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Open Access eXchange (OAeX): an economic model and platform for fundraising open scholarship services 开放存取交换(OAeX):为开放奖学金服务筹款的经济模式和平台
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Insights-The UKSG Journal Pub Date : 2020-02-26 DOI: 10.1629/uksg.500
J. Hyland, Alex Kouker, D. Zaitsev
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引用次数: 3
Open Access+ Service: reframing library support to take research outputs to non-academic audiences 开放获取+服务:重新构建图书馆支持,将研究成果带给非学术受众
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Insights-The UKSG Journal Pub Date : 2020-02-19 DOI: 10.1629/uksg.499
Scott Taylor
{"title":"Open Access+ Service: reframing library support to take research outputs to non-academic audiences","authors":"Scott Taylor","doi":"10.1629/uksg.499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.499","url":null,"abstract":"The University of Manchester Library has established a key role in facilitating scholarly discourse through its mediated open access (OA) services, but has little track record in intentionally taking OA research outputs to non-academic audiences. This article outlines recent exploratory steps the Library has taken to convince researchers to fully exploit this part of the scholarly communication chain. Driving developments within this service category is a belief that despite the recent rise in OA, the full public benefit of research outputs is often not being realized as many papers are written in inaccessibly technical language. Recognizing our unique position to help authors reach broader audiences with simpler expressions of their work, we have evolved our existing managed OA services to systematically share plain-English summaries of OA papers via Twitter. In parallel, we have taken steps to ensure that our commercial analytics tools work harder to identify and reach the networked communities that form around academic disciplines in the hope that these simpler expressions of research will be more likely to diffuse beyond these networks.","PeriodicalId":44531,"journal":{"name":"Insights-The UKSG Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46610597","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}
引用次数: 3
Libraries and the REF: how do librarians contribute to research excellence? 图书馆与REF:图书馆员如何促进卓越研究?
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Insights-The UKSG Journal Pub Date : 2020-02-12 DOI: 10.1629/uksg.497
Dominic Walker
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引用次数: 2
Publishing the Ethnicity Pay Gap report at Hachette UK – 2019 2019年在英国哈切特发布种族薪酬差距报告
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Insights-The UKSG Journal Pub Date : 2020-02-05 DOI: 10.1629/UKSG.490
Saskia Bewley
{"title":"Publishing the Ethnicity Pay Gap report at Hachette UK – 2019","authors":"Saskia Bewley","doi":"10.1629/UKSG.490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1629/UKSG.490","url":null,"abstract":"Hachette UK voluntarily published its first Ethnicity Pay Gap report in April 2019. This article puts the pay gap into the context of Hachette UK’s wider diversity and inclusion agenda and is a key action towards its stated aim to be the publisher of choice for all people regardless of background. It examines the ethnicity pay gap data, the response to the disclosure by Hachette UK employees and the formation of an action plan to address the low representation of black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) employees at Hachette UK. It then addresses the challenges of approaching topics of race and ethnicity in the workplace and imperatives for doing so, as well noting the successes. Finally, the article, looks to the future and how such reporting will inform meaningful diversity and inclusion interventions and cultural change across the business.","PeriodicalId":44531,"journal":{"name":"Insights-The UKSG Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44315875","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}
引用次数: 0
Understanding researcher needs and raising the profile of library research support 了解研究者需求,提升图书馆科研支持水平
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Insights-The UKSG Journal Pub Date : 2020-01-29 DOI: 10.1629/uksg.493
Colin Nickels, Hilary Davis
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引用次数: 7
Implementing a reading list strategy at The University of Manchester – determination, collaboration and innovation 在曼彻斯特大学实施阅读清单战略——决心、合作和创新
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Insights-The UKSG Journal Pub Date : 2020-01-22 DOI: 10.1629/uksg.494
Olivia Walsby
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引用次数: 6
Developing a reusable methodology to conduct a review of library resources 开发可重复使用的方法对图书馆资源进行审查
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Insights-The UKSG Journal Pub Date : 2020-01-15 DOI: 10.1629/uksg.495
Alison Brock
{"title":"Developing a reusable methodology to conduct a review of library resources","authors":"Alison Brock","doi":"10.1629/uksg.495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.495","url":null,"abstract":"In the academic year 2017–18 The Open University Library was asked to examine its collection and content acquisition policies as part of an institution-wide review of services to students and staff. For the part of the project looking at best value of the Library content service, we wanted to review the ‘higher-cost’ content held by the Library, which was in the main the larger journal packages. From the project, we developed a methodology for conducting reviews of our Library resources in much greater depth than we did previously. As part of this process, we also carried out an in-depth overlap analysis for resources that contain full text content. The reason for the development of this methodology was to identify just how much ‘redundancy’ there was in the Library collections, as well as identifying unique selling points of certain collections. Also, by examining the subject coverage of the content we reviewed, we were able to show how well our content aligned with the teaching of the University outlined in the 2018 curriculum plan. The approach we took to this project offers a fresh perspective on how such review tasks can be undertaken in libraries. The methodologies developed could provide a useful tool to others wishing to carry out a similar review.","PeriodicalId":44531,"journal":{"name":"Insights-The UKSG Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41725619","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}
引用次数: 1
Transformation: the future of society publishing 转型:社会出版的未来
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Insights-The UKSG Journal Pub Date : 2020-01-08 DOI: 10.1629/uksg.486
Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Gaynor Redvers-Mutton
{"title":"Transformation: the future of society publishing","authors":"Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Gaynor Redvers-Mutton","doi":"10.1629/uksg.486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.486","url":null,"abstract":"The release in September 2018 of Plan S has led many small and society publishers to examine their business models, and in particular ways to transform their journals from hybrids into pure open access (OA) titles. This paper explores one means by which a society publisher might transform, focused specifically on the institutional set-price publish and read (PR trends in article numbers, article costs and revenues; the administrative complexity of the options; and the reputational and financial risks to the Society associated with the package. We outline the process we followed to calculate the financial and publishing implications of P&R at different price points, and share our view that these kinds of packages are a stop on the way to new models of OA that do not rely on article processing charges (APCs). Our hope is that in sharing our experience, we will contribute to a collective best practice about how to transform society publishing.","PeriodicalId":44531,"journal":{"name":"Insights-The UKSG Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88540016","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}
引用次数: 3
Monitoring agreements with open access elements: why article-level metadata are important 监控开放访问元素的协议:为什么文章级元数据很重要
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Insights-The UKSG Journal Pub Date : 2019-11-26 DOI: 10.1629/uksg.489
Mafalda Marques, S. Woutersen-Windhouwer, Arja Tuuliniemi
{"title":"Monitoring agreements with open access elements: why article-level metadata are important","authors":"Mafalda Marques, S. Woutersen-Windhouwer, Arja Tuuliniemi","doi":"10.1629/uksg.489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.489","url":null,"abstract":"Agreements with open access (OA) elements (e.g. agreements with APC discounts, offsetting agreements, read and publish agreements) have been increasing in number in the last few years. With more agreements including some form of OA, consortia and academic institutions need to monitor the number of OA publications, the costs and the value of these agreements. Publishers are therefore required to account for the articles published OA to consortia, academic institutions and research funders. One way publishers can do so is by providing regular reports with article-level metadata. This article uses the Knowledge Exchange (KE) and the Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges (ESAC) initiative recommendations as a check-list to assess what article-level metadata consortia request from publishers and what metadata publishers deliver to consortia. KE countries’ agreements with major publishers were analysed to assess how far consortia and publishers are from requesting and providing article-level metadata. The results from this research can be used as a benchmark to determine how major publishers were performing until early 2019 and prior to Plan S coming into effect in 2021. A recommendation is made that publishers use the article-level metadata check-list as a template to provide the metadata recommended by KE and ESAC.","PeriodicalId":44531,"journal":{"name":"Insights-The UKSG Journal","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85064577","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}
引用次数: 6
The fundamental problem blocking open access and how to overcome it: the BitViews project 阻碍开放访问的根本问题以及如何克服它:BitViews项目
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Insights-The UKSG Journal Pub Date : 2019-11-20 DOI: 10.1629/uksg.488
Camillo Lamanna, Manfredi M. A. La Manna
{"title":"The fundamental problem blocking open access and how to overcome it: the BitViews project","authors":"Camillo Lamanna, Manfredi M. A. La Manna","doi":"10.1629/uksg.488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.488","url":null,"abstract":"In our view the fundamental obstacle to open access (OA) is the lack of any incentive-based mechanism that unbundles authors’ accepted manuscripts (AMs) from articles (VoRs). The former can be seen as the public good that ought to be openly accessible, whereas the latter is owned by publishers and rightly paywall-restricted. We propose one such mechanism to overcome this obstacle: BitViews. BitViews is a blockchain-based application that aims to revolutionize the OA publishing ecosystem. Currently, the main academic currency of value is the citation. There have been attempts in the past to create a second currency whose measure is the online usage of research materials (e.g. PIRUS). However, these have failed due to two problems. Firstly, it has been impossible to find a single agency willing to co-ordinate and fund the validation and collation of global online usage data. Secondly, online usage metrics have lacked transparency in how they filter non-human online activity. BitViews is a novel solution which uses blockchain technology to bypass both problems: online AMS usage will be recorded on a public, distributed ledger, obviating the need for a central responsible agency, and the rules governing activity-filtering will be part of the open-source BitViews blockchain application, creating complete transparency. Once online AMS usage has measurable value, researchers will be incentivized to promote and disseminate AMs. This will fundamentally re-orient the academic publishing ecosystem. A key feature of BitViews is that its success (or failure) is wholly and exclusively in the hands of the worldwide community of university and research libraries, as we suggest that it ought to be financed by conditional crowdfunding, whereby the actual financial commitment of each contributing library depends on the total amount raised. If the financing target is not reached, then all contributions are returned in full and if the target is over-fulfilled, then the surplus is returned pro rata.","PeriodicalId":44531,"journal":{"name":"Insights-The UKSG Journal","volume":"212 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75586998","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}
引用次数: 2
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