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  Hans Dillaerts le 23 April 2014 à 18 h 01 min Permalien | Connectez-vous pour laisser un commentaire
  Mots-clefs: research data ( 33 ), research data management ( 12 )   

  On the Role of Research Data Centres in the Management of Publication-related Research Data :

  « This paper summarizes the findings of an analysis of scientific infrastructure service providers (mainly from Germany but also from other European countries). These service providers are evaluated with regard to their potential services for the management of publication-related research data in the field of social sciences, especially economics. For this purpose we conducted both desk research and an online survey of 46 research data centres (RDCs), library networks and public archives; almost 48% responded to our survey. We find that almost three-quarters of all respondents generally store externally generated research data – which also applies to publication-related data. Almost 75% of all respondents also store and host the code of computation or the syntax of statistical analyses. If self-compiled software components are used to generate research outputs, only 40% of all respondents accept these software components for storing and hosting. Eight out of ten institutions also take specific action to ensure long-term data preservation. With regard to the documentation of stored and hosted research data, almost 70% of respondents claim to use the metadata schema of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI); Dublin Core is used by 30% (multiple answers were permitted). Almost two-thirds also use persistent identifiers to facilitate citation of these datasets. Three in four also support researchers in creating metadata for their data. Application programming interfaces (APIs) for uploading or searching datasets currently are not yet implemented by any of the respondents. Least common is the use of semantic technologies like RDF.
  Concluding, the paper discusses the outcome of our survey in relation to Research Data Centres (RDCs) and the roles and responsibilities of publication-related data archives for journals in the fields of social sciences. »

  URL : On the Role of Research Data Centres in the Management of Publication-related Research Data
  Alternative URL : http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq/article/view/9356

  

   

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  Hans Dillaerts le 23 April 2014 à 17 h 57 min Permalien | Connectez-vous pour laisser un commentaire
  Mots-clefs: research data ( 33 ), research data management ( 12 ), research library ( 10 )   

  Research libraries’ new role in research data management, current trends and visions in Denmark :

  « The amount of research data is growing constantly, due to new technology with new potentials for collecting and analysing both digital data and research objects. This growth creates a demand for a coherent IT-infrastructure. Such an infrastructure must be able to provide facilities for storage, preservation and a more open access to data in order to fulfil the demands from the researchers themselves, the research councils and research foundations.
  This paper presents the findings of a research project carried out under the auspices of DEFF (Danmarks Elektroniske Fag- og Forskningsbibliotek — Denmark’s Electronic Research Library) to analyse how the Danish universities store, preserve and provide access to research data. It shows that they do not have a common IT-infrastructure for research data management. This paper describes the various paths chosen by individual universities and research institutions, and the background for their strategies of research data management. Among the main reasons for the uneven practices are the lack of a national policy in this field, the different scientific traditions and cultures and the differences in the use and organization of IT-services.
  This development contains several perspectives that are of particular relevance to research libraries. As they already curate digital collections and are active in establishing web archives, the research libraries become involved in research and dissemination of knowledge in new ways. This paper gives examples of how The State and University Library’s services facilitate research data management with special regard to digitization of research objects, storage, preservation and sharing of research data.
  This paper concludes that the experience and skills of research libraries make the libraries important partners in a research data management infrastructure. »

  URL : Research libraries’ new role in research data management, current trends and visions in Denmark
  Alternative URL : http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq/article/view/9173

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 23 April 2014 à 17 h 51 min Permalien | Connectez-vous pour laisser un commentaire
  Mots-clefs: Altmetrics ( 3 ), research impact ( 43 )   

  Novel Research Impact Indicators :

  « Citation counts and more recently usage statistics provide valuable information about the attention and research impact associated with scholarly publications. The open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) has pioneered the concept of article-level metrics, where these metrics are collected on a per article and not a per journal basis and are complemented by real-time data from the social web or altmetrics: blog posts, social bookmarks, social media and other. »

  URL : Novel Research Impact Indicators
  Alternative URL : http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq/article/view/8427

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 23 April 2014 à 17 h 47 min Permalien | Connectez-vous pour laisser un commentaire
  Mots-clefs: Elsevier ( 3 ), Scholarly Publishing ( 103 ), scientific communication ( 223 )   

  Bringing Digital Science Deep Inside the Scientific Article: the Elsevier Article of the Future Project :

  « The ICT revolution of the last decades impacted scientific communication as it has impacted many other forms of communications, changing the way in which articles are delivered and how they can be discovered. However, the impact of ICT on the research itself has been much more profound, introducing digital tools to the way in which researchers gather data, perform analyses, and exchange results. This brought new, digital forms of research output, and disseminating those calls for changes deeply impact the core format of the scientific article.
  In 2009, Elsevier introduced the “Article of the Future” project to define an optimal way for the dissemination of science in the digital age, and in this paper we discuss three of its key dimensions. First we discuss interlinking scientific articles and research data stored with domain-specific data repositories — such interlinking is essential to interpret both article and data efficiently and correctly. We then present easy-to-use 3D visualization tools embedded in online articles: a key example of how the digital article format adds value to scientific communication and helps readers to better understand research results. The last topic covered in this paper is automatic enrichment of journal articles through text-mining or other methods. Here we share insights from a recent survey on the question: how can we find a balance between creating valuable contextual links, without sacrificing the high-quality, peer-reviewed status of published articles? »

  URL : Bringing Digital Science Deep Inside the Scientific Article: the Elsevier Article of the Future Project
  Alternative URL : http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq/article/view/8446

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 23 April 2014 à 17 h 42 min Permalien | Connectez-vous pour laisser un commentaire
  Mots-clefs: research data ( 33 ), Scholarly Publishing ( 103 ), scientific communication ( 223 )   

  Enhanced Publications: Data Models and Information Systems :

  « “Enhanced publications” are commonly intended as digital publications that consist of a mandatory narrative part (the description of the research conducted) plus related “parts”, such as datasets, other publications, images, tables, workflows, devices. The state-of-the-art on information systems for enhanced publications has today reached the point where some kind of common understanding is required, in order to provide the methodology and language for scientists to compare, analyse, or simply discuss the multitude of solutions in the field. In this paper, we thoroughly examined the literature with a two-fold aim: firstly, introducing the terminology required to describe and compare structural and semantic features of existing enhanced publication data models; secondly, proposing a classification of enhanced publication information systems based on their main functional goals. »

  URL : Enhanced Publications: Data Models and Information Systems
  Alternative URL : http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq/article/view/8445

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 22 April 2014 à 16 h 04 min Permalien | Connectez-vous pour laisser un commentaire
  Mots-clefs: megajournal ( 2 ), open access ( 624 ), open access publishing ( 87 ), Scholarly Publishing ( 103 ), scientific communication ( 223 ), scientific practices ( 28 )   

  A survey of authors publishing in four megajournals :

  « Aim. To determine the characteristics of megajournal authors, the nature of the manuscripts they are submitting to these journals, factors influencing their decision to publish in a megajournal, sources of funding for article processing charges (APCs) or other fees and their likelihood of submitting to a megajournal in the future.

  Methods. Web-based survey of 2,128 authors who recently published in BMJ Open, PeerJ, PLOS ONE or SAGE Open.

  Results. The response rate ranged from 26% for BMJ Open to 47% for SAGE Open. The authors were international, largely academics who had recently published in both subscription and Open Access (OA) journals. Across journals about 25% of the articles were preliminary findings and just under half were resubmissions of manuscripts rejected by other journals. Editors from other BMJ journals and perhaps to a lesser extent SAGE and PLOS journals appear to be encouraging authors to submit manuscripts that were rejected by the editor’s journals to a megajournal published by the same publisher. Quality of the journal and speed of the review process were important factors across all four journals. Impact factor was important for PLOS ONE authors but less so for BMJ Open authors, which also has an impact factor. The review criteria and the fact the journal was OA were other significant factors particularly important for PeerJ authors. The reputation of the publisher was an important factor for SAGE Open and BMJ Open. About half of PLOS ONE and around a third of BMJ Open and PeerJ authors used grant funding for publishing charges while only about 10% of SAGE Open used grant funding for publication charges. Around 60% of SAGE Open and 32% of PeerJ authors self-funded their publication fees however the fees are modest for these journals. The majority of authors from all 4 journals were pleased with their experience and indicated they were likely to submit to the same or similar journal in the future.

  Conclusions. Megajournals are drawing an international group of authors who tend to be experienced academics. They are choosing to publish in megajournals for a variety of reasons but most seem to value the quality of the journal and the speed of the review/publication process. Having a broad scope was not a key factor for most authors though being OA was important for PeerJ and SAGE Open authors. Most authors appeared pleased with the experience and indicated they are likely to submit future manuscripts to the same or similar megajournal which seems to suggest these journals will continue to grow in popularity. »

  URL : A survey of authors publishing in four megajournals
  Alternative URL : https://peerj.com/articles/365/

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 18 April 2014 à 13 h 53 min Permalien | Connectez-vous pour laisser un commentaire
  Mots-clefs: France ( 18 ), institutional repositories ( 78 ), open access ( 624 ), open repositories ( 158 )   

  Le développement de l’archive ouverte institutionnelle HAL-UPS : Préconisations pour la mise en place d’un workflow pour la chaîne de traitement documentaire des publications scientifiques des laboratoires de recherche de l’Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier :

  « État des lieux des politiques en matière d’archives ouvertes sur Toulouse et l’Université de Toulouse 3. Rappel historique sur la création de l’archive ouverte institutionnelle HAL-UPS. Tableaux récapitulatifs des pratiques en matière d’archives ouvertes par pôle disciplinaire sur l’Université Toulouse 3. Des préconisations sur les scénarios possibles de dépôts. »

  URL : http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_00977548

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 17 April 2014 à 16 h 59 min Permalien | Connectez-vous pour laisser un commentaire
  Mots-clefs: HSS ( 18 ), open access ( 624 ), open access journals ( 35 ), open access publishing ( 87 ), Scholarly Publishing ( 103 ), scientific communication ( 223 )   

  Open access journals in Humanities and Social Science :

  « This British Academy research project on the effects of current UK open access policies was funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and was overseen by a Steering Committee set up by the Academy to manage the project. The project was led by Professor Chris Wickham, FBA (British Academy Vice-President, Publications), with support and co-writing from Dr Rebecca Darley and Dr Daniel Reynolds. It investigates some of the issues involved in open access publishing, seeking to examine various practical issues and difficulties that may arise, using the example of twelve disciplines across the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). The key issues investigated were:
  • the degree to which non-UK journals are ‘compliant’ with current UK open-access policies, particularly ‘green’ open-access policies;
  • the differences between journal half-lives across the same disciplines;
  • library acquisition policies and the degree to which these are affected by embargoes before articles are openly available. »

  URL : Open access journals in humanities and social science

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 17 April 2014 à 16 h 46 min Permalien | Connectez-vous pour laisser un commentaire
  Mots-clefs: open access journals ( 35 )   

  EPUB as Publication Format in Open Access Journals: Tools and Workflow :

  « In this article, we present a case study of how the main publishing format of an Open Access journal was changed from PDF to EPUB by designing a new workflow using JATS as the basic XML source format. We state the reasons and discuss advantages for doing this, how we did it, and the costs of changing an established Microsoft Word workflow. As an example, we use one typical sociology article with tables, illustrations and references. We then follow the article from JATS markup through different transformations resulting in XHTML, EPUB and MOBI versions. In the end, we put everything together in an automated XProc pipeline. The process has been developed on free and open source tools, and we describe and evaluate these tools in the article. The workflow is suitable for non-professional publishers, and all code is attached and free for reuse by others. »

  URL : http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9462

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 14 April 2014 à 17 h 52 min Permalien | Connectez-vous pour laisser un commentaire
  Mots-clefs: digital content ( 39 ), Scholarly Communication ( 46 )   

  Trust and Authority in Scholarly Communications in the Light of the Digital Transition: setting the scene for a major study :

  « The paper provides the results of the first phase of the research project Trust and Authority in Scholarly Communications in the Light of the Digital Transition. It provides for an examination of the behaviours and attitudes of academic researchers as producers and consumers of scholarly information resources in the digital era in respect to how they determine authority and trustworthiness in the sources they use, cite, and publish in. The first phase of the study utilized focus groups to formulate research questions for the project as a whole. It provided the direction for the literature review, interviews, and questionnaires studies that would follow. Fourteen focus groups were held in the UK and US in order to obtain this information. A total of 66 science and social science researchers participated. The main findings were: (a) researchers play down difficulties of establishing trustworthiness, not because there are none, but because they have well-developed methods of establishing trust; (b) citation-derived metrics are becoming more important in regard to where researchers publish; (c) social media are ancillary to research, but are used for promotion of research and idea generation; (d) researchers are suspicious and confused about open access, but less so if produced by a traditional publisher; (e) there was a uniformity of perceptions/behaviour of researchers irrespective of differences in subject, country, and age; (f) although some early career researchers behave the same as their more senior colleagues this is because of a fear of the system: they actually think differently. »

  URL : http://ciber-research.eu/download/20140406-Learned_Publishing_27_2-Trust.pdf