Wann? 13.-14.02.2019 Wo? Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Die Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München lädt ein zur Tagung „Bibliothek – Qualifikation – Perspektiven“ am 13. und 14.2.2019 in München. Die Tagung greift dab…
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COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) responds to Plan S #cOAlitionS #repositories #openaccess
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COAR’s response to Plan S On September 4, 2018, a coalition of research funders in Europe published Plan S, an ambitious plan to accelerate Open Access in Europe. COAR welcomes the strong stance taken towards open access by a coalition … Weiterle…
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Merry work: libraries and citizen science #openaccess #libraries #citizenscience
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Ignat, T., Ayris, P., Labastida i Juan, I., Reilly, S., Dorch, B., Kaarsted, T., & Overgaard, A. K. (2018). Merry work: libraries and citizen science. Insights, 31, 35. http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.431 Abstract: This article highlights important new…
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Bulock: Crowdfunding for Open Access #openaccess
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Chris Bulock (2018): Crowdfunding for Open Access. Serials Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/00987913.2018.1472477 Funding open access publications is often a difficult problem, especially when authors may not have sufficient funds to support a project. …
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A Gold road paved with good intentions? What Plan S implies for Humanities OA book publishing #openaccess #cOAlitionS #planS #Humanities
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A Gold road paved with good intentions? What Plan S implies for Humanities OA book publishing Eleven European countries, the Netherlands among them, have formulated a plan to enforce Open Access for all research publications by 2020, and so curb ……
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Filmvorführung: „Paywall – The Business of Scholarship“ (Wien, 25.10.2018) #openaccess
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Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit …
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‘Publication favela’ or bibliodiversity? Open access publishing viewed from a European perspective #openaccess
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Pierre Mounier (2018): ‘Publication favela’ or bibliodiversity? Open access publishing viewed from a European perspective. Learned Publishing 51(S1), 299-305. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1194 A number of initiatives exist in European countries to supp…
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African university presses and the institutional logic of the knowledge commons #openaccess
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Thierry M. Luescher, François van Schalkwyk (2018): African university presses and the institutional logic of the knowledge commons. Learned Publishing 51(S1), 288-298. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1187 This article investigates the current status and …
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Watkinson: The academic eBook ecosystem reinvigorated. A perspective from the USA #openaccess
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Charles Watkinson (2018): The academic eBook ecosystem reinvigorated. A perspective from the USA. Learned Publishing 51(S1), 280-287. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1185 The development of infrastructure to support new forms of long‐form digital scholars…
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Is It Such a Big Deal? On the Cost of Journal Use in the Digital Era #openaccess
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Shu, F., Mongeon, P., Haustein, S., Siler, K., Alperin, J., & Larivière, V. (2018). Is It Such a Big Deal? On the Cost of Journal Use in the Digital Era. College & Research Libraries, 79(6), 785. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.79.6.785 Commercial …
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Faculty Perceptions of Plagiarism: Insight for Librarians‘ Information Literacy Programs #openaccess
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Michalak, R., Rysavy, M., Hunt, K., Smith, B., & Worden, J. (2018). Faculty Perceptions of Plagiarism: Insight for Librarians‘ Information Literacy Programs. College & Research Libraries, 79(6), 747. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.79.6.747 U…
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Heather Joseph: Securing community-controlled infrastructure: SPARC’s plan of action @hjoseph @SPARC_NA #openaccess
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Heather Joseph (2018). Securing community-controlled infrastructure: SPARC’s plan of action. College & Research Libraries News, 79(8), 426. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.8.426 Late last year, the news of Elsevier’s acquisition of bepress, the…
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„Intellectual property rights, data privacy and licensing tools: Theory and practice“ – ACDH Tool Gallery 4.2 (Vienna, October 25 2018) @ACDH_OeAW @DH_Graz
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Intellectual property rights, data privacy and licensing tools: Theory and practice When? October 25, 2018 Where? Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna, Sitzungssaal In the digital age, legal questions have become one of t…
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Gore: A Brief History of Data Visualization (and the role of libraries and librarians) #openaccess
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Gore, Sally A.. 2018. „A Brief History of Data Visualization (and the role of libraries and librarians).“ Journal of eScience Librarianship 7(1): e1135. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2018.1135 Abstract: Graphics, illustrations, charts, and…
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Briney: Gaining Competency. Learning to Teach Data Visualization #openaccess
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Briney, Kristin A.. 2018. „Gaining Competency: Learning to Teach Data Visualization.“ Journal of eScience Librarianship 7(1): e1116. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2018.1116 Abstract: Data services librarians are often faced with local need…
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Ogier, Stamper: Data Visualization as a Library Service. Embedding Visualization Services in the Library Research Lifecycle #openaccess
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Ogier, Andrea L., and Michael J. Stamper. 2018. „Data Visualization as a Library Service: Embedding Visualization Services in the Library Research Lifecycle.“ Journal of eScience Librarianship 7(1): e1126. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.201…
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Kristin Briney: The Problem with Dates. Applying ISO 8601 to Research Data Management #rdm #openaccess
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Briney, Kristin A.. 2018. „The Problem with Dates: Applying ISO 8601 to Research Data Management.“ Journal of eScience Librarianship 7(2): e1147. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2018.1147 Abstract: Dates appear regularly in research data and…
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Opening Science. The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing #openaccess #openscience
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Sönke Bartling, Sascha Friesike (Eds.): Opening Science. The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing. Springer, Cham: Heidelberg et al. 2018. 978-3-319-00025-1 (print), 978-3-319-00026-8 (online)….
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Stuart A. Lawson: Open Access Policy in the UK: From Neoliberalism to the Commons #openaccess
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Stuart Andrew Lawson: Open Access Policy in the UK: From Neoliberalism to the Commons [Doctoral thesis, Birkbeck, University of London]. Available at: http://stuartlawson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2018-09-03-Lawson-thesis.pdf This thesis makes a c…
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Peter Suber (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard): Thoughts on Plan S #openaccess #cOAlitionS
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Thoughts on Plan S […] Overview. The plan is admirably strong. It aims to cover all European research, in the sciences and in the humanities, at the EU level and the member-state level. It’s a plan for a mandate, not … Weiterlesen …
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Engaged Citizenship through Campus-Level Democratic Processes: A Librarian and Graduate Student Collaboration on Open Access Policy Adoption #openaccess
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Cantrell, M. & Johnson, A., (2018). Engaged Citizenship through Campus-Level Democratic Processes: A Librarian and Graduate Student Collaboration on Open Access Policy Adoption. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. 6(2), p.eP2229. …
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Liberation through Cooperation: How Library Publishing Can Save Scholarly Journals from Neoliberalism #openaccess
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Ghamandi, D.S., (2018). Liberation through Cooperation: How Library Publishing Can Save Scholarly Journals from Neoliberalism. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. 6(2), p.eP2223. DOI: http://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2223 This comment…
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World Librarians: A Peer-to-Peer Commons for Closing the Global Digital Divide
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Schweik, C., Smith, J., & Meyer, C. (2018). World Librarians: A Peer-to-Peer Commons for Closing the Global Digital Divide. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 6(2), eP2249. DOI: http://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2249 INTRODUCTION …
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Science without publication paywalls. cOAlition S for the realisation of full and immediate Open Access #cOAlitionS #openaccess
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Marc Schiltz (2018): Science without publication paywalls. cOAlition S for the realisation of full and immediate Open Access. PLoS Biology 16(9): e3000031. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000031 Open access is foundational to the scientific enter…
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Symposium „Von der historischen Bibliothek zur Bibliothek der Zukunft“ (Wien, 24.-25.9.2018)
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Von der historischen Bibliothek zur Bibliothek der Zukunft 2018 feiert die Österreichische Nationalbibliothek ihr 650-Jahr-Jubiläum. Aus diesem Anlass lädt sie zu einem wissenschaftlichen Symposium: „Bibliotheken neu denken. Von der historischen Bibli…
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Symposium „Von der historischen Bibliothek zur Bibliothek der Zukunft“ (Wien, 24.-25.9.2018)
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Von der historischen Bibliothek zur Bibliothek der Zukunft 2018 feiert die Österreichische Nationalbibliothek ihr 650-Jahr-Jubiläum. Aus diesem Anlass lädt sie zu einem wissenschaftlichen Symposium: „Bibliotheken neu denken. Von der historischen Bibli…
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Europäische Forschungsförderungsorganisationen starten „cOALition S“ #openaccess
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„What is cOALition S? On 4 September 2018, 11 national research funding organisation, with the support of the European Commission including the European Research Council (ERC), announced the launch of cOAlition S, an initiative to make full and i…
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Towards Open Access Self Archiving Policies: A Case Study of COAR
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Roy, B.K., Biswas, S.C. & Mukhopadhyay, P., (2018). Towards Open Access Self Archiving Policies: A Case Study of COAR. LIBER Quarterly. 28(1). http://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10227 This paper examines Open Access (OA) self archiving policies of differen…
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Open Access Books: an international collaboration to explore the practical implications for librarians of increasing access to scholarly research outputs
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ZHOU, Elsie and ERRELIN, Leon and OAKLEY, Sam and SMYTH, Neil (2018) Open Access Books: an international collaboration to explore the practical implications for librarians of increasing access to scholarly research outputs. Paper presented at: IFLA WLI…
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OPERAS Multilingualism White Paper #openaccess #scholcomm
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Delfim Leão, Marina Angelaki, Andrea Bertino, Suzanne Dumouchel & Frédéric Vidal. (2018). OPERAS Multilingualism White Paper. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1324026 Scholarly publication is indisputably boosted by the use of the English lang…
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OPERAS Advocacy White Paper #openaccess
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Elisabeth Heinemann, Andrea Bertino, Francesca Di Donato, Aysa Ekanger, Elena Giglia, Barbara Jędraszko, Michael Kaiser, Lisa Matthias, Alessia Smaniotto (2018): OPERAS Advocacy White Paper. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1324036 This White Pape…
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OPERAS Common Standards White Paper #openaccess
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Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou, Marina Angelaki, Eelco Ferwerda, Paola Galimberti, Arnaud Gingold, Pierre Mounier & Ronald Snijder (2018): OPERAS Common Standards White Paper. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1324066 The OPERAS Working Group for C…
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OPERAS Tools Research and Development White Paper #openaccess
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Arnaud Gingold, Francesca Di Donato, Patrick Gendre, Elena Giglia, Maciej Maryl, Tom Mowlam, Ghislain Sillaume, Heather Staines, Sofie Wennström (2018): OPERAS Tools Research and Development White Paper. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1324110 T…
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OPERAS Platforms and Services White Paper #openaccess
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Pierre Mounier, Eelco Ferwerda, Suzanne Dumouchel, Rupert Gatti, Arnaud Gingold, Dasa Radovic, Alessia Smaniotto, Jadranka Stojanovski, Saskia de Vries, Leo Waaijers (2018): OPERAS Platforms and Services White Paper. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zeno…
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OPERAS Open Access Business Models White Paper
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Lara Speicher, Lorenzo Armando, Margo Bargheer, Martin Paul Eve, Sven Fund, Delfim Leão, Max Mosterd, Frances Pinter, Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou (2018): OPERAS Open Access Business Models White Paper. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323708 The w…
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How to reach a wider audience with Open Access publishing: what research universities can learn from universities of applied sciences. #openaccess
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Woutersen-Windhouwer, S. & Kuijper, J., (2018). How to reach a wider audience with open access publishing: what research universities can learn from universities of applied sciences. LIBER Quarterly. 28(1), pp.1–13. http://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10237…
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„Reimagining the Library“: Jon Roylance gives an architect’s view on the future of academic libraries as contemporary spaces on campus
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Jon Roylance explores new ways of thinking about university libraries Libraries can be so much more. At universities across the country, libraries are now a place where people meet, learn, exchange information, and be together. They are a place where &…
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Falter: „Nicht alles, was wie Wissenschaft aussieht, ist Wissenschaft“
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Die Grazer Fake-Journal-Expertinnen Karin Lackner und Clara Ginther über die Tricks unseriöser Verlage, naive Wissenschaftler und wie man sich vor Wissenschaftsbetrügern schützen kann… Zum ganzen Artikel geht’s hier: https://www.falter.at/a…
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Kulturhackathon (St. Pölten, 20.–22. September 2018) #OpenGLAM
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Open-up and Create! Der zweite Kulturhackathon in Österreich folgt dem Prinzip „Öffnet eure Daten und seid kreativ damit!“ und findet von 20.–22. September 2018 an der FH St. Pölten statt. Das Wort Hackathon setzt sich aus „hacken“ und „Marathon“ zusam…
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Leveraging Elsevier’s Creative Commons License Requirement to Undermine Embargoes #openaccess
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Josh Bolick (2018): Leveraging Elsevier’s Creative Commons License Requirement to Undermine Embargoes. Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 2(2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v2i2.7415 In the last round of author-sharing policy r…