The Lethbridge Journal Incubator: A new business model for Open Access journa...Daniel Paul O'Donnell
The Lethbridge Journal incubator is an experiment in the sustainability of academic publishing. The incubator attempts to ensure this sustainability by aligning the publishing processes with the research, teaching, and service missions of the University. Instead of drawing resources away from these central missions, academic communication under this model become a resource that materially improves the University’s ability to carry out these core functions.
The basic premise of the incubator is that the skills and experiences involved in contemporary scholarly journal production are both generalisable across disciplines and of significant value to graduate students whether they pursue post-graduate careers within or without the academy. The incubator works by, in essence, selling efficiency and training to institutions in exchange for ongoing in-kind and cash support.
In this lecture, I will discuss the experience of the incubator as it has moved from a prototype to production model. I will also discuss some current trends in Open Access scholarly communication in the Humanities and some implications for publishers and editors in other models and disciplines.
Wiley’s 2013 open access survey was deployed in May 2013 to 107,000 corresponding authors of Wiley journal articles. Key findings include:
• The number of open access authors has grown significantly.
• Quality and profile of open access publications remains a concern.
• There are indications of author confusion around funder mandates.
• Respondents overwhelmingly preferred the more permissive licenses.
• Considerable differences emerge between early career professionals and more established colleagues when comparing funding and payments for APCs.
For more information, please visit http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog
Connect with us:
http://twitter.com/WileyExchanges
http://twitter.com/WileyOpenAccess
Progressive enhancement techniques are used to improve perceived performance. Incorporating progressive enhancement early in product design and development process can ensure that fast user experience is not an afterthought but is baked into the product.
The presentation for my talk on the GLAM projects of Bulgarian Wikipedia, given on 12 October 2013 at the 1st OpenGLAM Conference in Warsaw, Poland. The two presented projects are with Sofia Zoo and with the Bulgarian Archives State Agency.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: What Happened to Unicode and PHP 6Andrei Zmievski
n the halcyon days of early 2005, a project was launched to bring long overdue native Unicode and internationalization support to PHP. It was deemed so far reaching and important that PHP needed to have a version bump. After more than 4 years of development, the project (and PHP 6 for now) was shelved. This talk will introduce Unicode and i18n concepts, explain why Web needs Unicode, why PHP needs Unicode, how we tried to solve it (with examples), and what eventually happened. No sordid details will be left uncovered.
The Lethbridge Journal Incubator: A new business model for Open Access journa...Daniel Paul O'Donnell
The Lethbridge Journal incubator is an experiment in the sustainability of academic publishing. The incubator attempts to ensure this sustainability by aligning the publishing processes with the research, teaching, and service missions of the University. Instead of drawing resources away from these central missions, academic communication under this model become a resource that materially improves the University’s ability to carry out these core functions.
The basic premise of the incubator is that the skills and experiences involved in contemporary scholarly journal production are both generalisable across disciplines and of significant value to graduate students whether they pursue post-graduate careers within or without the academy. The incubator works by, in essence, selling efficiency and training to institutions in exchange for ongoing in-kind and cash support.
In this lecture, I will discuss the experience of the incubator as it has moved from a prototype to production model. I will also discuss some current trends in Open Access scholarly communication in the Humanities and some implications for publishers and editors in other models and disciplines.
Wiley’s 2013 open access survey was deployed in May 2013 to 107,000 corresponding authors of Wiley journal articles. Key findings include:
• The number of open access authors has grown significantly.
• Quality and profile of open access publications remains a concern.
• There are indications of author confusion around funder mandates.
• Respondents overwhelmingly preferred the more permissive licenses.
• Considerable differences emerge between early career professionals and more established colleagues when comparing funding and payments for APCs.
For more information, please visit http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog
Connect with us:
http://twitter.com/WileyExchanges
http://twitter.com/WileyOpenAccess
Progressive enhancement techniques are used to improve perceived performance. Incorporating progressive enhancement early in product design and development process can ensure that fast user experience is not an afterthought but is baked into the product.
The presentation for my talk on the GLAM projects of Bulgarian Wikipedia, given on 12 October 2013 at the 1st OpenGLAM Conference in Warsaw, Poland. The two presented projects are with Sofia Zoo and with the Bulgarian Archives State Agency.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: What Happened to Unicode and PHP 6Andrei Zmievski
n the halcyon days of early 2005, a project was launched to bring long overdue native Unicode and internationalization support to PHP. It was deemed so far reaching and important that PHP needed to have a version bump. After more than 4 years of development, the project (and PHP 6 for now) was shelved. This talk will introduce Unicode and i18n concepts, explain why Web needs Unicode, why PHP needs Unicode, how we tried to solve it (with examples), and what eventually happened. No sordid details will be left uncovered.