LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Open Access interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:52:09 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/11/searchable-database-footnotes-u-s-census-interactive-version-free-for-a-limited-time/ We’ve mentioned several Footnote services in the past (ie. digitizing National Archives material and using it to build topical collections) and today news of free access (for a limited time) to their interactive version of the U.S. Census (where they are digitizing U.S. Census records for 5 census). You will need to register (requires only an email address and password) to view images of census pages. From the Announcement: …the Interactive Census Collection has the unique ability to connect people related to ancestors found on the historical documents. Simply by clicking the “I’m Related” button for a name on the document will identify you as a descendant and also list others that have done the same. OCR is in use. You can search for words found in the actual images of pages. Access Footnote’s Interactive Census It is available for the 1860 (Complete), 1900 (5% Complete), 1910 (3% Complete), 1920 (3% Complete), 1930 (98% Complete) U.S. Census. If nothing else this is a great way to test the service and yes, it’s even rather fun. Source: Footnote (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:58:31 +0100 825626 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/11/the-open-access-citation-advantage-studies-and-results-to-date/ Open Access Citation Advantage: Studies and Results to Date by Alma Swan Technical Report (2010), School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton From the Abstract: This paper presents a summary of reported studies on the Open Access citation advantage. There is a brief introduction to the main issues involved in carrying out such studies, both methodological and interpretive. The study listing provides some details of the coverage, methodological approach and main conclusions of each study. Access the Complete Paper (17 pages; PDF) Note: This paper is a draft. Their is also a lengthy list annotated studies. See Also: Philip Davis from The Scholarly Kitchen has some major concerns with the Swan report. You can read them in the blog post, “Rewriting the History of the Open Access Debate.” Sources: University of Southampton, The Scholarly Kitchen Hat Tip: Peter Suber (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:36:28 +0100 825628 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/11/libraries-lead-the-e-book-revolution/ From an Article by Philip Harvey: I haven’t read an e-book and when asked by borrowers if I feel that my profession of librarian is under threat, I ask them if they themselves have used an e-book . No, is the consistent reply. But they know chapter and verse about the developments, usually from what they have seen on the internet. The new slimline gadgets can display everything a text maniac wants to get their hands on. Or so it seems. [Snip] Digital is moving in, that’s for sure. But will readers get what they want? I don’t mean readers who ask for the latest blockbuster, but all of us who need those difficult-to-get books for study or personal interest, the ones Google says are not easily accessible. It is the same librarians who remind the digitising deliverers that inter-library loan can get the requested print version at next to no cost and in short time. Far from sidelining academic and special collections, the digital libraries of the future make easy and free access to print-libraries even more of a priority: there is no way of predicting the price tag for that rare thesis or out-of-print title in its downloadable form. This is an issue that more academics and specialists need to be questioning now, especially as they are the ones often making the decisions about their libraries, and not the librarians. [Snip] Indeed, the fourth century shift from the scroll to the codex is being used as a comparison to the present transmogrification. I tend to believe that we are seeing the early technology of the e-book. In five years the e-book will look, feel, sound, smell and gesticulate in very different ways from its iPad and Kindle prototypes. iPad will look as cute as a cassette tape. Access the Complete Article An illustration is included. Source: HomePAGE Daily Note: This source for this items calls itself the first Global Student Newspaper.” It’s based in Australia. (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:45:19 +0100 825634 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/nE18yuKRJKE/kenniskantoor-een-informatieplatform.html Een jaartje geleden bezocht een kleine delegatie van het Belgische Bibnet Middelburg, om met mij van gedachten te wisselen over de digitale bibliotheek en communities. Dat was een plezante ontmoeting, waarin we niet alleen spraken over de mogelijkheden en beperkingen van Ning en Drupal, maar ook over valkuilen van het sociale web en over de verschillen tussen het Nederlandse en Vlaamse bibliotheekwerk. In december schreef ik al over 'de mooie nieuwe jas van Bibliotheek.be', vandaag mag ik een nieuw hoofdstuk aan dat verhaal toevoegen: Bibnet heeft onlangs Kenniskantoor gelanceerd: een kennis- en informatieplatform voor bibliotheekprofessionals.De introductietekst vermeldt onder meer: Dit is een site voor en door bibliotheekprofessionals, of andere mensen die te maken hebben met bibliotheekwerk en bibliotheekbeleid. Je vindt hier informatie relevant voor bibliotheken, samen met ervaringen, impressies of beschouwingen van collega’s. Cases, nieuwtjes, studiedagen, nieuwe technologieën, tips en tricks, ze krijgen allemaal een plaats.Kenniskantoor is een onderdeel van het domein Bibliotheek.be en ziet er net zo fris en fruitig uit als de moedersite. Ook deze site is gebouwd met Drupal. Uiteraard hebben we vorig jaar ook besproken of het geen goed idee zou zijn om een Vlaams kennisplatform onderdeel uit te laten maken van Bibliotheek 2.0. We concludeerden toen echter dat Ning te veel beperkingen heeft als het gaat om de koppeling met andere websites en informatiesystemen en als het gaat om de terugvindbaarheid van de daar geplaatste informatie. In die zin is de keuze om zelf een platform te bouwen  dus heel begrijpelijk. Postings van ZB Digitaal, die ik voorzie van het label Bibnet, zullen ook op Kenniskantoor getoond worden. Dat vind ik natuurlijk prachtig. Ik heb de RSS-feed van Kenniskantoor op mijn beurt weer toegevoegd aan de homepage van Bibliotheek 2.0. Zo is de cirkel mooi rond. Kenniskantoor bevindt zich nog in de testfase. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:26:00 +0100 825319 http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/confirms-cooperation-2/3012/ The SPIE has confirmed that they are fully cooperating with the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy. Because the SPIE, publisher of nine peer-reviewed journals, is allowing MIT to obtain copies of their final published articles from their website, authors do not need to submit their manuscripts in order for them to appear in DSpace@MIT. This will happen automatically. To review other confirmed publisher responses to the policy, please see: Publishers and the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy. Publishers are being added to this web page as information becomes available. Please send any questions about publishers not yet on the page to Ellen Duranceau, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing Consultant. For more information: MIT Faculty Open Access Policy Details on working with the policy Ellen Duranceau, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing Consultant, x 38483. (Source: MIT Libraries News) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:20:06 +0100 825357 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/10/three-ala-award-winners-announced/ 1) Jennifer Boettcher from Georgetown University has been awarded the Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship. Administered by: Business Reference & Services Section (BRASS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA). In choosing Boettcher for this honor, the committee cited her numerous contributions to the field of business librarianship. She has published extensively in the field, including the widely used reference book,“Industry Research Using the Economic Census: How to Find It, How to Use It.” In addition, she has presented at numerous professional meetings and published on topics concerning NAICS, government sources, and scholarly communications. She is very active in the business librarian profession—including past service as chair of RUSA’s Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS)—and she has taught business reference for a number of years at Catholic University’s library school. 2) 2010 Haycock Award awarded to Michael Gorman, University Librarian Emeritus, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. He’s also a past president of ALA. The Haycock Award is an annual award honoring an individual for contributing significantly to the public recognition and appreciation of librarianship through professional performance, teaching and/or writing. “This award is a fitting acknowledgment of his lifetime contribution toward promoting the profession with dedication, intelligence and passion through many written works and hundreds of spoken presentation,” noted one individual who nominated Gorman. 3) The Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) awards to 2010 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology to Dr. John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University and founder of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). The Public Knowledge Project (http://pkp.sfu. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:22:27 +0100 825332 http://litablog.org/2010/03/kilgour-award-recipient-named/ LITA is pleased to announce Dr. John Willinsky as the 2010 winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. The award, which is jointly sponsored by OCLC, is given for research relevant to the development of information technologies, especially work which shows promise of having a positive and substantive impact on any aspect(s) of the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information, or the processes by which information and data is manipulated and managed. The awardee receives $2,000, a citation and an expenses paid trip to the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC where the award will be presented on June 27th. Dr. John Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University and founder of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). The Award committee chose Dr. Willinsky from a strong field of nominated leaders in the field. The Public Knowledge Project (http://pkp.sfu.ca/) is dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research. It operates through a partnership among the School of Education at Stanford University, the Simon Fraser University Library, the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University, and the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. The Award Committee was impressed with the impact that the Project has had in the open access movement and in providing the leading open source software for journal and conference management publishing. The public Knowledge Project has the enviable distinction of having moved beyond R&D to become a highly successful suite of open source software (Open Journals System – OJS; Open Conference System – OCS; PKP Metadata Harvester, and, soon, Open Monograph Press – OMP). Over five thousand scholarly journals, for instance, use the Open Journals System (OJS). Dr. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:44:05 +0100 825516 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/03/09/tim-berners-lee-uber-open-data/ Tim Berners-Lee bei der TED-Tagung über “the year open data went worldwide”. If people put data on web, government data, scientific data, community (?) data, whatever it is, they will be used by other people to do wonderful things. Viel kürzer kann man es nicht fassen. [via Netzpolitik.org] (Source: Infobib) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:49:31 +0100 825219 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=33149 The Proposed Comcast-NBC Universal Combination: How It Might Affect the Video Market (PDF; 325 KB) Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS) The proposed combination of Comcast, the largest distributor of video services in the United States, and NBC Universal (NBCU), a major producer and aggregator of video content, would create a huge, vertically integrated entity with potentially enormous negotiating power at a time when market forces already are altering traditional content provider/distributor relationships. Comcast would own or control media and entertainment properties of significant scope and scale. Despite the size and reach that Comcast would be afforded, there is so much uncertainty in the video market that the proposed combination has elicited a wide range of predictions about (1) how it would affect that market; (2) how it would affect the long-standing public policy goals of competition, diversity of voices, and localism; and (3) whether the merger would prove beneficial to Comcast’s shareholders. From one perspective, the scope of the combination would be so broad that, in addition to requiring careful scrutiny of its competitive effects, it potentially could affect market structure and relationships in ways that have implications for a wide range of media rules, regulations, and policies, including program carriage rules, program access requirements, retransmission consent rules, long-standing policy supporting free over-the-air broadcast television, and even network neutrality and open access policies. From another perspective, the recent history of failed mega-mergers in the communications sector suggests that the vertically integrated post-merger entity may have so many parts with conflicting market incentives that it proves impossible to craft an internally consistent profit-maximizing business strategy, no less exploit market power to undermine competition. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:54:06 +0100 824943 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/03/08/open-access-plus/ The Life of Books – “As the body of primary legal materials grows and access to it spreads, what will be the result? Will citizens actually be better able to understand the law without access to the scholarship, analysis and the sophisticated objective finding tools of legal research? In addition to advocating the free, unfettered access to primary laws, perhaps we should also focus our efforts toward using new technology to develop new finding tools and access to secondary materials. “ (Source: Library Stuff) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:30:14 +0100 824580 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/mrvOlBK3xfw/ Cynthia Cleto, Springer Science + Business Media; Joshua Talent, eBook Architects, moderator; Pablo Defendini, Tor.com; Jeffrey Yamaguchi, Knopf Doubleday Cleto: in STM market things are different. First move was into electronic journals, so STMs tend to have their own platform for sales to scientists. Large proportion of business is sales to institutions and libraries. STM does everything in house cause already have platform and content is highly technical so it must be absolutely correct. Have 35,000 ebooks on their platform and is easier for the work flow to have everything in house. PDF and HTML formats. Library distribution: sign a contract with libraries and then open up access to whole university for simultaneous user access to both journals and electronic books. Paying for a license but get open access, but has to be for the entire collection. Launched ebook collection in 2006 and have massive adoption even before devices came along. For trade stuff have specific marketers and partner with retailers like Amazon. Also market trade stuff to libraries and actually have people who help librarians to market trade books. Want to keep usage high so that libraries renew the contracts. Have created some social networking through society portals, but since are working in a collection individual authors less important. In their market are DRM free. Defendini: Tor has own print bookstore on line. Use Ingram for delivery. Haven’t found a consumer friendly solution to buying ebooks on the site, so that’s why print sales only. Macmillan-wide outsource ebook production to companies that have ebook production services. Very little QA goes on and allows a lot of crappy ebooks to hit the market. Personally believes that this QA process should come in-house. Tor deals with libraries through third parties, such as Baker & Taylor. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:23:26 +0100 824585 http://lisnews.org/who_does_what_wikipedia Who Does What On Wikipedia? The quality of entries in the world's largest open-access online encyclopedia depends on how authors collaborate, UA Eller College Professor Sudha Ram finds. The patterns of collaboration between Wikipedia contributors have a direct effect on the data quality of an article, according to a new paper co-authored by a University of Arizona professor and graduate student. Sudha Ram, a UA's Eller College of Management professor, co-authored the article with Jun Liu, a graduate student in the management information systems department (MIS). Their work in this area received a "Best Paper Award" at the International Conference on Informations Systems, or ICIS. (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:33:59 +0100 824556 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15923 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN THE TECTONICS OF DIGITAL CURATION: A Symposium on the Shifting Preservation and Access Landscape MAY 25-26, 2010 The Ray and Maria Stata Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA PRESENTED BY the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) HOSTED BY the MIT Libraries THE TECTONICS OF DIGITAL CURATION explores the sustainability of cultural collections created for and maintained on the Web. At this two-day symposium, a diverse faculty of national experts will examine the forces at play in our increasingly networked society. TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: divergence and complexity in information networking; digital preservation repositories; electronic copyright and intellectual property; collaborative and commercial preservation models; digital archiving strategies; open access to scholarly communication; the networked self; preservation of CAD models; and preservation of community-built digital creations (video games). WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Librarians, archivis (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824662 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/lnvNOCrI_kk/directory-of-open-access-journals.html Network Protocols and AlgorithmsJournal of Library and Information StudiesJournal of Library ScienceRevista Eletrônica de Sistemas de InformaçãoJournal of Agricultural ScienceBeden Egitimi ve Spor Bilimleri DergisiConvergencias : Revista de Investigacao e Ensino das ArtesEmirates Journal of Food and AgricultureResearch Journal of Information TechnologyRevista Brasileira de História & Ciências SociaisJurnal KemanusiaanModeling, Identification and ControlCommunications of the IBIMAIBIMA Business ReviewElectronic PhysicianInternational Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical SciencesRevista Româna de StatisticaComunicação, Mídia e ConsumoComunicación y Hombree-conservation MagazineJournal of Biomedical Sciences and ResearchLife Span and DisabilityAtmospheric Pollution ResearchBarrocoPractice ReflexionsRevelli (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:15:45 +0100 824258 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/ZaVM65Pozz8/ First web copyright crackdown coming http://icio.us/ntafpv # Smoke got in my eyes http://icio.us/ctr1zq # Federal Intellectual Property Enforcement Gears Up http://icio.us/10roe2 # People and Ideas on the Future of Repositories-in-the-Cloud http://icio.us/3pp4is # DigitalKoans Break http://bit.ly/9hqtHe # HighWire Press 2009 Librarian eBook Survey http://bit.ly/beJZTz # Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning at NCSU http://bit.ly/blD1Cw # "GBS March Madness: Paths Forward for the Google Books Settlement" http://bit.ly/bIXDTe # Systems and Electronic Services Librarian at Lebanon Valley College http://bit.ly/bW2B4q # SPARC: Campus-Based Open-Access Publishing Funds http://bit.ly/d5zdDU # Northeastern University Libraries sign SCOAP3 Expression of Interest http://icio.us/j4zxdm # The Ethics of Open Access and Copyright Infringement http://icio.us/ue4fvp # EFF demands FCC close copyright "loophole" in net neutrality http://icio.us/0rysff # Digital Video: Peter Suber on the Future of Open Access http://bit.ly/dvJ2uR # Applications Programmer/Analyst Associate at University of Michigan http://bit.ly/961HjL # Unintended Consequences: 12 Years Under the DMCA http://bit.ly/cUgwo9 # Programmer/Analyst, Digital Library Tools at Indiana University http://bit.ly/c0T97y # DSpace 1.6 Released http://bit.ly/9WlK0l # Supreme Court Sends Tasini Case Back to Appeals Court http://icio.us/kas5b5 # Library Groups Join in Filing Motion on Copyright Appeal http://icio.us/vproo3 # BURO crashes through 9000 items barrier http://icio.us/2sw1jw # Open Access to Research Outputs Institutional Policies and Researchers' Views: Results From Two Surveys http://icio.us/eddeo1 # Aptara Survey Reveals Publishers’ Evolving Response to eBooks http://icio.us/khh3lz # Digital initiative starts http://icio.us/sflmuz # Fighting a Copyright Charge http://icio.us/th1tii # Top 10 Best Security Plugins for Wordpress http://icio. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 824224 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/03/07/last-weeks-digitalkoans-tweets-2010-03-07/ First web copyright crackdown coming http://icio.us/ntafpv # Smoke got in my eyes http://icio.us/ctr1zq # Federal Intellectual Property Enforcement Gears Up http://icio.us/10roe2 # People and Ideas on the Future of Repositories-in-the-Cloud http://icio.us/3pp4is # DigitalKoans Break http://bit.ly/9hqtHe # HighWire Press 2009 Librarian eBook Survey http://bit.ly/beJZTz # Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning at NCSU http://bit.ly/blD1Cw # "GBS March Madness: Paths Forward for the Google Books Settlement" http://bit.ly/bIXDTe # Systems and Electronic Services Librarian at Lebanon Valley College http://bit.ly/bW2B4q # SPARC: Campus-Based Open-Access Publishing Funds http://bit.ly/d5zdDU # Northeastern University Libraries sign SCOAP3 Expression of Interest http://icio.us/j4zxdm # The Ethics of Open Access and Copyright Infringement http://icio.us/ue4fvp # EFF demands FCC close copyright "loophole" in net neutrality http://icio.us/0rysff # Digital Video: Peter Suber on the Future of Open Access http://bit.ly/dvJ2uR # Applications Programmer/Analyst Associate at University of Michigan http://bit.ly/961HjL # Unintended Consequences: 12 Years Under the DMCA http://bit.ly/cUgwo9 # Programmer/Analyst, Digital Library Tools at Indiana University http://bit.ly/c0T97y # DSpace 1.6 Released http://bit.ly/9WlK0l # Supreme Court Sends Tasini Case Back to Appeals Court http://icio.us/kas5b5 # Library Groups Join in Filing Motion on Copyright Appeal http://icio.us/vproo3 # BURO crashes through 9000 items barrier http://icio.us/2sw1jw # Open Access to Research Outputs Institutional Policies and Researchers' Views: Results From Two Surveys http://icio.us/eddeo1 # Aptara Survey Reveals Publishers’ Evolving Response to eBooks http://icio.us/khh3lz # Digital initiative starts http://icio.us/sflmuz # Fighting a Copyright Charge http://icio.us/th1tii # Top 10 Best Security Plugins for Wordpress http://icio. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824483 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/DSDmaP4wvxk/ From Resource Shelf: This new compilation of resources includes: + Open Access Digital Collections + Select General Resources (Individual Websites Include URLs When Available Including: ++ Biography ++ French Telephone Directory ++ French Dissertation indexes + French Newspapers, Periodicals and Government Documents ++ Newspaper Indexes ++ Newspapers ++ Full-Text Online ++ Periodical Indexes and Bibliographic Databases ++ Government Documents + French Archives and Manuscripts + Select French Materials from the LC Special Collections Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:00:53 +0100 824042 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/YRyc5wLOKbM/video-peter-suber-on-future-of-open.html Peter Suber of SPARC speaks at a Berkman Center for Internet and Society talk on the future of open access in scholarly publications and research (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:51:19 +0100 824019 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/qzJroJnYnWU/carl-e-lert-365.html CARL E-Lert # 365, February 26, 2010 from Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Some of this week's items: Open Access Fund established at Simon Fraser University; In a digital world, why is our visual history being lost?; Thousands of authors opt out of Google book settlement; Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:44:04 +0100 824021 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/03/05/sparc-campus-based-open-access-publishing-funds/ SPARC has released Campus-Based Open-Access Publishing Funds. Here's an excerpt from the press release: SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has released a new guide and supporting Web resource exploring campus-based open-access publishing funds. Authored by SPARC Consultant Greg Tananbaum, these timely new resources survey the current North American landscape of open-access funds and explore key emerging questions on how such funds are considered and developed on college and university campuses. Open-access funds are resources created to address article-processing fees (APCs) that may be associated with publishing in an open-access journal. These fees are a source of revenue for many open-access publishers (including the Public Library of Science, Hindawi, and the Optical Society of America), as well as for subscription-based publishers experimenting with "open choice" or "hybrid" options, where individual articles are made freely available with the upon payment of an APC. The new guide, "Open-access publishing funds: A practical guide to design and implementation," and Web resource contain a wealth of background information to inform libraries, authors, administrators and interested others on the practical considerations surrounding open-access funds. The site features up-to-date information on: Active open-access funds (at the University of California at Berkeley, University of Calgary, and several other institutions); FAQ for authors, administrators, and publishers; Considerations in evaluating the launch of a fund; Key policy decisions; Implementation tools; Resource allocation; Fund promotion and reporting and more. To ensure that this resource stays current, readers are invited to contribute their experiences through the online commenting and discussion features that are available. ... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:01:46 +0100 823995 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/hH0op4e_pv8/ SPARC has released Campus-Based Open-Access Publishing Funds. Here's an excerpt from the press release: SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has released a new guide and supporting Web resource exploring campus-based open-access publishing funds. Authored by SPARC Consultant Greg Tananbaum, these timely new resources survey the current North American landscape of open-access funds and explore key emerging questions on how such funds are considered and developed on college and university campuses. Open-access funds are resources created to address article-processing fees (APCs) that may be associated with publishing in an open-access journal. These fees are a source of revenue for many open-access publishers (including the Public Library of Science, Hindawi, and the Optical Society of America), as well as for subscription-based publishers experimenting with "open choice" or "hybrid" options, where individual articles are made freely available with the upon payment of an APC. The new guide, "Open-access publishing funds: A practical guide to design and implementation," and Web resource contain a wealth of background information to inform libraries, authors, administrators and interested others on the practical considerations surrounding open-access funds. The site features up-to-date information on: Active open-access funds (at the University of California at Berkeley, University of Calgary, and several other institutions); FAQ for authors, administrators, and publishers; Considerations in evaluating the launch of a fund; Key policy decisions; Implementation tools; Resource allocation; Fund promotion and reporting and more. To ensure that this resource stays current, readers are invited to contribute their experiences through the online commenting and discussion features that are available. ... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:01:27 +0100 824230 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/B4T7g7nJuzs/dspace-160-released.html DSpace 1.6.0 can be downloaded from the files area in SourceForge or via SVN. 1.6.0 contains many new features and improvements, including:- Enhanced statistics- Embargo feature- Batch metadata editing- Authority control- Delegated administration- OpenSearch- Command launcher- OAI-PMH harvesting of items from remote repositories- Configurable OAI-PMH Dublin Core output- Move item functionality in XMLUI- If-Modified-Since / Last-Modified header support in XMLUI- Change to logging behavior to ensure better log retention and management- Update to the latest handle server library- Ability to perform batch imports and exports from zip files of items- New test scripts to test database and email settings- Ability to set legal jurisdiction in creative commons licensing (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:27:33 +0100 823598 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/03/04/digital-video-peter-suber-on-the-future-of-open-access/ The Berkman Center for Internet and Society has made Peter Suber on the Future of Open Access available on YouTube. Related Posts "A Survey of the Scholarly Journals Using Open Journal Systems" Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Establishes €2.5 Million Open Access Budget Wake Forest University Library Faculty Adopt Open Access Policy Selected Comments to the White House OSTP Public Access Policy Forum Selected Comments of Publishers to the White House OSTP Consultation on Open Access (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:05:35 +0100 823996 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/sPKclHleTBE/ The Berkman Center for Internet and Society has made Peter Suber on the Future of Open Access available on YouTube. Related Posts Peter Suber on "Ten Challenges for Open-Access Journals" Video Presentations from Open Access to Science Publications—Policy Perspective, Opportunities and Challenges Conference Peter Suber to “Step Back” from Blogging on Open Access News Peter Suber Receives Joint Fellowship at Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication and the Harvard Law School Library Peter Suber: “A Field Guide to Misunderstandings about Open Access” (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:05:31 +0100 824231 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/03/04/dspace-1-6-released/ DuraSpace has released DSpace 1.6. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: Community-requested features in the new release include an enhanced statistics package which provides more information about how your repository is being used, an embargo facility so items can be kept dark for a period of time, and a batch metadata editing tool which can be used to change, add, find/replace metadata as well as facilitate mass moves, re-order values or add new items in bulk. And there’s more such as authority control which contains an integration with the Sherpa Romeo Service for publisher names, as well as the Library of Congress Nameservice. Other new features include: Delegated administration OpenSearch Command launcher OAI-PMH harvesting of items from remote repositories Configurable OAI-PMH dublin core output Move item functionality in XMLUI If-Modified-Since / Last-Modified header support in XMLUI Change to logging behaviour to ensure better log retention and management Update to the latest handle server library Ability to perform batch imports and exports from zip files of items New test scripts to test database and email settings Ability to set legal jurisdiction in creative commons licensing Related Posts "DSpace Manakin UI: Case Study of Value and Costs" EasyDeposit, Toolkit for Creating SWORD Deposit Interfaces, Released PEER Behavioural Research: Authors and Users vis-à-vis Journals and Repositories; Baseline Report OCLC Makes New OAIster Interfaces Available The Ranking Web of World Repositories (January 2010 edition) (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:01:39 +0100 824000 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/f7Q9vLFO0xU/ DuraSpace has released DSpace 1.6. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: Community-requested features in the new release include an enhanced statistics package which provides more information about how your repository is being used, an embargo facility so items can be kept dark for a period of time, and a batch metadata editing tool which can be used to change, add, find/replace metadata as well as facilitate mass moves, re-order values or add new items in bulk. And there’s more such as authority control which contains an integration with the Sherpa Romeo Service for publisher names, as well as the Library of Congress Nameservice. Other new features include: Delegated administration OpenSearch Command launcher OAI-PMH harvesting of items from remote repositories Configurable OAI-PMH dublin core output Move item functionality in XMLUI If-Modified-Since / Last-Modified header support in XMLUI Change to logging behaviour to ensure better log retention and management Update to the latest handle server library Ability to perform batch imports and exports from zip files of items New test scripts to test database and email settings Ability to set legal jurisdiction in creative commons licensing Related Posts OAI-PMH: MOAI 1.0.6 Released Summary of DSpace Community Network Survey Results DSpace Sites: What Do You Want in Version 1.6? DSpace 1.5.2 Stable Released DSpace Statistics Add-on Version 2.1 Released (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:01:19 +0100 824235 http://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/news/2010/03/04/free_access_to_women_social_movements_us_16002000_research_spotlight_march_2010 Celebrate Women’s History Month with free access to 400 years’ worth of Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000, Scholar’s Edition from Alexander Street Press. Until March 31, Case faculty, students & staff can freely explore a unique collection of primary resources in this KSL March 2010 Research Spotlight. Whether your interest is economics, politics, sociology, religion, history, education, ethnicity, antislavery or the antebellum South, you can Browse and/or Search in a wide variety of categories. - Browse Documents, Projects, People, Social movements, and much more. - Create graphs & tables based on your own criteria. - Use the Chronology for a good overview of women's issues over time. - Enjoy the featured selection text and image collections. This month you can read the women's pages "Mainly for Women" from the Western Producer newspaper, 1923-, complete with news items, fashion & advertisements. Alexander Street Press offers this database to Case until the end of March. Enjoy Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000, the March 2010 KSL Research Spotlight! (Source: KSL News Blog) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:28:21 +0100 823553 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/04/the-march-2010-issue-of-arls-e-news-is-now-online/ Access the March, 2010 Issue Here are Just a Few of the Articles Included in the Issue: + Library Copyright Alliance Releases Issue Brief on Streaming Films for Educational Purposes + IMLS Solicits Thoughts on the Future of Museums and Libraries in “UpNext” Wiki + SPARC Announces Sparky Award Winners, Opens People’s Choice Contest—Deadline to Vote March 7 + Save the Date for Open Access Week 2010: October 18–24 + UK Report Analyzes Disciplinary Approaches to Data Sharing + ARL Annual Statistical Surveys Update Source: Association of Research Libraries (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:36:25 +0100 823503 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/04/new-french-resources-at-the-library-of-congress/ This New Compilation of Resources Includes: + Open Access Digital Collections + Select General Resources (Individual Websites Include URLs When Available Including: ++ Biography ++ French Telephone Directory ++ French Dissertation indexes + French Newspapers, Periodicals and Government Documents ++ Newspaper Indexes ++ Newspapers ++ Full-Text Online ++ Periodical Indexes and Bibliographic Databases ++ Government Documents + French Archives and Manuscripts + Select French Materials from the LC Special Collections See Also: French Collections at the Library of Congress. An Overview See Also: France Portal Links to websites covering aspects of France and French studies, maintained by the European Division. Access the Compilation Source: European Division, Library of Congress (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:41:07 +0100 823505 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/04/new-guide-from-sparc-campus-based-open-access-publishing-funds/ From the Announcement: SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has released a new guide and supporting Web resource exploring campus-based open-access publishing funds. Authored by SPARC Consultant Greg Tananbaum, these timely new resources survey the current North American landscape of open-access funds and explore key emerging questions on how such funds are considered and developed on college and university campuses. Open-access funds are resources created to address article-processing fees (APCs) that may be associated with publishing in an open-access journal. These fees are a source of revenue for many open-access publishers (including the Public Library of Science, Hindawi, and the Optical Society of America), as well as for subscription-based publishers experimenting with “open choice” or “hybrid” options, where individual articles are made freely available with the upon payment of an APC. The new guide, “Open-access publishing funds: A practical guide to design and implementation,” and Web resource contain a wealth of background information to inform libraries, authors, administrators and interested others on the practical considerations surrounding open-access funds. Access the Guide Source: SPARC (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:28:41 +0100 823506 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/lF9XBU71OFA/celebrate-womens-history-month-with.html March is Women's History Month, and to celebrate Alexander Street Press made the popular online collection, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Scholar's Edition, freely accessible for the entire month (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:57:05 +0100 823430 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6721588.html?rssid=191 When corporations jump on the "open" bandwagon, Barbara Fister thinks we should check our wallets. (Source: Book News) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100 824035 http://www.precisement.org/blog/Le-GFII-sur-le-libre-acces.html OA (Open Access), conséquences économiques du libre accès/archives ouvertes, auto-archivage optionnel ou obligatoire, ID/OA (Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access), dépôt à usage interne, dépôt avec accès différé (embargo/barrière mobile) ou dépôt avec accès public immédiat, modèle hybride, RoMEO/SHERPA, ROARMAP, la question du financement de l'OA, HAL, Cairn, ... Le débat a eu lieu aussi, de 2007 à 2009, au sein du Groupement français de l'industrie de l'information. Le GFII (...) (Source: Un blog pour l’information juridique) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825398 http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-sparc-release-guide-to-exloring.html SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has released a website that is designed to act as a guide for those institutions who wish to explore campus-based OA funds. The site can be found at http://www.arl.org/sparc/openaccess/funds/index.shtml and includes a guide to design and implementation of OA funds, a FAQ, implementation tools, case studies, and a "living" document that describes OA funds in action.Disclosure: I manage one of the funds that is discussed in the guide (the Open Access Authors Fund at the Univeristy of Calgary) and my input was solicited for this project.Subscribe to OA Librarian (Source: OA Librarian) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824108 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/6N7U3V054-k/ Duke University's Digital Futures Task Force has written a "Draft Discussion Document for Duke Open Access Policy" for consideration. Here's an excerpt: Each Faculty member grants to Duke University permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to reproduce and distribute those articles for the purpose of open dissemination. In legal terms, each Faculty member grants to Duke University a nonexclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do so, provided that the articles are not sold. The Duke faculty author remains the copyright owner unless that author chooses to transfer the copyright to a publisher. The policy will apply to all scholarly articles authored or co-authored while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Provost or Provost's designate will waive application of the license for a particular article or delay access for a specified period of time upon written request by a Faculty member. To assist the University in distributing the scholarly articles, each faculty member will make available, as of the date of publication or upon request, an electronic copy of the final author’s version of the article at no charge to a designated representative of the Provost’s Office in an appropriate format (such as PDF) specified by the Provost's Office. The Provost's Office will make the article available to the public in Duke’s open-access repository. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:05:48 +0100 824236 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/03/03/duke-university-draft-open-access-policy/ Duke University's Digital Futures Task Force has written a "Draft Discussion Document for Duke Open Access Policy" for consideration. Here's an excerpt: Each Faculty member grants to Duke University permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to reproduce and distribute those articles for the purpose of open dissemination. In legal terms, each Faculty member grants to Duke University a nonexclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do so, provided that the articles are not sold. The Duke faculty author remains the copyright owner unless that author chooses to transfer the copyright to a publisher. The policy will apply to all scholarly articles authored or co-authored while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Provost or Provost's designate will waive application of the license for a particular article or delay access for a specified period of time upon written request by a Faculty member. To assist the University in distributing the scholarly articles, each faculty member will make available, as of the date of publication or upon request, an electronic copy of the final author’s version of the article at no charge to a designated representative of the Provost’s Office in an appropriate format (such as PDF) specified by the Provost's Office. The Provost's Office will make the article available to the public in Duke’s open-access repository. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:05:19 +0100 824001 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/03/under-consideration-an-online-archive-named-video-gov/ We posted earlier today about a speech Eugene Huang from the FCC made earlier this week stating that his organization believes in and will push for free access to PACER filings. Aliya Sternstein reports on Nextgov that the FCC would also like to make an, “online archive named Video.gov to preserve agencies’ Web content and possibly information provided by the media,” part of the broadband bill. The planned national digital archives for the 21st century would expand upon the government’s Data.gov Web site, a warehouse of downloadable federal statistics, and be maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress and other agencies, said Eugene Huang, FCC’s director of government performance and civic engagement for the national broadband plan. Access the Complete Article Source: Nextgov See Also: Full Text of the Speech By Eugene Huang from the FCC See Also: FCC to Call for Government Data Overhaul, Broadband Plan Will Recommend Free Access to PACER Docs (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:23:25 +0100 823167 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/03/reviews-of-three-internet-sources-from-acrl-news-march-2009/ In the Internet Reviews section of ACRL News this month, three reviews are posted. by Susanne Clement, Utah St. University ConserveOnline Don’t be discouraged by the homepage. You will quickly find that ConservationOnline (created and maintained by The Nature Conservancy) is an open access repository of hard-to-find conservation research, data, and applications. by Brad Matthies, Butler University HumanTrafficking.org This Web site focuses on human trafficking in the East Asia and Pacific regions. First and foremost it serves as a portal for country-specific information pertaining to national laws, strategic plans, and organizational contact information. by Debbi Renfrow, Riverside Community College District National Center for Education Statistics When looking for educational statistics, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences sponsored site, is an ideal starting point. Rich with data, this site offers substantial statistics and analysis on issues related to education within the United States and other nations. Source: C&RL News (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:32:38 +0100 823169 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/FSxTMAKHyco/sparc-open-access-newsletter-issue-143.html SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #143 - March 2, 2009 is now available from Peter Suber (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:39:28 +0100 823073 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/fpCMdhN3Q1A/wanted-verb-meaning-provide-oa-to.html The word contest in my March newsletter is generating some enthusiastic responses.  In the first 24 hours, I've received 79 suggestions from 16 people.  Here's the contest again if you didn't see it: English speakers need a verb that means "to provide OA to".  It should be as succinct as "sell" for use in sentences such as, "We sell the print edition but ____ the digital edition."  I use "to provide OA to" for lack of anything obviously better.  But I don't like it.  It's long, dry, and awkward.  Making a digital work OA is a fairly elemental act, and the verb for that act shouldn't take four words.  I'm hoping that someone out there can do better.   We could say "open up" or "make OA".  These are shorter than four words, but they're still phrases and I'm hoping that creative people can find or invent a single word.  We could say simply "open", but that would be ambiguous, since we already say "open the journal" and "open the book" with another meaning in mind.  "Give away" (or "giveaway") is also ambiguous, since we sometimes give away priced, printed literature.  "Disclose" is a nice fit etymologically but has similar ambiguities.  "Liberate" is a little ambiguous, a little precious, and suggests an overcoming of resistance which is by no means intrinsic to OA. ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823082 http://bsf.org.br/2010/03/02/koha-software-livre-para-grandes-bibliotecas/ Passei as últimas semanas testando o Koha, um dos mais comentados softwares livres para bibliotecas no mundo. Minha primeira conclusão é: O Koha não é para bibliotecas pequenas, pois é um software que exige bastante da máquina e muito conhecimento técnico para ser instalado e mantido. Para começar, a documentação não está completa e por que existem diversos tipos de sistemas, é muito confuso achar onde você se encaixa e ainda, se essa documentação está atualizada. O melhor local para se buscar informações é no forum ou nas listas de discussão via google. Características: 2 modos de indexação: Pelo software Zebra e pela base mysql. Na base mysql não consegui que funcionasse, mas via Zebra é muito eficiente, mas bem trabalhoso para configurar. Servidor Z39.50 e Cliente Z39.50 (Usando o software Yaz) Servidor OAI-PMH Compatibilidade total com os formatos MARC21 e UNIMARC. Utiliza web services no catálogo como por exemplo os comentário e capas da Amazon ( pouco útil para nós brasileiros ) Quando usar o Koha? Eu acredito que o sistema está bem estável, com poucos bugs e portanto a hora é agora. Falta desenvolver uma comunidade brasileira para corrigir a tradução para o português do Brasil ( que dá um pequeno bug ) e criar uma documentação no nosso idioma. Ele serve como alternativas a bibliotecas maiores que queiram controlar melhor o sistema, e ter acesso a uma comunidade forte internacional. O Koha tem um sistema para a tradução coletiva do sistema. Vale a pena consultar: http://koha-community.org/ e seguir no twitter: kohails Mapa de bibliotecas usando o Koha (nenhuma no Brasil) . Tá vindo uma nova versão. A atual é a 3.00.04 e agora virá a 3.2. ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:48:57 +0100 824480 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/02/advocating-for-open-access-the-university-of-rochester/ Advocating for Open Access the University of Rochester But by the time the University of Rochester made its own open repository in 2005, it was aware of a problem that appeared to be endemic to institutions that already had them: Faculty members were not really publishing much work there. [Snip] …according to Suzanne Bell, a librarian at Rochester, the repositories where those free articles are meant to be kept have not much changed — and as a result, professors are still unlikely to put their articles there unless their university makes them. [Snip] The revamped “IR+” repository, unveiled last week, focuses on giving researchers an online “workspace” within the repository where they can upload and preserve different versions of an article they are working on. Rochester officials believe their faculty will find this appealing because it lets them access the latest versions of their work from anywhere, an aspect that theoretically would make multi-author collaborations easier. [Snip] Maria Bonn, associate university librarian for publishing at the University of Michigan, said that despite the lag time between its 2005 study and last week’s unveiling, Rochester is still ahead of other universities as far as actively trying to entice researchers to engage with its institutional repository. But there is no guarantee that faculty will use the system, she said; only time will tell whether the frills will work. Source: Inside Higher Ed (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:13:56 +0100 822846 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/02/fcc-to-call-for-government-data-overhaul-broadband-plan-will-recommend-free-access-to-pacer-docs/ From the Article: The Federal Communications Commission outlined more details of the comprehensive broadband plan it plans to deliver to Congress later this month, laying out a series of recommendations for using Web-based technology to drive civic engagement with the government. The commission will call on all branches of government to continue the early efforts underway in the executive branch to bring more data online, and urge government officials to accelerate the use of social media tools to engage the public, Eugene Huang, the director of government operations at the FCC’s broadband task force said on Monday. [Snip] Huang praised the administration’s efforts in creating Data.gov, an online clearinghouse for federal data in machine-readable format, though he said that it was at best a good first step. [Snip] Federal court documents, for instance, are currently available online through a fee-based system known as PACER (short for Public Access to Court Electronic Records), which charges eight cents per page. Huang said the broadband plan will recommend that those records be made available online at no charge. [Snip] The FCC will also call on federal IT administrators to take a more active role in deploying social media tools, which run the gamut from setting up Facebook and Twitter accounts to maintaining a blog and posting videos to government Web sites and YouTube. Many of the recommendations Huang outlined echo the open government directive (available here as a PDF) the administration released in December, which called on the heads of executive agencies to brings more data online and develop new methods of engaging the public through their Web sites and other online channels. Much More in the Complete Article See Also: Eugene Huang has a few comments in this Broadband.gov Blog post. He says that the complete text of his speech will be available soon. Source: InternetNews.com (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:38:18 +0100 822848 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/qpn81y1kkXU/3631 After coming from a conference where all of the publishers want to know how to make money if they give things away for free, it was nice to find this news item: Two years to the day after the Faculty of Arts and Sciences became the first school at Harvard to vote an open-access policy, the Harvard Business School enacted their own policy on February 12, 2010, becoming the fifth Harvard school with a similar policy. Under the HBS policy, Like the previous policies, faculty agree to provide copies of their scholarly articles for distribution from the university’s DASH repository and grant the university a waivable license to distribute the articles. The more colleges that enact open access policies the more accessible reliable research papers will become to those who can’t afford to pay for professional journals and/or databases. (Source: What I Learned Today...) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:38:59 +0100 823140 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/Efsopdq30gw/charles-darwin-genius-in-heart-of.html "The Geological Society has been participating in the heritage lottery funded project, 'Charles Darwin: A Genius in the Heart of London', in collaboration with a number of other organisations based in Westminster. The project aims to raise awareness of Charles Darwin's association with these groups and the many facets of his life and work which linked him to London. As part of this project, the Society will be hosting a display of information produced by the organisations about Darwin's work, along with a selection of memorabilia relating to his life and works. The display will be at the Society throughout March, and can be viewed on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons by booking in advance by calling (020) 7432 0954. In addition to this, we will also be making the papers Darwin published with the Geological Society 'open access' throughout March 2010. Information on how to access these papers will be added here shortly" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:48:52 +0100 822778 http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/03/march-sparc-open-access-newsletter.html Peter Suber just released the March 2010 SPARC Open Access Newsletter. Featured this month: Open Access, Markets and Mission.Subscribe to OA Librarian (Source: OA Librarian) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824109 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/u3Nd3BOVN_w/march-soan.html I just mailed the March issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter.  This issue takes a close look at how "market-oriented" economic sectors differ from "mission-oriented" sectors, and where scholarly publishing belongs on this spectrum.  The roundup section briefly notes 112 OA developments from February. (Source: Open Access News) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822779 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/03/01/university-of-virginia-adopts-voluntary-open-access-policy/ The University of Virginia has adopted a voluntary open access policy. Here's an excerpt from "Faculty Senate Approves Open Access, Authors' Rights Resolution": The Open Access policy was a revision of a resolution on scholarly publications that was brought to the Faculty Senate last November, Task Force Chair Brian Pusser said. Originally, the resolution said participation would be mandatory by default but that faculty members could sign a waiver to opt out of it. The policy then was revised so that faculty members simply could decide if they wanted to contribute to the repository, Pusser said. For background see: Faculty Senate Task Force on Scholarly Publications and Authors' Rights and "U.Va. Faculty Senate Weighs Access to Scholarly Articles." Related Posts Harvard Business School Adopts Open Access Policy Wake Forest University Library Faculty Adopt Open Access Policy Selected Comments to the White House OSTP Public Access Policy Forum ALA and ACRL Support Open Access in Comments to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Consultation on Open Access (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822693 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/03/01/health-research-board-ireland-and-telethon-italy-adopt-mandatory-open-access-policies/ Two funding agencies, Health Research Board Ireland and Telethon Italy, have adopted open access mandates that require publications resulting from their funded research to be deposited in UK PubMed Central. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: Today, this aim takes a step closer as four European research-funding organisations—the Health Research Board Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland, Telethon Italy and the Austrian Science Fund—have agreed to participate in UKPMC. The funders will mandate that all biomedical research outputs that arise from their funding are made freely available—typically within six months of publication—from the UKPMC repository. (The Austrian Science Fund and Science Foundation Ireland had prior open access mandates.) Related Posts "Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research" Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Establishes €2.5 Million Open Access Budget "Building a Sustainable Framework for Open Access to Research Data through Information and Communication Technologies" Wake Forest University Library Faculty Adopt Open Access Policy ALA and ACRL Support Open Access in Comments to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822689 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/03/01/harvard-business-school-adopts-open-access-policy/ The Harvard Business School has adopted an open access policy. Here's the policy: The Faculty of the Harvard Business School is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In keeping with that commitment, the Faculty adopts the following policy: Each Faculty member grants to the President and Fellows of Harvard College permission to make available articles that he or she has prepared for journal peer review and to exercise the copyright in those articles. More specifically, each Faculty member grants to the President and Fellows a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of these articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do the same, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit. The policy will apply to all such articles authored or co-authored while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. Since the policy will apply only to articles prepared for peer review, it thus does not apply to Harvard Business School Cases and Notes, or to articles written for the Harvard Business Review or other publications that are not peer-reviewed. The Dean or the Dean's designate will waive application of the license for a particular article upon express direction by a Faculty member. Each Faculty member will provide an electronic copy of the author's final version of each article to the Division of Research and Faculty Development (DRFD) no later than the date of its publication. DRFD will submit the article to the Harvard University open access repository; the Provost's Office may make it available to the public. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822686 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/46uGKE-z_pQ/3622 Guru Rao from Molecular Connections started the afternoon session with “Driving Publishing to Discovery: Adapting to the new age consume needs.” Guru started by showing us two models. In the traditional model, the consumer subscribes to knowledgebase engines, studies the output, and then goes to the DB to find the data. In the new model – the discovery based model, the consumer goes to the publisher db and that db has added value on the content to make it more valuable (linking, semantic data, etc). The new age consumer is used to open access content and search engines. They want quicker means to analyze published literature, value validations from their peers, to interact with authors, and to share data. To give an example of this Guru showed us Wolfram Alpha which changes the nature of search by using semantic data. I have to admit that while I understood the ideologies behind Guru’s talk I really got lost in all of the science of it … I’m so so so easily confused by science talk In short, the staff at Molecular Connections used ontologies and semantic data to make it easier to search across data collections and link related content back and forth. Technorati Tags: nfais (Source: What I Learned Today...) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:24:05 +0100 823147 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/01/national-science-library-early-adopter-of-open-access-in-china/ From the Article: With a staff of over 470 and a collection about 11.5 million items, the National Science Library serves more than 100 CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences] institutes in over 24 cities across China. The National Science Library is also leading national efforts to build a powerful National Scientific Information Infrastructure. As the key member of the National Science and Technology Library (NSTL), a consortium established in 2000 by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, it initiates strategic planning and system development projects for NSTL, organises dissemination of its resources to the public, and collaborates with major domestic and foreign libraries for resource sharing and research collaboration. It is this focus on expanding the sharing of scholarship in the networked digital environment, as well as the emergence of new scholarly communication norms, that led to its participation in the open access movement. In 2003, the Chinese Academy of Sciences was the first Chinese institution to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. [Snip] The National Science Library (NSL) considered the development of a federated repository network, the CAS Institutional Repository Grid, to be an essential part of the strategy, based on the institutional repositories (IR) implemented in CAS institutes. The NSL-IR, designed as a best practice test-bed, became operational in February 2009. After eight months, over 2,100 items produced by NSL staff have been placed in the Knowledge Repository. [Snip] A marketing strategy to promote the building of an IR in each CAS institute has encouraged over 40 institutes to develop an IR. A Chinese Open Access Portal has been established to build capacity and to advocate for open access. According to Prof. Xiaolin Zhang, subject librarians play a key role. `’On the one hand, they have trained the institute librarians in how to build and administer an IR. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:45:40 +0100 822479 http://medinfo.netbib.de/archives/2010/03/01/3657 Open Access kommt aufgrund von verdeckt (oder nicht transparent) operierenden Start-up-Unternehmen, die es mit Peer-Review und Editorschaft* nicht so ernst meinen, immer mehr unter Beschuß, wie Richard Poynder am Fall von Amy Bishop demonstriert. * Ein Augenarzt, der nicht auf Emails antwortet, ist Chefeditor von alleine 9(!) der Open Access Journale von Dove Medical Press. What are OASPA’s (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association) views on the incident? In the hope of finding out I emailed a list of questions to the organisation. Amongst other things, I asked whether OASPA was concerned that three teenage children had been cited as co-authors of a peer-reviewed paper published by one of its members, whether it felt that having one person act as Editor-in-Chief of nine Dove journals might not be excessive, and whether it was desirable that the International Journal of General Medicine should have only an honorary editorial board. [...] Unfortunately, OASPA’s reply suggests that OA publishers remain dangerously oblivious to the credibility gap yawning in front of them. Dove Medical Press ein zweiter Fall Bentham ? (Wenn es denn so wäre, müßten wir bald alle aufdringliche FreeTrial-Angebote von Dove kriegen …) Peter Suber, de facto leader of the OA movement, is also uncomfortable with the lack of transparency over the ownership of some OA publishers. In fact, he told me, he had been under the impression that transparency of ownership was a pre-condition for membership of OASPA. “At least I am deeply suspicious of publishers who are unwilling to disclose their owners,” he told me. “We need that kind of transparency to be able to investigate whether the owners have financial interests, e.g. with pharma companies, that might compromise the integrity of their journals. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:18:04 +0100 822751 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=The_Philippines_needs_many_many_more_public_libraries_-_Leocadio_--- Public libraries are the only institutions in the world whose primary function is to provide the public with free access to books and other services. (Source: pligg - all) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:00:28 +0100 822351 http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/freedom-for-scholarship-in-internet-age.html My powerpoint and detailed notes for my OCULA spotlight speech at the Ontario Library Association Superconference last week, Freedom for scholarship in the internet age, is available for viewing or downloading from here.In brief, this speech begins with some thoughts on the purpose of scholarship. This question should frame any discussion of scholarly communication. While there are millions of researchers and at least as many research questions, it can be useful to think about a question like addressing global warming when evaluating potential change in scholarly communication. Note that it is important to remember that there can be a signficant gap in time (sometimes centuries) between when a concept is introduced, and when it is understood.From the scholar's perspective, publisher-added digital rights management (DRM) is seen as a hindrance to scholarship - not a value add. Libre open access - free to re-use as well as to read - is only a small fraction of open access right now, but it is predicted that libre OA will be increasingly sought by scholars who experience its benefits.Dealing with the sheer volume of information presently available (and still expanding exponentially) is one of the key challenges for scholars, librarians, and publishers alike. Three strategies for addressing this challenge are discussed. Reading less or filtering is seen as tempting, but not a good idea when examined against the purpose of scholarship. For example, if we find the volume of information coming from China overwhelming, it might be tempted to skip reading it; but if Chinese scholars are doing research that could help us to figure out a clean energy breakthrough, this isn't such a good idea. Writing less is a strategy that has more potential. Some of the pressure to write in quantity in academia may actually be counterproductive. Collaborating is a strategy well worth pursuing. To understand why, first picture the physics article with a thousand authors. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822910 http://acrlog.org/2010/03/01/accountability-and-open-access/ Hey, have you heard there’s a recession on? (Yes, that’s a rhetorical question.) It’s nearly impossible to avoid news from all sectors–including higher education–about the continued economic challenges facing the country. Stories about funding difficulties for both public and private institutions, rising tuition, and declining endowments fill news outlets daily. And of course academic libraries (like libraries of all types) are feeling the budget pinch, too. Often we focus on the economics of our libraries (i.e., fallout from the serials crisis) when we discuss open access publishing with other faculty and administrators at our institutions. Last week in the class I’m teaching my students and I discussed scholarly communication. I’m a strong supporter of open access publishing, and it was great to have the opportunity to see these issues through the eyes of my students. They were genuinely surprised to find that the results of scholarly research are often so difficult to access for those outside of academe. After my class discussion I was particularly struck by one aspect of the economics of open access: accountability. It’s likely that as the effects of the recession continue to be felt over the next few years, the calls for accountability in higher education budgets will grow more insistent. Open access advocates can use this situation to highlight the advantages of OA scholarly journals. Broad access to and wide dissemination of the research and scholarship happening at colleges and universities can provide visible proof of the relevance of higher education. Increased access to research can also bring positive publicity to our institutions. The importance of research is growing even at institutions that have traditionally focused on teaching, and recruiting and retaining talented faculty is crucial. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822471 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/TxDV8FemiC8/3605 MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology at the MIT Libraries gave us a talk entitled “The Value Equation: Social Science Perspective (or Why I Love Google).” MacKenzie started by admitting that MIT (where she works) spends millions on research databases (570 of them including 45,000 e-journals), but she doesn’t use any of them … instead she relies on conference proceedings, white papers, email, blog posts and other related project websites. The problem she finds that most of the peer-reviewed journal articles are just way too old. She needs to know about these topics now! Not a year from now. Instead, many of the resources she relies on are free and open access – resources that are and always have been open access. The problem she finds when searching databases (and this is one I’m very familiar with) how do you search across disciplines – how do you know what database to use to find information that crosses disciplines. In my world this would be my common research areas of open source development (technology/computer programming) for and in libraries (social sciences). In addition – even though she has access to EndNote & RefWords she uses Zotero. This is because Zotero is evolving more quickly to deal with the varying types of content we want to save and cite. Also, Zotero offers more mobility – accessibility form all over – and the ability to share resources with her colleagues. (As a side note, MacKenzie pointed out Mendeley which is Zotero for scientists). When it comes to searching, MacKenzie doesn’t usually use advanced search, she instead starts with a seed and then builds on that. Then to review the content she doesn’t use the publisher to decide on the quality. She instead uses the author, the organization or the person who recommended that she read the article. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:06:08 +0100 823154 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/28/libraries-lead-the-e-book-revolution-according-to-australian-info-pro/ by Philip Harvey From the Column: Digital is moving in, that’s for sure. But will readers get what they want? I don’t mean readers who ask for the latest blockbuster, but all of us who need those difficult-to-get books for study or personal interest, the ones Google says are not easily accessible. It is the same librarians who remind the digitising deliverers that inter-library loan can get the requested print version at next to no cost and in short time. Far from sidelining academic and special collections, the digital libraries of the future make easy and free access to print-libraries even more of a priority: there is no way of predicting the price tag for that rare thesis or out-of-print title in its downloadable form. This is an issue that more academics and specialists need to be questioning now, especially as they are the ones often making the decisions about their libraries, and not the librarians. [Snip] Indeed, the fourth century shift from the scroll to the codex is being used as a comparison to the present transmogrification. I tend to believe that we are seeing the early technology of the e-book. In five years the e-book will look, feel, sound, smell and gesticulate in very different ways from its iPad and Kindle prototypes. iPad will look as cute as a cassette tape. As usual, libraries are quietly ahead of everyone else. At universities there are library departments dedicated solely to the acquisition of e-materials for students and lecturers, while public libraries make e-books available and train the staff in their use, anticipating the demand before the e-books themselves are even on the market. But neither are libraries in a hurry to drown their books and make the sea change. I imagine that the e-book and the book will thrive together. The real question is usability. Will people quite simply prefer one over the other? If everyone goes mad over the e-book then it will place publishers in a very interesting situation. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:13:55 +0100 822295 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/4OfzfIDQj8Q/3596 This year’s NFAIS conference was opened by Clay Shirky. He started by giving us a 5 word synopsis of his book Here Comes Everybody — Group Action Just Got Easier. He then when on to a story about the power of social networks. HSBC (a bank in the UK) in 2007 decided they were going recruit new clients (graduate students and undergrad students). They offered these students accounts with an overdraft that had no fees associated with it. Then in the summer they took back their plan to offer the account with no penalties for overdrafts and said they were going to charge $140 per overdraft. They said you have 30 days to get your money out before we charge you. The idea was that college students are all over the world in the summer and won’t be around to throw a fit. But a college student found out about it and published it on Facebook. The bank didn’t realize that these students were still connected even though they were spread out. In the end HSBC changed their mind. This wasn’t because the students were unhappy – it was because they were unhappy and organized. Clay then went into talking about 3 information issues. Volume of Information When the printing press turned into the mechanical object we know today, books were able to be printed 300x faster than a scribe could pen the book. When a new tech comes along, previously impossible things become possible. Abundance breaks more things than scarcity does – when the web first became viable newspapers thought this was great! They could send out text and images for free and reach more than just their local customer base – they can reach people worldwide. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:15:41 +0100 823157 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/28/european-research-funders-throw-weight-behind-uk-open-access-repository-uk-pubmed-central-to-eventually-become-europe-pubmed-central/ From the Announcement: Four European research funders have today added their support to the open access repository UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) by agreeing that the life sciences research outputs made possible with their funding are made freely available through this repository. Launched in January 2007, UKPMC is a free-to-access digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed biomedical and life sciences research. As of February 2010, it holds over 1.7 million full text articles. The ambition of the repository is to become the information resource of choice for the UK biomedical and health research communities and eventually to expand to become ‘Europe PubMed Central’. Today, this aim takes a step closer as four European research-funding organisations - the Health Research Board Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland, Telethon Italy and the Austrian Science Fund – have agreed to participate in UKPMC. The funders will mandate that all biomedical research outputs that arise from their funding are made freely available – typically within six months of publication – from the UKPMC repository. Access the Complete Announcement Source: Wellcome Trust (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:35:55 +0100 822174 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/Ar_JRgJyFMU/ Philpapers Breaks New Ground for Discipline Based Repositories http://icio.us/nl1wfu # Jewel in the Open Content Crown Needs Help http://icio.us/mjxpa1 # OASPA: act now or lose credibility forever http://icio.us/a3w2cr # 50+ CSS Techniques Designers Should Know http://icio.us/xzl4h3 # Epub reader plugin for Firefox http://icio.us/0quiwr # January 2010 Profile: Michael Healy [Executive Director, Google Book Rights Registry] http://icio.us/tgooxz # E-Books and ISBNs: a position paper and action points from the International ISBN Agency http://icio.us/uygmsb # Europe 'will not accept' three strikes in Acta treaty http://icio.us/b5cffd # New Mexico State Must Cut Materials Budget by 27% http://icio.us/i2qnrq # 500,000 journal articles listed on RePE http://icio.us/nprlmy # Three-strikes petition gets attention of 10 Downing Street http://icio.us/lty5j0 # Next Generation Connectivity: A Review of Broadband Internet Transitions and Policy from Around the World http://bit.ly/az3fHe # RSA System Administrator/Manager at Alliance Library System http://bit.ly/aULzUz # 2010 Publication Schedule for the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography http://bit.ly/bSjT26 # Systems Librarian at Florida Institute of Technology http://bit.ly/devcGr # Modelling Scholarly Communication Options: Costs and Benefits for Universities http://bit.ly/b2rXwj # When using open source makes you an enemy of the state http://icio.us/stzzzn # European Commission Gets Tough Treatment From Parliament Over ACTA http://icio.us/mj4vps # How efficient is our licensing system? http://icio.us/mwudov # The Big Brother of Europe?: France Moves Closer to Unprecedented Internet Regulation http://icio.us/lfih1b # RIAA ’statutory damages’ argument trashed? http://icio.us/aozzu1 # Third RIAA trial for Jammie Thomas-Rasset http://icio.us/xrkoek # Riggio: Barnes & Noble to Become E-Commerce Retailer http://icio. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822384 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/y65tL9sq7Ow/directory-of-open-access-journals_28.html AASA Journal of Scholarship and PracticeRecent Patents on Signal ProcessingFauna NorvegicaIntergenerational Justice Review : IJGRJournal of Biochemical TechnologyGRETA JournalInternational Online Journal of Educational SciencesNurtureRevista de Investigación en EducaciónSchweizer Archiv fur Neurologie und PsychiatrieSelçuk Journal of Applied Mathematics (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:27:53 +0100 822140 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/28/last-weeks-digitalkoans-tweets-2010-02-28/ Philpapers Breaks New Ground for Discipline Based Repositories http://icio.us/nl1wfu # Jewel in the Open Content Crown Needs Help http://icio.us/mjxpa1 # OASPA: act now or lose credibility forever http://icio.us/a3w2cr # 50+ CSS Techniques Designers Should Know http://icio.us/xzl4h3 # Epub reader plugin for Firefox http://icio.us/0quiwr # January 2010 Profile: Michael Healy [Executive Director, Google Book Rights Registry] http://icio.us/tgooxz # E-Books and ISBNs: a position paper and action points from the International ISBN Agency http://icio.us/uygmsb # Europe 'will not accept' three strikes in Acta treaty http://icio.us/b5cffd # New Mexico State Must Cut Materials Budget by 27% http://icio.us/i2qnrq # 500,000 journal articles listed on RePE http://icio.us/nprlmy # Three-strikes petition gets attention of 10 Downing Street http://icio.us/lty5j0 # Next Generation Connectivity: A Review of Broadband Internet Transitions and Policy from Around the World http://bit.ly/az3fHe # RSA System Administrator/Manager at Alliance Library System http://bit.ly/aULzUz # 2010 Publication Schedule for the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography http://bit.ly/bSjT26 # Systems Librarian at Florida Institute of Technology http://bit.ly/devcGr # Modelling Scholarly Communication Options: Costs and Benefits for Universities http://bit.ly/b2rXwj # When using open source makes you an enemy of the state http://icio.us/stzzzn # European Commission Gets Tough Treatment From Parliament Over ACTA http://icio.us/mj4vps # How efficient is our licensing system? http://icio.us/mwudov # The Big Brother of Europe?: France Moves Closer to Unprecedented Internet Regulation http://icio.us/lfih1b # RIAA ’statutory damages’ argument trashed? http://icio.us/aozzu1 # Third RIAA trial for Jammie Thomas-Rasset http://icio.us/xrkoek # Riggio: Barnes & Noble to Become E-Commerce Retailer http://icio. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822699 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/26/u-s-dept-of-defense-makes-social-web-sites-accessible/ U.S. Department of Defense Social Media Hub Access Full Text of the Social Media Policy (Directive-Type Memorandum 09-026) From a Navy Times Article: All users of unclassified computers in the .mil domain now will be allowed to access social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter — subject to local control if bandwidth demand or Web integrity become issues. The announcement reverses a nearly three-year ban on access to bandwidth-heavy sites such as MySpace, and the Marine Corps’ August ban on access to social network sites, the Pentagon said Friday. The open-access policy will rely largely on the responsible use by troops, much as they practice operational security in other means of communication, such as telephone conversations and letters. It is also a reflection of “increased security measures” the Defense Department has taken, said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman. Access the Complete Article Source: Military Times See Also: U.S. Department of Defense Social Media Hub DoD Social Media Register is located here. (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:19:41 +0100 821815 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/25/next-generation-connectivity-a-review-of-broadband-internet-transitions-and-policy-from-around-the-world/ The Berkman Center for Internet & Society has released Next Generation Connectivity: A Review of Broadband Internet Transitions and Policy from Around the World. Here's an excerpt: Our most prominent initial findings, confirmed and extended in this final draft, were that U.S. broadband performance in the past decade has declined relative to other countries and is no better than middling. Our study expanded the well known observation with regard to penetration per 100 inhabitants, and examined and found the same to be true of penetration per household; subscriptions for mobile broadband; availability of nomadic access; as well as advertised speeds and actually measured speeds; and pricing at most tiers of service. Our study further identified the great extent to which open access policies played a role in establishing competitive broadband markets during the first-generation broadband transition in Europe and Japan, and the large degree to which contemporary transpositions of that experience were being integrated into current plans to preserve and assure competitive markets during the next generation transition. Related Posts Digital Nation: 21st Century America's Progress Towards Universal Broadband Internet Access The Future of the Internet IV (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:05:51 +0100 821858 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/xtdL8V1hZ2U/ The Berkman Center for Internet & Society has released Next Generation Connectivity: A Review of Broadband Internet Transitions and Policy from Around the World. Here's an excerpt: Our most prominent initial findings, confirmed and extended in this final draft, were that U.S. broadband performance in the past decade has declined relative to other countries and is no better than middling. Our study expanded the well known observation with regard to penetration per 100 inhabitants, and examined and found the same to be true of penetration per household; subscriptions for mobile broadband; availability of nomadic access; as well as advertised speeds and actually measured speeds; and pricing at most tiers of service. Our study further identified the great extent to which open access policies played a role in establishing competitive broadband markets during the first-generation broadband transition in Europe and Japan, and the large degree to which contemporary transpositions of that experience were being integrated into current plans to preserve and assure competitive markets during the next generation transition. Related Posts Digital Nation: 21st Century America's Progress Towards Universal Broadband Internet Access The Future of the Internet IV Information Economy Report 2009: Trends and Outlook in Turbulent Times The Internet in Britain 2009 Home Broadband Adoption 2009 (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:05:21 +0100 822385 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/XP1Zdz19Eio/ JISC has released Modelling Scholarly Communication Options: Costs and Benefits for Universities. Here's an excerpt from the announcement (announcement includes podcast): The key findings from the report show The annual savings in research and library costs of a university repository model combined with subscription publishing could range from £100,000 to £1,320,000 Moving from Open Access journals and subscription-funding to per-article Open Access journal funding has the potential to achieve savings for universities between £620,000 per year and £1,700,000 per year if the article-processing charge is set at £500 or less Savings from a change away from subscription-funding to per-article Open Access journal funding were estimated to be between £170,000 and £1,365,000 per year for three out of the four universities studied when the article-processing charge is £1000 per article or less For the remaining university in the study a move from subscription-funding to the per-article Open Access journal funding saw the university having to pay £1.86m more in this scenario See also the related documents: How to Build a Case for University Policies and Practices in Support of Open Access and Publishing Research Papers Which Policy Will Deliver Best Value for Your University?. Related Posts Academic Journal Publisher Brill Launches Brill Open Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley Commit to Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity Scholarly and Research Communication Established Open Access—What Are the Economic Benefits? A Comparison of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:01:56 +0100 822389 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/25/modelling-scholarly-communication-options-costs-and-benefits-for-universities/ JISC has released Modelling Scholarly Communication Options: Costs and Benefits for Universities. Here's an excerpt from the announcement (announcement includes podcast): The key findings from the report show The annual savings in research and library costs of a university repository model combined with subscription publishing could range from £100,000 to £1,320,000 Moving from Open Access journals and subscription-funding to per-article Open Access journal funding has the potential to achieve savings for universities between £620,000 per year and £1,700,000 per year if the article-processing charge is set at £500 or less Savings from a change away from subscription-funding to per-article Open Access journal funding were estimated to be between £170,000 and £1,365,000 per year for three out of the four universities studied when the article-processing charge is £1000 per article or less For the remaining university in the study a move from subscription-funding to the per-article Open Access journal funding saw the university having to pay £1.86m more in this scenario See also the related documents: How to Build a Case for University Policies and Practices in Support of Open Access and Publishing Research Papers Which Policy Will Deliver Best Value for Your University?. Related Posts "A Survey of the Scholarly Journals Using Open Journal Systems" "Recognizing Opportunities: Conversational Openings to Promote Positive Scholarly Communication Change" Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog Update (1/20/10) STM Reacts to Scholarly Publishing Roundtable Report Report and Recommendations from the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:01:20 +0100 821862 http://feeds.plos.org/~r/plos/PublishingBlog/~3/P_W8l2479Pw/511 We've had a reprint service for a while but to use it, folks had to add all the article information to the order themselves which made it time consuming and difficult to use. Now, we're proud to introduce EzReprint, the next generation of print on demand, designed for people who want to generate 25 or more high quality reprints of most of the articles. You can find the link to this service in the top right of almost every PLoS article. It is near the option to print it using your desktop printer (which is, of course, still your best bet if you need some copies for any purpose, available to you thanks to open access). To do this, simply download the PDF and send it to your printer. In the new system, all the article information is pre-filled on the order landing page, and so all you have to do is make a few simple choices and you are nearly done. If you want a quick guided tour, simply watch this three minute video. This new service is available on most but not all articles, if you do not see the EzReprint logo you will be directed to the original system. There are a number of different payment options to suit the needs of our largely academic audience. You can enter a purchase order to create an invoice, wire your payment or pay by credit card. Your reprints are dispatched straight to your door and proof of delivery comes as standard on every order. Although anyone is free to make their own copies of any PLoS article using their desktop printer, we do appreciate that many people want a ‘professional quality’ reprint (high grade paper, high resolution prints, saddle stitching, and the option of custom covers) and for those people we offer what we believe is a fair pricing model for this service. Specifically, we offer a non-commercial rate for those people who want to order low quantities (25-500) - we make a small margin on this to help support our cause. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:58:03 +0100 822759 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandomMusingsFromTheDesert/~3/ikChHBePC3A/this-book-is-overdue.html I'm assuming by now you've probably heard of Marilyn Johnson's "This Book is Overdue!" - a new book about librarians, data overload, and why we are the saviors of the future. I've had several tabs open all week to share about this great new book, but intelligent commentary just ain't happening right now - so here's the links and a promise of more to come! * Wisconsin Public Radio's "To The Best of Our Knowledge" interviewed Johnson on February 14th - "Marilyn Johnson is the author of 'This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All.' She talks with Jim Fleming about how librarians are emerging as heroes of the digital age because of their love for the written word, free speech and open access." * "Here's to librarians, saviors of the data-weary." Kim Ode at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune gives a really nice review of the book. I also quite like her line "Yahoo doesn't light up with a smile when we log in, but a familiar librarian will." Amen! * Jed Lipinski over at Salon.Com also interviewed Johnson, in "Hot for Librarian" on February 21st.  "[T]here's bad news for those of you with a shushing fetish; as Marilyn Johnson explains [...] the uptight librarian is a species that's rapidly approaching extinction."  * And Tommy Wayne Kramer in Ukiah, CA needs to read Johnson's book; he recently stated in an opinion piece for The Ukiah Daily Journal that we should "save the county, close the libraries." For someone who is clearly proud that he hasn't set foot in a library in ages ("But it's easy to go years and years without visiting a library - I haven't had a library card in a quarter century and can't recall a single time I wished I had one.") he certainly has some strong opinions about what should be done with them. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:00:00 +0100 821718 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/iL_I-Cr2qJA/directory-of-open-access-journals_25.html Advance Journal of Food Science and TechnologyEducational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research: An International JournalEnergeiaHAYATI Journal of BiosciencesKriminologija i Socijalna IntegracijaOpen Access Journal of Forensic PsychologyRevista Peruana de EpidemiologiaActa Physica Polonica AAriaDancecult : Journal of Electronic Dance Music CultureITF Coaching and Sport Science ReviewLecture Notes in Engineering and Computer ScienceRevista Obets. Revista de Ciencias SocialesSuvremene teme : Contemporary Issues (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:45:14 +0100 821362 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/25/new-report-from-jisc-how-to-build-a-business-case-for-an-open-access-policy/ From the Announcement and Key Findings: A new report launched today (25 February 2010) shows how universities can work out how much they could save on their profit and loss accounts as well as increasing their contribution to UK plc when they share their research papers through Open Access. The ‘modelling scholarly communication options: costs and benefits for universities’ report, written by Alma Swan, is based on different types of university. It shows how universities might reduce costs, and how they can calculate these saving and their greater contribution to society by following an Open Access route. Neil Jacobs, programme manager at JISC says, “This is the first time that universities will have a method and practical examples from which to build a business case for Open Access and to calculate the cost to them of the scholarly communications process. For example working out the value of researchers carrying out peer-reviewing duties or the comparative costs of the library handling of journals subscribed to in print, electronically, or in both formats. [Snip] The Report Focussed on Three Approaches to Open Access: + Open access journals Content freely available online using a business model that does not rely on subscriptions + Open access repositories The current subscription-based system is supplemented by the provision of Open Access articles in repositories + Open access repositories with overlay services Content is collected in repositories and service providers carry out the publishing services necessary, for example the peer-review process Access the Full Text Report A Podcast is Also Available (Runs 12:30) (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:55:16 +0100 821447 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2917 Open source intelligence -- not to be confused with Open-source software -- is "a form of intelligence collection management that involves finding, selecting, and acquiring information from publicly available sources (my emphasis) and analyzing it to produce actionable intelligence." Libraries in the Federal Depository Library Program have since the early 1940s received output from this process in the form of Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) materials *for free*. FBIS materials offered translation of foreign news sources, and via the Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) foreign language books, newspapers, journals, unclassified foreign documents and research reports. FBIS became the World News Connection in 1996, but it is a severely limited version (about half) of what's available for internal government use. The Federal of American Scientists has more on FBIS. Check out FBIS and JPRS materials in library collections near you! All that background as context to a very troublesome turn of events as described by a recent post on the govdoc-l list (see the email below stripped of personal information). This important piece of the govt information universe is now only available via a very expensive commercial database (World News Connection), depriving the academic and larger research communities of full access to all that is done by FBIS at taxpayer expense. Please help us by contacting the Open Source Center (OSCinfo@rccb.osis.gov 202-338-6735, or 1-800-205-8615) and Robert Tapella (PublicPrinter@gpo.gov) at the Government Printing Office and request that the Open Source Center offer free access of opensource.gov to depository libraries. Thanks! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:25:58 -0600 Subject: OpenSource.gov access Has any library successfully gained access to OpenSource. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:55:32 +0100 821248 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2010/02/24/scspn/ What’s the best way to spend a warm, sunny, February Saturday in western Washington? If you answered “by sitting indoors and watching presentations about data” you may be… correct! This past Saturday, about sixty scientists and librarians gathered on the Microsoft campus for Science Commons Symposium – Pacific Northwest. We had the privilege of hearing from some of the world’s most prominent thought leaders in the areas of open data, open access, and what web technology means for the future of scientific communication. Here are a few eyebrow-raising ideas from the symposium. Practicing science is a privilege, not a right. Cameron Neylon, a biophysicist at ISIS in the United Kingdom, kicked off the day by describing a day in the life of a research scientist– himself. He emphasized that practicing science is not a right, it’s a privilege. Much scientific research is publicly funded; therefore, scientists are accountable to the public. They should make the data they collect and the results of their experiments as widely available as possible. Neylon went on to say that “you don’t need a sledgehammer to take down a snowman” and that, sometimes, formal publication is overkill. There are simpler, faster, and less expensive ways to share information. However, these simpler, faster systems must be technically and legally interoperable in order to really improve communication. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/science-in-the-open-science-commons-pacific-northwest Presentation: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4874055 We need to move from an environment of trust to one of proof. Jean-Claude Bradley is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Drexel University, leader of the UsefulChem project, and coiner of the term Open Notebook Science (ONS). ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:23:05 +0100 822761 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~3/0n1git1VTF4/ Next Weblog update on 3/24/10. Ariadne, no. 62 (2010): Includes "Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers"; "eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?"; "Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London"; "Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profile"; "Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data"; and other articles. College and Research Libraries 71, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication: A Case Study of Engaging Liaison Librarians for Outreach to Faculty" and other articles. College and Research Libraries News 71, no. 2 (2010): Includes "Recognizing Opportunities: Conversational Openings to Promote Positive Scholarly Communication Change" and other articles. The Electronic Library 28, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Perception and Usage of E-Resources and the Internet by Indian Academics," "Use of Electronic Information Resources and Facilities by Humanities Scholars," and other articles. First Monday 15, no. 2 (2009): Includes "Sociological Implications of Scientific Publishing: Open Access, Science, Society, Democracy and the Digital Divide" and other articles. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal 14, no. 4 (2009): Includes "The Situation of Open Access Institutional Repositories in Spain: 2009 Report" and other articles. Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. (Publisher's decription) The Journal of Academic Librarianship 36, no. 1 (2010): Includes "The Google Books Project: Will it Make Libraries Obsolete?" and other articles. Journal of Educational Technology Systems 38, no. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:31:08 +0100 821881 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/72oy4oO33qE/ Frances Pinter, Bloomsbury Academic. Startup academic publisher. Publishing monographs in academia, an endangered species. 1980 sold 3,000 copies of typical monograph, now sell about 350. Challenge: how do we get to a point where we can sustainably publish long form monographs. (Discussion covers only social sciences and humanities) Academics still want independent verification of quality, editing, typesetting, curation, branding. Pressures on academic community: expanding academic ecosystem and need more publishing services, governments and foundation wants to see impact for research they are funding. Pressures on academic publishers: technology driven changes require investment in time of global downturn, authors still want services and royalties and want “free at point of use”. New business model: website will go live in April. Put plain book content on line in HTML under Creative Commons. Will sell printed book and in Epub. Also sell enhanced ebook, content with extra content to be bought individually or by subscription. Going to create an experimental lab on line, with tools for collaboration, added value, cc licensing and monetization. Not sure where it will lead. Problem is that this doesn’t reduce first copy costs, duplicates the worst of the distribution issues with too many middlemen. Wants to find new pathways for money that is already there. Look at library budgets and take a small amount and aggregate and create an International Library Coalition for Open Access Books. Consortium will aggregate funds to pay for first copy costs and publishers publish as open access content and can make money on POD sales and formats, etc. Can get cost of monograph ot $2/copy for any library who participates. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:01:55 +0100 821142 http://jobs.nasig.org/?p=706 The University of California, Davis, invites nominations and applications for the position of University Librarian. The campus seeks an innovative and dynamic leader able to develop, articulate, and implement a forward-thinking, shared vision for a major, next-generation research university library. The General Library of the University of California, Davis, is a member of the Association of Research Libraries and a major educational and scholarly resource, operating as an integral part of the University while recognizing obligations to a wider public, particularly the people of California. Reporting to the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor and serving as a member of the Council of Deans and Vice Chancellors, the University Librarian provides overall leadership of the UC Davis General Library in support of University research, instruction, patient care, and community outreach .   The colleges of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science; the schools of Education, Management, Medicine, Nursing, and Veterinary Medicine; and the UC Davis Health System are all served by the UC Davis General Library, both in Davis and in Sacramento. The Library houses comprehensive, world-class agricultural and veterinary medicine collections, especially in viticulture and enology, environmental sciences and ecology, and comparative medicine as well as broadly based humanities, social sciences, and sciences collections. The Special Collections feature a diverse range of topics from agricultural sciences to Western Americana to photographs of rural California and Oregon and a rich University Archives showcasing the campus’s 100-year history.   The UC Davis General Library is an active collaborative contributor to the highly successful University of California collective of campus libraries and the California Digital Library. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:16:48 +0100 822058 http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/society-industrial/2858/ Hindawi Publishing, Rockefeller University Press, the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the University of California Press have confirmed cooperation with the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy. The Policy, established last March, makes the MIT faculty’s scholarly articles openly available on the web. Because all four of these publishers are allowing MIT to obtain copies of their final published articles from their website, authors do not need to submit their manuscripts in order for them to appear in DSpace@MIT. This will happen automatically. To review other confirmed publisher responses to the policy, please see: Publishers and the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy. Publishers are being added to this web page as information becomes available. Please send any questions about publishers not yet on the page to Ellen Duranceau, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing Consultant. For more information: MIT Faculty Open Access Policy Details on working with the policy Ellen Duranceau, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing Consultant, x 38483. (Source: MIT Libraries News) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:06:53 +0100 821207 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/24/publishers-win-one-in-court/ From the Article: In what publishers are calling a significant copyright victory, a German court has approved an injunction filed by six academic publishers — including four founding members of the electronic textbook consortium CourseSmart — against the file-sharing company RapidShare AG. The injunction prohibits the company from giving away digital copies of dozens of scholarly titles. The publishers hope the court’s decision will put a stop to RapidShare’s practice of providing free access to 148 e-books, most of them academic. In a resolution issued this month, the three-judge court warned that violations could cost the company up to €250,000 on top of the €7.2 million in legal fees for the plaintiffs. [Snip] “This is a big win, because RapidShare is one of the primary file sharing sites in the world where copyrighted material is being routinely downloaded for free,” said Tom Allen, president of the Association of American Publishers. “RapidShare has become a huge problem for the publishing industry.” In addition to Wiley, the plaintiffs in the case are publishing giants Cengage Learning, Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill, Elsevier, and Bedford Freeman & Worth. Access the Complete Article Source: Inside Higher Ed (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:43:08 +0100 820956 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/23/reed-elsevier-2009-financial-results/ Reed Elsevier has announced its 2009 financial results. Here's an excerpt from the press release: Elsevier (44% of adjusted operating profits) Revenue growth +4%, adjusted operating profit +9%, at constant currency Strong growth in electronic clinical reference, clinical decision support and nursing and health professional education; continued weakness in pharma promotion Solid science journal subscription renewals from 2008 supported 2009 revenue growth Read more about it at "Robust Year for Reed Elsevier." Related Posts Google Book Search Settlement Hearing Transcript Digital Publishing in the AAUP Community; Survey Report: Winter 2009-2010 Selected Comments of Publishers to the White House OSTP Consultation on Open Access Report and Recommendations from the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable "Google Book Search and the Future of Books in Cyberspace" (Source: DigitalKoans) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821032 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/02/23/your-rights-your-language/ At TPL’s Lillian Smith Library tomorrow, Community Legal Education Ontario will be launching its new series of standard pamphlets of starter kit information for recent immigrants. The materials, which are also available in English and French, cover the following topics: * Children’s aid: Information for parents * Criminal charges in Canada and your immigration status * Do you want to sponsor your family to join you in Canada? * Does your landlord want you to move out? * Has your child been charged with a crime? * Refugee claims in Canada * Renting a place to live * Your rights as a worker The materials are intended to be printed and distributed by community organizations. Copyright permissions mean that anyone can make as many copies as needed. Audio versions of the eight topics can also be heard on each language page, or can be downloaded and burned. Here are the Arabic, Chinese, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Urdu, English and French pages. We’re pleased to recognize again the great work that CLEO does. (Source: Slaw) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:26:40 +0100 822324 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/70YaFfJcdgc/ John Warren; Eric Frank – Flatworld; Frank Lyman – Coresmart; Nicholas Smith – Agile Mind; Neeru Khosla – CK12 Founcation Flatworld: open access textbooks but still able to generate sustainable revenue CK12: doing same thing but completely in K to 12 market. Providing online services and developed online reader Coresmart: Many textbooks now available in digital format. 10,000 etextbook titles on their site. Agile Mind: now can marry instructional concepts and multimedia. How do digital textbooks solve problem of educating student; online books give more access and lowers price point. Hard for teacher/student to get “real time” knowledge of what’s relevant to student and real world. Hopefully etextbooks will be able to do this. Marriage of content, pedagogy and curriculum. Digital course materials enable delivery of content to every student. Education system broken and etextbooks allow customized content that speaks to who the child is and where the child is at any particular moment. Allows personalization by teacher and the integration of third party content. What are successful business models and what didn’t work: Two models student choice models and faculty choice models and to be successful must focus on one. In student choice model go for low common denominator such as browser based. Don’t need a print option. Need consistency between digital and paper model. Page numbers, illustrations, etc much match, for example, or will fail in student choice model. In faculty choice model, different success criteria. Works pretty well with current products. Training and support and a print option are key to success in a faculty choice model. In the K-12 area students don’t need assessment like in higher ed. State adoption is necessary and this is a mess. ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:58:48 +0100 820796 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/839ybqo0S6E/directory-of-open-access-journals_23.html "Constantin Brancusi" University's Annals, Letters and Social Sciences SerieGenre, sexualité et sociétéInternational Journal of Transpersonal StudiesJournal of Pharmaceutical Science and TechnologyRevista Educación física y deporteYüzüncü Yil Üniversitesi Tarim Bilimeri DergisiInternational Journal of Educational SciencesJournal of Life SciencesCuadernos de Derecho Transnacional: CDTJournal of Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:32:42 +0100 820751 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Grumpator/~3/yY8Q0KJFuP0/science-commmons-symposium-recap.html I was all set to do a comprehensive summary of the Science Commons Symposium, but several others have beaten me to it!  However, I think I can add some of my impressions from the librarian point of view. First off, this is the first meeting I've attended where I actively participated over Twitter during the presentations.  It was really interesting to follow this additional layer of conversation.  I had also created a Friendfeed account ages ago, but have mostly used it to aggregate my own content.  Sometimes understanding a new social networking tool requires seeing it in action, which I certainly did this weekend. Brian Glanz of the Open Science Foundation wrote up a great roundup, including links to any available slides for each speaker. If you want the slides, go visit this page, I didn't link them below. Jean-Claude Bradley, one of the speakers, also wrote up a quick recap. Steve Koch also wrote up some notes (and on Saturday night, too!) including a mindmap! Secondly, thanks to Microsoft Research for hosting us (best box lunch I've ever had!) and for the free book!  The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery is the first book published by Microsoft under a Creative Commons license, so make sure to snag a downloadable copy. So, on to my value-add. A theme that emerged from several presenters (Cameron Neylon, Jean-Claude Bradley, Stephen Friend of Sage Bionetworks, John Wilbanks) was the problem of handling the exponential, explosive growth of data.  There are problems archiving it, problems with standardized ways of processing and handling it, and problems retrieving it.  Doesn't this sound like it's right up our alley?  And why aren't librarians doing more in this arena? Similarly, another theme was the eroding trust in traditional peer-review publications. ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822049 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/22/a-survey-of-the-scholarly-journals-using-open-journal-systems/ Brian D. Edgar and John Willinsky have self-archived "A Survey of the Scholarly Journals Using Open Journal Systems" on the Public Knowledge Project website. Here's an excerpt: A survey of 998 scholarly journals that use Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source journal software platform, captures the characteristics of an emerging class of scholar-publisher open access journals (with some representation from more traditional scholarly society and print-based titles). The journals in the sample follow traditional norms for peer-reviewing, acceptance rates, and disciplinary focus, but are distinguished by the number that offer open access to their content, the growth rates in new titles, the participation rates from developing countries, and the extremely low operating budgets. The survey also documents the limited degree to which open source software can alter a field of communication, as OJS appears to have created a third path, dedicated to maximizing access to research and scholarship, as an alternative to traditional scholarly society and commercial publishing routes. Related Posts The Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing PEER Behavioural Research: Authors and Users vis-à-vis Journals and Repositories; Baseline Report Selected Comments of Publishers to the White House OSTP Consultation on Open Access STM Reacts to Scholarly Publishing Roundtable Report Report and Recommendations from the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821038 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/zpaLPccfwVU/ Brian D. Edgar and John Willinsky have self-archived "A Survey of the Scholarly Journals Using Open Journal Systems" on the Public Knowledge Project website. Here's an excerpt: A survey of 998 scholarly journals that use Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source journal software platform, captures the characteristics of an emerging class of scholar-publisher open access journals (with some representation from more traditional scholarly society and print-based titles). The journals in the sample follow traditional norms for peer-reviewing, acceptance rates, and disciplinary focus, but are distinguished by the number that offer open access to their content, the growth rates in new titles, the participation rates from developing countries, and the extremely low operating budgets. The survey also documents the limited degree to which open source software can alter a field of communication, as OJS appears to have created a third path, dedicated to maximizing access to research and scholarship, as an alternative to traditional scholarly society and commercial publishing routes. Related Posts BioMed Central Launches Its 200th Open Access Journal "The York Digital Journals Project: Strategies for Institutional Open Journal Systems Implementations" The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and Humanities Associations Hindawi’s Open Access Journals’ Impact Factor Up over 27% African Journals Online Migrates to Open Journal Systems Platform (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:03:28 +0100 820724 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/22/scholarly-publishing-five-new-publishers-join-clockss/ From the Announcement: CLOCKSS is pleased to announce a new group of five scholarly publishers that have recently joined the CLOCKSS archive: American Academy of Pediatrics Co-Action Publishers Edinburgh University Press Liverpool University Press Rockefeller University Press This latest group of publishers to join CLOCKSS collectively archives over 60 journals, and adds to the diversity of publishers in the CLOCKSS community: from society publishers and university presses, to open-access publishers such as Co-Action. As part of joining CLOCKSS, publishers agree to release their archived content to the world for free if a time comes when it is no longer available from any publisher (“trigger event”). The new participating publishers will also each appoint representatives to the CLOCKSS board. The board is made up of world-leading publishers and libraries who work together to govern the archive and set strategies and policies. See Also: Learn More About Trigger Events Source: CLOCKSS (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:27:12 +0100 820633 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/hC_oQrqncOw/ My mother, Judy, forwarded me an e-mail message from a friend named Peggy Kessenger, a member of the same generation. The letter was part of an ongoing conversation, but I found it interesting enough on its own that I wrote to Mrs. Kessenger for permission to repost it here. She was kind enough to grant that permission, and added the following two paragraphs as an introduction. The locations given are in southwest Missouri; links were added by me. We like to talk about how e-books may be a boon to the older generations for such factors as ease of page-turning and increasing font size. However, I feel that the voice of that generation may not be heard as much as it should in these discussions, since they may not have as much time or inclination to participate in on-line forums. It is also good to remember that they may not have as full an understanding of e-books as we do. This is a great example of a viewpoint we’re missing. —Chris Meadows A couple of months ago, Jess and I saw a cartoon where a little boy was asking his father, "Daddy.  What’s a library?"  For some reason, that cartoon stuck in our minds and the more we thought about it the more we realized how true that could become.  Then when the Carthage library cut back on its hours making it horribly difficult for me, a working person, to use the library, the more we thought that cartoon just might become true sooner than we thought. I’m real frustrated with the Carthage library especially after being used to the Barry/Lawrence library system.  I think there could be other ways to reduce costs besides cutting the hours and even if they have to cut hours, why do they not try to have hours that working people could also use!  If I were retired or independently wealthy and didn’t have to work I could go to the library any time but unfortunately that’s not the case. ... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:00:00 +0100 820109 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/TlzRxkX5Lis/ New Open Access Fund [SFU Library’] http://icio.us/uthzl3 # The BOAI is eight http://icio.us/fuf1aq # Google staunchly defends pact to digitize books http://icio.us/f0nywx # Google Argues for Approval of Book Search Settlements http://icio.us/cantx0 # The Google Books Settlement: Second Round Comments http://icio.us/lfxp4s # VU University Amsterdam backs Open Access and copyright for the researchers http://icio.us/2vpfc5 # RoMEO reaches 700 Publishers http://icio.us/sip4ri # Report on new ACRL Image Resources Interest Group (IRIG) http://icio.us/1ejas3 # Fantastic volunteer scanning project with National Archives–great example of crowdsourcing http://icio.us/lqamed # AIDA and repositories http://icio.us/trae3m # JSTOR Events at 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting http://icio.us/tctd0t # Evergreen 1.6.0.1 and OpenSRF 1.2.2 released http://icio.us/xxrckh # Public Knowledge Statement on DoJ Intellectual Property Task Force http://icio.us/a3r235 # Google Book Search by the Numbers http://icio.us/ec44lz # Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles http://icio.us/p10j4i # eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?' http://icio.us/wrwhuz # Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data http://icio.us/r03a0o # Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers http://icio.us/gfuea1 # Fedora UK & Ireland / EU Joint User Group Meeting http://icio.us/npbjpr # Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context http://icio.us/io3cmr # Open-Access Journals Break Barriers to Academic Freedom http://icio.us/jzechc # Open Access and Libraries: Be my guest http://icio.us/3g1on4 # North Carolina State U. Gives Students Free Access to Physics Textbook Online http://icio.us/2e2adf # Culture Trumps Technology: The UC Berkeley Scholarly Communication Report http://icio.us/hux1bg # How to Find Free Public Domain Books from Google Book Search http://icio.us/yvsxvf # Royal Holloway embraces open access policy for all research http://icio. ... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100 820733 http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/02/openaire-press-release.html European Countries join forces to realize the EC Open Access pilot: OpenAIREOpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), a three-years project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission, has now taken up its work to implement Open Access on a pan-European scale. This ambitious effort unites 38 partners from 27 European countries.The main goal of OpenAIRE is to support the Open Access pilot, launched by the European Commission in August 2008. This Open Access pilot, which covers about 20% of the FP7 budget, commits researchers from 7 thematic areas (Health, Energy, Environment, Information & Communication Technology, Research Infrastructures, Socio-economic sciences & Humanities and Science in Society) to deposit their research publications in an institutional or disciplinary Open Access repository, to be made available worldwide in full text. OpenAIRE will establish underlying structures for researchers to support them in complying with the pilot through European Helpdesk System, build an OpenAIRE portal and e-Infrastructure for the repository networks and explore scientific data management services together with 5 disciplinary communities.“The implementation of a Europe wide infrastructure for Open Access is a milestone for the success of Open Access,” says Dr. Norbert Lossau, Scientific Coordinator of OpenAIRE and Director of Göttingen State and University Library, Germany. “The project consortium will work closely together with the European Commission, the ERC and many other stakeholders (such as SPARC Europe, LIBER, EUA) to achieve the broadest possible impact.”The project consortium incorporates the best available expertise for Open Access & repository infrastructures in Europe and will establish a distributed support structure based on a network of liaison offices covering all European Union member states plus Norway. ... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821946 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/QKFM4Nvdk1U/ Ayer ofrecimos  una presentación en la  actividad de enriquecimiento profesional organizada por  Asociación de Profesores de Educación Comercial de Puerto Rico. En la misma discutimos  lo que a mi entender son las principales lecciones del movimiento de acceso abierto para la educación. La presentación está dividida en dos partes principales: el contenido que presentamos y un apéndice en donde se incluyen enlaces y recursos adicionales. Lecciones Del Movimiento De Acceso Abierto View more presentations from Universidad de PR. Compartir con del.icio.us ¡Compártelo con Digg! Añadirlo a Diigo Compartir con Reddit ¿Has encontrado algo bueno? Compártelo en StumbleUpon Compartir con Technorati Añadirlo a MySpace Compartir con Facebook ¡Compártelo en Twitter! ¿Enviarlo a un amigo? ¿Quieres suscribirte a los comentarios de este Post? Compartir con Linkedit Seed el Post en Newsvine Añdirlo a Google Bookmarks Añdirlo a Mister Wong Compartir con FriendFeed Enviar a Twittley Compartir con Wikio Store this link on MyLinkVault Add to a lense on Squidoo Clip this to Evernote Enviar a Meneame Enviar a Bitacoras Compartir con Tumblr Blog this on Blogger Compartir con Plurk Etiquetas: Acceso abierto, Acceso abierto, Open Access, Recursos Educativos Abiertos Entradas relacionadas Libros sobre acceso abierto (0) Estudiantes a favor de la cultura libre (0) Escuela de Educación de Stanford vota a favor del acceso abierto (0) Revistas Gratuitas (0) Acceso abierto y bibliotecas académicas (2) (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:47:30 +0100 819995 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/19/libraries-hear-that-open-access-to-research-is-inevitable/ From an Article by Jennifer Howard: Public access to research is “inevitable,” but it will be a slog to get to it. That was the takeaway message of a panel on the role libraries can play in supporting current and future public-access moves. The panel was part of the program at the membership meeting of the Association of Research Libraries, held here yesterday and today. [Snip] Still, many scholars need the hard sell from colleagues and librarians about the benefits of open access. Lorraine J. Haricombe, dean of the University of Kansas Libraries, described the “foot soldiering” and outreach that had to be done before Kansas’s faculty passed an open-access resolution earlier this year. It required some “very, very challenging conversations” with scholars worried about peer review and copyright issues, Ms. Haricombe said. [Snip] Sayeed Choudhury, associate dean of the Library Digital Program at the Johns Hopkins University and director of the Digital Data and Curation Center there, gave a tantalizing glimpse into a future where vast swathes of data will be available to researchers anywhere. Johns Hopkins’s Data Conservancy project has a grant from the National Science Foundation to help develop part of the NSF’s ambitious DataNet project, which aims to build an international, large-scale data-curation network. “We have to think about how we’re going to reach across all these data domains,” Mr. Choudhury said. Access the Complete Article Source: Wired Campus (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:41:19 +0100 819836 http://nnlm.gov/scr/blog/?p=4471 The Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) free period for Haiti has been extended to March 19th. The Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) is a partnership of the National Library of Medicine, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. EAI provides free access to full text articles from [...] (Source: Network News) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:24:25 +0100 820917 http://www.cla.ca/divisions/cacul/regenerations/2010/02/regen-sessions-at-cla-conference.html If you haven't yet seen the announcement: registration is now open for the 2010 CLA national conference in Edmonton (June 2-5). The preliminary program is available online. Get your name in there before the early bird deadline of April 9! The Re:Generations committee is proud to be presenting two sessions at the conference. First, is our mini-unconference, Preparing for the Profession: An Interactive Session for New and Emerging Professionals. We really do mean interactive. We will ask attendees to drive the course of the session, with the precise topics and discussion format to be determined right then and there. A panel of present and past Re:Generations committee members will share advice on such topics as job hunting, creating an academic c.v. and cover letter, life on the tenure track, networking, creating a web presence...and whatever else you want to discuss. In fact, we'd like to open up the discussion before the conference itself. Watch this space in the coming weeks for preliminary discussions and tips. Mark your calendar for Thursday, June 3 at 4 pmOur second session is Speed Updating for Academic Librarians. The session description says it all:Overloaded with information? Pressed for time? This session will provide a one-stop shop to keep academic librarians up-to-date. Lightning round updates will be presented by experts on key issues facing our profession, including open access, metadata standards, and research methodology. After the presentations, conversations will continue in break-out groups.Mark your calendar for Friday, June 4 at 3 pmWe're looking forward to hearing your comments and ideas about the sessions. Stay tuned for more!Thanks to Flickr user eliazar for use of the image "Mini!". Creative Commons license: Attribution 2.0 Generic (Source: Re:Generations) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821329 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/n_n.html (Source: New) Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:42:44 +0100 820253 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/18/info-industry-robust-year-for-reed-elsevier/ Make sure to note the third paragraph in the article re: open access. From the Article: Elsevier, which contains the science publishing divisions and accounts for 44% of adjusted profits for the entire group, saw sales grow 4%, while profit increased 9%. The legal wing LexisNexis, which makes up 42% of adjusted operating profits for the group, saw sales grow 14%, and adjusted operating profit rise 13%, at constant currency. Reed said its core law firm markets were flat in US and marginally lower internationally reflecting a downturn in legal services industry. [Snip] One area of concern highlighted within the report is the growth of open access within the journals market. “If these methods of STM publishing are widely adopted or mandated, it could adversely affect our revenue from paid subscription publications,” the statement said. [our emphasis] Digital piracy, and the need to protect Reed Elsevier’s intellectual property, was also highlighted as a “principal risk”, warning that “our proprietary rights could be challenged, limited, invalidated or circumvented”. Access the Complete Article Source: The Bookseller (UK) (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:13:11 +0100 819396 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/02/legal_selfhelp.php In this economic downturn, courts are seeing a rise in the number of lawsuits being filed. With layoffs, furlough days, and mounting debt, many people just cannot afford to hire an attorney. An increasing number of people are handling their own cases, writing their own legal documents, and conducting their own legal research. California's County Law Libraries' (CCCLL) primary mission is to provide Californians with free access to legal information, and to serve as a valuable resource in these types of situations. However, many users turn first to the Internet and/or their local public library when starting a legal research project. There is an abundance of legal information online, with varying degrees of credibility and accuracy. This abundance can be overwhelming for those unfamiliar with the law. For those of you faced with these types of legal reference questions, CCCLL Law Librarians offer this short list of legal self-help websites for general California legal information. A great starting place for many people is the California State Court's Self-Help website. This website provides detailed background information, as well as procedural information, guidance on finding court forms, and tips for presenting your case in court. Guides are available for a large number of common legal issues, such as divorce, small claims, and evictions. Included in these guides are links to interactive versions of the required court forms. A similar online self-help center is provided by the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Although this website is intended for those with cases before the Santa Clara Court, much of the background and procedural information, and information about forms, is relevant to those with cases in any California Superior Court. Good websites for generating court documents in subject areas such as family law, small claims, and evictions are EZ Legal File (http://www.ezlegalfile.org) and I-CAN! Legal (http://www.icandocs.org/). ... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:47:00 +0100 819520 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/18/wikipedia-saves-public-art-wspa-new-project-to-document-public-art-on-global-scale/ From the Announcement: Students and faculty from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) have developed and launched the nation’s first organized effort to document public art information in Wikipedia. Wikipedia Saves Public Art (WSPA), a growing collection of articles prepared for the online open access encyclopedia, makes monuments and outdoor sculpture – from the famous to the overlooked – accessible to all. It is a unique and major step toward sharing and preserving an often underappreciated segment of the world’s cultural heritage. “No other university, museum or municipality has created a public art collection within Wikipedia—this is a first, even though Wikipedia has been around for almost a decade and now has over 3 million articles. Our effort is also unusual because we have included global positioning system (GPS) coordinates in all of our articles, which allows linkages via location-based computer applications like Google Maps,” said Jennifer Geigel Mikulay, Ph.D., assistant professor and public scholar of visual culture at IUPUI, who has spearheaded the project. [Snip] That’s where IUPUI students and faculty from the School of Liberal Arts and Herron School of Art and Design come in. They are researching, cataloguing, photographing and writing articles on public art pieces in Indianapolis with the hope that the movement will expand exponentially across the nation and around the world. Dozens of Indianapolis public sculptures, many from the IUPUI campus (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPUI_Public_Art_Collection), have been documented through WSPA. [Snip] “Wikipedia is open to covering all kinds of topics, including art, all the time, but this is the first coordinated effort to get public art information into Wikipiedia. This is truly making public art available to much wider publics,” she [Geigel Mikulay] added. (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:32:50 +0100 819406 http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/023548.html Chronicle of Higher Education: "This is a strong vehicle for academic freedom," says Mr. Willinsky, whose Public Knowledge Project offers... (Source: beSpacific) Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 819496 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/02/17/mexican-law/ Ley.mx is a Justia site that provides free online access to federal and state legislation for the third amigo in the NAFTA trio. The Federal constitution, codes, regulations and other statutory instruments are available in both HTML and PDF formats. The same documents for the 31 states seem to be available only in PDF; though you’ve got the choice to download them or view them online within an embedded Google viewer. As well, there are links to the appropriate government sites, law schools, and a number of law firms. The simple and attractive site is in Spanish, as are all the documents within it. Anyone having business with our socio mexicano will want to have this site bookmarked. [via Legal Research Plus] (Source: Slaw) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:04:26 +0100 820299