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Examining publishing practices: moving beyond the idea of predatory open access

Posted on by Hans Dillaerts

Author : Kevin L. Smith

The word ‘predatory’ has become an obstacle to a serious discussion of publishing practices. Its use has been both overinclusive, encompassing practices that, while undesirable, are not malicious, and underinclusive, missing many exploitative practices outside the open access sphere.

The article examines different business models for scholarly publishing and considers the potential for abuse with each model. After looking at the problems of both blacklists and so-called ‘whitelists’, the author suggests that the best path forward would be to create tools to capture the real experience of individual authors as they navigate the publishing process with different publishers.

URL : Examining publishing practices: moving beyond the idea of predatory open access

DOI : http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.388

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La médiation de la vidéo en ligne gratuite en médiathèque de lecture publique

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Auteur/Author : Émilie Delpech

À la fin des années 2000, les offres de vidéo à la demande intègrent progressivement les services numériques proposés par les bibliothèques de lecture publique. Toutefois, un certain nombre de limites se font rapidement sentir.

Les bouquets pré-établis par les fournisseurs empêchent notamment les professionnels des médiathèques de réellement sélectionner les contenus selon le projet de leur établissement. De plus, le peu de visibilité et d’ouverture des plateformes de vidéo à la demande rend difficile les actions de médiation sur ces ressources.

Ces contraintes interrogent aujourd’hui les bibliothécaires qui hésitent ainsi parfois à souscrire à une telle offre. Certains se tournent alors vers les vidéos gratuites et libres de diffusion qui abondent sur Internet : webdocumentaires, webséries, vidéos de vulgarisation scientifique ou culturelle, films d’étudiants en école de cinéma, créations de réalisateurs librement diffusées sur Internet…

Quelles pratiques professionnelles mettre en place pour ces ressources dont la pérennité relative empêche leur totale appropriation ? À partir d’entretiens de professionnels et d’une étude comparative de médiathèques de lecture publique, ce mémoire dégage les grandes caractéristiques de la vidéo en ligne gratuite et les nombreux enjeux qu’elle soulève.

URL : La médiation de la vidéo en ligne gratuite en médiathèque de lecture publique

Alternative location : https://memsic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/mem_01630400

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Entre libre accès et open data : quelle ouverture des données pour l’information sur les collections muséales ?

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Auteur/Author : Laure-Hélène Kerrio

La littérature actuelle concernant l’information scientifique sur les collections muséales révèle une hétérogénéité des types d’informations et de supports, ainsi qu’une nature juridique complexe et contraignante qui régit sa communication et sa diffusion. Ces éléments modèlent les missions des professionnels de l’information-documentation qui la gèrent.

La gestion de cette information s’intègre aujourd’hui dans le mouvement des Communs des savoirs et des voies qui en sont issues, le libre accès et l’open data. Dans ce contexte, les musées français semblent peu développer l’ouverture des données.

Une enquête réalisée auprès de sept professionnels exerçant dans les musées toulousains montre leur positionnement par rapport à cet enjeu. Plutôt favorables à l’ouverture des données, ces professionnels pointent les difficultés et limites de telles voies tout en exprimant les conséquences de leur mise en œuvre sur leur identité professionnelle.

URL : https://memsic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/mem_01616838v1

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Versioned data: why it is needed and how it can be achieved (easily and cheaply)

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Authors : Daniel S. Falster, Richard G. FitzJohn, Matthew W. Pennell, William K. Cornwell

The sharing and re-use of data has become a cornerstone of modern science. Multiple platforms now allow quick and easy data sharing. So far, however, data publishing models have not accommodated on-going scientific improvements in data: for many problems, datasets continue to grow with time — more records are added, errors fixed, and new data structures are created. In other words, datasets, like scientific knowledge, advance with time.

We therefore suggest that many datasets would be usefully published as a series of versions, with a simple naming system to allow users to perceive the type of change between versions. In this article, we argue for adopting the paradigm and processes for versioned data, analogous to software versioning.

We also introduce a system called Versioned Data Delivery and present tools for creating, archiving, and distributing versioned data easily, quickly, and cheaply. These new tools allow for individual research groups to shift from a static model of data curation to a dynamic and versioned model that more naturally matches the scientific process.

URL : Versioned data: why it is needed and how it can be achieved (easily and cheaply)

DOI : https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3401v1

 

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Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban and Health Science Campus

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Authors : Jere Odell, Kristi Palmer, Emily Dill

Access to scholarship in the health sciences has greatly increased in the last decade. The adoption of the 2008 U.S. National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy and the launch of successful open access journals in health sciences have done much to move the exchange of scholarship beyond the subscription-only model.

One might assume, therefore, that scholars publishing in the health sciences would be more supportive of these changes. However, the results of this survey of attitudes on a campus with a large medical faculty show that health science respondents were uncertain of the value of recent changes in the scholarly communication system.

URL : Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban and Health Science Campus

DOI : http://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2169

 

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The role of the library in scholarly publishing: The University of Manchester experience

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Author : Simon Bains

The emergence of networked digital methods of scholarly dissemination has transformed the role of the academic library in the context of the research life cycle. It now plays an important role in the dissemination of research outputs (e.g. through repository management and gold open access publication processing) as well as more traditional acquisition and collection management.

The University of Manchester Library and Manchester University Press have developed a strategic relationship to consider how they can work in partnership to support new approaches to scholarly publishing. They have delivered two projects to understand researcher and student needs and to develop tools and services to meet these needs.

This work has found that the creation of new journal titles is costly and provides significant resourcing challenges and that support for student journals in particular is mixed amongst senior academic administrators.

Research has suggested that there is more value to the University in the provision of training in scholarly publishing than in the creation of new in-house journal titles. Where such titles are created, careful consideration of sustainable business models is vital.

URL : The role of the library in scholarly publishing: The University of Manchester experience

DOI : http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.380

 

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New models for open digital collections?

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Authors: Paola Marchionni, Peter Findlay

This article discusses the potential for new community-based funding models to support digitization and open access (OA) publishing of digital collections. Digital collections of archival material such as texts, images and moving images are an important complement to journals and books in the ecosystem of scholarly resources that researchers, teachers and learners use.

However, institutions find them expensive to acquire from publishers or to digitize themselves. In the US, Reveal Digital (RD) has set up a ‘library crowdfunding’ programme based on a cost-recovery OA model.

The article describes how Jisc has collaborated with RD to introduce the model to UK institutions through their ‘Independent Voices’ collection of 20th-century alternative press materials and, in doing so, explores the potential and challenges for developing a similar approach in the UK.

URL : New models for open digital collections?

DOI : http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.375