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Publier : à quel prix ? Étude sur la structuration des coûts de publication pour les revues françaises en SHS

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La publication d’articles dans des revues scientifiques est un enjeu fort pour les institutions de recherche françaises car il s’agit bien d’un vecteur essentiel de la visibilité des travaux des chercheurs et qu’il est fondamental de maximiser l’impact de ces travaux. Cette publication a un coût pour les institutions publiques, que ce soit pour le financement du processus éditorial et de production, ou pour l’achat en bibliothèques et la mise à disposition auprès des chercheurs.

Cet article présente les résultats de l’enquête sur les coûts éditoriaux des revues scientifiques menée par le groupe édition de BSN de mars 2014 à janvier 2015 avec pour objectif de collecter une information récente et représentative de la diversité des situations, au sujet des coûts éditoriaux des revues de recherche, afin de faire un état des lieux complet et à jour.

URL : http://rfsic.revues.org/1716

Strategies for Success: Open Access Policies at North American Educational Institutions

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Recognizing the paucity of quantitative and qualitative data from North American educational institutions that have pursued open access policies, the authors devised a survey to collect information on the characteristics of these institutions, as well as the elements of the open access policies, the methods of promoting these policies, faculty concerns about the policies, and how those concerns have been addressed.

The data collected through survey results from fifty-one institutions can inform the strategic decisions being made by other institutions considering an open access policy and illustrates the essential roles that academic libraries can play in the development and passage of open access policies.

URL : http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2015/09/24/crl15-809.full.pdf

Sciences with the Science

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In the current European environment where the main orientations of research are being redefined, it is fit to reconsider the general principles underlying the Social Sciences & Humanities and their place in Science and Society.

The need for a fruitful dialogue between sciences in order to cope with the major challenges of today’s world invites us to bring again to the fore the figure of ‘the engineer’ as largely open to humanities.

Beyond any specifically scientific consideration, the SSH are addressing anew the question of the purpose of our societies and of the way they will evolve.

This study is the result of an exceptional gathering of searchers and scholars. It aims at restoring the SSH back into their deserved position and at promoting male and female scientists dedicated to avoiding the frauds of technicism, dogmatism and scienticism.

URL : http://books.openedition.org/allianceathena/225

Calliopê.ch : Recommandations pour la mise en place d’une offre de ebooks en bibliothèque

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Initié par la Haute École de gestion de Genève, le projet de recherche Calliopê.ch s’est déroulé entre janvier 2014 et juin 2015. Cette étude visait à appréhender la réception et l’usage de dispositifs mobiles de lecture (notamment liseuses et tablettes) en bibliothèque, de manière à formuler des préconisations sur la mise en place d’une offre numérique globale (contenus, organisation des contenus, interfaces, dispositifs de lecture, modalités de prêt).

Mené en partenariat avec l’enssib (école nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques), la Bibliothèque de l’UNIGE (Université de Genève) et la CLP (Communauté de travail des bibliothèques suisses de lecture publique), le projet a abouti à l’élaboration de recommandations basées sur les résultats d’une enquête en ligne et les retours d’expériences d’usagers.

Présentées sous formes de fiches, ces préconisations fournissent des pistes de réflexion et d’actions concrètes aux bibliothèques suisses romandes désireuses d’offrir une collection de livres numériques à leurs usagers. Elles traitent d’une part d’aspects généraux et, d’autre part, de points spécifiques au contexte académique et à la lecture publique.

De nature pratique, elles couvrent à la fois les aspects techniques, fonctionnels, organisationnels et juridiques mais aussi ceux relatifs aux publics et à la communication. L’objectif est de soutenir les bibliothèques dans leur démarche de mise en place d’une offre complète alliant ebooks, dispositifs mobiles et services d’accompagnement nécessaires à leur valorisation et, in fine, à leur appropriation par les publics.

URL : Calliopê.ch : Recommandations pour la mise en place d’une offre de ebooks en bibliothèque

Accessible également sur ArchiveSic : http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_01186706

Open access chemical probes for epigenetic targets

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Background

High attrition rates in drug discovery call for new approaches to improve target validation. Academia is filling gaps, but often lacks the experience and resources of the pharmaceutical industry resulting in poorly characterized tool compounds.

Discussion

The SGC has established an open access chemical probe consortium, currently encompassing ten pharmaceutical companies. One of its mandates is to create well-characterized inhibitors (chemical probes) for epigenetic targets to enable new biology and target validation for drug development.

Conclusion

Epigenetic probe compounds have proven to be very valuable and have not only spurred a plethora of novel biological findings, but also provided starting points for clinical trials. These probes have proven to be critical complementation to traditional genetic targeting strategies and provided sometimes surprising results.

URL : http://www.future-science.com/doi/pdfplus/10.4155/fmc.15.127

Institutional policy implementation at University of Minho, Portugal

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This case study describes the implementation process of the Open Access institutional policy at the University of Minho (UMinho), Portugal. Starting with a brief introduction about the institution, in terms of its academic community and research, the document then provides a detailed description of the steps taken to implement the UMinho’s institutional repository (the IR) and the Open Access policy. We highlight the main goals which oriented the implementation of the repository, the devised communication plan, the value-added services created for authors, and finally, the engagement within the international community in these areas.

Regarding the Open Access policy, we present a brief summary of the main points of the self-archiving policy, approved late 2004, and also point out the main additions to the policy when it was upgraded in 2011.
This case study also provides some figures and tables about the results of the various monitoring processes carried out by the University of Minho Documentation Services to follow-up and measure policy compliance.
In summary, since the beginning of 2004 with the IR implementation, several initiatives have been taking place with the purpose of increasing the number of deposited documents. The Open Access policy adoption was, definitely, the main success factor amongst all the other initiatives and efforts.

URL : Institutional policy implementation at University of Minho, Portugal

Alternative location : http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/sites/pasteur4oa/files/resource/Case%20Study_UMinho.pdf

A Framework to Explore the Knowledge Structure of Multidisciplinary Research Fields

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Understanding emerging areas of a multidisciplinary research field is crucial for researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders. For them a knowledge structure based on longitudinal bibliographic data can be an effective instrument. But with the vast amount of available online information it is often hard to understand the knowledge structure for data.

In this paper, we present a novel approach for retrieving online bibliographic data and propose a framework for exploring knowledge structure. We also present several longitudinal analyses to interpret and visualize the last 20 years of published obesity research data.

URL : A Framework to Explore the Knowledge Structure of Multidisciplinary Research Fields

DOI : http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0123537