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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 ( 564 ), open access policies ( 47 ), Scholarly Communication ( 40 ), scientific communication, 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 17 h 13 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: OER ( 12 ), open access ( 564 ), Scholarly Publishing ( 78 ), scientific communication   

  Open access scholarly publications as OER :

  « This article presents the rationale, common practices, challenges, and some personal anecdotes from a journal editor on the production, use, and re-use of peer-reviewed, scholarly articles as open educational resources (OER). The scholarly and professional discourse related to open educational resources has largely focused on open learning objects, courseware, and textbooks. However, especially in graduate education, articles published in scholarly journals are often a major component of the course content in formal education. In addition, open access journal articles are critical to expanding access to knowledge by scholars in the developing world and in fostering citizen science, by which everyone has access to the latest academic information and research results. In this article, I highlight some of the challenges, economic models, and evidence for quality of open access journal content and look at new affordances provided by the Net for enhanced functionality, access, and distribution.
  In the seventeen years since I graduated with a doctorate degree, the climate and acceptance of open access publishing has almost reversed itself. I recall a conversation with my PhD supervisor in which he argued that publishing online was not a viable option as the product would not have permanency, scholarly recognition, or the prestige of a paper publication. His comments reflect the confusion between online resources and those described as open access, but as well illustrate the change in academic acceptance and use of open access products during the past decade. The evolution from paper to online production and consumption is a disruptive technology in which much lower cost and increased accessibility of online work opens the product to a completely new group of potential users. In the case of OER these consumers are primarily students, but certainly access to scholars from all parts of the globe and the availability to support citizen science (Silvertown, 2009) should not be underestimated. »

  URL : http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1531

  

   
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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 ( 564 ), open repositories ( 143 ), Scholarly Communication ( 40 ), scientific communication   

  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 56 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: case study ( 44 ), open access ( 564 ), open access publishing ( 72 ), PLOS ( 2 ), scientific communication   

  Access, accommodation, and science: Knowledge in an “open” world :

  « The rising popularity of open access (OA) publishing in scholarly communities is purportedly leading to increased public knowledge. At least, that’s a key piece of the OA moral argument. This is especially true for discussions of scientific research. We argue, however, that while there have been significant moves to provide better material/technological access to research, OA advocates must still tackle the issue of making original scientific research conceptually accessible. Despite being freely available on the Internet, articles are not also by default linguistically, conceptually, or ideologically accessible to the global public(s) they are intended to reach. In this article, we examine how OA coupled with innovative scientific communication practices can help align the ideals of OA with the realities of complex, specialized genres of writing to provide better, more “open,” access to research. We look to PLOS ONE and the PLOS Blog Network to discuss how the innovative material access of PLOS ONE coupled with the communication strategies of PLOS Bloggers can work together toward more openly accessible original scientific research articles. »

  URL : http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4341

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 3 June 2013 à 17 h 10 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: academic libraries ( 27 ), Scholarly Communication ( 40 ), Scholarly Publishing ( 78 ), scientific communication   

  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 28 May 2013 à 14 h 26 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: citations ( 17 ), citations analysis ( 18 ), open access ( 564 ), open access publishing ( 72 ), scientific communication   

  The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer: The Effect of Open Access on Cites to Science Journals Across the Quality Spectrum :

  « An open-access journal allows free online access to its articles, obtaining revenue from fees charged to submitting authors. Using panel data on science journals, we are able to circumvent some problems plaguing previous studies of the impact of open access on citations. We find that moving from paid to open access increases cites by 8% on average in our sample, but the effect varies across the quality of content. Open access increases cites to the best content (top-ranked journals or articles in upper quintiles of citations within a volume) but reduces cites to lower-quality content. We construct a model to explain these findings in which being placed on a broad open-access platform can increase the competition among articles for readers’ attention. We can find structural parameters allowing the model to fit the quintile results quite closely. »

  URL : http://ssrn.com/abstract=2269040

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 3 May 2013 à 12 h 17 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: scientific communication, twitter ( 5 )   

  The role of twitter in the life cycle of a scientific publication :

  « Twitter is a micro-blogging social media platform for short messages that can have a long-term impact on how scientists create and publish ideas. We investigate the usefulness of twitter in the development and distribution of scientific knowledge. At the start of the life cycle of a scientific publication, twitter provides a large virtual department of colleagues that can help to rapidly generate, share and refine new ideas. As ideas become manuscripts, twitter can be used as an informal arena for the pre-review of works in progress. Finally, tweeting published findings can communicate research to a broad audience of other researchers, decision makers, journalists and the general public that can amplify the scientific and social impact of publications. However, there are limitations, largely surrounding issues of intellectual property and ownership, inclusiveness and misrepresentations of science sound bites. Nevertheless, we believe twitter is a useful social media tool that can provide a valuable contribution to scientific publishing in the 21st century. »

  URL : http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0435

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 26 April 2013 à 19 h 00 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: electronic publishing ( 6 ), open access ( 564 ), Open peer review ( 4 ), Scholarly Publishing ( 78 ), scientific communication   

  The four pillars of scholarly publishing: The future and a foundation :

  « With the rise of electronic publishing and the inherent paradigm shifts for so many other scientific endeavours, it is time to consider a change in the practices of scholarly publication in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. To facilitate the speed and quality of science, the future of scholarly communication will rest on four pillars – an ecosystem of scholarly products, immediate and open access, open peer review, and full recognition for participating in the process. These four pillars enable us to build better tools to facilitate the discovery of new relevant work for individual scientists, one of the greatest challenges of our time as we cope with the current deluge of scientific information. By incorporating these principles into future publication platforms, we argue that science and society will be better served than by remaining locked into a publication formula that arose in the 1600s. It has served its purpose admirably and well, but it is time to move forward. With the rise of the Internet, scholarly publishing has embraced electronic distribution. But the tools afforded by the Internet and other advancing technologies have profound implications for scholarly communication beyond just distribution. We argue that, to best serve science, the process of scholarly communication must embrace these advances and evolve. Here we consider the current state of the process in ecology and evolutionary biology and propose directions for change. We identify four pillars for the future of scientific communication: (1) an ecosystem of scholarly products; (2) immediate and open access; (3) open peer review; and (4) full recognition for participating in the process. These four pillars will guide the development of better tools and practices for discovering and sharing scientific knowledge in a modern networked world. Things were far different when the existing system arose in the 1600s, and though it has served its purpose admirably and well, it is time to move forward. »

  URL : https://peerj.com/preprints/11/

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 25 April 2013 à 18 h 40 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: Scholarly Publishing ( 78 ), scientific communication   

  Are elite journals declining? :

  « Previous work indicates that over the past 20 years, the highest quality work have been published in an increasingly diverse and larger group of journals. In this paper we examine whether this diversification has also affected the handful of elite journals that are traditionally considered to be the best. We examine citation patterns over the past 40 years of 7 long-standing traditionally elite journals and 6 journals that have been increasing in importance over the past 20 years. To be among the top 5% or 1% cited papers, papers now need about twice as many citations as they did 40 years ago. Since the late 1980s and early 1990s elite journals have been publishing a decreasing proportion of these top cited papers. This also applies to the two journals that are typically considered as the top venues and often used as bibliometric indicators of « excellence », Science and Nature. On the other hand, several new and established journals are publishing an increasing proportion of most cited papers. These changes bring new challenges and opportunities for all parties. Journals can enact policies to increase or maintain their relative position in the journal hierarchy. Researchers now have the option to publish in more diverse venues knowing that their work can still reach the same audiences. Finally, evaluators and administrators need to know that although there will always be a certain prestige associated with publishing in « elite » journals, journal hierarchies are in constant flux so inclusion of journals into this group is not permanent. »

  URL : http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6460

  

   
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  Hans Dillaerts le 24 April 2013 à 18 h 12 min Permalien
  Mots-clefs: European Union ( 21 ), open access ( 564 ), open access journals ( 28 ), open access policies ( 47 ), open access publishing ( 72 ), scientific communication   

  Metajournals. A federalist proposal for scholarly communication and data aggregation :

  « While the EU is building an open access infrastructure of archives (e.g. OpenAIRE) and it is trying to implement it in the Horizon 2020 program, the gap between the tools and the human beings – researchers, citizen scientists, students, ordinary people – is still wide. The necessity to dictate open access publishing as a mandate for the EU funded research – ten years after the BOAI – is an obvious symptom of it: there is a chasm between the net and the public use of reason. To escalate the advancement and the reuse of research, we should federate the multitude of already existing open access journals in federal open overlay journals that receive their contents from the member journals and boost it with their aggregation power and their semantic web tools. The article contains both the theoretical basis and the guidelines for a project whose goals are:
  1. making open access journals visible, highly cited and powerful, by federating them into wide disciplinary overlay journals;
  2. avoiding the traps of the “authors pay” open access business model, by exploiting one of the virtue of federalism: the federate journals can remain little and affordable, if they gain visibility from the power of the federal overlay journal aggregating them;
  3. enriching the overlay journals both through semantic annotation tools and by means of open platforms dedicated to host ex post peer review and experts comments;
  4. making the selection and evaluation processes and their resulting data as much as possible public and open, to avoid the pitfalls (e. g, the serials price crisis) experienced by the closed access publishing model. It is about time to free academic publishing from its expensive walled gardens and to put to test the tools that can help us to transform it in one open forest, with one hundred flowers – and one hundred trailblazers. »

  URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/19101/