UUK Workshop on Open Access Mandates and Metrics: PPTs now online
Universities UK Research Events Research Information and Management Workshop - 5 December 2007 http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/research/ * Opening Session: EurOpenScholar by Professor Bernard Rentier, Rector, University of Liege http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/research/downloads%5CResearchInformationandM anagementWorkshop%5CProfessorBernardRentier.ppt * The whole picture: the overall scholarly information landscape by Dr Alma Swan, Director, Key Perspectives Ltd http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/research/downloads%5CResearchInformationandM anagementWorkshop%5CDrAlmaSwan.ppt * Mandates and Metrics:How Open Repositories Enable Universities to Manage, Measure and Maximise their Research Assets by Professor Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14990/ * Optimising research management and assessment processes; the role of funders by Professor David Eastwood, Chief Executive, HEFCE http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/research/downloads%5CResearchInformationandM anagementWorkshop%5CProfessorDavidEastwood.ppt * Overview: outline of the evolution of scholarly information, what advantages new changes will bring and economic impact for the UK by Dr. Michael Jubb, Director, Research Information Network http://www.rin.ac.uk/node/345 http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/research/downloads%5CResearchInformationandM anagementWorkshop%5CDrMichaelJubb.pps
Workshop on Open Access
M S SWAMINATHAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION Third Cross Street, Taramani Instituional Area, Chennai 600 113 Tel: 044 2254 1229, 2254 2791 Fax: 044 2254 1319 Workshop on Open Access Overview All scientists need to publish their findings. Indeed, research is incomplete as long as it remains unpublished. The last few years have witnessed the unprecedented rise in the subscription costs of journals and even well-endowed institutions in rich countries find it difficult to retain journal subscriptions. The situation in developing countries like India is even worse. Besides, others in the rest of the world do not really read much of the work that we do in India. What is more, if our scientists publish their papers in expensive journals, then even other Indian scientists do not read them, as not many Indian institutions may subscribe to those journals. It is for this reason that the open access (OA) movement is gaining ground around the world - both in the advanced countries and in the developing countries. Indeed, OA will be of much greater advantage to India than to the western countries. Physicists have been placing their preprints and postprints for well over 13 years in a centralized archive called arXiv, which has more than 15 mirror sites including one located in India (Matscience, Chennai). There are several other centralized archives such as Cogprints (for cognitive sciences), CiteSeer (for computer science) and RePEc (for economics). Currently, institutional archives are favoured, as they work to satisfy the felt needs of both individual scientists and their institutions. There are at least three sets of software available, all of them free, to set up such interoperable institutional archives. This workshop aims to help Indian scientists (representing general and agricultural universities and government laboratories under the various councils and departments) to acquire the skills necessary to be able to set up and maintain institutional open archives. This workshop will provide training in Eprints software developed at the University of Southampton and the Open Archives Interoperability protocol. There is great interest in open access around the world. In the USA, Congressman Martin Sabo has introduced a bill suggesting that findings of all publicly funded research must be made freely available to all. In the UK, the Parliament has appointed a committee to inquire current and potentially useful practices in science publishing. Several discussion lists are actively promoting exchange of views on open access. The Budapest Open Access Initiative is providing funds to promote open access initiatives. In India, INSA devoted a whole day for a seminar on open access at its annual meeting held at NCL, Pune, in late December 2003. Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, held two workshops on open access journals in March 2002. The Workshop On a suggestion from Prof. M S Valiathan, President of the Indian National Science Academy, the Bioinformatics Centre of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation will be holding two identical three-day workshops with a view to developing a cadre of open access experts in Indian higher educational institutions and government laboratories. We expect that before the end of the year at least a dozen institutions will have their own institutional archives up and running. There will be 20-24 participants in each workshop. Each participant and the faculty will have an Internet-connected computer on his/her desk. Dates: 2-4 May 2004 and 6-8 May 2004 Venue: M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Sambasivan Auditorium The Faculty: The workshop will be conducted by the following four experts, known for their commitment to promoting this technology worldwide: Prof. Leslie Chan of the University of Toronto and Bioline International, Dr Leslie Carr of the University of Southampton, Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow Publications, Mumbai, and Dr T B Rajashekar of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. All of them have considerable hands-on experience in open access. Participants: Higher educational institutions and government research laboratories (under the different Councils and Departments) may nominate candidates in the prescribed form. [Heads of these institutions may kindly ensure that an institutional archive is set up within three months after the conclusion of the workshop]. 4048 candidates will be selected. Participants will either be scientists or be librarians. The important thing is they should be computer savvy and committed to the cause of open access and be able to persuade scientists (faculty and students) in their respective institutions to place their research papers in the archives. Guest speakers: We are inviting Prof. M S Swaminathan, Prof. M S Valiathan, Dr R A Mashelkar and Prof. P Balaram to give guest lectures (on how they, as working scientists, view open access). Two of them will address the participants of the first workshop and the other two the second workshop
Re: Workshop on Open Access
a centralized archive called arXiv, which has more than 15 mirror sites including one located in India (Matscience, Chennai). There are several other centralized archives such as Cogprints (for cognitive sciences), CiteSeer (for computer science) and RePEc (for economics). RePEc is not a centralized archive. It is an archival system that has itself more than 350 archives contributing to it. CiteSeer is not an archive at all. Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
Re: ALPSP Workshop on Open Access Journals, 13 September
The report of the very interesting and constructive ALPSP/Open Society = Institute 'round table' meeting on Open Access Journals is now available = at http://www.alpsp.org/s130902.htm Sally Sally Morris, Secretary-General Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Phone: 01903 871686 Fax: 01903 871457 E-mail: sec-...@alpsp.org ALPSP Website http://www.alpsp.org Learned Publishing is now online, free of charge, at = www.learned-publishing.org
ALPSP Workshop on Open Access Journals, 13 September
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Leslie Carr wrote: I'm speaking at an ALPSP workshop on Thursday about Open Access Journals ie why OA is good for scholars. I can recount the usual blurb on OA, but I'm probably a little inexperienced on talking about OA journals. Do you have some slides/articles from which I can steal some erudite and pertinent points? Hi Les, There are two open-access strategies, BOAI-1 (self-archiving) and BOAI-2 (open-access journals). For BOAI-1, I suggest you take your material from: (1) the self-archiving FAQ http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ (2) The transition scenario http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399we152.htm and (3) some of Tim's talks about ways to accelerate self-archiving (e.g., citebase) and STeve Hitchcock's For BOAI-2, I suggest you take your material from: (1) Peter's BOAI Faq http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals (2) BioMed Central (I hope Jan Velertrop will send you links) (3) PLoS (I hope Mike Eisen will send you some links). (4) Mike Jewell's and Chris's work on PsycPrints http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ The relation between BOAI-1 and BOAI-2 (in my view) is this: a. Open access is extremely important and desirable for researchers and research because it maximizes visibility, accessibility, usage, impact, and hence the productivity of researchers and research itself. b. Open access is already greatly overdue, so the question -- for research and researchers -- is not whether but when (or rather, how to make it happen as soon as possible). c. Open access is already accessible immediately through BOAI-1 (self-archiving), so all researchers need to be encouraged to do that (eprints.org and citebase are among the resources we have created to help encourage them) and will be. (Get some previews of citebase evaluation results from Tim Steve?) d. Open access can also be had via BOAI-2, and the two strategies work in concert, with BOAI-1 preparing the ground for BOAI-2. e. BOAI-2 is initially more indirect than BOAI-1, because it first requires either the founding of new open-access journals or the conversion of existing toll-access journals to open-access. However, it is without a doubt the final state toward which the open-access movement is heading, with all toll-access journals ultimately converted to open-access. f. It would be good for ALPSP publishers already to study the economic model and modus operandi of OA journals such as those of BioMed Central, to prepare and plan for the future. g. The future is meanwhile being ushered in by both the existing OA journals (BOAI-2) and by BOAI-1 (self-archiving), which is opening access to the literature in advance of any conversions by publishers from toll-access to open-access. h. BOAI-2 startups and conversions are being subsidized by BOAI grants http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants-journals.shtml and other funding initiatives (like Pat Brown's http://makeashorterlink.com/?C1D913DA1 ) i. BOAI-1 institutional archives are being fostered by consortia such as SPARC http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html and the various JISC institutional archiving projects. (Mention the Eprints/Ingenta partnership?) j. Momentum is increasing: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2212.html background to the audience: The audience will consist of about 20 publishers, predominantly but not entirely not-for-profit (societies, university presses etc). I think there will, indeed, be considerable anxiety about the potential impact on their business of an Open Access publishing model; The best (and only) advice that can be given them is (1) to prepare for it (2) not to try to block it (it will only rebound against them in the end, for it is futile in the face of the overwhelming and undeniable benefits to research and researchers made possible by open access) (3) to be assured that there will always be a permanent niche (though a transformed, downsized one) for open-access journal publishers. BioMed Central journals are examples. I am sure this will surface volubly during the plentiful discussion periods; even the not-for-profit publishers are often heavily dependent on publishing 'surpluses' (polite name for profits!) to fund their other activities - conferences, scholarships, etc. Be quite frank with them: Ask them quite directly and explicitly whether they imagine that researchers will knowingly CHOOSE to give up their research impact in order to fund conferences and schilarships, once they are made aware of the cause/effect contingencies (and they WILL be made aware). Tell them it is the reality of the potential that the online medium has now made available about which you are coming to talk to them, and that the solution for ALPSP publishers is not to hope that researchers will somehow fail to notice or to take advantage of this new and real potential, now that it's there, in order to preserve either publishers' revenue streams, publishers' old
