scholarly journals Adventures in Rightsizing : Enhancing Discovery and Research With Open Access Journals in the University Library

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara M. Pope
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
University Library ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The University

scholarly journals The Scholarly Communications Needs of Faculty: An Evidence-Based Foundation for the Development of Library Services

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
University Library ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Communications Services ◽  
Article Processing Charges ◽  
The University

Abstract Objectives – This exploratory research seeks to broadly understand the publishing behaviours and attitudes of faculty, across all disciplines, at the University of Saskatchewan in response to the growing significance of open access publishing and archiving. The objective for seeking this understanding is to discover the current and emerging needs of researchers in order to determine if scholarly communications services are in demand here and, if so, to provide an evidence-based foundation for the potential future development of such a program of services at the University Library, University of Saskatchewan. Methods – All faculty members at the University of Saskatchewan were sent personalized email invitations to participate in a short online survey during the month of November 2012. The survey was composed of four parts: Current Research and Publishing Activities/Behaviours; Open Access Behaviours, Awareness, and Attitudes; Needs Assessment; and Demographics. Descriptive and inferential statistics were calculated. Results – The survey elicited 291 complete responses – a 21.9% response rate. Results suggest that faculty already have a high level of support for the open access movement, and considerable awareness of it. However, there remains a lack of knowledge regarding their rights as authors, a low familiarity with tools available to support them in their scholarly communications activities, and substantial resistance to paying the article processing charges of some open access journals. Survey respondents also provided a considerable number of comments – perhaps an indication of their engagement with these issues and desire for a forum in which to discuss them. It is reasonable to speculate that those who chose not to respond to this survey likely have less interest in, and support of, open access. Hence, the scholarly communications needs of this larger group of non-respondents are conceivably even greater. Conclusion – Faculty at the University of Saskatchewan are in considerable need of scholarly communications services. Areas of most need include: advice and guidance on authors’ rights issues such as retention of copyright; more education and support with resources such as subject repositories; and additional assistance with article processing charges. The University Library could play a valuable role in increasing the research productivity and impact of faculty by aiding them in these areas.

scholarly journals Co-building Open Science: Portrait of the University Library as a Publisher

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 517-523
Author(s):  
Emilie Barthet ◽  
Jean-Luc De Ochandiano ◽  
Irina S. Boldyreva
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Online Publishing ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
University Library ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The University

Located in Lyon, France, the Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University is home to 30 000 students in law, management and humanities, around 600 academic staff and 18 research units. A dedicated research support team was implemented within the University library in 2015, to promote open access to their results. In 2017, answering to requests expressed by researchers to be helped in their online publishing, the library launched an in-house incubator for open access journals in social sciences and humanities. Staff from the research units was offered an open access standard-compliant publishing platform, technical and editorial assistance, training for publications, and program to have the backlog of issues addressed.The journal incubator raison d’être is to allow the University’s research to be available on an open access basis, to reinforce good open access journal publishing practices among research units and to improve the overall visibility of the research produced by Jean Moulin Lyon 3 researchers. The project quickly gathered momentum: two other higher educational institutions have approached the library to see if they could publish on the platform, thus expanding its role beyond the limits of its parent institution. The project played an instrumental role in forming, in late 2018, a network of French incubators and publishing platforms in social sciences and humanities. Named REPÈRES, the network promotes sharing good practices among public-funded open access publishers. The Jean Moulin Lyon 3 library project is a contribution to bibliodiversity since it supports an open access model and the use of vernacular languages (French in the case at hand). The project also reinforces the intertwining of academic and library staff for the common goal of scientific publishing. Thus, the library becomes a full participant of the scientific process.

scholarly journals Report on open access publishing at the College of Education, Health and Human Development, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arindam Basu
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Audience Participation ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Questions And Answers ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

Open access publications are those where following the publication itself, the publishers allow anyone to access the article or publication to read, or download without any restriction. It is believed that publishing in open access journals can increase the visibility of the publication, although uncertainties prevail. In a bid to improve the PBRF ratings, the College research committee in its monthly meeting agreed to organise an Open Access Seminar in the college. The seminar was organised on 4th of June, 2015, Thursday. Four speakers were identified. They were: Peter Lund and Anton Angelo from the University of Canterbury Central Library and Researcn Unit, Peter Binfield from PeerJ, and Viriginia Barbour from Australian Open Access Support Group. The topics of the seminar included a brief introduction to open access publishing and the state of the scenario in NZ and Australia and exploration of the issues around green and gold open access, and future directions as to what can be done to increase participation in open access. The seminar was also designed to be an open to all, and free flowing discussion. This seminar followed a format of webinar and on the spot presentations, questions and answers. A web based page was set up using the openly accessible Adobe Connect "room" where participants could connect even if they were not able to attend in person. Dr Binfield and Barbour were overseas speakers and they connected using the webinar (Adobe Connect). Mr Lund and Angelo were local speakers and they came to the meeting hall directly and spoke. A resource website was set up and the event was recorded for later viewing. The event was publicised across the university and through online channels. About 30 individuals attended the meeting in person, and ten participants joined online. Mr Lund introduced the concept of open access at the University of Canterbury, and introduced the concepts of gold and green open access; Mr Angelo introduced the concepts of creative commons, and Drs Binfield and Barbour discussed models of open access and the situation in Australia. The floor was open for questions, and clarifications and discussions from the audience participation. Key takeaway lessons from the seminar included: at the University of Canterbury, scholars are active in publishing in Open Access channels; green open access is popular in Australia and in New Zealand; newer channels and novel publishing models uitlising the Open Access formats are emerging and becoming popular; while some reservations about quality in open access exist, quality of peer review in OA journals were at par.

scholarly journals Changing the publishing landscape towards openness – supporting hybrid Open Access at the University of Bergen

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Cutler ◽  
Tormod Strømme ◽  
Irene Eikefjord
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Hybrid Model ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Issue ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The University ◽  
Level 2

See video of the presentation.In 2013 The University of Bergen established a publication fund to cover the costs for publishing Open Access. The fund covers Article Processing Charges (APC) in both Open Access journals and hybrid Open Access in subscription journals. The publication fund at The University of Bergen is one of few in Norway that includes support for hybrid Open Access. The hybrid model is controversial because the publisher receives income twice for the same article, first through APC and then through subscriptions.The arguments for including hybrid were: (1) there are more journals to choose from, hence giving more researchers the opportunity and initiative to publish Open Access. (2) the quality issue of Open Access journals. The University believed that by including hybrid more articles would be published Open Access in renowned journals. This because a larger percentage of hybrid journals are registered on level 2 in the Norwegian System for defining quality of publication channels.The fund has been a success in so far that it has led to an increase in Open Access articles in high quality journals, also within research fields that traditionally do not publish Open Access. The fund has granted applications for almost 9 million NOK. Of a total of 437 granted applications, 278 (64 %) are articles in hybrid journals. 103 articles (24 %) have been published on level 2; 11 in Open Access-journals and 92 hybrid.When it comes to research field, the results show that about 90 % of granted applications come from researchers within medicine, psychology and the natural sciences, including many fields that already have a tradition for publishing their research Open Access. The fund has only led to a slight increase in Open Access publishing with APC within the humanities, social sciences and law.Researchers are happy with hybrid publishing because they are able to continue publishing in the same journals as before. It is also the case that support of hybrid publishing results in more Open Access articles in high quality journals according to the Norwegian system. Yet, support for hybrid publishing has so far not altered which research fields that publish Open Access, although there has been an increase of Open Access publications within all faculties.Our presentation will form a basis for discussing a number of questions pertaining to the hybrid model: What have the academic and economic consequences of the hybrid model been? Do all researchers at the University have the same opportunity to publish their research Open Access? Has support of hybrid lead to more Open Access in renowned publication channels?The University has appointed a group to evaluate the publication fund and recommend if and how it shall continue. Will the fund continue to support hybrid after the trial period ends in 2015?

scholarly journals "The summary of the Crimea`s history" from its origins, under the Abbasids, to Mengli Geray (870/1465). Part 2

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-210
Author(s):  
Refat R. Abduzhemilev ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
University Library ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Recently, a new source on the history of Crimean Khanate and the Golden Horde has received open access for the scientific world. The digitized manuscript is dated 1701 and has the title “Résumé de l’histoire de Crimée” des origines, sous les Abbassides, à Mengli Giray (870/1465) (“The summary of the Crimea’s history” from its origins, under the Abbasids, to Mengli Geray, 870/1465). The location of the manuscript is the University Library of Languages ​​and Civilizations (Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilizations). The source is presented in the collection of the Ottoman Turkish manuscripts (Fonds de manuscrits turcs ottomans) under the code MS.TURC.110g.

scholarly journals No Deal with Norway

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Magnussen ◽  
Erik Lieungh
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
University Library ◽  
The University

Norway does not have a deal with the publisher Elsevier anymore and follows in Sweden and Germany's footsteps. But why didn't Norway renew their deal? And how will the Norwegian institutions and libraries cope with a future without the largest publisher of academic literature? Also, what does the newly signed deal with Wiley contain? Is that a "perfect" Open Access deal? The guest of this episode is Mona Magnussen, Head of the Collection Department at the University Library at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The host of this episode is Erik Lieungh. This episode was first published 15 March 2019.

scholarly journals Social Justice Through Access to Information at the University of Illinois at Chicago University Library

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra De Groote
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
University Library ◽  
The University

This paper outlines the efforts of the University Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago to provide free open access to information so that everyone has equal access to it. The library does this through advocacy for open access, providing resources to make information openly accessible, and providing training in information literacy to access and use open information.

scholarly journals Norway made a new deal with Elsevier

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Magnussen ◽  
Erik Lieungh
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
University Library ◽  
The University ◽  
The New Deal

In 2019 Norway decided not to renew their deal with the Dutch publisher Elsevier. The reasons were clear: there was no real transition towards Open Access. Now, a new deal has been signed with the same publisher, and the deal is worth around 9-10 million euros. But the question is: What kind of a deal has been made this time around? The new deal is said to be a trial deal, and the pilot will run for two years. It will be giving seven universities and 39 research institutions across Norway access to Elsevier’s world-leading platform for scientific knowledge with more than 16 million publications from over 2,500 journals published by Elsevier and its society partners. It also enables Norwegian researchers to publish their research Open Access. Our guest today is Mona Magnussen, the Head of the Department of Collections at the University Library at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The host of the program is Erik Lieungh. This episode was first published 29 April 2019.

Using open access digital archive in scientific libraries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Kovyazina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
University Library ◽  
Scientific Libraries ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Universities

For many years, the open access digital archives have been operating in majority of foreign universities. As a rule, the university library maintains and supports the digital archive. Unfortunately, this practice has stagnated in Russia. What does impede the progress and which advantages can digital archives offer to research libraries? The author attempts to review practical difficulties of digital archive acquisition as well as advantages to the libraries. The solution may be found in balancing the difficulties to be overcome and the spectrum of possibilities the libraries would get with the open access digital archive.

What is Open Science?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stein Høydalsvik ◽  
Erik Lieungh
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Research Support ◽  
University Library ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

What is Open Science and why do we need it? And can Open Access publishing deliver the same quality as traditional subscription-based journals do? This episode's guest is Stein Høydalsvik, senior adviser for publishing and research support at the University Library at UIT – The Arctic University in Tromsø, Norway. And in this episode of the podcast, he’ll give us an introduction to the world of open science. This episode was first published 26 September 2018.

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