[GOAL] Re: Open Access in Latin America: A paragon for the rest of the world
For those interested in sharing the message that Kathleen Shearer shared with this list earlier this morning (Open Access in Latin America: A paragon for the rest of the world), you can find the statement published on The Winnower http://thewinnower.com at the following URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15200/winn.143982.27959 Thanks. juan On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Kathleen Shearer m.kathleen.shea...@gmail.com wrote: Open Access in Latin America: A paragon for the rest of the world August 17, 2015 Latin America is one of the world’s most progressive regions in terms of open access and adoption of sustainable, cooperative models for disseminating research; models that ensure that researchers and citizens have access to the results of research conducted in their region. SciELO is a remarkable decentralized publishing platform harboring over 1,200 peer-reviewed journals from fifteen countries located in four continents - South America. Central-North America, Europe and Africa. Redalyc, based in Mexico, is another extraordinary system hosting almost 1,000 journals from fourteen Latin American countries plus Spain and Portugal. Governments around the world spend billions of dollars on infrastructure to support research excellence; platforms such as SciELO and Redalyc are extensions of this much larger investments in research. They reflect an enlightened understanding in Latin America that the wide dissemination of and access to research results is as important as the research itself. The rest of the world would do well to take note. In a recent blog post, these two initiatives were discredited by Jeffrey Beall. In the post, Beall compared the two publishing platforms to favelas, resulting in a mean-spirited insult to both favela dwellers on the one hand, and SciELO and Redalyc on the other. Rather than maligning these initiatives, they should be held up as examples of best practice for the rest of the world. Furthermore, just because some in North America do not know about SciELO and Redalyc does not render them irrelevant. This is an extremely elitist and narrow view of the world. Although these platforms may not be well known in some places, SciELO and Redalyc do raise the visibility and accessibility of the journals they host, particularly with their local communities. If these journals were published by the big commercial publishers, the vast majority of researchers in Latin America would simply not have access to the articles in those journals. What value is visibility, if people cannot access the articles? One of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which were finalized on August 1, 2015, is to “Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”. Both Scielo and Redalyc are excellent exemplars of this type of infrastructure. These types of networked meta-publishers allow for central governance of policies, procedures and controls, but are intentionally decentralized to support the development of local capacity and infrastructure ensuring greater sustainability and alignment with local policies and priorities. What Beall advocates for, namely to let powerful foreign players come in and take over local capacity building, is exactly the opposite of what sustainable development is about. For these reasons, we believe that SciELO and Redalyc are very nice neighbourhoods indeed! Signed by, Juan Pablo Alperin, Public Knowledge Project and Simon Fraser University, Canada Dominique Babini, CLACSO, Argentina Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada Eve Gray, University of Cape Town, South Africa Jean-Claude Guédon, University of Montréal, Canada Heather Joseph, SPARC, United States Eloy Rodrigues, University of Minho, Portugal Kathleen Shearer, COAR, Canada/Germany Hebe Vessuri, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Instituto Patagónico de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Argentina ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Call for postdoctoral applications – Understanding the societal impact of research through social media
*Apologies for cross-posting. Original announcement here <http://goo.gl/JKnOyE>: http://goo.gl/JKnOyE* The Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing <http://publishing.sfu.ca/research/> is soliciting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship on a SSHRC-funded project entitled “Understanding the societal impact of research through social media.” As the communication of research increasingly takes place on social media platforms, there is enormous potential to capture and analyze digital traces left by scholars. This offers, for the first time, the opportunity to study—using both quantitative and qualitative methods—the processes of knowledge dissemination and co-creation between academia and the public. Taking advantage of this opportunity, this project asks: What is the nature and extent of societal impact of research that can be observed through the public’s engagement with research on social media? Led by Juan Pablo Alperin <http://alperin.ca/> (Simon Fraser University), the team brings together the two main poles of research on scholarly communication in Canada: the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and the Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University, as well as the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication at the Université de Montréal (Stefanie Haustein and Vincent Larivière). Collaborators also include the UQAM Research Chair on Digital Technologies Uses and Changes in Communication (Florence Millerand) and the Simon Fraser University School of Communication (Katherine Reilly). *Target start date:* July 1st, 2016 (flexible) *Duration:* one year, renewable *Salary:* Commensurate with experience *Location:* Simon Fraser University, Canada (Downtown Vancouver Campus) *Deadline for applications:* Open until filled. For full consideration, apply by June 1st, 2016 Applicants should send a CV, cover letter, statement of research interest (1 page), as well as the names and contact information of 2 references to Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin (j...@alperin.ca). ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] PKP AGM live now
For those interested, the Public Knowledge Project (creators of Open Journal Systems) is currently hosting its Annual General Meeting. The live stream has just started. Join us! https://t.co/IBSg6cFmvq ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Help us! Review Tenure and Promotion Guidelines
Hello all, Over and over I heard that openness would be easier if only the incentive systems were better aligned with the principles of openness. That is why I have teamed up with Erin McKiernan (UNAM) and Meredith Niles (UVM) to study the Review, Tenure and Promotion <https://www.scholcommlab.ca/research/rpt-project/> (RPT) process. One of our goals is to make recommendations on how this process may be changed to better encourage openness. We are collecting and analyzing RPT documents from a random sample of 150+ institutions from the US and Canada. The project team has collected many university-wide RPT policies, but we have fewer *discipline-specific/department guidelines* that are sometimes given to faculty. We *need your help*. Please have a look at the list of institutions <https://www.scholcommlab.ca/research/rpt-project/progress> in our sample. I have two questions/requests: 1. Does your department/discipline have specific guidelines beyond the university ones? ---If yes, could you send me any such documents from your department to rpt-proj...@sfu.ca (they should be blank, not completed forms)? ---If no, could you write us and tell us anyway? 2. Could you forward this request, or use the email template here <https://www.scholcommlab.ca/research/rpt-project/help-us>, to colleagues at any of the institutions on the list? Finally, if you are interested in the outcomes of the research project to better understand how your institutions’ RPT guidelines may compare with other institutions, please sign up to the ScholCommLab's mailing list <https://www.scholcommlab.ca/sign-up-for-updates/>. Thanks in advance! Juan Pablo Alperin Assistant Professor, Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing Associate Director, Public Knowledge Project Simon Fraser University ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
Re: [GOAL] GOAL Digest, Vol 72, Issue 18
Related to the new resource from SPARC on Big Deal cancellations, allow me to share our recently published paper on the decreasing value that academic libraries get from Big Deals that bundle together a lot of journals that are rarely cited. Shu, F., Mongeon, P., Haustein, S., Siler, K., Alperin, J.P., Larivière, V. Is it such a big deal? On the cost of journal use in the digital era. *College & Research Libraries. *Available at http://crl.acrl.org/index.php/ crl/article/view/16829 Juan Pablo Alperin Assistant Professor, Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing Associate Director, Public Knowledge Project Simon Fraser University On 30 November 2017 at 04:00, <goal-requ...@eprints.org> wrote: > Send GOAL mailing list submissions to > goal@eprints.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > goal-requ...@eprints.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > goal-ow...@eprints.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of GOAL digest..." > > Today's Topics: > >1. Fwd: New SPARC Resource: Big Deal Cancellations (Richard Poynder) > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Richard Poynder <richard.poyn...@gmail.com> > To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal@eprints.org> > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 07:29:19 + > Subject: [GOAL] Fwd: New SPARC Resource: Big Deal Cancellations > Forwarding from SPARC via the Liblicense mailing list. > > >> > > SPARC is pleased to release a new resource > <https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-cancellation-tracking/> > exploring a growing trend within the global library community - the > cancellation of so-called "big deals" (large bundles of journal titles sold > at a discount off of aggregate list price). The goals of this resource are > threefold: to contextualize why a growing number of libraries worldwide > have undertaken big deal assessments and cancellations; to detail what > specifics steps libraries have taken to "cut the cord"; and to provide > practical resources for libraries interested in evaluating collection > strategies, honing value-for-money calculations, integrating faculty input > into the process, and negotiating an exit from big deals. The resource > includes a detailed look at what more than two dozen libraries from all > around the world have done to assess and adjust their approaches to these > bundled subscription schemes. > > We invite you to both explore SPARC's big deal cancellation resource > <https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-cancellation-tracking/>, and to > add your voice to the dialog. If you have experience in evaluating and > cancelling subscription journal bundles, please let us know if we can add > your data to the resource. Additionally, if you are at a library > considering its own big deal assessment and could benefit from the insight > of your peers, please don't hesitate to contact SPARC for guidance. > > *** > > > ___ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Announcing the ScholCommLab’s Visiting Scholar Program
Hello List! The research group I co-direct is looking to host some visiting scholars. Faculty, postdocs and graduate students welcome to apply! Funding is available for a few positions. See below for details. Would appreciate help spreading the word by forwarding this email to anyone you think might be interested, or by retweeting this <https://twitter.com/juancommander/status/1030524252255145984>. Look forward to reading your applications! Juan Pablo Alperin Assistant Professor, Publishing Associate Director, Public Knowledge Project Co-Director, Scholarly Communications Lab Simon Fraser University Apologies for cross-posting Are you passionate about understanding the role of scholarly communication in the digital age? Are you interested in pursuing some of the most interesting questions about how knowledge is produced, disseminated, and used? The Scholarly Communications Lab is excited to announce the launch of our Visiting Scholar Program <http://scholcommlab.ca/join-us/visiting-scholar-program>, a new initiative that offers faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students from across the world the opportunity to collaborate with us on a joint research project of their choosing. Through the program, visiting scholars will be invited to join us for several months at either of our two locations in Ottawa and Vancouver, Canada, to conduct their research. To Apply We are accepting applications for the Visiting Scholar Program until September 30, 2018. For more information, or to apply, visit scholcommlab.ca/join-us/visiting-scholar-program/ <https://www.scholcommlab.ca/join-us/visiting-scholar-program/>. About Us The ScholCommLab is a research group that analyzes all aspects of scholarly communication in the digital age, co-directed by Juan Pablo Alperin and Stefanie Haustein. We are affiliated with and physically located at the Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University and the School of Information Studies at the University of Ottawa, as well as with PKP and CIRST. Find out more at scholcommlab.ca <https://www.scholcommlab.ca/>. Kind regards, Stefanie Haustein & Juan Pablo Alperin Co-directors, ScholCommLab ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Seeking Visiting Scholar for project about preprints uptake and use
Are you passionate about science communication, preprint practices, and scholarly networks? Are you interested in collaborating with our international team of scholarly communications researchers? The ScholCommLab <http://scholcommlab.ca> and ASAPbio <http://asapbio.org/> are seeking a Visiting Scholar to collaborate with us on a project about preprints uptake and use (details below). This funded position is open to faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students interested in joining us for a 2-4 month research stay at our lab in downtown Vancouver, Canada. *About the Project* Preprinting in the life sciences has grown rapidly in recent years but still represents a very small fraction (<3%) of the biomedical literature published each year. Existing data sources and monitors present indicators of growth in broad research areas and large regions. However, more localised and specific data is needed to support many different communities to have conversations about the productive use of preprints and to identify best practices in preprinting — both are key functions in ASAPbio’s work to advance preprinting in the life sciences. ASAPbio and the ScholCommLab are collaborating to better understand the status of preprint adoption and impact in specific research communities. More information about the project is available here <https://www.scholcommlab.ca/join-us/vsp-preprints/>. *To Apply* We are accepting applications until the position is filled, but please apply with a cover letter, CV, and two references (name and contact information only) by Mar 15, 2019 for full consideration in the program. For more information, vist www.scholcommlab.ca/join-us/vsp-preprints. *About Us* The ScholCommLab is a research group that analyzes all aspects of scholarly communication in the digital age. Find out more at scholcommlab.ca <https://www.scholcommlab.ca/>. ASAPbio is a scientist-driven non-profit promoting transparency and innovation in life science communication. Find out more at asapbio.org. Kind regards, Juan Pablo Alperin Co-director, ScholCommLab & Naomi Penfold Associate Director, ASAPbio ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] PKP is looking for a new Managing Director
Hello all, While it is hard to imagine life going back to normal at this point, the Public Knowledge Project has begun a search for a new Managing Director. This is an incredible opportunity for someone to help lead this important project. The successful applicant will be hired into a continuing position as the Head of the Digital Publishing Division at the SFU Library. Please consider applying and help spread the word!! Full posting here <https://www.lib.sfu.ca/system/files/26347/2020_managing_director_pkp_and_head_sfu_library_digital_publishing.pdf>. For an easy way to spread the word, you can share this tweet <https://twitter.com/pkp/status/1245420336364916737>. Juan Pablo Alperin Assistant Professor, Publishing <https://publishing.sfu.ca/> Associate Director, Public Knowledge Project <https://pkp.sfu.ca/> Director, Scholarly Communications Lab <https://www.scholcommlab.ca/> Simon Fraser University ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
