Episciences is an overlay publication platform that provides traditional publishing services like peer review and dissemination through open access journals hosted on repositories. It was created to address issues with rising journal subscription costs and provide a sustainable alternative. The platform launched two journals successfully using an agile development methodology. Funding comes from a consortium of institutions and possible future author processing charges. The platform leaves papers available immediately after submission rather than waiting until after peer review. This could improve efficiency and allow version management. Episciences aims to foster new models of peer review using social networks and may eventually publish data and code alongside papers.
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting by Senior Program Officer, Karen Smith-Yoshimura and hosted by the University of Sydney in Sydney, NSW Australia, 17 February 2017. This meeting provided an opportunity for Research Library Partners to touch base with each other on issues of common concern and explore possible areas of future engagement with the OCLC Research Library Partnership and OCLC Research.
Presentation on how DOAJ is striving to increase the transparency and credibility of open access publishing throughout research communities.
Presentation at the 4ª Conferencia internacional sobre calidad de revistas de ciencias sociales y humanidades (CRECS 2014) Madrid, 8-9 de mayo de 2014
Acceptance speech for Directory of Open Access Journals winning the Ugena prize, awarded by the Sociedad Latina de Comunicación Social.
OA in the Library Collection: The Challenge of Identifying and Managing Open ...NASIG
Librarians, researchers, and the general public have largely embraced the concept of open access (OA). Yet, incorporating OA resources into existing discovery and tracking systems is often a complicated process. Open access material can be delivered through a variety of publishing or archival mechanisms, creating certain challenges, particularly for those managing e-resources. Although an increasing proportion of research output is becoming open access each year, organization and discovery of these resources remains imperfect.
The debate between the relative merits of Green and Gold OA is regularly discussed in academic circles but less attention is devoted towards Hybrid OA and the challenges inherent in this model. Most major publishers offer open access through one or more of these models, but open access metadata standards seem to be lacking among these content providers. The presenters will discuss some of these challenges identified in the literature and through other mechanisms, including data gathered by NISO and an original survey. By identifying these issues, the scholarly communication community can work together to improve discovery for end users.
Chris Bulock
Electronic Resources Librarian, SIUE Lovejoy Library
Chris is an Electronic Resources Librarian and NASIG member from the St. Louis area. His research and work are focused on improving the library user's experience. Chris is the recipient of the 2012 HARRASSOWITZ Charleston Conference Scholarship.
Nathan Hosburgh
Discovery & Systems Librarian, Rollins College
Nate Hosburgh is currently the Discovery & Systems Librarian at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida as part of a revamped Collections & Systems department that includes ILL, collection development, acquisitions, systems, and technical services. Previously, he held positions managing e-resources at Montana State University and managing interlibrary loan & document delivery at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne
Although library collaboration is common and many libraries collaborate through many organizations, it is a relatively unexamined aspect of library work. Many descriptions exist, but little from the point of view of organization and motivation. We will present a framework for thinking about library collaboration and draw out some of the challenges successful collaborations face. We will also consider how collaboration is evolving and how trends may be accelerated. We will emphasize that collaboration is a set of strategic and tactical choices, that it is very influenced by people and politics, and that collective action poses problems.
These dynamics are very much alive in questions around collective collections. We will look at collections as an example of the consolidation vs autonomy dynamic we observe in consortia generally. We also try and provide some guidance about how a collective collections initiative would be shaped – to identify points where decisions and commitments need to be made. We consider retrospective collection coordination (digitization, resource sharing, shared print) which currently tends to be layered over relatively autonomously developed collections, optimized at the institutional level, and prospective collection development (where libraries work together to optimize at the system level through collaborative collection development, licensing and so on). We consider some different dynamics with licensed and purchased materials, as well as institutionally created materials (research outputs, …).
This presentation was given during the NISO Update session at ALA in Orlando Florida on June 26, 2016. The speaker was Elise Sassone of Springer-Nature.
The powers of consortia: scaling capacity, learning, innovation and influencelisld
Libraries and related organizations group together in a variety of ways to get their work done. They consort, for example, to lobby, to negotiate and license, and to build shared infrastructure.
However, there are other aspects of collective activity that are becoming more important. In fact, I suggest that two are increasingly central to successful library activity: these are learning and innovation.
Thinking this way about consortial activity suggests four areas where libraries come together to create scale advantages: capacity, learning, innovation, influence.
Some consortial organizations span several of these, some are more specialised.
This presentation will consider consortia under these headings. It will also briefly discuss how choices about scope, scale and sourcing are important decision points for consortia when considering their mission and investments.
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting by Senior Program Officer, Karen Smith-Yoshimura and hosted by the University of Sydney in Sydney, NSW Australia, 17 February 2017. This meeting provided an opportunity for Research Library Partners to touch base with each other on issues of common concern and explore possible areas of future engagement with the OCLC Research Library Partnership and OCLC Research.
Presentation on how DOAJ is striving to increase the transparency and credibility of open access publishing throughout research communities.
Presentation at the 4ª Conferencia internacional sobre calidad de revistas de ciencias sociales y humanidades (CRECS 2014) Madrid, 8-9 de mayo de 2014
Acceptance speech for Directory of Open Access Journals winning the Ugena prize, awarded by the Sociedad Latina de Comunicación Social.
OA in the Library Collection: The Challenge of Identifying and Managing Open ...NASIG
Librarians, researchers, and the general public have largely embraced the concept of open access (OA). Yet, incorporating OA resources into existing discovery and tracking systems is often a complicated process. Open access material can be delivered through a variety of publishing or archival mechanisms, creating certain challenges, particularly for those managing e-resources. Although an increasing proportion of research output is becoming open access each year, organization and discovery of these resources remains imperfect.
The debate between the relative merits of Green and Gold OA is regularly discussed in academic circles but less attention is devoted towards Hybrid OA and the challenges inherent in this model. Most major publishers offer open access through one or more of these models, but open access metadata standards seem to be lacking among these content providers. The presenters will discuss some of these challenges identified in the literature and through other mechanisms, including data gathered by NISO and an original survey. By identifying these issues, the scholarly communication community can work together to improve discovery for end users.
Chris Bulock
Electronic Resources Librarian, SIUE Lovejoy Library
Chris is an Electronic Resources Librarian and NASIG member from the St. Louis area. His research and work are focused on improving the library user's experience. Chris is the recipient of the 2012 HARRASSOWITZ Charleston Conference Scholarship.
Nathan Hosburgh
Discovery & Systems Librarian, Rollins College
Nate Hosburgh is currently the Discovery & Systems Librarian at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida as part of a revamped Collections & Systems department that includes ILL, collection development, acquisitions, systems, and technical services. Previously, he held positions managing e-resources at Montana State University and managing interlibrary loan & document delivery at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne
Although library collaboration is common and many libraries collaborate through many organizations, it is a relatively unexamined aspect of library work. Many descriptions exist, but little from the point of view of organization and motivation. We will present a framework for thinking about library collaboration and draw out some of the challenges successful collaborations face. We will also consider how collaboration is evolving and how trends may be accelerated. We will emphasize that collaboration is a set of strategic and tactical choices, that it is very influenced by people and politics, and that collective action poses problems.
These dynamics are very much alive in questions around collective collections. We will look at collections as an example of the consolidation vs autonomy dynamic we observe in consortia generally. We also try and provide some guidance about how a collective collections initiative would be shaped – to identify points where decisions and commitments need to be made. We consider retrospective collection coordination (digitization, resource sharing, shared print) which currently tends to be layered over relatively autonomously developed collections, optimized at the institutional level, and prospective collection development (where libraries work together to optimize at the system level through collaborative collection development, licensing and so on). We consider some different dynamics with licensed and purchased materials, as well as institutionally created materials (research outputs, …).
This presentation was given during the NISO Update session at ALA in Orlando Florida on June 26, 2016. The speaker was Elise Sassone of Springer-Nature.
The powers of consortia: scaling capacity, learning, innovation and influencelisld
Libraries and related organizations group together in a variety of ways to get their work done. They consort, for example, to lobby, to negotiate and license, and to build shared infrastructure.
However, there are other aspects of collective activity that are becoming more important. In fact, I suggest that two are increasingly central to successful library activity: these are learning and innovation.
Thinking this way about consortial activity suggests four areas where libraries come together to create scale advantages: capacity, learning, innovation, influence.
Some consortial organizations span several of these, some are more specialised.
This presentation will consider consortia under these headings. It will also briefly discuss how choices about scope, scale and sourcing are important decision points for consortia when considering their mission and investments.
Rediscoverying discovery: three general exampleslisld
Presented at CNI virtual meeting, an overview of some trends in library discovery. Considers how libraries are considering how to present a more holistic experience online.
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
Tara Robenalt, Vice President and General Manager, Workflow Solutions, Highwire Press
The Evolving Collection and Shift to OpenLynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Cathy King. 2020. “The Evolving Collection and Shift to Open.” Presented at the Research Information Exchange, February 14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia.
The research library: scalable efficiency and scalable learninglisld
As research libraries are being reconfigured in a network environment, two important trends are emerging. The first is to accelerate the sharing of infrastructure, either through collaborative services or with third party providers. The second is to engage more deeply with the research and learning processes of their campuses. As research and learning processes themselves change, the research library has to respond and this makes being responsive and open to learning very important.
Library Assessment Toolkit & Dashboard Scoping Research Final Report and Path...Megan Hurst
Athenaeum21 is pleased to announce the public release of “Library Assessment Toolkit & Dashboard Scoping Research Final Report and Path Forward." The report is the culmination of a six-month research project in collaboration with the University Library of the University of California, Davis; the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford; and the Staats und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen, Germany. The research project examined how libraries currently assess their resources and services, and areas of opportunity to streamline and visualize library performance through a common and customizable set of key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboard modules. The research team interviewed library assessment leaders and practitioners across diverse institutions and geographies, and reviewed the current landscape of technology, tools, and services addressing their needs.
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The report concludes that "the majority of library managers approach assessment and evaluation in an ad hoc and reactive manner as questions arise. Managers spend valuable time manually collecting, cleaning, and normalizing data from diverse systems, and then perform one-time or static interpretations. The library managers that we interviewed during our research felt that the availability of a toolkit and dashboard could free them to probe and interpret more data, think more strategically, and develop more meaningful questions about measuring and evaluating library performance. While the scoping research focused on the performance of research libraries, the proposed toolkit and dashboard framework could be adopted and customized by any type of library, including smaller college and university libraries, community college libraries, and public libraries. Institutionalizing the project through sponsorship by an appropriate body or syndicate of libraries would help assure its extensibility nationally and internationally."
JSTOR has launched a new Labs team charged with partnering with libraries and scholars to build innovative tools for research and teaching. The JSTOR Labs team has successfully used ‘flash builds’ – high-intensity, short-burst, user-driven development efforts – in order to bring an idea from conception to a working, user-delighting prototype in as little as a week. In this talk the presenter will describe the approach to flash builds, highlight the partnerships, skills, tools and content that help to innovate, and suggest ways that libraries can adopt these methods to support innovation and the digital humanities.
CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9) - Workshop: In...Ronald Snijder
This tutorial is part of a number of sessions on the Institution as Publisher. The goal of the tutorial is to help interested librarians become Open Access publishers. The tutorial will start with a landscape overview and will use case studies from UCL press, Manchester University Press and Stockholm University Press. In a few hours, all the essential elements of academic publishing will be addressed: the workflow in publishing from manuscript submission to publication; the business plan; the technical infrastructure; funding models to sustain Open Access publishing; attracting authors to publish with the press.
Where Do We Go From Here? Assessing the Value and Impact of Discovery Systems
Michael Levine-Clark, Professor / Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services, University of Denver Libraries
Jason S Price, PhD, Director of Licensing Operations, SCELC Library Consortium
The network reshapes the research library collectionlisld
The library collection has been central to library identity and service, however we are now seeing major changes in how libraries help discover, curate and create collections. This is a response to evolving research and learning behaviors in a network environment. This presentation considers trends which are influencing how we think about library curatorial activities and are reshaping their collections. The first direction is the ‘inside-out library’ which is a response to the reorganization of research work by the digital environment. The second is the facilitated collections, which is a response to the reorganization of the information space by the network. The presentation discusses three ways in which we are thinking differently about collections: the inside out collection, the facilitated collection, and the collective collection.
How can UK academic libraries respond to the current issues in scholarly publ...Stuart Dempster
Trends in publishing and collections development, and some opportunities for UK academic libraries to transform services to meet institutional and user requirements in a fast changing environment.
Keynote presentation at the Lita Forum, Albuquerque. Research and learning practices are enacted in technology rich environments. New tools support digital workflows and the volume and variety of research and learning outputs are growing. Libraries are working to support these new environments and to connect their services to them.
Slides from a webinar for the Royal Society of Chemistry on 24th February 2016.
See the URI below to access the full report from the RSC survey "The role of libraries in open access publishing":
http://www.rsc.org/campaigns/m/lc/lc16013/open-access/
We often hear that we are in a transitional phase of open access publishing, but it is not always clear how we will reach a fully open access environment, what that will look like and what it means for scholarly research. This webinar will draw insights from a librarian survey we ran in 2015, discussing areas where librarians feel a lack of confidence and presenting technical and policy developments.
Register to gain a deeper understanding of:
• The historical and political context of scholarly publishing
• Funder and other policy requirements for Open Access (e.g. HEFCE and RCUK in the UK, Horizon2020 in Europe and NIH is the USA)
• Developing models of OA including “Gold”, “Green” and “hybrid”
• Jisc support services for OA
• Social media and OA – e.g. “Altmetrics” (alternative metrics) as potential indicators of impact beyond the traditional readership of scholarly material
La ciencia de la segmentación: Comprender Quién, Qué, Cuándo y Cómo generar e...Emarsys
Estamos asistiendo al boom de la compra online y la competencia se ha vuelto más feroz que nunca. Para que una tienda online pueda tener éxito, es necesario que los comerciantes sean capaces de captar la atención, el entusiasmo y la lealtad de sus consumidores y ser capaces de convertirlo en ventas.
Para lo que la siguiente presentación le ayudara a:
• Hacer que cada interacción sea relevante y personalizada
• Comprender el modelo e-RFM y cómo esto abre interesantes oportunidades para los comerciantes en el sector retail e e-commerce
• Perfiles del consumidor diferentes
Rediscoverying discovery: three general exampleslisld
Presented at CNI virtual meeting, an overview of some trends in library discovery. Considers how libraries are considering how to present a more holistic experience online.
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
Tara Robenalt, Vice President and General Manager, Workflow Solutions, Highwire Press
The Evolving Collection and Shift to OpenLynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Cathy King. 2020. “The Evolving Collection and Shift to Open.” Presented at the Research Information Exchange, February 14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia.
The research library: scalable efficiency and scalable learninglisld
As research libraries are being reconfigured in a network environment, two important trends are emerging. The first is to accelerate the sharing of infrastructure, either through collaborative services or with third party providers. The second is to engage more deeply with the research and learning processes of their campuses. As research and learning processes themselves change, the research library has to respond and this makes being responsive and open to learning very important.
Library Assessment Toolkit & Dashboard Scoping Research Final Report and Path...Megan Hurst
Athenaeum21 is pleased to announce the public release of “Library Assessment Toolkit & Dashboard Scoping Research Final Report and Path Forward." The report is the culmination of a six-month research project in collaboration with the University Library of the University of California, Davis; the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford; and the Staats und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen, Germany. The research project examined how libraries currently assess their resources and services, and areas of opportunity to streamline and visualize library performance through a common and customizable set of key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboard modules. The research team interviewed library assessment leaders and practitioners across diverse institutions and geographies, and reviewed the current landscape of technology, tools, and services addressing their needs.
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The report concludes that "the majority of library managers approach assessment and evaluation in an ad hoc and reactive manner as questions arise. Managers spend valuable time manually collecting, cleaning, and normalizing data from diverse systems, and then perform one-time or static interpretations. The library managers that we interviewed during our research felt that the availability of a toolkit and dashboard could free them to probe and interpret more data, think more strategically, and develop more meaningful questions about measuring and evaluating library performance. While the scoping research focused on the performance of research libraries, the proposed toolkit and dashboard framework could be adopted and customized by any type of library, including smaller college and university libraries, community college libraries, and public libraries. Institutionalizing the project through sponsorship by an appropriate body or syndicate of libraries would help assure its extensibility nationally and internationally."
JSTOR has launched a new Labs team charged with partnering with libraries and scholars to build innovative tools for research and teaching. The JSTOR Labs team has successfully used ‘flash builds’ – high-intensity, short-burst, user-driven development efforts – in order to bring an idea from conception to a working, user-delighting prototype in as little as a week. In this talk the presenter will describe the approach to flash builds, highlight the partnerships, skills, tools and content that help to innovate, and suggest ways that libraries can adopt these methods to support innovation and the digital humanities.
CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9) - Workshop: In...Ronald Snijder
This tutorial is part of a number of sessions on the Institution as Publisher. The goal of the tutorial is to help interested librarians become Open Access publishers. The tutorial will start with a landscape overview and will use case studies from UCL press, Manchester University Press and Stockholm University Press. In a few hours, all the essential elements of academic publishing will be addressed: the workflow in publishing from manuscript submission to publication; the business plan; the technical infrastructure; funding models to sustain Open Access publishing; attracting authors to publish with the press.
Where Do We Go From Here? Assessing the Value and Impact of Discovery Systems
Michael Levine-Clark, Professor / Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services, University of Denver Libraries
Jason S Price, PhD, Director of Licensing Operations, SCELC Library Consortium
The network reshapes the research library collectionlisld
The library collection has been central to library identity and service, however we are now seeing major changes in how libraries help discover, curate and create collections. This is a response to evolving research and learning behaviors in a network environment. This presentation considers trends which are influencing how we think about library curatorial activities and are reshaping their collections. The first direction is the ‘inside-out library’ which is a response to the reorganization of research work by the digital environment. The second is the facilitated collections, which is a response to the reorganization of the information space by the network. The presentation discusses three ways in which we are thinking differently about collections: the inside out collection, the facilitated collection, and the collective collection.
How can UK academic libraries respond to the current issues in scholarly publ...Stuart Dempster
Trends in publishing and collections development, and some opportunities for UK academic libraries to transform services to meet institutional and user requirements in a fast changing environment.
Keynote presentation at the Lita Forum, Albuquerque. Research and learning practices are enacted in technology rich environments. New tools support digital workflows and the volume and variety of research and learning outputs are growing. Libraries are working to support these new environments and to connect their services to them.
Slides from a webinar for the Royal Society of Chemistry on 24th February 2016.
See the URI below to access the full report from the RSC survey "The role of libraries in open access publishing":
http://www.rsc.org/campaigns/m/lc/lc16013/open-access/
We often hear that we are in a transitional phase of open access publishing, but it is not always clear how we will reach a fully open access environment, what that will look like and what it means for scholarly research. This webinar will draw insights from a librarian survey we ran in 2015, discussing areas where librarians feel a lack of confidence and presenting technical and policy developments.
Register to gain a deeper understanding of:
• The historical and political context of scholarly publishing
• Funder and other policy requirements for Open Access (e.g. HEFCE and RCUK in the UK, Horizon2020 in Europe and NIH is the USA)
• Developing models of OA including “Gold”, “Green” and “hybrid”
• Jisc support services for OA
• Social media and OA – e.g. “Altmetrics” (alternative metrics) as potential indicators of impact beyond the traditional readership of scholarly material
La ciencia de la segmentación: Comprender Quién, Qué, Cuándo y Cómo generar e...Emarsys
Estamos asistiendo al boom de la compra online y la competencia se ha vuelto más feroz que nunca. Para que una tienda online pueda tener éxito, es necesario que los comerciantes sean capaces de captar la atención, el entusiasmo y la lealtad de sus consumidores y ser capaces de convertirlo en ventas.
Para lo que la siguiente presentación le ayudara a:
• Hacer que cada interacción sea relevante y personalizada
• Comprender el modelo e-RFM y cómo esto abre interesantes oportunidades para los comerciantes en el sector retail e e-commerce
• Perfiles del consumidor diferentes
Collaboration 2.0: Interacting Profitably in a Connected WorldScott Abel
Presented by David Coleman at the CM Pros Fall 2007 Summit on Web Content Management, November 26, 2007.
This slide deck takes a holistic view of collaboration and examines people, process and technology. It includes best practices for groups and teams that work at a distance as well as online communities and social networks.
We will track trends in collaboration to see how today's environment came about as well as looking at scenarios for future technologies and their adoption. Virtual worlds, the semantic web and other topics will be discussed.
A variety of exercises to determine collaborative alignment, team alignment, and strategies for getting around some common roadblocks, as well as the 10 rules for online communities are discussed.
Making Web2.0 for science: Co-production of Web2.0 platforms and knowledgeJames Stewart
This paper examines how two contrasting scholarly publishers are responding to the opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 to innovate their services. Our findings highlight the need to take seriously the role of publishers in the move towards a vision of more rapid and open scholarly communication and to understand the factors that shape their role as intermediaries in the innovation pathways that may be needed to achieve it.
LIBER, Ligue Européenne des Bibliothèques de Recherche, launched its new strategy 2018-2022 in November 2017. This presentation gives an overview about LIBER's vision, strategic directions, steering committee and working groups - existing and to be created in the years to come.
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
Maryann Martone, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego
Alex and Conor introduce SAH Journal (sahjournal.com) as an open access academic journal project involving the collaborative efforts of emerging and established scholars as well as academic librarians. Conor explains the benefits of collaborating with research librarians through publishing. Alex asserts that librarians (libraries) are perfectly positioned to enter into direct competition with established commercial journal publishers. He explains the mechanics of electronic publishing from conceptional planning to implementation via, in this instance, Open Journal Systems (OJS).
Open Science, Open Data: towards a new transparent and reproducible ecosystemLIBER Europe
Presented at the Preforma Open Source Workshop 8 April 2016
As a library membership organization, LIBER works on addressing Open Science barriers. Standardisation of file formats can really help in overcoming some of these barriers: it enables us to process and preserve data in a controlled way, it helps ensure that outputs are really open and accessible in the long term and it improves interoperability of new tools and services. Making sure data is stored in a controlled way and can be (re) used today and in the future is an important element in Open Science. We see this as not only a technical challenge but also a social one: awareness, trust and community building is needed in order to ensure uptake of these standards. Libraries therefore have a valuable role to play in the development of good research data management throughout all phases of the Open Data lifecycle.
Open access, universities as publishers - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
This session focussed on areas where universities are (re)discovering roles, especially in the area of book publishing. Participants will be provided with evidence to help them consider this role for universities as publishers and its implications for them.
LIBER Strategy for libraries and research dataJeannette Frey
A presentation about the new LIBER (Ligue Européenne des bibliothèques de recherche) Strategy 2018-2022, with a special focus on the question of research data.
Descubrimiento, entrega de información y gestión: tendencias actuales de las ...innovatics
Explora el ámbito de los servicios de descubrimiento basados en índices, orientado al ámbito de las bibliotecas académicas, incluyendo Primo de Ex Libris, Summon de ProQuest, Discovery Service de Ebsco y Discovery Service de OCLC WorldCat.
Se aborda la Iniciativa Open Discovery y la reciente tendencia hacia una mayor participación por parte de los proveedores de contenidos. Se discute acerca de las tecnologías más adecuadas para las bibliotecas que tienen mayor preocupación por la participación del usuario, sobre el acceso a los libros impresos y electrónicos, con menos restricciones para los artículos académicos que se encuentran en Descubrimiento. Se presenta el papel de las interfaces de descubrimiento de código abierto tales como VuFind y Blacklight. Se aborda el estado de la nueva generación de plataformas de servicios de la biblioteca. La presentación ofrecerá los aspectos más destacados de la industria de automatización de la biblioteca global, con especial atención a los protagonistas y tendencias en América Latina. Basado en el "Informe 2014 de los Sistemas de Bibliotecas" http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/library-systems-report-2014
Abstract
Discovery, delivery, and management: the current wave of new library technologies and industry trends
Explore the realm of index-based discovery services oriented more to academic libraries, including Ex Libris Primo, ProQuest Summon, EBSCO Discovery Service, and OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service. An update on the Open Discovery Initiative and the recent movement toward more participation by content providers. Discuss technologies better suited for public libraries that have more concerns for customer engagement, access to print and electronic books, with less stringent requirements for article-level discovery of scholarly resources. The role of open source discovery interfaces such as VuFind and Blacklight. The status of the new generation of library services platforms. The presentation will provide highlights of global library automation industry, with a focus on the players and trends in Latin America Based on “Library Systems Report 2014” http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/library-systems-report-2014
Moving from an IR to a CRIS, the why & howDavid T Palmer
IRs collect, manage and display publications, and their metadata. However, an institution’s research, expertise and capacity is described by more than publications. The HKU Scholars Hub, hosted in DSpace, began as the IR of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2005. Asking for voluntary deposit of publications from HKU academics, it received little notice, and more importantly, little support from University senior management. In 2009 a new HKU initiative, Knowledge Exchange, adopted the Hub as a key vehicle to share knowledge and skill with the community outside HKU. With funding support from the Office of KE, we extended the data model of DSpace to include relational tables on non-publication objects, including people, grants, and patents, holding attributes of these objects, such as co-investigators, co-inventors, co-prize winners, research interests, languages spoken, supervision of postgraduate theses, etc. The DSpace user interface now delivers an integrated search and display on these objects and attributes, as well as on ones newly derived, such as authority work on name disambiguation and synonymy in Roman and Hanzi (漢字), visualizations on networks of co-authors, co-investigators, etc, metrics extracted from external sources such as Scopus, WoS, PubMed, Google Scholar Citations, internal alt-metrics of view and download counts, and more. Beyond the functions of an IR, the Hub now performs as a system for reputation management, impact management, and research networking and profiling -- all of which are concepts included in the broad term, “Current Research Information System” (CRIS). These new objects and attributes curated from several trusted sources, and integrated into the present mashup, contextualize and highlight HKU research, and attract more hits, than an IR with only publications.
The HKU Office of Knowledge Exchange has now funded the modularization of these new HKU features of DSpace. Together with our partner, CINECA of Italy, we are making this work available in open source for the DSpace community.
Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic ...Sérgio Sacani
We characterize the earliest galaxy population in the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the deepest
imaging field observed with JWST. We make use of the ancillary Hubble optical images (5 filters
spanning 0.4−0.9µm) and novel JWST images with 14 filters spanning 0.8−5µm, including 7 mediumband filters, and reaching total exposure times of up to 46 hours per filter. We combine all our data
at > 2.3µm to construct an ultradeep image, reaching as deep as ≈ 31.4 AB mag in the stack and
30.3-31.0 AB mag (5σ, r = 0.1” circular aperture) in individual filters. We measure photometric
redshifts and use robust selection criteria to identify a sample of eight galaxy candidates at redshifts
z = 11.5 − 15. These objects show compact half-light radii of R1/2 ∼ 50 − 200pc, stellar masses of
M⋆ ∼ 107−108M⊙, and star-formation rates of SFR ∼ 0.1−1 M⊙ yr−1
. Our search finds no candidates
at 15 < z < 20, placing upper limits at these redshifts. We develop a forward modeling approach to
infer the properties of the evolving luminosity function without binning in redshift or luminosity that
marginalizes over the photometric redshift uncertainty of our candidate galaxies and incorporates the
impact of non-detections. We find a z = 12 luminosity function in good agreement with prior results,
and that the luminosity function normalization and UV luminosity density decline by a factor of ∼ 2.5
from z = 12 to z = 14. We discuss the possible implications of our results in the context of theoretical
models for evolution of the dark matter halo mass function.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE SAMPLE RETURN.Sérgio Sacani
The return of a sample of near-surface atmosphere from Mars would facilitate answers to several first-order science questions surrounding the formation and evolution of the planet. One of the important aspects of terrestrial planet formation in general is the role that primary atmospheres played in influencing the chemistry and structure of the planets and their antecedents. Studies of the martian atmosphere can be used to investigate the role of a primary atmosphere in its history. Atmosphere samples would also inform our understanding of the near-surface chemistry of the planet, and ultimately the prospects for life. High-precision isotopic analyses of constituent gases are needed to address these questions, requiring that the analyses are made on returned samples rather than in situ.
Richard's entangled aventures in wonderlandRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
A brief information about the SCOP protein database used in bioinformatics.
The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for the structural and evolutionary relationships of proteins. It provides a detailed and curated classification of protein structures, grouping them into families, superfamilies, and folds based on their structural and sequence similarities.
4. Dramatic increase of subscription
cost in American libraries
400% between 1986 and 2011
Journals became the subject of a
very lucrative international
business of which libraries are
captive
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Isn’t there a problem ?
5. Isn’t there a problem ?
Learned societies
& Publishers
Researchers and
institutions are
creating value
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6. The scholarly publishing system: the origins « 1665 »
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Journal des sçavans
• Spread & communicate scientific discoveries
• Dissemination & archiving on a stable
medium
Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society of London
• Establish the principles of peer-review and
scientific priority
• Genesis of scientific communities (scientific
networking)
7. Scholarly publishing nowadays: two niches
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Until
70’s
From
80’s
[Grudin 2013] Journal-conference interaction and the competitive exclusion
principle, ACM
8. Towards a new and fairer publication model
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Dynamising exchanges between scientists : scientific social network
Gathering different data types: images, codes, videos…related to the
article
Adaptable & robust tool
Multidisciplinary
Associated to an editorial process of scientific high quality
Financially independent, sustainable and stable
Keeping ALL data under open access policy
[Holzschuch 2012] « There is room for a new publication model, combining
Open Archives for immediate access with editorial peer-reviewing »
9. Towards a new and fairer publication model
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Social networks burst into
the scholarly publishing
sphere, where they bring a
formidable added value
and could benefit from
being connected with the
open access
repositories
http://maverick.inria.fr/~Jean-Marc.Hasenfratz/SIS/Carto/
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An overlay journal platform
What is an overlay journal?
« A quality assured journal whose content is
deposited to and resides in one or more open
access repositories »
RIOJA, Repository Interface for Overlaid Journal
Archives
12. Providing traditional publishing services
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•Submitting paper / data
•Etablishing author’s precedence
•Ownership of ideas
Registration
•Quality control ensured by peer-review
•Scholarly recognition of the author
Certification
•Wide communication of the findingsDissemination
•Preserving a fixed version of an article for
future reference and citationArchival record
•Advanced scientific social networksDiscussion
Offering a
definitive &
immediate
open access to
scientific results
without
embargo nor
financial
compensation
13. Offered services
• Technical
– High quality technical environment comprising 24/7 services
– Long-term archiving of articles
– Web design, archiving of the reviews and correspondance
• Editorial
– Management of the peer-review process
– Management of the journal volumes and issues
– Contribution to some basic quality checking tasks: metadata, references…
– Communication and community management: social networks, online discussions
– General visibility: interaction with major indexing services and databases (DBLP,
Scopus…)
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14. Episciences: stakeholders
• CCSD*provides a technical platform
of peer-reviewing
• Scientific communities are organised
thematically:
– Episciences Maths(Institut Fourier)
http://www.episciences.org/page/epimath
– Episciences IAM Informatics &
Applied Mathematics(Inria)
http://www.episciences.org/page/epiiam
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*CCSD is a joint service unitof the CNRS,
Inria and the University of Lyon
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Editorial workflow: « Go »
Repository
Publication
Repository: HAL,
arXiv, CWI…
Journal
Publication
Author
Submission to a
journal
(editorialboard)
Reviewers
Comments,
interactions…
« Go »
Validation
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Editorial workflow: « No Go »
Repository
Publication
Repository: HAL,
arXiv, CWI…
Author
Submission to a
journal
(editorialboard)
Reviewers
Comments,
interactions…
« No Go »
Validation « No
Go »
In case of rejection of
publication, the manuscript
remains in the archive
18. IAM Landscape
• Wide use of HAL or arXiv repositories
• Significative content available online both in volume
and %
• Autonomous scientists using home made open source
publishing tools
Episciences is created as a support to the community
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19. Methodology
• Agile method
• Two full-scale journals were successfully launched:
– One well-established journal « DMTCS »
– One newly created journal « JDMDH »
• Platform already up and running
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http://jdmdh.episciences.org
DMTCS
http://dmtcs.episciences.org
JDMDH
http://jdmdh.episciences.org
Well-established scientific journal at the
cross-section between Computer
Science & Mathematics
Covers all aspects of data mining
methods for the Humanities, Emerging
domain with a scientific committee who
decided to go for an open journal
Created in the late 90’s, first published
over a home made server, then moved
to OJS
Reaction after a first contact with a
predatory publisher
Existing workflow, content & visual
identity
First Episciences native journal
Well-organised editorial team No legacy data, more flexibility upon
organisation and handling of the tool
Change management Initiate a workflow and structure an
editorial team, set up the website
Tools handling Choose a visual identity, define rating
criteria
Management of legacy data: 34 issues,
15 vol, 411 articles including
proceedings & special issues
Training on the tool
Building a readership and a reputation
21. Funding scheme
– Baseline: a consortium of cooperating institutions
(financial ou inkind contribution)
– Possible collaborations with initiatives such as
OpenEdition offering Freemium subscription schemes
– Author Processing Charges in case of additional
copy-editing services
– Hybrid business model, i.e. a combination of open
and closed conditions, is ruled out
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22. Leaving away the post peer-review
publishing paradigm
• Consequences
– No author anonymity
– Immediate high visibility
– Could lead to less poorly written papers -> more efficient
peer-review
– Availability whatever happens during peer-review
– Asset for version management (in case of errata)
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23. Further features offered by open
repositories
• Grobid -> automatic PDF to metadata recogniser to simplify the
submission process for an author
• Automatic detection of bibliographical references for linking the
paper to other relevant publications
• Automatic detection of plagiarism / state of the art (data mining tool
based on keywords, content, bibliographical references)
• A reference XML version of all papers, which in turn can be used
to produce different publication formats (HTML, ePub, PDF with a
specific layout, etc.)
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25. Issues
• IAM advisory board currently being set up:
- A group of about twenty internationally recognised experts
- Role: select new incoming journals, attract new journals, ensure the
coherence and quality of the journal portfolio, incite synergies with other
communities
• Additional services
- Can be envisaged such as : Copy-editing, Proof-reading, Branding
- Are subject to a specific business model which will be set up under
needs and demand
• Social functions
- Commenting , sharing articles
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26. A moving landscape…
We are in an exciting exploratory phase
Institutional endeavour
• The involvement of scientists is essential
• Academics bodies shall become responsible of their scientific information
policies/strategies
• Foster cross-institutional initiatives
Towards new peer-review models
• Open peer-review: Identification of the reviewer becomes possible, Reviews
could become publication objects of their own
• « Invisible college »: Social networks allows discussions, feedback and many other
forms of knowledge sharing and building. All data issued from these networks are
a fundamental richness that should also be open.
27. Data journals, journals of the future?
The Episciences workflow is designed independently of the nature of the initial
document.
It may not be a textual object but a compound of notes, programs (possibly active)
and data that could benefit from the same kind of certification process.
Where are we heading to? [verify, reproduce, compare, reuse, extend, share data]
• Allowing programs reproducibility
• Monitoring of calculations and data sets
• Testing datasets to launch new applications (serendipity)
• Favouring transdisciplinarity
• Referencing, indexing programs, DOI, going towards finer granularity from
document to data
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Intro Maud -> présentation du titre de la présentation
Intro (Maud) : annonce du plan de la présentation et introduit Gaëlle qui parle de diapo n° 3 à diapo n°14 ?
Here is the plan of our speech which should last about 30 mn
Let’s consider some background elements
As an introduction,
Let me tell you about what is part of our motivation?
As you see, this graph shows how exponential the increase of subscription costs is in American libraries
It is about four hundred per cent (400%) between (1986) Nineteen eighty six and (2011) Twenty Eleven
What can justify such a situation?
Step by step, scholarly journals became the subject of a very lucrative business of which academic libraries are captive today !
This increase is one of our motivation but his not the only one.
Another part of our motivation is : the way of functioning of the current publishing system -> where the balance seems broken.
Let’s consider some core questions.
Who’s creating value?
Research is made by researchers
Articles are written by researchers
Reviewing and selecting articles are conducted by researchers
-Who is financing research and researchers?
-What about Publishers?: are they providing good services for a fair price?
-What about Learned societies?: how much do they work at the service of research?
In this system, it seems to us that some publishers and scholarly societies no longer offer the necessary services and tend to become profit centers.
How to go back to a fair situation ?
Let’s get back to the basics and question the origins and functions of scientific journals.
The origins are not so old
The main functions are quickly described in this slide,
where you can see -> the incentives of the first journals
Journal des sçavans -> the first scientific and literary periodical in Europe :
Which were the motivations of Denis de Sallo : Spread & communicate scientific discoveries ; Disseminate and archive on a stable medium
Three months later appear -> Henry Oldenburg, published the first journal in the world exclusively devoted to science.
* Establish the principles of peer-review and scientific priority
* Genesis of scientific communities (Scientific networking)
Today those motivations are still relevant even though the journals from the seventeenth century evolved.
We will see, in the next slide how they have undergone significant changes, particularly in the Computer Science domain where conferences have gained a very special place.
To illustrate this change, we rely on Jonathan Grudin’s article.
In this slide, Grudin uses a metaphor of ecological niche in the computer science domain.;
he identifies the places and channels used by journals and conferences in terms of scholarly publishing = they form a real ecosystem.
This metaphor helps capturing the changes that occurred in the role of journals and conferences and the consequences of theses changes.
Grudin makes the comparison with biological species. Usually, each of them occupies a unique ecological niche:
In the recent times and until the 70’s, journal and conferences had clearly distinct roles
In the 80’s, in Computer Science, things began to change
Conference invaded journal’s niche :
>Conferences are more and more selective, more and more relevant for computer scientists (for building a reputation)
With the technological evolutions, proceedings have a good quality of print, the journal monopoly on wide circulation and archival status is broken !
There is more and more recognition of the rise of the conferences : they are highly selective !
An interesting question is: what happens now with the empty niche ?
->The ecologists tell us a new species will evolve to occupy a niche that can support life.
In our case, this means:
Is there a room for a new publication model ????
-for a new type of journal ?
-for overlay-journal, based on communities relationships ?
Transition : Is there an empty niche where the following could be developed:
a social network which could be connected to a system were publications and data are available
And linked to a peer-review system ?
According to Nicolas Holzschuch, Inria Researcher, there is such an empty niche ! :
He writes :
[Holzschuch 2012] « There is room for a new publication model, combining Open Archives for immediate access with editorial peer-reviewing »
Here are his specifications for a new publication model:
-Dynamising exchanges between scientists : scientific social network
-Gathering different data types: images, codes, videos…related to the article
-Adaptable & robust tool
-Multidisciplinary
-Associated to an editorial process of scientific high quality
-Financially independent, sustainable and stable
-Keeping ALL data under open access policy
So we have two major concepts with :
The opportunity of a niche for overlay-journals
And The added value of the socials networks
Now, let’s consider it in more details in the next slide
As may you know,
Social networks burst into the scholarly publishing sphere where they bring a formidable added value.
The aggregated data that Social network users generate with all of their searching is an extremely valuable information.
Look for example why Elsevier bought Mendeley.
For the future, we expect Social Network to be connected with the open access repositories.
This will form a new network of Open Meta-Knowledge where there will be good interactions and rich links between researchers themselves.
This is a value that we would like to exploit with open archives and overlay journals systems in the future.
We have looked at two topics which are :
An empty niche which leave a place for a new model of publication : overlay-journal
And the added value of social networks for the research
Translated into real terms, which tool or services can we build to answer those needs?
How ensure this strategy ?
We intend to build a new service of scholarly publishing based on a public infrastructure: episciences
Episcience is our answer to thoses challenges and this project is currently under construction
We said Episciences is an overlay journal platform but what is an overlay journal ?
Overlay journal have already been presented at ELPUB conference by the RIOJA project and can be defined as follows:
« A quality assured journal whose content is deposited to and resides in one or more open access repositories »
We agree this definition
The idea behind overlay journals is to offer a definitive & immediate open access to scientific results without embargo nor financial compensation [pour les revues qui sont désireuses de suivre ce modèle]
But basically they provide the traditional publishing services:
Registration : after submission of the paper, the registration establish author precedence and fix ownership of ideas
Certification : the quality control is ensured by peer-review this establish the scholar recognition of the author
Dissemination : It allows the wide communication of the scholarly findings
-Archival record : Preserving a fixed version of an article for future reference and citation
Discussion : Advanced scientific social networks ; allow a constructive feedback to author
Through the hosting on open access repositories, further services are also offered.
First, some Technical services
With HAL open archive there is a high quality technical environment comprising 24/7 services
in Episciences :
web design of the overlay journal website
the archiving of the mail history and correspondance
editorial services are provided with episiciences :
Management of the peer-review process
Support for handling the management of the journal volumes and issues
Contribution to some basic quality checking tasks
Communication and community management
General visibility: interaction with major indexing services and databases
Thoses services offers a Widely accessible, free and sustainable service
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Si on le temps :
Long term archiving is offered too :
Since March 2010, long-term archiving of the publications submitted in the HAL open archive is ensured by the CINES (National Computing Centre for Higher Education). Each main file in the submission (text files in pdf format or image files in jpeg format) is copied to the CINES archiving system.
Precise affiliation for authors, curated metadata (with the help of the Inria librarian network)
Additional services such as creation of personal / institutional webpages (papers from a given author or institution can be gathered coherently) -> tackles what Smith called in his article "the deconstructed journal" the scatter problem
Who are the stakeholders of this project ?
CCSD : *CCSD is a joint service unit of the CNRS, Inria and the University of Lyon.
CCSD has developed the HAL open archive and provides the Episciences platform for peer-reviewing.
Some scientific communities joined in the project :
The 1rst one is the Mathematic community under the umbrella of Institut Fourier of Grenoble
The 2nd one is the IAM Informatics & applied mathemathicS under the auspices of INRIA
INRIA
Public science and technology institution , Inria is a public research body fully dedicated to computational sciences.
Here we can see the editorial workflow in case of paper acceptance in a journal
Let’s discover the main steps :
the is a prerequisite before a submission in Episciences: the article in the pre-print stage MUST be deposited in the HAL, Arxiv or CWI archive
Then the author submits his paper to a journal
The board select some reviewers, and invite them to process the review
If the review is positive, the reviewer sgives a green light for publication
The editorial board, is the only one who can accept the paper for publication,
Then when the button « accepted » is activated,
A new version of the paper is online with a new stamp
Note : In case of paper rejection for a journal publication, the article remains in the archive
There is a persistence of the materials that are deposited in the repository.
->After the theoritical introduction, Maud will now investigate the practicalities of the implementation.
Thank you Gaëlle
As you just said, Episciences is not just a publishing platform, it is a working publishing platform!
There are already two journals running on it and a third one is currently being started.
Let me walk you through what has already been done in this project and what could happen next.
First let me tell you a bit more about our community. As I said, Inria is the French national research institute in computer science and applied mathematics. What are the characteristics of our community?
We have scientists who are heavy users (and consumers) of HAL, arXiv and open repositories in general.
In our community, there is a significative part of the content which in already available online. In HAL (the French national repository), there are 61 000 full text items (in computer science). 25% of which are preprints.
Chiffres donnés par Alain : dans Hal il y a 61’000 dépôts avec full text et 10’300 dans HAL-Inria
25% sont des preprints
(en info ou en général ?)
At Inria, we have a deposit obligation for all papers – a paper which is not available on an open repository won’t be taken into consideration during the yearly evaluation of the research team.
Last but not least, computer scientists have very early developed home-made tools to publish in open access (we will see that later in the presentation) and we are dealing with a community who is ready for overlay journals and in search of editorial support. Episciences answers a need and was created as a form of support to the community.
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Réponse :
GR : nous souhaitions « planter le décor IAM » en explicitant le contexte (particularités) de travail des chercheurs en informatique et maths applis qui de notre point de vue sont :
-> des habitués des archives ouvertes
-> qui ont accès à de plus en plus de contenus en archive ouverte
-> qui plus est, ont une obligation de dépôt chez Inria
-> qui sont autonomes dans leurs usages des outils (par exemple, DMTCS a d’abord fonctionné avec un outil « maison » puis un outil open source, et in fine viennent nous voir pour avoir du soutien et souhaitent basculer dans episciences)
The methodology we put in place is based on the agile method. We set up a reduced team and worked on a trial / error mode.
As soon as the platform was in a beta version, we decided to launch two journals. There were no test journals, nor demonstrators.
The first one is an existing journal, DMTCS, which decided to migrate at the end of 2013.
The second one is a newly created journal, JDMDH, which started working at the beginning of 2014.
Successful experiment.
Platform is up and running and bugs and new functionnalities are resolved and developed in real time as soon as the users signal them.
We currently have two journals running on Episciences.
DMTCS is a well-established scientific journal at the cross-section between Compter Sciences & Mathematics.
- Created in the late 90’, it was first managed by a commercial editing house but quickly transferred to the scientific editors.
The online system evolved from a collection of simple web pages and an editorial process managed through mail, over a home-brew server software, to the Open Journal System (OJS).
what proved to be easy in DMTCS case is the fact that the editorial team is well organised, has been working together for years and that the workflow, the visual identity and web content are existing.
what was more challenging was to conduct the change, assist the team in handling a new tool (with different functionalities) and above all, manage the legacy data. Over 400 articles (published through different systems) whose metadata and pdf had to be integrated on an open repository (HAL in this case).
JDMDH is the exact opposite. It is a newly created journal, corresponding to an emerging domain with a scientific committee that has collectively decided to go for an open journal and to join efforts with Inria on the new platform. JDMDH covers all aspects of data mining methods for the humanities.
What was easy in this case was the total flexibility of a newly built editorial board. And of course the non-existence of legacy data.
What is tricky is to agree on a workflow, assign tasks to the members of the editorial board, put in place automatisms, create a website, choose a visual identity and get used to the tool. Having said that, the biggest challenge (and it is one that every new journal faces) is to build a readership and a reputation.
Economic model: Dramatically diminish publication costs
Cf. EU Peer project: 2 to 50€ management costs per item (HAL: 15€)
Cf. Peer: 200 € peer reviewing costs per published papers for most commercial journals (manpower related to editorial secretariat)
As we want to offer editorial services, we do know that the costs per article won’t be of 15€ per publication. So we thought about financing sources:
- the baseline (and it is currently what is implemented) is a consortium of cooperating institutions which can contribute either financially or inkind to the IAM community. The core resources are are pooled through this consortium of partners
Other components can also be envisaged for a balanced funding scheme:
unite forces with initiatives such as OpenEdition which sell additional services (cataloguing, smart formats (ePub)) to university libraries
and/or author processing charges when there is a request for additional copy-editing services
What we rule out are hybrid models with open and closed conditions, ie journals in which only articles for which the author (or their institution) has paid a fee are open access. The rest being accessible through a subscription.
Leaving away the post peer-review publishing paradigm
papers are made public right at the time of their deposit on the publication repository,
which means the peer-review process actually takes place after the actual publication
Consequences:
Having the paper online before peer-review obviously prevents author anonymity. Can be difficult in some communities but there are clear benefits. Here are some of them:
Whatever the time and the duration of the review process, the paper benefits from a high visibility right from the onset
open manuscripts reduce the number of poorly written submissions, thus leading to a more efficient peer-review process
The paper remains available whatever the success of the peer-review. That guaranties the continuous availability of the corresponding results independently of the outcomes and possibly incidents of the certification process.
The paper may evolve further if new elements validating or invalidating the paper are discovered
A wide range of Associated services can be envisaged thanks to linking of the platform to a publication repository.
In the context of our current developments on the HAL platform, we can list:
automatic PDF to metadata recogniser (title, author, affiliation, keywords and abstract information
automatic detection of bibliographical references for linking the paper to other relevant publications
- a systematic creation of a reference XML version of all papers
What we are currently working on.
What’s coming next and which new developments can be expected?