Friday, September 28, 2007
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Updated
Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship.
This selective bibliography presents over 3,120 articles,
books, and other printed and electronic sources that are
useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing
efforts on the Internet.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Transitions: scholarly communications news for the UI community | September 2007
Welcome to the September issue of Transitions.
Table of Contents:
*Campaign against Open Access and Public Access to Federally Funded Research
*Scholarly Publishing Out of Step with the Academy
*Scholarly Publishers Issue Position Paper on Author/Publisher Rights
*U.S College Book Price Study
*Economic Stability of Open Access
*Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Scholarly Communication
*Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Joins Google’s Library Project
*Do Open Access Articles Have Greater Citation Impact?
*Flattening of the U.S. Output of Scientific Articles: 1988–2003
*Amazon Will Digitize Universities’ Books and Sell Print-on-Demand Copies
*L.A. Times Editorial: Accessing NIH research
*Yale Libraries Pull Out of BioMed Central Over Cost of Publication
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
How Involved Should the U.S. Government Be in the Scholarly Journal Publishing Business?
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Documentary videos on OA
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Use PRISM To Start A Dialogue On Open Access
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PERSEE: French Open Access Portal to Scholarly Human and Social Sciences Journals
Based on an open-source policy, PERSEE developed new tools for the production and publication of digitized contents, following international norms in the fields of digital libraries and open access to scientific information.
Since its opening in January 2005, the PERSEE portal (www.persee.fr) offers a free and immediate online access to constantly growing collections of scientific journals, along with services specifically developed for the best use of these digitized contents.
Journal List [ http://www.persee.fr/listRevues.do ]
GWLA & CRL - Digitization of government technical reports
Digitization, metadata production and hosting are being undertaken under the auspices of GWLA. CRL's role in this pilot will be to ensure that the project is designed to result in persistent and sustainable resources. To that end we at CRL will work with GWLA to ensure that selection of the reports for digitization avoids duplication of, and to the extent possible is coordinated with, other widely supported efforts, such as those of Google, ARL, Open Content Alliance, the Government Printing Office, and the government agencies themselves. We will work with GWLA, moreover, to help identify viable platforms for hosting and providing access to the materials digitized and to develop a funding plan that will sustain the effort for the long term.
UW-Madison libraries provide seed money for open access publishing
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has become the latest institution to established a fund to support open access publication fees and digital publishing by faculty and academic staff. This fund will be managed by a new Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing (OSCP). The OSCP's website also includes a wealth of information about open access publishing for authors at the university.
[ http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/open_access_publication_fund_at ]
PLoS and Partners Offer Video Communications With SciVee
With online video the hottest content on the Web these days, it is a logical progression to see it move beyond popular entertainment into more serious efforts-instruction, conference presentations, video journals, and scholarly research explanations. The scientific community
in particular seems to be embracing the new medium to enhance the dissemination and comprehension of science. SciVee (http://www.scivee.tv/) is a new site that lets scientists communicate their works as multimedia presentations incorporated with the content of their published articles.
SciVee is operated in partnership with the open access publisher the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). The so-called "YouTube for science" site has already garnered a great deal of interest and buzz in the blogosphere and media, even though it is still in "alpha" stage and its founders weren't planning for a launch at this time.
According to one founder, Philip Bourne of the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) and founding editor in chief of PLoS Computational Biology, he talked about the project at a scientific
meeting and the buzz began prematurely. "The good news," he said, "is that more than 44,000 people have already looked at the site in the last few days; the bad news is that there's not enough content yet." (There look to be five pubcasts currently available.) The site is approaching 6 million hits and is drawing interest worldwide. The beta release is planned for September, and already some 700 people have volunteered to be beta testers.
The project began with some pilot pubcasts done at UCSD to test video formats and has involved the other PLoS editors. There are currently eight people on the SciVee team. The SDSC is providing the site hosting.
Bourne said that SciVee makes it easier and faster to keep up with current scientific literature because it can deliver the key points of articles in an enjoyable way-and one to which younger audiences in particular can relate. "I think it's a natural evolution of what YouTube created. It's what grad students of tomorrow will be used to," said Bourne.
[ http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=37308 ]
Canadian Institutes for Health Research: Open Access to Health Research Publications
Open access to health research publications: CIHR unveils new policy
http://www.irsc.gc.ca/e/34851.html
Les Institutes de recherche et santé du Canada à publié pour diffusion immédiate:
Libre accès aux publications sur les recherches en santé : Les IRSC
lancent une nouvelle politique http://www.irsc.gc.ca/f/34851.html
Policy details in brief:
"grant recipients must make every effort to ensure that their peer-reviewed research articles are freely available as soon as possible after publication...by depositing the article in an archive, such as PubMed Central or an institutional repository, and/or by publishing results in an open access journal. A growing number of journals already meet these requirements and CIHR-funded researchers are encouraged to consider publishing in these journals...grant recipients are now required to deposit bioinformatics, atomic, and molecular coordinate data, as already required by most journals, into the appropriate public database immediately upon publication of research results.. Researchers are encouraged to make use of the SHERPA RoMEO Publisher Copyright Policies and Self-Archiving service to determine whether publishers policies are compliant with the policy, and the policy clarifies that article processing fees for
open access publishing are an eligible expense under the Use of Grant Funds".
Notable quotes from the Press Release:
Timely and unrestricted access to research findings is a defining feature of science, and is essential for advancing knowledge and accelerating our understanding of human health and disease," stated Dr. Alan Bernstein, President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. "With the development of the internet it is now feasible to disseminate globally and easily the results of research that we fund. As a publicly-funded organization, we have a responsibility to ensure that new advances in health research are available to those who need it and can use it - researchers world-wide, the public and policy makers.
This open access policy will serve as a model for other funding agencies, said Dr. James E. Till of the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto [Chair of the Task Force that developed this policy]. The policy will leverage taxpayers' investment by accelerating research and by fostering its broader application.
My comments (and those of others ) on the CIHR policy as yet another example of Canadian Leadership in the Open Access Movement: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2007/09/canadian-institutes-of-health-research.html
The library community in Canada can be proud of our participation,
through strong pro-open access-submissions, in the consultation
leading to this policy.
Video -- Copyright!
Sorry -- will add additional information and link (creator and citation) when I locate it again, but I wanted to try and load a video.
So here goes -- Video on basics of Copyright......
Welcome
I needed a place to post all of the information I was gathering in terms of Scholarly Communication or the Crisis in Scholarly Communication in terms of creating a sustainable systems that fits the needs of the principle stakeholders and furthers the educational and research usage of information and information systems.
I am defining Scholarly Communication in the broadest sense......
"Scholarly Communications encompasses the authoring, publishing, dissemination, and usage of information produced for teaching, learning or research in whatever format, with the tools, measures and systems needed to provide access to and store these materials in perpetuity."
The principle stakeholders are.....
Authors – Those who produce scholarly information
Publishers – Those responsible for the publication and distribution of this information
Librarians – Those who acquire, organize, classify, and provide access to the information.
Readers – Researchers, Students, etc. – Those who use the information usually to produce
more information
However, I am personally not as interested in the ethical use of information or the plagiarism aspects of the topic. I will try to include information in these areas as I come across them but do not expect to seek them out as I foresee I will be with other areas of the scholarly communication. I will attempt to tag all of my entries such that they can be organized and retrieved quickly.
The main topic areas I hope to cover are as follows:
Scholarly Communication -- background information, links, news, etc.
Inflation of Journals and Materials
Open Access
Institutional/Subject Based Repositories
Copyright
Authors Rights
Peer Review
Plagiarism
Access to Information
Thanks -- HSM