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Hi Paige and all - I just responded to this thread on our Digital Commons Google Group, but I wanted to make sure I send this out to the folks on the this list as well. I expect you'll soon get a response from others on the list as well as our advisory board, but I thought I'd add a few notes from our end that can clarify a few points: Since joining Elsevier, we have been looking for ways to leverage our position to help our customers get access to their faculty content and make it available as part of their open access IR initiatives. This pilot is a first step in that direction. As you know, any content on your Digital Commons platform belongs to the institution and is completely portable. Instead of enclosing works within a closed we ecosystem, we believe that this pilot explores the opposite - the potential of making a greater amount of content openly available. John, to answer your question, the content we are looking at making open access isn't just from one publisher, but represents the a really broad swath and is determined by what faculty post on SSRN. In designing the pilot, we have been very much customer-driven. Our customers, particularly those who face reluctance from faculty to engage in their IR fearing that they will be penalized in their rankings, have long asked for more interoperability with SSRN. For this pilot, we asked our participants what they'd like, and what they wouldn't and that's what we are setting out to explore. Actual integration plans will depend on what the results are, again from the perspective of the customer. Finally, our integrations with products like SSRN and soon with Plum are being pursued agnostically. What does this mean? Heres' an example: PlumX metrics will soon be available on DC article pages; however, you'll be able to opt-out, have Altmetrics badges in addition or instead, or just stick to your current download counts. Hopefully this also clarifies Gregg Gordon's quote: if the pilot’s results are positive, SSRN can see the potential of similar integration with other repository platforms. If anyone has questions about the pilot, I'm happy to talk to you more. Please reach out to me at my email at pchatte...@bepress.com. Promita -- Promita Chatterji Product Marketing Manager bepress *From: *"John G. Dove" <johngd...@gmail.com> *Date: *Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 9:11 AM *To: *Promita Chatterji <pchatte...@bepress.com> *Cc: *"scholc...@lists.ala.org" <scholc...@lists.ala.org> *Subject: *Re: [SCHOLCOMM] bepress and SSRN Announce Integration Pilot with Columbia and University of Georgia Law Schools Promita, You say that "One goal of the pilot is to support open access initiatives by helping libraries quickly populate their institutional repositories". This begs the question "populate from where"? If it is only populating from one publisher, this is not Open Access. My question is, have you engaged any set of publishers to make sure that your solutions allow any and all publishers to provide things like free-auto-deposit using appropriate standards like SWORD 1.3? -john dove _________________ John G. Dove, personal e-mail johngd...@gmail.com Check out my latest post on LinkedIn: Not all Open Content is fully Discoverable <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-open-content-discoverable-john-dove?> _________________ John G. Dove, personal e-mail johngd...@gmail.com Check out my latest post on LinkedIn: Not all Open Content is fully Discoverable <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-open-content-discoverable-john-dove?> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Chatterji, Promita (ELS-BKY) < pchatte...@bepress.com> wrote: **apologies for cross-posting** bepress and SSRN Announce Integration Pilot with Columbia and University of Georgia Law Schools Bepress <http://bepress.com/> and SSRN <https://www.ssrn.com/en/> are pleased to announce a joint pilot to explore integration between their two platforms. The four-month pilot launches today with the participation of Columbia Law School’s Arthur W. Diamond Law Library and University of Georgia School of Law’s Library. Both bepress and SSRN are eager to explore potential solutions to the obstacles that professional schools and their libraries face in promoting their open access scholarship. The initial pilot offers one possible model for demonstrating the increased reach of legal scholarship when work is available through an open access repository as well as a specialized network of peers, by simplifying population of and aggregating research impact from both platforms. “We are incredibly excited to launch this project,” stated Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Managing Director at bepress. “It is the first step in our vision to work together with others in the Elsevier ecosystem in order to better support our community with their open access initiatives.” Columbia Law School Library Director Kent McKeever noted, “this is exactly the kind of synergy that I was hoping to see now that both products are under the Elsevier umbrella.” With Elsevier’s acquisition of bepress in August 2017, both platforms are now part of the Elsevier portfolio. One goal of the pilot is to support open access initiatives by helping libraries quickly populate their institutional repositories. SSRN and bepress will explore ways to easily transfer research articles, enabling this scholarship to become part of an institution’s open access collections. “Integrating these two platforms will reduce some of the hurdles to making law faculties’ scholarship freely available through open access,” states Carol Watson, Director of the Law Library at the University of Georgia. The pilot also tests potential benefits for authors. Bankier states, “we believe that authors should be able to get credit for their readership, regardless of whether an article is downloaded from bepress’s Digital Commons or SSRN.” As Watson puts it, the integration will lead to a “more accurate assessment of the true impact of their legal scholarship” by harnessing the discovery power that is at the heart of both platforms. SSRN and bepress are leading names in the law scholarship, with thousands of authors and readers who interact with both platforms; as such, the pilot has the potential to have a significant impact in the law sector. Finally, the pilot explores ways to make life easier for libraries and staff who use both systems. SSRN and bepress will work with library staff at both campuses to obtain faculty permission and experiment with various submission models, including single submission, toward the goal of discovering solutions that help researchers and institutions simplify their processes. Gregg Gordon, the Managing Director for SSRN, notes, “we look forward to the results of this work; if our community finds this kind of integration with institutional repositories valuable, and if the pilot is replicable at scale, we will explore expanding pilots with other institutional repository platforms beyond Digital Commons.” The pilot is slated to run from March to June of 2018; bepress and SSRN plan to share their findings at the American Association of Law Libraries in July as well as in other public forums following the conference. For further information about the pilots, please contact Promita Chatterji at pchatte...@bepress.com. -- Promita Chatterji Product Marketing Manager bepress
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