Danny Kingsley, Deputy Director of Cambridge University Library, reports on the 2019 Researcher to Reader Conference that was held on late February 2019. In her comprehensive and personal take on the issues raised at the conference, Dr Kingsley gives an update on Plan S, and highlights Cambridge Elements – a publication format that straddles the Book and Journal formats.
Eight years after their successful 2011 Conference in Beijing, ICSTI’s 2019 Annual Conference and Workshops will take place in China on 24-26 September. This year’s conference is titled Open Science and Open Innovation. The Shanghai Library/Institute of Scientific & Technical Information of Shanghai (ISTIS) is hosting the event. The Conference will also include ITOC and TACC workshop sessions that will provide significant insights on the theme of Open Science – Latest Developments and Initiatives and Technology Enabled Innovation in Open Science respectively.
The preliminary schedule is announced.
In scholarly communication, the growth of preprint repositories over the last three decades as a new model of scholarly publishing has emerged as one of the major developments. Using preprint repositories as a case study, this article situates them in a scholarly web, examining their salient features, benefits, and futures. However, for the preprint repositories to sustain, scholarly communities and funding agencies should support continued investment in open knowledge, alternative metrics development, and open infrastructures in scholarly publishing.
This paper examines issues relating to the perceptions and adoption of open access (OA) and institutional repositories. Using a survey research design, data was collected from academics and other researchers in the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) at a university in Australia. This study contributes to the growing literature on scholarly communication by offering evidence from the HASS field, where limited studies have been conducted. Based on their findings, the authors recommend that academic librarians engage with faculty through outreach and workshops to change perceptions of OA and the institutional repository.
On September 4th, 2018, the second HIRMEOS Workshop was organised on Entity-Fishing for Digital Humanities and Scholarly Publishing. Entity-fishing, a service developed by Inria with the support of DARIAH-EU and hosted at HUMA-NUM, enables identification and resolution of entities: named entities like person-name, location, organizations, concepts, artifacts, … The workshop aimed to discuss and clarify practical concerns arising when using the service and possible new use cases presented by Edition Open Access, ScholarLed and Septentrio Academic Publishing. This report describes challenges related to the development of these applications and provides recommendations for its integration and use on digital publishing platforms.
Wikidata, a knowledge base for structured linked data, provides an open platform for curating scholarly communication data. Because all elements in a Wikidata entry are linked to defining elements and metadata, other web systems can harvest and display the data in meaningful ways. Thus, Wikidata has the capacity to serve as the data source for faculty profiles. Methods for contributing to Wikidata and displaying the data with Scholia, are explained, as part of a pilot project.
Consultant Tao Tao offers an overview of the Chinese academic market. As in any other country, the academic market in China consists of universities and research institutes, and hospitals for medical content. The market demand and buying power can be found mostly in the top 20% of universities and a few research institutes. The author intends to answer the question on where efforts should be concentrated.
Jisc, the UK’s technology solutions organisation for higher and further education, and Eduserv, which specialises in digital transformation in local government, public bodies, healthcare, charities, higher education and emergency services, are coming together to form a unique powerhouse of world-leading expertise to benefit all UK and overseas clients. The two charities will begin operating as one from 1 January 2019, in a move that will retain existing staff and services.
Redalyc decided to require the signing of DORA declaration as an expression of adherence to its principles, so that the journals remain indexed. For Redalyc, it is important to value a journal based on its content rather than basing its impact only on citations; it is crucial that research results are assessed by their own merits and not by where they are published. Redalyc highly values publications that address local challenges, particularly in the social sciences and humanities.
