Archives ouvertes. Le savoir scientifiqu…

Archives ouvertes. Le savoir scientifique est-il en accès libre ? :

“L’auto-archivage permet le libre accès au savoir scientifique, mais repose encore trop sur l’altruisme des auteurs. Pour massifier et systématiser cette pratique, des actions plus fortes sont nécessaires. Le conte à rire narre les déboires d’un chercheur «connu de Hal» à l’insu de son plein gré, découvrant qu’il a 148 notices bibliographiques sur un serveur d’archives ouvertes.”

URL : http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_00518786/fr/

OpenAccess Statistics: Alternative Impac…

OpenAccess Statistics: Alternative Impact Measures for Open Access documents? An examination how to generate interoperable usage information from distributed Open Access services :

“Publishing and bibliometric indicators are of utmost relevance for scientists and research institutions as the impact or importance of a publication (or even of a scientist or an institution) is mostly regarded to be equivalent to a citation-based indicator, e.g. in form of the Journal Impact Factor or the Hirsch-Index. Both on an individual and an institutional level performance measurement depends strongly on these impact scores. This contribution shows that most common methods to assess the impact of scientific publications often discriminate Open Access publications – and by that reduce the attractiveness of Open Access for scientists. Assuming that the motivation to use Open Access publishing services (e.g. a journal or a repository) would increase if these services would convey some sort of reputation or impact to the scientists, alternative models of impact are discussed. Prevailing research results indicate that alternative metrics based on usage information of electronic documents are suitable to complement or to relativize citation-based indicators. Furthermore an insight into the project OpenAccess- Statistics OA-S is given. OA-S implemented an infrastructure to collect document-related usage information from distributed Open Access Repositories in an aggregator service in order to generate interoperable document access information according to three standards (COUNTER, LogEc and IFABC). The service also guarantees the deduplication of users and identical documents on different servers. In a second phase it is not only planned to implement added services like recommender.”

URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/19068/

Report on Enhancing Interoperability bet…

Report on Enhancing Interoperability between existing Open Access Publication Infrastructures :

“The practical approach of eco4r is likely to be a living example for interoperability between existing Open Access publication infrastructures that fits into the Semantic
Web. One important starting point of the eco4r project is the quantitative and
qualitative analysis of materials residing in the source repositories.”

URL : http://www.eco4r.org/workshop2010/downloads/eco4r_report_compoundobjects_draft.pdf

Google Book Search, Creative Commons und…

Google Book Search, Creative Commons und Open Access – Neue Formen der Wissensvermittlung in der digitalen Welt? :

“Google betreibt seit 2004 flächendeckend die Retrodigitalisierung von Büchern. Kreative Köpfe entwickeln ein vereinfachtes Lizenzmodell, um eine größere Verbreitung
ihrer Werke im Internet durch teilweisen Verzicht auf strikte Eigentumsstrukturen zu erreichen. Zugleich gewinnt in den letzten Jahren eine breite Diskussion um die freie Verfügbarkeit von wissenschaftlichen Forschungsergebnissen an Fahrt. Diesen Themen gemeinsam ist, dass erst das Internet die technische Voraussetzung für ubiquitären Zugang bei minimalen Transaktionskosten und damit die Grundlage für derart dynamische Prozesse geliefert hat. Andererseits unterscheiden sich die Phänomene deutlich im Hinblick auf das Zusammenwirken der Akteure: Während Google nicht nach dem Einverständnis der betroffenen Autoren und Verlage fragt und sich dadurch weithin den Vorwurf des Kulturimperialismus gefallen lassen muss, geht die Creative Commons-Bewegung von der freiwilligen Zusammenarbeit der Beteiligten aus; dazwischen steht der Open Access-Ansatz, dessen Verfechter nicht
nur auf unverbindliche Appelle setzen, sondern unterschiedliche wirtschaftliche wie rechtliche Hebel ansetzen möchten, um Autoren und Verlage zur Kooperation zu bewegen. Die gemeinsame Klammer dieser Formen der Wissensvermittlung im digitalen Zeitalter ist das Urheberrecht. Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt die verschiedenen Initiativen vor und versucht Querverbindungen und Unterschiede aufzuzeigen.”

URL : http://www.rechtswissenschaft.nomos.de/fileadmin/rechtswissenschaft/doc/RW_10_03_Aufsatz.pdf

Open access and academic reputation : “…

Open access and academic reputation :

“Open access aims to make knowledge freely available to those who would make use of it. High-profile open access journals, such as those published by PLoS (Public Library of Science), have been able to demonstrate the viability of this model for increasing an author’s reach and reputation within scholarly communication through the use of such bibliographic tools as the Journal Impact Factor, conceived and developed by Eugene Garfield. This article considers the various approaches that authors, journals, and funding agencies are taking toward open access, as well as its effect on reputation for authors and, more widely, for journals and the research enterprise itself.”

URL : http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/10242

Almost Halfway There: an Analysis of the…

Almost Halfway There: an Analysis of the Open Access Behaviors of Academic Librarians :

“Academic librarians are increasingly expected to advocate for scholarly communications reforms such as open access to scholarly publications, yet librarians do not always practice what they preach. Previous research examined librarian attitudes toward open access, whereas this article presents results of a study of open access publishing and self-archiving behaviors of academic librarians. Following an analysis of open access to library and information science literature in
2008, several strategies to encourage academic librarians to continue embrace open access
behaviors are discussed.”

URL : http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2010/09/14/crl-167.full.pdf