Étiquette : open access

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Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Final Research Report

This report briefly presents the findings and recommendations of the « Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success » project which investigated the extent to which publishing has now become a core activity of North American academic libraries and suggested ways in which further capacity could be built.

The research described (consisting of a survey, some case studies, three workshops, and a set of further reading recommendations) was mainly conducted between October 1, 2010, and September 30, 2011.

It was supported by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Libraries Studies, made to Purdue University Libraries in collaboration with the Libraries of the Georgia Institute of Technology and the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah.

URL : http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_ebooks/24/

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Open access theses in institutional repositories an exploratory…

Open access theses in institutional repositories: an exploratory study of the perceptions of doctoral students :

« Introduction. We examine doctoral students’ awareness of and attitudes to open access forms of publication. Levels of awareness of open access and the concept of institutional repositories, publishing behaviour and perceptions of benefits and risks of open access publishing were explored.
Method. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected through interviews with eight doctoral students enrolled in a range of disciplines in a New Zealand university and a self-completion Web survey of 251 students.
Analysis. Interview data were analysed thematically, then evaluated against a theoretical framework. The interview data were then used to inform the design of the survey tool. Survey responses were analysed as a single set, then by disciple using SurveyMonkey’s online toolkit and Excel.
Results. While awareness of open access and repository archiving is still low, the majority of interview and survey respondents were found to be supportive of the concept of open access. The perceived benefits of enhanced exposure and potential for sharing outweigh the perceived risks. The majority of respondents were supportive of an existing mandatory thesis submission policy.
Conclusions. Low levels of awareness of the university repository remains an issue, and could be addressed by further investigating the effectiveness of different communication channels for promotion. »

URL : http://informationr.net/ir/17-1/paper507.html

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Héloïse un site sur les politiques des éditeurs…

Héloïse : un site sur les politiques des éditeurs scientifiques en matière de libre accès aux articles de revues :

« Afin de mieux communiquer auprès des chercheurs sur les autorisations en matière de dépôt, a été mise en place la plateforme d’information Héloïse à l’adresse : http://heloise.ccsd.cnrs.fr/. Elle résulte d’un partenariat entre le CCSD (Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), une unité du CNRS dédiée à la réalisation d’archives ouvertes, le SPCS (Syndicat de la Presse Culturelle et Scientifique) et le SNE (Syndicat National de l’Edition). Elle fait suite à plusieurs années de réflexion menée par le groupe de travail sur le libre accès du GFII (Groupement Français de l’Industrie de l’Information).

Cette plateforme est la réponse aux attentes des auteurs en matière de transparence des règles fixées par les éditeurs français en matière de dépôt des articles de revues. En effet, d’autres plateformes existent dans le monde anglo-saxon (SHERPA-RoMEO) ou hispanophone (Dulcinea), mais ne permettent pas de renseigner les informations de manière aussi fine et fiable, d’autant qu’elles ne sont pas forcément alimentées par les éditeurs eux-mêmes.

Nous invitons vivement les éditeurs à s’inscrire et à enregistrer leurs politiques sur Héloïse et à en informer leurs comités de rédaction. »

URL : http://www.sne.fr/img/pdf/Dossiers/Droits_dauteur/Presentationheloise.pdf

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Open Access and Scholarly Publishing Opportunities and Challenges…

Open Access and Scholarly Publishing: Opportunities and Challenges to Nigerian Researchers :

« The study examined the extent of researchers’ appreciation of open access scholarly publishing. It discussed the opportunities and the benefits of open access to scholars worldwide. Challenges of OA were discussed and solutions suggested. Four research questions were raised. The population of this study was 140 lecturers from the University of Benin, Nigeria. The study revealed that the respondents had cited open access journals articles and that the major benefit derived from using open access journals is that it provides free online access to the literature necessary for research. »

URL : http://www.white-clouds.com/iclc/cliej/cl33IO.pdf

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Scholarly Communication Strategies in Latin America’s Research Intensive…

Scholarly Communication Strategies in Latin America’s Research-Intensive Universities :

« Open Access — scholarship that is “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions” (Suber, 2011) — has dramatically changed the research landscape in universities worldwide in the twenty-first century. In Latin America, regional Open Access initiatives (if not officially labeled “open access”) have permeated most research-intensive universities and national science evaluation systems and have begun to alter the way that local research is perceived. Furthermore, the prominence of Open Access, regionally and globally, has become a significant force in transforming previous traditions and systems used by universities in Latin America in the production and access to scientific knowledge, having a profound influence on its position within what might be thought of as the global knowledge exchange. »

URL : http://openarchive.stanford.edu/content/scholarly-communication-strategies-latin-americas-research-intensive-universities

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Toward Global Open Scholarship – Access to Research…

Toward Global Open Scholarship – Access to Research in Development and Globalization :

« Two centuries after the printing press was invented, the first scholarly journal appeared in 1665. Less than two decades after the journal went online, the digital format is reshaping
scholarly communication rapidly. We are moving quickly towards an open system of scholarship, and from a Western heritage of print scholarship to a future of global knowledge, a shift driven by the communications revolution. This thesis provides data describing the size and growth of the universe of scholarship, its global reach, how much of it is accessible free of charge on the internet and the rate at which that share is growing. Open Access together with development programs aimed at reducing price barriers to subscription journals have vastly increased the possibilities for accessing research in the South. The relevance to globalization and development is explored conceptually and revealed in the results. »

URL : http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/en/bitstream/handle/10393/20714/Jinha_Arif_2012_thesis.pdf

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Publication of NIH funded trials registered in ClinicalTrials…

Publication of NIH funded trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov: cross sectional analysis :

« Objective To review patterns of publication of clinical trials funded by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in peer reviewed biomedical journals indexed by Medline.

Design Cross sectional analysis.

Setting Clinical trials funded by NIH and registered within ClinicalTrials.gov (clinicaltrials.gov), a trial registry and results database maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, after 30 September 2005 and updated as having been completed by 31 December 2008, allowing at least 30 months for publication after completion of the trial.

Main outcome measures Publication and time to publication in the biomedical literature, as determined through Medline searches, the last of which was performed in June 2011.

Results Among 635 clinical trials completed by 31 December 2008, 294 (46%) were published in a peer reviewed biomedical journal, indexed by Medline, within 30 months of trial completion. The median period of follow-up after trial completion was 51 months (25th-75th centiles 40-68 months), and 432 (68%) were published overall. Among published trials, the median time to publication was 23 months (14-36 months). Trials completed in either 2007 or 2008 were more likely to be published within 30 months of study completion compared with trials completed before 2007 (54% (196/366) v 36% (98/269); P<0.001).

Conclusions Despite recent improvement in timely publication, fewer than half of trials funded by NIH are published in a peer reviewed biomedical journal indexed by Medline within 30 months of trial completion. Moreover, after a median of 51 months after trial completion, a third of trials remained unpublished. »

URL : http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.d7292
doi: 10.1136/bmj.d7292