What support is being provided to researchers? A view from a universityUoLResearchSupport
Short presentation on Friday 26th December as part of the FAIRsFAIR workshop: Advancing the skills agenda for reproducibility, open and FAIR. A virtual National Roadshow from FAIRsFAIR
Using social media and quantitative metrics to engage the research communityNick Sheppard
The modern university Library comprises repositories, publishing platforms and social media and is central to the dissemination mission of the University. Recent progress towards ‘Open Access’ has enabled research to be more effectively disseminated via the internet and aggregated into an Institutional Repository, empowering institutions to disseminate their own research and monitor associated metrics. A repository is also an ideal home for grey literature and research data, where IPR is more likely to be retained by universities which are increasingly minting DOIs for this type of content, ensuring persistence and enabling (alternative) metrics. This case study will present a Library led social media initiative at the University of Leeds examining local challenges and presenting usage data from Altmetric.com, Twitter Analytics and IRUS-UK.
The University of Leeds is a research intensive Russell Group University with a well-developed ecosystem of research oriented Twitter accounts. These include both University branded accounts overseen by schools, faculties or research groups as well as a huge number of ‘personal’ accounts operated by individual staff or students. In 2012 an account focussed on research data was set up in the Library as part of the Roadmap project but was used only sporadically before being rebranded in 2017 and used more actively to engage with the research community, to promote both OA research papers and datasets.
Themes and challenges include quantitative metrics, institutional and departmental oversight of social media, operational implications and sustainability.
Sustainable support for OER at the University of EdinburghNick Sheppard
Slides from a presentation by Lorna Campbell on 18 January 2022: A global challenge: digital and open education for inclusive societies
Lorna is a learning technology service manager at the University of Edinburgh’s Open Educational Resources (OER) Service. She is also a Trustee of Wikimedia UK and the Association for Learning Technology and has a longstanding personal commitment to supporting open knowledge and education. Her blog, Open World (http://lornamcampbell.org), features personal reflections on all aspects of open education, and she is an active member of the #femedtech network. You can find Lorna on twitter at @lornamcampbell.
Contributing to the global commons: Repositories and WikimediaNick Sheppard
There is huge potential for universities and their libraries to leverage Wikimedia in order to expose research outputs and collections. Wikimedia comprises sixteen projects in total, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. At the University of Leeds, the Research Data Management Service have successfully run a project that focuses on linking research data with the Wikimedia suite of tools via a series of ‘editathons’, in order to increase the visibility of research data and enable reuse on Wikipedia and elsewhere. The project - "Manage it locally to share it globally: RDM and Wikimedia Commons" - was the winning submission to a competition launched in May 2018 and sponsored by SPARC Europe, Jisc and the University of Cambridge, called the "Data Management Engagement Award", which aimed to address cultural challenges involved in promoting effective research data practices.
The project has served as a springboard to further explore Wikimedia strategically, both at the University of Leeds and across the White Rose Consortium. For example we are collaborating on a new project looking at Wikipedia citations of research from York, Sheffield and Leeds, and the proportion of these that are open access. The long term goal might be to establish a "Wikimedian in Residence" across the consortium. In this talk, we will present the project's outputs - including a toolkit that will enable other institutions to apply the same methodology. In addition we will explore the potential of Wikidata to link up repositories and other data silos in a manner that enables reuse and increases impact.
Reflections on Open Educational Practice Nick Sheppard
Slides from a presentation by Antonio Martínez-Arboleda on 18 January 2022: A global challenge: digital and open education for inclusive societies
Antonio Martínez-Arboleda is Academic Lead for Open Educational Practice and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education of the University of Leeds. Antonio has been a champion and practitioner of open education since 2009, initially as part of the Humbox team and co-researcher of the JISC funded project OpenLIVES on Digitised Life Stories. His scholarship focuses on the areas of OER (Open Educational Resources) and Critical Digital Pedagogies.
What support is being provided to researchers? A view from a universityUoLResearchSupport
Short presentation on Friday 26th December as part of the FAIRsFAIR workshop: Advancing the skills agenda for reproducibility, open and FAIR. A virtual National Roadshow from FAIRsFAIR
Using social media and quantitative metrics to engage the research communityNick Sheppard
The modern university Library comprises repositories, publishing platforms and social media and is central to the dissemination mission of the University. Recent progress towards ‘Open Access’ has enabled research to be more effectively disseminated via the internet and aggregated into an Institutional Repository, empowering institutions to disseminate their own research and monitor associated metrics. A repository is also an ideal home for grey literature and research data, where IPR is more likely to be retained by universities which are increasingly minting DOIs for this type of content, ensuring persistence and enabling (alternative) metrics. This case study will present a Library led social media initiative at the University of Leeds examining local challenges and presenting usage data from Altmetric.com, Twitter Analytics and IRUS-UK.
The University of Leeds is a research intensive Russell Group University with a well-developed ecosystem of research oriented Twitter accounts. These include both University branded accounts overseen by schools, faculties or research groups as well as a huge number of ‘personal’ accounts operated by individual staff or students. In 2012 an account focussed on research data was set up in the Library as part of the Roadmap project but was used only sporadically before being rebranded in 2017 and used more actively to engage with the research community, to promote both OA research papers and datasets.
Themes and challenges include quantitative metrics, institutional and departmental oversight of social media, operational implications and sustainability.
Sustainable support for OER at the University of EdinburghNick Sheppard
Slides from a presentation by Lorna Campbell on 18 January 2022: A global challenge: digital and open education for inclusive societies
Lorna is a learning technology service manager at the University of Edinburgh’s Open Educational Resources (OER) Service. She is also a Trustee of Wikimedia UK and the Association for Learning Technology and has a longstanding personal commitment to supporting open knowledge and education. Her blog, Open World (http://lornamcampbell.org), features personal reflections on all aspects of open education, and she is an active member of the #femedtech network. You can find Lorna on twitter at @lornamcampbell.
Contributing to the global commons: Repositories and WikimediaNick Sheppard
There is huge potential for universities and their libraries to leverage Wikimedia in order to expose research outputs and collections. Wikimedia comprises sixteen projects in total, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. At the University of Leeds, the Research Data Management Service have successfully run a project that focuses on linking research data with the Wikimedia suite of tools via a series of ‘editathons’, in order to increase the visibility of research data and enable reuse on Wikipedia and elsewhere. The project - "Manage it locally to share it globally: RDM and Wikimedia Commons" - was the winning submission to a competition launched in May 2018 and sponsored by SPARC Europe, Jisc and the University of Cambridge, called the "Data Management Engagement Award", which aimed to address cultural challenges involved in promoting effective research data practices.
The project has served as a springboard to further explore Wikimedia strategically, both at the University of Leeds and across the White Rose Consortium. For example we are collaborating on a new project looking at Wikipedia citations of research from York, Sheffield and Leeds, and the proportion of these that are open access. The long term goal might be to establish a "Wikimedian in Residence" across the consortium. In this talk, we will present the project's outputs - including a toolkit that will enable other institutions to apply the same methodology. In addition we will explore the potential of Wikidata to link up repositories and other data silos in a manner that enables reuse and increases impact.
Reflections on Open Educational Practice Nick Sheppard
Slides from a presentation by Antonio Martínez-Arboleda on 18 January 2022: A global challenge: digital and open education for inclusive societies
Antonio Martínez-Arboleda is Academic Lead for Open Educational Practice and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education of the University of Leeds. Antonio has been a champion and practitioner of open education since 2009, initially as part of the Humbox team and co-researcher of the JISC funded project OpenLIVES on Digitised Life Stories. His scholarship focuses on the areas of OER (Open Educational Resources) and Critical Digital Pedagogies.
Gender, Sexuality and Feminism: Lessons in starting an Open Access journalUCD Library
Presentation given by Joseph Greene, UCD Library Research Repository & Systems Librarian, to LIR HEAnet Group Annual Seminar, March 22, 2013, Dublin, Ireland
Nick Sheppard, Research Data Management Advisor, University of Leeds.
Talk at CILIP MmIT event, "The wisdom of the crowd? Crowdsourcing for information professionals", on 19/3/18 at the University of Huddersfield.
A talk given at 'Taking the Long View: International Perspectives on E-Journal Archiving', a conference hosted by EDINA and ISSN IC at the University of Edinburgh, September 7th 2015.
An introduction to the British Library's digital collections, resources and partnerships. Presented at the 'Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities' 2015 conference (Salford, 13 October 2015)
Making best use of Jisc eCollections: Historical Texts, Journal Archives and ...Jisc
Led by Hazel White, account manager and Scott Gibbens, senior service manager (Jisc eCollections) - both Jisc.
in this session you’ll hear about how you can make best use of Jisc eCollections: Historical Texts, Journal Archives and MediaHub.
Behind the "Pretty Pictures": a case study of the UCD Digital Library collect...UCD Library
Presentation by Audrey Drohan, Senior Library Assistant (Digital Initiatives), and Orna Roche, Metadata Librarian, at the Digital Imaging Group of the Council of National Cultural Institutions (CNCI) "Digitisation Case Studies" seminar on Thursday, 9 November, 2017, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
This is a short run through the activities of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the University of Cambridge presented to the Cambridge University Press Library Board meeting on 28 November 2016.
Making the most of digital resources - Lis Parcell and Patrick CoxJisc
Led by Lis Parcell, subject specialist - libraries and digital resources, Jisc.
With contribution from Patrick Cox, Learning Zone manager, Coleg Cambria.
In this session you’ll hear from local colleagues, explaining how they are making the most of some of the digital resources available through Jisc.
Connect more in Wales, Thursday 7 July 2016
Building a European Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences: The Cons...UCD Library
Presentation given by Dr John B. Howard, University Librarian, University College Dublin Library, at the CONUL Annual Conference in Athlone, Ireland, May 30, 2017.
Presentation delivered as part of OpenFest Online Symposium at the University of Sheffield on 7th September 2023.
Abstract:
Google something, anything. What are the top ten results? Whether a scientific concept, political theory or research methodology, Wikipedia will almost certainly be near the top, if not the very first result.
As a large-scale collaborative platform funded through charitable donations, with a mission to provide universal free access to knowledge as a public good, Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world and a primary source of information on the web, especially for people outside academia.
This presentation will explore the role of Wikipedia in the information ecosystem, where it occupies a unique role as a bridge between informal discussion and scholarly publication. We explore how it relates to the broader Wikimedia ecosystem, through structured data on Wikidata for instance, and openly licensed media on Wikimedia Commons. We consider the potential for universities to engage strategically with Wikimedia and the benefits of doing so, in the areas of information literacy and research impact, sharing openly licensed text and images to improve Wikipedia, for example, and linking Wikipedia citations to open access repositories.
We will discuss our Wikimedia Champions project at the University of Leeds, which has recruited PGRs to examine Wikipedia in their subject area, identifying areas of need and making contributions. The project has been an opportunity to explore ways of sharing University research with a wider audience in an open and accessible way and thereby contribute to the global commons.
Brief overview of linked data and RDF followed by use in libraries and archives. Originally delivered at OLITA Digital Odyssey 2014. Revised for the OLA Superconference 2015
Gender, Sexuality and Feminism: Lessons in starting an Open Access journalUCD Library
Presentation given by Joseph Greene, UCD Library Research Repository & Systems Librarian, to LIR HEAnet Group Annual Seminar, March 22, 2013, Dublin, Ireland
Nick Sheppard, Research Data Management Advisor, University of Leeds.
Talk at CILIP MmIT event, "The wisdom of the crowd? Crowdsourcing for information professionals", on 19/3/18 at the University of Huddersfield.
A talk given at 'Taking the Long View: International Perspectives on E-Journal Archiving', a conference hosted by EDINA and ISSN IC at the University of Edinburgh, September 7th 2015.
An introduction to the British Library's digital collections, resources and partnerships. Presented at the 'Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities' 2015 conference (Salford, 13 October 2015)
Making best use of Jisc eCollections: Historical Texts, Journal Archives and ...Jisc
Led by Hazel White, account manager and Scott Gibbens, senior service manager (Jisc eCollections) - both Jisc.
in this session you’ll hear about how you can make best use of Jisc eCollections: Historical Texts, Journal Archives and MediaHub.
Behind the "Pretty Pictures": a case study of the UCD Digital Library collect...UCD Library
Presentation by Audrey Drohan, Senior Library Assistant (Digital Initiatives), and Orna Roche, Metadata Librarian, at the Digital Imaging Group of the Council of National Cultural Institutions (CNCI) "Digitisation Case Studies" seminar on Thursday, 9 November, 2017, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
This is a short run through the activities of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the University of Cambridge presented to the Cambridge University Press Library Board meeting on 28 November 2016.
Making the most of digital resources - Lis Parcell and Patrick CoxJisc
Led by Lis Parcell, subject specialist - libraries and digital resources, Jisc.
With contribution from Patrick Cox, Learning Zone manager, Coleg Cambria.
In this session you’ll hear from local colleagues, explaining how they are making the most of some of the digital resources available through Jisc.
Connect more in Wales, Thursday 7 July 2016
Building a European Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences: The Cons...UCD Library
Presentation given by Dr John B. Howard, University Librarian, University College Dublin Library, at the CONUL Annual Conference in Athlone, Ireland, May 30, 2017.
Presentation delivered as part of OpenFest Online Symposium at the University of Sheffield on 7th September 2023.
Abstract:
Google something, anything. What are the top ten results? Whether a scientific concept, political theory or research methodology, Wikipedia will almost certainly be near the top, if not the very first result.
As a large-scale collaborative platform funded through charitable donations, with a mission to provide universal free access to knowledge as a public good, Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world and a primary source of information on the web, especially for people outside academia.
This presentation will explore the role of Wikipedia in the information ecosystem, where it occupies a unique role as a bridge between informal discussion and scholarly publication. We explore how it relates to the broader Wikimedia ecosystem, through structured data on Wikidata for instance, and openly licensed media on Wikimedia Commons. We consider the potential for universities to engage strategically with Wikimedia and the benefits of doing so, in the areas of information literacy and research impact, sharing openly licensed text and images to improve Wikipedia, for example, and linking Wikipedia citations to open access repositories.
We will discuss our Wikimedia Champions project at the University of Leeds, which has recruited PGRs to examine Wikipedia in their subject area, identifying areas of need and making contributions. The project has been an opportunity to explore ways of sharing University research with a wider audience in an open and accessible way and thereby contribute to the global commons.
Brief overview of linked data and RDF followed by use in libraries and archives. Originally delivered at OLITA Digital Odyssey 2014. Revised for the OLA Superconference 2015
Presented by Samara Carter and Monique Clark at the 2013 Power Up Your Pedagogy Conference held at the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College.
A global commons: turning research into educational material with WikimediaUoLResearchSupport
On 21st April we welcomed Dr Martin Poulter former 'Wikimedian in Residence' at the Bodleian Library to learn how the Wikimedia suite of tools can extend the reach and impact of research to support teaching and learning.
Martin talked about his work as a Wikimedian, and some of the projects at the Bodleian that demonstrate the combined use of Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and Wikipedia to extend the reach and impact of research outputs.
Wikimedia also aligns with the University of Leeds Libraries Vision for 2030: Knowledge for all, and Open Research Advisor Nick Sheppard discussed how we are planning to work with Martin as part of our open research strategy.
Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" is one of the most visited website in the world. Perhaps less well-known are a wide range of related projects under the Wikimedia umbrella.
- Wikimedia Commons is a repository of openly licensed media files including photographs, diagrams, video and audio
- Wikisource is a free library of out-of-copyright texts
Wikiversity and Wikibooks encourage collaborative creation of open educational resources (OERs)
- Wikidata is a store of structured data that can be read and edited by humans or machines.
Manage it locally to share it globally: RDM and Wikimedia CommonsNick Sheppard
Slides for Internet Librarian International 2018 about the Data Management Engagement Award, a first-ever competition launched to elicit new and imaginative ideas for engaging researchers in the practices of good Research Data Management (RDM) - http://www.rdmengagementaward.org/
An introduction to the Wikidata Thesis Toolkit / Helen Williams (London Schoo...CILIP MDG
Would you like to re-energise your metadata skills, re-enthuse your colleagues by demonstrating the power of metadata, and re-vitalise discovery of your unique content? Then this session is for you!
Supporting this year’s theme of “Re-discovery” Ruth Elder and Helen Williams will introduce their recently launched Wikidata Thesis Toolkit (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_Thesis_Toolkit ), a document which aims to reduce the development burden for other institutions looking to establish a Wikidata thesis project. Ruth and Helen will showcase the value and impact of a Wikidata thesis project at each of their institutions, inspire the audience to get hands on with Wikidata through the live creation of a Wikidata thesis item, and demonstrate how SPARQL queries make use of your metadata.
We hope that this session will be foundational in developing a growing community of practice among UK metadata experts who are interested in developing Wikidata work and sharing experience with one another.
Paper presented at the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) Conference & UKCoR RDA Day (6th - 8th Sept 2023 at IET Austin Court, Birmingham).
Slides for the GLAM Panel at WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin, 25. October 2019, on the role of Wikidata within data ecosystems extending beyond the realm of Wikimedia projects. Authors: Susanna Ånäs (Finland); Mike Dickison (New Zealand); Joachim Neubert (Germany); Beat Estermann (Switzerland).
In order for museums to truly reap the benefits of publishing their collections online in a sustainable way, PACKED vzw presents the results of its Linked open data project as a best practice guide for the Flemish heritage sector.
Linked Open Data Publications through Wikidata & Persistent Identification...PACKED vzw
In order for museums to truly reap the benefits of publishing their collections online in a sustainable way, PACKED vzw presents the results of its Linked open data project as a best practice guide for the Flemish heritage sector.
This talk was co-presented with David De Roure at a Digital Research Cluster workshop at Wolfson College, Oxford, 18 June 2018: The Isaiah Berlin Digital Archive: A test case for the development of on-line research resources (https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/event/isaiah-berlin-digital-archive-test-case-development-line-research-resources).
Has anyone seen my data? Incentivising #opendata sharing with altmetricsNick Sheppard
As an important component of the scholarly record, research data, software and code are increasingly managed as research outputs in their own right, though are not typically subject to peer review.
In line with the broader ‘open research’ movement there is a growing impetus for datasets, software and code to be curated in repositories, openly available wherever possible subject to relevant legal and ethical constraints.
Data repositories such as Figshare, Dryad and Zenodo routinely allocate DOIs for deposited data while many universities in the UK also allocate and mint DOIs in their nascent institutionally based data repositories through Datacite which means they will be automatically tracked by altmetric.com in the same way as journal articles.
While the repository infrastructure continues to develop and there are pockets of best practice, data sharing and reuse is not yet fully established across UK HE. Reward mechanisms are immature and data citation, for example, is limited and not easy to track. Clarivate Analytics’ Data Citation Index coverage of UK based repositories is still relatively low and, as a subscription based product, is not widely accessible. COUNTER compliant downloads can be derived from IRUSdata-UK (beta) which currently tracks 27 UK based institutional data repositories.
Altmetrics therefore offers a low barrier method to track engagement with datasets and, in lieu of a more formal process, might be regarded as a type of informal peer review. We have undertaken a preliminary analysis of repositories that participate in IRUSdata-UK (beta) using it as a source of DOIs to run against the altmetric.com API to discover to what extent research data, software and code is being shared.
This talk will present these preliminary results and explore how and why datasets are being shared across the various platforms tracked by altmetric.com and potential barriers. It will consider how data repository managers can encourage and facilitate data sharing through social media networks, blogs and “data journalism” and will draw on the Research Data Management (RDM) Engagement Award at the University of Leeds which is exploring linking RDM with the Open Science movement via the Wikimedia suite of tools. What does the altmetric data currently tell us about how research data is being linked to this global platform
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
Leveraging a Library CMS and Social Media to promote #openaccess (OA) to inst...Nick Sheppard
The confluence of various technologies and Open Access (OA) initiatives make it easy to share research outputs via social media and assess the reach and impact of dissemination. The Library at Leeds Beckett utilises LibGuides as our CMS and supports the institutional research management infrastructure comprising Symplectic Elements and EPrints, and we have developed a dedicated series of LibGuides around selected themes comprising a range of relevant information and including institutional research outputs. For World Diabetes Day, for example, we curated a collection of research outputs and utilised the Elements API to display a date ordered list of citations including, where available, links to author versions, self-archived and openly accessible in EPrints alongside an embedded Twitter feed from @WDD, the Official Twitter account of the campaign from the International Diabetes Federation. The page was disseminated via Twitter from accounts operated by the Library, @BeckettLibrary and @BeckettResearch, including targeted tweets to @WDD and individual academics. With over 4,500 and 1,500 followers respectively these accounts are well subscribed and received several "retweets". The guide, whilst highlighting and strengthening the role of the library as a tool for researchers, was also an advocacy tool to engage academics in OA. This paper will explore the context and technology of this initiative and present data from Twitter analytics and so called "altmetrics" as a means of visualising how research is shared and disseminated online and which are potential indicators of impact beyond the traditional readership of scholarly material, especially in conjunction with OA.
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.
Extending and measuring the reach and impact of research output: #openaccess,...Nick Sheppard
Research can be easily disseminated online amongst communities of researchers and interested lay people, via social media for example, and it is clearly beneficial if that research is freely accessible on the open web rather than restricted by subscription access. Evidence suggests that OA can increase traditional citations and, increasingly, developments in alternative or “altmetrics” are enabling online social activity around research to be recorded and measured. This session will explore initiatives in this are at Leeds Beckett in the context of the new HEFCE requirements for OA that come into effect in 2016.
Significant developments in OA, driven by HEFCE’s “Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework” state that authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts must be deposited in a repository on acceptance for publication i.e. “green” OA. In many ways the policy is a response to the Finch report and RCUK policy which emphasise “gold” whereby a journal provides immediate OA to articles on the publisher’s website and may levy a fee as an alternative to library subscription.
There is consensus that established models of scholarly communication, especially related to copyright, inhibit scientific progress, and RCUK emphasise that gold OA must be CC-BY. In response, traditional publishers have moved towards a “hybrid” model whereby they facilitate green by permitting “self-archiving” – often subject to embargo – but increasingly promote gold whereby authors pay a fee to publish CC-BY (average fee across the sector ≈ £1800 per article), in stark contrast to the use of open licences in OE more generally and reflecting commercial interests with evidence that publishers benefit in the form of “double dipping”, effectively paid twice for the same content via library subscription and OA fees (Pinfield et al 2014).
To comply with HEFCE, there is considerable activity across the sector to develop robust infrastructure – repositories, CRIS, RIOXX, Jisc’s “Publication Router”, “Open Mirror”, Monitor project and CORE aggregator. Individual HEIs are also iterating to develop infrastructure and appropriate internal policies; at Leeds Beckett, like many Universities, we are looking into the management of APCs to ensure double-dipping does not occur which requires collaboration between library, research office and faculty. In addition, the more specialised requirements of a HEFCE compliant repository means we are reviewing our infrastructure and considering a Jorum “Window” to manage OER rather than the current “blended” repository comprising OA research and OER.
HEFCE policy serves to emphasise OA over OE and there are questions of academic support structure; academic librarians typically specialise in research support or teaching and learning. Increasingly, librarians advocate for OA/OE, particularly using the HEFCE mandate as a tool to encourage OA publishing routes and it was thought OE/OA would solve the problem of the “serial crisis”, this is now not thought to be the case (Harris, 2012).
OA and OE have much to share and remain convergent in many ways. This paper will describe the developing OA landscape and invite participants to explore synergies and dissonance with OE in the contexts of infrastructure, policy and licensing; we will argue that to avoid continued commercial exploitation, the fostering of partnerships across the academy is crucial to mainstreaming Open Education.
Pinfield, S., Salter, J. and Bath, P.A. (2015) The ‘total cost of publication’ in a hyb
Advocating Open Access: Before, during and after HEFCENick Sheppard
Since “self-archiving” of research outputs was first mooted in the mid-1990s, initiatives towards “green” Open Access (OA) across the sector have met with generally limited success and coverage in institutional and subject repositories is generally cited at around 20-30%. However, since the Finch report in 2012 combined with OA policies from RCUK, also in 2012, and HEFCE the following year, there is little doubt that a tipping point of awareness has been reached. This session will aim to contextualise the HEFCE policy in the broader history of Open Access and present a case study of a non-research intensive University and how the repository manager has sought to liaise with academic support services in order to facilitate knowledge exchange across the University. - See more at: http://www.cilip.org.uk/events/open-access-advocacy#sthash.9YqReHt0.dpuf
Open Metrics for Open Repositories at OR2012Nick Sheppard
Slides for a paper on "Open Metrics for Open Repositories" based on the paper available from http://opus.bath.ac.uk/30226/ and presented by Nick Sheppard at the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) held in Edinburgh from 9-13th July 2012.
Towards a local, regional and national infrastructure for sharing medical tea...Nick Sheppard
Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Learn more about the developing institutional and national OER infrastructures supported by JISC
- Discuss how these can be streamlined across the sector and improved/adapted to more fully support subject specific requirements (e.g. health)
Abstract:
The ALPS CETL repository project (ACErep) is examining the requirements of a repository infrastructure in local, regional and national contexts to more effectively facilitate sharing and reuse of appropriately licensed medical teaching, learning and assessment material.
Three institutions in the ALPS consortium - the University of Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University and York St John University - all use different commercial platforms for their teaching and learning repositories. In addition there is the national HE/FE repository Jorum, and the NHS National eLearning Repository (NeLR),
Informed by a user-group of institutional stakeholders, the goal of ACErep is to develop a clearly branded web-site from where staff at the respective institutions can:
deposit resources into their own institutional repository
cross-search the repositories from a single interface
In addition, we have developed ties with the JISC funded PORSCHE project at Newcastle University which aims to provide seamless access to academic and clinical learning resources for healthcare students primarily from the respective collections in Jorum and the NeLR.
The project utilises well-established repository technologies and has adapted an Open Source client to differentially deposit into a user’s institutional repository and liaised with Jorum to harvest metadata from multiple repositories. ACErep and PORSCHE are also working with Jorum on their development of an Open API (Application Programming Interface) upon which we can build a bespoke search portal. This work, in turn, builds on a prototype developed in collaboration with the Xpert repository at Nottingham University.
This approach will have the benefit of digital assets being preserved in one location (an institutional repository) while providing multiple points of access as well as allowing the ALPS branded web-site and the institutional repositories to “piggyback” on Jorum’s Google pagerank thereby improving discoverability.
The presentation will comprise a summary of the ACErep project to date; the emphasis will not be technical though technical implications and requirements will be discussed.
International Open Access week at Leeds MetNick Sheppard
This is my own presentation but borrows too extensively from Alma Swan's presentation at Salford University not to credit her - Alma's content is reused under the terms of a Creative Commons - Attribution-Non-commercial-ShareAlike licence:
Swan, A. (2009) What an institutional repository can do for you - and for your institution. In: University of Salford institutional repository event (number 2), 15 December 2009, Salford, UK.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18364/
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This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
2. • Wikipedia
• Just one of 16 interconnected projects
• Wikimedia Commons
• repository of openly licensed
media files
• photographs, diagrams, video,
audio
• Wikidata
• fastest growing Wikimedia project
• structured data
• read / edited by human or
machine
Wikimedia ecosystem
Wikimedia, screenshot of Wikimedia project
icons, https://www.wikimedia.org/
3. • Knowledge graph
• Represents knowledge through connections
between things
• Connects identifiers from disparate systems
• Wikidata query (SPARQL)
• answer questions
• build data visualisations
• Places of residence for accused witches
https://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/
• Wikipedia articles of people whose doctoral
theses are available full-text in WREO -
https://w.wiki/BPY
Wikidata
The data in Wikidata is published under
the Creative Commons Public Domain
Dedication 1.0, …You can copy, modify,
distribute and perform the data, even for
commercial purposes, without asking for
permission.
Charlie Kritschmar, “Datamodel in Wikidata,”
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Datamodel_in_Wikidat
a.svg
5. • Manage it locally to share it globally: RDM and
Wikimedia Commons (2018)
• Data Management Engagement award -
Cambridge University, SPARC Europe, Jisc
• link RDM with the open science movement
via the Wikimedia suite of tools
• Wikimedian in Residence
• Edinburgh
• Coventry
• Oxford (Bodleian)
Wikimedia in Universities
‘Universities really can’t afford not to have a Wikimedian in Residence
these days. It still surprises me how few do.’
Melissa Highton, Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services, University of Edinburgh
9. • Significant use of Wikidata is for citation data
• Potential to semi-automate literature reviews
• Scholia
• individual researchers’ profiles
• papers relating to a given topic, published in a
particular venue or originating with
researchers at a given institution
• highlight collaborations or other links
• Climate change (Q125928)
• COVID-19 pandemic (Q81068910)
Scholia
Universities can improve Scholia by adding repository links to the Wikidata
records for published papers and tagging with appropriate topics
10. • White Rose Research Online – 19341 records in Wikidata
• White Rose Etheses Online - 3083 records in Wikidata
• Research Data Leeds (Q60536391)
http://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
• 239 linked records
• Individual records of desertion from the British Army
1807-1815 (Q91013347)
• Special Collections – https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-
collections/collection/
• “archives at” statements
• Library archives of British writers
• Bedford Cataloguing Project to add dataset to
Wikidata
Repositories at Leeds
You can copy, modify,
distribute and perform the
data, even for commercial
purposes, without asking
for permission.
11. • A tool to batch edit wikidata
https://quickstatements.toolforge.org/#/
• Import from csv
• Export and format from repository (or DataCite?)
• Will need some figuring out…
Quickstatements
Ovine annulus fibrosus interlamellar material
model calibration data set (Q100412985)
12. • Poulter, Martin, and Nick Sheppard. 2020. “Wikimedia
and Universities: Contributing to the Global Commons
in the Age of Disinformation”. Insights 33 (1): 14.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.509
• “ARL White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and
Recommendations,” Association of Research Libraries,
April 18, 2019, https://www.arl.org/resources/arl-
whitepaper-on-wikidata/
• How to use QuickStatements - a tool to bulk upload
data onto Wikidata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql7gC91eWss
Thank you
Editor's Notes
Wikipedia is just one of 16 interconnected projects that are also linked to a wider ecosystem of sites and apps. Wikimedia Commons is a repository of openly licensed media files including photographs, diagrams, video and audio. Wikisource is a free library of out-of-copyright texts, while Wikiversity and Wikibooks encourage collaborative creation of open educational resources (OERs). The fastest growing Wikimedia project is Wikidata, a store of structured data that can be read and edited by humans or machines.
1 billion edits August 2019,
The DataCite datafile will be made available under a CC0 license
https://tinyurl.com/y9cd2ot7
A research paper has an author who has a nationality, a name and date of birth; they graduated from a particular university, which in turn has a geographic location, a vice-chancellor, other notable alumni, and so on.
As with Wikipedia, Wikidata is not meant as a platform for original research; all information must already have been published by a reliable source.
Wikidata is a single site with contributors in hundreds of languages = a hub connecting identifiers from thousands of disparate systems that can be queried, using the database query language SPARQL
An unusual aspect of Wikidata is that it does not aim for consistency. Where a fact is contested in the scholarly literature – multiple possible birth years for a historical figure, for instance – it can hold each contradictory statement and link to its source reference. So, a query could return statements from just one type of source, for example papers published in peer-reviewed journals from the last decade.
SCHOLIA
One significant use of Wikidata is for citation data. A SPARQL query can generate a list of the most cited authors on climate change, or generate a timeline of papers about the 2019–20 Coronavirus outbreak. The Wikidata entry for a paper can describe its copyright status and provide multiple links including preprints, making it easier to find an OA version.
Wikidata differs from a purely bibliographic database in that researchers and their publications are described on the same platform as the things – people, places, genes, species, compounds – that the papers are about. A claim that a pharmaceutical is effective for a given disease in a given species can be linked to papers that establish that statement. As these data become more complete, literature reviews can be semi-automated, saving time.
One application that explores this data set is Scholia – more in a minute
There is increasing emphasis on open research practices in universities, focused on ensuring research outputs are freely available to reuse and redistribute.
Agenda is driven largely by the replicability crisis, it also contributes to the impact of research and its broader contribution to society
enables other organizations and the public to actively engage in knowledge production through collaboration and contribution of their own expertise, for example through citizen science projects.
Wikimedia taps directly into this movement through its open infrastructure that easily enables research outputs, media and other digital assets to be distributed at scale with clear provenance and copyright information that can be linked back to institutional systems via persistent identifiers (PIDs) such as DOIs.
Research Data Leeds, 750 records (approx.)
Low traffic / reuse
researchers and their publications described on the same platform as the things – people, places, genes, species, compounds – that papers are about
A SPARQL query can generate a list of the most cited authors on climate change, or generate a timeline of papers about the 2019–20 Coronavirus outbreak. The Wikidata entry for a paper can describe its copyright status and provide multiple links including preprints, making it easier to find an OA version.
Universities can improve Scholia by adding repository links to the Wikidata records for published papers and tagging with appropriate topics. Where publishers have added data with ‘author name strings’, links can be added to authority files such as ORCID. Author profiles can be improved with the addition of profile links (ORCID, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, Twitter, etc.).
While platforms like Elsevier’s Scopus or ResearchGate also collect this type of information, Scholia is distinctive in that the data are free and open and not monetized in any way. In 2019 the Sloan Foundation announced half a million dollars of funding to further develop the platform.
A 2019 report by the Association of Research Libraries recommends Wikidata as an authority hub, a platform for community outreach and for representation of diverse communities beyond the Western canon. The Library of Congress now makes Wikidata links visible in its authority file and VIAF, the Virtual International Authority File, also harvests information from Wikidata. Gradually, the site is becoming a hub connecting thousands of other databases and knowledge systems.
the DataCite datafile will be made available under a CC0 license