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.
Digital Publishing in the Arts and Humanitiesmattphillpott
Dr Matt Phillpott
Fellows Forum (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
3 June 2015, 1pm-2pm
Talk about the various forms of digital publishing open to artresearchers including articles, monographs, blogs, websites, presentations, and repositories.
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
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
Open access for researchers, policy makers and research managers, librariesIryna Kuchma
Open access for researchers: enlarged audience and citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers: new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. Open access for libraries. Maintaining digital repository as a key function for research libraries.
Digital Publishing in the Arts and Humanitiesmattphillpott
Dr Matt Phillpott
Fellows Forum (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
3 June 2015, 1pm-2pm
Talk about the various forms of digital publishing open to artresearchers including articles, monographs, blogs, websites, presentations, and repositories.
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
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
Open access for researchers, policy makers and research managers, librariesIryna Kuchma
Open access for researchers: enlarged audience and citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers: new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. Open access for libraries. Maintaining digital repository as a key function for research libraries.
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.
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.
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.
Beyond the Pale: grey literature as a method of publicationariadnenetwork
Dr. Evans, Tim
Archaeology Data Service (ADS), UK
EAA 2016, Vilnius, Lithuania
Session: Open Access and Open Data in Archaeology -
Following the ARIADNE Thread
Digital Scholarship: building an online scholarly presenceAlison McNab
A workshop from the MmIT 2016 conference "Digital Citizenship - What is the library's role?" held in Sheffield from 12-13 September 2016.
Changes in scholarly publishing have created a requirement for authors to leverage multiple digital tools in order to build their profile, identity, scholarship and impact within and beyond their institutions. This workshop provided an opportunity for delegates to discuss and reflect on tools which can be used to build an online scholarly presence.
Open Access Advocacy: Failure and Successes Leslie Chan
In this presentation I share personal reflection with regard to failures in Open Access advocacy, and draw lessons on how we could move forward based on past mistakes.
Open Data and Open Science presented in Rio for Open Science 2014-08-22. I argue that Open Notebook Science is the way forward and will lead to great benefits
Slides from the ACRL 2021 conference panel presentation "Open access investment at the local level: Sharing diverse tactics to improve access and affordability."
Panelists include:
- Sam Teplitzky, Open Science Librarian, UC Berkeley
- Timothy Vollmer, Scholarly Communication & Copyright Librarian, UC Berkeley
- Sharla Lair, Senior Strategist, Open Access & Scholarly Communication Initiatives at LYRASIS
- Tom Narock, Assistant Professor of Data Science at Goucher College
- Justin Gonder, Senior Product Manager, Publishing, California Digital Library.
Panel topic:
Improving accessibility, inclusivity, and affordability of scholarship is a central tenet to realizing a more equitable higher education system. Many decisions about open access investments take place at administrative or consortial levels, but librarians frequently field requests for access, resources, or partnerships at the local level through their relationships with students, researchers, and faculty. An open access investment working group was established at UC Berkeley Library in late 2019 to bridge this gap between larger scale strategic investment and local decision making. The group proposed a set of criteria to guide library investments in sustainable open access projects. With this group’s work in the foreground, the panel will share real-world examples of where and how academic libraries decide to invest in open access resources. Panelists will discuss commonalities and differences in strategies and give attendees examples they can apply in their own roles.
Presentation delivered by cIRcle staff for graduate student series at UBC Library on Scholarly Rights and Responsibilities. Topics include publisher agreements, author rights, benefits of using cIRcle, UBC's digital repository .
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
Beyond the Pale: grey literature as a method of publicationariadnenetwork
Dr. Evans, Tim
Archaeology Data Service (ADS), UK
EAA 2016, Vilnius, Lithuania
Session: Open Access and Open Data in Archaeology -
Following the ARIADNE Thread
Digital Scholarship: building an online scholarly presenceAlison McNab
A workshop from the MmIT 2016 conference "Digital Citizenship - What is the library's role?" held in Sheffield from 12-13 September 2016.
Changes in scholarly publishing have created a requirement for authors to leverage multiple digital tools in order to build their profile, identity, scholarship and impact within and beyond their institutions. This workshop provided an opportunity for delegates to discuss and reflect on tools which can be used to build an online scholarly presence.
Open Access Advocacy: Failure and Successes Leslie Chan
In this presentation I share personal reflection with regard to failures in Open Access advocacy, and draw lessons on how we could move forward based on past mistakes.
Open Data and Open Science presented in Rio for Open Science 2014-08-22. I argue that Open Notebook Science is the way forward and will lead to great benefits
Slides from the ACRL 2021 conference panel presentation "Open access investment at the local level: Sharing diverse tactics to improve access and affordability."
Panelists include:
- Sam Teplitzky, Open Science Librarian, UC Berkeley
- Timothy Vollmer, Scholarly Communication & Copyright Librarian, UC Berkeley
- Sharla Lair, Senior Strategist, Open Access & Scholarly Communication Initiatives at LYRASIS
- Tom Narock, Assistant Professor of Data Science at Goucher College
- Justin Gonder, Senior Product Manager, Publishing, California Digital Library.
Panel topic:
Improving accessibility, inclusivity, and affordability of scholarship is a central tenet to realizing a more equitable higher education system. Many decisions about open access investments take place at administrative or consortial levels, but librarians frequently field requests for access, resources, or partnerships at the local level through their relationships with students, researchers, and faculty. An open access investment working group was established at UC Berkeley Library in late 2019 to bridge this gap between larger scale strategic investment and local decision making. The group proposed a set of criteria to guide library investments in sustainable open access projects. With this group’s work in the foreground, the panel will share real-world examples of where and how academic libraries decide to invest in open access resources. Panelists will discuss commonalities and differences in strategies and give attendees examples they can apply in their own roles.
Presentation delivered by cIRcle staff for graduate student series at UBC Library on Scholarly Rights and Responsibilities. Topics include publisher agreements, author rights, benefits of using cIRcle, UBC's digital repository .
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
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).
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
Institutionalisation of an open access – a new possibility for research. A s...Birute Railiene
Birute Railiene. Institutionalisation of an open access – a new possibility for research : a survey of perception and demand
Paper for the 5th International Conference of the European Society of History of Science, Athens, 1-3 November 2012
The State of the Art of Open Access. Open Access is here to stay, June 2014SPARC Europe
Part of a course given for
EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries)
"The State of the Art of Open Access. Open Access is here to stay"
10 June 2014
Rome, Italy
Presentació a càrrec de Lluís Anglada, director de Ciència Oberta al CSUC, duta a terme a la Training Session on Open Science and Open Access al Centre de Recerca Matemàtica de la UAB l'11 de novembre de 2018
On 14th November 2014, members of ARMA (Association of Research Managers and Administrators) were invited to a study tour at the AHRC offices in Swindon. The day provided ARMA members with the opportunity to learn more about the AHRC, and upcoming developments of interest. The day included presentations on:
- The AHRC’s 10th Anniversary activities
- The AHRC's new area of Business Processes and Analysis
- European Funding – Horizon 2020 and HERA
- The Knowledge Exchange Hubs: lessons and legacy
- Research Outcomes and Researchfish
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
Symplectic training event for National Heart and Lung Institute – how to deposit your research manuscript and make it open access.
Symplectic Elements and Spiral are systems that work together to support individual academics and research staff in recording, reporting and showcasing their academic activities and outputs.
This training session will be an introduction and refresher to postdocs, fellows and PAs on how to deposit newly accepted publications into Symplectic in order to meet the open access requirements of the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Final year PhD students are welcome to sign-up but given training capacity limitation, priority will be given to postdocs, fellows and PAs.
In addition we will show you how to link you publications to research grants and your ORCiD.
The Author's Drift: scholarship, scale and societyPip Willcox
Why do we engage the public in research? Who is "the public"? What does successful engagement look like?
This talk presents some answers to that question, drawing on work from the Bodleian Libraries, the Oxford e-Research Centre, the University of Oxford's IT Services, and the HathiTrust Research Center.
The talk was the keynote at the Research and/as Engagement, a Royal Society of Edinburgh sponsored workshop, organized for Digital Humanities Network Scotland by the University of Edinburgh, 12 September 2014.
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.
Learning Exchange May 15 - Extending and measuring reach and impact of resear...northerncollaboration
Nick Sheppard, Repository Developer at Leeds Beckett University explores the Library's work with research staff in the light of the HEFCE Open Access requirements for 2016. Presented at the Northern Collaboration Learning Exchange: Communicating with New Technologies, held at Leeds Beckett University, May 2015.
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.
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/
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
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.
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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2. Repository Developer
• Began working at Leeds Metropolitan
University in 2007
• Repositories Start-up and Enhancement
projects (Jisc)
• Technical Officer for UKCoRR (UK
Council of Research Repositories)
• http://ukcorr.org/
• Over 300 members
• Repository practitioners across UK HE
4. The Open Access movement
Open Access (OA) means that items of scholarly work are made
available online, in a digital format, at no charge to the reader and
with limited restrictions on re-use.
The OA movement is a worldwide effort to make scholarly work
available online to everyone regardless of their ability to pay for
access.
Arguments for OA:
• maximises research impact
• maximises the use of public funds
• accelerates research and increases
impact
• ethical practice
• ensures compliance with funder
requirements
5. HEFCE Policy for open access
in the post-2014 Research
Excellence Framework
“to be eligible for submission to the post-2014 REF, authors’
final peer-reviewed manuscripts must have been deposited in
an institutional or subject repository on acceptance for
publication” http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201407/
• Self-archiving or “green” Open Access
• Applies to journal articles and
conference proceedings accepted for
publication after 1 April 2016
• Where there is an embargo, authors can
comply by making a ‘closed’ deposit on
acceptance
• Various exceptions
6. The problem with Status Quo
*Status Quo at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1978
1978* 2005
7. In the beginning was the Word
Language:
the primal
technology
(approx.
100,000yrs)
Oral tradition
Cuneiform
(3000-3500
BCE)
Classical
civilizations
and proto-
science (900
BCE – 500
CE)
European
Dark Ages
(500-1000
CE)
The
Renaissance
(1400 CE –
1700 CE)
Invention of
printing
press (≈1440
CE)
Caxton
brings
printing
press to
Britain
(≈1476 CE)
Henry
Oldenburg
inaugurates
PhilTrans
(1665 CE)
Universities /
research
output
increased
(C19th ->
C20th)
ARPANET
(1969)
“Serials
crisis”
(1970s)
WWW
invented
(1989)
1st peer-
reviewed
scientific
journal on
the internet
(1990)
Stevan
Harnad’s
“Subversive
proposal”
(1994)
Budapest
Open Access
Initiative
(2002)
Mainstream
social media
(2000 –
Future)
Academic
social media
(2007 –
Future)
Finch report
(2012)
RCUK policy
(2012)
HEFCE
announce
Policy for OA
in post-2014
REF (2014)
PORESO
2015
April 1st 2016 The Future
9. Serials crisis
• C19th and C20th
• Number of universities/
associated research output
increased
• Market with established creative
source & pattern of consumption
• Unsustainable price rises of
traditionally published journals
• 1990 - Stevan Harnad introduced
Psycoloquy, the first peer-
reviewed scientific journal on the
internet
• Paved the way for free academic
publishing on the web after 1993
10. Stevan Harnad’s subversive
proposal (1994)
“If all scholars' preprints were universally available to all scholars by anonymous
ftp (and gopher, and World-Wide Web, and the search/retrieval wonders of the
future), NO scholar would ever consent to WITHDRAW any preprint of his from
the public eye after the refereed version was accepted for paper "PUBLICation."
Instead, everyone would, quite naturally, substitute the refereed, published
reprint for the unrefereed preprint.”
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/253351/
“one of the seminal texts of the open access
movement” Richard Poynder June 2014
11. Budapest Open Access Initiative
(2002)
“An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an
unprecedented public good…Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate
research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with
the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting
humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge.”
Recommend two complementary strategies:
• Self-archiving (green)
• Open-access Journals (gold)
12. Seismic shift
• The Finch report (2012)
• Emphasised gold over green
• 5 year "transition period“
• Average APC ≈ £1800
• Robbing Peter to pay Paul?
• Criticised by OA advocates
• Influence of publishing lobby?
• Market forces will drive APCs
down (won't they??)
13. RCUK policy (April 2012)
• RCUK-compliant journals
• Offer suitable gold OR suitable
green option
• Creative Commons-Attribution
(CC-BY)
• RCUK OA block grants
• Establish institutional publication
funds
• expect primary use to be
payments of APCs
• Preference is gold OA
• Decision lies with authors and
institutions
14. HEFCE policy: a new chapter
• Arms race with commercial publishers
– “Online first”
– Embargoes (SHERPA/RoMEO)
• Is green a long term solution?
• Is gold sustainable?
• Books and monographs?
• e-theses
– EThOS - http://ethos.bl.uk/
• Open Data
• What might a new paradigm look like?
• Institutional/library publishing?
– PKP - Open Journal System e.g.
http://journals.ed.ac.uk/
– UCL Press
– Open Library of the Humanities
15. Social media and the
academy: network effects
• Academic blogs
• Facebook / Twitter
• OA and impact
– http://sparceurope.org/oaca/
• Academic tools
– Mendeley
– Figshare
– academia.edu
– ResearchGate
• Article level metrics
• Alternative or “altmetrics”
16. Alternative metrics
• Various flavours
– Plum analytics -
http://www.plumanalytics.com/
– Impact story - https://impactstory.org/
– Altmetric - http://www.altmetric.com/
• Article level metrics
– frontiers in Psychology
http://journal.frontiersin.org/a
rticle/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00
058/abstract
– PLoS One
http://journals.plos.org/ploso
ne/article?id=10.1371/journa
l.pone.0121708
– Repositories
– IRUS-UK
– Statistics at Leeds Beckett
• The end of JIF?
20. References & bibliography
• Suber, P. Open Access Overview. Available at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm [Accessed 17
November 2014]
• Guédon, J.-C. (2001) In Oldenburg’s long shadow: librarians, research scientists, publishers, and the control of
scientific publishing. Available at: http://eprints.rclis.org/6375/ [Accessed 17 November 2016]
• Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002) Available at: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml [Accessed 17
November 2014]
• Yiotis, K. (2005) The Open Access Initiative: a new paradigm for scholarly communications. Information
Technology and Libraries 24(4). Available at: http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/article/view/3378 [Accessed
17th November 2014]
• Monbiot, G. (2011). The Lairds of Learning | George Monbiot. [online] Monbiot.com. Available at:
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/08/29/the-lairds-of-learning/ [Accessed 17 Nov. 2014].
• Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications:
Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings (June
2012) Available at http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Finch-
Group-report-FINAL-VERSION.pdf [Accessed 17 November 2014]
• RCUK Policy on Open Access (April 2012) Available at
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/openaccess/policy/ [Accessed 17 November 2014]
• HEFCE (2013) Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework
Available at http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201407/ [Accessed 17 November
2014]