AcronymsInOpenAccess120115
CLOCKSS
CLOCKSS is a not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading academic publishers and research
libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, international, and geographically distributed dark archive
with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the
greater global research community. http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Home
ORCID
Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)
An open, non-profit, community-based effort to create and maintain a registry of unique research
identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers
ORCID provides a standard unique author identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher
and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports
automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized
ORCID Registry aims to prevent authorship confusion
Some publishers will require an ORCID ID in the ScienCV platform, for linking researchers, their grants
and their scientific output
To create your own ORCID ID, simply go to the ORCID website--http://orcid.org/-- and register
http://guides.lib.umich.edu/ORCID
About DataCite
DataCite (www.datacite.org) is a global consortium that assigns persistent identifiers to research data.
DataCite makes research better by enabling people to find, share, use, and cite data. DataCite is a leading
global membership organization that engages with stakeholders including researchers, scholars, data
centers, libraries, publishers, and funders through advocacy, guidance and services.
CrossRef and DataCite announce new initiative to accelerate the adoption of DOIs for data publication and
citation
About CrossRef
CrossRef (www.crossref.org) serves as a digital hub for the scholarly communications community. A notfor profit membership organization of global scholarly publishers, CrossRef's innovations shape the future
of scholarly communications through cross-publisher collaboration. CrossRef provides a wide spectrum of
services for identifying, locating, linking to and assessing the reliability and provenance of scholarly
content.
Society for Scholarly Publishing
The mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is "to advance scholarly publishing and
communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration, and
networking." - See more at: http://www.sspnet.org/resources/ssp-library/#sthash.e4XiHPzw.dpuf
http://www.sspnet.org/resources/ssp-library/
International DOI Foundation
This is the web site of the International DOI Foundation (IDF), a not-for-profit membership organization
that is the governance and management body for the federation of Registration Agencies providing Digital
Object Identifier (DOI) services and registration, and is the registration authority for the ISO standard
(ISO 26324) for the DOI system. The DOI system provides a technical and social infrastructure for the
registration and use of persistent interoperable identifiers, called DOIs, for use on digital networks.
http://www.doi.org/
http://www.doi.org/driven_by_DOI.html
Portico
CHORUS vs.SHARE
Libraries, Open Access and Institutional Repositories, Scholarly Publishing
Better than joining the CHORUS
June 10, 2013 Kevin Smith, J.D.
4 Comments
Last week we saw two proposals about how the various federal agencies that fund research might
implement the recent directive from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy that
mandates public access to the products of funded research. A group of publishers unveiled (sort of) a
proposal they call CHORUS, while the Association of American Universities, the Association of Research
Libraries and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities collaborated on a different proposal,
referred to as SHARE.
The publishers proposal — the acronym stands for Clearing House for the Open Research of the United
States — is described in glowing terms on the Scholarly Kitchen website and with a bit more restraint by
the Chronicle of Higher Education. The proposal from the education associations, dubbed Shared Access
Research Ecosystem, is also described by the Chronicle and is the subject of a detailed draft proposal that
can be found here.
For myself, I would rather SHARE than join the CHORUS, for a number of reasons.
First, I think CHORUS is being touted, at least in what I have read, by comparing it to a straw man. Its
principle virtue seems to be that it would not cost the government as much as setting up lots of
government-run repositories, clones of PubMed Central. But it is not clear that that option is being
seriously suggested by anyone. Certainly many of us encouraged the agencies to look at the benefits of
PMC for inspiration and not sacrifice those benefits in their own plans, but that does not mean that each
agency must “reinvent the wheel,” no matter how successful that wheel has been. So the principle virtue
of CHORUS seems to be that it does not do what no one is suggesting be done.
The most important thing to understand about CHORUS is that it is a dark archive. The research papers in
CHORUS would not be directly accessible to anyone; they would be “illuminated” only if a “trigger event”
occurred. Routine access would, instead, be provided on the proprietary platforms of each publisher,
while the CHORUS site would simply collect metadata about the openly-accessible articles and point
researchers to the specific publisher platforms.
It seems to me that the CHORUS proposal is “disabled” from the start, by which I mean that it lacks three
fundamental abilities. CHORUS, at least based on the descriptions we have seen, lacks find-ability,
useability and interoperability.
Perhaps the most troubling remark in the description offered on the Scholarly Kitchen blog is that “Users
can search and discover papers directly from CHORUS.gov or via any integrated agency site.” Does this
mean that even the collected metadata would not be available to Google? We know how few researchers
“walk through the front door” of our research tools, so limiting discovery to the CHORUS portal or
“integrated agency sites” would make these open access papers virtually invisible (which, one suspects, is
the point). As things stand now, open access papers which reside on proprietary publisher platforms are
difficult to find because there is no consistency in how they can be discovered. That is the principal
reason so many COPE fund institutions will not support so-called “hybrid” open access publishing that
makes a few articles open on an otherwise toll-access site. It does not seem that CHORUS would change
that unfortunate situation at all, which is probably why Heather Joseph of SPARC calls CHORUS “a
restatement of the status quo.” The public would gain very little, since the major goal of the proposal is
for the publishers to cling tightly to control over the research papers that have been entrusted with.
Another ability that CHORUS would lack is useability, since as far as we know, all that a researcher or
other user could do with these papers is read them. It would not, of course, facilitate sharing, teaching or
reuse, even those these abilities are vital to improving the speed and quality of research in the United
States. And then there is interoperability. If the geographically desperate archives are genuinely
federated, searches across all of them, even keyword searches that are not dependent on the metadata
created for each article, would be possible. So would text and data mining across a large corpus of works.
We already know that such interoperability creates tremendous new opportunities for expanded research,
collaboration, and previously impossible discoveries. But there is no reason to believe that CHORUS would
support interoperability, since the various publishers have a strong competitive interest in not allowing
cross-platform activities. Research and education, however, not only do not benefit from that
competition, but are actively “disabled” by it.
On the other hand, the proposal from the universities and their libraries is for a genuinely federated
system of university-based repositories. Those repositories already exist, so if we are going to make a
cost argument, it really favors SHARE. And these repositories, unlike the publisher platforms, have a
strong interest in facilitating discovery. Also, the detailed proposal offered by these groups addresses text
and data mining, semantic data, APIs for research and linked data. All of these things make universitybased research better, while they pose threats to the commercial publishers who have designed CHORUS
to protect themselves, not to benefit research or the public. So all the incentives line up between the
public interest and the university-based SHARE system.
If the OSTP and the research-funding agencies take seriously all of the opportunities that were described
in the comments they have solicited over the past year, it will be very obvious to them that CHORUS is
singing flat, while it would be good to SHARE, just as our parents always told us.
- See more at: https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2013/06/10/better-than-joining-thechorus/#sthash.nnjMPtEI.dpuf
SHARE
About COAPI
The Coalition of Open Access Policies brings together representatives from North American universities
with established faculty open access policies and those in the process of developing such policies. It was
formed to share information and experiences, and to illuminate
opportunities for moving faculty-led open access forward at member institutions and advocating for open
access nationally and internationally.
http://www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/COAPI_4C_horz_0.jpg
DOAJ
https://doaj.org/
There is a common misunderstanding that only journals that get the Seal are “indexed in DOAJ”, that only
Seal journals are quality, peer reviewed open access journals. This is incorrect. ALL journals in DOAJ have
been approved as quality, peer reviewed open access journals. The whole DOAJ list is the white list!
OAPEN
OAPEN is an open access monograph online library and publication platform. The OAPEN Library
contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. OAPEN
works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of Open Access books, and provides services
for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of dissemination, quality assurance and digital
preservation.
https://oapen.org/search?title=&creator=&seriestitle=&subject=&isbn=&grant=Knowledge+Unlatched&gr
antnumber=&year=&year-max=&smode=advanced
OAPEN Books in Google Scholar
We are excited to bring you news about open access monographs. Until now, monographs were not
indexed by Google Scholar, but thanks to the combined efforts of Anurag Acharya of Google Scholar and
Francis Pinter of Knowledge Unlatched, the OAPEN collection (currently 2549 books from 104 publishers
from 18 different countries) will now be indexed by Google Scholar. See KU’s press release for more
information.
Knowledge Unlatched Round 2 books in OAPEN
In 2014, all books from the first pilot project of Knowledge Unlatched were included in the OAPEN
Library. At the moment, KU Round 2 is in full swing. It includes 78 new titles from 26 respected scholarly
publishers. Following the first round, we are looking forward to also be hosting the books from Round 2 in
the OAPEN Library. For more information, visit the Knowledge Unlatched website.
Two new guides on OA monographs
As open access monograph publishing is gaining momentum, two essential guides have been published
on this subject.
Global charitable foundation Wellcome Trust (WT) has released its ‘Open Access Monographs and Book
Chapters: A practical guide for publishers.’ You can read the full version on Wellcome Trust’s website. In a
very concise, and – as the title says – practical way, this guide gives publishers information and
recommendations on publishing open access books. The guide gives a clear answer on pressing questions
that publishers might have before or while publishing in open access, such as which information should be
available on their website, or how to make readers aware of the open access version of the book. This
guide is of course indispensable for a publisher of open access monographs funded by WT, but also highly
recommended for anyone interested in the area of OA book publishing.
As part of Jisc Collections' project OAPEN-UK, a ‘Guide to open access monograph publishing for arts,
humanities and social science researchers’ has been published and made available on the project website.
Whereas the Wellcome Trust guide advises publishers, this guide informs researchers about making their
work available in open access. It provides a very useful overview of OA for books and is also relevant for
other interested parties. The guide provides many useful links to relevant projects and organisations. By
providing an overview of possible business models, funders’ requirements and a fair list of the benefits but
also the many concerns involved, it helps the researcher to make a well-considered decision on publishing
in open access.
http://www.oapen.org/home
https://oapen.org/metadataexports?page=intro
Europeana
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/usingeuropeana_explore.html
In addition to the search and filter options, Europeana offers alternative ways to explore and navigate
through our millions of objects. You can discover Europe's rich heritage by browsing:
Exhibitions: Our virtual exhibitions help you discover and learn more about specific themes, e.g. Art
Nouveau or musical instruments. With extensive curatorial information that guides you through the
themes, the virtual exhibitions can be found by choosing the Exhibitions link at the foot of the page.
New content: See the latest contributions from our partner museums, libraries, archives and
audiovisual archives by choosing View more latest content from our partners in the Featured Partner area.
Search Widget by Copyright: By default, the widget returns results with any copyright status. You can
restrict this, for example, to only show re-usable content. Tap 'Change' next to 'All Copyrights' and select
the statuses you need. The copyright statuses are presented in order of size. The number in brackets
shows how many items of that status are available. Note: you can select more than one. To clear your
selection and start again, tap 'Clear'.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/usingeuropeana_searchwidget.html
More information on the CC licenses
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
ArXive and RePEC
A New Frontier for Online Learning
Upper Level Humanities Courses at Small Colleges
November 4, 2015
Martin Kurzweil
http://www.sr.ithaka.org/blog/a-new-frontier-for-online-learning/
Ithaka S+R
Ithaka S+R provides research and strategic guidance to help the academic community navigate economic
and technological change.
http://www.sr.ithaka.org/
Educational Transformation
Working with leaders in higher education, we focus on innovations that broaden access to higher
education, improve student outcomes, and control costs.
Explore Libraries & Scholarly Communication
In a fast-changing environment, we seek to provide effective, efficient, and sustainable systems for the
creation, discovery, dissemination, and preservation of scholarship.
From:
"Sherrill Weaver" <weaver@oakton.edu>
Subject:
Why Does iso-88591?Q?=93Open_Access_to_Scholarly_and_Scientific_Research_Articl?=esX Matter to the Oakton
LibrArticles” Matter to the Oakton Library?
Date: Tue, October 13, 2015 12:55 pm
To:
oaklib@lists.oakton.edu
Cc:
weaver@oakton.edu
Why Does “Open Access to Scholarly and Scientific Research Articles” Matter to the Oakton Library?
Here's a CRYPTIC ANSWER, SHORT ANSWER, and SLIGHTLY LONGER - BUT MORE ENTERTAINING ANSWER to that question.
CRYPTIC ANSWER
Open Access = Immediate Access + Full Reuse
SHORT ANSWER
What is Open Access?
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use
these articles fully in the digital environment.
Why is Open Access Important?
Over the past decade, Open Access has become central to advancing the interests of researchers,
scholars, students, businesses, and the public - as well as librarians - by making research openly
accessible to and fully useable by the public.
How Does Open Access Work?
SPARC considers the terms outlined by the Creative Commons Attribution-Only license (CC#BY) to be the
standard terms for Open Access. Four primary mechanisms can be used to enable Open Access:
1. Open Access publishing
2. Digital repositories
3. Effectively managed author rights
4. Local, national and international Open Access Policies
http://www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/Open%20Access%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
SLIGHTLY LONGER - BUT MORE ENTERTAINING - ANSWER
Open Access Explained!
Added by Edwin Madziwo on June 11, 2015: http://www.openaccessweek.org/video/open-accessexplained-1
Stay tuned... Open Access Week starts next Monday!
Sherrill
From:
"Sherrill Weaver" <weaver@oakton.edu>
Subject:
research...
Re: It's Open Access Week! Hear what scientists have to say about open access to
Date: Tue, October 20, 2015 9:49 am
To:
oaklib@lists.oakton.edu
Cc:
weaver@oakton.edu
Oops! The embedded code didn't work so here's the link to interview with scientists about what Open
Access Week means to them:
https://youtu.be/RGtPVIBmFBI
On Tue, October 20, 2015 10:44 am, Sherrill Weaver wrote:
Open Access Week is international!
Event Date: Monday, October 19, 2015 to Sunday, October 25, 2015
Event Location: Everywhere
“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and
the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and
scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science,
industry, and for society as a whole." http://www.sparc.arl.org/initiatives/openaccessweek
Hear what scientists have to say about open access to research...
From:
"Sherrill Weaver" <weaver@oakton.edu>
Subject:
As Open Access Week winds down, the conversation is just starting!
Date: Thu, October 22, 2015 12:59 pm
To:
oaklib@lists.oakton.edu
Cc:
weaver@oakton.edu
Start Campus Conversations about OA policies with New Introductory Video
Learn about open access policies and their value to authors, readers, and
the world at large in a new introductory video
https://youtu.be/UcXpF8bU714
by the Coalition of Open Access Policies (COAPI).
http://www.sparc.arl.org/COAPI
Find other videos, handouts, and presentation templates to adapt and use
on your own campus in ACRL’s Scholarly Communication Toolkit.
http://acrl.ala.org/scholcomm/
The toolkit also includes context and background by summarizing key issues
to offer quick, basic information on scholarly communication topics making
it a valuable resource for scholarly communication discussions inside the
library and for outreach programs to faculty and administrators.
About COAPI
The Coalition of Open Access Policies brings together representatives
from North American universities with established faculty open access
policies and those in the process of developing such policies. It was
formed to share information and experiences, and to illuminate
opportunities for moving faculty-led open access forward at member
institutions and advocating for open access nationally and
internationally.
http://www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/COAPI_4C_horz_0.jpg
I hope that you have found these Open Access Week(s) emails
thought-provoking. Open Access will continue to dramatically change our
library collections and how students use them within the next three years!
Q?A!
Sherrill
Open Access and Institutional Repositories, Open Access topics, Scholarly Publishing
Open Access at the tipping point
October 23, 2015 Paolo Mangiafico
- See more at: https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2015/10/23/open-access-at-the-tippingpoint/#sthash.qfITLzkS.dpuf
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2015/10/23/open-access-at-the-tipping-point/