Scopus is a large database that indexes over 22,000 peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and books, with over 5,000 publishers. It provides more extensive coverage than its main competitor, indexing over 10,000 additional journal titles. Scopus also indexes more regional and local language content. An analysis of a researcher, Amílcar Falcão, showed that Scopus indexed 5% more of his peer-reviewed publications and recorded higher citation counts for his top papers than the main competitor. Scopus also integrates more fully with ORCID author profiles.
This document outlines Elsevier's policy of not double dipping on open access article charges and subscription prices. It provides the subscription prices for 2015 and 2016 for various journals published by Elsevier. The prices were adjusted downwards for some journals in 2016 based on decreases in subscription article volumes, with some titles seeing price decreases of up to 10%. Going forward, Elsevier will aim to avoid large price increases in case open access trends reverse.
The document shows the title, 2014 price, price change, and 2015 price for 18 academic journals published by Elsevier. The prices for 2015 were lowered from 2014 for most journals, with decreases ranging from 1.62% to 13.13%. Elsevier's policy is to not double dip by charging subscribers for open access articles in addition to subscription prices.
Presentation at the American Association of Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division conference in February 2016 on the coming cost of open access compliance, and how we can reduce it
Time is a thief of memory. Articles and books can be lost from the scholarly record unless publishers take active steps to ensure their long-term preservation.
Enabling smaller independent publishers to participate in Open Access agreeme...Alicia Wise
Webinar to introduce new tools available to support the automation of Open Access agreements between libraries/consortia and smaller independent publishers.
Scopus is a large database that indexes over 22,000 peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and books, with over 5,000 publishers. It provides more extensive coverage than its main competitor, indexing over 10,000 additional journal titles. Scopus also indexes more regional and local language content. An analysis of a researcher, Amílcar Falcão, showed that Scopus indexed 5% more of his peer-reviewed publications and recorded higher citation counts for his top papers than the main competitor. Scopus also integrates more fully with ORCID author profiles.
This document outlines Elsevier's policy of not double dipping on open access article charges and subscription prices. It provides the subscription prices for 2015 and 2016 for various journals published by Elsevier. The prices were adjusted downwards for some journals in 2016 based on decreases in subscription article volumes, with some titles seeing price decreases of up to 10%. Going forward, Elsevier will aim to avoid large price increases in case open access trends reverse.
The document shows the title, 2014 price, price change, and 2015 price for 18 academic journals published by Elsevier. The prices for 2015 were lowered from 2014 for most journals, with decreases ranging from 1.62% to 13.13%. Elsevier's policy is to not double dip by charging subscribers for open access articles in addition to subscription prices.
Presentation at the American Association of Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division conference in February 2016 on the coming cost of open access compliance, and how we can reduce it
Time is a thief of memory. Articles and books can be lost from the scholarly record unless publishers take active steps to ensure their long-term preservation.
Enabling smaller independent publishers to participate in Open Access agreeme...Alicia Wise
Webinar to introduce new tools available to support the automation of Open Access agreements between libraries/consortia and smaller independent publishers.
CLOCKSS and JASPER lightning talk r2 r 2022Alicia Wise
CLOCKSS is a collaboration that ensures long-term access to scholarly works. It welcomes new members to join its community. JASPER's aim is to make archiving journals easier by working with publishers to determine the best archiving option based on factors like platform and export abilities. There are three potential archiving routes: using the Open Journal System, direct uploads, or web crawling. All archived holdings are reported to the Keepers Registry to aid discovery. CLOCKSS invites others to join in preserving long-term access to scholarship.
Plan S Price Transparency requirements and frameworkAlicia Wise
This document summarizes a presentation on Plan S's price transparency framework for publishers. It includes an agenda for the presentation which will provide an overview of the requirements and frameworks, include experiences from publishers implementing them (PLOS and Springer Nature), and allow for discussion and questions. It then outlines the key aspects of the price transparency framework, including a two-part implementation guide and data collection spreadsheet. Publishers are encouraged to provide data according to this framework by July 2022 to remain eligible for Coalition S funding.
Society Publishers Accelerating Open access and Plan SAlicia Wise
This document provides an update on the Society Publishers Accelerating Open Access and Plan S (SPA-OPS) project. It discusses the project's interviews with publishers and library consortia. Key findings include that 91% of consortia agree to work with learned society publishers on new models, and 53.85% of consortia would likely participate in initiatives redirecting subscription funds to open access. The document also outlines several transformative agreement models and shows how the Max Planck Institutes rapidly increased open access by negotiating agreements with their top 20 publishers. Next steps include developing a transformative agreement toolkit and quantifying unfunded researchers.
Elsevier has updated its policies regarding open access and sharing of manuscripts. The new policies now allow authors to immediately share preprints and accepted manuscripts on personal websites and blogs. Institutional repositories can also immediately ingest and make accepted manuscripts publicly available. Elsevier is also developing services to make it easier for authors to access accepted manuscripts and for repositories to ingest related metadata and content.
This document compares the number of competencies in the United Kingdom and China spotlight maps from 2012. The United Kingdom spotlight map had 480 competencies while the China spotlight map had significantly more with 1096 competencies according to their Scopus ASJC subject classification.
Research context for libraries and publishersAlicia Wise
The document discusses how research and development spending has grown significantly around the world, increasing by an average of 4% annually and totaling over $1.2 trillion in 2010. Both developed and developing countries have steadily increased their spending on R&D as a percentage of GDP to support innovation and economic growth. This rise in research funding has driven growth in the number of researchers and scientific publications worldwide.
The document discusses Elsevier's position on open access. It supports universal access to quality research content through sustainable mechanisms. It provides open access through gold open access journals, hybrid open access options in subscription journals, and green open access by allowing posting of manuscripts online. Elsevier has over 1,200 hybrid journals and 24 full open access journals. It also provides access programs for patients, developing countries, and through agreements with funders. Remaining access gaps need to be closed through sustainable mechanisms.
EWOCS-I: The catalog of X-ray sources in Westerlund 1 from the Extended Weste...Sérgio Sacani
Context. With a mass exceeding several 104 M⊙ and a rich and dense population of massive stars, supermassive young star clusters
represent the most massive star-forming environment that is dominated by the feedback from massive stars and gravitational interactions
among stars.
Aims. In this paper we present the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey (EWOCS) project, which aims to investigate
the influence of the starburst environment on the formation of stars and planets, and on the evolution of both low and high mass stars.
The primary targets of this project are Westerlund 1 and 2, the closest supermassive star clusters to the Sun.
Methods. The project is based primarily on recent observations conducted with the Chandra and JWST observatories. Specifically,
the Chandra survey of Westerlund 1 consists of 36 new ACIS-I observations, nearly co-pointed, for a total exposure time of 1 Msec.
Additionally, we included 8 archival Chandra/ACIS-S observations. This paper presents the resulting catalog of X-ray sources within
and around Westerlund 1. Sources were detected by combining various existing methods, and photon extraction and source validation
were carried out using the ACIS-Extract software.
Results. The EWOCS X-ray catalog comprises 5963 validated sources out of the 9420 initially provided to ACIS-Extract, reaching a
photon flux threshold of approximately 2 × 10−8 photons cm−2
s
−1
. The X-ray sources exhibit a highly concentrated spatial distribution,
with 1075 sources located within the central 1 arcmin. We have successfully detected X-ray emissions from 126 out of the 166 known
massive stars of the cluster, and we have collected over 71 000 photons from the magnetar CXO J164710.20-455217.
Or: Beyond linear.
Abstract: Equivariant neural networks are neural networks that incorporate symmetries. The nonlinear activation functions in these networks result in interesting nonlinear equivariant maps between simple representations, and motivate the key player of this talk: piecewise linear representation theory.
Disclaimer: No one is perfect, so please mind that there might be mistakes and typos.
dtubbenhauer@gmail.com
Corrected slides: dtubbenhauer.com/talks.html
ESPP presentation to EU Waste Water Network, 4th June 2024 “EU policies driving nutrient removal and recycling
and the revised UWWTD (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)”
The use of Nauplii and metanauplii artemia in aquaculture (brine shrimp).pptxMAGOTI ERNEST
Although Artemia has been known to man for centuries, its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms apparently began only in the 1930s, when several investigators found that it made an excellent food for newly hatched fish larvae (Litvinenko et al., 2023). As aquaculture developed in the 1960s and ‘70s, the use of Artemia also became more widespread, due both to its convenience and to its nutritional value for larval organisms (Arenas-Pardo et al., 2024). The fact that Artemia dormant cysts can be stored for long periods in cans, and then used as an off-the-shelf food requiring only 24 h of incubation makes them the most convenient, least labor-intensive, live food available for aquaculture (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021). The nutritional value of Artemia, especially for marine organisms, is not constant, but varies both geographically and temporally. During the last decade, however, both the causes of Artemia nutritional variability and methods to improve poorquality Artemia have been identified (Loufi et al., 2024).
Brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are used in marine aquaculture worldwide. Annually, more than 2,000 metric tons of dry cysts are used for cultivation of fish, crustacean, and shellfish larva. Brine shrimp are important to aquaculture because newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) provide a food source for many fish fry (Mozanzadeh et al., 2021). Culture and harvesting of brine shrimp eggs represents another aspect of the aquaculture industry. Nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, play a crucial role in aquaculture due to their nutritional value and suitability as live feed for many aquatic species, particularly in larval stages (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021).
Unlocking the mysteries of reproduction: Exploring fecundity and gonadosomati...AbdullaAlAsif1
The pygmy halfbeak Dermogenys colletei, is known for its viviparous nature, this presents an intriguing case of relatively low fecundity, raising questions about potential compensatory reproductive strategies employed by this species. Our study delves into the examination of fecundity and the Gonadosomatic Index (GSI) in the Pygmy Halfbeak, D. colletei (Meisner, 2001), an intriguing viviparous fish indigenous to Sarawak, Borneo. We hypothesize that the Pygmy halfbeak, D. colletei, may exhibit unique reproductive adaptations to offset its low fecundity, thus enhancing its survival and fitness. To address this, we conducted a comprehensive study utilizing 28 mature female specimens of D. colletei, carefully measuring fecundity and GSI to shed light on the reproductive adaptations of this species. Our findings reveal that D. colletei indeed exhibits low fecundity, with a mean of 16.76 ± 2.01, and a mean GSI of 12.83 ± 1.27, providing crucial insights into the reproductive mechanisms at play in this species. These results underscore the existence of unique reproductive strategies in D. colletei, enabling its adaptation and persistence in Borneo's diverse aquatic ecosystems, and call for further ecological research to elucidate these mechanisms. This study lends to a better understanding of viviparous fish in Borneo and contributes to the broader field of aquatic ecology, enhancing our knowledge of species adaptations to unique ecological challenges.
CLOCKSS and JASPER lightning talk r2 r 2022Alicia Wise
CLOCKSS is a collaboration that ensures long-term access to scholarly works. It welcomes new members to join its community. JASPER's aim is to make archiving journals easier by working with publishers to determine the best archiving option based on factors like platform and export abilities. There are three potential archiving routes: using the Open Journal System, direct uploads, or web crawling. All archived holdings are reported to the Keepers Registry to aid discovery. CLOCKSS invites others to join in preserving long-term access to scholarship.
Plan S Price Transparency requirements and frameworkAlicia Wise
This document summarizes a presentation on Plan S's price transparency framework for publishers. It includes an agenda for the presentation which will provide an overview of the requirements and frameworks, include experiences from publishers implementing them (PLOS and Springer Nature), and allow for discussion and questions. It then outlines the key aspects of the price transparency framework, including a two-part implementation guide and data collection spreadsheet. Publishers are encouraged to provide data according to this framework by July 2022 to remain eligible for Coalition S funding.
Society Publishers Accelerating Open access and Plan SAlicia Wise
This document provides an update on the Society Publishers Accelerating Open Access and Plan S (SPA-OPS) project. It discusses the project's interviews with publishers and library consortia. Key findings include that 91% of consortia agree to work with learned society publishers on new models, and 53.85% of consortia would likely participate in initiatives redirecting subscription funds to open access. The document also outlines several transformative agreement models and shows how the Max Planck Institutes rapidly increased open access by negotiating agreements with their top 20 publishers. Next steps include developing a transformative agreement toolkit and quantifying unfunded researchers.
Elsevier has updated its policies regarding open access and sharing of manuscripts. The new policies now allow authors to immediately share preprints and accepted manuscripts on personal websites and blogs. Institutional repositories can also immediately ingest and make accepted manuscripts publicly available. Elsevier is also developing services to make it easier for authors to access accepted manuscripts and for repositories to ingest related metadata and content.
This document compares the number of competencies in the United Kingdom and China spotlight maps from 2012. The United Kingdom spotlight map had 480 competencies while the China spotlight map had significantly more with 1096 competencies according to their Scopus ASJC subject classification.
Research context for libraries and publishersAlicia Wise
The document discusses how research and development spending has grown significantly around the world, increasing by an average of 4% annually and totaling over $1.2 trillion in 2010. Both developed and developing countries have steadily increased their spending on R&D as a percentage of GDP to support innovation and economic growth. This rise in research funding has driven growth in the number of researchers and scientific publications worldwide.
The document discusses Elsevier's position on open access. It supports universal access to quality research content through sustainable mechanisms. It provides open access through gold open access journals, hybrid open access options in subscription journals, and green open access by allowing posting of manuscripts online. Elsevier has over 1,200 hybrid journals and 24 full open access journals. It also provides access programs for patients, developing countries, and through agreements with funders. Remaining access gaps need to be closed through sustainable mechanisms.
EWOCS-I: The catalog of X-ray sources in Westerlund 1 from the Extended Weste...Sérgio Sacani
Context. With a mass exceeding several 104 M⊙ and a rich and dense population of massive stars, supermassive young star clusters
represent the most massive star-forming environment that is dominated by the feedback from massive stars and gravitational interactions
among stars.
Aims. In this paper we present the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey (EWOCS) project, which aims to investigate
the influence of the starburst environment on the formation of stars and planets, and on the evolution of both low and high mass stars.
The primary targets of this project are Westerlund 1 and 2, the closest supermassive star clusters to the Sun.
Methods. The project is based primarily on recent observations conducted with the Chandra and JWST observatories. Specifically,
the Chandra survey of Westerlund 1 consists of 36 new ACIS-I observations, nearly co-pointed, for a total exposure time of 1 Msec.
Additionally, we included 8 archival Chandra/ACIS-S observations. This paper presents the resulting catalog of X-ray sources within
and around Westerlund 1. Sources were detected by combining various existing methods, and photon extraction and source validation
were carried out using the ACIS-Extract software.
Results. The EWOCS X-ray catalog comprises 5963 validated sources out of the 9420 initially provided to ACIS-Extract, reaching a
photon flux threshold of approximately 2 × 10−8 photons cm−2
s
−1
. The X-ray sources exhibit a highly concentrated spatial distribution,
with 1075 sources located within the central 1 arcmin. We have successfully detected X-ray emissions from 126 out of the 166 known
massive stars of the cluster, and we have collected over 71 000 photons from the magnetar CXO J164710.20-455217.
Or: Beyond linear.
Abstract: Equivariant neural networks are neural networks that incorporate symmetries. The nonlinear activation functions in these networks result in interesting nonlinear equivariant maps between simple representations, and motivate the key player of this talk: piecewise linear representation theory.
Disclaimer: No one is perfect, so please mind that there might be mistakes and typos.
dtubbenhauer@gmail.com
Corrected slides: dtubbenhauer.com/talks.html
ESPP presentation to EU Waste Water Network, 4th June 2024 “EU policies driving nutrient removal and recycling
and the revised UWWTD (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)”
The use of Nauplii and metanauplii artemia in aquaculture (brine shrimp).pptxMAGOTI ERNEST
Although Artemia has been known to man for centuries, its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms apparently began only in the 1930s, when several investigators found that it made an excellent food for newly hatched fish larvae (Litvinenko et al., 2023). As aquaculture developed in the 1960s and ‘70s, the use of Artemia also became more widespread, due both to its convenience and to its nutritional value for larval organisms (Arenas-Pardo et al., 2024). The fact that Artemia dormant cysts can be stored for long periods in cans, and then used as an off-the-shelf food requiring only 24 h of incubation makes them the most convenient, least labor-intensive, live food available for aquaculture (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021). The nutritional value of Artemia, especially for marine organisms, is not constant, but varies both geographically and temporally. During the last decade, however, both the causes of Artemia nutritional variability and methods to improve poorquality Artemia have been identified (Loufi et al., 2024).
Brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are used in marine aquaculture worldwide. Annually, more than 2,000 metric tons of dry cysts are used for cultivation of fish, crustacean, and shellfish larva. Brine shrimp are important to aquaculture because newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) provide a food source for many fish fry (Mozanzadeh et al., 2021). Culture and harvesting of brine shrimp eggs represents another aspect of the aquaculture industry. Nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, play a crucial role in aquaculture due to their nutritional value and suitability as live feed for many aquatic species, particularly in larval stages (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021).
Unlocking the mysteries of reproduction: Exploring fecundity and gonadosomati...AbdullaAlAsif1
The pygmy halfbeak Dermogenys colletei, is known for its viviparous nature, this presents an intriguing case of relatively low fecundity, raising questions about potential compensatory reproductive strategies employed by this species. Our study delves into the examination of fecundity and the Gonadosomatic Index (GSI) in the Pygmy Halfbeak, D. colletei (Meisner, 2001), an intriguing viviparous fish indigenous to Sarawak, Borneo. We hypothesize that the Pygmy halfbeak, D. colletei, may exhibit unique reproductive adaptations to offset its low fecundity, thus enhancing its survival and fitness. To address this, we conducted a comprehensive study utilizing 28 mature female specimens of D. colletei, carefully measuring fecundity and GSI to shed light on the reproductive adaptations of this species. Our findings reveal that D. colletei indeed exhibits low fecundity, with a mean of 16.76 ± 2.01, and a mean GSI of 12.83 ± 1.27, providing crucial insights into the reproductive mechanisms at play in this species. These results underscore the existence of unique reproductive strategies in D. colletei, enabling its adaptation and persistence in Borneo's diverse aquatic ecosystems, and call for further ecological research to elucidate these mechanisms. This study lends to a better understanding of viviparous fish in Borneo and contributes to the broader field of aquatic ecology, enhancing our knowledge of species adaptations to unique ecological challenges.
The debris of the ‘last major merger’ is dynamically youngSérgio Sacani
The Milky Way’s (MW) inner stellar halo contains an [Fe/H]-rich component with highly eccentric orbits, often referred to as the
‘last major merger.’ Hypotheses for the origin of this component include Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus (GSE), where the progenitor
collided with the MW proto-disc 8–11 Gyr ago, and the Virgo Radial Merger (VRM), where the progenitor collided with the
MW disc within the last 3 Gyr. These two scenarios make different predictions about observable structure in local phase space,
because the morphology of debris depends on how long it has had to phase mix. The recently identified phase-space folds in Gaia
DR3 have positive caustic velocities, making them fundamentally different than the phase-mixed chevrons found in simulations
at late times. Roughly 20 per cent of the stars in the prograde local stellar halo are associated with the observed caustics. Based
on a simple phase-mixing model, the observed number of caustics are consistent with a merger that occurred 1–2 Gyr ago.
We also compare the observed phase-space distribution to FIRE-2 Latte simulations of GSE-like mergers, using a quantitative
measurement of phase mixing (2D causticality). The observed local phase-space distribution best matches the simulated data
1–2 Gyr after collision, and certainly not later than 3 Gyr. This is further evidence that the progenitor of the ‘last major merger’
did not collide with the MW proto-disc at early times, as is thought for the GSE, but instead collided with the MW disc within
the last few Gyr, consistent with the body of work surrounding the VRM.
Travis Hills' Endeavors in Minnesota: Fostering Environmental and Economic Pr...Travis Hills MN
Travis Hills of Minnesota developed a method to convert waste into high-value dry fertilizer, significantly enriching soil quality. By providing farmers with a valuable resource derived from waste, Travis Hills helps enhance farm profitability while promoting environmental stewardship. Travis Hills' sustainable practices lead to cost savings and increased revenue for farmers by improving resource efficiency and reducing waste.
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