This document discusses open access author funds and debates their pros and cons. It provides an overview of the University of Ottawa's open access author fund program, including eligibility criteria and data on usage from 2012-2013. While open access funds can help researchers publish and promote open access, critics argue that having libraries pay author fees does not address the underlying issues of high and inconsistent publishing costs and sustains the current unsustainable publishing model. Overall, the document presents perspectives both in favor of and skeptical about open access author funds.
Social sciences directory liber conference (26.06.2013)SocSciDir
A presentation given by Dan Scott, the founder of 'gold' Open Access publisher Social Sciences Directory Limited, as part of the workshop "Innovative Open Access Publishing Initiatives - and how Libraries/Library Consortia could support such initiatives" at the LIBER conference in Munich, 26th June 2013
Knowledge Unlatched: Enabling Open Access for Scholarly BooksLucy Montgomery
Although digital technology has made it possible for many more people to access content at no extra cost, fewer people than ever before are able to read the books written by university-based researchers. This presentation explores the role that open access licenses and collective action might play in reviving the scholarly monograph: a specialised area of academic publishing that has seen sales decline by more than 90 per cent over the past three decades. It also introduces Knowledge Unlatched an ambitious attempt to create an internationally coordinated, sustainable route to open access for scholarly books. Knowledge Unlatched is now in its pilot phase.
Open Access Funds: Getting a Bigger Bang for Our Buckspmoore3415
Bobby Glushko, Crystal Hampson, Patricia Moore, Elizabeth Yates.
Many libraries offer open access publishing funds to support authors in paying article processing charges (APC) levied by some OA journals. However, there are no standard practices for managing or assessing these funds. This situation prompted the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ Open Access Working Group (OAWG) to investigate and articulate best practices for successful open access fund management. In spring 2015, as part of this endeavor, the OAWG surveyed the 14 Canadian academic libraries with OA funds to review their criteria and collect feedback. The need for this information is increasingly important given that the sustainability of these funds is under review at most institutions. Budget constraints are forcing some institutions revisit or reconfigure these funds. At the same time, Canada’s new Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications (effective May 2015) mandates open access for funded research and is increasing the demand from researchers who are seeking financial support from their institutions to pay APCs. This session will share the survey results, including the overview of relevant findings from international praxis and professional literature. The presenters will highlight the project’s recommendations regarding best practices for open access publishing fund management as well as other strategies developed by international agencies including SPARC. Audience members are invited to contribute comments, ideas and experiences from their own institutions. Attendees will take away ideas for establishing and managing open access publishing funds.
Academic libraries are increasingly investing in new efforts to support their research and teaching faculty in the activities they care about most. Learn why becoming a publisher can help meet the most fundamental needs of your research community and at the same time can help transform today’s inflationary cost model for serials. We will explore not only why to become a publisher but exactly how to achieve it, step by step, including careful selection of publishing partners, choosing the right platform for manuscript submission and editorial workflow management, one-time processes to launch a new journal, conducting peer reviews, maintaining academic quality, and measuring impact. We’ll also cover the broader range of publishing activities where libraries can have an impact, including open access monographs, general institutional repositories and subject-based author self-archiving repositories. We will close with a review of tools, services, and communities of support to nurture the new library publishing venture.
See accompanying handouts 1-7
Lauren Collister
Electronic Publications Associate, University of Pittsburgh
Timothy S. Deliyannides
Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing and Head of Information Technology, University of Pittsburgh
Open access for the inaugural @OpenResLDN meeting 2015 01 19Chris Banks
Slides that I will speak to at the inaugural meeting of OpenResLDN on 19th January 2015. January 2015 sees the 350th anniversary of the first ever journal publication - the Journal des Savants. We are now in the 21st year of the Open Access movement and the UK and European policies are really beginning to drive change and innovation. That change is not fast enough for some, and for others - particularly those covered by the policies, or seeking to implement policy - just a little too fast sometimes.
Social sciences directory liber conference (26.06.2013)SocSciDir
A presentation given by Dan Scott, the founder of 'gold' Open Access publisher Social Sciences Directory Limited, as part of the workshop "Innovative Open Access Publishing Initiatives - and how Libraries/Library Consortia could support such initiatives" at the LIBER conference in Munich, 26th June 2013
Knowledge Unlatched: Enabling Open Access for Scholarly BooksLucy Montgomery
Although digital technology has made it possible for many more people to access content at no extra cost, fewer people than ever before are able to read the books written by university-based researchers. This presentation explores the role that open access licenses and collective action might play in reviving the scholarly monograph: a specialised area of academic publishing that has seen sales decline by more than 90 per cent over the past three decades. It also introduces Knowledge Unlatched an ambitious attempt to create an internationally coordinated, sustainable route to open access for scholarly books. Knowledge Unlatched is now in its pilot phase.
Open Access Funds: Getting a Bigger Bang for Our Buckspmoore3415
Bobby Glushko, Crystal Hampson, Patricia Moore, Elizabeth Yates.
Many libraries offer open access publishing funds to support authors in paying article processing charges (APC) levied by some OA journals. However, there are no standard practices for managing or assessing these funds. This situation prompted the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ Open Access Working Group (OAWG) to investigate and articulate best practices for successful open access fund management. In spring 2015, as part of this endeavor, the OAWG surveyed the 14 Canadian academic libraries with OA funds to review their criteria and collect feedback. The need for this information is increasingly important given that the sustainability of these funds is under review at most institutions. Budget constraints are forcing some institutions revisit or reconfigure these funds. At the same time, Canada’s new Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications (effective May 2015) mandates open access for funded research and is increasing the demand from researchers who are seeking financial support from their institutions to pay APCs. This session will share the survey results, including the overview of relevant findings from international praxis and professional literature. The presenters will highlight the project’s recommendations regarding best practices for open access publishing fund management as well as other strategies developed by international agencies including SPARC. Audience members are invited to contribute comments, ideas and experiences from their own institutions. Attendees will take away ideas for establishing and managing open access publishing funds.
Academic libraries are increasingly investing in new efforts to support their research and teaching faculty in the activities they care about most. Learn why becoming a publisher can help meet the most fundamental needs of your research community and at the same time can help transform today’s inflationary cost model for serials. We will explore not only why to become a publisher but exactly how to achieve it, step by step, including careful selection of publishing partners, choosing the right platform for manuscript submission and editorial workflow management, one-time processes to launch a new journal, conducting peer reviews, maintaining academic quality, and measuring impact. We’ll also cover the broader range of publishing activities where libraries can have an impact, including open access monographs, general institutional repositories and subject-based author self-archiving repositories. We will close with a review of tools, services, and communities of support to nurture the new library publishing venture.
See accompanying handouts 1-7
Lauren Collister
Electronic Publications Associate, University of Pittsburgh
Timothy S. Deliyannides
Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing and Head of Information Technology, University of Pittsburgh
Open access for the inaugural @OpenResLDN meeting 2015 01 19Chris Banks
Slides that I will speak to at the inaugural meeting of OpenResLDN on 19th January 2015. January 2015 sees the 350th anniversary of the first ever journal publication - the Journal des Savants. We are now in the 21st year of the Open Access movement and the UK and European policies are really beginning to drive change and innovation. That change is not fast enough for some, and for others - particularly those covered by the policies, or seeking to implement policy - just a little too fast sometimes.
A presentation given at the first ever Open Research London on what students around the world are doing, the Open Access Button and how to get involved.
Today’s publishing environment is evolving. New University
Presses (NUPs) and Academic-Led Presses (ALPs) play an
increasing role in the shift in scholarly communication. In 2016
Jisc conducted a landscape study to provide a unique view of the
motivations, models, policies and future direction of these new
presses. This session will report on the findings of the research.
It will also discuss the next steps Jisc are taking to provide
support in this rapidly developing area, such as new methods
of publishing and scholarly outputs and advice and best practice
for existing and new presses.
Presentation by Lisa Norberg from K|N Consultant, during the seminar New Models of Knowledge Dissemination and Open Access in Canada, organised the 17/11/2015 by Érudit and CRKN.
What is Open Access? An Introduction to OAAbby Clobridge
An introduction to Open Access: What is Open Access? Why Open Access? Open Access Journals (Gold OA), Open Access Repositories (Green OA), Open Access Policies, Discoverability of OA content through Metadata, Interoperability, and the Open Knowledge Environment
Fifty shades of green and gold: open access to scholarly informationhierohiero
Presentation for Urban Research Utrecht, a research school at Utrecht University, on Open Access to scholarly information in geography and planning, focussing of advantages, disadvantges, various forms, costs and actions of stakeholders
The changing landscape of scholarly communication: presentation to the NFAIS ...Keith Webster
Presentation on the changing relationships between research libraries, publishers, researchers and technology, and the impact of government policy on scholarly publishing and open access.
OA Models for Communities in the Social Sciences and in the HumanitiesK|N Consultants
At this presentation at the October 23, 2015, NFAIS workshop on "The Impact of Open Access Models: Finding Stable, Sustainable, and Scalable Solutions," Rebecca Kennison outlines the importance of open access in the context of the social sciences and in the humanities. In articulating the differences in research output between HSS and STEM, Kennison offers an approach to funding infrastructure in such diverse disciplines through the Open Access Network, which is designed to be supportive of both traditional short- and long-form output as well as emerging digital forms.
Open Access Books: Trends & Options. University of Toronto Seminar February 1...Lucy Montgomery
Open Access (scholarly content that is freely available to the public) is often talked about in the context of journal publishing. However, the Open Access movement is also having significant effect on academic book publishing.
UTSC’s Centre for Digital Scholarship, in collaboration with the UTSC Library’s Digital Scholarship Unit, is hosting a seminar on “Open Access Books: Trends & Options” - February 13, 2014 from 12-2pm in MW324
Join Leslie Chan (Centre for Critical Development Studies) and guest speakers Pierre Mounier (Associate Director of Open Edition) and Lucy Montgomery (Deputy Director of Knowledge Unlatched) as they introduce how new publishing partnerships and digital technologies are transforming scholarly book publishing.
A Beginners Guide to Getting Published (for HSS Authors)Lucy Montgomery
This presentation provides a basic introduction to the sometimes daunting world of scholarly publishing. It explores why publishing is considered so important for people hoping to develop and academic career; how the publishing landscape is changing; the best places to publish; and practical strategies for publishing both books and journal articles. Important developments in Open Access policy such as the Australian Research Council’s 2013 Open Access Mandate, which requires all ARC funded research outputs to be made available in ‘Open Access’, are also touched upon.
The presentation will be especially interesting for Doctoral Candidates and Early Career Researchers, as well as anyone interested in understanding how the scholarly publishing landscape is changing and what they should do about it.
This workshop focuses on the key decisions involved when contemplating library- or university-based open access publishig against the backdrop of a vibrant, coplex and fast-moving UK and global scene. It touches upon issues of structure, accountability, expectations and also format and genre- e.g. books vs journals or textbooks - and problems connected to the diverse levels of awareness that exist about publishing and open access within academic communities. Andrew Lockett, University of Westminster Press
10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
A presentation given at the first ever Open Research London on what students around the world are doing, the Open Access Button and how to get involved.
Today’s publishing environment is evolving. New University
Presses (NUPs) and Academic-Led Presses (ALPs) play an
increasing role in the shift in scholarly communication. In 2016
Jisc conducted a landscape study to provide a unique view of the
motivations, models, policies and future direction of these new
presses. This session will report on the findings of the research.
It will also discuss the next steps Jisc are taking to provide
support in this rapidly developing area, such as new methods
of publishing and scholarly outputs and advice and best practice
for existing and new presses.
Presentation by Lisa Norberg from K|N Consultant, during the seminar New Models of Knowledge Dissemination and Open Access in Canada, organised the 17/11/2015 by Érudit and CRKN.
What is Open Access? An Introduction to OAAbby Clobridge
An introduction to Open Access: What is Open Access? Why Open Access? Open Access Journals (Gold OA), Open Access Repositories (Green OA), Open Access Policies, Discoverability of OA content through Metadata, Interoperability, and the Open Knowledge Environment
Fifty shades of green and gold: open access to scholarly informationhierohiero
Presentation for Urban Research Utrecht, a research school at Utrecht University, on Open Access to scholarly information in geography and planning, focussing of advantages, disadvantges, various forms, costs and actions of stakeholders
The changing landscape of scholarly communication: presentation to the NFAIS ...Keith Webster
Presentation on the changing relationships between research libraries, publishers, researchers and technology, and the impact of government policy on scholarly publishing and open access.
OA Models for Communities in the Social Sciences and in the HumanitiesK|N Consultants
At this presentation at the October 23, 2015, NFAIS workshop on "The Impact of Open Access Models: Finding Stable, Sustainable, and Scalable Solutions," Rebecca Kennison outlines the importance of open access in the context of the social sciences and in the humanities. In articulating the differences in research output between HSS and STEM, Kennison offers an approach to funding infrastructure in such diverse disciplines through the Open Access Network, which is designed to be supportive of both traditional short- and long-form output as well as emerging digital forms.
Open Access Books: Trends & Options. University of Toronto Seminar February 1...Lucy Montgomery
Open Access (scholarly content that is freely available to the public) is often talked about in the context of journal publishing. However, the Open Access movement is also having significant effect on academic book publishing.
UTSC’s Centre for Digital Scholarship, in collaboration with the UTSC Library’s Digital Scholarship Unit, is hosting a seminar on “Open Access Books: Trends & Options” - February 13, 2014 from 12-2pm in MW324
Join Leslie Chan (Centre for Critical Development Studies) and guest speakers Pierre Mounier (Associate Director of Open Edition) and Lucy Montgomery (Deputy Director of Knowledge Unlatched) as they introduce how new publishing partnerships and digital technologies are transforming scholarly book publishing.
A Beginners Guide to Getting Published (for HSS Authors)Lucy Montgomery
This presentation provides a basic introduction to the sometimes daunting world of scholarly publishing. It explores why publishing is considered so important for people hoping to develop and academic career; how the publishing landscape is changing; the best places to publish; and practical strategies for publishing both books and journal articles. Important developments in Open Access policy such as the Australian Research Council’s 2013 Open Access Mandate, which requires all ARC funded research outputs to be made available in ‘Open Access’, are also touched upon.
The presentation will be especially interesting for Doctoral Candidates and Early Career Researchers, as well as anyone interested in understanding how the scholarly publishing landscape is changing and what they should do about it.
This workshop focuses on the key decisions involved when contemplating library- or university-based open access publishig against the backdrop of a vibrant, coplex and fast-moving UK and global scene. It touches upon issues of structure, accountability, expectations and also format and genre- e.g. books vs journals or textbooks - and problems connected to the diverse levels of awareness that exist about publishing and open access within academic communities. Andrew Lockett, University of Westminster Press
10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
http://inarocket.com
Learn BEM fundamentals as fast as possible. What is BEM (Block, element, modifier), BEM syntax, how it works with a real example, etc.
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
By David F. Larcker, Stephen A. Miles, and Brian Tayan
Stanford Closer Look Series
Overview:
Shareholders pay considerable attention to the choice of executive selected as the new CEO whenever a change in leadership takes place. However, without an inside look at the leading candidates to assume the CEO role, it is difficult for shareholders to tell whether the board has made the correct choice. In this Closer Look, we examine CEO succession events among the largest 100 companies over a ten-year period to determine what happens to the executives who were not selected (i.e., the “succession losers”) and how they perform relative to those who were selected (the “succession winners”).
We ask:
• Are the executives selected for the CEO role really better than those passed over?
• What are the implications for understanding the labor market for executive talent?
• Are differences in performance due to operating conditions or quality of available talent?
• Are boards better at identifying CEO talent than other research generally suggests?
Presentation on scope, successes and challenges facing library Open Access publishing funds for the Canadian Association of Learned Journals meeting at Congress 2014. Focus on Canada but also some info on the U.S.
Open Access: Identifying Quality Journals & Avoiding Predatory Publishersciakov
Slideshow for presentation on open access. Topics include defining Gold OA (APCs, business models, subsidies), OA citation advantage, predatory publishers, whitelists/blacklists.
Alex and Conor introduce SAH Journal (sahjournal.com) as an open access academic journal project involving the collaborative efforts of emerging and established scholars as well as academic librarians. Conor explains the benefits of collaborating with research librarians through publishing. Alex asserts that librarians (libraries) are perfectly positioned to enter into direct competition with established commercial journal publishers. He explains the mechanics of electronic publishing from conceptional planning to implementation via, in this instance, Open Journal Systems (OJS).
Open Access Network Charleston Conference 2015K|N Consultants
The Open Access Network continues to evolve but remains the most promising model for scalable and sustainable open access publishing and preservation in the humanities and social sciences.
Open access (OA) to scholarly literature recently hit a major milestone: Half of all research articles published become open access, either immediately or after an embargo period. Are the articles you read among them? What about the articles you write? Are the journals to which you submit open-access friendly? What about the journals for which you peer review? Are there any reasons why the public should not have access to the results of taxpayer-funded research?
In this slideshow, Jill Cirasella (Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication, Graduate Center, CUNY) explains the motivation for OA, describes the details of OA, and differentiates between publishing in open access journals (“gold” OA) and self-archiving works in OA repositories (“green” OA). She also dispels persistent myths about OA and examines some of the challenges to OA.
A Presentation made to Liber Europe's 'The Use and Generation of Scientific Content – Roles for Libraries' in Budapest, Hungary Sept 12th, 2016 by Lars Bjørnshauge.
In this presentation, Lars calls into question the use and success of Green Open Access, reminds us of the key role of librarians in the success of open access and calls on governments to support Gold Open Access.
This presentation in intended to introduce Open Access (OA); the OA movement; OA advantages for authors, institutions and society; OA business models and publishing in OA; important tools for research and publishing; and other ‘open’ initiatives.
Explore open access books - Springer Nature event in New York (2019-09)Springer Nature
In September 2019 Springer Nature held a researcher event exploring the topic of open access books. This slide deck includes presentation slides from each session:
1. Welcome (Bill Tucker, VP, Books, Medicine & Life Sciences, Springer Nature)
2. Why publish your book open access? (Rosalind Pyne, Director OA Books, Springer Nature) - slides 4-21
3. A funder’s perspective of open access books (Leslie Rutkowski, The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)) - slides 22-49
4. Tracking impact for open access authors: author services & tools (Christina Emery, Open access books Marketing Manager, Springer Nature) - slides 50-67
5. Author panel: Perspectives on publishing an open access book (Chair: Philip Getz, Senior Commissioning Editor, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy. Open access book authors: Daniel Hess (University at Buffalo), Juha Uitto (Global Environment Facility), Sophie Mitra (Fordham University).) - slides 68-71.
Scholarly Communications in Global PerspectiveNina Collins
Emerging scholars are often unprepared to navigate the changing landscape of scholarly publishing. Learn about author's rights and the importance of strategic publishing, including techniques to identify unethical scholarly publishers.
Presented at the ACRL Scholarly Communication 101 Road Show at The Ohio State University in Newark, Ohio on June 7, 2011; sponsored by the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) and OhioLINK
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.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
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.
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.
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- 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.
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Open Access Author Funds: A Problem or a Solution?
1. Open Access Author Funds: A
Problem or Solution?
Tony Horava & Denise Koufogiannakis
Charleston Conference
Nov. 8, 2013
2. Open Access Author Funds: Many
Reasons to Support it
Tony Horava
AUL Collections
University of Ottawa, Canada
3. Snapshot of the University of Ottawa
North America’s largest bilingual university (English/French)
One of Canada’s top 10 research universities
An ARL member
About 200 undergraduate programs and over 185 graduate programs
Fall 2013 : about 43,000 students
Four libraries ( Arts & Sciences, Health Sciences, Law, Management)
Collections budget: 15.7M
2,293,781 print books
727,610 Ebooks
~ 775 research databases
4. Compact for Open-Access Publishing
Equity (COPE)
Signatory universities commit to "the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for
underwriting reasonable publication charges for articles written by its faculty and
published in open access journals and for which other institutions would not be
expected to provide funds.“
“It is important to keep in mind that the goal of the compact is not to increase access to
the individual articles it underwrites. That goal is already reasonably satisfied by the
possibility of open-access self-archiving that any author can unilaterally perform and
that various open-access policies such as that of the National Institutes of Health
promote. Rather, the goal of open-access funds as envisioned in the present
proposal is to reduce the disincentives to authors and thus the risk to
publishers of the processing-fee business model.”
- Shieber SM (2009) Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing. PLoS Biology 7(8):
e1000165. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000165
5. OA Authors Fund (begun in 2010) Eligibility criteria*
Journal Articles:
Authors are free to publish in the journal of their choice [NB - this is being reassessed
this year]
Eligible articles may be accepted for publication in open access journals, hybrid journals
or traditional journals that allow self-archiving.
Eligible open access journals must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals or
meet the DOAJ’s selection criteria (found in the "About" section of their site).
Eligible hybrid and traditional journals must make articles available immediately and
allow self-archiving of the publisher PDF immediately upon publication (no embargo
period imposed).
The fee schedule must be publicly available online
*http://www.oa.uottawa.ca/uo-initiatives-afund-criteria.jsp?language=en
6. Eligibility criteria (cont’d)
Books:
The Fund also covers open access books up to a maximum
contribution of $2,500 per publication (research and scholarly
books only, no textbooks). The contribution can be used for
entire books or book chapters.
Publishers must make content available immediately and
allow self-archiving of the publisher PDF immediately upon
publication (no embargo period imposed).
Fund recipients must deposit their work in UO Research,
the University’s institutional repository.
Researchers can receive funding for a maximum of two (2)
publications per fiscal year (May 1 to April 30).
8. Question: “Why did you choose to publish your article in an
open access or hybrid journal?”
I want my research to be viewed by the entire research community.
Wider dissemination
Speed of publication because its an online journal.
Hybrid. It was a good journal which I publish in anyways. Since the cost for
open access was to be reimbursed through the program, this allowed me to
publish it with open access.
Greater access to policy makers. Our work is more likely to be used and
referenced in policy discussions and have a practical impact.
It was the right readership for the topic and there are no other similar journals
with that focus.
Appropriate venue. Tried something new.
The concept is the way of the future! It also is very liberating to know that
one's contribution can be accessed internationally. It makes research FUN and
motivating!
9. More answers...
Speed of review and publication is a real plus. There is nothing SO frustrating
than waiting 2-3 years for a journal to publish one's academic work.
It was by chance. I choose the journal for its quality, and it offered open access
as an option. It is nice because I often get requests for reprints from people who
do not have access to the some of the journals.
I decided to publish in a hybrid journal before deciding whether to apply to the
Fund. When the article was accepted and I found out the program was still
running and could cover all the fees for Open Access, I decided to apply to the
program. Faster publication, Open access for developing country research
partners, funder recommendations.
It allows people in developing countries to read articles. The fund supports
activities of scientific organization that publish journals.
It is important to me to provide information to all in the speediest of ways and
to everyone.
Speed of review process and the open access of the article.
Wider readership
10. 2012-13 data (by type of
publication)
Type of
publication
Number
Dollars
%
OA
92
$179,884.01
71.7%
Traditional
with OA
option
32
$63,366.66
25.3%
Books/book
chapters
3
$7,509.86
3%
Total
127
$250,759
100%
11. Faculty
Publication Data
by Faculty (201213)
Number of
reimbursements
Dollars
% of total
expenditures
Arts
Education
Engineering
Health Sciences
1
2
3
28
$5,000
$793.24
$6,639.05
$49,412.70
Medicine
60
$122,925.88 49
Population
Health
Social Sciences
6
$11,794.85
4.7
5
$10,188.44
4
Science
19
$36,529.71
14.6
Bruyère
Research
Institute
$1,925.25
0.76
1
$5,230.92
2.08
2
$3,090.60
1.23
OHRI
1
Ottawa Heart
Institute
Research
Institutes:
127
$253,530.64
2
0.3
2.6
19.7
12. Data organized by choice of major
publishers
Publisher
BioMed
Central
PLoS
Oxford
Springer
Frontiers
Numbe Dollars
r
35
$68,179.18
%
20
8
7
9
12.2%
9.1%
8.4%
5.6%
$30,438.15
$22,832.32
$21,185.60
$14,124.33
27%
13. What are the benchmarks of
‘success’?
Increased awareness of scholarly communication issues
Greater dialogue/better relationship with the Library
Assisting faculty to publish who might not be able to otherwise, hence
enhancing the mission of the institution to advance knowledge
General satisfaction with the Library/reimagining the role of the library
Increasing the proportion of the Collections budget dedicated to OA initiatives
Influencing the economics of publishing, eg:
Providing greater access to scholarly literature;
Reducing the double-dipping of commercial publishers;
Feeding into the broader public policy discourse on OA
14. Some arguments in favour of an OA
Authors Fund....
Sowing seeds of awareness of scholarly communication issues and Open Access
Demonstrating Library leadership in promoting dissemination of scholarship as a public
good; aligning with our mission as stewards of the scholarly record
Engaging with younger researchers & graduate students who need financial assistance to
publish.
Ripple effect: as these researchers move upstream into faculty positions, this can be a
catalyst for major changes in Promotion & Tenure committee criteria for assessing
value, i.e. changing the cultural mindset re Open Access.
OA author funds can help build a groundswell of support for OA in the academic
community (whether Gold or Green).
In three years, we have benefited about 200 researchers in disseminating their
scholarship: http://
www.ruor.uottawa.ca/en/handle/10393/19706/browse?type=datecreated
15. Promoting broader access to Scholarly Communications
“We believe that institutions (and the sub-institutional units that manage
collection funds) should be open to exploring alternative funding
models for scholarly communication. Institutions should highly value funding
models that promote universal access to their research output. And during an
economic crisis, these institutions should question the extensive financial and
human resource investments required by the subscription model, a model that
both excludes non authorized users and entails large-scale and complex licensing
and legal obligations. The time is now for broad-scale adoption of
institutional OA funds.” [emphasis added]
- Eckman CD, Weil BT (2010) Institutional Open Access Funds: Now Is
the Time. PLoS Biol 8(5): e1000375. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000375
16. In Conclusion
To echo the quote from Eckman and Weil:
“The time is now for broad-scale adoption of institutional OA funds.”
• Support your researchers in their goal to disseminate
scholarship, and support OA Author Funds!
17. Problems with libraries paying open
access author fees
Denise Koufogiannakis
University of Alberta
18. Snapshot of the University of Alberta
Top 5 Canadian University
ARL library ranking is 16th in North America
170 graduate programs, 200 undergraduate
programs
How we have supported OA
Why we stopped paying author
fees via memberships
19. What does paying author fees achieve?
Immediate gold OA
Helps out some individual researchers with costs
21. Assessing author fees
Wildly divergent costs - $0 - $5000/article
Only 26% of gold OA journals use an authors pay model
(Solomon & Bjork, 2012)
Average per article OA charge - $906 (Solomon & Bjork, 2012)
What is the true cost of publishing? What is reasonable?
$188.39 (Edgar and Willinsky, 2010)
£1136 (Research Information Network, 2008)
By just blindly accepting whatever fees publishers charge in
order to reduce the “risk to publishers of the processing-fee
business model” (COPE), we will drive fees even higher and
make such high fees seem normal.
22. Why paying author fees isn’t a solution
Libraries supporting two systems – not sustainable
Same publishers making more money – the big ones control
the most and have the highest fees
Libraries preferencing the OA journals that do charge fees –
what about the non-fee journals?
No fundamental change to the way we disseminate
scholarship
Authors not taking ownership of “author fees” - unlikely to
change.
23. Practical considerations and problems
Randomness re: who receives the funding
Randomness re: amount of funding given per article or per
researcher
Small numbers of faculty that can be supported in this way
Cost of staff-time related to management of the fund and
processing work involved
Is it sustainable?
24. What libraries can do instead that may
lead to greater change
Support green OA initiatives
Use money to support new initiatives, new models that may
lead to change
Publishing initiatives at the Library Level – make
transformative change
Work with faculty on making change to the scholarly
communication system - ultimately the faculty drive this
process.
27. What do you think?
Questions to consider:
Should libraries pay OA author fees? Why or why not?
What has your experience been?
What is the best way forward for academic institutions to
effect change in scholarly communications system?