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From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Here’s some exciting news for readers interested in experiments in academic publishing: the Open Library of the Humanities has just received a substantial Mellon Foundation grant to build its technological platform, business model, journal and monograph pilot scheme. The Open Library of the Humanities (OLH) — run by the enterprising Martin Paul Eve(@martin_eve) and Caroline Edwards (@the_blochian) […]
Roundup: Comments/Reaction to Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science and Technology (FIRST) Act Introduced in U.S. Congress
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|FIRST Markup Hearing: Thursday, March 13, 2014 Subcommittee on Research and Technology (Committee on Science, Space, and Technology) Live streaming video by Ustream Text of Proposed Amendments and Markup Memo Hearing Also Available via THOMAS — On Monday, the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science and Technology (FIRST) Act (HR 4186) was introduced in the U.S. […]
Roundup: Slides and Video Materials From Four Webinars/Presentations About Altmetrics
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|Materials from four presentations all taking place within the past five weeks. 1. On February 20, 2014, Elsevier held a webinar/panel discussion titled, “Librarians & Altmetrics: Tools, Tips and Use Cases”. Presenters Included: Altmetrics: a primer Mike Taylor, Research Specialist, Elsevier Labs Altmetrics: why it’s relevant to a librarian Jenny Delasalle, Freelance consultant/librarian Going beyond […]
From the PLOS Blog: Access to research results, immediately without restriction, has always been at the heart of PLOS’ mission and the wider Open Access movement. However, without similar access to the data underlying the findings, the article can be of limited use. For this reason, PLOS has always required that authors make their data […]
Scholarly Communications: Public Library of Science Launches New Blog Focusing On All Aspects of “Open”
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|Cameron Neylon, Director of Advocacy at PLOS & Editor of the New “PLOS Open” Blog Writes: Open Access will be at the center of what we discuss, but we chose deliberately not to have ‘Open Access’ in the name. The successful implementation of full Open Access is a necessary, but not sufficient condition of realizing […]
From a PubMed Central E-Mail: As you might know, PMC converts some multimedia files within the supplementary materials of articles in its collection into formats that are amenable to serving on the web. Recently we have begun to include these converted versions of these resources, for the open-access subset, in the archive files for these […]
Standards: NISO Releases Draft of “Open Access and Metadata Indicators Recommended Practice”
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|New today (Monday, Jan. 6. 2014) from the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is seeking comments on the draft recommended practice Open Access Metadata and Indicators (NISO RP-22-201x). [The comment period runs through February 4th, 2014.] Launched in January 2013, the NISO Open Access Metadata and Indicators Working Group […]
Open Access: Public Library of Science (PLOS) Profits Prompt Revamp
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|From Richard Van Noorden, Nature.com: The non-profit operation, based in San Francisco, California, broke even for the first time in 2010; in 2012, it reported a surplus of US$7 million on net revenues of $34.5 million. Its cash-generating engine is the world’s largest journal, PLoS ONE, which is on course to publish more than 30,000 articles this year although […]
Article-Level Metrics Will Soon Be Available For More Journals
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|From the the Public Library of Science (PLOS) Blog: In 2009, PLOS became the first (and remains the only) publisher to launch an open source Article-Level Metrics (ALM) app to help other publishers implement ALM on their journals. Now we are pleased to announce that two leading organizations are implementing ALMs using the PLOS open source app. […]
Scholarly Publishing: “Hoax Reveals ‘Wild West’ of Open-Access Science Journals”
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|Note: We’ve updated this post with responses from several organizations. Links below. The study discussed below was done by John Bohannon, a Science magazine contributor and biologist at Harvard. A link to the research article and an interview with Bohannon is found at the bottom of this post. From The Star (Toronto): Over the […]