Category: Scholarly Communication

"Guidelines for Open Peer Review Implementation"

Tony Ross-Hellauer and Edit Gõrõgh have published "Guidelines for Open Peer Review Implementation" in Research Integrity and Peer Review (Attribution 4.0 International License).

Here's an excerpt:

Open peer review (OPR) is moving into the mainstream, but it is often poorly understood and surveys of researcher attitudes show important barriers to implementation. As more journals move to implement and experiment with the myriad of innovations covered by this term, there is a clear need for best practice guidelines to guide implementation. This brief article aims to address this knowledge gap, reporting work based on an interactive stakeholder workshop to create best-practice guidelines for editors and journals who wish to transition to OPR. Although the advice is aimed mainly at editors and publishers of scientific journals, since this is the area in which OPR is at its most mature, many of the principles may also be applicable for the implementation of OPR in other areas (e.g., books, conference submissions).

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"Decoding Academic Fair Use: Transformative Use and the Fair Use Doctrine in Scholarship"

Matthew D. Bunker has published "Decoding Academic Fair Use: Transformative Use and the Fair Use Doctrine in Scholarship" in The Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship.

Here's an excerpt:

Fair use in copyright law is an enormously complex legal doctrine. Although much scholarly attention has been paid to fair use in the context of teaching—particularly in on-line education—relatively little research exists on the problem of fair use in scholarship. This article analyzes reported federal cases on fair use in scholarly contexts, with a particular emphasis on the transformative use doctrine that has become enormously influential in fair use determinations. The article explores insights from this body of case law that may assist future scholars wishing to fairly use copyrighted expression in their scholarship.

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"Towards Open Annotation: Examples and Experiments"

Lindsey Seatter has published "Towards Open Annotation: Examples and Experiments" in KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies.

Here's an excerpt:

This article interrogates how digital text annotation tools and projects facilitate online engagement and virtual communities of practice. With the rise of the Web 2.0 movement and the proliferation of digital resources, annotation has evolved from an isolated practice to a collaborative one. This article unpacks the impact of this shift by providing an in-depth discussion of five web-based tools and two social reading projects. This article examines issues of design, usability, and applicability to pedagogical intervention as well as underscores how productive group dynamics can be fostered through digital, social annotation.

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CNI Fall 2018 Membership Meeting Interviews, Slides, and Videos

CNI has released interviews, slides, and videos from its Fall 2018 Membership Meeting.

Here's a brief representative selection of videos:

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"On the Value of Preprints: An Early Career Researcher Perspective"

Sarvenaz Sarabipour et al.have published "On the Value of Preprints: An Early Career Researcher Perspective" in PLOS Biology.

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Peer-reviewed journal publication is the main means for academic researchers in the life sciences to create a permanent public record of their work. These publications are also the de facto currency for career progress, with a strong link between journal brand recognition and perceived value. The current peer-review process can lead to long delays between submission and publication, with cycles of rejection, revision, and resubmission causing redundant peer review. This situation creates unique challenges for early career researchers (ECRs), who rely heavily on timely publication of their work to gain recognition for their efforts. Today, ECRs face a changing academic landscape, including the increased interdisciplinarity of life sciences research, expansion of the researcher population, and consequent shifts in employer and funding demands. The publication of preprints, publicly available scientific manuscripts posted on dedicated preprint servers prior to journal-managed peer review, can play a key role in addressing these ECR challenges. Preprinting benefits include rapid dissemination of academic work, open access, establishing priority or concurrence, receiving feedback, and facilitating collaborations. Although there is a growing appreciation for and adoption of preprints, a minority of all articles in life sciences and medicine are preprinted. The current low rate of preprint submissions in life sciences and ECR concerns regarding preprinting need to be addressed. We provide a perspective from an interdisciplinary group of ECRs on the value of preprints and advocate their wide adoption to advance knowledge and facilitate career development.

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Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication: Report of the Expert Group to the European Commission

Jean-Claude Guédon et al. have self-archived Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication: Report of the Expert Group to the European Commission.

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This report analyses the recent past and present states of scholarly communication and publishing. It proposes ten principles through which a vision for scholarly communication is shaped over the next 10-15 years. These principles also serve as a way to examine shortcomings of the current scholarly communication and publishing system. The report then offers recommendations to key actors in the scholarly communication system about the best ways to address these shortcomings. The discussion in the report focuses mainly on journals and articles, although books and monographs are also considered, as well as the significance of new and emerging forms of scholarly communication.

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"Access to Academic Libraries: An Indicator of Openness?"

Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang et al. have self-archived "Access to Academic Libraries: An Indicator of Openness?"

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Results. Academic library policies may suggest open public access but multi-layered user categories, privileges and fees charged can inhibit access, with disparities in openness emerging between library policies and institutional open access policies. Conclusion. As open access publishing options and mandates expand, physical entry and access to print and electronic resources in academic libraries is contracting. This conflicts with global library and information commitments to open access to knowledge.

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"Insta-Fringement: What is a Fair Use on Social Media?"

Caroline E. Kim has published "Insta-Fringement: What is a Fair Use on Social Media?" in the Review of Intellectual Property Law.

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The phenomena of the Internet reinforced the need for well-defined intellectual property rights. In turn, the enactment of the General Data Protection Regulation emphasized the importance of social media and privacy. However, the problem remains that the law has not yet fully embraced the relationship between many technological advancements and social media.

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"Changing Styles of Informal Academic Communication in the Age of the Web: Orthodox, Moderate and Heterodox Responses"

David Ellis et al. have self-archived "Changing Styles of Informal Academic Communication in the Age of the Web: Orthodox, Moderate and Heterodox Responses."

Here's an excerpt:

Purpose—The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a study to investigate changes in scholarly communication practices among a group of scholars in the UK and build upon the results that were published in a previous paper. Design/methodology/approach—The study deployed a naturalistic inquiry approach using semi-structured interviews as a qualitative research tool. A sample of 40 participants from four UK universities were interviewed to explore the changes in informal scholarly communication behaviour. Findings—The analysis of the interviews revealed that there are three ideal types of behaviour: the 'Orthodox' uses formal and traditional scholarly communication approaches; the 'Moderate' prioritises formal communication approaches, but at the same time is trying to get benefits from informal channels; and, the 'Heterodox' uses all channels available in scholarly communication.

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"How Small Open Access Monograph Presses Can Make The Most of an Increasingly Rich Data Landscape"

Lucy Montgomery et al. have published "How Small Open Access Monograph Presses Can Make The Most of an Increasingly Rich Data Landscape" in LSE Impact of Social Sciences.

Here's an excerpt:

Until relatively recently the ability to exploit new data for open access books was restricted to large publishers or content aggregators with the resources to invest in its collection, management, and analysis. However, Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon, Alkim Ozaygen and Tama Leaver describe how barriers to engaging with data are falling, with open access monograph publishers now having growing access to data relating to usage and engagement. Such readily available data can help smaller OA publishers understand how individual titles are performing, where scarce promotion resources might best be deployed, and how a press is performing on its social mission.

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Want to Support Open Access? Volunteer for the Open Access Tracking Project

The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) provides a constant stream of up-to-date information about open access issues in a primary feed and in a number of secondary feeds that focus on specialized OA subtopics. It offers the primary feed in a variety of distribution options, including email, Google+, HTML, RSS, Twitter, and others. It is an invaluable source of information for open access advocates, research data specialists, and scholarly communication specialists, and it provides important support for the open access movement as a whole.

Based at the Harvard Open Access Project, the OATP was launched by Peter Suber. Suber's SPARC Open Access Newsletter and his Free Online Scholarship Newsletter played an important part in getting the open access movement off the ground. The OATP continues the mission of those groundbreaking publications using the open source TagTeam software, which was developed for the OATP.

Launched with the help of grant funding, the OATP will enter a new an all-volunteer phase at the end of August 2018. To continue this crowd-sourced project, new volunteers are needed. You can help move the OA agenda forward by being one of them. This wiki page explains how you can join the team and start tagging.

By volunteering just a bit of time to the OATP, you can make a significant difference.

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