Month: April 2019

Digital Scholarship Has Now Been Publishing for 14 Years

Established on April 20, 2005 by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Digital Scholarship provides information and commentary about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repository, open access, research data management, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues. Digital Scholarship's digital publications are open access. Publications are under Creative Commons Attribution or Attribution-NonCommercial licenses. Digital Scholarship is a noncommercial publisher and it accepts no advertising.

Below is a list of Digital Scholarship publications, and here is a link to reviews of these publications.

Books and Book Supplements

Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works, 2012 Supplement (2013). This selective bibliography presents over 130 English-language articles, books, and technical reports published in 2012 that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. It covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns.

Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works (2012): This selective bibliography presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. It covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns.

Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 (2011): This selective bibliography presents over 600 English-language articles, books, technical reports, and other works that are useful in understanding institutional repositories and ETDs. This selective bibliography covers IR country and regional surveys, multiple-institution repositories, specific IRs, IR digital preservation issues, IR library issues, IR metadata strategies, institutional open access mandates and policies, IR R&D projects, IR research studies, IR open source software, and electronic theses and dissertations.

Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 (2011): This selective bibliography presents over 500 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. This selective bibliography covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 (2011): This selective bibliography presents over 3,800 selected English-language articles, books, and other textual sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. It covers digital copyright, digital libraries, digital preservation, digital rights management, digital repositories, economic issues, electronic books and texts, electronic serials, license agreements, metadata, publisher issues, open access, and other related topics.

Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography (2010): This selective bibliography presents over 1,100 journal articles, books, and other textual works about the open access movement.

Digital Scholarship 2009 (2010): This selective bibliography includes four bibliographies: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2009 Annual Edition, the Institutional Repository Bibliography, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, and the Google Book Search Bibliography.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition (2009): This selective bibliography presents over 3,350 English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.

Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals (2005): This selective bibliography provides an overview of open access concepts, and it presents over 1,300 books, conference papers (including some digital video presentations), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature.

Digital Bibliographies/Webliographies

Academic Library as Scholarly Publisher Bibliography (2018): This selective bibliography includes over 125 selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the digital scholarly publishing activities of academic libraries since the late 1980's, especially their open access book and journal publishing activities. The bibliography covers the following subtopics: pioneering academic library publishing projects in the 1980's and 1990's, early digital journals and serials published by librarians (as distinct from libraries), library-based scholarly publishing since the Budapest Open Access Initiative, technical publishing infrastructure, and library and university press mergers/partnerships and other relevant works.

Altmetrics Bibliography (2013): This selective bibliography includes over 50 selected English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding altmetrics, which Jason Priem et al. define as "the study and use of scholarly impact measures based on activity in online tools and environments."

Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography (2010-2011): This selective bibliography includes over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation.

Digital Curation Resource Guide (2012). This resource guide presents selected websites and documents that are useful in understanding and conducting digital curation.

E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography (2011). This brief selective bibliography includes English-language articles, books, editorials, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the broad role of academic libraries in e-science efforts. Its scope is narrow, and it does not cover data curation and research data management issues in libraries in general.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography (2005-2012): This selective bibliography presents over 150 articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, unpublished e-prints and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations.

Google Books Bibliography (2005-2011): This selective bibliography presents over 320 articles and other textual works that are useful in understanding Google Books. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Books and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it.

Institutional Repository Bibliography (2009-2011): This selective bibliography presents over 460 articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories.

Open Access Journals Bibliography (2010): This selective bibliography presents over 210 books and articles that are useful in understanding open access journals.

Open Access Webliography, with Adrian K. Ho (2005). This webliography presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that are freely available on the Internet as of April 2005.

Research Data Curation Bibliography (2012-2018): This selective bibliography presents over 750 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (1996-2011): This selective bibliography presents over 3,800 articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.

Transforming Peer Review Bibliography (2014): This selective bibliography presents English-language articles that are useful in understanding significant transformations of the peer review process.

Other Publications

Author's Rights, Tout de Suite (2008). This publication is designed to give journal article authors a quick introduction to key aspects of author's rights and to foster further exploration of this topic through liberal use of relevant references to online documents and links to pertinent Web sites.

Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite (2008). This publication is designed to give the reader a very quick introduction to key aspects of institutional repositories and to foster further exploration of this topic through liberal use of relevant references to online documents and links to pertinent websites.

Social Media

Digital Curation News (2013-present): News about digital curation, digital preservation, digital stewardship, and research data management.

DigitalKoans (2005-present): This weblog provides news and commentary on digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, research data management, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues. Over 10,400 posts.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (2001-2013): This weblog presents current articles, books, e-prints, and technical reports that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.

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"Norway and Elsevier Agree on Pilot National Licence for Research Access and Publishing"

Unit has released "Norway and Elsevier Agree on Pilot National Licence for Research Access and Publishing."

Here's an excerpt:

The pilot will run for two years, giving seven universities and 39 research institutions across Norway access to Elsevier's world-leading platform for scientific knowledge with more than 16 million publications from over 2,500 journals published by Elsevier and its society partners. It also enables Norwegian researchers to publish their research Open Access.

The Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research (Unit) and Elsevier will jointly monitor the pilot and capture lessons and data to further refine Elsevier’s open access offerings in line with the needs of the Norwegian research community.

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Senior Software Developer at California Digital Library

The California Digital Library is recruiting a Senior Software Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This position is a senior level applications programmer who, working closely with product managers, is responsible for the technical architecture, operations, and continued evolution of systems such as the UC Open Access Policy Implementation (OAPI).

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"Copyright and Digital Collections: A Data Driven Roadmap for Rights Statement Success"

Sara R. Benson and Hannah Stitzlein have published "Copyright and Digital Collections: A Data Driven Roadmap for Rights Statement Success" in ACRL 2019 Proceedings.

Here's an excerpt:

The two questions that ultimately guided this research were: What are the challenges that metadata practitioners face when implementing standardized rights statements? And, for institutions that have implemented standardized rights statements, what made them successful? The authors began the investigation to fill in the practical gaps of the previous studies, and to determine if barriers to implementing standardized rights statements was due to a lack of copyright knowledge and/or access to a copyright professional, or if there were resource barriers limiting the ability to begin implementation.

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UC3 Product Manager / Research Data Specialist at California Digital Library

The California Digital Library is recruiting a UC3 Product Manager / Research Data Specialist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This UC3 Product Manager position will oversee the strategy for UC3's research data management portfolio of activities, including the product management and outreach activities for DMP Tool (https://dmptool.org) and Support Your Data (https://uc3.cdlib.org/maturity-model/).

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European University Association: 2017-2018 EUA Open Access Survey Results

The European University Association has released 2017-2018 EUA Open Access Survey Results.

Here's an excerpt:

This report presents the outcomes of the fourth wave of the EUA Open Access Survey, which was conducted in 2017-2018. It gathered data from 321 institutions in 36 European countries. It focussed on Open Access to research publications, research data management and research data.

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Web and Technology Librarian at University of Louisville

The University of Louisville is recruiting a Web and Technology Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This outgoing individual will 1) maintain the public web presence of the health sciences library, 2) program web-based applications for the University Libraries and 3) evaluate, implement and maintain awareness of emerging technologies in an academic and health sciences library environment.

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"Same Question, Different World: Replicating an Open Access Research Impact Study"

Julie Arendt, Bettina Peacemaker, and Hillary Miller have published "Same Question, Different World: Replicating an Open Access Research Impact Study" in College & Research Libraries.

Here's an excerpt:

To examine changes in the open access landscape over time, this study partially replicated Kristin Antelman's 2004 study of open access citation advantage. Results indicated open access articles still have a citation advantage. For three of the four disciplines examined, the most common sites hosting freely available articles were independent sites, such as academic social networks or article sharing sites. For the same three disciplines, more than 70% of the open access copies were publishers' PDFs. The major difference from Antelman's is the increase in the number of freely available articles that appear to be in violation of publisher policies.

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Copyright and Scholarly Communications Manager at Ball State University

Ball State University is recruiting a Copyright and Scholarly Communications Manager.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

he Copyright and Scholarly Communications Manager is a vital member of the Digital Scholarship and Special Collections unit of University Libraries and provides innovative leadership in the development and advancement of initiatives and programs related to scholarly communications, open access publishing, copyright compliance, and fair use.

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"If Research Libraries and Funders Finance Open Access: Moving Beyond Subscriptions and APCs"

John Willinsky, Matthew Rusk have published "If Research Libraries and Funders Finance Open Access: Moving Beyond Subscriptions and APCs" in College & Research Libraries.

Here's an excerpt:

Following the examples of SCOAP3, in which libraries fund open access, and eLife, in which funding agencies have begun to directly fund open access scholarly publishing, this study presents an analysis of how creatively combining these two models might provide a means to move toward universal open access (without APCs). This study calculates the publishing costs for the funders that sponsor the research and for the libraries that cover unsponsored articles for two nonprofit biomedical publishers, eLife and PLOS, and the nonprofit journal aggregator BioOne. . . . Using PubMed filtering and manual-sampling strategies, as well as publicly available publisher revenue data, the study found that, in 2015, 86 percent of the articles in eLife and PLOS acknowledge funder support, as do 76 percent of the articles in the largely subscription journals of BioOne.

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Digital Humanities Technology Specialist at NYU

NYU is recruiting a Digital Humanities Technology Specialist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Humanities Technology Specialist is the DevOps engineer and technical developer within NYU IT Research Technology and NYU Libraries Specialized Research Services, a group that encompasses Data Services (DS) and Digital Scholarship Services (DSS). This Specialist will work alongside IT staff, librarians and researchers to plan and develop cutting edge research infrastructure that will advance the state of humanities and social science scholarship.

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"Building Companionship Between Community and Personal Archiving: Strengthening Personal Digital Archiving Support in Community-Based Mobile Digitization Projects"

Ruohua Han has published "Building Companionship Between Community and Personal Archiving: Strengthening Personal Digital Archiving Support in Community-Based Mobile Digitization Projects" in Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture.

Here's an excerpt:

This paper examines the flexibility and sustainability of two community-based mobile digitization projects (Culture in Transit and Georgia HomePLACE DigiKits) in supporting PDA. The assessment shows that the projects are in a good position to support PDA, with only some concerns about ensuring sustainable access to digitization equipment and sufficient guidance in long-term preservation.

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Scholarly Communications Librarian at University of South Florida St. Petersburg

The University of South Florida St. Petersburg is recruiting a Scholarly Communications Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Scholarly Communications Librarian will coordinate the NPMLs' efforts related to copyright, open educational resources, and scholarly works in the library's institutional repository. . . . The Scholarly Communication Librarian will work closely with faculty, researchers, students, staff, and librarians to assist in scholarly communication endeavors initiated by the Library and to that end, will develop educational materials and instructional sessions and programs.

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"ARL White Paper on Wikidata Highlights Use of Open Knowledge in Scholarly Communication, Special Collections"

ARL has released "ARL White Paper on Wikidata Highlights Use of Open Knowledge in Scholarly Communication, Special Collections."

Here's an excerpt:

Librarians are using Wikidata's structured data about people, topics, concepts, and objects to populate open source faculty profiling systems, to enhance bibliographic records in online catalogs, and to collaborate with communities on meaningful, culturally relevant, descriptive metadata for special collections and archives. The white paper, circulated for public comment in fall 2018, contains examples of Wikidata applications, screenshots, and recommendations for involvement on an individual or organizational level.

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