ROAD: the ISSN as a matching key to aggregate quality, open access resources ISSN International Centre
ROAD, the Directory of scholarly Open Access Resources, provides a free access to the ISSN bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access: journals, monographic series, conference proceedings, academic repositories and scholarly blogs. These records, created by the ISSN Network are enriched by information extracted from indexing and abstracting databases, directories (DOAJ, Latindex, The Keepers registry) and journals indicators (Scopus).
Presentation made for the seminar Discovery and Discoverability held at UCL Centre for Publishing https://www.ucl.ac.uk/publishing/events/discoverability
ROAD: the ISSN as a matching key to aggregate quality, open access resources ISSN International Centre
ROAD, the Directory of scholarly Open Access Resources, provides a free access to the ISSN bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access: journals, monographic series, conference proceedings, academic repositories and scholarly blogs. These records, created by the ISSN Network are enriched by information extracted from indexing and abstracting databases, directories (DOAJ, Latindex, The Keepers registry) and journals indicators (Scopus).
Presentation made for the seminar Discovery and Discoverability held at UCL Centre for Publishing https://www.ucl.ac.uk/publishing/events/discoverability
Supporting Open Access for Monographs LIBER Europe
Supporting Open Access for Monographs (Eelco Ferwerda, OAPEN Foundation, The Netherlands). This presentation was one of the 10 most highly ranked at LIBER's Annual Conference 2014 in Riga, Latvia. Learn more: www.libereurope.eu
Lecture. "Open Commons: Spanish Libraries Enhancing Open Access to Knowledge" presented by Dr. José A. Merlo. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Jackson Library, Hodges Reading Room, May 30th 2013. Greensboro NC. Dr. Merlo is Professor and Library Services Director at the University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. Spanish facts and open access resources, including key issues and the case study of University of Salamanca, Spain.
A strategic approach to scholarly research in South Africa - S Veldsman (ASSAf)Rhodes University Library
A Strategic Approach to Scholarly Research in South Africa presented by S Veldsman at the Open Access Symposium - Rhodes University Library on 21 October 2014.
The meaning and value of web archives for researchPeter Webster
A presentation given at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in Frankfurt am Main, 28 November 2018.
I outline the current state of world Web archiving and the nature of the archives that are produced. I then examine the kinds of questions that historians and other scholars may use web archives to answer, with case studies from my own work and that of others.
ROAD: the ISSN as a matching key to aggregate quality, open access resources ISSN International Centre
ROAD, the Directory of scholarly Open Access Resources, provides a free access to the ISSN bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access: journals, monographic series, conference proceedings, academic repositories and scholarly blogs. These records, created by the ISSN Network are enriched by information extracted from indexing and abstracting databases, directories (DOAJ, Latindex, The Keepers registry) and journals indicators (Scopus).
Presentation made for the seminar Discovery and Discoverability held at UCL Centre for Publishing https://www.ucl.ac.uk/publishing/events/discoverability
ROAD: the ISSN as a matching key to aggregate quality, open access resources ISSN International Centre
ROAD, the Directory of scholarly Open Access Resources, provides a free access to the ISSN bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access: journals, monographic series, conference proceedings, academic repositories and scholarly blogs. These records, created by the ISSN Network are enriched by information extracted from indexing and abstracting databases, directories (DOAJ, Latindex, The Keepers registry) and journals indicators (Scopus).
Presentation made for the seminar Discovery and Discoverability held at UCL Centre for Publishing https://www.ucl.ac.uk/publishing/events/discoverability
Supporting Open Access for Monographs LIBER Europe
Supporting Open Access for Monographs (Eelco Ferwerda, OAPEN Foundation, The Netherlands). This presentation was one of the 10 most highly ranked at LIBER's Annual Conference 2014 in Riga, Latvia. Learn more: www.libereurope.eu
Lecture. "Open Commons: Spanish Libraries Enhancing Open Access to Knowledge" presented by Dr. José A. Merlo. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Jackson Library, Hodges Reading Room, May 30th 2013. Greensboro NC. Dr. Merlo is Professor and Library Services Director at the University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. Spanish facts and open access resources, including key issues and the case study of University of Salamanca, Spain.
A strategic approach to scholarly research in South Africa - S Veldsman (ASSAf)Rhodes University Library
A Strategic Approach to Scholarly Research in South Africa presented by S Veldsman at the Open Access Symposium - Rhodes University Library on 21 October 2014.
The meaning and value of web archives for researchPeter Webster
A presentation given at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in Frankfurt am Main, 28 November 2018.
I outline the current state of world Web archiving and the nature of the archives that are produced. I then examine the kinds of questions that historians and other scholars may use web archives to answer, with case studies from my own work and that of others.
Presentació a càrrec de Lluís Anglada, director de Ciència Oberta al CSUC, emmarcada dins el Congrés LIBER 2017 celebrat a Patras, Grècia.
La presentació mostra un repàs a la tasca que des de 2014 biblioteques universitàries de Catalunya i l'Àrea de Biblioteques, Informació i Documentació del CSUC duen a terme per donar suport a la recerca a través d'un grup de treball. El grup se centra en l'accés obert, repositoris institucionals i disciplinars, l'ORCID, i el Portal de la Recerca de les Universitats de Catalunya (PRC). A més, des de 2015 s'ha posat especial èmfasi en la gestió de dades d'investigació (RDM, en anglès).
Richard deswarte interrogating the archived uk webDigital History
Digital History seminar
4 November 2014
Live Stream: http://ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2014/10/28/tuesday-4-november-interrogating-the-archived-uk-web-historians-and-social-scientists-research-experiences/
Aquesta presentació s'emmarca dins de la celebració de la 20a edició de la "Fiesole Collection Development Retreat", celebrada del 25 al 27 d'abril a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
En concret, la presentació, duta a terme per Lluís Anglada (CSUC) i Ángel Borrego (UB) se centra en el desenvolupament de l'aprenentatge acadèmic digital o digital scholarship a les biblioteques espanyoles.
Library design developments down under
Janine Schmidt, Director, Mukurta Solutions, Australia
presented at the Maynooth University Library and
IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section Seminar:
"Key issues for library space: international perspectives"
March 3, 2016
Maynooth University Library, Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/library/events/key-issues-library-space-international-perspectives-maynooth-university-and-ifla-library-buildings
Encouraging Openness and how stakeholder policies can support or block it!"CIARD Movement
Funders, authors and readers may want open access to research, but can they achieve it? A researcher who has been encouraged to make their work open has to deal with regulations, guidance, and mandates from their institution, their funders, their publisher and their national government. These policies are often complex and can be ambiguous, or in conflict with each other.
A supportive policy environment and guidance through the relationship of one policy to another has proved to be essential for real progress in opening access to research. How should policies support the researcher and the research process? How can policies based on commercial profit fit into an open environment? What role do funders have in protecting their investment and the public interest?
Presented by Bill Hubbard
Bill Hubbard is the Director of the Centre for Research Communications (CRC) at the University of Nottingham, incorporating the work of SHERPA. The CRC has a portfolio of Open Access projects and services and is a recognised centre of expertise for OA development, policy, repositories and infrastructure.
Bill created the award-winning OA services RoMEO, JULIET and OpenDOAR, which are used around the world to unpick details of stakeholder policies, development policy and which underpin repository use. The CRC have also recently launched FACT, to support researchers in complying with specific RCUK and Wellcome Trust OA polices. Bill has also worked closely with OA publishers and advised on the transitions involved for commercial publishers from traditional to OA business models.
Open Access - Tackling the issues of organization within libraries (Charlesto...Knowledge Unlatched
Presentation given at the Charleston Conference by Sven Fund and Catherine Morse
Knowledge Unlatched - an Open Access initiative for books in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Link Resolvers, Knowledgebases and the KBART Working GroupSherrard Ewing
In recent years, link resolver technology has become integral to ensuring successful institutional access to electronic content. The corresponding take-up of OpenURL compliance among content providers in response has resulted in a global solution to the ‘appropriate copy’ problem. However, this solution is only effective if the knowledge base behind the link resolver is up to date, accurate and comprehensive and is a factor that is often overlooked in establishing OpenURL compliance. This presentation explores the importance of OpenURL and knowledge bases to the information community as a whole and provides an overview and update of the role that the KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools) working group has to play in improving knowledge base metadata.
KBART, a joint initiative between NISO and UKSG, is a working group comprised of stakeholders (libraries, content providers, and knowledgebase vendors) seeking to improve the metadata supply chain to the knowledgebases that OpenURL linker resolvers depend on. The aim of this work is improved quality and consistency of metadata that knowledgebases receive from content providers, ensuring a better experience for library patrons. The first set of recommendations was announced in January of this year. Since then several content providers and knowledgebase vendors have endorsed KBART guidelines. Learn about the experiences of content providers and linking vendors that have taken up KBART Phase 1 recommendations and the working group’s plans for next phase. Discover what libraries can do to improve the metadata exchange between content vendors and the knowledgebases they use.
Open Access & Preprints for Scholars and JournalsAuthorea
How can more scholars and journals embrace preprints to make research freely accessible? Authorea & Scholastica address this question and more in this slideshow, which overviews:
- The history and benefits of preprints
- Recent OA mandates by governments and funding bodies
- Steps scholars and journals can take to support Green OA via preprints
- New OA publishing models journals are pioneering using preprints
Lars presented an update to SPARC Europe in Geneva in November 2014. The slides contain an update on DOAJ's progress, the benefits of open access and our new network of voluntary editors
Presentació a càrrec de Lluís Anglada, director de Ciència Oberta al CSUC, emmarcada dins el Congrés LIBER 2017 celebrat a Patras, Grècia.
La presentació mostra un repàs a la tasca que des de 2014 biblioteques universitàries de Catalunya i l'Àrea de Biblioteques, Informació i Documentació del CSUC duen a terme per donar suport a la recerca a través d'un grup de treball. El grup se centra en l'accés obert, repositoris institucionals i disciplinars, l'ORCID, i el Portal de la Recerca de les Universitats de Catalunya (PRC). A més, des de 2015 s'ha posat especial èmfasi en la gestió de dades d'investigació (RDM, en anglès).
Richard deswarte interrogating the archived uk webDigital History
Digital History seminar
4 November 2014
Live Stream: http://ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2014/10/28/tuesday-4-november-interrogating-the-archived-uk-web-historians-and-social-scientists-research-experiences/
Aquesta presentació s'emmarca dins de la celebració de la 20a edició de la "Fiesole Collection Development Retreat", celebrada del 25 al 27 d'abril a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
En concret, la presentació, duta a terme per Lluís Anglada (CSUC) i Ángel Borrego (UB) se centra en el desenvolupament de l'aprenentatge acadèmic digital o digital scholarship a les biblioteques espanyoles.
Library design developments down under
Janine Schmidt, Director, Mukurta Solutions, Australia
presented at the Maynooth University Library and
IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section Seminar:
"Key issues for library space: international perspectives"
March 3, 2016
Maynooth University Library, Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/library/events/key-issues-library-space-international-perspectives-maynooth-university-and-ifla-library-buildings
Encouraging Openness and how stakeholder policies can support or block it!"CIARD Movement
Funders, authors and readers may want open access to research, but can they achieve it? A researcher who has been encouraged to make their work open has to deal with regulations, guidance, and mandates from their institution, their funders, their publisher and their national government. These policies are often complex and can be ambiguous, or in conflict with each other.
A supportive policy environment and guidance through the relationship of one policy to another has proved to be essential for real progress in opening access to research. How should policies support the researcher and the research process? How can policies based on commercial profit fit into an open environment? What role do funders have in protecting their investment and the public interest?
Presented by Bill Hubbard
Bill Hubbard is the Director of the Centre for Research Communications (CRC) at the University of Nottingham, incorporating the work of SHERPA. The CRC has a portfolio of Open Access projects and services and is a recognised centre of expertise for OA development, policy, repositories and infrastructure.
Bill created the award-winning OA services RoMEO, JULIET and OpenDOAR, which are used around the world to unpick details of stakeholder policies, development policy and which underpin repository use. The CRC have also recently launched FACT, to support researchers in complying with specific RCUK and Wellcome Trust OA polices. Bill has also worked closely with OA publishers and advised on the transitions involved for commercial publishers from traditional to OA business models.
Open Access - Tackling the issues of organization within libraries (Charlesto...Knowledge Unlatched
Presentation given at the Charleston Conference by Sven Fund and Catherine Morse
Knowledge Unlatched - an Open Access initiative for books in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Link Resolvers, Knowledgebases and the KBART Working GroupSherrard Ewing
In recent years, link resolver technology has become integral to ensuring successful institutional access to electronic content. The corresponding take-up of OpenURL compliance among content providers in response has resulted in a global solution to the ‘appropriate copy’ problem. However, this solution is only effective if the knowledge base behind the link resolver is up to date, accurate and comprehensive and is a factor that is often overlooked in establishing OpenURL compliance. This presentation explores the importance of OpenURL and knowledge bases to the information community as a whole and provides an overview and update of the role that the KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools) working group has to play in improving knowledge base metadata.
KBART, a joint initiative between NISO and UKSG, is a working group comprised of stakeholders (libraries, content providers, and knowledgebase vendors) seeking to improve the metadata supply chain to the knowledgebases that OpenURL linker resolvers depend on. The aim of this work is improved quality and consistency of metadata that knowledgebases receive from content providers, ensuring a better experience for library patrons. The first set of recommendations was announced in January of this year. Since then several content providers and knowledgebase vendors have endorsed KBART guidelines. Learn about the experiences of content providers and linking vendors that have taken up KBART Phase 1 recommendations and the working group’s plans for next phase. Discover what libraries can do to improve the metadata exchange between content vendors and the knowledgebases they use.
Open Access & Preprints for Scholars and JournalsAuthorea
How can more scholars and journals embrace preprints to make research freely accessible? Authorea & Scholastica address this question and more in this slideshow, which overviews:
- The history and benefits of preprints
- Recent OA mandates by governments and funding bodies
- Steps scholars and journals can take to support Green OA via preprints
- New OA publishing models journals are pioneering using preprints
Lars presented an update to SPARC Europe in Geneva in November 2014. The slides contain an update on DOAJ's progress, the benefits of open access and our new network of voluntary editors
Webinar by Dr. Vrushali Dandawate, Librarian, AISSMS College of Engineering and DOAJ Ambassador India. vsdandawate@aissmscoe.com, vrushali@doaj.org for the Open Access India Webinars during Open Access Week 2016.
Gives an overview of Open Access Initiatives in India. It covers some Journals, Repositories and other Open Access Initiatives from India. This presentation was made at IGNCA on 1st Feb 2009 in the Seminar on "Digital Preservation and Access to Indian Cultural Heritage with special reference to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources", 31st January - 1st February 2009.
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.
This is part of the series of webinars of Aprender3C and DOAJ: “Transparencia y buenas prácticas en revistas de Acceso Abierto” / "Transparency and best practice in Open Access Journals"
Presented by our DOAJ Ambassador in China Cenyu Shen
A presentation given by our Ambassador for Latin America, Ivonne Lujano Vilchis, on the DOAJ, its criteria for editorial quality, and DOAJ's partnerships in Latin America
ROAD: the Directory of OA Scholarly Resources to Promote Open Access WorldwideISSN International Centre
ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, is a new service implemented by the ISSN International Centre. ROAD provides a free access to a selection of worldwide, multidisciplinary scholarly resources in open access that have been identified by the ISSN Network. This paper will present ROAD background, its innovative concept and how it is positioned in the open access ecosystem.
Presented by CLACSO at
World Humanities Conference
CLACSO’s 50th Anniversary Symposium
Panel “The humanities and knowledge as a public good”
University of Liege, Belgium, 7-9 August 2017
Presentation from CLACSO (Dominique Babini and Laura Rovelli) at the Symposium "Open Access to SSH research: Perspectives from Latin America and the United Kingdom. Organized by Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India. February 17th., 2021
Video of presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAJIY74o3yA&ab_channel=AzimPremjiUniversity
Presentation at: Open Access to HSS research: Perspectives from Latin America and United Kingdom. Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India, 17 Febrero 2021.
Video of presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAJIY74o3yA&ab_channel=AzimPremjiUniversity
Comunicació de Lluís Anglada, director de Biblioteques, Informació i Documentació del CSUC, presentada al Liber Executive Board, celebrat a Barcelona els dies 15 i 16 d'octubre de 2015.
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).
World Humanities Conference
CLACSO’s 50th Anniversary Symposium
Panel “The humanities and knowledge as a public good”
University of Liege, Belgium, 7-9 August 2017
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
Presentation in panel "Opening up the world" at the Conference of OASP-Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. Paris, UNESCO,Headquarters, 17-19 September 2014. http://oaspa.org/coasp-2014-preliminary-program/
Presentation in panel "Opening up the world" at the Conference of OASP-Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. Paris, UNESCO,Headquarters, 17-19 September 2014. http://oaspa.org/coasp-2014-preliminary-program/
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
Daiva Steponavičienė (Kauno technologijos universitetas). Paper presented at Libraries ⇆ Research. Erasmus Staff Week for Libraries and Learning centers 2018 (Sapienza University, June 18-22 2018)
Invited presentation at UNESCO First Regional Latin American and Caribbean Consultation on Open Access to Scientific Information and Research
Kingston, Jamaica, 5-8 March 2013
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/first_regional_latin_american_and_caribbean_consultation_on_open_access_to_scientific_information_and_research/
Presentación invitada en la Primera Consulta Regional UNESCO Latinoamericana y Caribeña sobre Acceso Abierto a la Información e Investigación Científica. Kingston, Jamaica, 5-8 Marzo 2013
Similar to UKSG 2014 - ROAD Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (20)
This session will demystify (generative) AI by exploring its workings as an advanced statistical modelling tool (suitable for any level of technical knowledge). Not only will this session explain the technological underpinnings of AI, it will also address concerns and (long-term) requirements around ethical and practical usage of AI. This includes data preparation and cleaning, data ownership, and the value of data-generated - but not owned - by libraries. It will also discuss the potentials for (hypothetical) use cases of AI in collections environments and making collections data AI-ready; providing examples of AI capabilities and applications beyond chatbots.
CATH DISHMAN, CENYU SHEN,
KATHERINE STEPHAN
Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?
Christina Dinh Nguyen, University of Toronto Mississauga Library
In the world of digital literacies, liaison and instructional librarians are increasingly coming to terms with a new term: algorithmic literacy. No matter the liaison or instruction subjects – computer science, sociology, language and literature, chemistry, physics, economics, or other – students are grappling with assignments that demand a critical understanding, or even use, of algorithms. Over the course of this session, we’ll discuss the term ‘algorithmic literacies,’ explore how it fits into other digital literacies, and see why it as a curriculum might belong at your library. We’ll also look at some examples of practical pedagogical methods you can implement right away, depending on what types of AL lessons you want to teach, and who your patrons are. Lastly, we’ll discuss how librarians should view themselves as co-learners when working with AL skills. This session seeks to bring together participants from across the different libraries, with diverse missions/vision/mandates, to explore ways we can all benefit from teaching AL. If time permits, we may discuss how text and data librarians (functional specialists) can support the development of this curriculum.
David Pride, The Open University
In this paper, we present CORE-GPT, a novel question- answering platform that combines GPT-based language models and more than 32 million full-text open access scientific articles from CORE. We first demonstrate that GPT3.5 and GPT4 cannot be relied upon to provide references or citations for generated text. We then introduce CORE-GPT which delivers evidence-based answers to questions, along with citations and links to the cited papers, greatly increasing the trustworthiness of the answers and reducing the risk of hallucinations.
Cath Dishman, Cenyu Shen, Katherine Stephan
Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?
This plenary panel will discuss the problems of “predatory” publishing and what, if anything, publishers, our community and researchers can do to try and help minimise their abundancy/impact.
eth Montague-Hellen, Francis Crick Institute, Katie Fraser, University of Nottingham
Open Access is a foundational topic in Scholarly Communications. However, when information professionals and publishers talk about its future, it is nearly always Gold open access we discuss. Green was seen as the big solution for providing access to those who couldn’t afford it. However, publishers have protested that Green destroys their business models. How true is this, and are we even all talking the same language when we talk about Green?
Chris Banks, Imperial College London, Caren Milloy, Jisc,
Transitional agreements were developed in response to funder policy and institutional demand to constrain costs and facilitate funder compliance. They have since become the dominant model by which UK research outputs are made open access. In January 2023, Jisc instigated a critical review of TAs and the OA landscape to provide an evidence base to inform a conversation on the desired future state of research dissemination. This session will discuss the key findings of the review and its impact on a sector-wide consultation and concrete actions in the UK and beyond.
Michael Levine-Clark, University of Denver, Jason Price, SCELC Library Consortium
As transformative agreements emerge as a new standard, it is critical for libraries, consortia, publishers, and vendors to have consistent and comprehensive data – yet data around publication profiles, authorship, and readership has been shown to be highly variable in availability and accuracy. Building on prior research around frameworks for assessing the combined value of open publishing and comprehensive read access that these deals provide, we will address multi-dimensional perspectives to the challenges that the industry faces with the dissemination, collection, and analysis of data about authorship, readership, and value.
Hylke Koers, STM Solutions
Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) launched in 2020 with the objective of streamlining discovery and access of scholarly content in the many tools that researchers use today, such as Dimensions, Semantic Scholar, Mendeley, and many others. It works equally well for open access content as it does for subscription-based content, providing researchers with recognizable buttons and indicators to get them to the most up-to-date version of content with minimal effort. Currently, around 30,000 OA articles are accessed every day via GetFTR links.
Gareth Cole, Loughborough University, Adrian Clark, Figshare
Researchers face more pressure to share their research data than ever before. Owing to a rise in funder policies and momentum towards more openness across the research landscape. Although policies for data sharing are in place, engagement work is undertaken by librarians in order to ensure repository uptake and compliance.
We will discuss a particular strategy implemented at Loughborough University that involved the application of conceptual messaging frameworks to engagement activities in order to promote and encourage use of our Figshare-powered repository. We will showcase the rationale behind the adoption of messaging frameworks for library outreach and some practical examples.
Mark Lester, Cardiff Metropolitan University
This talk will outline how a completely accidental occurrence led to brand new avenues for open research advocacy and reasons for being. This advocacy has occurred within student communities such as trainee teachers, student psychologists and (especially) those soon losing access to subscription-based library content. Alongside these new forms of advocacy, these ethical example of AI use cases has begun to form a cornerstone of directly connecting the work of the library to new technology.
Simon Bell, Bristol University Press
The UN SDG Publishers Compact, launched in 2020, was set up to inspire action among publishers to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, asking signatories to develop sustainable practices, act as champions and publish books and journals that will “inform, develop and inspire action in that direction”.
This Lightning Talk will discuss how our new Bristol University Press Digital has been developed as part of our mission to contribute a meaningful and impactful response to this call to action as well as the global social challenges we face.
Using thematic tagging to create uniquely curated themed eBook collections around the Global Social Challenges, Bristol University Press Digital responds directly to the need to provide the scholarly community access to a comprehensive range SDG focussed content while minimising time and resource at the institution end in collating content and maintaining collection relevance to rapidly evolving themes
Jenni Adams, University of Sheffield, Ric Campbell, University of Sheffield
Academic researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to make data and software FAIR in order to support the sharing and reuse of non-publication outputs. Currently there is still a lack of concise and practical guidance on how to achieve this in the context of specific data types and disciplines.
This presentation details recent and ongoing work at the University of Sheffield to bridge this gap. It will explore the development of a FAIR resource with specialist guidance for a range of data types and will examine the planned development of this project during the period 2023-25
TASHA MELLINS-COHEN
COUNTER & Mellins-Cohen Consulting, JOANNA BALL
DOAJ, YVONNE CAMPFENS
OA Switchboard,
ADAM DER, Max Planck Digital Library
Community-led organizations like DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), COUNTER (the standard for usage metrics) and OA Switchboard (information exchange for OA publications) are committed to providing reliable, not-for-profit services and standards essential for a well-functioning global research ecosystem. These organizations operate behind the scenes, with low budgets and limited staffing – no salespeople, marketing teams, travel budgets, or in-house technology support. They collaborate with one another and with bigger infrastructure bodies like Crossref and ORCID, creating the foundations on which much scholarly infrastructure relies.
These organizations deliver value through open infrastructure, data and standards, and naturally services and tools have been built by commercial and not-for-profit groups that capitalize on their open, interoperable data and services – many of which you are likely to recognize and may use on a regular basis.
Hear from the Directors of COUNTER, DOAJ and OA Switchboard, as well as a library leader, on the role of these organizations, the challenges they face and why support from the community is essential to their sustainability.
CAMILLE LEMIEUX
Springer Nature
What is the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scholarly publishing community? It's time to take a thorough look at the 2023 global Workplace Equity (WE) Survey results. The C4DISC coalition conducted the WE Survey to capture perceptions, experiences, and demographics of colleagues working at publishers, associations, libraries, and many more types of organizations in the global community. Four key themes emerged from the 2023 results, which will be compared to the findings from the first WE Survey conducted in 2018. Recommendations for actions organisations can consider within their contexts will be proposed and discussed.
Rob Johnson, Research Consulting
Angela Cochran, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Gaynor Redvers-Mutton, Biochemical Society
Since 2015, the number of self-published learned societies in the UK has decreased by over a third, with the remaining societies experiencing real-term revenue declines. All around the world, society publishers are struggling with increased competition from commercial publishers and the rise of open access business models that reward quantity over quality. We will delve into the distinctive position of societies in research, examine the challenges confronting UK and US learned society publishers, and explore actionable steps for libraries and policymakers to support the continued relevance of learned society publishers in the evolving scholarly landscape.
Simon Bell, Clare Hooper, Katharine Horton, Ian Morgan
Over the last few years we have witnessed a seismic shift in the scholarly ecosystem. Three years since outset of the COVID pandemic and the establishment UN Publishers Compact, this is discussion-led presentation will look at how four UK Universities Presses have adopted a consultative and collaborative approach on projects to support their institutional missions, engage with the wider scholarly community while building on a commitment to make a meaningful difference to society.
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Library patrons want to search for and locate authors by particular identity markers, such as gender identification, country of origin, sexual orientation, nature of disability, and the many intersectional points that allow an author to express a point-of-view. Artificial Intelligence, skilled web researchers, and data scientists in general struggle to achieve accuracy on single identity markers, such as gender. And what right does anybody have to affix identity metadata to an author other than the author theirselves? And what of the risks in disseminating author identity metadata in electronic distribution platforms and in library catalog systems? Can a "fully informed" author even imagine all the possible misuses of their identity metadata?
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2. A number for making sure that we talk
about the same things…
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Could you please renew
my subscription to
Nature ?
My paper will be
published in the next
issue of Nature !
The Impact Factor
of Nature is
38.597
What indexing
services cover
Nature ?
3. ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources - UKSG 2014
Nature = ISSN 1639-1241
Nature = ISSN 0028-0836
Nature = ISSN 1958-9646
Nature = ISSN 1957-9098
Nature = ISSN 1286-8469
Nature = ISSN 1281-606X
Nature = ISSN 1281-606X
Nature = ISSN 1957-9098
•subscription agents
•librarians
•bodies in charge of the
evaluation of the research
•indexing and abstracting
services
•programs for digital
preservation
• researchers
•….
… and which benefits to a wide range of
users
4. The ISSN system
• An ISO identifier for continuing resources - ISO standard 3297 (2007)
• An international network comprised of one International Centre created by
UNESCO and the French Government in the 70’s and 88 National Centres
• National Centres are hosted by National Libraries, Book Chambers, National
Centres for scientific information
• An international database, the ISSN Register: 1,77 million of bibliographic
records. Available on subscription.
• 60 000 to 65 000 new resources identified each year by the ISSN Network
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5. A few things about the ISSN as an identifier
• The ISSN identifies serials (journals, monographic series, conference
proceedings….)
but other types of continuing resources fall under the scope of the ISSN as well:
integrating resources such as databases, websites, loose-leafs
• When a resource is available on different media (print, online, CD-ROM etc)
each medium version is identified by a separate ISSN
• The ISSN is an identifier, not a « quality label »
like the other ISO identifiers, the « purpose of the ISSN » is to identify resources
in a unambiguous way, not to evaluate their quality or their validity
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6. Context of the ROAD project: significant
growth of (OA) scholarly resources
• Citizens and researchers ask for a free access to the research ouputs
(Budapest OA initiative in 2002, Berlin Declaration on Open Access to
Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities in 2003…), in particular when
publicly funded
• National and international policies/initiatives in favor of OA (European
Commission, REF Post 2014…) as a tool for developping the economy
• Development of ready-to-use systems for producing journals or repositories
(Dspace)
• Development of national « infrastructures » (HALE in France – Hyper Articles
en Ligne)
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7. Context of the ROAD project: significant
growth of (OA) scholarly resources (2)
• Dramatic growth of the number of researchers past 15 years
worldwide
• Over 3 600 academic repositories registered in ROAR (Registry of
Open Access Repositories) to date
• 12 000 OA journals ? (probably more)
• 9700 listed in DOAJ but this number is currently decreasing because of
a more selective policy
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8. Context of the ROAD project: questions about
the quality or prominence of OA journals
Recurring questions about the quality of OA journals within the scholarly
community
ISSN viewed as a quality label, a certification, in particular by young researchers
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OA journals are of lower
quality ?
Could you please help me
in selecting the journal in
which I can publish my
articles ?
This journal has an ISSN:
that means it is a high
quality journal ?
9. Context of the ROAD project : questions about
the quality or prominence of OA journals
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We are sorry: the evaluation of journals is
made by peers or by devoted bodies or
companies, not by the ISSN catalogers
That said, the ISSN is a convenient tool for
aggregating information about journals….
10. Context of the ROAD project:
confusion of roles and questionable initiatives
e.g: ISSN role (see previous slide)
e.g: confusion about indexing/abstracting services and
library catalogues (« my journal is indexed by the
British Library catalogue, it is thus a good quality
journal»….)
e.g: questionable scholarly metrics are emerging (lack
of transparency etc, cf Jeffrey Beal blog)
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11. Context of the ROAD project: UNESCO need
for a global view of OA production worlwide
• UNESCO promotes and supports the Open Access to knowledge via
various programmes and actions
• GOAP: snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific
information around the world (policies, initiatives, per country and
geographic area)
• Need for complementing GOAP by statistics about the OA production
worlwide (journals, repositories etc)
• http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-
information/portals-and-platforms/goap/
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12. A short-term project
• Beta version of ROAD has been developped in 6 months
• End of April 2013: the project is validated by the Governing Board of ISSN
International Centre
• June-July 2013: selection of the contractors (technical developments, data
checking and update)
• September: beginning of the data checking, technical developments,
partnerships with indexing/abstracting services, journals indicators…
• December 2013: launch of the beta version
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13. Target audience of ROAD
• students and researchers,
• public bodies in charge of the funding and evaluation of the research,
• journalists,
• librarians and information scientists,
• well informed amateurs.
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14. Use cases
•“ How many OA journals are indexed or ranked in my country ? »
•“ What law-related OA scholarly resources in Spanish are available whether
they be journals, conference proceedings or monographic series “
•“ What institutions have established an academic repository in South-Africa ?”
•“What mathematical OA journals are currently published in Brazil ?”
•“ I have to give a paper during an international conference: are its proceedings
indexed and where ?”
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15. ROAD records
• ROAD is a subset of the ISSN Register
• ISSN records which describe OA resources are marked with a devoted code
so that to be published in ROAD
• ISSN records are enriched by data taken from external sources (journal
indicators, indexing-abstracting services, registries…)
• The matching ISSN records / coverage lists of external sources is processed
thanks to the ISSN number
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16. ROAD records
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Additional data from
external sources
17. Types of resources and criteria
• journals
• conferences proceedings
• monographic series
• institutional repositories
• open access to the whole content of the resource (free registration is
accepted)
• no moving wall
• the resource comprises mainly research papers
• the audience is mostly researchers and scholars
> ROAD codes are added by the ISSN National Centres when creating the
records, or retrospectively by the ISSN International Centre
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18. External sources as of April 2014
• DOAJ
• Econlit
• Catalogo (Latindex)
• Psych’INFO
• Linguistic Abstracts
• Scopus
• SJR
• SNIP
• The Keepers
Agreement in principle
• Eigen factor (University of Washington)
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20. Main features
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• Map search and faceted search
• Search by country, subject, indexing-abstracting service,
registries, journal indicators
• Presentation of the external sources ( method/selection
criteria)
• Records downloadable and reusable
23. Presentation of external sources
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24. Records downloadable and reusable
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25. Next steps (1)
•Technical improvements (map, responsive design)
•Retrospective identification of OA resources in the ISSN Register
•Identification of academic repositories (semi-automatic assignment method)
•Enrichment of ROAD records: APC (YES/NO), license, type and content of the
repositories, type of peer reviewing…
•Development of the classification (access by subject) so as to make it more
granular
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26. Next steps (2)
•Additional partnerships
•Committee for validating the partnerships ?
•RDF outputs using the PRESSoo model developped by the ISSN IC and the
Bibliothèque nationale de France (currently studied by IFLA groups for formal
international approval)
http://www.issn.org/the-centre-and-the-network/our-partners-and-
projects/pressoo/
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