Open Access monographs: from policy to reality. A one day symposium
Fancy a full day's exploration of Open Monographs? There are still a few places left for our one-day symposium on “Open Access monographs: from policy to reality” which will take place on Wednesday 2 October 2019 at St Catharine’s College, McGrath Centre, Cambridge.
Keynote speakers include Professor Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck, University of London) and Professor Margot Finn (President of the Royal Historical Society) with the panel discussions featuring representatives from Research England, The Wellcome Trust, academic experts on the subject and representatives from various publishing houses. The panel discussions will aim to create a forum for researchers to express the challenges and benefits they foresee if open access monographs become a requirement.
Take part in a lively discussion of ideologies, realities, controversies, experiences and more. Check out the full event programme and book your place now! We look forward to seeing you.
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Springer Nature and Projekt DEAL strike Open Access agreement
Springer Nature and Projekt DEAL, which represents nearly 700 academic institutions in Germany, have reached an understanding on the world's largest transformative Open Access agreement.
The final contract will run from 2020 to 2022 with an option to extend to 2023 and the agreement is expected to see more than 13,000 articles a year from German researchers published OA. For 2020, the Publish and Read (PAR) component of the deal is based on OA publication of at least 9,500 articles and grants participating institutions with permanent reading access to 1,900 journals in the Springer, Palgrave, Adis and Macmillan portfolios.
RDA and COAR collaborate to progress research data management internationally
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) have announced an agreement to work together to strengthen and expand capacities for research data management within the international data repository community.
COAR and RDA have a shared mission to improve access and use of research outputs, leading to better research and new discoveries. As part of this agreement, the organisations intend to coordinate more closely on strategic initiatives of shared interest, regularly exchange information about activities, and conduct joint webinars and events to support common aims.
Additional information about each organisation, including upcoming events, may be found on the RDA website and the COAR website.
Independent report and transformative agreement toolkit launched to support Learned Society publishers transition to immediate Open Access and align with Plan S
This work was funded by Wellcome Trust and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – two UK members of cOAlition S – working in partnership with the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). It is part of a range of activity that cOAlition S partners are taking forward to support the implementation of Plan S principles. An independent study and report were commissioned in response to concerns of learned society publishers reliant on the hybrid OA publishing model and worried about the uneven availability of funding to pay for OA Article Processing Charges.
Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
Research funders from France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and eight other European nations have unveiled a radical open-access initiative that could change the face of science publishing in two years - and which has instantly provoked protest from publishers.
Next Gen Library Publishing partnership awarded $2.2M Arcadia grant to improve scholarly publishing infrastructure
Through this project, Educopia and its partner institutions - California Digital Library (CDL), Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), Longleaf Services, LYRASIS, and Strategies for Open Science (Stratos) - will provide new publishing pathways for authors, editors, and readers by advancing and integrating open source publishing infrastructure to provide robust support for library publishing.
WHO joins coalition for free digital access to health research
On 29 August WHO (World Health Organisation) announced it is the first of the United Nations agencies to join a coalition of research funders and charitable foundations (cOAlition S), an initiative to make full and immediate open access to research publications a reality. cOAlition S is built around Plan S, which consists of ten principles to ensure that the results from publicly-funded research, must be published in Open Access journals, on Open Access platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access repositories without embargo.
Researchers engaged in text/data mining (TDM) are blocked by some publishers’ websites that are protected by technical protection measures (TPM)
The Copyright & Legal Matters Working Group of LIBER and the UK Libraries Archives and Copyright Alliance (LACA) are working together to find out more about potential blocks to TDM. LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche) and LACA aim to use this information to strengthen the case against the imposition of TPM where there are negative impacts on research. A survey has been designed and shared via a blog to capture both institutions and researchers’ experiences of these issues.
ERC plans for 2020: More than €2.2 billion for Europe's excellent researchers
The ERC (European Research Council) has announced its biggest ever annual injection of funding in blue-sky research. €2.2 billion will be made available in 2020 to support some 1,100 top researchers. As in previous years, most of the funding (61%) is earmarked for early- to mid-career scientists and scholars. The funding will also support jobs for an estimated 8,000 postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and other research staff employed in ERC-funded teams.
Welcoming new cohort of RDA Europe ambassadors
RDA Europe welcomes six new ambassadors to its programme, further widening its engagement efforts and coverage with disciplines and focus topics like Natural Sciences, Health Sciences, Research Ethics and Interdisciplinarity, Bioinformatics, Media and Communication or Sustainable Development Goals. Meet your discipline ambassadors and learn about the work that they are doing and how you can leverage their work for your own community.
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The latest posts from the OSC blog
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Towards widespread Open Research: insights from Cambridge Data Champions and beyond - Dr Ralitsa Madsen and Dr Sacha Jones discuss the challenges and solutions for running a champion's open research initiative looking at the Cambridge Data Champions as an example of a community of volunteers engaged in promoting open research and good research data management (RDM).
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Blogs we've enjoyed
- How do monographs fit with the open access agenda? Graham Stone, Verena Weigert, Jisc Blog, 20 June
- Diverting Leakage to the Library Subscription Channel Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Roger C. Schonfeld The Scholarly Kitchen, 16 July
- Developing a finer grained analysis of research impact: Can we assess the wider effects of public engagement? Marco J Haenssgen, LSE Impact Blog
- Plan S Version 2 and the Cost of Quality Bernd Pulverer, Guest post for The Scholarly Kitchen, 22 July
- Book sprint success: A team writing exercise for the win Connie Clare, Open Working, 22 July
- Is There an 80-85% Rule of Review? The Geyser, 25 July
- Implementing a data policy: a how-to guide for publishers Fiona Murphy, Bob Samors OASPA blog, 26 July
- Do monographs have a future? Publishers, funders and research evaluators must decide Mike Taylor, LSE Impact Blog
- Will Libraries Help Publishers Prop Up the Value of the Big Deal? Roger G. Schonfeld, The Scholarly Kitchen, 3 September
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A wealth of material to use and share freely
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- OSC Research Support resources - Confused by Creative Commons? You're not alone! Find out how to put together the perfect ingredients for a Creative (commons) recipe! You can access the recording, slides, transcript, and other related resources of our recent Creative Commons webinar in the OSC website.
- Plan S FAQs - Have a look at our Plan S FAQs in the OSC website. We hope this is a useful resource that addresses some of the more common questions about Plan S. The FAQs will be expanded as more information becomes available.
- RDA output adoption webinar series: Outputs to support reproducible health research. Recordings and slides of the webinar are now available.
- How should scholarly societies transition to Open Access? The OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association) webinar is now available. This is the sixth webinar of the OASPA Open Scholarship Webinar Series and the speakers featured are: Aileen Fyfe (University of St Andrews), Stuart Taylor (The Royal Society), Alicia Wise (Information Power) and Rachael Samberg (UC Berkeley Library).
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Recent articles of interest
- LYRASIS 2019 accessibility report, Rosen, Hannah, and Jill Grogg. “LYRASIS 2019 Accessibility Survey Report.” July 2019, 1-42
- Roles and jobs in the open research scholarly communications environment: analysing job descriptions to predict future trends, Pontika, N., LIBER Quarterly, 29(1), pp.1–20. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10282
- Survey of academic library leadership: Plans for data librarianship, Primary Research Group ISBN 978-1-57440-602-3
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Open research training for Cambridge PhD students in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
As Open Research becomes ‘business as usual’ for University of Cambridge researchers, there is no better time to find out more about what this means for you. Please see the courses below for details of the open research workshops for HASS PhD students from the Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC). For further information please visit our website.
Open research and open minds: a Cambridge perspective on sharing research outputs
Thursday 17 Oct 2-3pm
Managing your digital information
Thursday 31 Oct 2-4pm
Journals: publishing your research effectively
Thursday 7 Nov 2-3.30pm
Books: publishing your research effectively
Thursday 14 Nov 2-3pm
Copyright: a survival guide
Thursday 21 Nov 2-3.30pm
Post-publication sharing: publishing your research effectively
Thursday 28 Nov 2-3pm
STEMM Research Skills Training Programme
The STEMM Research Skills Training Programme, delivered by staff from across the Cambridge University Libraries network, will be taking place during Michaelmas term. From managing research data and citing academic sources, to understanding where to publish and how to promote science effectively, this programme offers a wide range of opportunities for postgraduates and researchers to learn and engage with different topics. There will also be a special one-off workshop exploring all things Open Science, as well as a speed-dating style event showing off different tools and ideas in a fun format. The STEMM Research Skills Training Programme will be supported this year by its own online space on Moodle, the University’s Virtual Learning Environment. Participants will be able to access materials from sessions delivered as part of the programme, as well as useful links and resources to support their learning. To explore the Michaelmas timetable and to book into sessions, please visit the University’s Training Booking System.
Moore Methods courses
Sessions aimed at STEMM students and researchers and provided by the Betty & Gordon Moore Library (University Cambridge Libraries) are now available in the University's Training Booking System.
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Open Access monographs: from policy to reality. A one day symposium
2 October 2019, Cambridge, UK
7 October (online)
8 October, London, UK
9 October and 30 October (online)
20-21 October 2019, Helsinki, Finland
22 October 2019 British Library, London, UK
13 November 2019, London, UK
20 November (online)
17-20 February, Dublin, Ireland
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