International Open Access Week 2019
International Open Access Week took place worldwide between 21 and 27 October 2019 with the theme "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge". The Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC) ran various activities during the celebratory week from blogs and shared resources to videos and podcasts and collated them in their Open Access Week 2019 web page.
Recordings and presentations now available: Open Access monographs: from policy to reality
Earlier this month the OSC organised a one-day symposium on “ Open Access Monographs: from policy to reality” which took place at St Catharine’s College. Keynote speakers included Professor Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck, University of London) and Professor Margot Finn (President of the Royal Historical Society) with panel discussions featuring representatives from Research England, The Wellcome Trust, academic experts on the subject and representatives from various publishing houses. For those who were not able to attend, most of the presentations and all recordings are now available in the University’s institutional repository, Apollo. The recordings are also featured in the OSC YouTube channel.
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Release of the UUK open access and monographs evidence review
The report published by the Universities UK (UUK) Open Access Monographs Group draws on a quantitative analysis of the current landscape of long-form publications in the higher education sector, and its engagement with more than 90 organisations at two events, including publishers, learned societies, subject associations and research libraries. It presents new evidence on academic book publishing in the UK and puts forward recommendations to be considered as part of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Research Excellence Framework (REF) Open Access reviews.
Report published by the Royal Historical Society on Plan S
On 23 October the Royal Historical Society (RHS) published its new Guidance Paper on ‘Plan S and the History Journal Landscape’ with specific recommendations for History researchers, journals editors and editorial boards, learned societies, research organisations and funders.
Coventry University Awarded Grant from Arcadia
Coventry University has been awarded £800,000 from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, to support The Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project. COPIM is a strategic international partnership led by Coventry University. It also recently received funding from Research England under the auspices of the Research England Development (RED) Fund.
Moedas: Europe should lead negotiations with academic publishers
Times Higher Education reports that the European Union’s outgoing European commissioner for research, science and innovation, Carlos-Moedas, has called on nations to strike deals with academic publishers together, rather than negotiating country by country and weakening their power.
COAR and cOAlition S supporting repositories to comply with Plan S
In order to ensure that repositories can comply with Plan S, COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) and cOAlitionS have announced that they intend to work together to support repositories in adhering to the requirements.
Towards a framework to enable more transparent communication of Open Access publishing services and their prices
Wellcome – in partnership with UKRI and on behalf of cOAlitionS – have appointed Information Power to lead a collaborative project with publishers, funders and universities to develop a framework for these communications. The project will run from September through December 2019. It will not explore costs, nor current or future pricing, but seek to develop a framework which enables publishers to communicate the price of services in a way that is transparent, practical to implement, and insightful for users. UK-US Collaboration for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions: Pre Call Announcement for Partnership Development Grants
The Arts and Humanities Research Council ( AHRC) announced its intention to launch a call for Partnership Development Grants as the next phase of its programme funded through the UKRI Fund for International Collaboration: ‘UK-US Collaboration for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions’. Funding will support innovative research development activities between teams in the UK and US that have the potential to deliver a transformational impact on digital methods and research in museums and cognate cultural institutions such as libraries, galleries and archives.
The State of Open Data Report 2019
The State of Open Data 2019 report is the fourth in the series and includes survey results and a collection of articles from global industry experts. It was first created in 2016 to examine attitudes and experiences of researchers working with open data – sharing it, reusing it, and redistributing it. This year’s survey received a record number of survey participants with around 8,500 responses from the research community.
CDH Conference Travel Bursary Scheme
Cambridge Digital Humanities is keen to support participation by University of Cambridge researchers and staff (including ECR researchers) in conferences relevant to Digital Humanities. A limited number of CDH Conference Travel Bursaries will be made available on application.
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Limited offer by SAGE to publish open access free of charge
SAGE are offering to publish hybrid OA articles for free within the SAGE Choice program for the remainder of 2019. This applies to research articles from Jisc member institutions which subscribe to SAGE Premier via the 2019 Jisc Collections agreement. It applies to articles published in the SAGE Choice (Hybrid OA) program. All Cambridge researchers can take this offer which is valid between now and end of December 2019. To take advantage of this offer the author must request it and use the code “NESLi2019” on the contributor form’s discount code field when submitting the article. This does not apply to articles already in production or published and cannot be used for articles in SAGE (fully) Gold Open Access journals.
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The latest posts from the OSC blog
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Earlier this month, we launched International Open Access Week 2019 with a series of blogs:
Searching Open Access: steps towards improving discovery of OA in a less than 100%. OA world. James Caudwell, Deputy Head of Periodicals & Electronic Subscriptions Manager, discusses the steps being taken to improve the discovery of open access content at Cambridge University Library
Open Research at the University of Cambridge: What have we done so far? Dr Lauren Cadwallader writes about the current plans for making research at the University of Cambridge more open since the University’s Position Statement in Open Research at the start of 2019.
Open Access monographs: Reflections from our recent symposium. Earlier this month the OSC organised a one-day symposium “Open Access Monographs: from policy to reality”. Dr Lauren Cadwallader and Maria Angelaki have been reflecting on the key themes and messages that emerged as a result of the discussions.
Opening Up the Research Support Ambassadors. Claire Sewell discusses the launch of our popular programme which has been running in Cambridge Libraries since 2015 and its transition to becoming an open online resource for all library staff interested in the fundamentals of scholarly communication and research support.
Chasing cash cows in a swamp? Perspectives on Plan S from Australia and the USA. We look East and West to find out how Plan S is being received across the globe. Dr Danny Kingsley explores how reliance on foreign students has trapped Australian universities in a ‘Faustian bargain’ with publishers and reduced the scope for change. Micah Vandegrift reports on the type of conversations that Plan S has inspired in the USA, as well as the potential political barriers, sounding a note of cautious optimism.
Image copyright and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities. Dr Lorraine de la Verpillière explores the complexities in the debate around third-party image copyright and the challenges it poses for open access publishing in the Arts and Humanities.
Embarking on a career in open access. If you’re interested in starting a career in open access or just want to know a little more about the day-to-day work we do, then read our blog written by two of the newest members of the team where they discuss their experiences starting out in open access. Lorraine de la Verpillière and Olivia Marsh share their differing perspectives coming from backgrounds in academia and publishing, respectively.
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Blogs we've enjoyed
- Ask The Chefs: Beyond the APC Ann Michael, The Scholarly Kitchen, 24 October
- Safekeeping Diversity in Scholarly Communication: How ‘Transformative’ Are Recent Agreements? Demmy Verbeke, ScholarLed blog, 24 October
- How To Build A Community Of Data Champions: Six Steps To Success Connie Clare, Research Data Alliance blog, October
- Open access to teaching material – how far have we come? Elizabeth Gadd, Jane Secker and Chris Morrison, LSE Impact Blog, 16 September
- Whither (or Whether) the Monograph? Rick Anderson and Karin Wulf, The Scholarly Kitchen, 17 October
- OA monographs: policy and practice for supporting researchers Dr Graham Stone, Jisc blog, 8 October
- Two Competing Visions for Research Data Sharing Roger C. Schonfeld, The Scholarly Kitchen, 14 October
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A wealth of material to use and share freely
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Launch of the Research Support Ambassador Programme as an open educational resource
The Office of Scholarly Communication is pleased to announce the launch of our popular Research Support Ambassador Programme as an open educational resource. Covering topics at every stage of the research lifecycle from data management to copyright, this fully flexible resource is designed to give learners either an introduction or refresher on key elements of research support.
New course in Moodle (Cambridge only)
Are you baffled by manuscript versions? A new resource for researchers and research support staff is available on the University’s Moodle platform, the 'Journal Article Versions' course. It aims to provide users with practical tips for: correctly describing journal article versions, recognising journal articles published open access, understanding the importance of knowing where, when and which version of a journal article can be shared in order to comply with funders’ requirements and publishers’ policies, and avoiding article-sharing pitfalls.
New web pages on Open Access discovery
Cambridge University Library has added pages to its e-resources website to highlight open access discovery tools and important websites indexing OA content.
OSC Podcasts
We are delighted to share with you our podcasts which have been created in the last few months by our colleague Claire Sewell and are primarily aimed at librarians and research support staff. They cover a range of current scholarly communication topics and can be used as a companion to our webinar series or independently. Topics cover open access, metrics, data management, publication and copyright and include podcasts such as:
Launch of Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA)
RDMLA features a unique partnership between a LIS academic program, academic health sciences and research libraries and Elsevier bringing you a free online research data management (RDM) professional skill development program. Aimed for librarians, information professionals, and other professionals the RDMLA course addresses the gap experienced by practicing professionals who wish to learn key aspects of providing RDM services in libraries or other information settings.
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Recent articles of interest
- Engaging Researchers with Data Management: The Cookbook Connie Clare, Maria Cruz, Elli Papadopoulou, James Savage, Marta Teperek, Yan Wang, Iza Witkowska, and Joanne Yeomans Open Reports Series, vol.8, ISSN: 2399-6668 (Print); 2399-6676 (Online), October 2019
- The Future of OA: A large-scale analysis projecting Open Access publication and readership Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem, Richard Orr bioRxiv 795310; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/795310
- Society Publishers Accelerating Open access and Plan S (SPA-OPS) project Wise, Alicia, Estelle, Lorraine (2019). figshare. Collection.
- Report: Accelerating scholarly communication: The transformative role of preprints Andrea Chiarelli, Rob Johnson, Emma Richens (Research Consulting), Stephen Pinfield (University of Sheffield) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3357727, September 2019
- Rebels with a Cause? Supporting Library and Academic-led Open Access Publishing Deville, J., Sondervan, J., Stone, G. and Wennström, S., 2019. LIBER Quarterly, 29(1), pp.1–28. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10277
- Report: Decrypting the Big Deal Landscape Follow-up of the 2019 EUA Big Deals Survey Report
Lennart Stoy, Rita Morais and Lidia Borrell-Damián, European University Association, October 2019
- Assessing the Effectiveness of Open Access Finding Tools. Information Technology and Libraries Schultz, T. A., Azadbakht, E., Bull, J., Bucy, R., & Floyd, J., (2019), 38(3), 82-90. DOI: 10.6017/ital.v38i3.11009
- Cultural obstacles to research data management and sharing at TU Delft. Insights, 32(1), p.29. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg
- Report: Science Europe Briefing Paper: On Open Access to Academic Books Science Europe, September 2019
- How libraries can support society publishers to accelerate their transition to full and immediate OA and Plan S. Wise, A. and Estelle, L., Insights, 2019, 32(1), p.23. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.477
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7 November 2019, Graz University of Technology, Austria
13 November 2019, London, UK
18 November 2019, Durham, UK
19-20 November 2019, Melbourne, Australia
20 November 2019, London, UK
2019 PKP International Scholarly Publishing Conference (PKP 2019)
20-22 November, Barcelona, Spain
Jisc community event: Planning for Plan S
27 November, London, UK
Data Management Skills for Open Science: Cancer Research UK & UKRN Workshop
28 November 2019, University of Bristol, UK
Exploring the intersections of information literacy and scholarly communication (by CILIP Information Literacy Group)
2 December 2019, Liverpool Central Library, UK
9 December 2019, British Library, London, UK
17-20 February 2020, Dublin, Ireland
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Scholarly Communication Support, Cambridge University Library. Apply by 4 November
Senior Research Data Officer, UK Data Archive, University of Essex. Apply by 6 November
Senior Open Access Advisor, Cambridge University Library. Apply by 20 November
European Co-ordinator for Open Access Book Publishing, Open Book Publishers. Apply by 28 November
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