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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

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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

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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 …

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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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 …

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 …

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

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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 …

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.

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.

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

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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 …

Introductory Discussion, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Ne, July 12, 2017 (2017 Nebraska Acrl Scholarly Communication Roadshow, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln), Joy Kirchner, William Cross

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Scholarly communication: From understanding to engagement. "To set the tone for the day, introduce yourselves and start sharing!" Includes a list of four questions intended to get the conversation started.

Research Software Sustainability: Report On A Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Simon Hettrick

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Without software, modern research would not be possible. Understandably, people tend to marvel at results rather than the tools used in their discovery, which means the fundamental role of software in research has been largely overlooked. But whether it is widely recognised or not, research is inexorably connected to the software that is used to generate results, and if we continue to overlook software we put at risk the reliability and reproducibility of the research itself. The adoption of software is accompanied by new risks - many of which are unknown to the majority of the research community. The practices …

Copyrightx: Harvard University Law School, Sue A. Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

Slides of a talk about the 2014 iteration of the CopyrightX course administered by Professor William Fisher of Harvard University Law School.

Final Report: Eunis – Eurocris Joint Survey On Cris And Ir, Lígia Ribeiro, Pablo De Castro, Michele Mennielli

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The rising strategic importance of Current Research Information Systems (CRISs) and Institutional Repositories (IRs) for higher education and research institutions relates to the need to foster research and innovation and to provide a faster and broader technology transfer to industry and society. These are critical factors for global competitiveness, and the increasing competition among institutions to increase and disseminate excellence in research is another area where these systems provide a key contribution. Additional important elements with a strong impact on such strategic evolution are the new policies on Open Access, National Research Assessment and Research Funding. It is indeed from …

Altmetrics Data Quality Code Of Conduct, National Information Standards Organization

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Altmetrics are increasingly being used and discussed as an expansion of the tools available for measuring the scholarly impact of research in the knowledge environment. The NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics Project was begun in July 2013 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to address several areas of limitations and gaps that hinder the broader adoption of altmetrics. This document is one output from this project, intended to help organizations that wish to use altmetrics to ensure their consistent application across the community. “Working Group C” studied and discussed issues of data quality in the altmetrics realm, an essential …

Intellectual Freedom For Authors: A Very Brief Overview Of United States Copyright, Sue Ann Gardner

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VIII: Intellectual Freedom for Authors: A Very Brief Overview of United States Copyright

What Can Be Copyrighted and What Rights Are Conferred?

Who Owns Copyright in a Work?

Copyright Formalities

Transfer of Copyright

Length of Term of Copyright

Permissions and Licensing

Fair Use

Consequences of Infringement

Altmetrics Definitions And Use Cases, National Information Standards Organization (Niso)

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The NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics Initiative was begun in July 2013 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and divided into two phases. Phase II of the Project, which began in late 2014, set out to develop standards covering particular action items identified in Phase I through the creation of three NISO working groups. This document represents the output of the working group tasked with the following action items:

1. To come up with specific definitions for the terms commonly used in alternative assessment metrics, enabling different stakeholders to talk about the same thing; and

2. To identify the …

Finding The Public Domain: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit, Richard C. Adler, Justin Bonfiglio, Kristina Eden, Brian S. Hall, Melissa Levine, University Of Michigan Library Copyright Office

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Working over a span of nearly eight years, the University of Michigan Library received three grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to generously fund CRMS, a cooperative effort by partner research libraries to identify books in the public domain in HathiTrust. In CRMS- US (2008– 11), CRMS reviewed over 170,000 volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library that were published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 (“CRMS- US”). That first project team— which included reviewers from the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, and Indiana University— identified nearly 87,000 volumes …

Strengthening Research Through Data Sharing, Elizabeth Warren

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Data sharing has incredible potential to strengthen academic research, the practice of medicine, and the integrity of the clinical trial system. Some benefits are obvious: when researchers have access to complete data, they can answer new questions, explore different lines of analysis, and more efficiently conduct large-scale analyses across trials. Other advantages, such as providing a guardrail against conflicts of interest in a clinical trial system in which external sponsorship of research is common and necessary, are less visible yet just as critical. I appreciate that there are many policy, privacy, and practical issues that need to be addressed in …

Converting Scholarly Journals To Open Access: A Review Of Approaches And Experiences, David J. Solomon, Mikael Laakso, Bo-Christer Björk, Peter Suber Editor

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This report identifies ways through which subscription-based scholarly journals have converted their publishing models to open access (OA). The major goal was to identify specific scenarios that have been used or proposed for transitioning subscription journals to OA so that these scenarios can provide options for others seeking to “flip” their journals to OA. The report is based on the published literature as well as “gray” literature such as blog posts and press releases. In addition, interviews were conducted with eight experts in scholarly publishing. The report identifies a variety of goals for converting a journal to OA. While there …

Recommendations For Standardized International Rights Statements, Rightsstatements.Org, International Rights Statements Working Group

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Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and many other 1 2 libraries, archives and other cultural heritage institutions believe that everyone should be able to engage with their cultural heritage online. We can help achieve this by giving cultural heritage institutions simple and standardized terms to summarize the copyright status of Works in their collection and how they may be used. These simple and standardized terms we call “Rights Statements.” Providing this information is essential for those who wish to actively engage with the Works they find online. Can they use it in a school report? Print it …