Katharina Müller, Arvid Deppe, Maxie Gottschling, Elóy Rodrigues, K. Shearer
{"title":"Stepping Up Towards Greater Alignment of Repository Networks","authors":"Katharina Müller, Arvid Deppe, Maxie Gottschling, Elóy Rodrigues, K. Shearer","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-649-1-142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-649-1-142","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past few years, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has established the initiative “Aligning Repository Networks” in order to foster global repository interoperability and align policies and practices internationally. This paper outlines several activities to align major repository networks across the globe strategically, technically and on the service level.","PeriodicalId":130180,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Electronic Publishing","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124011732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Birgit Schmidt, Arvid Deppe, Julien Bordier, T. Ross-Hellauer
{"title":"Peer Review on the Move from Closed to Open","authors":"Birgit Schmidt, Arvid Deppe, Julien Bordier, T. Ross-Hellauer","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-649-1-91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-649-1-91","url":null,"abstract":"Openness in peer review is no longer a terra incognita. However, there remains a need for further experimentation and careful evaluation of its advantages and disadvantages in practice. OpenAIRE, the European digital infrastructure for Open Scholarship, offers a unique environment for such experiments. This paper describes the design and early results of three such experiments, which are currently under development in close collaboration with selected publishing and repository communities.","PeriodicalId":130180,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Electronic Publishing","volume":"29 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132639757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Openness in Scholarship: A Return to Core Values?","authors":"C. Neylon","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-769-6-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-769-6-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":130180,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Electronic Publishing","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132645533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pavel Pavlov, Maria Nisheva-Pavlova, Dicho Shukerov
{"title":"Building a Social Semantic Digital Library","authors":"Pavel Pavlov, Maria Nisheva-Pavlova, Dicho Shukerov","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-63","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyzes some current trends of research and development in the field of digital libraries. The presentation is focused on the main features of two new generations of digital libraries – the so-called semantic digital libraries and social semantic digital libraries. The design characteristics, principles of functioning and some implementation details of a particular academic digital library have been discussed as an illustration of the suggested ideas.","PeriodicalId":130180,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Electronic Publishing","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130083707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infrastructures for Policies: How OpenAIRE Supports the EC's Open Access Requirements","authors":"A. Ross, Najla Rettberg, Birgit Schmidt","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-185","url":null,"abstract":"Recently launched, OpenAIRE2020 is an Open Access (OA) Infrastructure for Research which supports open scholarly communication and access to the research output of European funded projects. This brief paper outlines how such an infrastructure can support an OA policy, the efforts required to successfully implement the mandate and the overall benefit that an infrastructure can bring.","PeriodicalId":130180,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Electronic Publishing","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125701991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Openness: Challenges and New Approaches to Open Scholarly Journals","authors":"A. Appel, Sarita Albagli, M. L. Maciel","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-769-6-129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-769-6-129","url":null,"abstract":"This paper‘s main objective is to present and discuss some results of a research project in progress on issues currently in debate on open scholarly journals dedicated to the publication of research outputs on an open, democratic and transparent basis. It contemplates a brief review of the literature about challenges regarding openness of the current scholarly publication system and political-economic constraints to its democratization, to support the analysis of two case studies on open publication platforms Research Ideas and Outcomes and Wellcome Open Research based on information available on their websites. As results, we present an analysis of publication practices and policies in action on these platforms and their policies.","PeriodicalId":130180,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Electronic Publishing","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132738632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Verborgh, M. V. Sande, Pieter Heyvaert, R. Walle, T. Nies, E. Mannens, W. D. Neve, J. Herwegen
{"title":"Using EPUB 3 and the Open Web Platform for Enhanced Presentation and Machine-Understandable Metadata for Digital","authors":"R. Verborgh, M. V. Sande, Pieter Heyvaert, R. Walle, T. Nies, E. Mannens, W. D. Neve, J. Herwegen","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-37","url":null,"abstract":"Various methods are needed to extract information from current (digital) comics. Furthermore, the use of different (proprietary) formats by comic distribution platforms causes an overhead for authors. To overcome these issues, we propose a solution that makes use of the EPUB 3 specification, additionally leveraging the Open Web Platform to support animations, reading assistance, audio and multiple languages in a single format, by using our JavaScript library comicreader.js. We also provide administrative and descriptive metadata in the same format by introducing a new ontology: Dicera. Our solution is complementary to the current extraction methods, on the one hand because they can help with metadata creation, and on the other hand because the machine-understandable metadata alleviates their use. While the reading system support for our solution is currently limited, it can offer all features needed by current comic distribution platforms. When comparing comics generated by our solution to EPUB 3 textbooks, we observed an increase in file size, mainly due to the use of images. In future work, our solution can be further improved by extending the presentation features, investigating different types of comics, studying the use of new EPUB 3 extensions, and by incorporating it in digital book authoring environments.","PeriodicalId":130180,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Electronic Publishing","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122636331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Key Bespoke Tools to Support Electronic Academic Document Discovery","authors":"G. Buchanan, Keti Mavri, F. Loizides","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-73","url":null,"abstract":"Publishing in academic journals and conferences has become faster, and easier with the ability to edit and submit documents electronically. With the increase of publications also come negative effects such as that of information overload and elevated discovery time of relevant resources. An information seeker often wades through several documents in order to find relevant publications having to either select known repositories for their search or utilizing generic search sources which network to several online repositories. Even with the advances in interactive systems, information seekers still carry out a mostly textual search from input to returned results. Several tools have been created by researchers in order to assist the seekers in their visual academic document triage activities but very few have been successfully implemented in actual discovery of electronic publications. With electronic publishing increasing dramatically, we recognize the paramount importance for these tools to be improved and integrated within environments to assist the seekers. In this work, we present an overview of key bespoke tools purpose built for achieving this document selection tasks. Using this work as a reference we hope to encourage structured and novel approaches to creating triage tools and improve the discovery process of electronic academic document publications.","PeriodicalId":130180,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Electronic Publishing","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117262578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lay Summaries for Research Articles: A Citizen Science Approach to Bridge the Gap in Access","authors":"Monica Duke","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-1","url":null,"abstract":"The Patients Participate! project explored the feasibility of a citizen science approach to writing lay summaries for research articles. It involved a range stakeholders: funders of research (medical charities), service providers (the British Library), researchers and patients. Informed by practices within medical charities and the experiences of other citizen science projects, different methods were used to investigate trust, the skills required to produce a good lay summary, and the benefits of citizen science. A literature review into human factors was carried out and platforms for service delivery were analysed. The project was able to synthesise guidelines on participation in citizen science projects and the writing of lay summaries, and to identify challenges. This paper summarises the outcomes and lessons learned.","PeriodicalId":130180,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Electronic Publishing","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124578228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EKT ePublishing: An Innovative Service to Support Open Access Scholarly Publishing in Greece","authors":"Marina Angelaki, Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou, Dimitris Efstathiou","doi":"10.3233/978-1-61499-769-6-305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-769-6-305","url":null,"abstract":"The poster presents EKT’s ePublishing platform, an innovative service to support open access publishing in Greece, which enables the research community of the country to transition from a print-only mode of work to online working environments and enhance the visibility and impact of their research outputs. Emerging within an ecosystem with no prior experience or open access oriented culture, it enables the cultural shift towards open and collaborative scientific practices and the open science/open access paradigm. Focusing on the Open Book Press, EKT through its participation at the HIRMEOS project is expected to enhance the technical capacities and services of the platform that enable identification, authentication and interoperability as well as tools that enrich information and entity extraction.","PeriodicalId":130180,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Electronic Publishing","volume":"535 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127067314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}