scholarly journals The Research Council of Norway: Implementing a new model for financing gold-OA

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes W. Løvhaug
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Indirect Cost ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
New Model ◽  
The Future

>> See video of presentation (27 min.) The Research Council of Norway has recently revised its policy on Open Access and has decided to follow up the policy by implementing a new model for financing APCs. The new financing scheme, called STIM-OA, is directed towards the already existing publication funds at the Norwegian research institutions. The funds will from 2015 be able to apply STIM-OA for up to 50 % of their OA-expenses the previous year. STIM-OA will make a substantial contribution to the publication funds. Furthermore the scheme aims at structuring the financial and administrative handling of APCs at the institutional level. The goal of STIM-OA is to contribute financially in a transitional period, but in the future the Research Council expects to finance APCs as normal indirect cost for the research institutions, the same way as subscription fees are handled today.

scholarly journals A Novel Approach to Article Processing Charges in Norway: Results and Experiences from the Research Council’s STIM-OA Call in 2015

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Øygarden Flæten
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
New Model ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Funding Scheme ◽  
Article Processing Charges ◽  
Source Of Information

See video of the presentation.In 2014 the Research Council of Norway (RCN) revised its policy on Open Access and implemented a new model for funding institutions' Article Processing Charges (APCs). This model – STIM-OA – was launched in the spring of 2015 as a separate funding scheme directed towards institutional publication funds. In the period 2015 to 2019 institutions may apply to the STIM-OA scheme each year and have up to 50% of APCs from the previous year covered. This presentation gives the facts and figures from the first STIM-OA call, and reflects on the oportunities of the STIM-OA scheme, both as a source of information about the costs of OA publishing in Norway, and as a tool for the structuring of APCs on an institutional level.

scholarly journals Theory and Practice in OA-policies - How to implement Open Access: a funder perspective

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Løvhaug ◽  
Rune Rambæk Schølberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Funding Agency ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

See video of the presentation.Theory and Practice in OA-policies: The Research Council of Norway is currently revising its policy on Open Access. At the same time the Council is looking at ways to support Norwegian journals within  humanities and social sciences in order to promote OA-publishing. As a funding agency, the Research Council is looking at ways to implement OA-policies. The key question is: How to move from principle  declarations on Open Access to practical tools for achieving OA-goals? Schjølberg and Løvhaug will present a model for financial support to OA-journals within humanities and social sciences as a joint venture between the Research Council and research institutions in Norway.

scholarly journals Book Review: New Directions for Special Collections: An Anthology of Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Jessica Holden
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Donor Relations ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Future ◽  
Rare Books

In this follow-up to Special Collections 2.0: New Technologies for Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archival Collections, Thomas and Whittaker present a collection of twenty-one essays from an array of authors on the future of special collections work, with an emphasis on the changing nature of the field. In the introduction, the editors describe their mission of creating a compendium of resources that can apply to the work of both librarians and archivists: “We regret the disconnect between our organizations and our cultures, and hoped to help bridge this by intentionally seeking both perspectives in this book” (ix). This text offers practical advice on various aspects of special collections—from acquisition and appraisal, to reference and instruction, to donor relations, to open access and copyright—and can serve as a handy go-to guide for anyone working in a special collections repository.

GREEN OPEN ACCESS IN KENYA: A REVIEW OF THE CONTENT, POLICIES AND USAGE OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-54
Author(s):  
Wanyenda Leonard Chilimo
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Current State ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

 There is scant research-based evidence on the development and adoption of open access (OA) and institutional repositories (IRs) in Africa, and in Kenya in particular. This article reports on a study that attempted to fill that gap and provide feedback on the various OA projects and advocacy work currently underway in universities and research institutions in Kenya and in other developing countries. The article presents the findings of a descriptive study that set out to evaluate the current state of IRs in Kenya. Webometric approaches and interviews with IR managers were used to collect the data for the study. The findings showed that Kenya has made some progress in adopting OA with a total of 12 IRs currently listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and five mandatory self-archiving policies listed in the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP). Most of the IRs are owned by universities where theses and dissertations constitute the majority of the content type followed by journal articles. The results on the usage and impact of materials deposited in Kenyan IRs indicated that the most viewed publications in the repositories also received citations in Google Scholar, thereby signifying their impact and importance. The results also showed that there was a considerable interest in Swahili language publications among users of the repositories in Kenya.

Author Processing Charges: Barriers to Open Research, Barriers to Progress

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin O’Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Research ◽  
The Future

Presentation slides from Metropolitan New York Library Council Open Access Symposium: "The Future Is Open Access, but How Do We Get There?: A Symposium." September 12-13, 2019. New York. NY.

Instruction Helps and Hinders Young Children’s Feature Learning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Kalish ◽  
Nigel Noll
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Feature Learning ◽  
Irrelevant Information ◽  
Diagnostic Feature ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Prediction Task ◽  
Feature Correlation ◽  
The Future

Existing research suggests that adults and older children experience a tradeoff where instruction and feedback help them solve a problem efficiently, but lead them to ignore currently irrelevant information that might be useful in the future. It is unclear whether young children experience the same tradeoff. Eighty-seven children (ages five- to eight-years) and 42 adults participated in supervised feature prediction tasks either with or without an instructional hint. Follow-up tasks assessed learning of feature correlations and feature frequencies. Younger children tended to learn frequencies of both relevant and irrelevant features without instruction, but not the diagnostic feature correlation needed for the prediction task. With instruction, younger children did learn the diagnostic feature correlation, but then failed to learn the frequencies of irrelevant features. Instruction helped older children learn the correlation without limiting attention to frequencies. Adults learned the diagnostic correlation even without instruction, but with instruction no longer learned about irrelevant frequencies. These results indicate that young children do show some costs of learning with instruction characteristic of older children and adults. However, they also receive some of the benefits. The current study illustrates just what those tradeoffs might be, and how they might change over development.

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