This presentation was given at the Library Research Forum at La Trobe University, Melbourne, on 25 October 2013. Issues covered include what is green open access, what is gold open access, the scene in the UK, Europe, US and Australia. What are funding bodies doing to encourage open access? What is La Trobe University doing?
This presentation was given at the Library Research Forum at La Trobe University, Melbourne, on 25 October 2013. Issues covered include what is green open access, what is gold open access, the scene in the UK, Europe, US and Australia. What are funding bodies doing to encourage open access? What is La Trobe University doing?
Useful resources and search tips to help with your archaeology dissertation.
Please also visit your Subject Resources guide at: http://libguides.ncl.ac.uk/hca
The State of the Art of Open Access. Open Access is here to stay, June 2014SPARC Europe
Part of a course given for
EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries)
"The State of the Art of Open Access. Open Access is here to stay"
10 June 2014
Rome, Italy
Studying the Use of Glasgow University's Digital Collectionstarastar
Presentation by Maria Economou, Joint Curator and Lecturer in Museum Studies at HATII and The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. Invited talk at a workshop for 'Scotland's National Collections and the Digital Humanities,' a knowledge-exchange project hosted at the University of Edinburgh. 2 May 2014. http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/archives-now/
Research data management: a tale of two paradigms: Martin Donnelly
Presentation I was supposed to give at "Scotland’s Collections and the Digital Humanities" workshop in Edinburgh on May 2nd 2014. Illness prevented it, but my heroic DCC colleague Jonathan Rans stepped up and delivered the presentation on my behalf.
Useful resources and search tips to help with your archaeology dissertation.
Please also visit your Subject Resources guide at: http://libguides.ncl.ac.uk/hca
The State of the Art of Open Access. Open Access is here to stay, June 2014SPARC Europe
Part of a course given for
EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries)
"The State of the Art of Open Access. Open Access is here to stay"
10 June 2014
Rome, Italy
Studying the Use of Glasgow University's Digital Collectionstarastar
Presentation by Maria Economou, Joint Curator and Lecturer in Museum Studies at HATII and The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. Invited talk at a workshop for 'Scotland's National Collections and the Digital Humanities,' a knowledge-exchange project hosted at the University of Edinburgh. 2 May 2014. http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/archives-now/
Research data management: a tale of two paradigms: Martin Donnelly
Presentation I was supposed to give at "Scotland’s Collections and the Digital Humanities" workshop in Edinburgh on May 2nd 2014. Illness prevented it, but my heroic DCC colleague Jonathan Rans stepped up and delivered the presentation on my behalf.
REPERE CINEMATOGRAFICE ÎN PROZĂ ȘI REPERELE PROZEI VĂZUTE CA FILM, autor Vlad...Emanuel Pope
A apărut de curând volumul care strânge la un loc, în desfășurarea lor cronologică, duăsprezece cunoscute romane ale lui Corneliu Leu constituind ciclul „ISTORIA PĂCATELOR MAI NOI”. Viziunea cinematografică a autorului care configurează în aceste 1.100 de pagini imaginea frământatului secol douăzeci, este comentată în studiul de față.
2011 Carbon Ranking Report Asia Pacific 300Samgill000
Please click on the image to open the Carbon Ranking Report which accompanies the Rankings. The report offers an analysis of the state of emissions reporting across the largest 300 companies in the Asia-Pacific.
Open Genova - Corso Mappatura: inserire e modificare dati su OpenStreetMapAle ZenaIT
Le slide del "Corso di mappatura del territorio con strumenti open" di Open Genova. Questa è la parte 3 di 4.
Il programma completo è:
1 - introduzione
2 - Raccolta dati
3 - editing
4 - usare i dati
Sherborn: Thompson & Pape - Sherborn’s critical influence in getting informat...ICZN
The order Diptera (Insecta), flies, is a megadiverse group, representing some 15% or more of the known species of organisms. Scientific names are tags to concepts (hypotheses), called species, by which we organize our knowledge of biodiversity. Our Systema Dipterorum provides an index to all scientific names related to flies, so access to our knowledge about them is readily available. Sherborn more than a century ago attempted to provide such an index to all animal names. He did provide an index to all names published up until and including 1850. We compare our indexes, revealing how standards have changed and the number of names increased. Today, more and better resources are being made available to us, such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library, and our standards are higher (new International Code of Zoological Nomenclature), but regardless of all the change, Sherborn for his time provided an almost perfect (99.9%) index.
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
Philosophical Transactions to the Finch report: the events that have defined ...Nick Sheppard
Throughout history the creation and dissemination of knowledge has been influenced by innumerable ‘events’, cultural, technological and political in nature; from the invention of Cuneiform to the rise and fall of Classical civilizations and cultural incubation by the Catholic Church through the European Dark Ages to the Enlightenment. The invention of the printing press is obviously pivotal and in 1665 Henry Oldenburg inaugurated the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (Phil Trans), utilising print technology to establish the principles of scientific priority and peer review that have defined scientific discourse ever since.
In the 20th Century scholarly publishing became exploited by commercial academic publishers and, as journal prices began to outstrip inflation, ultimately resulted in the “serials crisis” of the 1970s. These unsustainable price rises coincided with emergence of the internet and in 1990 Stevan Harnad introduced Psycoloquy, the first peer-reviewed online scientific journal which paved the way for free academic publishing on the web after 1993. In spite of this, and with the World Wide Web over 2 decades old, the traditional subscription model persists, dominated by multinational corporations that generate huge profits and restrict access to scholarly material.
The Open Access movement is a worldwide effort to make scholarly work available online to everyone regardless of their ability to pay for access and in 2011 David Willetts set up a Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, chaired by Dame Janet Finch and publishing the so called “Finch report” in 2012. The HEFCE policy on OA that comes into effect in 2016 perhaps represents the most recent cultural and political event in this space.
This paper will explore the events that continue to influence academic dissemination and examine how Universities and academics themselves, particularly early career researchers, can utilise modern technology to be part of their own open knowledge event.
Symplectic training event for National Heart and Lung Institute – how to deposit your research manuscript and make it open access.
Symplectic Elements and Spiral are systems that work together to support individual academics and research staff in recording, reporting and showcasing their academic activities and outputs.
This training session will be an introduction and refresher to postdocs, fellows and PAs on how to deposit newly accepted publications into Symplectic in order to meet the open access requirements of the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Final year PhD students are welcome to sign-up but given training capacity limitation, priority will be given to postdocs, fellows and PAs.
In addition we will show you how to link you publications to research grants and your ORCiD.
Digital Publishing in the Arts and Humanitiesmattphillpott
Dr Matt Phillpott
Fellows Forum (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
3 June 2015, 1pm-2pm
Talk about the various forms of digital publishing open to artresearchers including articles, monographs, blogs, websites, presentations, and repositories.
Open Access and PLOS: The Future of Scholarly Publishing - Dr. Virginia BarbourUQSCADS
In this presentation, Dr. Barbour discussed the emergence of open access from traditional publishing models, the current open access landscape where PLoS journals have foreshadowed the development of megajournals as well as predicting future developments.
In defining the Open Access Publishing model, Dr. Barbour emphasized the crucial role creative commons licences play in ensuring that research is not only available free to view online, but is able to be re-used.
Open Data and Open Science presented in Rio for Open Science 2014-08-22. I argue that Open Notebook Science is the way forward and will lead to great benefits
Chris Lyal - Taxonomy and the Web - integrating the piecesICZN
More and more calls for information about species
What is this?
What species live in my country / national park?
What species are eating my crops?
What happens to them if I manage the environment?
Nigel J. Robinson - ZooBank and Zoological Record - a partnership for successICZN
Since its origin in 1864, ZR has had a close association with the taxonomic community, particularly with the Zoological Society of London. ZR was founded in 1864 by a group of scientists associated with the British Museum. It continued, supported by Society until 1980 when a partner was sought and BIOSIS took over production activities. In 2004, BIOSIS realised that with limited resources we could not achieve our aims and put our ideas into practice without further partnerships, so in January 2004, BIOSIS (including ZR) was acquired by the Thomson Corporation, and the new ownership is now starting to pay dividends. Over that 150 years or so, there have been difficult times, but ZR is still here and still has the same purpose it had in 1864 - to serve the community and disseminate taxonomic, biodiversity and zoological information for the benefit of scientific research.
This presentation discusses ZR, and the new free Index to Organism Names service which serves to demonstrate our commitment as Thomson to this initiative. I will also discuss how the partnership between ZR and ICZN might work from the ZR perspective.
Sherborn: Evenhuis - Charles Davies Sherborn and The Indexer’s ClubICZN
Charles Davies Sherborn was an indexer. And he followed a long line of indexers. And a longer line of indexers followed him. They/we are all members of “The Indexer’s Club”. A club of obsessed individuals who, for some weird reason, find it necessary to not only facilitate a semblance of order, but to make sometimes incredibly huge amounts of information available to others [sacrificing their social lives and labouring on what spouses and colleagues may consider esoteric projects in order to save others from the same work]. And in doing so, encumbering most of the day and the wee hours of the night with a passion and fervour few other human beings can even begin to understand. This presentation will explore the bits of Sherborn’s life that led to that passion for indexing; and touch upon the impact he has had on bibliographies and researching the dates of publication; upon nomenclature; and upon the indexing of names — and it will attempt to explain why he did this and where we all can go as a result.
Sherborn: Fautin & Alonso-Zarazaga - LANs: Lists of Available Names – a new g...ICZN
Article 79 of the ICZN Code, which appeared first in the Fourth Edition, outlines a procedure for adding large numbers of names to the List of Available Names simultaneously, as a Part of the List. This feature has gained importance with the development of Zoobank, because the LAN can be an important adjunct to or component of Zoobank. Article 79 describes a deliberative process, detailing steps for submission and for consideration by the public and Commission, and their chronology: submission must be by “an international body of zoologists,” and the proposed Part must be available for “comments by zoologists” for 12 months, followed by another 12-month period for comments on the proposed Part as revised in light of comments received. However, Article 79 it is mute about the contents of the submission. It is clear that adding a Part to the List will prevent long-forgotten names from displacing accepted ones – thus, for taxa on the List under the provisions of Article 79, nomenclatural archeology will not be worthwhile. Beyond that, Commissioners who participated in writing the Fourth Edition are divided about the intent of Article 79: some aver it is intended to document every available name within the scope of the Part, others it is to pare the inventory of names within the scope of the Part. The comprehensiveness of the names in the Part is critical because, according to Article 79.4.3, “No unlisted name within the scope (taxonomic field, ranks, and time period covered) of an adopted Part of the List of Available Names in Zoology has any status in zoological nomenclature despite any previous availability” (names may subsequently be added only “in exceptional circumstances,” according to Article 79.6). Under the first interpretation, the Part functions as a strictly nomenclatural archive. Under the second interpretation, the Part pares away nomina dubia, so Parts of the List resulting from actions under Article 79 are like the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names that took effect on 1 January 1980 – taxonomically recognizable as well as nomenclaturally available. It is critical that a consistent basis for implementing Article 79 be adopted; it is unrealistic to expect unanimity, given the diversity of opinion among those who helped craft Article 79.
Sherborn: Scholz - BHL-Europe: Tools and Services for Legacy Taxonomic Litera...ICZN
Literature research is the base for the scientific work of taxonomists. Therefore, large and well-curated natural history libraries are a very important prerequisite to carry out scientific projects efficiently. The library work, however, has several serious limitations that slow down the work significantly. The natural history library corpus is highly fragmented and scattered. In particular much of the early published literature is rare or is only available in a very few libraries. A lot of time and effort is involved to find and collect all scientific works that are necessary for a specific project.
Today, quick and easy access to digital literature is more and more important to facilitate scientific work. Over the last few years a large number of library resources for taxonomists have been made available online. Since 2007, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project is digitising the biodiversity literature holdings of numerous libraries in the UK and USA and making them available on the internet.
Since 2009, the eContentplus project Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe (BHL-Europe) is developing four different access routes to the biodiversity literature digitised by many European and global partners over the last years. With the Global References Index to Biodiversity (GRIB, http://grib.gbv.de/), BHL-Europe provides in collaboration with the EDIT project a union catalogue of library holdings of many European and US libraries. This will facilitate the search for literature, either digitised or not. This tool will also facilitate the management of digitisation projects all over the world and collect scan request from the scientific community. For an effective access to already digitised literature, BHL-Europe is building a multilingual portal for the scientific community. This portal will also have functionalities currently not available in the BHL portal. The BHL-Europe Portal will, for example, facilitate the search for common and scientific names of biological organisms as well as person names through the implementation of various webservices (e.g. Catalogue of Life, VIAF). The backbone of the portal is a preservation and archive system built on a customised storage infrastructure housed by the Natural History Museum in London. We are currently collecting digitised literature from 27 different content providers on our servers, including all the content that is currently available through the BHL portal (http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org). In order to serve also a broader audience, the digitised literature available by BHL-Europe is also accessible by Europeana, Europe's digital library, archive and museum (http://www.europeana.eu/).
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a button
Catriona MacCallum - Open-access publishing and copyright
1. Open-access publishing and
copyright
Catriona MacCallum
Public Library of Science
www.plos.org
European Editorial Office
7 Portugal Place
Cambridge
CB5 8AF, UK
+44 (0)1223 463342
cmaccallum@plos.org
4. STM publishing is changing - the
promise of the internet
• Reduced costs, global
distribution (one copy serves
all who connect)
• Potential for Archiving and
Searching new and old
literature (Google Scholar)
• Improved format for data
presentation, opportunities
for other novel features
• Text- and data-mining
• ZooBank…
5. What is open access?
• Free and unrestricted access online
• Readers/users are licensed to download,
print, copy, redistribute, etc.
• Author retains copyright (Creative
commons Licence -
http://creativecommons.org/)
• Papers are deposited in a public online
database
Based on the Bethesda Principles, April 2003
6.
7. SUMMARY OF THE CREATIVE COMMONS
ATTRIBUTION LICENSE
• to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
• to make derivative works
• to make commercial use of the work
Under the following conditions:
Attribution. You must give the original author
credit.
– For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to
others the license terms of this work.
– Any of these conditions can be waived if you get
permission from the author.
Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
You are free:
9. Noncommercial
You let others copy, distribute,
display, and perform your work —
and derivative works based upon it
— but for noncommercial purposes
only
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
11. Open access journals
Publishing
is the final
step in a
research
project
Researcher
Publisher
Reader
£
Public
Digital
Library
Gov
Funders
Institutions
£
Fees are waived for those without access to funding
13. Barriers to open access
• Publishers - commercial success
• Societies - publishing supports them
• Libraries – uncertainties about funding
• Funding agencies - don’t fund publishing
• Authors - submitting to a new journal
14. Catalysts for change
• New publishers
– Biomed Central, Public Library of Science
• Existing publishers
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
– Oxford University Press, Company of Biologists, Blackwell
• Societies
– Entomological Society of America
• Funding agencies
– Wellcome Trust, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• UK inquiry, European Commission
• Institutions, libraries, scientists and physicians
• Developments in the UK…
15. Wellcome Trust (Oct 1, 2005)
• Papers must be deposited in PMC
• Must be publicly accessible within 6
months
• Establishing UK PMC
• Provides additional funds for authors
whose work is published in OA journals
• OA agreement with Blackwell, Springer
and OUP
– Wellcome “approves” these OA options as PMC
compliant
– Money is available for authors from their institution
– Wellcome has deposited £30,000 at the “top 30” UK
institutions
– money is made available direct to other institutions
Wellcome Trust FAQ on OA -
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD018855.html#P178_16179
16. Key features of proposed RCUK
policy (2005)
• Mandate deposition of accepted articles
into Institutional Repositories
– “subject to copyright and licensing arrangements”
• Grants (awarded after Oct 1st
, 2005) can
include the costs of publishing for OA
journals
but…
publishers and some societies have been lobbying
hard against the RCUK policy
17. Publisher Initiatives - Hybrids
• Blackwell
– 665 Societies, 805 journals
– Online Open (80 journals)
– $2500 publication fee
• Oxford University Press
– 180 journals (2/3 with societies)
– Nucleic Acids Research fully OA from 2005
– Oxford Open (42 journals and rising)
– $2800 publication fee
• Springer
– Open Choice (all 1200+ journals)
– $3000 publication fee
• Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences
- Open Access Option: $1000 plus page and colour
charges; $750 with site license
18. Int’l Funding Agencies that
Support OA (from BioMedCentral)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Canada)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond (Denmark)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany)
Fondazione Telethon (Italy)
Fonds zur Forderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
(Austria)
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Belgium)
Health Research Board (Ireland)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
International Human Frontier Science Program Organization
(International)
Israel Science Foundation (Israel)
National Health Service (UK)
National Institutes of Health (US) National Science Foundation
(US)
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
(Netherlands)
Rockefeller Foundation (US)
South African Medical Research Council (South Africa)
Suomen Akatemia (Finland)
Swiss National Science Foundation (Switzerland)
Vetenskapsrådet (Sweden)
Wellcome Trust (UK)
19. PLoS and ZooBank
• PLoS will require authors to submit copies
of relevant articles/print resolution figures
etc to ZooBank on publication [online]
• New Launch 2006-2007
– High volume
– Cost efficient
– Fast
– Peer-reviewed
– An open access venue for all scientific literature
– Including species descriptions
20. Authors Licensing and Collecting
Society
• Jane Carr of ALCS read out a typical copyright
agreement, telling us that "the practice of assignment
by some publishers takes away all the rights of an
author, if I can quote 'Without limitation, any form of
electronic exploitation, distribution or transmission, not
known or invented in the future, all other intellectual
property rights in such contributions…' and so on".
• Quote from an ALCS member who had reported that
"'the only journal I challenged over assigning copyright
agreed to assign it to me as long as I understood that
they would not publish me again. Academic publishing
is, from an author's perspective, a complete rip-off'".
From House of Commons Report 2004
