Research Enterprise & Scholarly Communication

2014-05-14T14:39:00.002-04:00

Access to Research

Issue: Barriers to access can prevent researchers from discovering the latest developments in their field.

Critical research resources are often hidden behind a barrier of prohibitively expensive license fees meaning that most researchers cannot access the resources they need.

Solution: Deposit research outputs and data in our institutional repository. Seek publication in open access journals such as BioMed.

Institutional repositories provide preservation and access to enable researchers to comply with their funder's policies. Open access journals facilitate a faster, wider distribution of the latest scientific discoveries.

At the library: Follow our links below for information, tools & resources

Our Institutional Repository collects and preserves the University of Guelph's intellectual output, ensuring long-term preservation and access
The library hosts a number of open access journals. We will continue to support new initiatives in the area of open access publishing.
We provide resources to allow our users the most up-to-date information on access issues. Follow this blog for regular updates.

What Others are Saying

Goals for public policy: Scholarly Communications Statement of Principles
Prepared by RIN Research information Network
Open Access Repositories in a Nutshell (ppt – 1.19mb)
Hubbard, Bill. SHERPA Roadshow, De Montfort University, 30th March 2007.
OASIS - Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook
The site highlights open access developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies
Voices of Open Access (online video series)
Prepared by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Taylor and Francis explain Open Access

2013-12-11T17:37:00.001-05:00

Published on Dec 10, 2013

An introduction to Open Access publishing from Taylor & Francis Group, this is a short video posted to youtube:

Watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GTA3YxI2_E&feature=youtube_gdata

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Posted by K. Jane

Open Access is not as difficult as you might think

2013-12-11T17:34:00.000-05:00

Georgia State University Professor Carrie Freeman

Georgia State University Professor Carrie Freeman describes how making scholarship open access isn't as difficult as most academics might think.

She posts abstracts on academic.edu.

Watch the video at: http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/gsu_images/23/

~ Posted by K. Jane

Are alternative metrics for you?

2013-12-11T11:34:00.005-05:00

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has announced the publication of Altmetrics in Context.

"As scholarly communication takes on new forms and moves increasingly to digital and open access venues, the value of new types of metrics is increasingly important for the research community. It is causing discussion and, in some camps, heated debate."

Altmetrics report the impact of a wide range of research outputs, including data sets, articles and code. This document, available on the CARL Website, provides a quick introduction to this new field of research impact assessment and encourages researchers to use altmetrics in their work.

* Read Altmetrics in Context here (http://carl-abrc.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9000187600&id=6c9a9e11e1&e=03b5106296)

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K. Jane

Repositories are important scholarly resources!

2013-12-10T17:02:00.003-05:00

Georgia State University Professor Dennis Young

Georgia State University Professor Dennis Young tells how open access institutional repositories are important scholarly resources which add to a university's academic reputation.

Watch him at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGN0QsAgX_U&feature=youtube_gdata

Have you deposited any of your articles to the Atrium?

Go to: http://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca

Posted by

K.Jane

The value of open access to theses and dissertations

2013-12-05T10:08:00.002-05:00

Gail P. Clement, Scholarly Communications Librarian & Associate Professor at Texas A&M University, shared two new papers about the value of open access to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). They are an essential component of effective graduate education. In her words, "Written entirely independently, these two works in combination articulate the power and promise of the ETD experience as an opportunity to empower the newest generation of scholars to make meaningful and impactful contributions to their disciplines and to society".
A summary of these articles, with links to each, may be found online
via the Free US Etds blog at http://bit.ly/1bEuyiS

Another good read:

Do Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations Diminish Publishing" by Marisa Ramirez, et al. https://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/25/

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Posted by K. Jane

Tools for early researchers from Elsevier. worth a look

2013-12-02T14:09:00.002-05:00

Elsevier has developed tools for early researchers.

Developing a successful career in research and publishing requires a broad skill set so we've created a new center on Elsevier.com, Early Career Resources, especially with the early career researcher in mind. Available for your use is an extensive collection of information, videos, guides, recommended reading and more.
Understanding the ethical boundaries in scientific research and publishing is a key step in making sure an author's work gets off to the right start. Elsevier's ethics website contains a downloadable toolkit, videos and webcasts covering topics from plagiarism to research misconduct.
Free bite-sized online training webcasts from PublishingConnect have useful tips and tricks on a range of valuable topics, for example: 'How to get published', 'Getting your paper noticed', and "The Impact Factor and Other Bibliometric Indicators".
To keep up to date with further resources and author related services, subscribe to their Authors' Update. This free quarterly newsletter is jam-packed with relevant information and useful tools for scholars.

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Posted by K. Jane

Stevan Harnad says:

2013-11-13T10:03:00.000-05:00

Stevan Harnad, a leader in the open access movement, posted the following comment on a JISC mailing list this morning:

Physicists have been spontaneously self-archiving in Arxiv since 1991, but most other disciplines have not followed suit, despite the demonstrated benefits of providing open access in terms of research uptake, usage and impact.

It is for this reason that research funders and institutions worldwide are (at last) beginning to mandate (i.e., require) that their fundees and faculty self-archive.

For open access mandates to work, however, it has to be possible to systematically monitor and verify compliance.

Not all research is funded (and there are many different research funders); but virtually all research comes from institutions (universities and research institutes), most of which now have institutional repositories for their researchers to self-archive in.

Institutions are hence the natural (and eager) partners best placed to fulfill the all-important role of monitoring and ensuring compliance with the requirements of their own researchers' grant requirements, via their own institutional repositories. (This also gives institutions the incentive to adopt open access self-archiving mandates of their own, for all their research output, funded and unfunded, in all disciplines.)

Researchers, in turn, should only need to deposit their articles once, institutionally -- not willy-nilly, and multiply, in diverse institution-external repositories.

The solution is simple, since all open access repositories are interoperable, meaning they share the same core metadata-tagging system, and hence each institution's repository software can automatically export its metadata to any other institution-external repository desired.

That way researchers need only deposit once, in their own institutional repository; institutional and funder open access mandates areconvergent and cooperative rather than divergent and competitive; and mandate compliance can be reliably and systematically ensured by the author's institution.

So Biorxiv is a welcome addition to the growing list of disciplinary repositories for centralized search and retrieval, but deposit in Biorxiv should not be direct: researchers should export to it from their institutional repositories. (Biorxiv can also harvest from institutional repositories, just as Google and Google Scholar do.)

Biologists and biomedical scientists, unlike physicists, do not have a culture of spontaneous self-archiving. Hence open access mandates from funders and institutions are needed if there is to be open access to their research. And those mandates have to be readily complied with; and compliance has to be readily verifiable.

So let us not lose another quarter century hoping that biologists will at last do, of their own accord, what Arxiv users have already been doing, unmandated, since 1991. In 1994 there was already a "Subversive Proposal" -- unheeded -- that all disciplines should do as the Arxivers had done. Harold Varmus made a similar proposal ("e-biomed") in 1999, likewise unheeded.

Let us start getting it right in 2013, the year that funders in the US, EU and UK have begun concertedly mandating open access, along with a growing number of institutions worldwide. But let us harmonize the mandates, to ensure that they work:

Arxiv has certainly earned the right to remain the sole exception, insofar as direct deposit is concerned, being the only institution-external repository in which authors have already been faithfully self-archiving, unmandated, for almost a quarter century:

For Arxiv, institutional repositories can import instead of export. But for the rest: Deposit institutionally, export centrally.

Good Practices for University Open-Access Policies

2013-11-11T13:14:00.001-05:00

Good Practices for University Open-Access Policies

Published October 22, 2013

byPeter Suber, Stuart Shieber

This is a guide to good practices for university open-access (OA) policies. It’s based on the type of policy adopted at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, U of Kansas, U of Oregon, Trinity, Oberlin, Rollins, Wake Forest, Duke, U of Puerto Rico, Hawaii - Manoa, Columbia, Strathmore, Emory, Princeton, Jomo Kenyatta, Utah State, Bifröst, Miami, California - San Francisco, the U Massachusetts Medical School, Rutgers, Georgia Tech, McGill University Librarians, and many other institutions. (See p. 66). Recommendations should be useful to universities taking these and other approaches.

This is an excellent guide representing one version in a constantly evolving and growing compilation of recommendations exploring best practices for open access in the university setting.

The guide is endorsed by these projects and organizations:

Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI)
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL)
Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS)
Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP)
Mediterranean Open Access Network (MedOANet)
Open Access Directory (OAD)
Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG)
Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook(OASIS)
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
SPARC Europe

The site includes access to the first print and PDF editions. The new editions use the text as it stood in late September 2013.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/8603

Given the Tri-Council plans for mandated Open Access to funded research, I hope to see our Canadian institutions use the guide to develop their own policies.

~~~~~~~~~~ Posted by K. Jane

ACS Publications expand its open access publishing options

2013-11-04T09:32:00.004-05:00

4 Components of ACS OA expansion

ACS Publications announced a far-reaching expansion of its open access publishing options—including a major new open access journal, more licensing choices for authors, and a stimulus program to support authors who select ACS journals when seeking to publish their work open access.

1. ACS Central Science—ACS’s first pure open-access, peer-reviewed journal will be launched in 2014.

2. ACS Editors’ Choice—One article published in a subscription-based ACS journal will be made openly accessible every day beginning on Jan. 1, 2014.

3. ACS Author Rewards—Corresponding authors of articles published in ACS journals in 2014 will get a $1,500 credit per article, which can be used to pay for open-access fees starting in 2015 and until 2017.

4. ACS AuthorChoice—Existing program will be expanded for new features, including more licensing options.

Visit the website www.acsopenaccess.org for a full overview of the new offerings.

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Thunder Clap! and fight for Open Access to Research

2013-11-04T09:23:00.001-05:00

OA Button

Do you believe Open Access is the way forward? Dedicate a moment of your time to push for it.

"Paywalls hide knowledge and stifle innovation, help map their impact and get the research you need. #oabuttonlaunch http://thndr.it/18sBpJ0”

The open access button is a browser-based tool that tracks how many people are denied access to academic research, where they are in the world, their profession and why they were looking for the research to create a real-time interactive map of the issue.

Sign the Thunderclap

~~~ Posted by K. Jane

All about the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy

2013-10-31T14:32:00.000-04:00

Exciting news: 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 (SSHRC) are developing a harmonized policy on access to research publications.

As of January 1, 2008, all CIHR funded researchers have been required to make their peer-reviewed publications accessible at no cost within 12 months of publication.

As of September 1, 2014, all SSHRC and NSERC researchers will also be required to make their peer-reviewed publications accessible at no cost within 12 months of publication.
Adherence to the policy would be achieved by submitting peer-reviewed journal publications:
• To a journal that offers Open Access to articles on it website, either immediately or within 12 months OR
• To a central or institutional repository, where it will be made freely available within 12 months of publication.

Costs associated with publishing in online open access journals will be considered as eligible grant expenses by the Agencies. Many journals allow authors to deposit their post-review copy of the publication within an institutional or disciplinary repository within 12 months at no cost.

Principal investigators for each grant will be responsible for compliance with the policy.

NSERC and SSHRC have invited institutions, associations, organizations and individuals to provide input on the draft Tri-Agency Open Access Policy.

Institutional and organizational representatives are asked to consult their researchers and membership and report on the collective perspective. Individuals may also respond independently.

The draft policy is accessible until December 13, at which time the consultation period ends.

Responses should be sent electronically to openaccess@nserc-crsng.gc.ca. http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NSERC-CRSNG/policies-politiques/OpenAccess-LibreAcces_eng.asp

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Open Data: Unlocking Innovation and Performance

2013-10-31T14:15:00.000-04:00

The McKinsey & Co. Global Institute has released an interesting report titled "Open Data: Unlocking Innovation and Performance" which covers the potential of opening up data (particularly government data) across a number of sectors, including education. Pointers to the executive summary and the full report, plus some related audio materials, can be found at

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/open_data_unlocking_innovation_and_performance_with_liquid_information

SAGE Research Methods

2013-10-02T10:25:00.000-04:00

Do you know which method you want to use to answer your research question?

Start out by doing a Quick Search on this method from the box in the upper left of every page. Use the Advanced Search feature for creating a more targeted query. Search results will include relevant books, book chapters, dictionary and encyclopedia entries, videos, or journal articles from over 175,000 pages of renowned SAGE content in research methods.

Not sure which method to use in your research?

Start by exploring the Methods Map. You can use the Methods Map to discover new methods or discover relationships between methods, and then link to related

Watch these three videos:

An Introduction to SAGE Research Methods

How SAGE has shaped research methods

How can an undergrad use SAGE Research Methods?

~~~ Posted by K. Jane

All about Peer Review

2013-09-11T12:28:00.001-04:00

Are you in the early stages of your career as a researcher? Do you sometimes wonder what happens from the point that you submit a journal article to the time that you hear it has been accepted? Here are two resources that might interest you:

Peer review: the nuts and bolts

This is a nuts and bolts guide to peer review for early career researchers written by members of the VoYS network.

- See more at: http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/peer-review-the-nuts-and-bolts.html#sthash.7RrIRCFu.dpuf

Peer Review: the Nuts and Bolts is a guide to peer review written specifically for early career researchers. Written by members of the Voice of Young Science (VoYS) the guide will help researchers understand:

How the peer review process works
Some of the limitations of peer review
The role of peer review in society

Another tool worth watching is a youtube video that was streamed live on May 31, 2013.

Peer Review: The Nuts & Bolts was a

Sense About Science workshop that was recorded live at SAGE (http://www.sagepub.com/home.nav) in London 31st May 2013.

Speakers included

Dr Stephen Curry, Professor of Structural Biology, Imperial College London

Dr Sarah Edwards, co-editor of the journal Research Ethics

Irene Hames, COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Council, and independent editorial consultant and adviser to the publishing, higher education and research sectors

Julia Wilson, development manager for Sense About Science.

Book: http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/peer-review-the-nuts-and-bolts.html
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yglKbJiHfKM

~posted by K.Jane

Peer review: the nuts and bolts

This is a nuts and bolts guide to peer review for early career researchers written by members of the VoYS network.

- See more at: http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/peer-review-the-nuts-and-bolts.html#sthash.7RrIRCFu.dpuf

This is a nuts and bolts guide to peer review for early career researchers written by members of the VoYS network - See more at: http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/peer-review-the-nuts-and-bolts.html#sthash.7RrIRCFu.dpuf

Peer review: the nuts and bolts

This is a nuts and bolts guide to peer review for early career researchers written by members of the VoYS network.

- See more at: http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/peer-review-the-nuts-and-bolts.html#sthash.7RrIRCFu.dpuf

Peer review: the nuts and bolts

This is a nuts and bolts guide to peer review for early career researchers written by members of the VoYS network.

- See more at: http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/peer-review-the-nuts-and-bolts.html#sthash.7RrIRCFu.dpuf

Peer review: the nuts and bolts

This is a nuts and bolts guide to peer review for early career researchers written by members of the VoYS network.

Using a collection of concerns raised by their peers, the VoYS writing team set off to interview scientists, journal editors, grant bodies’ representatives, patient group workers and journalists in the UK and around the world to find out how peer review works, the challenges for peer review and how to get involved.
We have not avoided criticisms of the peer review process in this guide but rather entered into the debate, asking journal editors and reviewers some challenging questions about scientific fraud and plagiarism going undetected; issues of trust and bias; ground-breaking research taking years to publish and the system benefiting a closed group of scientists.
This guide will help early career researchers understand:
1. How the peer review process works
2. Some of the limitations of peer review
3. The role of peer review in society
Peer review: the nuts and bolts was launched in July 2012 at the EuroScience Open Forum in Dublin alongside a call from VoYS members to the Higher Education Funding Council of England to recognise reviewing as part of the Research Excellence Framework.
- See more at: http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/peer-review-the-nuts-and-bolts.html#sthash.H0VAQmW7.dpuf

University of California Faculty Senate Passes Open Access Policy

2013-08-02T16:06:00.003-04:00

The University of California joined an exclusive list of 177 other institutions worldwide when their Faculty Senate approved and adopted an Open Access Policy.

http://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/
http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/openaccesspolicy/

See a list of other institutional mandates at ROARMAP

Should Guelph follow suit?

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Posted by K. jane

A special themed issue on Altmetrics in summer issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ)

2013-08-01T16:20:00.000-04:00

Interested in altmetrics?

Don't miss the latest issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ)
Summer 2013 Volume 25, no. 2

This special issue focusses on Altmetrics

Go to the website: doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3789/isqv25no2.2013

or download the PDF of the full issue. (18.5 MB)

posted by K. Jane

Open Access: Why faculty should care

2013-07-31T10:40:00.002-04:00

The CDL was founded by the University of California in 1997 to take advantage of emerging technologies that were transforming the way digital information was being published and accessed. Since then, in collaboration with the UC libraries and other partners, we assembled one of the world’s largest digital research libraries and changed the ways that faculty, students, and researchers discover and access information.

This is an excellent short video from their collection. Rich Schneider, UCSF professor of orthopaedic surgery and open access champion, was instrumental in rallying UCSF faculty to pass an open access policy in May 2012 (2:08 minutes):

Watch it: http://vimeo.com/51711687

and see other videos from Rich Schneider: http://www.escholarship.org/about_meet_schneider.html#2

Honoring Creators of The Declaration On Research Assessment With SPARC Innovator Award

2013-07-22T16:14:00.002-04:00

SPARC Honors Creators of The Declaration On Research Assessment With SPARC Innovator Award

Washington, D.C. – July 22, 2013

Evaluating good research and recognizing accomplished researchers is an important component of science, but, critics claim that there has been too much emphasis placed on using the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) as a proxy to assess impact.

The JIF is a quick and easy way to assess the average number of citations in a journal. However, many in the scientific community feel that it has been applied inappropriately to measure articles and individual researchers, and has come to dominate publishing decisions and academic personnel matters in a way that skews scientific judgments.

Taking a strong first step on the road reversing this trend, in May of this year, 237 individuals and institutions signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which calls for an improvement in the way the output of scientific research is evaluated.

The declaration poses a simple but bold proposition: that journal-based metrics should not be used as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles, to assess an individual scientist’s contributions, or in making hiring, promotion or funding decisions.

Since it was issued, the statement has resonated in diverse corners of the scientific community and more than 8,700 individuals and 340 organizations have pledged their support to the campaign by signing the online declaration.

Among those leading the DORA efforts:

David Drubin, editor-in-chief of The American Society for Cell Biology’s journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), and professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of California at Berkeley;
Stefano Bertuzzi, executive director of the ASCB;
Bernd Pulverer, head of scientific publications for the European Molecular Biology Organization;
Mark Patterson, Executive Director of eLife in Cambridge, England; and
Mike Rossner, former executive director of The Rockefeller University Press

For their work in trying to change the broad use of the Journal Impact Factor as the sole measure used to assess research and researchers, SPARC recognizes the creators of DORA with its July 2013 Innovator Award.

While reliance on journal metrics has been a community concern for some time, the DORA organizers said the issue came to a head as funding for research has stagnated in many countries and competition has intensified to get into prestigious journals. They contend the current system of evaluation is embedded but there is a general view that reliance on metrics has gone too far. The movement started within cell biologists, but the supporters now include social scientists, mathematicians, and chemists from both the U.S. and around the world.

The July 2013 SPARC Innovator Profile is online at www.sparc.arl.org/initiatives/innovator.

The SPARC Innovator program recognizes advances in scholarly communication propelled by an individual, institution, or group

Further information and lists of previous SPARC Innovators, can be found on the SPARC Web site at www.sparc.arl.org.

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Scientific data: open access to research results will boost Europe's innovation capacity

2013-07-22T13:30:00.000-04:00

European Commission Logo

On July 17th the Council of the European Union published its press release on the Agreement on Horizon 2020.

The agreement paves the way for the formal adoption of the "Horizon 2020" legislative package by the European Parliament and the Council through a vote in the coming months. Horizon 2020 will replace the EU's 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7), which runs until the end of 2013. Compared with FP7, the new programme is expected to further eliminate fragmentation in the fields of scientific research and innovation.

Read the full text of the press release here:

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/intm/138118.pdf

HORIZON 2020 will include a section about Open access and open data to results:
Read the details about data and open access here:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-12-790_en.htm

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Posted by K. Jane

Do Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations Diminish Publishing Opportunities in the Social Sciences and Humanities?

2013-07-22T11:03:00.002-04:00

Do Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations Diminish Publishing Opportunities in the Social Sciences and Humanities? Findings from a 2011 Survey of Academic Publishers College & Research Libraries - vol. 74 no. 4, July 2013

An increasing number of higher education institutions worldwide are requiring submission of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) by graduate students and are subsequently providing open access to these works in online repositories. Faculty advisors and graduate students are concerned that such unfettered access to their work could diminish future publishing opportunities. This study investigated social sciences, arts, and humanities journal editors’ and university press directors’ attitudes toward ETDs. The findings indicate that manuscripts that are revisions of openly accessible ETDs are always welcome for submission or considered on a case-by-case basis by 82.8 percent of journal editors and 53.7 percent of university press directors polled.

Read on

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An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists

2013-07-22T10:03:00.002-04:00

An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists - an open access article

PLoS Biology - April 23

Online social media tools can be some of the most rewarding and informative resources for scientists — if they know how to use them.

Read more

~posted by K. Jane

Guide to Creative Commons for Humanities and Social Science Monograph Authors

2013-07-22T10:00:00.000-04:00

Guide to Creative Commons for Humanities and Social Science Monograph Authors
OAPEN-UK - July 2013

Print sales of scholarly monographs are in decline.

This guide explores concerns expressed in public evidence given by researchers, learned societies and publishers to inquiries in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and also concerns expressed by researchers working with the OAPEN-UK project. This guide is specifically about Creative Commons licences, not about open access in general.

Read more

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K. Jane

British Academy "Debating Open Access" Essays Available

2013-07-09T16:19:00.003-04:00

The British Academy has published a series of eight essays dealing with open access primarily in the humanities and social sciences.

Featuring contributions from:
Rita Gardner
Stuart M. Shieber
Chris Wickham
Stephen Curry
Martin Paul Eve
Ziyad Marar
Robin Osborne
Nigel Vincent

These are available for download at:

http://www.britac.ac.uk/openaccess/debatingopenaccess.cfm

Thanks to Clifford Lynch, Director, CNI for sharing.

~posted by K. Jane

Measuring Scholarly Impact: The Influence of 'Altmetrics'

2013-06-24T10:43:00.000-04:00

"Measuring Scholarly Impact: The Influence of 'Altmetrics' on a Changing Conversation" is part of the Research Without Borders speaker series at Columbia University.

"Altmetrics" refers to methods of measuring scholarly impact using Web-based social media. Why does it matter? In many academic fields, attaining scholarly prestige means publishing research articles in important scholarly journals. However, many in the academic community consider a journal's prestige, which is determined by a metric calculated using the number of citations to the journal, to be a poor proxy for the quality of the individual author's work. At the same time, hiring and promotion committees are looking for ways to determine the impact of alternate formats now commonly used by researchers such as blogs, data sets, videos, and social media.

The panelists all work with innovative new tools for assessing scholarly impact:

Jason Priem, Co-Founder, ImpactStory
Kristi Holmes, Bioinformaticist, Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Caitlin Aptowicz Trasande, Head of Science Metrics, Digital Science

Visit the Scholarly Communication Program website for information on past and upcoming Research Without Borders events: http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/

Date: November 13, 2012

Sponsors: Scholarly Communication Program

Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bygwrPhd0DQ

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K jane

Research Enterprise & Scholarly Communication

Access to Research

What Others are Saying

Taylor and Francis explain Open Access

Open Access is not as difficult as you might think

Are alternative metrics for you?

Repositories are important scholarly resources!

The value of open access to theses and dissertations

Tools for early researchers from Elsevier. worth a look

Stevan Harnad says:

Good Practices for University Open-Access Policies

Good Practices for University Open-Access Policies

Published October 22, 2013

ACS Publications expand its open access publishing options

Thunder Clap! and fight for Open Access to Research

Do you believe Open Access is the way forward? Dedicate a moment of your time to push for it.

All about the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy

Exciting news: 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 (SSHRC) are developing a harmonized policy on access to research publications.

Open Data: Unlocking Innovation and Performance

SAGE Research Methods

All about Peer Review

Peer review: the nuts and bolts

Peer review: the nuts and bolts

Peer review: the nuts and bolts

Peer review: the nuts and bolts

Peer review: the nuts and bolts

University of California Faculty Senate Passes Open Access Policy

A special themed issue on Altmetrics in summer issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ)

Interested in altmetrics?

Don't miss the latest issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ)Summer 2013 Volume 25, no. 2

Open Access: Why faculty should care

Honoring Creators of The Declaration On Research Assessment With SPARC Innovator Award

Scientific data: open access to research results will boost Europe's innovation capacity

Do Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations Diminish Publishing Opportunities in the Social Sciences and Humanities?

An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists

Guide to Creative Commons for Humanities and Social Science Monograph Authors

British Academy "Debating Open Access" Essays Available

Measuring Scholarly Impact: The Influence of 'Altmetrics'

Don't miss the latest issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ)
Summer 2013 Volume 25, no. 2