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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/

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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

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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

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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. »

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ETD Management and Publishing in the ProQuest System…

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ETD Management and Publishing in the ProQuest System and the University Repository: A Comparative Analysis :

« Introduction : This study compares the two most popular ETD management and publishing systems used in the American higher education community today: the commercial ProQuest Dissertation Publishing system and the university repository.
Methods Characteristics of these systems are identified and categorized in order to determine the features, functions, and policies common to both, and those that uniquely characterize one or the other system. Performing such a head-to-head comparison provides valuable information and insights to decision makers responsible for managing or overhauling their university’s ETD program.
Results : Comparison of characteristics shows the ProQuest system and the university repository both provide functional solutions for submitting, storing, disseminating, and archive ETDs using digital technology. Yet each system also has unique characteristics that distinguish it from the other.
Discusssion and Conclusion : The authors conclude that there is no single ‘best’ system for ETD management overall. Rather, it is up to decision makers at each institution to choose an approach that best fits their university’s values, goals and needs. Finally, the authors point out the need for a single portal for ETDs that allows for search and discovery of these unique works of scholarship wherever the full text resides. Future investigation into possible solutions for such an ETD portal would be a boon not only to universities and ETD authors, but to the broader community of researchers, students, professionals and interested citizenry who could benefit from easier access to this this growing corpus of knowledge. »

URL : http://jlsc-pub.org/jlsc/vol1/iss4/1/

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Research Data Management Principles Practices and Prospects …

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Research Data Management Principles, Practices, and Prospects :

« This report examines how research institutions are responding to data management requirements of the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and other federal agencies. It also considers what role, if any, academic libraries and the library and information science profession should have in supporting researchers’ data management needs. »

URL : http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub160

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Accessibility Sustainability Excellence How to Expand Access to…

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Accessibility, Sustainability, Excellence: How to Expand Access to Research Publications : A Review of Progress in Implementing the Recommendations of the Finch Report :

« The Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings (2012) – which has become known as the Finch Report – was based upon balancing the three criteria in its title: accessibility, sustainability and excellence. In this new report (2013), the same group reviews progress in implementing our recommendations one year after the publication of the 2012 Report. This report thus fulfils the Group’s final responsibility. »

URL : http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Final-version.pdf