Scholarly Communications Working Group: More Resources

• Open Access Overview by Peter Suber
  
  
• Plan outlined by the Director of Rollins College for Scholarly Communication: http://goo.gl/LXM6
  
  
• Incorporating Open Access into Libraries. Serials Review, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 May 2011. Emma Cryer, Maria Collins.
   
• Maria Carpenter, Jolie Graybill, Jerome Offord Jr., and Mary E. Piorun (2011) Envisioning the Library’s Role in Scholarly Communication in the Year 2025, http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_articles/122. 
   
• Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s by Gina Kolata
  
  
• Promoting Public Access Policies: A New Role for Librarians by Leila Fernandez, Rajiv Nariani, and Marcia Salmon

• Open Access and the Library's Missing Mission by Barbara Fister
  
  
• Open Access Answers by Research Communications Strategy/JISC 
   
• Perceptions of Developing Trends in Repositories (2010) by Jean-Gabriel Bankier
   
• New Review of Academic Librarianship Open Access Supplement. Volume 16, Supplement 1, 2010.
   
• Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research
  by Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, et al. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13636.
  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013636
   
• Do Open Access Initiatives Influence Journal Collection Development Decisions? A Report from the Ad Hoc Committee for Advocating Scholarly Communications.  Submitted by Barbara A. Epstein, AHIP, Member, Ad Hoc Committee for Advocating Scholarly Communications

• 2010 Dramatic Growth of Open Access by the Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics from the Dramatic Growth of Open Access Series.
   
• The Bigger Deal: One Scenario for How the Library Funding Crisis Will Play Out. by Joseph Esposito in the Scholarly Kitchen/Society for Scholarly Publishing

• 'Facebook of Science' Seeks to Reshape Peer Review by Colin Macilwain from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Campus & Library Publishing Services:

• Raym Crow (2009) Campus-based Publishing Partnerships: A Guide to Critical Issues. Washington DC: SPARC (http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering/guide/)
   
• Karla Hahn (2008) Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing. Washington DC: ARL (http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/research-library-publishing-services.pdf)
   
• Laura Brown, et al. (2007) Unvierstiy Publishing in a Digital Age. New York: Ithaka S+R 
• (http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/research/university-publishing-in-a-digital-age/)

Addressing Peer Review Concerns: 

• Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review by Patricia Cohen
   
• Leading Humanities Journal Debuts "Open" Peer Review, and Likes It by Jennifer Howard in The Chronicle
  
  
• Peer Review in Academic Promotion & Publishing: Its Meaning, Locus, & Future by Diane Harley, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Sophia Krzys Acord, Ph.D., and Sarah Earl-Novell, Ph.D.
  
  
• Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines by Diana Harley, et al. 

Impact Factors:

• Impact Factor of Open Access Journals (1/6/2011) WoW! Wouter on the Web. ( you must log into Google to open up the chart which is a Google Doc)
   

The following links lead to statements which should answer some of the questions you might have about Open Access (OA) and related issues of scholarly change. Evidence has been collected to give support for these claims, so please take time to explore the citations and links below each explanation. We encourage comments and suggestions as we hope to improve and update this dynamic and changing resource.

1. Introduction to OA

2. Citation Advantage

3. Self Archiving / Repositories

4. Institutional Benefit

5. Open Access Journals

6. Institutional Mandates

7. Open Access & Copyright

8. Open Data

9. Preservation

10. Web 2.0

11. Plagiarism

12. Cost

13. OA Books

14. Peer-Review

15. Publisher Rights

16. Current Trends

accessed on 11/25/2010 from: 
http://rcsproject.wordpress.com/oa-answers/

Jottkandt, Sigi. "The Accessibility of Open Access Materials in Libraries"  E-LIS  (2010) (http://eprints.rclis.org/18766/).

These Databases can be used to find Impact or H Factors.  There is more information about Impact Factors and related items such as H-factors, Eigenfactors on the Impact & H Factors page  in the Open Access & Open Access Publishing Fund Guide. Impact factors vary greatly by subject area. 

FANTASTIC Library Guide created Jennifer Lyon.  This guide contains resources and information on NIH's Public Access Policy for peer reviewed articles resulting from NIH funding.

OATP uses social tagging to capture new OA developments comprehensively and in real time. Participants tag new developments using Conotea. The resulting feed is OA, for reading or mashing up with other feeds and online services. The project beta launched on April 16, 2009, and there's a full-length description of it in the SPARC Open Access Newsletter for May 2, 2009.

All of the following share a commitment to the removal of barriers to access and the removal of restrictions for use:

OPEN ACCESS (OA): Literature is freely available to readers on the Internet.

OPEN SOURCE: Share code by downloading for free and contributing to the improvement of the code.

OPEN EDUCATION: Free access to educational materials, syllabi, reading lists, lectures, etc. 

OPEN DATA: Access to raw data to re-use.  See Panton Principles.

OPEN SCIENCE: of all scientific processes, including research process, data, and notes, to support credibility and reproducibility

OPEN PEER REVIEW: see “I Hate Your Paper”  and the Shakespeare Quarterly Open Peer-Review Experiment

OPEN BOOKS: full text monographs available free of charge.

OPEN NOTEBOOK SCIENCE (ONS): you make all your research freely available—as best you can—to the public, and in real time.  “Unlike open access (OA), ONS aims to make raw scientific data (rather than published research) freely available within hours of production, not after the months or years involved in peer review.”  See: The Impact of Open Notebook Science.  

Announcing Scientific Reports, a new open access publication

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today announces the 2011 launch of Scientific Reports. An online, open access, peer-reviewed publication, Scientific Reports will publish research covering the natural sciences - biology, chemistry, earth sciences and physics. Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from today, and will publish its first articles in June 2011. More information is available on the Scientific Reports website (www.nature.com/scientificreports).

BMJ Group launching BMJ Open this Fall 2010

BMJ Open is an open access journal for general medical research. Using a continuous publication model the journal will provide rapid publication for research from any medical discipline or therapeutic area.

Not only will the journal publish traditional full research reports, including small or low-impact studies, but we intend to shed light on all stages of the research process by publishing study protocols, pilot studies and pre-protocols. The journal will also place great emphasis on the importance of data sharing; raw data will be linked to at its repository or hosted online as supplementary material wherever possible.

http://blogs.bmj.com/bmjopen/2010/08/16/bmj-open-accessible-medical-research/

American Physical Society - 08/02/2010

The American Physical Society has announced that it will make all of its online journals available to public libraries.  "APS will provide this access at no cost to participating public libraries, as a contribution to public engagement with the ongoing development of scientific understanding."  This is the result of an effort to make peer-reviewed journal content available to the public through open-access venues.  See the press release for details on obtaining access.

http://www.aps.org/about/pressreleases/journalslibrary.cfm

Nature Publishing launching Scientific Reports an new Open Access publication

"Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today announces the 2011 launch of Scientific Reports. An online, open access, peer-reviewed publication, Scientific Reports will publish research covering the natural sciences - biology, chemistry, earth sciences and physics. Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from today, and will publish its first articles in June 2011. More information is available on the Scientific Reports website (www.nature.com/scientificreports)."