Category: Scholarly Journals

UC Office of Scholarly Communication: "Transitioning Journals to Open Access: Guidance from and for the Field"

The University of California Office of Scholarly Communication has released "Transitioning Journals to Open Access: Guidance from and for the Field."

Here's an excerpt:

Given OSC's mission to make educational materials about publishing more widely available, we are excited to have distilled these recent experiences into a practical toolkit aimed at supporting journal editors and publishers and the organizations or libraries that work with them. This toolkit, which you can find on our new OSC page Transitioning Journals to OA, includes a variety of resources for those interested in the OA transitioning process:

  • For all audiences: Anyone interested in transitioning their journals to OA — or in supporting journals through this process — may find it helpful to start with our Guide to Transitioning Journals to Open Access Publishing. This guide is designed to help stakeholders understand basics about journal ownership, operations, and funding models, and to begin gathering important information necessary for OA publishing decision-making.
  • For libraries and professional staff: If you are a librarian, repository manager, or other professional who supports scholarly communication services or journal publishing, you may be interested in our Checklist for Conversations About Transitioning Journals to OA. Mirroring our own such consultations, we developed this checklist to facilitate discussions with OA-aspiring journal editors about their journal’s operations, finances, and strategies. Running through these questions will enable journal boards and editors to come away from your conversation with a clearer understanding of how to proceed with an OA transition.
  • For journal editors: In August 2018, UC San Francisco and UC Press offered a round table discussion and training for journal editors interested in flipping their journals to open access. The round table was so successful that OSC has decided to share program documentation so that any interested editorial board or institution could iterate on this model. We will be preparing guidance on hosting OA transition round tables, so stay tuned to this space!

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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.

Here's an excerpt:

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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Library Publishing Coalition: "Article on LPC Published in Library Trends"

Melanie Schlosser has published "Article on LPC Published in Library Trends" in the LPC Blog.

Here's an excerpt:

There’s an article about the Library Publishing Coalition in the Fall 2018 issue of Library Trends! . . . . This issue’s editor is Lewis G. Liu (City University of New York), and its theme is "The Role and Impact of Commercial and Noncommercial Publishers in Scholarly Publishing on Academic Libraries."

The post includes a link to an OA version of her "Building Capacity for Academy-Owned Publishing through the Library Publishing Coalition" article.

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"The Relationship between Usage and Citations in an Open Access Mega Journal"

Barbara McGillivray and Mathias Astell have self-archived "The Relationship between Usage and Citations in an Open Access Mega Journal."

Here's an excerpt:

How does usage of an article relate to the number of citations it accrues? Does the timeframe in which an article is used (and how much that article is used) have an effect on when and how much that article is cited? What role does an article's subject area play in the relationship between usage and citations? This paper aims to answer these questions through an observational study of usage and citation data collected about a multidisciplinary, open access mega journal, Scientific Reports. We find that while the direct correlation between usage and citations is only moderate at best, the relationship between how early and how much an article is used and how early it is cited is much clearer. What is more, we find that when an article is cited earlier it is also cited more often, leading to the assertion that if an article is more highly accessed early on, it is more likely to be cited earlier and more often.

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"Library Publisher Resources: Making Publishing Approachable, Sustainable, and Values-Driven"

Jenny Hoops and Sarah Hare have published "Library Publisher Resources: Making Publishing Approachable, Sustainable, and Values-Driven" in College & Research Libraries News.

Here's an excerpt:

This article highlights exemplary library publishing resources that are educational and prompt editorial team reflection about author rights, open access, or experimental publishing. We hope that this will serve as an immediately useful resource for those embedded in library publishing work, as many of these resources can be easily adapted and remixed.

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"Max Planck Society Discontinues Agreement with Elsevier; Stands Firm with Projekt DEAL Negotiations"

The Max Planck Digital Library has released Max Planck Society Discontinues Agreement with Elsevier; Stands Firm with Projekt DEAL Negotiations.

Here's an excerpt:

The President and scientific council members of the Max Planck Society (MPS), one of the world's largest research performing organizations, counting 14,000 scientists who publish 12K new research articles a year—around 1500 of which in Elsevier journals, have mandated the Max Planck Digital Library to discontinue their Elsevier subscription when the current agreement expires on December 31, 2018. With this move the Society joins nearly 200 universities and research institutions in Germany who have already cancelled their individual agreements with Elsevier in the course of 2016 and 2017 and affirmed their support of the national licensing framework Projekt DEAL, led by the German Rector’s Conference.

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"Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S"

cOAlition S has released "Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S."

Here's an excerpt:

Members of cOAlition S have read with interest the many comments made on Plan S. After discussion and consideration, the coalition has approved the implementation guidance on making full and immediate Open Access a reality. The guidance is now open for public feedback.

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"Discipline-Specific Open Access Publishing Practices and Barriers to Change: An Evidence-Based Review"

Anna Severin et al. have published "Discipline-Specific Open Access Publishing Practices and Barriers to Change: An Evidence-Based Review" in F1000Research [awaiting peer review].

Here's an excerpt:

Background: Many of the discussions surrounding Open Access (OA) revolve around how it affects publishing practices across different academic disciplines. It was a long-held view that it would be only a matter of time for all disciplines to fully and relatively homogeneously implement OA. Recent large-scale bibliometric studies show however that the uptake of OA differs substantially across disciplines. This study investigates the underlying mechanisms that cause disciplines to vary in their OA publishing practices. We aimed to answer two questions: First, how do different disciplines adopt and shape OA publishing practices? Second, what discipline-specific barriers to and potentials for OA can be identified? . . . .

Conclusions: We conclude that historically grown publishing practices differ in terms of their compatibility with OA, which is the reason why OA can be assumed to be a natural continuation of publishing cultures in some disciplines, whereas in other disciplines, the implementation of OA faces major barriers and would require a change of research culture.

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