scholarly journals Librarians as gate-openers in open access publishing: A case study in the United Arab Emirates

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 102425
Author(s):  
Mohamed Boufarss ◽  
J. Tuomas Harviainen
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Open Access Publishing

scholarly journals Sustainability in open access publishing: The e cancer case study

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Foxall ◽  
Audrey Nailor
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Cancer Case

scholarly journals Open Access Research Via Collaborative Educational Blogging: A Case Study from Library & Information Science

Open Praxis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Radsliff Rebmann ◽  
Camden Bernard Clark
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Design Experiment ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
Educational Blogging

This article charts the development of activities for online graduate students in library and information science. Project goals include helping students develop competencies in understanding open access publishing, synthesizing research in the field, and engaging in scholarly communication via collaborative educational blogging. Using a design experiment approach as a research strategy, focus is placed on the design of the collaborative blogging activity, open access research as a knowledge domain, and analyses of four iterations of the project. Findings from this iterative learning design suggest several benefits of implementing collaborative educational blogging activities in distance contexts.

scholarly journals A new funding model for open-access monographs

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Eve ◽  
Frances Pinter
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
International Partnership ◽  
Funding Model ◽  
Revenue Model ◽  
Library Journal ◽  
Traditional Publisher ◽  
Access Model

We outline the work of a university press, with assistance from the COPIM Project (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs), in building an innovative revenue model to fund open access monographs at a traditional publisher. Building on library journal subscription models (eg: OLH) and on Knowledge Unlatched's approach to monograph funding, we present a sustainable OA publishing model that gives members exclusive access to a backlist, with the revenue then used to make the frontlist openly accessible. The model can be emulated by other scholarly presses who wish to take advantage of the opportunities that open access publishing affords. Supporting information: Led by Dr Frances Pinter (Publishing Advisor, & founder of Knowledge Unlatched) and Professor Martin Paul Eve (OLH, Birkbeck & COPIM) the case study explores an innovative revenue model that will transition new titles at a well-known publisher to a viable open-access model. COPIM is an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, publishers and infrastructure providers working on bringing about a new OA publishing ecosystem. Their remit is to build a revenue infrastructure, and examine production workflows and metadata, experimental publishing and archiving. The project is working with colleagues across the sector to document existing and potential ways of funding open-access monographs and is consulting with academics, publishers, libraries, funders, and policy makers. The publisher case study aims to initiate and document a ‘working model’ as the next step in creating a practical toolkit and roadmap for other publishers.

scholarly journals Copyright: the immoveable barrier that open access advocates underestimated

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Poynder
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
Scholarly Communication System ◽  
Personal Case

In calling for research papers to be made freely available open access advocates promised that doing so would lead to a simpler, less costly, more democratic, and more effective scholarly communication system. To achieve their objectives they proposed two different ways of providing open access: green OA (self-archiving) and gold OA (open access publishing). However, while the OA movement has succeeded in persuading research institutions and funders of the merits of open access, it has failed to win the hearts and minds of most researchers. More importantly, it is not achieving its objectives. There are various reasons for this, but above all it is because OA advocates underestimated the extent to which copyright would subvert their cause. That is the argument I make in this book, and I include a personal case study that demonstrates the kind of problems copyright poses for open access. I also argue that in underestimating the extent to which copyright would be a barrier to their objectives, OA advocates have enabled legacy publishers to appropriate the movement for their own benefit, rather than for the benefit of the research community, and to pervert both the practice and the concept of open access.

scholarly journals Enabling change in scholarly publishing in HSS in Greece: The case-study of ePublishing at EKT

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Nafpliotis ◽  
Evi Sachini ◽  
Victoria Tsoukala
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
The Future

See video of the presentation.The present contribution concerns a case study of open access publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Greece, its history and effect in helping the local researcher community transition from a print-only mode of work to online working environments and in rendering Greek publications and scholarship more relevant to the international scholarly community. The presentation provides Greek context in scholarly communication with an emphasis on HSS; it elaborates on the goals of the project and the challenges that were encountered and addressed during its implementation. One of the main reported successes of the project is the increased awareness among Greek researchers in HSS of the capabilities and potentials of modern scholarly communication systems and the creation of a demand originating from the corresponding research communities themselves for the continuation and expansion of similar activities in the future.The project, which started in 2007 with the transition of three print journals in the humanities to an online and print format and online working environment, culminates with the development of an online platform that provides access to content and services from a single point in the web, ePublishing.ekt.gr. As part of EKT’s services, we systematize and upgrade the journals’ policies according to international standards, provide an online working platform and training, digitize and release in open access academic articles (2,555 articles in established journals, published by small, non-profit, academic/scholarly society publishers, so far), gradually provide DOIs, and concentrate (apart from articles) on books and conference proceedings but in the future we’ll also include purely online books.In a nutshell, we have focused on providing publishers of journals in HSS a range of comprehensive services which are constantly updated and improved in the light of the developments in scholarly communication, and which foster the internationalization, visibility, and preservation of research in these fields. We have also concentrated on increasing the awareness of the Humanities and the Social Science communities on open access and electronic publishing. It is worth mentioning here that the aforementioned services constitute only one of our activities relating to HSS. Another major and relevant project concerns the Greek Reference Index for Publications in the HSS, a comprehensive registry of Greek peer-reviewed journals that registers metadata, provides access to content where this is possible, and measures a variety of indicators.We continue our efforts to provide a comprehensive digital framework for HSS research in Greece, and, given that we are aiming at further expansion in our range of services and further growth in our output, we are also exploring a variety of business models that will help us achieve our goals. Particular effort will be placed in further researching the financial implications of this endeavour and choosing the appropriate business models for the future, as well as promoting awareness about digital scholarship and OA to researchers. Future plans include the intensification of our efforts to publish more e-journals and the exciting new prospect of publishing OA monographs in HSS, in collaboration with institutions in Greece and abroad.

Integrating the IR into strategic goals at the University of Toledo: case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjun Sabharwal ◽  
Gerald R. Natal
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Scholarly Activity ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
The University

PurposeThe purpose of this case study is to demonstrate a current model, as well as explore future models, for integrating institutional repositories (IRs) in higher education goals at the University of Toledo. Design/methodology/approachThis is a case study that uses literature review as an exploratory framework for new approaches while reflecting on existing literature to present the current practical framework for using IRs. FindingsThe digital environment has pushed academic institutions toward new strategies for curating their record on scholarship and preserving their heritage collections, using their IRs. Innovative approaches are also vital to curating the IR content digitally to facilitate access to those contents in ways that was not possible a few decades ago. Surveys and existing literature point to increasing uses of IRs despite abstinence from considering open access for scholarly activity among faculty concerned about copyright, plagiarism and sustainability. Staffing and funding IR initiatives are important factors in sustaining the curation of scholarship in the digital environment. Practical implicationsIRs with open access publishing, expert gallery and digital library features place academic libraries in a central role as partners in digital scholarship. Originality/valueThis case study presents an original approach to incorporating the IR into the curation of digital content while also considering potential uses of knowledge management approaches for data and knowledge sharing in an academic environment.

scholarly journals Predator vs. Librarian?: A Case Study in Open Access, Creative Commons, and Predatory Publishing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecile Farnum ◽  
Brian D. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Copyright Infringement ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Legal Advice ◽  
Complex Landscape ◽  
Predatory Publishing

Librarianship typically discusses the virtues of open access publishing; this session will focus on its darker side. We will discuss the experiences of challenging a predatory publisher who appeared to violate the Creative Commons Licensing attached to our published journal article. Next, we will outline how we discovered this apparent copyright infringement, sought legal advice, and share perspectives on the issue from other involved authors, the journal’s editorial team, and other interested parties. This case study will highlight the complex landscape of scholarly publishing and copyright in an open access world.

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