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Open Access, Academic Libraries And The Future Of Scholarly Publishing, Elena Šimukovič Dec 2016

Open Access, Academic Libraries And The Future Of Scholarly Publishing, Elena Šimukovič

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●Background on research project ●Open Access: a long desire for transition ●Open Access targets in Europe ●OA2020 – setting a new horizon? ●Counter-narratives and inner resistances ●What about libraries? ●Discussion & concluding remarks


Across The Great Divide: Findings And Possibilities For Action From The 2016 Summit Meeting Of Academic Libraries And University Presses With Administrative Relationships (P2l), Mary Rose Muccie, Joe Lucia, Elliott Shore, Clifford Lynch, Peter Berkery Dec 2016

Across The Great Divide: Findings And Possibilities For Action From The 2016 Summit Meeting Of Academic Libraries And University Presses With Administrative Relationships (P2l), Mary Rose Muccie, Joe Lucia, Elliott Shore, Clifford Lynch, Peter Berkery

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The library-press relationship explored in P2L allows for transformative approaches in support and dissemination of scholarship. Effective exploitation of these partnerships is in the early stages and there is an opportunity to influence the outcomes to ensure they are as broadly applicable and scalable as possible. As Cliff Lynch (CNI) noted in his summary of the day’s conversation, we must do more exploration of both intra-institutional (library and press) and cross-institutional collaborations. He provided several compelling suggestions for partnerships, including new ways to promote and leverage library special collections as well as ideas for increasing discoverability of press content. (See …


Finding The Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System, Melissa Levine Oct 2016

Finding The Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System, Melissa Levine

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Historically, copyright review has been uncoordinated and has taken place on a modest scale. The Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) changes that. 1 CRMS was supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services over three National Leadership Grants. It was led by the University of Michigan in collaboration with 19 other highly dedicated research libraries. Together, we developed a system to train and coordinate reviewers to assess the copyright status of digitized books held in the HathiTrust Digital Library. Over the course of the three interrelated grants that make up the CRMS project, we developed expertise in managing a …


Digitalcommons@University Of Nebraska-Lincoln: Unl Institutional Repository, Linnea Fredrickson, Sue Ann Gardner Sep 2016

Digitalcommons@University Of Nebraska-Lincoln: Unl Institutional Repository, Linnea Fredrickson, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

Poster outlining facts and metrics that pertain to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln online institutional repository on the Bepress Digital Commons platform.


Worldwide Distribution Via Your Local Repository, Paul Royster Sep 2016

Worldwide Distribution Via Your Local Repository, Paul Royster

SciComm 2016 - Lincoln, Nebraska, September 23-24, 2016

We operate the UNL Digital Commons institutional repository (IR) 87,130 Total Papers, 37,790,242 Total Downloads (since 2005), 6,746,500 Downloads in the past year.

We are the university’s most visited subdomain. Our content ranks above Elsevier’s in Google search results. Sometimes we even beat Wikipedia.

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Our site looks like this >

Downloads for Dr. Hebets (68 papers). Downloading institutions-- Top 50 schools (of 627) for Eileen Hebets articles. Countries (105) for Eileen Hebets articles. We sent copies of your articles to users in these places.

So free scientific research gets lots of exposure, but ... Free educational resources get even …


Publishing Information For Authors, Paul Royster, Sue Ann Gardner, Linnea Fredrickson Sep 2016

Publishing Information For Authors, Paul Royster, Sue Ann Gardner, Linnea Fredrickson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

Publishing: What Authors Ought to Know, by Paul Royster

Copyright for Scholarly Authors, by Sue Ann Gardner

Mechanics of the Manuscript: What Happens Next? by Linnea Fredrickson


The Grand Compromise Of U.S. Public Access Programs: Going Green, Jeffrey Salmon Sep 2016

The Grand Compromise Of U.S. Public Access Programs: Going Green, Jeffrey Salmon

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We at the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) have found that providing full public access to the research DOE funds is simple in principle and complex in practice. ... [W]e can say that a great deal of progress has been made toward reaching the goal of free public access it sets out. And much of that progress is due to hard collaborative work by both the government and publishers. Following the February 2013 memo from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research …


The Elife Sciences Annual Report 2015, Elife Sciences Publications Limited Sep 2016

The Elife Sciences Annual Report 2015, Elife Sciences Publications Limited

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Our rate of publishing almost doubled during 2015, reaching around 90 articles per month by the end of the year, and reflecting another strong year of growth in submissions. The significant and fascinating science published in 2015 covered the effects of moonlight on the reproductive biology of coral, the sensation of pain in human infants, the use of molecular tweezers in HIV control, and a project in drug discovery using a citizen science approach. However, there is still far too much important work being published behind subscription barriers, and our goal is to invest further in eLife to enable more …


Mdpi Annual Report 2015: Academic Open Access Publishing Since 1996, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (Mdpi) Sep 2016

Mdpi Annual Report 2015: Academic Open Access Publishing Since 1996, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (Mdpi)

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3 20 YEARS OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING

5 2015 KEY FIGURES

5 Papers Published in MDPI Journals by

Region

5 Geographical Distribution of Authors and

Reviewers

5 Publication by Subject Area

5 Growth Based on Published Articles

6 Summary of Key Performance Indicators

6 Readership

6 Quality of Service

6 Papers Published in Flagship Journals

7 2015 FINANCIAL INFORMATION

7 Information on Article Processing Charges

7 Sources of Income

8 JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR

DEVELOPMENT

8 Impact Factors

9 Journal Rankings by Quartile in Science

Citation Index Expanded ( SCIE )

10 NEW JOURNALS LAUNCHED IN 2015

11 SCIFORUM CONFERENCES IN …


Research Impact Of Paywalled Versus Open Access Papers, Éric Archambault, Grégoire Côté, Brooke Struck, Matthieu Voorons Aug 2016

Research Impact Of Paywalled Versus Open Access Papers, Éric Archambault, Grégoire Côté, Brooke Struck, Matthieu Voorons

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This note presents data from the 1science OAIndx on the average of relative citations (ARC) for 3.3 million papers published from 2007 to 2009 and indexed in the Web of Science (WoS). These data show a decidedly large citation advantage for open access (OA) papers, despite them suffering from a lag in availability compared to paywalled papers.

There is an abundant literature on the citation advantage of OA papers, starting with a succinct communication by Lawrence (2001). Several studies have been listed by SPARC, the majority of which support the idea that when papers are openly available, they are more …


How Open Science Helps Researchers Succeed, Erin Mckiernan, Philip E. Bourne, C. Titus Brown, Stuart Buck, Amye Kenall, Jennifer Lin, Damon Mcdougall, Brian A. Nosek, Karthik Ram, Courtney K. Soderberg, Jeffrey R. Spies, Kaitlin Thaney, Andrew Updegrove, Kara H. Woo, Tal Yarkoni Jul 2016

How Open Science Helps Researchers Succeed, Erin Mckiernan, Philip E. Bourne, C. Titus Brown, Stuart Buck, Amye Kenall, Jennifer Lin, Damon Mcdougall, Brian A. Nosek, Karthik Ram, Courtney K. Soderberg, Jeffrey R. Spies, Kaitlin Thaney, Andrew Updegrove, Kara H. Woo, Tal Yarkoni

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Open access, open data, open source, and other open scholarship practices are growing in popularity and necessity. However, widespread adoption of these practices has not yet been achieved. One reason is that researchers are uncertain about how sharing their work will affect their careers. We review literature demonstrating that open research is associated with increases in citations, media attention, potential collaborators, job opportunities, and funding opportunities. These findings are evidence that open research practices bring significant benefits to researchers relative to more traditional closed practices.


Institutional Strategies For Open Educational Resources (Oers): Report Of A Cni Executive Roundtable Held April 3 & 4, 2016, Coalition For Networked Information Jul 2016

Institutional Strategies For Open Educational Resources (Oers): Report Of A Cni Executive Roundtable Held April 3 & 4, 2016, Coalition For Networked Information

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At the Spring 2016 CNI Membership Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, we held an Executive Roundtable on the topic of Institutional Strategies for Open Educational Resources (OERs). While this is clearly a topic of growing interest in higher education institutions, we did not anticipate the overwhelming response by CNI member institutions seeking to attend this roundtable. To meet the demand, we offered two sessions of the roundtable (with different institutions participating in each) on Sunday, April 3, and Monday, April 4. We were fortunate to have a student OER advocate from one of our participating institutions join one of the …


Intellectual Property, Paul Royster Jun 2016

Intellectual Property, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

Copyrights, trademarks, & patents

Registration of copyright

What copyright gives you

Requirements for copyright

What you can and cannot copyright

Transfer of copyright

Exceptions to copyright exclusives

Fair use

Instructional exemption

Open access licenses

Ownership by UNL


Strategic Thinking And Design Initiative: Extended And Updated Report, Association Of Research Libraries Jun 2016

Strategic Thinking And Design Initiative: Extended And Updated Report, Association Of Research Libraries

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Introduction 11 This report1 documents the Strategic Thinking and Design work that the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) engaged in from the fall of 2013 through the end of 2015. Fueled by the deep desire of the ARL membership to rise to the challenges facing higher education in the 21st century, and with grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Association engaged in an unprecedented project to reimagine the future of the research library and then reshape ARL, its organization, to help bring that future into being.

This report is a …


Report From The Participation In The Current System Workgroup, Nancy Davenport, Barbara Defelice, Gary Evoniuk, Pollyanne Frantz, Julie Hannaford,, Jeff Mackie-Mason, Jane Mcauliffe, Jennifer Pesanelli, Paul Royster, Crispin Taylor, Michael Wolfe Jun 2016

Report From The Participation In The Current System Workgroup, Nancy Davenport, Barbara Defelice, Gary Evoniuk, Pollyanne Frantz, Julie Hannaford,, Jeff Mackie-Mason, Jane Mcauliffe, Jennifer Pesanelli, Paul Royster, Crispin Taylor, Michael Wolfe

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

OSI2016 Workgroup Question: Do researchers and scientists participate in the current system of scholarly publishing because they like it, they need it, they don’t have a choice in the matter, or they don’t really care one way or another? What perceptions, considerations and incentives do academicians have for staying the course (like impact factors and tenure points), and what are their pressures and incentives for changing direction (like lowering publishing charges)?

The authors of scholarly works play a critical role in the scholarly communications system: authors are the original content creators, and in many or most cases are the original …


Creating Green Open Access To Institutional Scholarship Using Digital Commons, Deborah L. White, Yumi Ohira Apr 2016

Creating Green Open Access To Institutional Scholarship Using Digital Commons, Deborah L. White, Yumi Ohira

Nebraska Library Association: Conferences

Has your institution mandated an Institutional Repository for open access? Do you feel intimidated by working with two digital repositories simultaneously? We will share our success and experience of working with two repositories with a small staff at two small universities in rural Kansas.

The repository serves as a Green Open Access solution to globally share. Both Pittsburg State University (PSU) and Fort Hays State University (FHSU) currently use CONTENTdm (CDM) as their primary digital repository. In 2015 both PSU and FHSU purchased and launched BePress Digital Commons (DC), a more robust repository. If you see global discoverablility, unlimited storage, …


Transcending Institutions And Borders: 21st Century Digital Scholarship At K-State, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Rachel Miles, Ryan Otto, Charlene N. Simser Apr 2016

Transcending Institutions And Borders: 21st Century Digital Scholarship At K-State, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Rachel Miles, Ryan Otto, Charlene N. Simser

Nebraska Library Association: Conferences

Digital scholarship of the 21st century transcends institutions and borders with its freedom from print and physical locations. This case study reviews aspects of establishing a sustainable digital scholarship center, supporting open access through the institutional repository (K-State Research Exchange - K-REx) and an open access publishing platform (New Prairie Press – NPP) along with other outreach efforts. The Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship (CADS) at K-State Libraries serves our campus community, but digital scholarship extends K-State's impact far beyond Manhattan, Kansas. Highlighting the scholarship at our campus is only one small piece of the landscape. Collaboration on …


The Open Access Interviews: Sir Timothy Gowers, Mathematician, Richard Poynder, Timothy Gowers K.B. Apr 2016

The Open Access Interviews: Sir Timothy Gowers, Mathematician, Richard Poynder, Timothy Gowers K.B.

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As the use of green open access policies looks increasingly like a failed strategy, and as universities, research funders, and governments in Europe seek to engineer a mass “flipping” of subscription journals to gold OA, has the open access movement reached a watershed moment? If so, how will it develop from here, is it headed in the right direction, and who should be leading the way? One remarkable thing about the OA movement is that it has primarily been driven by people other than researchers. The President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, José van Dijck drew …


Visualizing Global Nanotechnology Research On Publication Deeds, 1989-2014, Chandran Velmurugan, Natarajan Radhakrishnan Apr 2016

Visualizing Global Nanotechnology Research On Publication Deeds, 1989-2014, Chandran Velmurugan, Natarajan Radhakrishnan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study highlights the publication analysis in nanotechnology research outputs in global level as identified the data in Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database, Thomson Reuters, Philadelphia, USA. It is found that a total output of worldwide scholarly communications in the field of nanotechnology is 20825 during the period between 1989 and 2014. The maximum numbers of outputs of 7269 records (34.91 %) were published by USA which is placed in the first rank. The next position has got by China with 2121 research papers (=10.19%) and followed by Germany is in the third rank. The primary sources are …


Craft Publishing: A Proposal For A Programmatic Paradigm Shift In Academic Libraries, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster, Linnea Fredrickson, Brian Rosenblum, L. Ada Emmett Apr 2016

Craft Publishing: A Proposal For A Programmatic Paradigm Shift In Academic Libraries, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster, Linnea Fredrickson, Brian Rosenblum, L. Ada Emmett

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

This presentation will include the parameters by which an effective, at-cost publishing program may be structured in academic libraries. With advances in technology, electronic storage, and connectivity, and contrary to the claim that such activities may result in a “race to the bottom,” libraries have proven to be natural entities within which to effect a paradigm change in scholarly publishing. Activities to date, however, have been more often than not underfunded and understaffed. Even among those that have been well supported, efforts across the community have been ad hoc. Within the context of recent initiatives and discussions, the authors will …


Ithaka S+R Us Faculty Survey 2015, Christine Wolff, Alisa B. Rod, Roger C. Schonfeld Apr 2016

Ithaka S+R Us Faculty Survey 2015, Christine Wolff, Alisa B. Rod, Roger C. Schonfeld

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The Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey has tracked the changing research, teaching, and information usage practices of faculty members since the early days of the digital transformation. In this sixth triennial cycle, we survey a random sample of US higher education faculty members, adding medical scholars to our population to provide even more comprehensive coverage of US higher education.

Our first look at medical faculty members in the 2015 cycle shows that respondents sometimes have attitudes and practices that parallel their colleagues in the social sciences and physical sciences, but often are unique in the way that they discover and …


The Federal Big Data Research And Development Strategic Plan, The Networking And Information Technology Research And Development Program, Big Data Senior Steering Group Apr 2016

The Federal Big Data Research And Development Strategic Plan, The Networking And Information Technology Research And Development Program, Big Data Senior Steering Group

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This document was developed through the contributions of the NITRD Big Data SSG members and staff. A special thanks and appreciation to the core team of editors, writers, and reviewers: Lida Beninson (NSF), Quincy Brown (NSF), Elizabeth Burrows (NSF), Dana Hunter (NSF), Craig Jolley (USAID), Meredith Lee (DHS), Nishal Mohan (NSF), Chloe Poston (NSF), Renata Rawlings-Goss (NSF), Carly Robinson (DOE Science), Alejandro Suarez (NSF), Martin Wiener (NSF), and Fen Zhao (NSF).

A national Big Data1 innovation ecosystem is essential to enabling knowledge discovery from and confident action informed by the vast resource of new and diverse datasets that are rapidly …


Aaup Handbook: Best Practices For Peer Review, 2015-16 Aaup Acquisitions Editorial Committee Apr 2016

Aaup Handbook: Best Practices For Peer Review, 2015-16 Aaup Acquisitions Editorial Committee

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AAUP offers this handbook of Best Practices in Peer Review as a resource for member publishers, acquisitions editors both new and experienced, faculty editorial boards, scholarly authors and researchers, and new scholarly publishing programs. The Best Practices handbook was developed by the Association’s Acquisition Editorial Committee through a consensus-building two-year process to articulate a set of practices that comprise a rigorous process of peer review. The Committee has rightly noted that, “the peer review process is highly complex, involves many individuals, and must be responsive to the norms of the appropriate fields.” Disciplinary expectations, administrative procedures, inter-disciplinary and creative works, …


Us Agencies – Public Access Plans Details, Chorus Apr 2016

Us Agencies – Public Access Plans Details, Chorus

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23 US government agencies that fund scientific research and their public access plans details as of April 2016. Included are effective date for awards, embargo terms, repository names, and whether agency is a CHORUS participant.

CHORUS: Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States, is a publishers' organization and a project to enable public access to funded research by directing users to publishers' sites.


Report Of The Liaison Models Team [University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, University Librares], Toni Anaya, Andrew D. Cano, Lorna Dawes, Kiyomi D. Deards, Erica Defrain, Liz Lorang, Suping Lu, Charlene Maxey-Harris, Ted Naylor Apr 2016

Report Of The Liaison Models Team [University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, University Librares], Toni Anaya, Andrew D. Cano, Lorna Dawes, Kiyomi D. Deards, Erica Defrain, Liz Lorang, Suping Lu, Charlene Maxey-Harris, Ted Naylor

UNL Libraries: White Papers

Overview and Purpose Statement

In February 2016, Charlene Maxey-Harris proposed a charge to the UNL Libraries faculty to review the local liaison program. The original charge was for the creation of a team to investigate different, new liaison models and research that will allow the Libraries to restructure the current system to develop more collaborative partnerships with research centers and departments; improve the way liaisons communicate and interact with departments, research centers, and other new campus initiatives; allow liaisons to work in their areas of strength; and find ways to assess the impact of liaison engagement and outreach. The information …


Remanded Decision In Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, & Sage Publications Vs. Georgia State University Et Al., Orinda D. Evans Mar 2016

Remanded Decision In Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, & Sage Publications Vs. Georgia State University Et Al., Orinda D. Evans

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Defendants' Motion to Strike Portions of Plaintiffs' Remand Brief and to Disregard Declaration [Doc. 502] is GRANTED. This case is currently before the Court for fair use analysis with respect to 48 infringement claims. Plaintiffs are entitled to prevail on the claims involving 7 works in Georgia State classes. With respect to the other infringement claims, Defendants are entitled to prevail.

Defendants are the prevailing side and are entitled to an award of costs and attorneys' fees.


A Brief History Of Open Access, Paul Royster Mar 2016

A Brief History Of Open Access, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

Presentation discusses the origins and progress of the Open Access "movement" from Budapest 2002 to the present: its advocates and critics, its tools and methods, its goals and heroes, its dramas and possible futures.

Contents: Project Gutenberg 1971 ● GNU Project (1983) ● arXiv.org (1991) ● Public Knowledge Project (1998): John Willinsky, Simon Fraser University (partners Stanford University & University of British Columbia) ● BMC Biomed Central (2000), Jan Velterop. ● PLOS (Public Library of Science) 2001; PLoSOne 2003; Michael Eisen, UCalBerkeley ● APC: Article Processing Charges ● Hybrid journals ● Creative Commons 2001; Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School, et …


Most Frequently Downloaded Items In February 2016, Unl Digital Commons, Paul Royster Mar 2016

Most Frequently Downloaded Items In February 2016, Unl Digital Commons, Paul Royster

Digital Commons / Institutional Repository Information

Taking advantage of a 29th day this leap year, the UNL Digital Commons supplied 580,677 downloads for the month. The 250 most frequently downloaded are listed below.

Overall, the repository supplied 123,646 downloads of those 250 items, plus another 457,031 downloads of 46,975 other items not among the top 250. There were 23,017 items that were not downloaded during the month. This represents an average of 8.3 downloads per available item; and 67.5% of available items were downloaded at least once.

February's total was an increase of 15.9% over February 2015 and a 26.2% increase over February 2014 (helped in …


Committee On Institutional Cooperation 2014-2015 Annual Report: The Power Of The Collective, Committee On Institutional Cooperation Mar 2016

Committee On Institutional Cooperation 2014-2015 Annual Report: The Power Of The Collective, Committee On Institutional Cooperation

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Launched in 1958 by the university presidents as the academic counterpart to the Big Ten Athletic Conference, the CIC connects faculty and staff across the fifteen campuses to increase opportunities, save money, and solve problems. Throughout the years, CIC leaders have developed a nationally recognized portfolio of effective programs and initiatives that leverage resources and expertise and amplify our collective impact in the wider world. With a focus on recruiting, retaining, and engaging faculty, the CIC’s academic leadership programs are considered to be among the best professional development opportunities in higher education. By enhancing the leadership capabilities of faculty and …


How Readers Discover Content In Scholarly Publications, Tracy Gardner, Simon Inger Mar 2016

How Readers Discover Content In Scholarly Publications, Tracy Gardner, Simon Inger

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This report is the output of a large-scale survey of readers of scholarly publications (n=40439) and their behaviour in the discovery of journal articles and online books. The survey was conducted during October, November, and December of 2015. While usage statistics and analytics gathered by publishers, libraries and intermediaries can give us a partial view of discovery behaviour, there are many gaps in the knowledge that these can provide which we have endeavoured to fill by asking readers what tools they use in discovery.6

This survey builds upon previous surveys conducted by the authors in 2005, 2008 and 2012. For …