scholarly journals Center for Open Science: Strategic Plan

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian A. Nosek
Keyword(s):  
Culture Change ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Scholarly Community ◽  
Collective Effort ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Good For

The mission of the Center for Open Science (COS) is to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research. We envision a future scholarly community in which the process, content, and outcomes of research are openly accessible by default. All scholarly content is preserved and connected and transparency is an aspirational good for scholarly services. All stakeholders are included and respected in the research lifecycle and share pursuit of truth as the primary incentive and motivation for scholarship. Achieving the mission requires culture change in the incentives that drive researchers’ behavior, the infrastructure that supports research, and the business models that dominate scholarly communication. This Strategic Plan is the result of collective effort by the COS team, board, and community stakeholders.

scholarly journals Preprints in Chemistry: An Exploratory Analysis of Differences with Journal Articles

Publications ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Basic Sciences ◽  
Wealth Of Nations ◽  
New Education ◽  
Young Researchers

The exploratory analysis of the differences between preprints and the corresponding peer reviewed journal articles for ten studies first published on ChemRxiv and on Preprints, though statistically non-significant, suggests outcomes of relevance for chemistry researchers and educators. The full transition to open science requires new education of doctoral students and young researchers on scholarly communication in the digital age. The preliminary findings of this study will contribute to inform the curriculum of the aforementioned new courses for young chemists, eventually promoting accelerated innovation in a science that, unique amid all basic sciences, originates a huge industry central to the wealth of nations.

A Call to Develop Standards for Those Delivering ‘Research Practice’ Training

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Kingsley
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
The North

The nature of the research endeavour is changing rapidly and requires a wide set of skills beyond the research focus. The delivery of aspects of researcher training ‘beyond the bench’ is met by different sections of an institution, including the research office, the media office and the library. In Australia researcher training in open access, research data management and other aspects of open science is primarily offered by librarians. But what training do librarians receive in scholarly communication within their librarianship degrees? For a degree to be offered in librarianship and information science, it must be accredited by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), with a curriculum that is based on ALIA’s lists of skills and attributes. However, these lists do not contain any reference to key open research terms and are almost mutually exclusive with core competencies in scholarly communication as identified by the North American Serials Interest Group and an international Joint Task Force. Over the past decade teaching by academics in universities has been professionalised with courses and qualifications. Those responsible for researcher training within universities and the material that is being offered should also meet an agreed accreditation. This paper is arguing that there is a clear need to develop parallel standards around ‘research practice’ training for PhD students and Early Career Researchers, and those delivering this training should be able to demonstrate their skills against these standards. Models to begin developing accreditation standards are starting to emerge, with the recent launch of the Centre for Academic Research Quality and Improvement in the UK. There are multiple organisations, both grassroots and long-established that would be able to contribute to this project.

scholarly journals Data Papers as a New Form of Knowledge Organization in the Field of Research Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 622-638
Author(s):  
Joachim Schöpfel ◽  
Dominic Farace ◽  
Hélène Prost ◽  
Antonella Zane
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Science Data ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
Fair Principles ◽  
New Form ◽  
Machine Readable

Data papers have been defined as scholarly journal publications whose primary purpose is to describe research data. Our survey provides more insights about the environment of data papers, i.e., disciplines, publishers and business models, and about their structure, length, formats, metadata, and licensing. Data papers are a product of the emerging ecosystem of data-driven open science. They contribute to the FAIR principles for research data management. However, the boundaries with other categories of academic publishing are partly blurred. Data papers are (can be) generated automatically and are potentially machine-readable. Data papers are essentially information, i.e., description of data, but also partly contribute to the generation of knowledge and data on its own. Part of the new ecosystem of open and data-driven science, data papers and data journals are an interesting and relevant object for the assessment and understanding of the transition of the former system of academic publishing.

scholarly journals Addressing disorder in scholarly communication: Strategies from NISO 2021

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Jodi Schneider ◽  
Michele Avissar-Whiting ◽  
Caitlin Bakker ◽  
Hannah Heckner ◽  
Sylvain Massip ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Science Standards ◽  
Validation And Verification ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Health Related Research ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Conference Session

Open science and preprints have invited a larger audience of readers, especially during the pandemic. Consequently, communicating the limitations and uncertainties of research to a broader public has become important over the entire information lifecycle. This paper brings together reports from the NISO Plus 2021 conference session “Misinformation and truth: from fake news to retractions to preprints”. We discuss the validation and verification of scientific information at the preprint stage in order to support sound and open science standards, at the publication stage in order to limit the spread of retracted research, and after publication, to fight fake news about health-related research by mining open access content.

Risk Based Thinking and Contingency Modeling in Leadership and Administration for Quality Management in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 415-436
Author(s):  
Jasmine K.S.
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Automatic Process ◽  
Preventive Action ◽  
Risk Prioritization ◽  
The Core ◽  
Organization Leadership

Risk based thinking is the core aspect to avoid or reduce the undesired effects and promote continual improvement for any organization, especially in the field of higher education. Preventive action becomes an automatic process when a management system is risk-based. The contingency approach to management will make fruitful results once it is considered as more explicit and builds it into strategic plan of the management system with upfront planning with the help of business models. In the strategic plan of any organization, leadership and administration plays an important role. By identifying the context related risks, leaders can analyze the opportunities in terms of impact and feasibility and plan towards prioritizing the risks to act on. In this direction, the need for a business model which focuses on efficient process-based approach towards risk prioritization, thereby prevention and avoidance is proposed, which demonstrates management their leadership, and commitment to the quality management of higher education.

scholarly journals Open Science in the Humanities, or: Open Humanities?

Publications ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Knöchelmann
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Open Research ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Do So

Open science refers to both the practices and norms of more open and transparent communication and research in scientific disciplines and the discourse on these practices and norms. There is no such discourse dedicated to the humanities. Though the humanities appear to be less coherent as a cluster of scholarship than the sciences are, they do share unique characteristics which lead to distinct scholarly communication and research practices. A discourse on making these practices more open and transparent needs to take account of these characteristics. The prevalent scientific perspective in the discourse on more open practices does not do so, which confirms that the discourse’s name, open science, indeed excludes the humanities so that talking about open science in the humanities is incoherent. In this paper, I argue that there needs to be a dedicated discourse for more open research and communication practices in the humanities, one that integrates several elements currently fragmented into smaller, unconnected discourses (such as on open access, preprints, or peer review). I discuss three essential elements of open science—preprints, open peer review practices, and liberal open licences—in the realm of the humanities to demonstrate why a dedicated open humanities discourse is required.

scholarly journals E-publishing development and changes in the scholarly communication system

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Nascimento Souto
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Scholarly Communication System ◽  
Publishing Business

New and alternative scientific publishing business models is a reality driven mostly by the information and communication technologies, by the movements towards the recovery of control of the scientific communication activities by the academic community, and by the open access approaches. The hybrid business model, mixing open and toll-access is a reality and they will probably co-exist with respective trade-offs. This essay discusses the changes driven by the epublishing and the impacts on the scholarly communication system stakeholders' interrelationships (publishers-researchers, publishers-libraries and publishers-users interrelationships), and the changes on the scientific publishing business models, followed by a discussion of possible evolving business models. Whatever the model which evolves and dominates, a huge cultural change in authors' and institutions publishing practices will be necessary in order to make the open access happen and to consolidate the right business models for the traditional publishers. External changes such as policies, rewarding systems and institutions mandates should also happen in order to sustain the whole changing scenario.

scholarly journals The university press: trends, initiatives and collaborations over the past several years

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clayton Hayes ◽  
Robert P. Holley
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fiscal Constraints ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The University ◽  
Scholarly Communication System

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine recent trends that have affected university presses (UPs). The increased reliance on digital resources and fiscal constraints within higher education has forced UPs to re-evaluate their position with the scholarly communication system. Responses include an increased focus on partnerships, new forms of publication, changing business models and better meeting customers’ needs. Design/methodology/approach – The authors have reviewed publications on UPs from the past five years and added their viewpoints on current and future trends. Findings – UPs must adapt to resource scarcity and current trends in scholarly communication to remain viable. Practical implications – Both UPs and academic libraries may gain insights on how to meet the needs of researchers and scholars within a changing environment. Originality/value – This paper summarizes and evaluates a broad spectrum of research on UPs.

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