Browsing by Subject "Scholarly Communication"

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    ARL White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations
    (Association of Research Libraries (ARL), 2019-04-18) Allison-Cassin, Stacy; Armstrong, Alison; Ayers, Phoebe; Cramer, Tom; Custer, Mark; Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; McCallum, Sally; Proffitt, Merrilee; Puente, Mark; Ruttenberg, Judy; Stinson, Alex
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    A Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
    (Educopia Institute, 2020-05) Lewis, David W.
    This bibliography scan covers a lot of ground. In it, I have attempted to capture relevant recent literature across the whole of the digital scholarly communications infrastructure. I have used that literature to identify significant projects and then document them with descriptions and basic information. Structurally, this review has three parts. In the first, I begin with a diagram showing the way the projects reviewed fit into the research workflow; then I cover a number of topics and functional areas related to digital scholarly communication. I make no attempt to be comprehensive, especially regarding the technical literature; rather, I have tried to identify major articles and reports, particularly those addressing the library community. The second part of this review is a list of projects or programs arranged by broad functional categories. The third part lists individual projects and the organizations—both commercial and nonprofit—that support them. I have identified 206 projects. Of these, 139 are nonprofit and 67 are commercial. There are 17 organizations that support multiple projects, and six of these—Artefactual Systems, Atypon/Wiley, Clarivate Analytics, Digital Science, Elsevier, and MDPI—are commercial. The remaining 11—Center for Open Science, Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), LYRASIS/DuraSpace, Educopia Institute, Internet Archive, JISC, OCLC, OpenAIRE, Open Access Button, Our Research (formerly Impactstory), and the Public Knowledge Project—are nonprofit.
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    Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban and Health Science Campus
    (2017-11-07) Odell, Jere D.; Palmer, Kristi L.; Dill, Emily; University Library
    The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication seeks to share useful innovations, both in thought and in practice, with the aim of encouraging scholarly exchange and the subsequent benefits that are borne of scrutiny, experimentation and debate. As modes of scholarly communication, the technologies and economics of publishing and the roles of libraries evolve, it is our hope that the work shared in the journal will inform practices that strengthen librarianship and that increase access to the "common Stock of Knowledge."JLSC is particularly interested in the intersection of librarianship and publishing and the resulting role of libraries in both content dissemination and content creation. Related areas of interest include new methods for the dissemination of information and information exchange; the theory and practice of the organization, use and curation of information; and issues related to the review, credentialing, reputation and impact of scholarly work.
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    The First Step Towards a System of Open Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
    (2018-12-11) Lewis, David W.; Roy, Mike; Skinner, Katherine
    We are working on a project to map the infrastructure required to support digital scholarly communications. This project is an outgrowth of David W. Lewis’ “2.5% Commitment” proposal. Even in the early stages of this effort we have had to confront several uncomfortable truths.
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    Five Years of Funding Open Access APCs: Where Did the Money Go?
    (2018-10-26) Odell, Jere D.; Anne, Hima Varsha
    Objective: We describe the IUPUI Open Access Fund’s implementation model and we provide a report on its outcomes--including, the authors’ research areas, the journals and publishers supported, and the change in article processing charge rates over time. Methodology: In 2013 the IUPUI University Library, in coordination with the IUPUI Office for the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR), launched an open access publishing fund. Following a successful two year pilot, the Fund has been supported annually with financial contributions from the University Library, the OVCR, the Ruth Lilly Medical Library, and eleven schools on the IUPUI campus. The Fund has provided more than $200,000.00 in support of fully open access journal articles, conference proceedings, and monographs over 5 years. Methods: We use R, an open source programming language, and it’s libraries to analyze and visualize the Fund data. The visualizations depict the flow of funds in different departments of the institution, total amount each publisher is allocated with over time, how the publishing rates varied over time for different journals and the number of articles published by each publisher. Conclusion: This presentation will help others see how the Fund is working at IUPUI and to identify ways in which a similar fund might work at their institution. In addition, attendees will to see how the availability of funding has increased participation in open access publishing by IUPUI faculty and graduate students.
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    Getting Your Library to Open: Four Steps and Five Measures
    (2021-11-16) Lewis, David W.
    This is a “How To” guide. This guide will propose four steps a library needs to take if it wants to be open. It will also provide five measures that can be used to judge success.
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    Liaisons vs The Machine: Leveraging Relationships to Increase Participation in an Open Access Policy
    (2016-05-17) Pike, Caitlin; Odell, Jere D.
    A large Midwestern university wanted to determine how liaison librarian intervention affected faculty participation in an Open Access Policy when compared to generic communication by the Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS). Liaisons know more faculty authors and have stronger ties. These connections may improve participation rates.
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    Librarian's Guide to Understanding Scholarly Publisher Financial Data
    (2021-07-12) Macy, Katharine V.
    Quick reference guide to understanding financial data of scholarly publishers.
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    A Method for Verifying Indicators of Journal Quality
    (2018-10-26) Odell, Jere D.; Polley, David E.
    A recent search of the UlrichsWeb Global Serials Directory for active, digital, peer reviewed, scholarly journals shows that world’s academic articles are published in more than 58,500 journals. By one estimate the growth of new journal titles increases by 2.5% ever year (Ware & Mabe, 2015). At the same time, universities are adopting researcher information systems that provide administrators and other campus stakeholders with nearly complete bibliographic data for all articles published by their faculty authors. As campus leaders work to make sense of this data, they may turn to their library for help. Questions may include: Are all of these new or previously unencountered journal titles legitimate? Who are the main publishers of our articles? What are the emerging trends that promotion and tenure committees should consider? The most common way to address these questions involves significant shortcomings--proprietary subscription databases, like Scopus, Web of Science, and Academic Analytics, have limited coverage of the journal literature and, by design, are unlikely to include newer and lesser known journal titles. At the same time many universities publish thousands of articles per year, manually checking each article submitted to a faculty annual review database would prove to be a tedious and lengthy process. To reduce the labor involved in identifying indicators of journal quality, we have developed a method using open source software and open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). In specific, our method reduces the labor in identifying the publishers for a long list of journals and in identifying the access model for these journals (subscription-only or open access). To do this we wrote an R script that uses the SHERPA RoMEO and the DOAJ APIs. Using this method permitted us to quickly identify the journals that needed closer inspection. This method will help others that are working to verify journal quality in large data sets without relying on problematic, journal blacklists.