance oa.best_practices oa.scholcomm "As discussed in our literature review on governance in nonprofit organizations, good governance breeds transparency and accountability, and is crucial to any organization looking to build trust with its stakeholders and the communities it serves. While there are some key governance practices for trustworthy, community-centred nonprofits, there is no one right way to structure governance – as the choice of a suitable model depends on a variety of changing internal and external factors. In this second piece, we explore governance in the context of scholarly communication and open research infrastructures in depth. In the face of increasing marketization, acquisitions, and consolidation of academic publishing and knowledge production infrastructure, governance structures that empower a broad and diverse group of community stakeholders to meaningfully impact the strategic planning and management of infrastructure providers are urgently needed to move beyond the parroting of shareholder and market-driven models prevalent in the for-profit industry and realize a true “commoning” of open research infrastructure. With reference to the theoretical literature on governance in scholarly communication and open infrastructure, the piece: illustrates some of the critical considerations that relate to governance in the scholarly communication and open research infrastructure space; proposes a speculative and non-exhaustive framework for a minimum viable system of community governance, offering context for the items suggested; and presents key research questions and recommendations for Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), funders, and other stakeholders who are looking to support the improvement of governance in this field...." Wed, 31 Aug 2022 04:21:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/good-governance-investigating-models-in-scholarly-communication-and-open-research/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.governance oa.best_practices oa.scholcomm "...We released the first report from our investigation into community governance models and best practices. Drawing from a selection of scholarly literature from the nonprofit management and evaluation discipline, this review explores the importance of governance within a nonprofit organization, the key features commonly ascribed to effective governance, and the impact of governance on the operations of a nonprofit organization. More to come next week! We share our strategic and research roadmaps to signal our intent, be transparent about our thinking and strategic direction, and keep ourselves accountable. We invite everyone interested to explore these roadmaps and add comments to the cards with constructive thoughts, questions, and other feedback. Our Director of Research & Strategy Richard Dunks participated in a fireside chat on “defining open infrastructure in different contexts” hosted by the Turing Way. We will share a recording and short recap in the next weeks! We’re at the final stages of setting up our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Using CiviCRM Spark, we hope that this will support us in being more careful and intentional in our communication and engagement. We sincerely thank the team at Megaphone Technology Consulting for their work on this project...." Fri, 26 Aug 2022 07:29:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-08-26/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "In a move hailed by open-access advocates, the White House on Thursday released guidance dictating that federally funded research be made freely and immediately available to the public. The Office of Science and Technology Policy’s guidance calls for federal agencies to make taxpayer-supported research publicly available immediately, doing away with an optional 12-month embargo. It also requires the data underlying that research to be published. Federal agencies have until December 31, 2025, to institute the guidance...." Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:25:00 -0400 https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-historic-moment-new-guidance-requires-federally-funded-research-to-be-open-access oa.new oa.registrationwalled oa.usa oa.ostp oa.policies oa.funders oa.policies.funders oa.mandates oa.data oa.repositories oa.green oa.milestones oa.progress oa.funders oa.embargoes for SPARC members: Rapid Reaction Discussion on 2022 Updated OSTP Policy Guidance, Aug 25, 2022 03:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Thu, 25 Aug 2022 08:58:00 -0400 https://sparcopen-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_auc3jQ-ETWOCcuFlO8VPxA oa.new oa.events oa.policies oa.government oa.sparc oa.funders oa.policies.funders oa.funders oa.embargoes oa.data oa.events oa.usa "...Today, we share two roadmaps as living, breathing documents: Our Strategic Roadmap for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-23 builds off our 2021-2024 Strategic Plan. This roadmap seeks to actualize the Strategic Plan with a set of desired outcomes for the five goals laid out in the Strategic Plan, helping bring the strategic planning work of IOI down from the broad goals and closer to the day-to-day work of the organization. This Strategic Roadmap is intended to be both practical and aspirational, defining both a destination and a rough outline of how we plan to get there. As with any map, this exists to guide our staff and partners as well as inform our stakeholders and the broader community of those invested in building a vital ecosystem of open science and scholarly communication practices, tools, and services with both where we are and where we’re going. Our Research Roadmap brings our strategy even closer to the day-to-day work of IOI by linking the elements in the Strategic Roadmap to key research questions. We also track status (in development, being scoped, etc) and related deliverables, linking both to the tangible research outputs of IOI as well as to the Strategic Roadmap and the Strategic Plan. This is intended to outline our research objectives and key activities on a quarterly basis...." Thu, 25 Aug 2022 07:14:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/sharing-our-strategic-and-research-roadmaps/ oa.strategies oa.strategies oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "...The Publishing and Open Access Support Librarian promotes and supports open access to the scholarship and educational resources produced by faculty and students at East Carolina University. This highly collaborative position will be part of the Scholarly Communication Department in the Division for Collections and Scholarly Communication in Academic Library Services (ALS). In alignment with the library’s strategic emphasis on impacting research and maximizing student success, this employee’s primary duties include providing consultation, training, and support to the campus community on issues and evolving needs related to digital and open access publishing. Specifically, the incumbent will lead and support Open Journal Systems, the library’s online publishing software, and explore other relevant open access publishing tools. This position will support faculty and students by promoting and implementing sustainable scholarship initiatives. As a member of the Division for Collections and Scholarly Communication, this position participates in the library’s student affordability and equity initiatives. These duties include creating, adapting, publishing, supporting, and advocating for Open Educational Resources and other open access works. Additional duties include assisting with open data and digital scholarship projects and making content available through the institutional repository in collaboration with department colleagues. This position may serve as a liaison to one or more departments. This position will support the Scholarly Communication Department and library with other projects as assigned. The Publishing and Open Access Support Librarian participates in professional development and appropriate service on library, university, and professional committees. Employment contingent upon availability of funds...." Wed, 24 Aug 2022 05:10:00 -0400 https://ecu.peopleadmin.com/postings/50470 oa.new oa.jobs oa.hei oa.usa oa.libpub oa.usa.nc "Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) was launched to create a strategic, global body dedicated to furthering a network of open, interoperable community-led and -supported infrastructure to advance scholarship, research, and education. We work in concert with institutional funders, decision makers, and philanthropic funders to better understand the decision points, funding and governance models available, and costs associated with maintaining, sustaining, and scaling open infrastructure projects. We are seeking a part-time Communications Associate to join our growing team and help us build a stronger, vibrant, and more resilient infrastructure supporting scientific and scholarly research. The Communications Associate will work with our Engagement Lead to ensure that IOI’s work is responsive to, and reflective of, the needs of the communities we serve: researchers, scholars, budget holders/funders, and the open infrastructure community. This is a fantastic opportunity for those looking to build or transition into a career in communications and stakeholder engagement, particularly in the STEM, nonprofit, and/or open-source spaces. The Communications Associate will provide editorial, communications campaign management, and event coordination support to further IOI’s mission and operationalize IOI’s research. This is a part-time, temporary, remote contract position, reporting to the Engagement Lead...." Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:50:00 -0400 https://codeforscience.org/jobs/communications-associate-invest-in-open-infrastructure/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.jobs "Coalition Publica will strengthen its digital services to the Canadian and international scholarly community with continued investment from CFI. The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is awarding a $10 million grant to Coalition Publica under the Major Science Initiatives Fund 2023-2029. Through this program, CFI contributes to the ongoing operation and maintenance needs of research facilities of national importance in order to enable Canadian researchers to undertake world-class research. Coalition Publica is developing an open, non-commercial infrastructure for digital research, dissemination, and scholarly publishing. It is based on the complementarity between the publishing software Open Journal Systems, developed by the Public Knowledge Project (Simon Fraser University (SFU)), and the erudit.org dissemination platform of the Érudit Consortium (Université de Montréal, Université Laval, Université du Québec à Montréal), two leading technological solutions dedicated to open access and open science. In collaboration with the editorial teams of more than 250 scholarly and cultural journals, Coalition Publica also offers access to the largest corpus of Canadian research results in the humanities and social sciences. More than 220,000 publications are available, and 8,000 new articles are disseminated each year. Rich and diverse, the collections are representative of Canadian and international research and creation: archaeology, economics, history, literary studies, psychology, education... They are consulted each year by nearly 6 million users worldwide...." Fri, 19 Aug 2022 08:26:00 -0400 https://www.coalition-publi.ca/news-nouvelles/2022/8/19/cfi-support oa.pkp oa.new oa.journals oa.infrastructure oa.coalition_publica oa.gold oa.humanities oa.ssh oa.ojs oa.erudit oa.platforms oa.canada oa.funders "...You will lead our team in developing a more robust and integrated infrastructure that can better support community engagement and growth, easy third-party site integration, and long-term sustainability within the context of a rapidly-evolving ecosystem. You will be managing the product development and design, working across teams at the intersection between technology, design, partnership and community engagement. You will be working closely with the PREreview development team, the community engagement lead, as well as the PREreview leadership team, particularly the Director. You will also interact on a weekly basis with development, product and community teams at eLife and Sciety, managing our collaboration and ensuring clear and effective communication across teams. Our primary target audience are researchers who belong to groups that have been traditionally marginalized and excluded from conducting scholarly peer review. You will engage with our users, as well as our key partners and stakeholders to ensure the PREreview platform continues to reflect the needs of the communities we strive to serve...." Fri, 19 Aug 2022 04:35:00 -0400 https://codeforscience.org/jobs/product-manager-prereview/ oa.new oa.jobs oa.peer_review "Back in 2017, Elsevier acquired the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress), the journals and institutional repository platform of choice for a great many library publishers who sought to provide open access, values-driven publishing solutions for their academic communities. The acquisition of bepress meant that all these programs– focused on open research, open data, and open publications–were now providing those services on a platform owned by a commercial publisher who had become, for many, emblematic of a profit-driven scholarly communication system that no longer served the interests of the academic community.  The Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project seeks to ensure that this sort of thing won’t happen again – that the infrastructure supporting the publication of academic research will, itself, align with the library publishing community’s commitment to the open, equitable and sustainable distribution of knowledge. To that end, NGLP is focusing its Arcadia-funded work on three core pathways for establishing open, resilient and compelling publishing solutions for the library publishing community: Values, Modularity, and Interdependence...." Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:15:00 -0400 https://educopia.org/nglp-portable-data-modular-tools-shared-values/ oa.nglp oa.new oa.libpub "In industries where many believe "IP is king," watching the same stories cycle throughout varying media can feel stifling and repetitive. However, our shared cultural heritages contain a vast, diverse trove of material that can and does inspire exciting new work. Readers and creators can get their hands on tens of thousands of books in the public domain, and curation and accessibility are essential to nurturing the legacies of works by marginalized and avant-garde artists. Cita Press is an open access, design-focused feminist press that honors the principles of decentralization, collective knowledge production, and equitable access to knowledge. Join us for a discussion on the visibility of important works from the past, and how we can help those works breath new life into our present...." Wed, 17 Aug 2022 13:21:00 -0400 https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/125949 oa.new oa.publishers oa.events oa.publishing oa.cita "What started as a conversation about publishing and conferences and innovation and community has evolved into the PageBreak Conference, launching in October 2022. ‣ What is “Publishing” in 2022? ‣ What does innovation look like today? ‣ What could or should publishing look like in the future?" October 27–28, 2022 San Francisco Italian Athletic Club  1630 Stockton St.  Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:15:00 -0400 https://www.pagebreakconf.com/about oa.new oa.events oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.trends oa.publishing "Monkeypox is a public health emergency both globally and here in the United States. As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s response to this global health threat, the White Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) coordinated an international effort to make research results and data related to monkeypox immediately available to the public....Important contributions to the scientific knowledge-base are produced by researchers across the world. Scholars everywhere can amplify their cutting-edge research for feedback ahead of publishing through the submission of their manuscripts to pre-print repositories. These repositories provide researchers with the ability to share their work for early feedback with a wide audience, often before formal peer-review. • Freely accessible online pre-print repositories are available for specific research fields, such bioRxiv for biology and SocArXiv for sociology, as well as for multiple research fields, such as AfricArXiv for all research originating in African countries and arXiv for quantitative biology, physics, computer science, statistics, electrical engineering, and the social sciences. • Accelerating Science and Publication in Biology (ASAPbio) has put together a comprehensive, easily searchable, database of pre-print repositories for public use. • To learn more about pre-prints, the National Library of Medicine has developed a free online course. Together, these efforts by the scholarly publishing community will accelerate scientific discovery and ultimately save lives." Mon, 15 Aug 2022 22:38:00 -0400 https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/15/the-scholarly-publishing-community-and-research-organizations-respond-to-the-monkeypox-public-health-emergency/ oa.new oa.repositories oa.usa oa.government oa.medicine oa.speed oa.benefits oa.ostp oa.preprints oa.publishers "The University of California is committed to ensuring broad and unfettered access to the research and scholarship produced by its academic community. This commitment is manifest in the multiple “Pathways to Open Access” that UC pursues via the libraries–in collaboration with the faculty and other institutional partners–including transformative licensing agreements, open access policies, open infrastructure, and an open access library publishing program. Pathways to Open Access Blog Series The Pathways blog series, published in August 2022, highlights CDL’s engagement with various pathways to open access and illustrates how diverse approaches can complement and reinforce each other–and how they can also raise productive tensions that test the limits of any one model to provide the open access solution. The University of California is dedicated to a “Pathways” approach to open access, which supports multiple strategies for moving scholarly communication to a more open and equitable environment. This paradigm frames how we advance our work at the California Digital Library (CDL). Debates about the value and efficacy of different approaches to Open Access are vitally important; they can also result in unproductive divisions instead of enabling us as a community to work towards our shared goals. In advancing these multiple pathways to Open Access at CDL, we embrace the diversity of our efforts as guided by our CDL vision, our deep collaboration with our campus libraries, our faculty’s principles, and a spirit of pragmatism and experimentation. We celebrate the synergies across our innovative work in licensing agreements, library publishing, open access policies, open infrastructure and open data/metadata as opportunities to bolster our joint efforts; we leverage any tensions or misalignments that arise along the way to reflect on how each of our models in isolation is incomplete and must provide space for other approaches to shifting the scholarly communication landscape toward more open and equitable knowledge production and exchange. We understand and embrace the complexity inherent in our shared work towards these ambitious and important aims. The series of blog posts linked to below highlights how CDL’s efforts on various pathways to open access live under a single organizational roof and illustrates how diverse approaches can complement and reinforce each other–and how they can raise productive tensions that push us to think more critically about the work we do. We believe this kind of approach can move us toward true and comprehensive transformation of the scholarly communication landscape. — Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Provost & Executive Director, CDL Transformative Agreements (August 11, 2022) Library Publishing/Repository Services (forthcoming, August 16, 2022) Open Infrastructure (forthcoming, August 18, 2022)..." Mon, 15 Aug 2022 01:41:00 -0400 https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/scholarly-publishing/pathways-to-oa/ oa.universities oa.u.california oa.repositories oa.offsets oa.new oa.libpub oa.infrastructure oa.hei oa.green oa.gold oa.repositories oa.usa Set of video recordings from the Wikimania conference, 11-14 August 2022. Programme: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program Sat, 13 Aug 2022 03:07:00 -0400 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfIfliZ0IeEi3U6anjZd5Im- oa.video oa.wikipedia oa.wikidata oa.video oa.south oa.new oa.events oa.events "...We hosted a community discussion on assessing the financial health of nonprofits in research and scholarship. We would like to sincerely thank everyone who joined the discussion and provided input, feedback, and questions – these are crucial to improving this analysis such that it can better tell the financial story across the sector. You can find a recap of the session, the recording, and shared notes on our blog. We announced our upcoming Community Discussion. On 7 September, at 3pm EDT, join McKenzie Funk and Sarah Lamdan to discuss the data brokering and surveillance activities of data analytics companies, the impact this has on marginalized communities, and what we can do to act against these activities and build better digital infrastructure. Register to join by 30 August! We are hiring! Our research data analyst opening will close on 15 August. We are also recruiting a part-time, contract Communications Associate to join us. Find out more about both positions on this page. We are conducting interviews and additional research to better understand and identify the value proposition of the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs) with funders and budget holders. We hope to share the findings from these conversations later in October! We have started populating our new community collection in Zenodo with some of our recent research outputs, including resources from the Future of Open Scholarship project, as well as the work of our Research Fellows. Watch this space for more to come!..." Fri, 12 Aug 2022 10:30:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-08-12/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.events oa.events oa.jobs "Research outputs from Invest in Open Infrastructure (investinopen.org). We work to improve funding and resourcing for the open technology research relies on." Fri, 12 Aug 2022 04:09:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/communities/investinopen/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Three Trends to Be Ready For -- September 15, 2022 11 AM – 12 PM ET. What will the future of scholarly publishing look like? In this webinar, industry leaders will tell us what they see as the top three challenges we all need to prepare for. Should we focus on addressing the growing suspicion of science, shrinking funding for universities, critiques of the value of peer review, or the industry's trend toward market consolidation? Or something else? Join us for a peek at the future and thoughts on how to get ready...." Thu, 11 Aug 2022 02:36:00 -0400 https://customer.sspnet.org/ssp/Events/ssp/EventDisplayNPGF.aspx?EventKey=WEB220915 oa.new oa.events oa.publishing oa.trends oa.events oa.publishing "Registration is open for the OASPA 2022 Conference which will take place online Tuesday 20 to Thursday 22 September 2022. Information about the conference and the program as it evolves can be found on this page. The 2022 online conference will encourage participants to think Beyond Open Access to equitable open scholarship and science practices and will address many timely and fundamental topics relating to open scholarly communication...." Wed, 10 Aug 2022 04:46:00 -0400 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oaspa-2022-online-conference-on-open-access-scholarly-publishing-tickets-342567958987 oa.new oa.events oa.oaspa "ACRL’s Research and Scholarly Environment Committee is planning a topical issue of College & Research Libraries (C&RL) around new research on how the academic and research library workforce has accelerated change in the scholarly communications environment. We are particularly interested in articles on recent research that advances the three priority areas established in ACRL’s 2019 report Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications: Creating a More Inclusive Future (available for download or purchase): people, content, and systems. In that report, the first section on people addresses embracing diversity and inclusion, improving the working lives of people engaged in scholarly communications, and increasing awareness concerning creators’ rights. The second section, content, acknowledges the opportunity for greater inclusion and openness by rethinking what scholarship “counts” and creating more representative and open collections. The third section on systems identifies several avenues to explore: supporting sustainable technological infrastructure, creating systems that permit more access to more people, building mission-aligned organizational and financial systems, and advancing innovation in academic libraries. To learn more about the report, view a recorded webinar from when it was first released. For this C&RL topical issue, the research may use any investigative methods appropriate to addressing the research question(s). These include but are not limited to: standard quantitative and qualitative approaches, as well as critical evaluations, case studies, reflective essays, and (auto)ethnography. Articles resulting from collaborative research involving librarians and other higher education stakeholders, such as institutional researchers, faculty, administration, students, or community partners are particularly welcome. Given the focus of Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications on valuing different ways of knowing, the committee particularly welcomes adventurous scholarship, and we encourage work on issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion as they relate to academic libraries and scholarly communication. Proposals Proposals should be a maximum of 750 words. They should clearly outline the methodology and findings of the research, as well as its relevance to this topical issue, specifically its connection to the ACRL report Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications: Creating a More Inclusive Future, as described above. Prospective authors should submit a proposal by 5 p.m. Central on Monday, October 3, 2022, for open peer review. Submit via C&RL’s submission system (login required) and please note in your cover page that your submission is a proposal for the Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications topical issue...." Tue, 09 Aug 2022 02:45:00 -0400 https://acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/call-for-proposals-crl-topical-issue-on-open-and-equitable-scholarship/ oa.new oa.libraries oa.labor oa.infrastructure oa.hei oa.cfp oa.acrl oa.dei oa.librarians oa.scholcomm oa.libraries "CAVAL is the first in Australia to be implementing FOLIO (supported by IndexData) as we see this modern, open-source Library Management Platform benefiting and empowering the entire library community. In the next phase we are also looking at offering a new vendor-neutral resource-sharing platform, ReShare, to our members and the wider community...." more info: https://librarytechnology.org/pr/27641 Mon, 08 Aug 2022 07:45:00 -0400 https://www.caval.edu.au/solutions/folio-reshare oa.reshare oa.platforms oa.new oa.libraries oa.infrastructure oa.folio oa.floss oa.australia oa.libraries https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program/Schedule Fri, 05 Aug 2022 12:09:00 -0400 https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2022:Submissions oa.wikipedia oa.new oa.wikidata oa.events "2022 Let the Metadata Wars Begin, The Scholarly Kitchen, 22 June 2022. Invest In Open Infrastructure、オープンな学術基盤の定義に関する予備調査レポートを公開：意見募集を実施中 [Invest In Open Infrastructure publishes preliminary research report on definition of open academic infrastructure: soliciting opinions](in Japanese), Current Awareness Portal, 22 April 2022. The Future of Open Scholarship Project Report on Open Infrastructure, Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, 18 March 2022. Overview of research software funding landscape, Research Software Alliance, 24 February 2022. Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Startet "Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services" [Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) launches the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services] (in German), Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, 10 January 2022. Openness, Integrity, Inclusion, and Innovation in Scholarly Communication: Competing or Complementary Forces?, Virginia Barbour, 3 January 2022. 2021 Now is the time to work together toward open infrastructures for scholarly metadata, LSE Blog, 27 October 2021. Now is the Time to Fund Open Infrastructures, Peter Kraker, 20 August 2021. Re-Envisioning Humanities Infrastructure, Times Inside Higher Ed, 22 February, 2021...." Fri, 05 Aug 2022 06:34:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/about/in-the-news/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "Inspired by the ancient Library of Alexandria, OpenAlex indexes the world of scholarly research, including works, citations, authors, journals, and institutions. OpenAlex data is completely free and open to all via a web interface, API, and database snapshot. Join us to learn how to use the OpenAlex API for your scholcomm research needs. OpenAlex was created by OurResearch, a nonprofit that makes open scholarly infrastructure including Unpaywall (an index of the world's Open Access research literature) and Unsub (a tool to help librarians eliminate toll-access journal subscriptions). ..." Wed, 03 Aug 2022 05:29:00 -0400 https://www.opencon.community/august_2022_librarian_call oa.opencon oa.openalex oa.new oa.librarians oa.apis oa.events "This past year can be best described as one of growth, transition, and calibration. At this point last year, we were hiring our first core staff members, approving an ambitious three-year strategic plan, and working with our inaugural Steering Committee to almost completely turn over our governance membership. All of these pieces of organizational growth aligned to usher in a new phase of IOI – one where we had the runway and the permission to dive deep into building the evidence base, structures, and representation needed to support a vision rooted in challenging the systems of funding and supporting research at a fundamental level.... Research and analysis: In the past year, we worked on the following research projects: Costs of Open Infrastructure, where we mapped the costs of open infrastructure by surveying public fiscal and organizational data and conducting in-depth interviews with funders, institutional leads, and open infrastructure service providers. Funding Open Infrastructure, where we improved our understanding of the open infrastructure funding landscape, through assessing the available funding data sources and aggregating this information. Future of Open Scholarship, where we partnered with a network of institutional decision makers to identify opportunities, leverage points, costs, and approaches to further open scholarship. Defining Open Scholarly Infrastructure, where we examined a body of literature to develop a framework for understanding the characteristics and dimensions of open scholarly infrastructure..... Community engagement: We coordinate with stakeholders to increase the sustainability of the sector, as a trusted third-party and partner, outlining with key stakeholders interventions and plans to evolve funding and resourcing for the sector. Over the past year, we focused on iteratively developing spaces, processes, and tools for us to more effectively and meaningfully engage with our stakeholders: In August 2021, we convened the Community Oversight Council, an independent, non-voting governing body of IOI, to surface themes, trends, and issues in the open research and scholarship infrastructure sector and adjacent spaces, to provide a collaborative, safe forum for discussions, and to advise and inform IOI staff and Steering Committee on mechanisms to ensure that IOI’s work is serving our community. In February 2022, we started biweekly updates on our blog to share what we are working on, who we are talking to, and what we are reading more widely. We held our first quarterly Collaborator Calls in April 2022, with the aim to create a collaborative space for stakeholders to co-design and advance a shared roadmap towards “open infrastructure as a default in research”. To broaden our perspectives and help grow awareness of diverse open infrastructure efforts, we developed the Open Infrastructure Tracking Project (OITP). We recently launched a Twitter account for OITP, with the aim to build towards a community-sourced newsfeed for open infrastructure-related news and commentary.... Future plans: ... We continue to explore business models that both diversify our support levels and work with institutions, government funders, philanthropic entities, and others....This year, we will be deepening our research and testing of a variety of funding models for IOI that are in service of our mission to grow the investment and adoption of open infrastructure in research and scholarship. This includes exploring earned revenue and support models, feasibility studies into collective funding mechanisms to pilot..." Sun, 31 Jul 2022 21:47:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/annual-review-2021-22/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "What we are working on: We shared our year-in-review for the fiscal year 2021/22. Read for a summary of our leading activities and achievements last year – we’d like to express our sincere thanks to partners and supporters who enabled this work! As part of our effort to build more effective and accountable governance, we developed a Conflict of Interest Declaration and Policy. Read our latest blog post to find out more. On the research side, we have been looking at community governance models and practices in the scholarly communication and open research infrastructure contexts, and in the broader nonprofit space. The resulting memos are currently undergoing reviews - stay tuned for more later in August! We are also planning our community discussion on understanding and assessing the financial health of nonprofits in research and scholarship on 9 August, 12pm ET – register to join us! We welcomed Taimour Azizuddin, Naomi Penfold, and C. Samala as research affiliates. Taimour will be conducting user research to identify better the value propositions of the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs) for our key stakeholder groups. Naomi will be researching the preprint cause. Samala will be conducting a feasibility study on various funding mechanisms and identifying opportunities for their application in the open infrastructure space. We also welcomed Carm Key-Mays as IOI’s Administrative Assistant Carm will be supporting our operations work and Executive Leadership, including supporting the Steering Committee and our governance work...." Sun, 31 Jul 2022 21:32:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-07-29/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "...International Open Access Week is a time to coordinate across communities to make openness the default for research and to ensure that equity is at the center of this work. Selected by the Open Access Week Advisory Committee, this year’s theme is an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around how open enables climate justice. Open Access Week 2022 will be held from October 24th through the 30th; however, anyone is encouraged to host discussions and take action around “Open for Climate Justice” whenever is most suitable during the year and to adapt the theme and activities to their local context...." Wed, 27 Jul 2022 05:31:00 -0400 https://www.openaccessweek.org/blog/theme-for-open-access-week-2022-open-for-climate-justice oa.new oa.oa_week oa.events oa.climate "At the start of the pandemic, teachers and librarians pleaded with a prominent nonprofit to make it easier for kids at home to check out books from its digital library. The organization, called the Internet Archive, agreed. While it traditionally loaned out its more than a million digital books one at a time to the public and through partnerships with libraries, it dropped that limit in what it described as a “National Emergency Library.” Roughly two months later, major book publishers including HarperCollins sued the Internet Archive for copyright infringement — saying its digital library initiative “grossly exceed” what libraries are allowed to do. A few months later, it reinstated lending limits, court documents show. The fight, which the publishers and the Internet Archive asked a federal court to end earlier this month, has triggered a larger ideological debate about the application of copyright law when it comes to digital copies of books, pitting publishers and authors against librarians. At stake is the future of how libraries are allowed to buy and lend out digital books to the public, which advocates say is core to a functioning democracy as technology takes over...." https://web.archive.org/web/20220725123114/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/25/internet-archive-digital-lending-lawsuit/ Mon, 25 Jul 2022 05:11:00 -0400 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/25/internet-archive-digital-lending-lawsuit/ oa.new oa.cdl oa.books oa.publishers oa.usa oa.litigation oa.copyright oa.internet_archive presentation on Wikidata during 2022 LD4 conference Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:01:00 -0400 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCRPsGPqel0&list=PLx2ZluWEZtIAu6Plb-rY2lILjUj6zRa9l oa.wikidata oa.video oa.nigeria oa.new oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.africa oa.south videos from Open Data Week in New York City, US. Programme: https://www.open-data.nyc/. Hosts: NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, BetaNYC, and Data Through Design, with support from Jacobs Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech. Mon, 18 Jul 2022 13:53:00 -0400 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgCe1KzF20ix44ATnYYiGtM5TTWISQ45I oa.new oa.data oa.usa oa.cities oa.training oa.government oa.video "Further to the adoption of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science in November 2021, UNESCO launched a Global Call for Best Practices in Open Science. This call aims to collect best practices in open science at the individual, institutional, national, regional, and international levels with a particular focus on the seven priority areas of action highlighted in the Recommendation. One of these areas particularly relevant for Invest in Open Infrastructure’s (IOI) work is “investing in open science infrastructures”. In June, we collaborated with the Turing Way, the Tools, Practices & Systems (TPS) Programme at the Alan Turing Institute, and Open Life Science to host a series of community workshops to gather input for a community response to this Global Call. During the workshop, we used the 1-2-4-all format from Liberating Structures to guide participants in reflecting on their experiences, sharing them with others, and identifying best practices for supporting, adopting, using, and contributing to open infrastructure. The key points and notes from the workshop were used to produce the community response we submitted to the UNESCO call...." Fri, 15 Jul 2022 03:49:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/a-community-response-to-the-unesco-global-call-for-best-practices-in-investing-in-open-science-infrastructures/ oa.unesco oa.open_science oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is dedicated to improving funding and resourcing for open technologies and systems that support research and scholarship. To achieve this mission, we work to better understand the financial health of nonprofit providers and enablers in this space. We aim to clarify sector needs for both funders and providers in order to better allocate resources. To assess the financial health of nonprofits we are exploring tools to make sense of the financial information available publicly online. Financial ratio analysis is a frequently-used, powerful tool to assess the financial health of organizations and identify the areas that would benefit from reinforcement. Focus and Data Sources In terms of the data, we selected 18 non-profit providers and entities that serve the research and scholarly ecosystem via their offerings and services. This is a snapshot of the space, with providers and entities that are incorporated under the 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) provisions of the US Internal Revenue Code as charitable organizations (see Appendix 1 for the list of organizations; this list is subject to change, we will be keeping it up-to-date).  While this confines our analysis to only those providers under obligation to report their financial information to taxing authorities in the US, it provides a useful prototype of analysis we hope to extend to providers operating in other tax jurisdictions in other legal forms around the world by establishing a baseline of comparison. To have an overview of the conditions of the sector, we plan to restrict the analysis from 2011 to 2019. Our primary data source will be the financial information reported by nonprofit organizations on US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990 and Form 990-EZ. As legal filings, we assume the financial disclosures on the IRS Form 990s are accurate representations of their financial condition. We identify organizations by Employer Identification Number (EIN) and use digitized aggregated Form 990 data from Candid/Guidestar and the Urban Institute. To ensure the information is accurate, we will conduct a random review comparing digitized aggregated data with the information reported by organizations in Form 990...." Fri, 08 Jul 2022 13:30:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/assessing-the-financial-health-of-nonprofits/ oa.sustainability oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.economics_of oa.nonprofit "In the inaugural meeting of the UNESCO Working Group on Open Science Infrastructures, Kaitlin Thaney, our Executive Director, shared some of our latest work and plans towards making open infrastructure the default in research. The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, adopted by its General Assembly in November 2021, encouraged its Member States to “prioritize investing in infrastructure and services which contribute to open science”. To facilitate input into the technical deliverables for implementation, UNESCO convened an ad-hoc Working Group, bringing together experts, organizations, and institutions in open science and open infrastructure to build a better understanding of the current open infrastructure ecosystem. This first working group meeting was moderated by Ezra Clark and Ana Persic of the UNESCO Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Section.... Kaitlin’s slides can be accessed at this link. Meeting participants discussed ways to ensure that open science infrastructure will serve the needs of a global community, in particular, those of the people of the global majority and citizen scientists. These include actively creating bridges between the Global South and North, actively listening to citizen science groups, local capacity building, and building robust, meaningful governance structures to ensure stakeholder-driven development of open infrastructure...." Fri, 08 Jul 2022 13:27:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/unesco-open-science-infrastructures-recap/ oa.unesco oa.slides oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastucture "Recognizing Open Science as a true game-changer in addressing the pressing planetary and socio-economic challenges, UNESCO led a global dialogue with the aim of developing the first international standard-setting instrument on Open Science in the form of a UNESCO Recommendation. The Recommendation, adopted by 193 countries in November 2021 provides a common definition of open science, shared values and principles for open science and identifies concrete measures on open access and open data, with proposals to bring society closer to science and commitments to facilitate the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge worldwide. In her presentation to the OpenCon Library Community Call on July 12th at 12pm ET / 9am PT, Dr. Ana Persic, Programme Specialist at the Science Technology and Innovation Policy Section, UNESCO, will talk about UNESCO’s vision of using Open Science to strengthen the links between science and society and bridge the science, technology, and innovation (STI) gaps and will present the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science...." Thu, 07 Jul 2022 02:27:00 -0400 https://www.opencon.community/july_2022_librarian_call oa.new oa.events oa.unesco oa.open_science "ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Karger Publishers, an international publishing house in health sciences, have established a partnership for content syndication. The agreement will be piloted over 12 months and involves the syndication of 15 Karger Publishers journals to ResearchGate, including eight open access (OA) journals and seven hybrid journals. The journals to be added include Cardiology, Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism, Cytogenetic and Genome Research, and Kidney & Blood Pressure Research. An initial collection of more than 5,000 articles from Karger Publishers will be made available to researchers on the scientific network as a result of this partnership. While the OA journals will be freely accessible to everyone, syndicating the subscription content will guarantee seamless access for researchers as part of their institutional subscription...." Wed, 06 Jul 2022 09:46:00 -0400 https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220705/Increasing-accessibility-of-research-through-collaboration-of-Researchgate-and-Karger-publishers.aspx oa.researchgate oa.publishers oa.new oa.journals oa.karger oa.green "...The Open Infrastructure Tracking Project (OITP) is now on Twitter! We aspire to build this newsfeed for commentary and developments related to open infrastructure with our community. Join our first OITP tagger onboarding call to find out more about how you can take part in this effort! We share some of our recent work into exploring our aspirations, role, and theory of change in our latest blog post- this is very much work in progress, we’d love your ideas, questions, and feedback. We have closed the interest survey for the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs) - we would like to sincerely thank the 40+ services that responded. We look forward to working with the respondents, funders, budget holders, and other stakeholders to further understand the value proposition of COIs. More on this work soon! We are bringing together a founding circle of supporters who will provide us with the means and flexibility to fuel more research and pilots to build a robust ecosystem of open infrastructure for research. More on our website. Please contact giving [at] investinopen [dot] org if you are interested. We are continuing to evolve our governance. Our Steering Committee charter is now publicly available, and our Governance and Nominating Committee is planning out the next phase of this work to build effective, meaningful, and accountable governance...." Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:29:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-07-01/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure Google translate: "Open Access Berlin Conference / Berlin Open Access Conference / open access A conference initiated by the Max Planck Society in Germany to promote open access to academic information. Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities / open access In the spirit of the Budapest Open Access Publishing Pilot Program, the European Heritage Online (ECHO) Charter and the Bestar Open Access Publishing Manifesto, a manifesto adopted by the Max Planck Society of Germany to provide various services to users using the Internet. The Directory of Open Access Repositories / open access In 2005, the authoritative directory of open access repositories worldwide, co-founded by the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and the Rand University in Sweden. Bethesda statement on open access publishing / open access In order to quickly and effectively adopt the open access publishing model, on April 11, 2003, 24 people of insight reached a collective consensus at the Howard Hughes Medical Center in Maryland, USA. Budapest open access initiative / Budapest open access initiative / open access A document signed by relevant international institutions on promoting open access to academic journal resources. open access / open access / open access Actions taken by the international academic community, publishing community, and library and information community to promote the open dissemination of scientific research results on the Internet...." Wed, 29 Jun 2022 22:42:00 -0400 https://www.zgbk.com/ecph/subject?SiteID=1&ID=47269 oa.new oa.chinese oa.terminology oa.intro "This analysis details the potential risks posed by Elsevier's acquisition of Interfolio, what institutions should watch for, and proactive steps institutions can take to reduce the negative impacts of consolidation...." Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:10:00 -0400 https://infrastructure.sparcopen.org/interfolio-acquisition oa.sparc oa.new oa.monopoly oa.interfolio oa.infrastructure oa.elsevier oa.analytics oa.elsevier "Inspired by the Open Access Tracking Project, the Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) team started the Open Infrastructure Tracking Project (OITP) to monitor news and commentary related to open infrastructure. OITP runs on TagTeam, an open-source, collaborative tagging platform. TagTeam allows everyone interested to tag online resources, help organize the tagged resources, and follow feeds of tagged items (for example, see OITP’s Twitter feed). We hope that OITP can become a community-sourced, comprehensive newsfeed to help grow awareness of open infrastructure efforts and lead to more strategic coordination. For that, we are running our first OITP tagger onboarding call. Join us to learn more about the project, learn to use TagTeam, and meet others passionate about open infrastructure! Date: July 12, 2022..." Registration link Fri, 24 Jun 2022 05:54:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/community/open-infrastructure-tracking-project-tagger-onboarding-call/ tt.notice oatp.notice oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.events oa.crowd oa.tagging oa.events "What we are working on: We welcome Tania Hernandez Ortiz to the team! Tania recently earned her PhD in Community Resources & Development with a specialization in Nonprofit Leadership & Management from Arizona State University. She has a background in consulting and evaluation of public programs in Mexico and Latin America and brings a depth of knowledge about the broad field of nonprofit management and evaluation to the IOI team. We’re excited to have her join us and bring her expertise to the work we’re doing. We organized a community workshop to gather the community’s experience and thoughts on best practices for investing in open science infrastructure and services, in response to UNESCO’s global call for open science best practices. We will be summarizing our discussion to create a response to the call, and will also be sharing out our response here on our website. Our interest survey for the next release of the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs) is open until next Monday. We are grateful for the 30+ responses we have received so far– please help us spread the word so that we can reach more infrastructure services worldwide. Kaitlin Thaney, our executive director, participated in two panel discussions at RIghtsCon and at the EBSCO User Group Meeting. We are exploring ways to organize requests for comments and invited reviews prior to publication for some of our research work, to improve the accuracy and reliability of our work...." Fri, 17 Jun 2022 10:21:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-06-17/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "In our second interview we talk to Samuel Moore about the desired limits of open, in light of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science...." Wed, 08 Jun 2022 12:46:00 -0400 https://anchor.fm/open-update/episodes/Interview-Samuel-Moore---Limits-to-openness-e1jbus6 oa.new oa.audio oa.interviews oa.people oa.unesco oa.dei oa.bibliodiversity oa.labor oa.funders oa.open_science oa.publishing "University-based institutional repositories (IRs) provide collections and services to campus communities and the public. Their purpose is to disseminate the digital products of research and scholarship on the web and offer a long-term preservation solution for the academy. This class is an introduction to IRs both practically and conceptually. It covers the role of IRs in higher education and libraries and dives into the nuts and bolts of IR administrative responsibilities, including policy writing, online content management, editorial workflows, permissions and access restrictions, and outreach strategies. Most critically, this course provides a foundational knowledge base or IR managers navigating the complicated world of open access publishing. The main objective of the course is to prepare and equip IR managers with the skills needed in their ongoing digital stewardship work...." Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:04:00 -0400 https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/276-institutional-repository-management-and-outreach/?attribute_pa_session=2022-07-jul oa.new oa.repositories oa.librarians oa.intro oa.ir oa.events oa.courseware oa.training "The Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS) is a network of 77 colleges and universities committed to collective action to advance open scholarship across their campuses. HELIOS takes place within the larger context of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science (NASEM), which brings together key interested parties -- including senior leadership at universities, federal agencies, philanthropies, international bodies, and other strategic organizations -- to better incentivize openness, in service of a more transparent, inclusive, and trustworthy research ecosystem. Ultimately, HELIOS and the NASEM Roundtable aim to ensure that as many students, faculty, practitioners, policy makers, and community members as possible have access to, and a voice in, research and scholarship. Join Greg Tananbaum and Caitlin Carter to learn more and discuss how you can be an advocate for these initiatives within your institution." Tue, 07 Jun 2022 07:42:00 -0400 https://www.opencon.community/june_2022_librarian_call oa.new oa.events oa.helios oa.opencon oa.librarians oa.north_america "As open access continues to become more prominent in the field of academic publishing, it is essential to have a foundational understanding of the topic. This webinar provides an introductory overview and examines key practices in open access. It also discusses some of the common challenges to copyright, licensing, and metrics. The webinar additionally provides a discussion on the impact and equity of open access publications within the field of academia...." Mon, 06 Jun 2022 04:01:00 -0400 https://about.citiprogram.org/course/open-access-publishing-an-introduction/ oa.new oa.training oa.intro oa.usa "Approaching the end of the fiscal year, we are reflecting on our achievements and learnings so far and setting up and planning for the next phase of work....We are finalizing the report from our preliminary investigation into defining open scholarly infrastructure. We would like to sincerely thank everyone for your input and feedback - we have learnt a lot, both from the content of your comments and from running this open comment period! In parallel, our research team is working on various investigations, including an analytic memo on community governance in scholarly communication, a literature review on non-profit governance, and an exploration of the value of community for open infrastructure services. As the fiscal year comes to an end, we are working on financial reporting and budget forecasts for the next fiscal year. We are also in the process of identifying contractors and scoping some communications work, including implementing a Customer Relationship Management system, redesigning our website, and updating our brand and visual language.... Who we are talking to: Anne Lee Steele, the Turing Way, to exchange ideas about the infrastructure chapter of the Turing Way and how we can collaborate to develop that. Jessica Polka and Iratxe Puebla, ASAPbio, to better understand the evolving roles of preprints and issues surrounding the sustainability and development of preprint servers. Daniela Saderi, PREreview, to learn from their experience of cultivating a community of preprint reviewers and learn more about their funding needs...." Sat, 04 Jun 2022 07:06:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-06-03/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "Hi everybody, this is Heather. I wanted to let you know I’m stepping down from OurResearch, effective mid-June 2022. I’m so proud of what we’ve built over the last 10 years. I firmly believe the team will keep doing great things to advance open infrastructure in scholarly communications. My departure is on the most amicable of terms, and I will remain on the Board of Directors and OurResearch’s biggest fan. Why leave? I’m ready for a change. This move has been in the works for some time. To start with I’ll take a few months off to rest and spend with my family (and cycle, read, and eat cookies) and then I’m not sure!  Will keep this short and sweet because otherwise I’ll probably cry — building these ideas and tools with Jason has always been a labour of love. Wishing everyone the best. ..." Wed, 01 Jun 2022 01:08:00 -0400 https://blog.ourresearch.org/heather-stepping-down/ oa.new oa.people oa.north_america oa.our_research "Sridhar Gutam is a Senior Plant Physiologist at ICAR, the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, and also the Convenor at Open Access India. His main areas of interest are Plant Physiology, Plant Phenology and Plant Phenotyping as well as Open Access, Open Data, Free and Open Source Software.... Jo: Welcome to Access to Perspective Conversations. We’re talking today with Sridhar Gutam. He’s the director of India Archive, the preprint repository for India. Welcome, Sridhar. Sridhar: Thank you, Jo. Thank you very much for inviting me for this podcast.  Jo: It’s a great pleasure to have you. So starting with the first question, basically maybe tell us about your research area, why you became interested in Open Science and Open Access, and what eventually led you to start a repository like Indian archive in the first place. ..." Mon, 30 May 2022 04:09:00 -0400 https://access2perspectives.org/2022/05/a-conversation-with-sridhar-gutam/ oa.india oa.preprints oa.interviews oa.audio oa.south oa.people oa.indiarxiv oa.repositories.preprints oa.repositories "With support from the Wikimedia Foundation, we are excited to announce the first-ever Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention, to be held in Maynooth, Ireland, 23-24 July, 2022. While a limited number of scholarships are available, individuals do not need to be awarded a scholarship to participate. As the inaugural conference for professionals working at the intersection of Wikimedia and libraries, we seek proposals that engage all aspects of libraries and information literacy work happening in and alongside the Wikimedia movement. Wikimedia's core-knowledge projects (especially Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, and Wikimedia Commons) provide the community, resources, and technical infrastructure that enable free educational content on a global scale. To reach their full potential, however, these projects need participation from library leaders and their communities. To that end, we seek proposals that demonstrate practical, scholarly, and/or speculative engagement with Wikimedia across a diverse range of topics, including but not limited to: Advocacy and outreach in local contexts Tutorials and training on Wikimedia’s core-knowledge projects (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons) Experience sharing panels Productive failures Future research - What are the initiatives/research that will move us forward? Publication and research at the intersection of Wikimedia+Libraries Important Dates 27 May - 21 June, 2022: Share the call for proposals with your networks! 21 June, 2022: Deadline for proposal submission 22 June - 2 July, 2022: Programme committee reviews proposals 5 July, 2022: Decisions on proposals and publication of programme draft 23 July - 24 July, 2022: Conference event..." Fri, 27 May 2022 02:13:00 -0400 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%2BLibraries_International_Convention_2022/Programme oa.new oa.cfp oa.wikipedia oa.events oa.oer oa.libraries oa.ireland oa.events oa.libraries "...What we are working on: We shared our plans for the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs)! We invite all open infrastructure service providers to express your interest to be included in the next release of COIs, to help further iterate on our current prototype and build towards a more streamlined, robust backend while also increasing the number of projects represented. Read our blog post to find out more. As part of this work, we organized two Q&A sessions where we discussed and addressed questions from the community. You can find the recordings, slides, and shared notes on our blog. In parallel, we are planning some additional testing with stakeholders to further inform the design of the next release of COIs and to better understand its value proposition and utility. We are planning a short virtual team retreat at the beginning of June to reflect on our work so far and refine our roadmap for the next half a year. To further anchor our research and engagement strategies, we are constructing persona profiles of our key stakeholders and audience, based on our experience and quantitative data that we have from our communication channels. We welcome Ravin Cline to the team! Ravin is a PhD student in Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Texas, Dallas, as well as the founder and Executive Director of a US-based nonprofit focused on helping immigrants find self-sufficiency and significance through education and counsel. Ravin will be expanding our understanding of governance with a review of the current literature on nonprofit governance to advance our advocacy for more and better community-focused governance of open infrastructure services...." Mon, 23 May 2022 05:09:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-05-20/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure Code4Lib 2022 Conference livestream, 24-26 May. About: "The conference for people who code for libraries. An annual gathering of technologists from around the world, who largely work for and with libraries, archives, and museums and have a commitment to open technologies." Schedule: https://2022.code4lib.org/schedule/ https://2022.code4lib.org/general-info/attend Sat, 21 May 2022 00:33:00 -0400 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw-ls5JXzeNYN8xk_PLZvaXF0JqhQXrf6 oa.new oa.librarians oa.events oa.libraries "Further to the adoption of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science in November 2021, UNESCO is launching a Global Call for Best Practices in Open Science. This call aims to collect best practices in open science at individual, institutional, national, regional, and international levels with a particular focus on the seven priority areas of action highlighted in the Recommendation. Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) has been working to conduct research to provide strategic support and investment guidance to funders, budget holders, policymakers, and other stakeholders on investing in open infrastructure for scholarship and research. To this end, we wish to work with our community to contribute to this Global Call, to gather our experiences to identify best practices in supporting, adopting, using, and contributing to open infrastructure. To this end, we are collaborating with the Turing Way, the Tools, Practices & Systems (TPS) Programme at the Alan Turing Institute, and Open Life Science to create a series of three 90-min community workshops. Each workshop is hosted by a hosting organization/initiative and will focus on one or two priority areas of action that is/are most central to that community’s work. We invite everyone interested in learning more about others’ practices in supporting open science and open infrastructure to participate in our workshops to contribute to a community response to the UNESCO call. Wednesday 8 June 2022, 10-11:30 am EDT (see this in your time zone): On “investing in open science infrastructures and services“ hosted by IOI; register here Wednesday 15 June 2022, 10-11:30 am EDT (see this in your time zone): On “promoting innovative approaches for open science at different stages of the scientific process“ and “promoting international and multi-stakeholder cooperation in the context of open science and with a view to reducing digital, technological and knowledge gaps” hosted by the Turing Way and the TPS Programme; register here Wednesday 22 June 2022, 10-11:30 am EDT (see this in your time zone): On “investing in human resources, training, education, digital literacy and capacity building for open science“ and, “fostering a culture of open science and aligning incentives for open science” hosted by Open Life Science; register here We will draft a community response to the UNESCO call based on the input from the session and will share our response publicly upon submission...." Fri, 20 May 2022 23:18:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/community/community-workshop-to-respond-to-unescos-global-call-for-best-practices-in-open-science/ oa.unesco oa.training oa.open_science oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.events oa.culture oa.consultations oa.best_practices oa.events "Big Deal for APCs - Can't unbundle/ researcher expectations Fees are not transparent/ proportionate to work done Convoluted models & management (especially w/ “pretansformative”) Encourages and increases hybrid journals Global rise in OA has been Green or Diamond Can't afford for every publisher Adds publishing costs to Library budgets Too expensive to do for smaller publishers Where is the “Transformation”? Even Sweden is out Only an option for richer institutions/ countries Shifts inequity to authors PAY TO PUBLISH (FREE spot) Contributes to APC hyperinflation Makes OA the prestige option / incentives exclusion May promote publishers w/ TAs over those without Further locks in prestige for those who can pay Locks in increasing profit margins Encourages further market consolidation and increases dependency Further redistribution of public money to private entities Leads to an erosion of varied publishing methods Pushes out diamond OA publishers Publishing governed by shareholders, not scholars Investing in unethical data companies Seize the means of production"   Wed, 18 May 2022 12:08:00 -0400 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IUTJT6i8sTZqwAQ5ifdMVTz9T1tNiFOKaRJnEG4dcJk/edit oa.new oa.games oa.journals oa.humor oa.publishing oa.offsets Presentation slides by Brianne Selman. Session description: "This session will summarize some of the major categories of the critiques of “transformative” agreements. Perspectives that critique negotiation approaches, the continued bundling of costs into large agreements, market concentrations, decline in scholarly standards, analysis of whether OA goals are even being met by TAs, as well as major equity and diversity concerns will be summarized and discussed." Wed, 18 May 2022 11:53:00 -0400 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iD0lf6VvkvGiLLwwKdkWoPoPzgxtkP1h_azRNeV-Ffk/edit oa.new oa.slides oa.budgets oa.policies oa.fees oa.negotiations oa.offsets oa.objections oa.debates oa.policies oa.publishing "The Swiss-based Plazi NGO has received a grant of EUR 1.5 million from Arcadia Fund– a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – to further develop its Biodiversity Literature Repository(BLR) established in collaboration with Zenodo, the open science repository hosted and managed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and the open-access scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft. The Arcadia-supported project helps rediscover known biodiversity by liberating taxonomic treatments, material citations and images trapped in scholarly biodiversity publications, and making them FAIR and open. The project engages the community in the huge and decisive challenge to understand and preserve the biodiversity of our planet. Our knowledge about biodiversity is largely imprisoned in a corpus of more than 500 million pages of scientific research publications that is growing daily. Many of these publications are only available in print, and others are PDFs behind a paywall. These data are not FAIR; they are not findable, accessible, interoperable, or reusable. They cannot be linked to new digital resources such as gene sequences, citizen science observations, taxonomic names, or specimens of digitized natural history collections. Extracting and using text and data from such PDFs comes at very high cost, if possible at all. Through itsTreatmentBank production service, Plazi is a leader in providing access to biodiversity data liberated from publications. Thanks to the Arcadia Fund support and in collaboration with Pensoft, Zenodo and the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics Literature Services (SIBiLS), Plazi provides access to over 750,000 taxonomic treatments, 450,000 figures and over 1.1 million material citations from over 53,000 publications in the BLR...." Tue, 17 May 2022 09:04:00 -0400 https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/221112 oa.new oa.repositories oa.stem oa.arcadia oa.plazi oa.biodiversity oa.biology "Abstract: Recently, several collaborators and I submitted a chapter proposal in response to a call for submission to a volume on critical infrastructure studies and digital humanities. The editors did not accept our proposal. They cited the high number of submissions and the “word limit” specified by the university press contracted for the volume as the reason. In this talk, I like to reflect on how networked possibilities (the multimodal forms of scholarly artifacts and modes of engagements) are still being dictated by the properties of print and it’s associated academic capital. In the meantime, much of the critical infrastructures necessary for networked open scholarship are increasingly being designed and controlled by a small handful of multinational corporate publishers turned data analytics cartel. The creation of end-to-end knowledge production and evaluation platform and its inscribed logic of data extraction has enormous implications for our aspirations for open scholarship, particularly for early career scholars. We may still be focused on infrastructures as the object of study, but we should be more concerned with how infrastructures govern our labour and scholarly practices and, above all, our autonomy. The talk will provide suggestions on how best to design community governance over infrastructure, instead of being governed by infrastructures not by our design." Thu, 12 May 2022 09:06:00 -0400 https://dhsi.org//dhsi-2022-online-edition-institute-lectures/ oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.ssh oa.events oa.digital_humanities oa.scholcomm oa.events oa.humanities "To support the implementation of the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, UNESCO in collaboration with its partners will be developing a series of supporting tools - technical briefs, fact sheets, guidelines and training materials - that will constitute an online ‘living’ Open Science Toolkit accessible to all and easy to use, reuse, expand and update. To produce the toolkit and its different components, UNESCO will mobilize its Global Open Science Partnership and convene ad-hoc Open Science Working Groups around 5 key priority/high impact areas: Open Science policies and strategies; Open Science financing and incentives; Open Science infrastructures; Open Science capacity building; Open Science monitoring framework. Experts and interested open science entities, organizations and institutions, including the UNESCO Chairs and Centers, all of which are part of the UNESCO Global Open Science Partnership can participate in the Working Groups relevant to their field of activity and expertise. They will provide the core inputs for the following deliverables and will be involved in their development:   Working Group: Working Group on Open Science Policies and Policy Instruments. Deliverables: Global repository of open science policies and policy instruments..." Thu, 12 May 2022 06:09:00 -0400 https://events.unesco.org/event?id=2673558444&lang=1033 oa.new oa.unesco oa.events oa.policies oa.open_science "As a follow-up to our CNI reporting in 2020, this briefing will focus on the status of The Ohio State University Libraries’ Transforming the Scholarly Publishing Economy strategic initiative. We are taking stock of the first three years of our initiative and looking toward renewing our strategic efforts in this space. We will highlight our current portfolio of transformational and transitional agreements, our support for open scholarly infrastructure and publishing, and our work with our consortial partners. We will also share our current thinking on future directions for our initiative." Coalition for Networked Information Tue, 10 May 2022 09:30:00 -0400 https://www.cni.org/topics/economic-models/transforming-the-scholarly-publishing-economy-reflections-on-the-first-three-years oa.new oa.usa oa.publishing oa.hei oa.libraries oa.video oa.offsets oa.ohio_state.u "We invite open infrastructure service providers to express interest in being added to the next release of the COIs.... We are releasing the COIs documentation. This documentation is the primary resource for understanding the background, content, and key frameworks for COIs. We define key terms, describe key inputs, and articulate our internal decision-making on what content we included and how we chose to display it in order to inform and engage users of COIs, as well as support those interested in submitting information on services not already included in COIs. We are launching an interest survey for open infrastructure service providers who are interested in being added to the next release of COIs. In this short survey, we ask service providers to assess their information on the key areas covered in COIs, and how they would like to submit that information to and maintain it on COIs. We would like to invite a broad range of open infrastructure service providers, e.g. of different sizes, governance models, and geographical areas, to take part in this survey. This would help build a more comprehensive understanding of the diversity of data types and practices, and increase the resilience of COIs, its infrastructure and processes. Contribute to developing COIs -- We can only move COIs and this work forward with the support of open infrastructure services providers. You can help by expressing your interest in being added to the next release of COIs by filling in the Interest survey, by June 20. We also invite everyone interested to read and comment on the COIs documentation to help improve the value, usability, scalability and overall user experience of COIs. We are organizing two Q&A sessions on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 to further discuss these plans with the community and answer any questions you may have: Session 1: 10 am EDT (see this in your time zone) - register here. / Session 2: 7 pm EDT (see this in your time zone) - register here. The sessions will be recorded, and the recordings and a short recap will be shared here on our blog. We look forward to meeting you at one of the sessions!..." Mon, 09 May 2022 11:43:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/next-steps-for-the-catalog-of-open-infrastructure-services-cois/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure oa.events oa.consultations oa.monitoring oa.events "The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) offers a set of guidelines by which open scholarly infrastructure organisations and initiatives that support the research community can be run and sustained. OpenAIRE builds on these principles as a signal of our commitement to serve the research community in the long run...." Mon, 09 May 2022 01:04:00 -0400 https://www.openaire.eu/principles-open-scholarly-infrastructure-openaire-assessment oa.economics_of oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.openaire oa.sustainability oa.europe oa.economics_of oa.europe oa.sustainability "We invite you to join the SJSU King Library and special guest speakers Anna E. Kijas from Tufts University and Quinn Dombrowski from Stanford University to learn the story behind the grassroots organization Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO). Time May 13, 2022 12:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)" Sat, 07 May 2022 01:42:00 -0400 https://sjsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/2816516209227/WN_zO8_aRTnSy69xbAa-7uE3A oa.new oa.ukraine oa.ch oa.events oa.humanitarian oa.preservation Summary: "In 2019, Sacramento State University and San Jose State University were awarded an IMLS National Forum grant to assess scholarly communication programs at M1 Carnegie classified public institutions. With new technologies and paradigms for creating and sharing work, scholars across all fields have seen changes in research output, dissemination and preservation of the scholarly record, emergent publishing models, and the measurement of scholarly impact. Libraries have broadly defined their efforts to address these concerns as "scholarly communication" services. During the past two decades, academic libraries have begun to further invest in scholarly communication through the allocation of staffing and resources and even establishing institutional repositories. However, quantifying the actual outcome or impact of these scholarly communication activities remains elusive, beyond output measures such as simple counts of consultations, workshop attendance, or by repository downloads or growth. This grant, the "Scholarly Communication Assessment Forum," or "SCAF", investigated best practices and made recommendations for better tracking academic libraries' engagement in supporting the research lifecycle." Fri, 06 May 2022 10:22:00 -0400 https://library.csus.edu/scholarly-communication-assessment-forum oa.new oa.imls oa.usa oa.repositories oa.scholcomm oa.libraries "...Thank you to everyone who provided input to the “Defining Open Scholarly Infrastructure” draft report – we have now closed the open comment period. We will be reading and addressing your comments and will publish the final report early June. We’re also reviewing our public comment process to help make it more inclusive in the various stages of the work so we can incorporate more feedback earlier in the scoping process. We look forward to iterating towards a more participatory process. We are scoping and conducting new preliminary investigations on topics including training for open infrastructure and tools and community governance. Watch this space for more about these investigations in the next few weeks! We are finalizing a first version of the documentation for the Catalog of Open Infrastructure (COIs) and preparing the next phase of work. More about our plans for COIs and how you can participate next week! We welcome Samuel Moore to the team! Sam will be building on his previous work on governance and community-led models in scholarly communication to help enrich our work in this critical area. His contribution will improve our understanding as we work to identify key frameworks for good governance in open infrastructure. Our Community Oversight Council hosted its first community discussion with Afua Bruce and Amy Sample Ward, the authors of The Tech That Comes Next. Thank you to everyone who participated in the discussion - we will publish the recording and a short summary next week, here on our blog. With our Governance and Nominating Committee, we are scoping out the work to strengthen our governance processes and establish our Financial Oversight Group. We are exploring and setting up communication tooling and processes, including tools for social media scheduling and customer relationship management. The aim is to make our communication efforts more efficient and scalable, as well as to improve our data practices. We have updated our privacy policy to better reflect how we collect, process, and store data. We will continue to work with ZwillGen to look at how we can be more ethical, transparent, and accountable in the ways we handle data...." Fri, 06 May 2022 06:29:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-05-06/ oa.people oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "The Digital Public Goods Standard is a set of specifications and guidelines designed to maximise consensus about whether a digital solution conforms to the definition of a digital public good: open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm by design and are of high relevance for attainment of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This definition stems from the UN Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. The DPG Standard establishes the baseline requirements that must be met in order to earn recognition as a digital public good (DPG). This standard is designed to complement other relevant principles such as the Principles for Digital Development and is applicable to DPGs in all sectors across the SDGs. The DPG Standard is itself an open project, open to contribution on GitHub, and developed in collaboration with organisations and experts...." [basic facts about the standard in Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102442905] Wed, 04 May 2022 01:41:00 -0400 https://digitalpublicgoods.net/standard/ oa.floss oa.data oa.standards "The research ecosystem has been undergoing rapid and profound change, accelerated by COVID-19. This transformation is being fueled by many factors, including advances in technology, funding challenges and opportunities, political uncertainty, and new pressures on women in research. At Elsevier, we have been working with the global research community to better understand these changes and what the world of research might look like in the future. The results were published today in Elsevier’s new Research Futures Report 2.0. The report is free to read and download...." Tue, 03 May 2022 04:57:00 -0400 https://www.elsevier.com/connect/research-futures-2022 oa.new oa.trends oa.versions oa.preprints oa.gold oa.elsevier oa.ai oa.journals oa.elsevier oa.preprints "Hosted by Brown University Library July 11-29, 2022 | Hybrid Format Announcing Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps, a three-week summer institute with virtual and in-person components for fifteen participants who wish to develop born-digital scholarship intended for publication by a university press but lack the necessary resources and capacity at their home institutions. The Institute will equip humanities scholars from all career levels and across disciplines with in-depth knowledge of the digital publishing process, familiarity with open source tools and platforms, advanced project management skills, concrete and individualized plans for project advancement, and top-level publishing industry contacts...." Tue, 03 May 2022 00:37:00 -0400 https://library.brown.edu/neh-institute-born-digital-scholarly-publishing/ oa.new oa.events oa.publishing oa.authors oa.usa oa.genres oa.training oa.ssh oa.digital_humanities oa.humanities Abstract: "This paper examines the decision points over the course of ten years for developing an Institutional Repository. Specifically, the focus is on the impact and influence from the open-source community, the needs of the local institution, the role that team dynamics plays, and the chosen platform. Frequently, the discussion revolves around the technology stack and its limitations and capabilities. Inherently, any technology will have several features and limitations, and these are important in determining a solution that will work for your institution. However, the people running the system and developing the software, and their enthusiasm to continue work within the existing software environment in order to provide features for your campus and the larger open-source community will play a bigger role than the technical platform. These lenses are analyzed through three points in time: the initial roll out of our Institutional Repository, our long-term running and maintenance, and eventual new development and why we made the decisions we made at each of those points in time." Coughlin, D. (2022). Balancing Community and Local Needs: Releasing, Maintaining, and Rearchitecting the Institutional Repository. Information Technology and Libraries, 41(1). https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v41i1.14073 Sun, 01 May 2022 02:54:00 -0400 https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/14073 oa.new oa.ir oa.infrastructure oa.floss oa.case oa.case.repositories oa.repositories "...The OpenAccess object The OpenAccess object describes access options for a given work. It's only found as part of the Work object. is_oa Boolean: True if this work is Open Access (OA).  There are many ways to define OA. OpenAlex uses a broad definition: having a URL where you can read the fulltext of this work without needing to pay money or log in. You can use the  alternate_host_venues and oa_status fields to narrow your results further, accommodating any definition of OA you like. is_oa: true oa_status String: The Open Access (OA) status of this work. Possible values are: gold: Published in an OA journal that is indexed by the DOAJ green: Toll-access on the publisher landing page, but there is a free copy in an OA repository. hybrid: Free under an open license in a toll-access journal. bronze: Free to read on the publisher landing page, but without any identifiable license. closed: All other articles. oa_status: "gold" oa_url String: The best Open Access (OA) URL for this work.  Although there are many ways to define OA, in this context an OA URL is one where you can read the fulltext of this work without needing to pay money or log in. The "best" such URL is the one closest to the version of record.  This URL might be a direct link to a PDF, or it might be to a landing page that links to the free PDF oa_url: "https://peerj.com/articles/4375.pdf"" ​   Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:31:00 -0400 https://docs.openalex.org/about-the-data/work oa.training oa.pids oa.openalex oa.new oa.metadata oa.dois oa.discoverability "COAR and SPARC are seeking comment from the repository community on a draft strategic vision for U.S. repositories. The strategic vision is intended to be aspirational yet achievable over time through active community collaboration within the U.S. Repository Network. This Network is envisioned as inclusive of all U.S. repositories rather than as a membership-based organization. The process for reaching this draft vision is outlined in the U.S Repository Network Initiative Progress Report. This public comment phase is the final step before finalizing the strategic vision. Please contribute your comments by May 13, 2022.... In addition to welcoming written comments, two live consultation sessions will also be offered via Zoom. Join these sessions to discuss the draft Strategic Vision live with other community members. Click the links below to register: Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 2:00-3:00pm Eastern Friday, May 6, 2022, 10:00-11:00am Eastern..." Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:19:00 -0400 https://comments.coar-repositories.org/ oa.strategies oa.economics_of oa.sustainability oa.strategies oa.sparc oa.repositories oa.policies oa.new oa.events oa.economics_of oa.consultations oa.coar oa.repositories oa.events oa.policies oa.usa   "...The 2022 Conference, on 22-23 February, is planned to be a hybrid event, delivering an interactive and collaborative experience for both online participants and those who are able to come to the London venue. The hybrid 2022 Conference programme includes a variety of session formats, intended to give each topic an appropriate expression, and to maximise interaction amongst all the participants. There will be Workshops, Panels, a Debate, Presentations, Lightning Talks and Networking.  Topics to be covered include: Early Career Researchers, OA Standards, Open Data, Disability Within Publishing, Open Books, Transformative Agreements, Business Models, The Hybrid Workplace, APC-free Open Access, Preprint Peer Review, Mergers, Acquisitions and Consolidation, Research Data Discoverability and Publishers and Libraries as Intermediaries...." "...The Researcher to Reader Conference aims to be the premier forum for discussion of the international scholarly content supply chain – bringing knowledge from the Researcher to the Reader. The Conference Programme covers key topics in the dissemination of scholarly content, with a scope that ranges from the creation of content by researchers to the point when the readers access the content, and beyond into archiving and preservation. This supply chain involves many ‘intermediaries’ including not just subscription agents and distributors, but also publishers, librarians and technology providers...." https://r2rconf.com/r2r-conference-programme/ ​https://twitter.com/hashtag/R2RConf   Sun, 24 Apr 2022 02:38:00 -0400 https://web.archive.org/web/20220424104237/https://r2rconf.com/r2r-conference-programme/ oa.new oa.events oa.uk oa.events oa.publishing Charters and principles in scholarly communication (compiled by the FORCE11 Scholarly Commons Working Group). http://tinyurl.com/scholcomm-charters Includes: Helsinki Declaration Free Software Definition Bermuda principles Open Source Definition Budapest Open Access Initiative Berlin Declaration Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing Fort Lauderdale data sharing gentleman's agreement UPSIDE principles on data and materials OKF Open Definition Salvador Declaration on Open Access A National Open Access Policy for Developing Countries Brussels Declaration (publishers) OECD Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding The Cape Town Open Education Declaration Guerilla Open Access Manifesto GEOSS Data Sharing Principles Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? Students' Statement on the Right to Research Altmetrics manifesto Consort statement on trials Panton Principles Public domain manifesto Force11 Manifesto Budapest OAI10 recommendations Denton Declaration San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication The Cost of Knowledge  G8 Open Data Charter Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing Science Code Manifesto Why science does not work as it should and what to do about it Data seal of approval requirements Force11 Joint Declaration on Data Citation Principles Independent Peer Review Manifesto JONAS (Journals of nature and science) Open Science Peer Review Oath Sparc/PLOS How open is it (new edition) Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines Annotating all Knowledge Commitment to research transparency Cooperative principles European open science cloud for research - position paper F1000 Guide to Open Access Publishing FAIR data principles Favorisons la libre diffusion de la culture et des savoirs How Open is Your Research? A Checklist for Institutions Infrastructure document (crowdsourced) Leiden Manifesto for research metrics LERU statement “Moving forward on Open Access” Making Open Science a Reality Manilla Declaration on the availability and use of health research information OA2020 Open data accord: open data in a big data world Open Scientific Standard (OSS) Peer Reviewers Openness initiative Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructures Prisma-P statement for systematic reviews RCUK Concordat on Open Research Data Scholarly publication for the network generation Science Ecosystem 2.0: how will change occur? Science Europe Principles on Open Access publisher services Science International - (draft) Accord on Open Data Study on Open Science - EU Commisssion Ten principles of citizen science The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University The Hague declaration on Knowledge Creation in the Digital Age The role of openness and publishers in reproducible research TOP Guidelines Voluntary principles for article sharing on scholarly collaboration networks What should a modern scientific infrastructure look like Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science Dakar Declaration on Open Science in Africa DART framework "What is open" Engineering Academic Software: Manifesto from Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 16252 European Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures Joint COAR-UNESCO Statement on Open Access Linked Research Manifesto on academic software Sarajevo Declaration on Integrity and Visibility of Scholarly Publications Statement on data sharing in public health emergencies Vienna Principles Bratislava declaration of young researchers Bullied into bad science - The Letter European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) declaration Fair Open Access principles GOSH Global open hardware Joint Statement of Principles Jussieu Call for Open science and bibliodiversity LIBER Principles for negotiations with publishers Mallorca declaration on Open Science (RISE) Munyonyo Declaration on Health Communications Next gen repositories Open and collaborative science manifesto Principles of the Scholarly Common Sat, 23 Apr 2022 05:59:00 -0400 http://tinyurl.com/scholcomm-charters oa.crowd oa.monitoring oa.principles oa.declarations "What we are working on: We shared a draft report from our preliminary investigation into defining open scholarly infrastructure. This investigation is a step towards building a shared vision for an ecosystem that supports open research and scholarly communication. We invite you to comment on the report, by 3 May 2022. This definitional work was also described in our latest research update. The update discussed our plans for the Catalog of Open Infrastructure (COIs) and our initial working models for understanding the funding and operation of infrastructure services. Watch this space over the next few weeks! We reflected on our Strategy Retreat and shared key learnings, recordings, and reusable resources for anyone who would like to learn more about organising such an experience. Our new Steering Committee had its first meeting. They discussed charters, the development of the Financial Oversight Group, and our strategic roadmap. We have been looking into budgeting and resource planning for the rest of the year to understand how we can best use our available resources to support our strategic goals and organisational growth. We hosted our first Collaborator Call, where we gathered individuals and organizations who had invested in infrastructure, responsible technology, and adjacent areas, to begin exploring how we can build a shared agenda for open research and scholarly infrastructure. We intend to host these calls quarterly and are actively thinking about how to expand this space in a safe and inclusive manner. We are crafting our first newsletter, to be sent out next week! There is still time to sign up to get it straight into your inbox. What we are reading/exploring: A list of highlights below — for a more comprehensive view, please check out the Open Infrastructure Tracking Project! Institutionalizing Open Science in Africa: Limitations and Prospects by Izuchukwu Azuka Okafor et al, April 2022. Building the Public Interest Technology Infrastructure of the Future by Jenny Toomey, Latanya Sweeney, April 2022...." Fri, 22 Apr 2022 11:18:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-04-22/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "...The afternoon of Wednesday was about open-access agreements, and we heard about a bewildering complexity of diverse types of deals between libraries and publishers. Was there a consensus? Only that what are called transformative models are not in the least transformative. Wilhelm Widmark described the situation in Sweden as “a new distance model”, and demanded that publishers be more transparent about their cost models. One alternative is the “diamond OA model”, by which neither the reader nor the author are charged to publish. This model is used by smaller-scale publishers, typically with fewer than five journals in their portfolio. Survival seems to be the order of the day. Many of the small publishers contacted by Pierre Mounier for his study (available as an “Action Plan” from Science Europe) could not confirm their legal ownership documents, and 31% couldn’t even say if they were profitable or not. Nonetheless, it is good to see these models surviving, if not prospering; the question remains how sustainable they might be. In the lively Q&A following this talk, Stephen Rhind-Tutt suggested the best way to get transparency from the publishers was to look at their P&L. That will tell you if the prices they charge are reasonable...." Tue, 19 Apr 2022 05:26:00 -0400 https://www.consultmu.co.uk/the-fiesole-retreat-2022-the-role-of-the-library/ oa.new oa.events oa.greece oa.gold oa.ch oa.no-fee oa.journals "The IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group is seeking proposals for 5-minute lightning talks to be presented at its Open Session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2022 in Dublin, Ireland. The session will be followed by 30-minutes of Q&A and discussion. This session will explore the contribution of library publishing to the advancement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The value of library publishing on these and like topics is that the work reaches and supports readers and policymakers where they live, with information relevant to their immediate needs and strategic challenges. Inspiration and engagement result from such publications, and they enable coherent and focused discussion, policymaking, and action in specific circumstances. Presentations will inform WLIC participants about a variety of initiatives through library produced publications that are often locally rooted and relevant, almost always openly accessible, and produced as trusted and high-quality content which address a range of global issues pertaining to the UN SDGs. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to Promotes gender equality Advocates for climate action Supports quality education Promotes good health and well-being Creates partnerships for the SDGs Advocates for peace, justice and strong institutions..." Fri, 15 Apr 2022 05:42:00 -0400 https://2022.ifla.org/cfp-calls/library-publishing-special-interest-group/ oa.libpub oa.cfp oa.new oa.events oa.libraries oa.ifla oa.publishing "...We launched an OA eBook program in 2016 that has grown to include more than 7,700 titles. Libraries can use free MARC records or activate the OA titles in their discovery service, and users can cross-search all OA and licensed eBooks with all other content types on our platform. The ease of discovery on JSTOR has led to strong usage of the OA titles. In 2021 alone, there were more than 11 million uses of the OA eBooks worldwide. A Learning Journey While some publishers have eagerly experimented with OA models, others fear being left behind. These publishers share the mission to make scholarship more accessible but worry that the lack of grant support and viable business models are not well understood by the government agencies and funders that are creating OA mandates. The potential for libraries converting to models such as “subscribe to open” could alleviate these concerns, but few of our smaller and medium-sized publishers have the ability to undertake such a change themselves. They lack the resources and bandwidth to design new business models and advocate for funding. We have been working on various Open Access models in support of our publishers and to meet the demand from libraries and researchers for more OA content. First, in our “Convert to Open” model, publishers have identified eBooks already available for sale on JSTOR to convert to OA without incurring any additional costs to do so. The usage data for these titles shows the strong impact of opening up backlist scholarly content and making it discoverable to researchers around the world. We reviewed 336 titles from 30 publishers that were converted from licensed eBooks to OA in 2019 and 2020 and documented the usage for each title one to two years prior to being converted to OA and an equivalent one to two years after. The usage for these titles increased by 3,279% after being converted to OA. We have also developed a “Publish as Open” model in collaboration with libraries and publishers to support the publication of new titles directly as OA. In 2019, the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP, a CRL initiative) approached JSTOR to support a low-cost OA pilot for new titles from Argentinian publisher CLACSO, the Latin American Council of Social Sciences. To date, this collaboration has made 340 CLACSO titles freely accessible on JSTOR. The titles have been used more than 940,000 times by users across 195 countries. Sócrates Silva, Latin American & Iberian Studies Librarian for Columbia and Cornell and President of SALALM, described the project’s importance for bridging a critical gap in the scholarly communications system. “Despite established OA publishing models for scholarly works in Latin America, monograph discovery and preservation infrastructure for this important content in U.S. libraries is virtually nonexistent. This multi-partner, horizontal, and librarian-led pilot is testing out sustainable partnerships that take into account the monograph lifecycle from publisher to library” (JSTOR, 2021). Based on the success of this pilot and ongoing support to fund future OA titles for CLACSO, we are working with LARRP to expand our collaboration and support other selected Latin American publishers. In the coming years, we plan to expand this model to other publishers in partnership with the academic community...." Fri, 15 Apr 2022 04:32:00 -0400 https://www.charleston-hub.com/2022/03/sustainable-ebook-acquisition-and-access-the-not-for-profit-perspective/ oa.books oa.economics_of oa.sustainability oa.publishers oa.nonprofit oa.new oa.jstor oa.ithaka oa.economics_of oa.discoverability oa.books "IRRT Global Libraries As Advocates For Information Policy Change,  Friday, June 24, 2022 - 8:30AM – 1:00PM The pandemic has raised our awareness and understanding of the need for information policies that support the ability of libraries to serve their communities. What are the persistent and new policy issues that libraries around the world must focus on? How can we strengthen our ability to influence legislative and legal change, and participate in the political process on the local, national, and global levels? The range of policy issues of relevance to libraries is extraordinary: intellectual freedom and the rising challenges to the books and other resources we make available in our collections; privacy and the threats that we and our users face on protecting their identities; civil liberties and the constraints on freedom of action and speech; open access to research and educational resources, funding for libraries, and for education and research programs; copyright and the importance of fair use and the exceptions that enable libraries to carry out their services; the expansion and quality of access to the internet and the challenges of the digital divides in our communities; telecommunications policy and the growth of social media monopolies and issues like net neutrality; government information and the importance of guaranteeing that records of the work of our governments are openly and readily accessible; the survival of school libraries which are so essential to our library ecosystem; and there are many more specific to local, national and global contexts. Libraries must be at the core of the debates on information policy issues, as their success and effectiveness will increasingly be the ability to influence, interpret and apply new policy directions. By information policy, we mean those laws, regulations, and programs established by governments and other organizations that define the strategies for the advancement and management of such things as technology, telecommunications, and electronic information. It permeates all other policy areas, such as education, foreign relations, science, culture, health, and perhaps most fundamentally, commerce, workforce development, and business. Information policy is increasingly recognized as central to economic progress and social change. This pre-conference will provide opportunities for learning about and sharing the impact of the pandemic on information policy around the world, provide a detailed look at several key policy areas, and inform how library professionals can be effective advocates in the legislative and legal arenas." Fri, 15 Apr 2022 04:12:00 -0400 https://2022.alaannual.org/registration/ticketed-events oa.new oa.events oa.usa oa.librarians oa.advocacy oa.policies SSP 44th Annual Meeting 2022 Annual Meeting "Building a More Connected Scholarly Community June 1–3, 2022 | Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk | Chicago, IL, USA The last 19+ months have been a fascinating contradiction, making us feel both painfully disconnected and also perhaps more bonded than ever before. There have been challenges we may never have imagined, and we are a community that rises to challenges. How can we take the strengths we already possessed as a community, fold in lessons learned during the pandemic, and aim for being an even stronger, broader, and more connected community? We hope to look back, reflect, learn, adapt, evolve, and move forward even stronger and more connected.  Our aim is to present an in-person meeting in Chicago, and we are excited at the prospect of gathering together in this way once again. That said, the health and safety of our attendees is a prime concern, and we will of course monitor and be ready to modify plans as needed. A virtual attendance option is also available with a mix of live and on-demand content.  The SSP community brings together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, and countless others with a communal interest and stake in the dissemination of scholarly information. We look forward to the 44th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to reconnect and to connect anew. ..." more info: https://customer.sspnet.org/SSP/Events/2022-Annual-Meeting/Event-Home/ssp/AM22/Home.aspx Fri, 15 Apr 2022 03:44:00 -0400 https://customer.sspnet.org/SSP/ssp/AM22/Register-Online.aspx oa.publishers oa.new oa.events oa.usa oa.publishing "LIBER Annual Conference 2022 Odense, Denmark The LIBER annual conference will be held in Odense, Denmark on 6 - 8 July 2022.  You will be asked during sign up if you would like to participate in the newcomer session, pre-conference workshops, and conference dinner on Wednesday 6 July, the conference reception on Thursday 7 July, and the social programme excursion on Saturday 9 July.   Early bird registration for the conference is possible for all LIBER members before 1 May 2022. Please note: Payment is by credit card only.  At least one author of each accepted abstract must register and attend the LIBER Annual Conference 2022 in Odense. ..." Wed, 13 Apr 2022 07:51:00 -0400 https://event.sdu.dk/liber2022/conference oa.new oa.events oa.liber oa.librarians oa.denmark "As a format it’s slow, encourages hype, and is difficult to correct. A radical overhaul of publishing could make science better... ...consider data. Back in the day, sharing the raw data that formed the basis of a paper with that paper’s readers was more or less impossible. Now it can be done in a few clicks, by uploading the data to an open repository. And yet, we act as if we live in the world of yesteryear: papers still hardly ever have the data attached, preventing reviewers and readers from seeing the full picture. The solution to all these problems is the same as the answer to “How do I organise my journals if I don’t use cornflakes boxes?” Use the internet. We can change papers into mini-websites (sometimes called “notebooks”) that openly report the results of a given study. Not only does this give everyone a view of the full process from data to analysis to write-up – the dataset would be appended to the website along with all the statistical code used to analyse it, and anyone could reproduce the full analysis and check they get the same numbers – but any corrections could be made swiftly and efficiently, with the date and time of all updates publicly logged...." Tue, 12 Apr 2022 05:02:00 -0400 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/11/the-big-idea-should-we-get-rid-of-the-scientific-paper oa.new oa.versions oa.genres oa.journals oa.data oa.lay oa.authors oa.quality oa.speed oa.dynamic oa.notebooks oa.interactivity "...The ARL-CARL Marrakesh Treaty Implementation project, including partners at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Cornell University, the University of Florida, and York University, has been working on the practical considerations of descriptive metadata for accessible works, and investigating supporting web services to extend the functionality of Library Services Platforms at our libraries. “ The work of implementing the Marrakesh Treaty positions the Task Force and the research library community to expand the boundaries and embrace the opportunity to add ‘accessible’ as an essential component of ‘open’”, says Task Force Chair, Victoria Owen. Consequently, libraries should extend our work in open access towards ensuring they are both open and accessible. Library and publisher OA platforms should be assessed for accessible outputs and enhance to become universally accessible (for example, see https://www.arl.org/blog/if-its-open-is-it-accessible/). This month’s talk with be with Judith Russell, Dean of University Libraries, University of Florida to discuss the above and engage with the OpenCon library community on this issue of accessibility and openness. ..." Tue, 12 Apr 2022 02:14:00 -0400 https://www.opencon.community/april_2022_librarian_call oa.new oa.events oa.accessibility oa.librarians oa.treaties "Wikidata for Web (Q99894727) (previously known as Wikidata for Firefox) is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Chromium that displays Data from Wikidata on various websites and also allows extraction of data from these websites. The source code is available on Github.... It is also possible to extract data from links found in the current page and save them in wikidata with appropriate reference statements....    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikidata/iijkiilckldlddidhaomggfadfafpdfd https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wikidata/   Mon, 11 Apr 2022 03:10:00 -0400 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata_for_Web oa.wikidata oa.metadata oa.tools oa.new "The Open Infrastructure Tracking Project (OITP) aims to monitor funding and resourcing for the open technology research relies on. The project site runs on TagTeam, an open-source, collaborative tagging platform developed at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.... Acknowledgements: The OITP is modelled on Peter Suber’s exemplary Open Access Tracking Project (OATP). :yellow_heart: We have imitated its name, tags, and discovery methods and adopted its underlying open-source TagTeam software. We continue drawing inspiration from the dedication and persistence of OATP’s founder and community of taggers, and the urgent relevance of its daily content...." Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:04:00 -0400 https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/oitp oa.monitoring oa.infrastructure oa.awareness oa.ioi tt.notice oatp.notice "...What we are working on: We are finalizing our Strategic Roadmap for 2022. After comments and feedback from the Steering Committee, we plan to share this publicly for community input and feedback. Using TagTeam, an open-source, collaborative tagging platform, we are monitoring news and commentary related to open infrastructure. You can see and read what we have tagged in the Open Infrastructure Tracking Project. More documentation on how to join and contribute to this effort coming soon! We finalized the Charter for the Community Oversight Council (COC). We have created a HackMD page for documentation related to the COC, including the Charter, meeting summaries and more. The COC will be hosting a public call in May - stay tuned for more information, soon! We are developing a Conflict of Interest Declaration for our governance members and staff. This is a part of our effort to stay informed of and mitigate biases and conflicts of interest, and avoid self-dealing...." Sun, 10 Apr 2022 23:55:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-04-08/ tt.notice oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure economics of open science (Q110971984) Thu, 07 Apr 2022 23:13:00 -0400 https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q110971984 oa.open_science oa.new oa.scholia_profiles oa.economics_of oa.open_science Open Science and the Global South Abstract: "Open Access publishing has been broadly embraced as a solution to the issue of paywalls which are often barriers to accessing research articles and, therefore, barriers to research itself. Open Access publishing removes the cost for those that may wish to read an article, but the publication process must still be paid for. Finding sustainable ways of doing this is a challenge, especially for institutions based in the global south where budgets may be more limited."" Thu, 07 Apr 2022 06:58:00 -0400 https://cpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dist/6/282/files/2022/03/open-science-conf-program-220401a.pdf oa.open_science oa.new oa.sustainability oa.south oa.open_science oa.events oa.economics_of Search for the term "open access" worldwide in the past 12 months in Google Trends. About: "Google Trends allows you to see the topics people are—or aren’t—following, practically in real time. Journalists can use this information to explore potential story ideas, and can also feature Trends data within news stories to illustrate a general level of interest in, say, a political candidate, social issue or event."   Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:50:00 -0400 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%22open%20access%22 oa.tools oa.search "An infrastructure that supports academy-owned non-for-profit scholarly publishing model by providing technology and sharing knowledge that contributes to the sustainability of non-commercial Open Access. The goal of this tutorial is to understand the importance of XML JATS digital publishing technology and the advantages of its implementation...." Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:15:00 -0400 https://goap.info/non-commercial-oa-workflow oa.training oa.publishing oa.tools oa.academic_led oa.workflows oa.video oa.infrastructure "The LIBSENSE Intitiative Strengthening open access and open science in Africa. LIBSENSE (Library Support for Embedded NREN Services and E-infrastructure) is a WACREN-led programme aimed at building a community of practice for open science and progressing the adoption of open science services and infrastructures in Africa. Open science is an international trend aimed at sharing the results of research widely. This phenomenon is transforming the way research is done and increasing its value and impact by accelerating the pace of scientific discoveries and expanding the adoption of research outcomes for everyone. Launched in 2016, LIBSENSE aims to bring together the research and education networks (RENs) and academic library communities to strengthen open access and open science in Africa. This Africa-wide programme provides an avenue through which different stakeholder communities work together to define priority activities, share knowledge, and develop relevant services. This pan-African effort is making strides towards advancing open science through strengthening and expanding services at the institutional, national and regional levels. LIBSENSE’s approach is using bottom-up, distributed and heterogenous ways to entrench open access and open science in Africa. The programme is all-inclusive; this is demonstrated in the regional dispersal of its communities, the language for operation and then the cultural nature of its operations and communities." Thu, 07 Apr 2022 02:33:00 -0400 https://libsense.ren.africa/en/events/ oa.libsense oa.south oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.events oa.event_calendars oa.librarians oa.africa oa.events oa.libraries "Releasing the Largest Open Access Cultural Data Set: Two Year Update Effie Kapsalis, Senior Digital Program Officer, Smithsonian Office of Digital Transformation 3/24/2022 10:15-11:15 This year, as we mark the 175th anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution, we celebrate our past knowing that our present is at a turning point. The pandemic has tested us individually and as a society, bringing issues such as race and inclusion, social injustice, and the sustainability of the planet into high relief. It is unclear how cultural institutions will address these issues. Our interactions and outreach over the last year have been mediated solely through the lens of digital technology, and we continue to learn, explore, and assess how best to use this technology to create effective change. The 2022 Digitization Conference will focus on the role digital experiences will have in how the Smithsonian and other cultural institutions can extend our reach, reassess our impact, and reimagine our role in the world that emerges from the pandemic." Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:04:00 -0400 https://youtu.be/RKh-nHoM0Ss oa.new oa.video oa.usa oa.images oa.glam oa.data oa.ch oa.smithsonian "Zotero ID (P10557)  identifier for a person with an account at zotero.org..." Sat, 02 Apr 2022 09:42:00 -0400 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10557 oa.new oa.zotero oa.wikidata_items oa.wikidata oa.metadata one of the panels accepted for the Society for Social Studies of Science conference, to be held in Mexico, 7-10 Dec. 2022 "Asura Enkhbayar, Simon Fraser Univeristy; Timothy Weil Elfenbein, Community-led Open Publication Infrastructure for Monographs (COPIM) Posted: February 28, 2022... We are living in an era that has produced a profusion of new knowledge about the scholarly communication landscape: of what kinds of scholars publish in what kinds of venues; of the consolidation of the publishing and information analytics sector; and of the extent of the literature shifting to open access. And yet, we still have very little knowledge about the daily work of publishers and other intermediaries. Science studies differentiated itself from an earlier sociology of science, in part, by focusing on the everyday embodied work of producing science, embedded in object-filled spaces, with practical repertoires and flexible interpretive logics. Studies of scholarly communication have yet to embrace this turn toward everyday work, instead preferring distanced analysis of the publishing system’s inputs and outputs over labor, work process, and artifactually mediated interaction. What understandings of publishing might emerge from a shift toward a labor and process view of scholarly communication at large?   We particularly want to hear from those engaged in ongoing work on publishing infrastructure, at the articulation point of technology, scholarly practice, and representational form: for instance, work on metadata systems; annotation layers; software and code sharing; dataset and document versioning; datafication and analysis of text; modes of linking disparate digital objects into coherent research projects; modes of decomposing, recomposing, and augmenting existing scholarship. Those working at the edges of the scholarly communication ecology, rethinking the genres, forms, or emplacements of scholarship, are also well positioned to reflect on the mediation of knowledge. Contact: asura.enkhbayar@gmail.com, timelf@gmail.com Keywords: Scholarly Communication, Publishing, Labor" https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/ https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/accepted-open-panels/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:04:00 -0400 https://www.4sonline.org/108-scholarly-communication-and-its-infrastructures/ oa.infrastructure oa.new oa.scholcomm oa.events oa.publishing oa.publishing "...What we are working on: We shared our journey and lessons learnt from evolving our governance. In our latest blog post, we shared some of our readings and research into non-profit governance, our reflections and motivations for designing new governance structures and bodies, and what we have learnt on the way. As next steps in our governance roadmap, we are creating charters with our Steering Committee and Community Oversight Council to bring clarity to our respective responsibilities and ways of working. We welcomed (back) Saman Goudarzi to IOI! Saman is a recent graduate of the University of Toronto and worked with us previously on the Future of Open Scholarship report. She’ll be working with us as a part-time research analyst on several ongoing projects. We are looking forward to working with her again and onboarding more research analysts to support our research work in the future. With Saman’s help, we are looking at the literature defining infrastructure particularly in the context of open science and scholarly communication. We’re finalizing our initial draft of research on water utility funding models and costs frameworks as we explore the parallels between funding for water supply and open infrastructure. We look forward to releasing this research in a preliminary investigation report in the near future. We continue to work on our strategic roadmap following the conclusion of our strategy retreat. We look forward to having details to share publicly in the near future. We have a new Research Organization Registry (ROR) ID for IOI: 0588n4k65...." Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:19:00 -0400 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-03-25/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI)'s organization-wide Strategy Retreat took place in February-March 2022, with 20 participants from IOI's Steering Committee, Community Council, and staff. On 25 February 2022, Joy Owango (tcc-africa.org and AfricArXiv) and Elizabeth Searing (University of Texas) shared their expertise on investment, scholarly infrastructure, and nonprofit management...." Wed, 30 Mar 2022 23:44:00 -0400 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ_Ic_XlJGc oa.ioi oa.africarxiv oa.infrastructure oa.video oa.new oa.south oa.africa About: "Atla LibGuides - resources and guidance for use by librarians and staff at religious and theological libraries and archives. Atla has licensed LibGuides by Springshare for use by Atla Interest Groups, Committees, Denominational Groups and Atla staff for the purpose of producing subject resource guides for use by Atla members and other libraries who may have a use for the content to serve their patrons...." Sat, 26 Mar 2022 23:59:00 -0400 https://atla.libguides.com/IR/home oa.guides oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.intro oa.libass oa.repositories oa.ir 15 March 2022, "RLUK22 Conference, Research Libraries UK  https://www.rluk.ac.uk/ https://rlukconference.com/ The need for open infrastructure - Kaitlin Thaney, Executive Director, Invest in Open Infrastructure These past two years have shown us the increased need and demand for investments in openness across all areas of research and scholarship -- from content and data to the underlying systems that make those discoveries available and accessible to the world. Invest in Open Infrastructure is an initiative dedicated to improving the funding and resourcing for those underlying technologies and systems. This talk examines higher education's complicated relationship with research infrastructure, and look at critical issues and questions surrounding the tools and providers underpinning open knowledge...." slides: https://tinyurl.com/rluk22-ioi    Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:58:00 -0400 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjcqZBalcwY oa.video oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "Why Now? The time is ripe to look at Open Work across communities to compare, contrast, and cross-pollinate best practices. The National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for funding to support “Open Source Ecosystems” to improve sustainability, impact, and translation of “open source research products.” The National Institutes of Health has released new policy to improve and refine the sharing of, and collaboration around, research data. The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) have issued a tool kit to improve and encourage university support of Open Scholarship. Across the European Union, the creation of national policies on Open Science and Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) for Government is accelerating. OSPOs have been created by a few universites to utilize techniques pioneered in private industry to better facilitate academic Open Work. Join Us Open@RIT invites professionals from the Academic, Research and Open Source communities for a two and a half day gathering to explore topics such as: Measures of value, impact and translation of Open Work Policies around support and promotion for success in that work Building, sustaining and promoting Open Communities and Ecosystems Managing information overload and ferment in the field Existing practices and resources provided by academia to support Open Scholarship and industry..." Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:39:00 -0400 https://openr.it/summit/ oa.infrastructure oa.open_science oa.events oa.usa oa.policies oa.new "...What we are working on: We concluded IOI’s Strategy Retreat. In the last two weeks, we learnt from experts Pia Mancini (opencollective.com), Joy Owango (tcc-africa.org and AfricArXiv), and Elizabeth Searing (University of Texas) about investment and non-profit assessment. We discussed various models of resourcing and outlined a roadmap for the next months with IOI’s Steering Committee and Community Oversight Council. We hope to share resources and learnings from the Retreat with the public in the coming months - stay tuned! We welcomed IOI’s new Steering Committee. This Committee brings new ideas, strategies, and learnings to the work of IOI from adjacent communities and areas of infrastructure. We would like to thank IOI’s inaugural founding members, who have supported and guided us as we evolve our governance. We met with our Community Oversight Council. We reflected on the retreat and discussed questions to clarify the scope, objectives, and ways of working of the Council. This forms solid foundations for our work to draft a charter and documentation. We ran a Financial Strategy session as part of the Digital Infrastructure Incubator. The Digital Infrastructure Incubator at Code for Science & Society is supporting open source project leaders implementing best practices in sustainability, governance, and community health. Our Executive Director Kaitlin Thaney spoke with the cohort on strategies for financial planning and strategy, and discussed how to approach building resourcing for your project...." Fri, 11 Mar 2022 06:45:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-we-are-working-on-2022-03-11/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "Libraries are now as much about connecting their users with content as they are about curating it.  In this session we shall hear about the innovative approach to discovery taken at Utrecht University Library, a Library which does not promote a traditional library catalogue or discovery layer.  The session will also explore the wider discovery landscape, in particular in relation to user workflows and the open access information ecosystem.   Considerations will include: What are the alternatives to traditional library catalogues and discovery layers? How do users respond to these alternatives? What difference does open access make to the discovery landscape? Speakers: Martine Pronk from University of Utrecht. Andrea Chiarelli from Research Consulting..." Wed, 09 Mar 2022 01:52:00 -0500 https://www.sconul.ac.uk/event/alternative-approaches-to-discovery oa.events oa.discoverability oa.search oa.netherlands oa.libraries oa.new oa.sconul "...Lawmakers in at least 17 state capitols and Congress are pushing legislation that would require schools to post all instructional materials online. Their goal, at least in part, is to enable parents who distrust their children’s schools to carefully examine teaching materials — enabling protests or, in some cases, giving people fodder to opt their children out. That includes materials on race and racial equity but also any other topic that might spark disagreement...." Wed, 02 Mar 2022 10:25:00 -0500 https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/02/transparency-curriculum-teachers-parents-rights/ oa.new oa.usa oa.education oa.legislation oa.curricula oa.schools oa.children oa.teaching "...Today, we are excited to welcome eight new members to IOI’s Steering Committee, our main governing body, to join us in working to sustain effective digital infrastructure needed for open knowledge to flourish. The IOI Steering Committee brings new ideas, strategies, and learnings to the work of IOI from adjacent communities and areas of infrastructure. The new members are joined by three members of the previous Steering Committee - Danielle Robinson, Leslie Chan, and Evviva Weinraub Lajoie. Please join us in welcoming the new Steering Committee to our work to advance open infrastructure investment and adoption. (Biographies can be found here.) Amy Buckland, Libraries and Archives Canada Mmaki Jantjies, Telkom SA; University of the Western Cape Omo Oaiya, WACREN Danil Mikhailov, data.org Lorrayne Porciuncula, Datasphere Initiative Berhan Taye, Internews Amy Sample Ward, NTEN Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Scarborough; Knowledge Equity Lab Evviva Weinraub Lajoie, State University of New York at Buffalo Jochai Ben-Avie, Connect Humanity* Danielle Robinson, Code for Science & Society* *Denotes non-voting advisors...." Tue, 01 Mar 2022 11:08:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/ioi-announces-new-steering-committee-members/ oa.people oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "...What we’re working on: We are exploring the challenges we would like to work on, and how. In the second week of our Strategy Retreat, IOI staff, Community Oversight Council and Steering Committee members discussed work values and expectations and defined what we need from each other. We also started identifying and understanding the top challenges that we should tackle as a group. This paves the way for us to start investigating solutions. ... We are exploring relevant models for better understanding infrastructure and continuing our conversations with community members to plan out the next stages of our work developing the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs). We are investigating methods and tools used to finance sustainable water infrastructure. In an effort to learn from other sectors, we are investigating the efforts of the OECD and IRC to reach the sustainable development goal of ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all...." Fri, 25 Feb 2022 09:56:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-were-working-on-2022-02-25/ oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastructure "As the world moves towards a situation where there is more access to the results of publicly funded research, and in line with the Scottish Government's Open Data Strategy, RBGE is committed to making our research publications and associated data freely open and available for others to use and reuse. We aim to make all RBGE scientific publications available on an Open Access basis, either by publishing in an Open Access or hybrid journal, or by adding a copy of the item to the Research Scotland repository.  We are actively working towards compliance with the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship, making our data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable...." Thu, 24 Feb 2022 04:07:00 -0500 https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/access-our-research-outputs/ oa.uk oa.policies oa.botany oa.scotland "The successful development of the South African Open Science Policy is contingent on broad-based consultations and inputs from stakeholders across the entire National System of Innovation. The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), in partnership with the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and Universities South Africa (USAf), is hosting the online Stakeholder Workshop to facilitate this broad-based consultation...." Wed, 23 Feb 2022 01:38:00 -0500 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS-zkzGVkFU oa.new oa.policies oa.government oa.video oa.south_africa oa.open_science oa.video oa.south_africa oa.south oa.policies oa.open_science oa.new oa.government oa.africa "We invite proposals for contributions to the OEGlobal 2022 in-person Congress in Nantes, France. The in-person Congress builds upon the Online Conference that took place between 27 September-1 October 2021. OEGlobal 2022 will comprise of plenaries, thematic sessions, and learning labs. Rooms will also be available for group meetings and promotional events.  We welcome submissions and presentations in any of the six official languages of the United Nations – Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Spanish.... Thematic sessions provide opportunities for focused debates on different topics which are perceived pertinent by the global open education community.  Eight thematic sessions have been identified in order  to address some of the more urgent issues in Open Education today: 1. Libraries and Librarians, 2. Frontier Technologies, 3. Open Education Research, 4. Publishers and EdTech Providers – Open Education Friend or Foe?, 5. Open Education: The Role of Students, 6. Combining different Opens: Access, Science, Data, Resources, 7. Pathways to Opening Up Education, and 8. Open Education for Primary/ Secondary/K-12 Sectors...." Sun, 20 Feb 2022 09:02:00 -0500 https://conference.oeglobal.org/2021/2022-call-for-proposals/ oa.new oa.cfp oa.events oa.oer oa.education "...Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data all over the world. Groups from around the world create local events on the day where they will use open data in their communities. It is an opportunity to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of open data policies in government, business and civil society...." Sun, 20 Feb 2022 07:20:00 -0500 https://opendataday.org/events/2022/ oa.new oa.events oa.data "...What we’re working on: We kicked off IOI’s first Strategy Retreat. Our organization-wide Strategy Retreat began this week, with 20 participants from our Steering Committee, Community Council, and staff. Over the course of the next month we’ll be exploring ideas together about money, investment, non-profit effectiveness, ways of working, and courage. This retreat is fully virtual, with participation across seven time zones. Stay tuned for more on the retreat and changes to IOI governance over the coming weeks! We compiled an Orientation Guide for those new to our work, which includes an organizational timeline of IOI’s work to date, key priorities, staff and governance documentation, and more about our current and past funding. This is designed as a public resource that we will be updating annually...." Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:32:00 -0500 https://investinopen.org/blog/what-were-working-on-2022-02-11/ oa.new oa.new oa.ioi oa.infrastucture "The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is proud to announce the establishment of the Latin America Research Commons (LARC) as the first portal for cutting-edge, fully open access research on Latin America. LARC is the first publishing press of LASA, which is dedicated to ensure the widest possible dissemination of original monographs and journals in all disciplines related to Latin American studies. Its principal languages of publication are Spanish and Portuguese, and its primary goal is to ensure that scholars from around the world will be able to find and access the research they need without economic or geographic barriers...." presentation slides Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:05:00 -0500 https://asia.lasaweb.org/pub/asia2022/exhibit-hall/details.aspx?ID=1 oa.new oa.latin_america oa.publishers oa.ssh oa.spanish oa.events events oa.south "The Charité Medical Library presents data about open access publishing in journal articles at the Charité in interactive, clickable diagrams. This dashboard is complementary to the Charité Metrics Dashboard from the BIH QUEST Center at Charité...." Sun, 06 Feb 2022 20:35:00 -0500 https://medbib-charite.github.io/oa-dashboard/ oa.metrics oa.journals oa.libraries oa.monitoring oa.medicine oa.germany oa.growth Compilation of "events Knowledge Rights 21 is taking part in." Wed, 19 Jan 2022 05:51:00 -0500 https://www.knowledgerights21.org/events-activities/ oa.event_calendars oa.policies oa.kr21 "A collection of materials to facilitate the development of responsible research and researcher assessment policies and practices...." Sun, 09 Jan 2022 02:51:00 -0500 https://sfdora.org/resource-library/ oa.assessment oa.dora oa.authors oa.data oa.scholcomm oa.guides oa.best_practices "...RESOURCES Expand your understanding of including open metadata in contracts. Use this list of resources to get you started. Know of a resource that is not included below? Email us the information and we’ll consider its inclusion in our next update. BACKGROUND READING If you are just getting started, all of this information could be overwhelming. This section includes a few “level-setting” articles that provide the basics. Transformative Agreements: A Primer (By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe; The Scholarly Kitchen - Apr 23, 2019) Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication (European Commission - January 2019)  ...   Fri, 01 Oct 2021 05:56:00 -0400 https://metadata2020.org/do-more/negotiate-in-contracts/ oa.metadata oa.negotiations "The IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto proclaims UNESCO’s belief in the public library as a living force for education, culture and information, and as an essential agent for the fostering of peace and welfare through the minds of all people. The most recent version was published in 1994 and has been a cornerstone of public library advocacy ever since.  However, as technology advances and society changes, the ways that public libraries fulfill their mission have also evolved. Together with UNESCO, IFLA – and in particular its Public Libraries Section – has therefore been embarking on an update to the Manifesto in order to ensure it best reflects the realities and missions of public libraries today. A Global Call Creating an updated Manifesto that is relevant and useful to public libraries around the world would not be possible without hearing from the global library field. Therefore, IFLA’s Public Library Section launched a survey in 2020 to gather ideas and feedback from librarians around the world. With over 600 responses, we learned a lot about how librarians have used the Manifesto in their work, and how they suggest it could be improved and updated for the future. The Results In their responses, librarians shared stories of using the Manifesto to advocate for improvements in their libraries, to show elected officials and budget-holders the importance of funding, to defend free access and resist censorship, to develop more impactful activities for users, as a reference for research and much more. When asked if they felt the Manifesto was effective at reflecting the mission of public libraries today, 78% of responders found the Manifesto to be either effective or very effective. Therefore, we determined that the existing Manifesto did not need to be rewritten but could instead be updated to reflect the new and evolving priorities of public libraries. Following the survey, IFLA HQ worked with the Public Library Section to draft the updated Manifesto. We have already received invaluable input from UNESCO to ensure that the Manifesto continued to align public libraries with the goals of UNESCO and its Information for All Programme (IFAP). What’s new? The following is just a look at some of the new or expanded concepts that will be included in the Manifesto. Knowledge Societies-- Since 1994, the ways in which people access and use information have evolved. The updated Manifesto will reflect the public library’s role in enabling knowledge societies through helping communities access, produce, create, and share knowledge equitably. This includes proactively reaching out to find new audiences, keeping communities informed and aware, capturing and providing access to local information, and providing open access to scientific information...." International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Tue, 17 Aug 2021 04:22:00 -0400 https://www.ifla.org/news/the-public-library-manifesto-25-years-of-advocacy-and-many-more-to-come/ oa.libraries oa.declarations oa.ifla oa.unesco oa.libraries.public oa.advocacy "We are an open access publisher, based in Dubai, and we adhere to international publishing norms and ethical guidelines. We help regional scholars reach the global research community through training, manuscript editing, publishing academic journals and conference proceedings, and indexing them in global databases...." Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:41:00 -0400 https://knepublishing.com/ oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.platforms oa.mena oa.kne oa.authors oa.arab_world oa.south About: "The Scout Report, is one of the Web's oldest and most respected current awareness services. Published every Friday since 1994, it is received by more than 50,000 readers every week." Mon, 26 Jul 2021 23:39:00 -0400 https://scout.wisc.edu/archives/b37163/open_access_publishing oa.bibliographies oa.publishing Google translate: "Open Access, in Czech Open access is a model of scientific communication , the aim of which is to ensure permanent, free and immediate access to the results of science and research via the Internet . This is a specific type of access to scientific information . The term Open Access can also be understood as a movement of the scientific community that tries to promote this model. Open access publications can be distributed and used in science, teaching and related fields. [1] Open access refers to those scientific outputs that scientists (authors) otherwise normally provide to publishers for publication free of charge , without entitlement to a fee. It can be applied to all forms of published research output (peer-reviewed academic journal articles, conference papers and proceedings, theses, monographs and their chapters). First of all, it includes peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and their manuscript authored versions, preprints or postprints , as well as conference contributions, monographs and data sets of various types. [2] The goal of the OA ideology is not only to make content available for free, but to find ways to make scientific outputs accessible to readers without unnecessary barriers with the greatest possible impact , thus accelerating the scientific cycle and the pace of discoveries. [3]..." Fri, 16 Jul 2021 04:50:00 -0400 https://wikisofia.cz/wiki/Open_Access oa.czech oa.intro oa.czech_republic "Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is an international organization that researches and advocates for open, community-led research infrastructure and works toward coordinated and sustainable funding models. In August 2021, IOI released the final report from the Future of Open Scholarship (FOS) project.... The report recommends the creation of an Open Infrastructure Technology Oversight Committee comprising key stakeholders and emphasizes that funding models are a key consideration for sustainable open research infrastructure. Finally, the report presents five recommended interventions, with updates about what has been achieved toward them so far and possible future timelines. These recommendations are, in the short term (<1 year), to explore models for enabling greater interoperability between information-sharing systems establish a committee for open infrastructure technology oversight. In the medium term (1–2 years+), to identify opportunities for collective service and support models to maximize collective benefits and improve resilience. And in the long term, (3 years+) to pilot a rapid response fund to support project maintenance, building on the previous pilot project develop a funding model framework to assess the feasibility of a collective funding model, coordinating efforts currently underway (28–29). In addition to its final report, the FOS project includes an interactive financial modelling tool and an accompanying report that models the costs and benefits of collective investment in open infrastructure...." Thu, 01 Jul 2021 05:09:00 -0400 https://ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca/the-future-of-open-scholarship-project-report-on-open-infrastructure/ oa.ioi oa.new oa.recommendations oa.reports oa.infrastructure "Open access makes academic research freely and permanently available online. We are pleased to offer authors the option to publish Open Access either their complete academic book or a chapter. Our Open Access books adhere to the same high-level quality peer-review, production and publishing processes followed for all Common Ground Research Network Book Imprints. And importantly, we offer this service at a price that makes open access an affordable option for as many authors as possible...." Sun, 27 Jun 2021 08:21:00 -0400 https://sportandsociety.com/books/open-access oa.policies oa.fees oa.green oa.books oa.publishers "This is a tool to help you build attributions. Click the About box to learn more. As you fill out the form, the app automatically generates the attribution for you...." "About Open Attribution Builder This application is: to help you easily cite open material you find; as you fill out the form the application will automatically generate the attribution for you; to cite only openly distributed work, such as work licensed by Creative Commons or released in the public domain; to provide a default attribution statement. You’re welcome to modify the citation to make it more suitable to your needs. This application is NOT: to mark your own work with a Creative Commons license or to place your work in the public domain. To do so, please use the license chooser (for the CC licensed work) or CC0 Waiver (for the public domain work) provided by Creative Commons; applicable for all types of materials; this application is only for openly released work This application lets you enter information for title, author, license, organization, and project. You are not required to enter all information to have a citation generated. Click the ? icons to learn more about each area...." Tue, 11 May 2021 10:37:00 -0400 https://www.openwa.org/attrib-builder/ oa.oer oa.metadata oa.tools oa.genres oa.citations Calisphere Harvesting  Calisphere Roadmap  Collection Management Systems Roadmap  eScholarship Batch Projects  eScholarship Roadmap  LBL OAPI Projects  OA Connect  OA Policy Implementation Roadmap  OAC Roadmap  PAD Team Kudos Board  Presidential Open Access Policy Implementation  PresOAPI Toolkit Wed, 01 Jan 2020 04:03:00 -0500 https://trello.com/cadiglib oa.u.california oa.uc.cdl "Heather Joseph is executive director of SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), a center-left coalition that advocates for low-cost educational resources and access to higher education materials and publications. SPARC is a project of the New Venture Fund (NVF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit managed by the Washington, D.C.-based philanthropy consulting firm Arabella Advisors..." Fri, 27 Dec 2019 01:39:00 -0500 https://www.influencewatch.org/person/heather-joseph/ oa.people oa.sparc "SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is a center-left coalition that advocates for low-cost educational resources and access to higher education materials and publications. The group is a project of the New Venture Fund (NVF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit managed by the Washington, D.C.-based philanthropy consulting firm Arabella Advisors. NVF project director Heather Joseph is executive director of SPARC; in 2018, she received total compensation of $337,134. ... Fri, 27 Dec 2019 01:38:00 -0500 https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/scholarly-publishing-and-academic-resources-coalition-sparc/ oa.sparc oa.usa "Springer Nature is committed to accelerating the adoption of open access (OA) publishing and open research techniques. Having early and rapid access to research findings is fundamental to the advancement of science and discovery. Many funders and institutions now cover OA publishing costs for affiliated researchers, as part of an OA agreement with Springer Nature. Find out more about OA agreements and whether you may be entitled to publish OA with your fees covered...." https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/institutional-agreements Fri, 25 Oct 2019 01:36:00 -0400 https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/institutional-agreements oa.authors oa.journals oa.springer_nature oa.hybrid oa.offsets oa.gold "...This workshop aims to help Indian scientists (representing general and agricultural universities and government laboratories under the various councils and departments) to acquire the skills necessary to be able to set up and maintain institutional (or distributed) open archives. This workshop will provide training in Eprints software developed at the University of Southampton and the Open Archives Initiative Interoperability protocol....On a suggestion from Prof. M S Valiathan, President of the Indian National Science Academy, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation will be holding two identical three-day workshops (at MSSRF, Chennai) with a view to developing a cadre of open access experts in Indian higher educational institutions and government laboratories. We expect that before the end of the year at least a dozen institutions will have their own institutional archives up and running. There will be 20-24 participants in each workshop. Each participant and the faculty will have an Internet-connected computer on his/her desk. Dates: 2-4 May 2004 and 6-8 May 2004 Venue: M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Sambasivan Auditorium..." Sun, 30 May 2004 04:13:00 -0400 http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~chan/oaindia/index.html oa.india oa.events oa.repositories oa.training oa.eprints oa.south