Nice example of open journal system, ojs, run by the library

Nice example of open journal system, ojs, run by the library

Nice example of open journal system, ojs, run by the library

In the Observer, John Naughton unloads both barrels on the "academic publishing racket" in which giant multinational publishers get free, state-subsidized research to publish, use free, state-subsidized labor for peer-review, require assignments of the scholars' copyrights as a condition of publication, then charge astounding sums to the scientists and academics they are "serving" for the right to read the work they're all engaged in producing.

And start going to the conferences our users – especially the faculty we work with – go to.

OK, we don’t have to completely stop going to library conferences, but unless we engage with our users more fully, I think we run the risk of being forgotten.

A bit of background.

At the ScienceOnline2010 conference, two librarians held a session attempting to tell scientists and researchers about library tools that were available. The ensuing discussion between librarians and scientists solidified some ideas that I’ve been having for a while now about the library world.

UKSG article about the RWA

Brilliant video about Open Access, Copyright, Youtube, remixing and more. Split in to two parts, the first half looks at scholarly publishing. The second focuses mainly on youtube, it's affect on society and the issues around copyright. It stresses the differences between *professional* *copying* and * amateur* *remixing*

Many academics are excited about the future of instant distribution of research. Right now the time lag between finishing a paper, and the relevant worldwide research community seeing it, is between 6 months and 2 years. This is because during that time, the paper is being peer reviewed, and peer review takes an incredibly long time. 2 years is roughly how long it used to take to send a letter abroad 300 years ago.

Yesterday I reported that MIT Press has distanced itself from the Research Works Act (RWA). The RWA is a new bill introduced into the House of Representatives at the end of last year that would reverse the US National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy requiring taxpayer-funded research to be made freely accessible online. It would also prevent other federal agencies from imposing similar requirements on their funded researchers.

Interesting article in the Times about the push for “open science”, bypassing the traditional structure of refereed journals in favor of a sort of fluid, self-policing online community. I can’t and won’t weigh in on this issue with regards to hard science, but I think there are some interesting parallels with what has been happening in economics.

ALPSP 2011 - includes someone from Sussex, apparently.

Developing opportunities for the future: adapting to change - Jane Harvell - Video ALPSP

- Publishing is central to Academia, but its publishing system is outclassed by what Open Source software developers have in GitHub

- GitHub's success is not just about openness, but also a prestige economy that rewards valuable content producers with credit and attention

- Open Science efforts like arXiv and PLoS ONE should follow GitHub's lead and embrace the social web

Few can now doubt that open access (OA) to scholarly research is set to become an important feature of the scholarly communication landscape. What is less certain is how much of the world’s research literature is currently available on an OA basis, how fast OA is growing, and what percentage of the world’s academic and scientific literature will be OA in the long-term.

announced today the launch of Article-Based Publishing -- a new publishing model that publishes articles as final and citable without needing to wait until a journal issue is complete. With an increasing focus on online publishing, there is a growing need for innovative publication models geared towards individual articles instead of the print-based issue model. Article-Based Publishing is the assigning of final citation data on an article-by-article basis, decoupled from the compilation of the journal issue itself.

wiley FUD about Open Access

write up of breakout sessions, including ours

ORCID aims to solve the author/contributor name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID and other current author ID schemes.

The Online model

great essay on corporate academic publishers and OA

stats on articles, papers and research outputs

rent research articles. interesting idea

September 14, 2009—Five of the nation's premier institutions of higher learning—Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley—today announced their joint commitment to a compact for open-access publication.

Friends of Frontiers (FoF) is a non-profit membership organization that is part of the Frontiers Research Foundation.
FoF is an attempt to build up a community network around the concept of Equal Opportunity Research Publishing also based on the Open Access Initiative movement

this info for students/academics (this aimed at MIT userbase)

Can never remember how to spell it :)