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Transparency: the emerging third dimension of Open Science and Open Data

Posted on by Hans Dillaerts

This paper presents an exploration of the concept of research transparency. The policy context is described and situated within the broader arena of open science. This is followed by commentary on transparency within the research process, which includes a brief overview of the related concept of reproducibility and the associated elements of research integrity, fraud and retractions.

A two-dimensional model or continuum of open science is considered and the paper builds on this foundation by presenting a three-dimensional model, which includes the additional axis of ‘transparency’. The concept is further unpacked and preliminary definitions of key terms are introduced: transparency, transparency action, transparency agent and transparency tool.

An important linkage is made to the research lifecycle as a setting for potential transparency interventions by libraries. Four areas are highlighted as foci for enhanced engagement with transparency goals: Leadership and Policy, Advocacy and Training, Research Infrastructures and Workforce Development.

DOI: https://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.10113/

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Transforming Roles: Canadian Academic Librarians Embedded in Faculty Research Projects

Posted on by Hans Dillaerts

Academic librarians have always played an important role in providing research services and research-skills development to faculty in higher education. But that role is evolving to include the academic librarian as a unique and necessary research partner, practitioner and participant in collaborative, grant-funded research projects.

This article describes how a selected sample of Canadian academic librarians became embedded in faculty research projects and describes their experiences of participating in research teams.

Conducted as a series of semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study illustrates the emerging opportunities and challenges of the librarian-researcher role and how it is transforming the Canadian university library.

URL : http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2016/03/22/crl16-871.abstract

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Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications

Posted on by Hans Dillaerts

Reproducibility and reusability of research results is an important concern in scientific communication and science policy. A foundational element of reproducibility and reusability is the open and persistently available presentation of research data.

However, many common approaches for primary data publication in use today do not achieve sufficient long-term robustness, openness, accessibility or uniformity. Nor do they permit comprehensive exploitation by modern Web technologies.

This has led to several authoritative studies recommending uniform direct citation of data archived in persistent repositories. Data are to be considered as first-class scholarly objects, and treated similarly in many ways to cited and archived scientific and scholarly literature.

Here we briefly review the most current and widely agreed set of principle-based recommendations for scholarly data citation, the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (JDDCP).

We then present a framework for operationalizing the JDDCP; and a set of initial recommendations on identifier schemes, identifier resolution behavior, required metadata elements, and best practices for realizing programmatic machine actionability of cited data.

The main target audience for the common implementation guidelines in this article consists of publishers, scholarly organizations, and persistent data repositories, including technical staff members in these organizations.

But ordinary researchers can also benefit from these recommendations. The guidance provided here is intended to help achieve widespread, uniform human and machine accessibility of deposited data, in support of significantly improved verification, validation, reproducibility and re-use of scholarly/scientific data.

URL : Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications

DOI : https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1

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How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications

Posted on by Hans Dillaerts

This report is the output of a large-scale survey of readers of scholarly publications (n=40439) and their behaviour in the discovery of journal articles and online books. The survey was conducted during October, November, and December of 2015.

While usage statistics and analytics gathered by publishers, libraries and intermediaries can give us a partial view of discovery behaviour, there are many gaps in the knowledge that these can provide which we have endeavoured to fill by asking readers what tools they use in discovery.

This survey builds upon previous surveys conducted by the authors in 2005, 2008 and 2012.

URL : How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications

Alternative location : http://www.simoningerconsulting.com/papers/How%20Readers%20Discover%20Content%20in%20Scholarly%20Publications.pdf

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Anatomie et nouvelle organologie de l’édition ouverte

Posted on by Hans Dillaerts

Cet article réinterroge le concept d’édition ouverte en proposant plusieurs pistes pour dépasser les habituels débats sur les modèles économiques. Nous voulons montrer l’intérêt d’examiner quelles sont les conditions d’ouverture désirées afin d’envisager une nouvelle organologie du système de publication scientifique.

L’objectif étant de penser le chercheur non pas comme un simple lecteur de documents, mais davantage comme un légiste qui puisse procéder à une ouverture et un examen approfondi.

URL : http://rfsic.revues.org/1871

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Open access en bibliothèque universitaire : de nouveaux enjeux de médiations

Posted on by Hans Dillaerts

En partant d’une expérience concrète de mobilisation dans le cadre de l’Open Access Week au sein du Service Commun de la Documentation de l’Université Bordeaux Montaigne, nous nous interrogerons sur la place des professionnels de l’information face aux enjeux de la documentation en libre accès et du mouvement de l’Open Access.

Les bibliothèques universitaires doivent-elles se positionner dans ces débats qui agitent le monde universitaire ? Pourquoi et comment le faire ?

URL : http://rfsic.revues.org/1854

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Stratégie, politique et reformulation de l’open access

Posted on by Hans Dillaerts

Auteur/Author : Ghislaine Chartron

Depuis 25 ans, le mouvement open access se déploie progressivement au croisement de revendications pour une circulation plus ouverte des résultats de la recherche et d’opportunités inédites introduites par l’Internet et le Web.

Les reformulations du mouvement furent nombreuses, portées par des acteurs différents, ne projetant pas les mêmes enjeux sur cette transformation. À l’appui d’une observation participante, l’article s’attache à retracer l’évolution des différentes modalités opératoires de l’open access à la fois dans une dimension diachronique et une dimension comparée pour les politiques nationales de différents pays.

Un tournant particulier semble s’amorcer, marqué par des négociations globales entre éditeurs, pouvoirs publics et financeurs de la recherche. Le contexte français est analysé, en particulier par l’intégration récente d’éléments réglementaires dans la loi Lemaire de 2016 et par les tensions croissantes avec les acteurs de l’édition nationale, majoritairement en sciences humaines et sociales.

URL : https://rfsic.revues.org/1836