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Opening the Dissertation Overcoming Cultural Calcification and Agoraphobia…

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Opening the Dissertation: Overcoming Cultural Calcification and Agoraphobia :

“This article places the struggle to open access to the dissertation in the context of the crisis in doctoral education and the transition from print to digital literacy. It explores the underlying cultural calcification and agoraphobia that deter engagement with openness. Solving the problems will require overhauling the curriculum and conventions of doctoral education. Opening access to dissertations is an important first step, but insufficient to end the crisis. Only opening other dimensions of the dissertation – the structure, media, notion of authorship, and methods of assessment – can foster the digital literacy needed to save PhD programs from extinction. If higher education institutions invested heavily in remedying obsolete practices, the remedies would reverberate throughout the academy, accelerate advancement in the disciplines, and revolutionize scholarly publishing. The article ends with a discussion of the significant role librarians could play in facilitating needed changes given appropriate institutional commitment.”

URL : http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/522

Multidimensional Journal Evaluation of PLOS ONE PLOS

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“PLOS ONE (formerly PLoS ONE) is an international open access online journal published by the Public Library of Science. The periodical covers all science and medicine categories and has published as many as 28,852 documents from 2007 to 2011. PLOS ONE will be used to show the range of journal metrics and informetric methods regarding validity, practicability and informative value. To assess this data as specifically as possible and to address all relevant factors, the evaluation is split into five dimensions, each of which involves distinct metrics. The five dimensions are journal output, journal content, journal perception, journal citations and journal management. Each of them is pointed out in the process of the analyses, and all significant evaluation results are presented. The results show that PLOS ONE has experienced an enormous development. Because of a relatively low rejection rate of 31%, its openness towards a multitude of different research areas, an internationally large peer review community, and its open access, a plurality of documents can be published in comparison with a print-journal or other online periodicals. The results of the evaluation indicate that PLOS ONE should be assessed from numerous perspectives because there are a variety of indicators beyond the impact factor that can be made use of in order to evaluate exhaustively the standing of the journal as well as its prestige and impact.”

URL : http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/libr.2013.63.issue-4/libri-2013-0021/libri-2013-0021.xml?format=INT

Speaking As One Supporting Open Access with Departmental…

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Speaking As One: Supporting Open Access with Departmental Resolutions :

“Library faculty at the City University of New York (CUNY) have engaged in promoting and advocating for open access publishing at each of our campuses as well as across the University. Inspired by the passing of a faculty senate resolution in support of the creation of an open access institutional repository and associated policies, many CUNY librarians felt the need to raise their level of commitment. In this article, the authors—four library faculty members and one faculty member from outside the library—share their experiences creating and approving open access policies in the library departments of four CUNY schools and promoting open access beyond the libraries. They offer practical advice and guidance for other librarians and faculty seeking to encourage the embrace of open access publishing in departments or other sub-institutional contexts.”

URL : http://jlsc-pub.org/jlsc/vol2/iss1/3/

Starting Scholarly Conversations A Scholarly Communication Outreach Program…

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Starting Scholarly Conversations: A Scholarly Communication Outreach Program :

“As the scholarly communication system continues to evolve, academic librarians should take an active role in both developing their own knowledge and educating their campus communities about emergent topics. At Furman University, librarians developed an outreach program, aimed primarily at faculty, to increase awareness of current scholarly communication issues. Expert speakers were recruited to present throughout the year on open access, altmetrics, author’s rights, and other relevant topics. This program addressed a number of needs simultaneously—outreach to faculty; education for Furman librarians; and education for the greater library community—and affirmed the importance of providing opportunities to discuss these issues beyond the libraries. The program also further established Furman University Libraries’ role in educating and guiding its campus community through changes in scholarly communication models and practices.”

URL : http://jlsc-pub.org/jlsc/vol2/iss1/2/

Utopie du logiciel libre Du bricolage informatique à…

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Utopie du logiciel libre : Du bricolage informatique à la réinvention sociale :

“Né dans les années 1980 de la révolte de hackers contre la privatisation du code informatique, le mouvement du logiciel libre ne semblait pas destiné à renouveler nos imaginaires politiques. Les valeurs et les pratiques du Libre ont pourtant gagné d’autres domaines, dessinant peu à peu une véritable « utopie concrète ». Celle-ci a fait sienne plusieurs exigences : bricoler nos technologies au lieu d’en être les consommateurs sidérés, défendre la circulation de l’information contre l’extension des droits de propriété intellectuelle, lier travail et réalisation de soi en minimisant les hiérarchies. De GNU/Linux à Wikipédia, de la licence GPL aux Creative Commons, des ordinateurs aux imprimantes 3D, ces aspirations se sont concrétisées dans des objets techniques, des outils juridiques et des formes originales de collaboration qui nourrissent aujourd’hui une sphère des communs propre à encourager l’inventivité collective. On peut être tenté de voir là un projet de substitution au modèle néolibéral. Pourtant, dans sa relation à l’économie d’Internet, ses enthousiasmes technophiles ou ses ambiguïtés politiques, le Libre soulève aussi nombre de questions. Sébastien Broca fait ressortir celles-ci, en racontant une histoire dans laquelle les hackers inspirent la pensée critique (d’André Gorz aux animateurs de la revue Multitudes) et les entrepreneurs open source côtoient les défenseurs des biens communs. À travers ce bouillonnement de pratiques, de luttes et de théories, l’esprit du Libre émerge néanmoins comme un déjà là où s’ébauchent les contours d’une réinvention sociale.”

URL : http://lepassagerclandestin.fr/catalogue/essais/utopie-du-logiciel-libre.html

Library as Scholarly Publishing Partner: Keys to Success

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“Many academic libraries are looking at new ways to add value when they deliver services to faculty, and one potential area where the library can provide new services is in partnering with academic staff to support the dissemination of faculty research. Librarians have traditionally helped faculty researchers at the beginning of the research cycle, with the discovery and delivery of information sources. However, they are now playing a role at the end of the research cycle, providing services that support scholarly publishing. This paper examines library participation in faculty-led publishing ventures. In particular, it explores the value that smaller research libraries can provide to faculty editors through journal hosting, which will be analysed through an examination of the successful migration of the Australian Journal of Teacher Education, a faculty-administered journal at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, to the University’s institutional repository. This transition provided library staff members at Edith Cowan University opportunities to develop new knowledge and skills in journal publishing, while meeting the journal’s need for a better way to manage a growing influx of article submissions. The resultant faculty-library partnership enabled more effective management of the journal and has contributed to its growing success. The evaluative framework developed to enable assessment of the success of this journal’s transition can help other libraries demonstrate the success of their own journal hosting ventures.”

URL : Library as Scholarly Publishing Partner_ Keys to Success

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1091

Just Roll with It Rolling Volumes vs Discrete…

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Just Roll with It? Rolling Volumes vs. Discrete Issues in Open Access Library and Information Science Journals :

“INTRODUCTION : Articles in open access (OA) journals can be published on a rolling basis, as they become ready, or in complete, discrete issues. This study examines the prevalence of and reasons for rolling volumes vs. discrete issues among scholarly OA library and information science (LIS) journals based in the United States.
METHODS : A survey was distributed to journal editors, asking them about their publication model and their reasons for and satisfaction with that model. RESULTS Of the 21 responding journals, 12 publish in discrete issues, eight publish in rolling volumes, and one publishes in rolling volumes with an occasional special issue. Almost all editors, regardless of model, cited ease of workflow as a justification for their chosen publication model, suggesting that there is no single best workflow for all journals. However, while all rolling-volume editors reported being satisfied with their model, satisfaction was less universal among discrete-issue editors.
DISCUSSION : The unexpectedly high number of rolling-volume journals suggests that LIS journal editors are making forward-looking choices about publication models even though the topic has not been much addressed in the library literature. Further research is warranted; possibilities include expanding the study’s geographic scope, broadening the study to other disciplines, and investigating publication model trends across the entire scholarly OA universe.
CONCLUSION : Both because satisfaction is high among editors of rolling-volume journals and because readers and authors appreciate quick publication times, the rolling-volume model will likely become even more prevalent in coming years.”