Joint presentation by me, Data/Liaison Librarian Heather Whipple and Collections Librarian Ian Gibson for the Canadian Association of Geographers' meeting during Congress 2014.
Brave new world:more access, more impact, more controlElizabeth Yates
Digital publishing enables wider access to scholarly research, creates greater impact and allows authors to retain more control over their rights. Presentation for Career Corner, Congress 2014.
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.
Open Access: What it is and why it is required for scholarly community?Sukhdev Singh
Introduction to Open Access to scholarly literature. Problems with traditional academic publishing and impact of Internet. Definition of Open Access and models. Why Open Access is required for the scientific and scholarly community? What can bloggers do to support Open Access. Open Access status in India.
Presentation given at the University of Sydney, 11 October 2013. An introduction to open access publishing for academics in the humanities and social sciences.
Brave new world:more access, more impact, more controlElizabeth Yates
Digital publishing enables wider access to scholarly research, creates greater impact and allows authors to retain more control over their rights. Presentation for Career Corner, Congress 2014.
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.
Open Access: What it is and why it is required for scholarly community?Sukhdev Singh
Introduction to Open Access to scholarly literature. Problems with traditional academic publishing and impact of Internet. Definition of Open Access and models. Why Open Access is required for the scientific and scholarly community? What can bloggers do to support Open Access. Open Access status in India.
Presentation given at the University of Sydney, 11 October 2013. An introduction to open access publishing for academics in the humanities and social sciences.
Academic Social Networks and Researcher RankingAmanyalsayed
Open science and web scholarly communication
Using Web 2.0 to increase researcher’s ranking
Academic Social Networks (types, services)
Question & Answer service
Sharing your research output through ASN
Researcher measurement (h-index, RG score)
ASN and researchers’ concerns
Open Access and PLOS: The Future of Scholarly Publishing - Dr. Virginia BarbourUQSCADS
In this presentation, Dr. Barbour discussed the emergence of open access from traditional publishing models, the current open access landscape where PLoS journals have foreshadowed the development of megajournals as well as predicting future developments.
In defining the Open Access Publishing model, Dr. Barbour emphasized the crucial role creative commons licences play in ensuring that research is not only available free to view online, but is able to be re-used.
Open Access Theses & Dissertations: Airing the Anxieties & Finding the FactsJill Cirasella
Writing a thesis or dissertation is hard, and now that most theses and dissertations are deposited and distributed electronically, graduating students face an additional complication: they must decide whether they want to make their dissertations immediately open access (OA), or, at universities that require OA, they must come to terms with the fact that their work will be OA. In this presentation, I survey and scrutinize the anxieties and myths surrounding OA theses and dissertations.
Publication of rigorously peer-reviewed research articles is at the foundation of scientific progress, but there is more than one approach to funding the production and dissemination of such articles. Open Access journals arose in response to a publishing system with ballooning costs and diminishing access, but soon after, predatory journals arrived on the scene to exploit the system. This talk will give an overview of the current situation in the academic journal publishing ecosystem and discuss ways that readers and researchers can protect themselves from the bad actors in that system.
- what is open access, how do you participate in open access and why is it important to researchers.
-Tools and tips for publishing in open access : DOAJ, Think.check.Submit. , Beall's list etc.
Open access for researchers, policy makers and research managers - Short ver...Iryna Kuchma
Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact, April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia. Open access for researchers: enlarged audience, citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers:
new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. How to maximize the visibility of research publications, improve the impact and influence of the work, disseminate the results of the research, showcase the quality of the research in the Universities and research institutions, better measure and manage the research in the institution, collect and curate the digital outputs, generate new knowledge from existing findings, enable and encourage collaboration, bring savings to the higher education sector and better return on investment. What are the key functions for research libraries?
The design and delivery of university learning is evolving to meet the changing needs of today’s students and researchers. The new user experience is a personal experience: PX is the new UX. One size fits one; students are seeking an experience that suits their own individual needs in their search journey. Starting with the spike of anxiety that sets in when a research assignment is given, following through the open web searching and then navigating the library’s resources, Lin Lin of EBSCO Information Services will discuss the insights derived while studying today’s students in depth, and how students’ approaches to research impacts the librarian-student relationship.
Keynote speech at the Eureopan Academy of Management at a panel on the future of business schools. Discusses the case for and against becoming more relevant.
The case for:
Engagement leads to better research
Ranking-mania leads us astray
Engagement through new media is easy
The case against:
Has the quest for relevance gone too far?
Are we asking too much of (junior) academics?
Let’s not create opposing “camps”
This session offers the results of a study that tests the assertion that the online dissemination of theses has a positive impact on the research profile of the institution. Based on a combination of primary and secondary research, with some fascinating statistical comparative information, the study outlines the types of metrics an institution may use to measure the impact of its corpus of digitised dissertations and examines how these metrics may be generated. It is the result of a year-long study undertaken with the London School of Economics which focuses on the outcomes achieved through its programme of theses digitisation, disseminated simultaneously through its institutional repository and through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database (PDTD). Results achieved by the LSE will be compared with metrics gathered globally by ProQuest via its PDTD. The session will be of interest to all librarians and academics involved in the use of digitised theses as a research resource, digitisation projects (retrospective or ongoing) and university rankings.
Beef up your backchat: using audience response systems to assess student lear...Elizabeth Yates
Presentation at WILU 2014 at Western University. Describes use of web-based audience response systems for formative assessment during information literacy sessions.
Academic Social Networks and Researcher RankingAmanyalsayed
Open science and web scholarly communication
Using Web 2.0 to increase researcher’s ranking
Academic Social Networks (types, services)
Question & Answer service
Sharing your research output through ASN
Researcher measurement (h-index, RG score)
ASN and researchers’ concerns
Open Access and PLOS: The Future of Scholarly Publishing - Dr. Virginia BarbourUQSCADS
In this presentation, Dr. Barbour discussed the emergence of open access from traditional publishing models, the current open access landscape where PLoS journals have foreshadowed the development of megajournals as well as predicting future developments.
In defining the Open Access Publishing model, Dr. Barbour emphasized the crucial role creative commons licences play in ensuring that research is not only available free to view online, but is able to be re-used.
Open Access Theses & Dissertations: Airing the Anxieties & Finding the FactsJill Cirasella
Writing a thesis or dissertation is hard, and now that most theses and dissertations are deposited and distributed electronically, graduating students face an additional complication: they must decide whether they want to make their dissertations immediately open access (OA), or, at universities that require OA, they must come to terms with the fact that their work will be OA. In this presentation, I survey and scrutinize the anxieties and myths surrounding OA theses and dissertations.
Publication of rigorously peer-reviewed research articles is at the foundation of scientific progress, but there is more than one approach to funding the production and dissemination of such articles. Open Access journals arose in response to a publishing system with ballooning costs and diminishing access, but soon after, predatory journals arrived on the scene to exploit the system. This talk will give an overview of the current situation in the academic journal publishing ecosystem and discuss ways that readers and researchers can protect themselves from the bad actors in that system.
- what is open access, how do you participate in open access and why is it important to researchers.
-Tools and tips for publishing in open access : DOAJ, Think.check.Submit. , Beall's list etc.
Open access for researchers, policy makers and research managers - Short ver...Iryna Kuchma
Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact, April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia. Open access for researchers: enlarged audience, citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers:
new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. How to maximize the visibility of research publications, improve the impact and influence of the work, disseminate the results of the research, showcase the quality of the research in the Universities and research institutions, better measure and manage the research in the institution, collect and curate the digital outputs, generate new knowledge from existing findings, enable and encourage collaboration, bring savings to the higher education sector and better return on investment. What are the key functions for research libraries?
The design and delivery of university learning is evolving to meet the changing needs of today’s students and researchers. The new user experience is a personal experience: PX is the new UX. One size fits one; students are seeking an experience that suits their own individual needs in their search journey. Starting with the spike of anxiety that sets in when a research assignment is given, following through the open web searching and then navigating the library’s resources, Lin Lin of EBSCO Information Services will discuss the insights derived while studying today’s students in depth, and how students’ approaches to research impacts the librarian-student relationship.
Keynote speech at the Eureopan Academy of Management at a panel on the future of business schools. Discusses the case for and against becoming more relevant.
The case for:
Engagement leads to better research
Ranking-mania leads us astray
Engagement through new media is easy
The case against:
Has the quest for relevance gone too far?
Are we asking too much of (junior) academics?
Let’s not create opposing “camps”
This session offers the results of a study that tests the assertion that the online dissemination of theses has a positive impact on the research profile of the institution. Based on a combination of primary and secondary research, with some fascinating statistical comparative information, the study outlines the types of metrics an institution may use to measure the impact of its corpus of digitised dissertations and examines how these metrics may be generated. It is the result of a year-long study undertaken with the London School of Economics which focuses on the outcomes achieved through its programme of theses digitisation, disseminated simultaneously through its institutional repository and through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database (PDTD). Results achieved by the LSE will be compared with metrics gathered globally by ProQuest via its PDTD. The session will be of interest to all librarians and academics involved in the use of digitised theses as a research resource, digitisation projects (retrospective or ongoing) and university rankings.
Beef up your backchat: using audience response systems to assess student lear...Elizabeth Yates
Presentation at WILU 2014 at Western University. Describes use of web-based audience response systems for formative assessment during information literacy sessions.
Takes a look at what we know about learning and what we know about social media and whether there is a conflict between the two. Features 6 principles of social media.
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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.
Mr. Haank addresses Springer's position on Open Access. What has changed over the last years, what has stayed the same? Is hybrid developing into fully open, or will the models co-exist? He also touches upon the issue of (open) data. Making data available in a structured, useful way is much more complex than the current practice of article publishing.
Knowledge Management: A Literature ReviewOlivia Moran
Is technology the key critical factor, which determines the success or failure of a
Knowledge Management (KM) implementation initiative? Are there other factors,
which contribute to its success or failure?
KM is concerned with sharing and managing information. People need to be seen as
the primary key to its success, as they play a very crucial role. People hold substantial
amounts of information and they need to be encouraged to share it. Technology is
available to support knowledge sharing, but this does not mean that people will
automatically give it up.
This paper examines the human element of knowledge management
Research Issues in Knowledge Management and Social MediaJan Pawlowski
The lecture introduces "Global Social Knowledge Management" - it starts with conceptual foundations and discusses research approaches and methodologies and potentially interesting research topics. Several studies on KM and Social Software are outlined, in particular studies on barriers of KM in global settings as well as utilizing SoSo for KM.
Think Big about Data: Archaeology and the Big Data Challengeariadnenetwork
Presentation by Gabriele Gattiglia, University of Pisa – MAPPA Lab
EAA 2014 session: Open Access and Open Data in Archaeology
Istanbul, Turkey
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Early Career Tactics to Increase Scholarly ImpactElaine Lasda
Workshp for Ph.D. candidates, postdocs and faculy on how bilbiometrics, altmetrics, open access, ORCID, and other resources enable greater visibility of research output.
Publication Strategy: Helping Academics to Increase the Impact of their Res...Fintan Bracken
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Telling your story: Gaining visibility in the academic communitySt. Mary's University
Presentation about author impact measures and scholarly communication services for faculty in higher education. Given at the St. Mary's University 2017 Faculty Institute on Learning Technologies.
Understanding the Depth of Google Scholar and its Implication for Webometrics...Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari
A presentation on Google Scholar, webometrics ranking of higher institutions and Open Access to research publications. The presentation details the parameters Google scholar uses for indexing research publications and the implication of that for the visibility of scholars, their institutions and their webometrics rank.
This slide aims to help and guide students on how to start finding literature review through WOS and SCOPUS. The content is excerpted from various sources available from the internet. This is solely meant for education purpose.
Durham Researcher Development Programme 2015-16: Bibliometric Research Indica...Jamie Bisset
There is an ever-increasing need to make your research more visible as you establish your career, and metrics to measure your research performance when it comes to thinking about promotion and probation.
This session will focus on bibliometric research indicators (such as the Journal Impact Factor and SCImago, author metrics such as the h-index and g-index) and sources for accessing citation data (Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports and Google Scholar). These may be one of several factors to consider when thinking about where to submit an article manuscript for publication to maximise the potential academic impact of the research, and tools useful to be familiar with if they form part of any research evaluation you and your authored journal papers may be subject to.
An additional section will also look at tips to consider when writing an article abstract to maximise its discoverability and cite-ability.
Learning Outcomes:
• Understanding of meaning and intended uses of bibliometric research indicators
• Understanding of how some key indicators (JIF, H-index) are calculated
• Ability to make a judgement as to the appropriateness and limitations of such indicators
• Ability to use online datasets to view and calculate key bibliometric measures
• Awareness of some factors which can increase the visibility and discoverability of your own research in bibliographic databases.
Previous participants have said:
"The session has helped provide me with the basic information on Journal Impact and where to find information such as an author's h-index. It will be useful for future journal submission consideration."
"This session was very useful for me to become familiar with the topic."
Brace for Impact: New Means for Measuring Research MetricsMary Ellen Sloane
As open access journals and repositories gain a foothold in scholarly communication, researchers are finding that the traditional impact factor and citation count metrics only reflect a portion of the dissemination of scholarly works.
New technology, research, and citation tools aid our ability to measure the influence of research. A matrix of tools and initiatives, like PLoS Article-Level Metrics, BePress’ Author Dashboard, Mendeley, Altmetrics, and ImpactStory are providing a more robust picture of scholarly communication today.
This presentation provides an overview of the impact factor system and new tools for gathering metrics and their relevance for librarians and researchers.
Presentation given at the Library Information Technology Association (LITA) Forum in Louisville, KY, in November 2013.
Beyond the Journal Impact Factor: Altmetrics; New Ways of Measuring Impactsbeas1
A powerpoint presentation given at Portland State University Library as part of the Library's workshop series for faculty. Download the file to see the notes for each slide.
Bibliometrics, Journal Impact Factors and Maximising the Cite-ability of Jour...Jamie Bisset
Most recent version of slides from Durham "Bibliometrics, Journal Impact Factors and Maximising the Cite-ability of Journal Articles" session.. Delivered as part of the Durham University Researcher Development Programme.
[Last Devlivered November 2014]
Further Training available at https://www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/training/
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Altmetrics (or alternative citation metrics) provide new ways to track scholarly influence across a wide range of media and platforms. This presentation covers altmetric fundamentals, tips on connecting your users with altmetrics, and an overview of newly published research. Presented as part of the NN/LM MAR Boost Box Series; http://nnlm.gov/mar/training/boost_mar2014.pdf
Presentation given at the University of Huddersfield on 22 June 2016 as part of the Consortium Librarians' Day, attended by FE librarians supporting HE in FE.
Discusses the opportunities presented by open academic content for study, learning & teaching, and software use. Also suggests some useful "open" resources for CPD.
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Brock and Laurier University Libraries exploratory survey on Open Access publishing beliefs and practices. Presented at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference 2015, Toronto, ON.
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Info on conducting an environmental scan for age-friendly community resources, critically evaluating information and finding demographic information about Niagara.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Home assignment II on Spectroscopy 2024 Answers.pdf
Shifting ground: scholarly communication in geography
1. Shifting Ground: Understanding
Scholarly Communication in
Geography
Heather Whipple, Data/Liaison Librarian
Elizabeth Yates, Liaison/Scholarly Communication Librarian
Ian Gibson, Collections Librarian
May 28, 2014 ~ CAG @ Congress
Free to use or share with attribution
2. Today’s outcomes
You will recall:
• Strategies for finding & sharing scholarly information sources
• Characteristics of changes in scholarly publishing, including
Open Access
• Important publishing platforms for geography
• Strategies for evaluating a journal
• Characteristics of traditional and new forms of measuring
research impact
3. Finding geographical research
• Geographers research everything, everywhere: no single
research database can keep up
• Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar
• Other specialized disciplinary databases with overlap
• Use advanced search options to limit by subject, keyword
• For example: geograph*
4. Finding geographical research
• Google Scholar
• If you are affiliated with a university, make sure your library is linked to your
profile for easy access to subscription content
• Set up citation export preferences
• Set up alerts (also available for journals & databases)
• Access when you’re between affiliations
• Public library databases
• Alumni access to ILL
• Author websites & research repositories
• academia.edu & researchgate.net
5. Sharing your research
• Make sure YOUR WORK can be found
• ORCID & ResearcherID
• Publishing and Getting Read. 2013 (RGS)
• Ballamingie, Patricia, and Susan Tudin. 2013.
"Publishing graduate student research in
geography: the fundamentals." Journal Of
Geography In Higher Education 37, no. 2: 304-
314.
6. Sharing your research
• Research Data Management
• Best practices for preserving your data over the long term
• Plan for the future
• Plan for sharing
• Plan for reuse
• Plan for protection of vulnerable or proprietary content
• Increasingly expected as part of funding applications
8. Publishing now
• Open, online journals
• Digital academic presses
• Online repositories
• Funding agency policies
supporting OA
• Greater support for author rights
9. • Free, immediate online access to scholarly
research
• No end-user fees
• Usually greater freedom for re-use
10. Open Access = greater impact
Open Access Citation effect:
• Open Access articles are cited significantly more than
non-OA articles
Article downloads:
• Open Access articles are downloaded significantly more
than non-OA articles
12. Morrison, H. (2014). Dramatic Growth of Open Access: December 31, 2013: first open
source edition. http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/
Growth of OA publishing
14. How does OA work?
Publishing is not free!
Costs are covered by means such as:
• Article processing fees
• Advertising
• Sponsorship by a scholarly society
• Researcher memberships
16. Open Access in Geography
• DOAJ
• 572 titles for geograph* anywhere
• 118 titles for Geography (general) by subject
• PLOS One
• Acme
• Cities and the Environment (CATE)
• OA journals for other related disciplines
• DOAR
• 43 disciplinary repositories for Geography and Regional Studies
• your best option might fall under another subject category
17. How do you evaluate a journal?
a. My advisor recommended it
b. It has a high Impact Factor
c. I found it on Google Scholar
d. It looks pretty
e. The editor emailed me and asked me to send in an article – it
will only cost $500 to publish!
18. Some guidelines
Source: Brock Library (2014) Guidelines for evaluating a journal. http://brocku.ca/library/services-lib/faculty/guidelines-for-evaluating-a-journal-publisher
• Check aims, cope & subject coverage
• Are its policies on peer review, open access,
copyright, etc., publicly available?
• Do you recognize researchers in your field?
• Where is it indexed?
• Does it have an Impact Factor or alternative metrics?
• Does it appear on a “watch” list e.g. Beall’s list
of predatory publishers? scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/
• If it charges fees, are they clearly explained?
19. Journal Impact Factor
𝐼𝐹 =
𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠
𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠
Citations = citations in the current year to articles published in
the past two years
Citable articles = number of articles published in the past two
years
20. E.g.
1. If articles published in your journal in 2010-2011 were cited
50 times in 2012
2. And your journal published a total 100 articles in 2010-2011
3. Your journal’s impact factor is: 50/100 = .5
21. Problems with Impact Factor
• A quantification of quality
• Only pertains to journals, not people
• Only counts journals indexed in
Web of Science (geography?)
• Can be easily gamed
Image: 'choking'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36613169@N00/299060326
Found on flickrcc.net
22. Individual metric: H-Index
H = n papers that have been cited at least n times
• reflects both the number of publications and the number of
citations per publication
• based on a list of publications ranked in descending order by
the times cited
23. E.g.
• if I have an H-index of 2, that means I have written two papers
that have been cited at least twice
Issues:
• rewards prolific authors, long careers
• doesn’t reward groundbreaking ideas
and papers that get a lot of citations
• only relevant for fields that focus on
articles, articles, articles
25. Declaration on Research Assessment
General Recommendation
1. Do not use journal-based metrics, such as Journal
Impact Factors, as a surrogate measure of the quality of
individual research articles, to assess an individual scientist's
contributions, or in hiring, promotion, or funding decisions.
http://am.ascb.org/dora/
26. Alternative Metrics
• For articles
• For individuals
• For institutions
Broader scope:
-”real world” AND academic impact
-articles AND code AND blog posts
AND reports, etc.
-beyond use to how and why
-focus away from journal and onto
article, individual
27. Article Level Metrics: PLoS
• Metrics for each article publically displayed
• Categories: Viewed, Cited, Saved, Discussed, and
Recommended
• PLoS metrics software openly available
• http://www.plosone.org/article/metrics/info%3Adoi%2F10.137
1%2Fjournal.pone.0030366
28. Individual metrics: Impact Story
• https://impactstory.org/
• Works best with permanent identifier eg ORCID or
ResearcherID
• Open source project aggregating multiple outputs > DOIs,
URLs, software, slides, etc.
• metrics sorted by engagement type and audience
29. Institutional metrics: Plum Analytics
• 5 categories of metrics: usage, captures, mentions, social
media & citations
• Multiple outputs including articles, books, videos,
presentations, datasets, etc.
• E.g. of institutional use > The Smithsonian
https://plu.mx/g/smithsonian/
31. Copyright:
What is it? Why does it matter?
• a form of intellectual property
• takes effect the moment a work is “fixed”
(doesn’t apply to ideas, facts)
• applies to all genres – books, periodicals, charts,
software, films, music, works of art
• Protects your rights as a creator:
• to reproduce, publish, alter, sell, etc. the work
• copyright infringement > is unauthorized copying or
use of a work
32. What can you do?
No. 1 > Read your copyright agreements!
• research your publication options
• negotiate more copy-rights
• use Creative Commons licensing -- creativecommons.org
• publish with an Open Access platform
White clouds in the deep blue, by backtrust; from stock.xchng
33. Summing up
• Scholarly publishing is in transition
• We have the ability to discover vast quantities of information
• We have the ability to share vast quantities of information
• Some publishers are nervous about what this might mean
• You have opportunities to decide how you want to engage
with this changing realm
• You have opportunities & responsibilities to understand how
your work is measured, contained, and promoted.
34. Thank you
Presentation slides ~ http://www.slideshare.net/ElizabethYates
Presentation links ~ http://bit.ly/CAG2014sc
Heather Whipple ~ hwhipple@brocku.ca
Elizabeth Yates ~ eyates@brocku.ca
Thanks to Ian Gibson for metrics & altmetrics content
Editor's Notes
Think broadly & search locally: strategies for limiting search results across many disciplines to geographical research
Use google scholar wisely
Ways to get access when you don’t have university affiliation
Plan for future – will you be able to access your own data in 5 years? Are the formats accessible? Is the storage secure? Do you have multiple backups?
So, for a long time, publishing was pretty old-school:
-researcher creates content
-researcher submits content to commercial publisher (book or journal)
-publisher uses other researchers to review quality of content – often editors do this without pay
-publisher accepts reviewed content and asks researcher to sign over their copyrights – so that researchers lose most rights to re-use and/or reproduce their own work
-publisher copy-edits, packages and publishes content and sells it to academic institutions at very high prices
The picture becomes even more problematic when you consider that much of the research that is published has been funded by taxpayers – who then are not able to access the end result of that research
Many emerging models for scholarly publishing:
-online only journals, some of which are open access >> incorporate video, reader interaction, etc.
-university publishers which offer digital journal and/or book publishing
-online archives – subject specific or institutional
-funding requirements – CIHR, SSHERC and NSERC have issued a draft unified policy for researchers that will require journal articles based on funded research to be made freely accessible within 12 mos of publication (other countries eg. EU, US, Australia far ahead of Can.)
-even commercial publishers are becoming more open – allowing authors to archive their work online; may be the pre-refereed, refereed, or even published versions of the manuscript
The Open Access movement has been a key driver in this transformation – formalized about 11 years ago with publishers and scholars pledging to use the Internet to make research freely available as a public good
Key features:
-immediate access with no user fees
Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, et al. (2010) Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13636. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013636 -- Compared OA and non-OA articles within the same journals; looked at articles deposited in four mandated IRs; compared with articles published in same journal, volume, year but not deposited in an IR
The impact of free access to the scientific literature: a review of recent research – Davis, Walters, 2011,JMLA 99 3 -- Review of the literature; Nucleic Acid Research j studied how moving from paywall to OA resulted in double article downloads (tho robots account for half of increase); also an RCT - Davis PM, Lewenstein BV, Simon DH, Booth JG,Connolly MJL. Open access publishing, article downloads and citations: randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2008 Jul 31;337:a568. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a568.
Usually, publishing in an Open Acess journal allows authors to retain full copyright over their work – you give the journal a “non-exclusive” one-time right to publish your work
You retain the rights to reuse your work as you see fit – to reproduce it digitally or in print, to post on a website or online archive, to share with colleagues or students
There are almost 10,000 journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals and around 1.6 M articles.
Aligned with growth in OA publishing, policies are being established to promote and guide how OA works at various levels including institutional and national – e.g some institutions, such as Concordia, have policies mandating that researchers must deposit their articles in their IR or give reasons why not.
>> ROARMAP -- http://roarmap.eprints.org/ -- is tracking this growth.
Internationally, Canada is playing ‘catch up’to US, UK, EU, Australia:
-UK - RCUK Policy on Open Access – 2012 funded researchers must publish final published version in either immediate OA + archive OR final manuscript in any repo within either 6 (STEM) or 12 mos (SSH)
- Australia – Australian Research Council OA Policy “any publications arising from an ARC supported research project must be deposited into an open access institutional repository within a twelve (12) month period from the date of publication.” Early 2013
US Fair Access to Scientific Technology Research Act (FASTR) –require OA j manuscripts repo deposit for agencies with annual research expenditures of $100M +; max 6 month embargo
EU – funded articles must be OA by publisher immediately, or by researcher via IR within 6 mos
Can see big growth in repositories via OpenDOAR, a searchable database of subject and institutional respositories maintained at the Centre for Research Communications at the University of Nottingham.
Useful for faculty and students: can look for subject repostories; contents searchable (eg War of 1812 Brock)
Not a lot of high profile options at this point in Geography
Acme not included in JCR or Google’s metrics
Theoretically, a high impact factor is good: that means there are “lots” of citations to your articles so therefore your journal has a big “impact”
> Few geography journals in Web of Science/Journal Citation Reports
Gaming: Journals can try to inflate citations by encouraging authors to cite articles in their journal
You could write the worst article in the world and have a huge number of citations – for all the wrong reasons
No distinction between citations of research articles and citations of news, commentary, opinion, review articles, etc.
Questions of reproducibility: Rockefeller University Press tried to reproduce their impact factors and the IFs of their competitors first using just WoS then using data provided by TR – despite multiple attempts they could not find the magic numbers to make the calculations work (see http://jcb.rupress.org/content/179/6/1091.full
So if I have an H-index of 2, that means I have written two papers that have been cited at least twice
Issues:
-rewards prolific authors, long careers
-doesn’t reward groundbreaking ideas and papers that get a lot of citations
-the declaration on research assessment was formulated by the American Society for Cell Biology (in conjunction with others) to shed light on the wide spread practice of judging grant applications and T&P decisions on where the applicants had published instead of what they published.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0517-0936
Alternative metrics are quite new – still under development
Recent working paper by Costas, Zahedi and Wouters from University of Leiden showed altmetrics still a new, though growing phenomenon; weak positive correlation between altmetric rates and citations
Thelwell et al. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064841) in PLOSOne report that significant altmetric activity (for certain services) does correlate to higher citation but that use of some altmetric services are so seldom used it might not actually be worthwhile
Sud and Thelwell (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-013-1117-2) recommend methods for evaluation of altmetrics
David Colquhoun writes on his blog that it’s best to ignore altmetrics and other bibliometric nightmares “Altmetrics are numbers generated by people who don’t understand research, for people who don’t understand research. People who read papers and understand research just don’t need them and should shun them.”