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  Hans Dillaerts le 11 June 2013 à 17 h 28 min Permalien | Connectez-vous pour laisser un commentaire
  Mots-clefs: open access ( 565 ), open access policies ( 48 ), Scholarly Communication, scientific communication ( 191 ), USA ( 3 )   

  The future of scholarly communication: US efforts to bring warring factions to common purpose in support of scholarship :

  « Key stakeholders in scholarly communication have been at odds over the purpose, mission and business models of publishing. This piece reviews developments in the United States but with a particular focus on efforts at reestablishing common purpose, such as (1) the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable created in June 2009 by the Chairman of Science and Technology Committee of the US House of Representatives; (2) the Task force of the Association of American Universities and Association of Research Libraries established in 2012 to focus on university presses, scholarly journals and institutional repositories; and (3) the Office of Science and Technology Policy Memorandum of February 22, 2013 on Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research. »

  URL : http://iospress.metapress.com/content/u727847272r65681/?id=U727847272R65681

  

   

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  Hans Dillaerts le 4 June 2013 à 16 h 39 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: case study ( 44 ), institutional repositories ( 73 ), open access ( 565 ), open repositories ( 144 ), Scholarly Communication, scientific communication ( 191 )   

  Institutional Repositories: The Untapped Academic Goldmine :

  « This paper looked at the influence of the Internet on scholarly communication and the emergence of various access-to knowledge initiatives, with stronger emphasis on institutional repositories (IRs). It highlighted the benefits of IRs and the efforts made by Redeemer’s University (RUN) towards the implementation of RUNIR. It concluded that Nigerian universities stand to benefit tremendously from IR if they take up the challenges of understanding its features and implementing it. »

  URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/19355/

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 3 June 2013 à 17 h 10 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: academic libraries ( 27 ), Scholarly Communication, Scholarly Publishing ( 78 ), scientific communication ( 191 )   

  Economics of scholarly communication in transition :

  « Academic library budgets are the primary source of revenue for scholarly journal publishing. There is more than enough money in the budgets of academic libraries to fund a fully open access scholarly journal publishing system. Seeking efficiencies, such as a reasonable average cost per article, will be key to a successful transition. This article presents macro level economic data and analysis illustrating the key factors and potential for cost savings. »

  URL : http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4370

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 16 April 2013 à 19 h 06 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: data discovery ( 2 ), Discoverability ( 4 ), Scholarly Communication   

  Discoverability Challenges and Collaboration Opportunities within the Scholarly Communications Ecosystem: A SAGE White Paper Update :

  « The prominence of mainstream search engines and the rise of web-scale, pre-indexed discovery services present new challenges and opportunities for publishers, librarians, vendors, and researchers. With the aim of furthering collaborative conversations, SAGE commissioned a study of opportunities for improving academic discoverability with value chain experts in the scholarly communications ecosystem. Results were released in January 2012 as a white paper titled Improving Discoverability of Scholarly Content in the Twentieth Century: Collaboration Opportunities for Librarians, Publishers, and Vendors. Following the white paper, this article explores the implications for these findings through review of commissioned studies, research reports, journal articles, conference papers, and white papers published in the ensuing twelve months. Sidebars highlight especially promising cross-sector initiatives for enhancing researcher discoverability of the scholarly corpus at appropriate points in their workflow, including the NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) and the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). Concluding reflections highlight opportunities for librarians to contribute to cross-sector collaborations that support discovery of quality peer-reviewed content by improving navigation, discoverability, visibility, and usage of the scholarly corpus. »

  URL : http://collaborativelibrarianship.org/index.php/jocl/article/view/240

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 3 April 2013 à 14 h 45 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: institutional repositories ( 73 ), open access ( 565 ), open repositories ( 144 ), Scholarly Communication, scientific communication ( 191 ), state of the art ( 29 )   

  Institutional Repositories and Open Access Initiatives in Bangladesh: A New Paradigm of Scholarly Communication :

  « Nowadays, open access (OA) in its diverse forms constitutes the most interesting and promising model for the research output of an academic or research institution. The purpose of the present study is to discuss the situation of OA in the developing world, with a focus on Bangladesh. The study also addresses why OA is important for developing countries and which initiatives have been taken in Bangladesh. Finally, we discuss some challenging issues of OA and suggestions on how to overcome these issues. It is rather obvious that developing countries have always faced a lack of research information and were unable to afford sufficient subscriptions to journals. The other side of the picture is the poor dissemination of the research outcome in the developing world. In Bangladesh, only three organizations have their institutional repository and have a reasonable number of local OA journals. We will identify some problems that impede the process of building open access IR, or more generally an OA environment in Bangladesh. We are convinced, however, that we will witness in the near future a sustainable growth of open access initiatives, with more open access literature and digital repositories. »

  URL : http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq/article/view/8245

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 23 February 2013 à 22 h 01 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: golden road ( 22 ), green road ( 18 ), open access ( 565 ), Scholarly Communication, Scholarly Publishing ( 78 ), scientific communication ( 191 )   

  Exploring the Effects of a Transition to Open Access: Insights from a Simulation Study :

  « The Open Access (OA) movement, which postulates gratis and unrestricted online access to publicly funded research findings, has significantly gained momentum in recent years. The two ways of achieving OA are self-archiving of scientific work by the authors (Green OA) and publishing in OA journals (Gold OA). But there is still no consensus which model should be supported in particular. The aim of this simulation study is to discover mechanisms and predict developments that may lead to specific outcomes of possible market transformation scenarios. It contributes to theories related to OA by substantiating the argument of a citation advantage of OA articles and by visualizing the mechanisms of a journal system collapsing in the long-term due to the continuation of the serials crisis. The practical contribution of this research stems from the integration of all market players: Decisions regarding potential financial support of OA models can be aligned with our findings – as well as the decision of a publisher to migrate his journals to Gold OA. Our results indicate that for scholarly communication in general, a transition to Green OA combined with a certain level of subscription-based publishing and a migration of few top journals is the most beneficial development. »

  URL : http://www.is-frankfurt.de/publikationenNeu/ExploringtheEffectsofaTransiti4353.pdf

  

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  Hans Dillaerts le 21 February 2013 à 18 h 13 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: blogging ( 11 ), Scholarly Communication, scientific communication ( 191 ), scientific practices ( 18 ), social networking ( 11 )   

  Use of blogs, Twitter and Facebook by PhD Students for Scholarly Communication: A UK study :

  « This study explores scholarly use of social media by PhD researchers through mix-methods of qualitative interviews, participant observation and content analysis of a case study #phdchat. We found that blogs, Twitter and Facebook are among the most popular social media tools being used by researchers. They can be used by PhD students and early career researchers to benefit their scholarly communication practice, promote their professional profiles, disseminate their work to a wider audience quickly, and gain feedbacks and support from peers across the globe. There are also difficulties and potential problems such as the lack of standards and incentives, the risks of idea being pinched and plagiarism, lack of knowledge of how to start and maintain using social media tool and the potential huge amount of time and effort needed to invest. We found that respondents link different social media tools together to maximise the impact of the content disseminated, as well as to create a personal learning network (PLN) connected with people across the globe. For privacy issue, the participants use different identities on Facebook and Twitter. Facebook is usually set as private with access for friends only and Twitter is public and used for professional purposes. However, Facebook page and groups can be public which are used to build a community and disseminate information without revealing much content from individual member’s personal profile. »

  URL : https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/item/?pid=uk-ac-man-scw:187789

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 5 February 2013 à 19 h 15 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: open access ( 565 ), Scholarly Communication, Scholarly Publishing ( 78 ), scientific communication ( 191 )   

  Open Access, library and publisher competition, and the evolution of general commerce :

  « Discussions of the economics of scholarly communication are usually devoted to Open Access, rising journal prices, publisher profits, and boycotts. That ignores what seems a much more important development in this market. Publishers, through the oft-reviled “Big Deal” packages, are providing much greater and more egalitarian access to the journal literature, an approximation to true Open Access. In the process they are also marginalizing libraries, and obtaining a greater share of the resources going into scholarly communication. This is enabling a continuation of publisher profits as well as of what for decades has been called “unsustainable journal price escalation.” It is also inhibiting the spread of Open Access, and potentially leading to an oligopoly of publishers controlling distribution through large-scale licensing.

  The “Big Deal” practices are worth studying for several general reasons. The degree to which publishers succeed in diminishing the role of libraries may be an indicator of the degree and speed at which universities transform themselves. More importantly, these “Big Deals” appear to point the way to the future of the whole economy, where progress is characterized by declining privacy, increasing price discrimination, increasing opaqueness in pricing, increasing reliance on low-paid or upaid work of others for profits, and business models that depend on customer inertia. »

  URL : http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/libpubcomp.pdf

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 16 December 2012 à 18 h 33 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: blogging ( 11 ), Scholarly Communication, scientific communication ( 191 ), Web 2.0 ( 9 )   

  Research Blogging: Indexing and Registering the Change in Science 2.0 :

  « Increasing public interest in science information in a digital and 2.0 science era promotes a dramatically, rapid and deep change in science itself. The emergence and expansion of new technologies and internet-based tools is leading to new means to improve scientific methodology and communication, assessment, promotion and certification. It allows methods of acquisition, manipulation and storage, generating vast quantities of data that can further facilitate the research process. It also improves access to scientific results through information sharing and discussion. Content previously restricted only to specialists is now available to a wider audience. This context requires new management systems to make scientific knowledge more accessible and useable, including new measures to evaluate the reach of scientific information. The new science and research quality measures are strongly related to the new online technologies and services based in social media. Tools such as blogs, social bookmarks and online reference managers, Twitter and others offer alternative, transparent and more comprehensive information about the active interest, usage and reach of scientific publications. Another of these new filters is the Research Blogging platform, which was created in 2007 and now has over 1,230 active blogs, with over 26,960 entries posted about peer-reviewed research on subjects ranging from Anthropology to Zoology. This study takes a closer look at RB, in order to get insights into its contribution to the rapidly changing landscape of scientific communication. »

  URL : http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0050109

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 14 December 2012 à 12 h 23 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: internet age ( 2 ), open access ( 565 ), Scholarly Communication, Scholarly Publishing ( 78 ), scientific communication ( 191 )   

  Freedom for scholarship in the internet age :

  « Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age examines distortion in the current scholarly communication system and alternatives, focusing on the potential of open access. High profits for a select few scholarly journal publishers in the area of science, technology, and medicine contrast with other portions of the scholarly publishing system such as university presses that are struggling to survive. Two major societal trends, commercialization and irrational rationalization, are explored as factors in the development of distortion in the system, as are potential alternatives, including the commons, state subsidy, DIY publishing, and publishing cooperatives. Original research presented or summarized includes the quarterly series The Dramatic Growth of Open Access, an empirical study of economic possibilities for transition to open access, interviews with scholarly monograph publishers, and an investigation into the potential for transition to open access in the field of communication. The similarities and differences between open access and various Creative Commons licenses are mapped and analyzed.

  The conclusion features a set of recommendations for open access. Carefully transitioning the primary economic support for scholarly publishing (academic library budgets) from subscriptions to open access is seen as central to a successful transition. Open access changes the form of the commodity with respect to commercial publication, from the scholarly work per se to the publishing service; a major improvement that overcomes the trend towards enclosure of information, but not necessarily the dominance of the commercial sector. A multi-faceted approach is recommended as optimal to overcome potential vulnerabilities of any single approach to open access. The open access movement is advised to be aware of the less understood societal trend of irrational (or instrumental) rationality, a trend that open access initiatives are just as vulnerable to as subscriptions or purchase-based systems. The remedy for irrational rationality recommended is a systemic or holistic approach. It is recommended that open access be considered part of a potential for broader societal transformation, based on the Internet’s capacity to function as an enabler of many to many communication that could form the basis of either a strong democracy or a decentralized socialism. »

  URL : http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/files/2012/12/Morrison-library-copy.pdf