This is a presentation given at the ICAS9 international conference. It draws on Joseph Nye’s concept of ‘Soft Power’ to explore the role that OA is playing in helping to reshape publishing and scholarship in China. It introduces the green and gold open access developments in China and discusses the dynamics and constraints in increasing the status and impact of Chinese scholarship and re-positioning China as an international leader in open knowledge movements.
Social sciences directory liber conference (26.06.2013)SocSciDir
A presentation given by Dan Scott, the founder of 'gold' Open Access publisher Social Sciences Directory Limited, as part of the workshop "Innovative Open Access Publishing Initiatives - and how Libraries/Library Consortia could support such initiatives" at the LIBER conference in Munich, 26th June 2013
Uncovering Open Access: seizing the moment and making it work for you – experiences from the ground
Presentation by Karen Bruns, Marketign Manager HSRC Press South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference
OA Models for Communities in the Social Sciences and in the HumanitiesK|N Consultants
At this presentation at the October 23, 2015, NFAIS workshop on "The Impact of Open Access Models: Finding Stable, Sustainable, and Scalable Solutions," Rebecca Kennison outlines the importance of open access in the context of the social sciences and in the humanities. In articulating the differences in research output between HSS and STEM, Kennison offers an approach to funding infrastructure in such diverse disciplines through the Open Access Network, which is designed to be supportive of both traditional short- and long-form output as well as emerging digital forms.
The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
Presentation by Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Director, Library Services UNISA and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
Ass Af Conference Presentation 02 July 2008.Docpowerinbetween
The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
Presentation by Dr. Xola Mati, Chief Operations Officer, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
Social sciences directory liber conference (26.06.2013)SocSciDir
A presentation given by Dan Scott, the founder of 'gold' Open Access publisher Social Sciences Directory Limited, as part of the workshop "Innovative Open Access Publishing Initiatives - and how Libraries/Library Consortia could support such initiatives" at the LIBER conference in Munich, 26th June 2013
Uncovering Open Access: seizing the moment and making it work for you – experiences from the ground
Presentation by Karen Bruns, Marketign Manager HSRC Press South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference
OA Models for Communities in the Social Sciences and in the HumanitiesK|N Consultants
At this presentation at the October 23, 2015, NFAIS workshop on "The Impact of Open Access Models: Finding Stable, Sustainable, and Scalable Solutions," Rebecca Kennison outlines the importance of open access in the context of the social sciences and in the humanities. In articulating the differences in research output between HSS and STEM, Kennison offers an approach to funding infrastructure in such diverse disciplines through the Open Access Network, which is designed to be supportive of both traditional short- and long-form output as well as emerging digital forms.
The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
Presentation by Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Director, Library Services UNISA and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
Ass Af Conference Presentation 02 July 2008.Docpowerinbetween
The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
Presentation by Dr. Xola Mati, Chief Operations Officer, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
Kuching | Jan-15 | Best practices and design principles for village energy ac...Smart Villages
Given by Benjamin Sovacool
The second in our series of workshops designed to gather input from stakeholders involved in existing off-grid projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This event is workshop scheduled to be held in Malaysia for the ASEAN countries will be organised by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) in collaboration with Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS).
Open Access Network Charleston Conference 2015K|N Consultants
The Open Access Network continues to evolve but remains the most promising model for scalable and sustainable open access publishing and preservation in the humanities and social sciences.
A presentation given at the first ever Open Research London on what students around the world are doing, the Open Access Button and how to get involved.
Open access for the inaugural @OpenResLDN meeting 2015 01 19Chris Banks
Slides that I will speak to at the inaugural meeting of OpenResLDN on 19th January 2015. January 2015 sees the 350th anniversary of the first ever journal publication - the Journal des Savants. We are now in the 21st year of the Open Access movement and the UK and European policies are really beginning to drive change and innovation. That change is not fast enough for some, and for others - particularly those covered by the policies, or seeking to implement policy - just a little too fast sometimes.
Peter Berkery of AAUP was a keynote speaker at the 2015 Academic Publishing in Europe conference. He gave an overview of the AAUP community of publishers, the association's strategic goals, and our roles in the global community of scholarly communications.
It appears highly probable that immediate open access publishing
will become the default mode for scholarly publishing – for the
biosciences first, other sectors later. ‘Immediate’ open access
means unfettered publication as soon as a scholarly work is
ready, with no embargo period. The costs of making a scholarly
artefact available can be reduced without sacrificing quality. This
interactive session will sketch the argument for these claims and
will present several value-added services that publishers could
develop to thrive in an open access world.
Dr Alma Swan, "Is Open Acess just another fad?"UQSCADS
Inaugural UQ Open Access Eminent Speaker Forum
Dr Alma Swan, Director of European Advocacy, SPARC
"Is Open Access just another fad?"
Wednesday 30 October 2013
Presentation by Lisa Norberg from K|N Consultant, during the seminar New Models of Knowledge Dissemination and Open Access in Canada, organised the 17/11/2015 by Érudit and CRKN.
CONUL 5 Nov 2020 (Jane Secker) Exploring the intersections of scholarly commu...ldore1
CONUL Seminar 5th November 2020: Introduction, welcome and context by
Dr Jane Secker Chair of CILIP Information Literacy Group / Senior Lecturer in Educational Development
City, University of London
Desde a implementação generalizada de periódicos on-line e a introdução do acesso aberto há mais de uma década, o ritmo da inovação na publicação de periódicos acadêmicos tem sido lento. Mais recentemente, no entanto, uma série de inovações apareceu na publicação de periódicos, que têm o potencial de causar mudanças de longo alcance no modo como comunicamos informação científica. Entre essas tendências está o surgimento dos Megajournals e, em particular do PLoS ONE, que nos últimos anos veio a dominar periódicos em acesso aberto. Estes periódico, embora revisados por pares nos aspectos de solidez e metodológica científica, aceitam uma ampla variedade de artigos, sobre os quais perguntas como “Qual a importância do trabalho” ou “é relevante para o público” não são critérios para a rejeição, como em muitos outros periódicos. Muitas vezes ligado a Megajournals estão casos de periódicos em cascata, onde o publisher tem um periódico com uma marca forte e muitas submissões.
Since the widespread implementation of online journals and the introduction of open access more than a decade ago, the pace of innovation in academic journal publishing has been slow. More recently however a number of innovations have appeared in journal publishing, which have the potential to cause far reaching changes in how we communicate scientific information. Among these trends is the raise of Megajournals and in particular PLoS ONE which have within the last few years come to dominate open access journals. These journals although peer reviewed for scientific and methodological soundness accept a wider variety of articles as questions such as “How important is the work” or “is it relevant to the audience” are not criteria for rejection as in many other journals. Often linked to Megajournals are cases of cascading journals where a publisher has a journal with a strong brand and many submissions.
Desde la implementación generalizada de revistas en línea y la introducción del acceso abierto hace más de una década, el ritmo de la innovación en la edición de revistas académicas ha sido lento. Más recientemente, sin embargo, una serie de innovaciones han aparecido en la publicación de revistas, que tienen el potencial de causar cambios de gran alcance en la forma en que comunicamos la información científica. Entre estas tendencias está el aumento de Megarevistas y en particular PLoS ONE que en los últimos años ha llegado a dominar las revistas de acceso abierto. Estas revistas aunque revisadas por pares, por su solidez científica y metodológica aceptan una variedad más amplia de artículos puesto que cuestiones tales como “¿qué tan importante es el trabajo?” o “¿es relevante para el público?” no son criterios para el rechazo como en muchas otras revistas. A menudo vinculadas a Megarevistas están los casos de las revistas en cascada donde una editorial tiene una revista con una marca sólida y muchas presentaciones.
CONUL 5 Nov 2020 (Michelle Dalton) Scholarly Communication and Information Li...ldore1
CONUL Seminar 5th November 2020: Practical strategies for embedding scholarly
communication in information literacy instruction
by Michelle Dalton, Head of Research Services UCD Library
Open Access Publications as Open Educational Resources (International OA Week...Dr Xiang REN
OA research publications are an important source of OERs, but have not been fully used and explored. In this presentation, I will talk about the benefits and challenges of using OA research scholarship for educational purposes and introduce some models and initiatives.
Kuching | Jan-15 | Best practices and design principles for village energy ac...Smart Villages
Given by Benjamin Sovacool
The second in our series of workshops designed to gather input from stakeholders involved in existing off-grid projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This event is workshop scheduled to be held in Malaysia for the ASEAN countries will be organised by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) in collaboration with Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS).
Open Access Network Charleston Conference 2015K|N Consultants
The Open Access Network continues to evolve but remains the most promising model for scalable and sustainable open access publishing and preservation in the humanities and social sciences.
A presentation given at the first ever Open Research London on what students around the world are doing, the Open Access Button and how to get involved.
Open access for the inaugural @OpenResLDN meeting 2015 01 19Chris Banks
Slides that I will speak to at the inaugural meeting of OpenResLDN on 19th January 2015. January 2015 sees the 350th anniversary of the first ever journal publication - the Journal des Savants. We are now in the 21st year of the Open Access movement and the UK and European policies are really beginning to drive change and innovation. That change is not fast enough for some, and for others - particularly those covered by the policies, or seeking to implement policy - just a little too fast sometimes.
Peter Berkery of AAUP was a keynote speaker at the 2015 Academic Publishing in Europe conference. He gave an overview of the AAUP community of publishers, the association's strategic goals, and our roles in the global community of scholarly communications.
It appears highly probable that immediate open access publishing
will become the default mode for scholarly publishing – for the
biosciences first, other sectors later. ‘Immediate’ open access
means unfettered publication as soon as a scholarly work is
ready, with no embargo period. The costs of making a scholarly
artefact available can be reduced without sacrificing quality. This
interactive session will sketch the argument for these claims and
will present several value-added services that publishers could
develop to thrive in an open access world.
Dr Alma Swan, "Is Open Acess just another fad?"UQSCADS
Inaugural UQ Open Access Eminent Speaker Forum
Dr Alma Swan, Director of European Advocacy, SPARC
"Is Open Access just another fad?"
Wednesday 30 October 2013
Presentation by Lisa Norberg from K|N Consultant, during the seminar New Models of Knowledge Dissemination and Open Access in Canada, organised the 17/11/2015 by Érudit and CRKN.
CONUL 5 Nov 2020 (Jane Secker) Exploring the intersections of scholarly commu...ldore1
CONUL Seminar 5th November 2020: Introduction, welcome and context by
Dr Jane Secker Chair of CILIP Information Literacy Group / Senior Lecturer in Educational Development
City, University of London
Desde a implementação generalizada de periódicos on-line e a introdução do acesso aberto há mais de uma década, o ritmo da inovação na publicação de periódicos acadêmicos tem sido lento. Mais recentemente, no entanto, uma série de inovações apareceu na publicação de periódicos, que têm o potencial de causar mudanças de longo alcance no modo como comunicamos informação científica. Entre essas tendências está o surgimento dos Megajournals e, em particular do PLoS ONE, que nos últimos anos veio a dominar periódicos em acesso aberto. Estes periódico, embora revisados por pares nos aspectos de solidez e metodológica científica, aceitam uma ampla variedade de artigos, sobre os quais perguntas como “Qual a importância do trabalho” ou “é relevante para o público” não são critérios para a rejeição, como em muitos outros periódicos. Muitas vezes ligado a Megajournals estão casos de periódicos em cascata, onde o publisher tem um periódico com uma marca forte e muitas submissões.
Since the widespread implementation of online journals and the introduction of open access more than a decade ago, the pace of innovation in academic journal publishing has been slow. More recently however a number of innovations have appeared in journal publishing, which have the potential to cause far reaching changes in how we communicate scientific information. Among these trends is the raise of Megajournals and in particular PLoS ONE which have within the last few years come to dominate open access journals. These journals although peer reviewed for scientific and methodological soundness accept a wider variety of articles as questions such as “How important is the work” or “is it relevant to the audience” are not criteria for rejection as in many other journals. Often linked to Megajournals are cases of cascading journals where a publisher has a journal with a strong brand and many submissions.
Desde la implementación generalizada de revistas en línea y la introducción del acceso abierto hace más de una década, el ritmo de la innovación en la edición de revistas académicas ha sido lento. Más recientemente, sin embargo, una serie de innovaciones han aparecido en la publicación de revistas, que tienen el potencial de causar cambios de gran alcance en la forma en que comunicamos la información científica. Entre estas tendencias está el aumento de Megarevistas y en particular PLoS ONE que en los últimos años ha llegado a dominar las revistas de acceso abierto. Estas revistas aunque revisadas por pares, por su solidez científica y metodológica aceptan una variedad más amplia de artículos puesto que cuestiones tales como “¿qué tan importante es el trabajo?” o “¿es relevante para el público?” no son criterios para el rechazo como en muchas otras revistas. A menudo vinculadas a Megarevistas están los casos de las revistas en cascada donde una editorial tiene una revista con una marca sólida y muchas presentaciones.
CONUL 5 Nov 2020 (Michelle Dalton) Scholarly Communication and Information Li...ldore1
CONUL Seminar 5th November 2020: Practical strategies for embedding scholarly
communication in information literacy instruction
by Michelle Dalton, Head of Research Services UCD Library
Open Access Publications as Open Educational Resources (International OA Week...Dr Xiang REN
OA research publications are an important source of OERs, but have not been fully used and explored. In this presentation, I will talk about the benefits and challenges of using OA research scholarship for educational purposes and introduce some models and initiatives.
Trends in Open Access to Research Publications - Case Study of Oncology JournalsSimon Cotterill
A presentation about Open Access (OA) in research with a case study of journals in oncology and discussion about issues relating to OA and implications for Higher Education Institutions. This was a short paper presented at the OER14 Conference at the Centre for Life, Newcastle.
With the progress towards open science, scientific communication is facing a new wave of innovations towards more openness and speed of research publication which will deeply affect the way the peer review function is carried out and the overall role of journals in assuring quality and adding value to manuscripts.
Several initiatives are promoting the generalized adoption of open access preprints as a formal beginning stage of research publication, which has been common since the 90’s in the physics community. And, in the last decade, new ways to carry out the evaluation of manuscripts have emerged either to replace or to improve the traditional methods, which are widely criticized as being slow and expensive in addition to lacking transparency.
Quality nonprofit journals from emerging and developing countries have succeeded to follow the main innovations brought by the Internet. In addition to the technicalities of the digital publishing, there is a wide adoption of Open Access in the international flow of scientific information. The new wave of innovations that affect the peer review function and the changing role of journals pose new challenges to the emerging and developing countries in regard of scientific publishing. The adoption of these innovations is essential for progress of SciELO as a leading open access program to enhance scientific communication.
The scope of this workshop aims at an in-depth analysis and discussion of the state of art and main trends of the peer review function, the modalities of carrying it out as well as of the increasing adoption of mechanisms to speed publication such as preprints and how they affect and potentially renew the role of journals. These recommendations will guide SciELO policies on manuscript evaluation and on the adoption of preprint publications.
Presentation from CLACSO (Pablo Vommaro and Dominique Babini) at #OSSAN2022 - Open Science South Asia Network Conference
September 5, 2022
https://ossan2022.net/
Invited Talk: Open Access: Promises and Reality
Speakers: Mr. Peter E SIDORKO, University Librarian, HKU; Mr. Fred CHAN, Research and Data Services Librarian, HKU
Time: 10:00-10:30, 29 May 2015 (Friday)
Venue: Room 408A, 409A & 410, 4/F, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong
http://citers2015.cite.hku.hk/program-highlights/talk-sidorko/
The presentation discusses the current largely commercial-based publishing system and contextualizes it within the research assessment system. It presents institution-based non-for -profit publishing initiaves and the European Commissions policies and supports in the direction of empowering this type of scholarly communication.
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
This presentation in intended to introduce Open Access (OA); the OA movement; OA advantages for authors, institutions and society; OA business models and publishing in OA; important tools for research and publishing; and other ‘open’ initiatives.
Open Access in the Global South: Perspectives from the OCSDNetLeslie Chan
Webinar for COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) May 3, 2018.
The webinar will focus on the lessons learn from the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network with regard to "openness" and how an expanded view of openness would allow us to rethink the design of a sustainable, open and community based common scholarship infrastructure.
The changing landscape of scholarly communication: presentation to the NFAIS ...Keith Webster
Presentation on the changing relationships between research libraries, publishers, researchers and technology, and the impact of government policy on scholarly publishing and open access.
This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
Acorn Recovery: Restore IT infra within minutesIP ServerOne
Introducing Acorn Recovery as a Service, a simple, fast, and secure managed disaster recovery (DRaaS) by IP ServerOne. A DR solution that helps restore your IT infra within minutes.
This presentation, created by Syed Faiz ul Hassan, explores the profound influence of media on public perception and behavior. It delves into the evolution of media from oral traditions to modern digital and social media platforms. Key topics include the role of media in information propagation, socialization, crisis awareness, globalization, and education. The presentation also examines media influence through agenda setting, propaganda, and manipulative techniques used by advertisers and marketers. Furthermore, it highlights the impact of surveillance enabled by media technologies on personal behavior and preferences. Through this comprehensive overview, the presentation aims to shed light on how media shapes collective consciousness and public opinion.
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
0x01 - Newton's Third Law: Static vs. Dynamic AbusersOWASP Beja
f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
About the Speaker
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Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
3. The Concept of Soft Power
• Joseph Nye
Soft Power refers to an ability to
achieve political ends through
attraction and co-option, rather
than by coercion or payment
4. The sources of a nation’s soft power are much more
likely to emanate from civil society than government,
from cultural value rather than propaganda and
from cooperation rather than competition.
6. China’s academic publishing
system
• Publication-oriented evaluation
and “academic GDPism”
2,680,395 scholarly documents
indexed by the Scopus database;
China is ranked at just 207 in the
world in terms of citations per
published document (6.17)
7. “Over 95% of China’s most important
(public-funded) research outputs are
published by foreign publishers; China
has to spend money to buy these
publications back for domestic research
and education.”
• Over dependence on international academic publishers
8. Soft Power in An Open Age
• Joseph Nye: the impact
of Internet and ICTs on
Soft Power
• Open knowledge
movements, from
universal accessibility to
university participation
9. Openness as a catalyst?
• Premier Li: ‘… establishing a publically funded
mechanism for Open Access (OA) to scientific
knowledge in order to bolster the common
development of scientific research in China and the
world’
• CAS and NSFC issued OA mandates in 2014
10. What is Green Open Access?
Researchers can deposit a version of their published work
into a subject-based repository or an institutional
repository. Every university in Australia has a repository for
this purpose.
What is Gold Open Access?
Researchers publish in an open access journal, where the
publisher of a scholarly journal provides free online access.
Business models for this form of OA vary. In some cases,
the publisher charges the author’s institution or funding
body an article processing charge (APC).
Quoted from the Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG)
11. Open Access Journals
• Good journals go OA: 55% make content OA
immediately upon publication (no embargo period)
and 91% do not charge APCs (Sample: 308 OA STM
journals supervised by CAST)
• Poorly internationalized: only 58 indexed by DOAJ
• The China OA Journals (COAJ): 788 OA journals, half a
million visits, 83.3% from within China
12. National level OA repositories
• The Chinese Academy
of Science (CAS) IR Grid
• Launched in 2013, integrated 89 CAS
IRs
• 1/3 of full-text items are English
language papers published by
international journals
• 400,000 articles, 14 million
downloads, 40% from overseas
13. Discussion: Dynamics of OA
• Widen access to research and reduce cost to
access foreign content
• Increasing global visibility of Chinese scholarship
and reshape international image
• Opportunities of academic publishing going
abroad
14. Discussion: Dynamics of OA
• Reforming research and innovation systems:
productivity, transparency, inclusiveness,
efficiency and social justice
• Re-cast China as a leader and innovator in open
knowledge
• Open Ideologies and China’s soft power
15. Discussion: Constraints
• Language and cultural barriers
• The ‘heavy hand’ of government
• The averagely poor awareness and willingness of
academics to go open
16. Conclusion
‘The growth of an open, transparent and inclusive
national research and innovation system,
supported by high-quality, digitally appropriate
mechanisms for scholarly communication, will be
the real source of China’s soft power in the OA
age. Nothing less than the transformation of the
ways in which scholarship is governed and
supported will be needed in order to achieve this.’
17. Dr Xiang Ren
Australian Digital Futures Institute,
University of Southern Queensland
|email: xiang.ren@usq.edu.au
|Twitter: @renxiangcn
|Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/XiangREN
|Academia.edu:
https://usq.academia.edu/XiangRen