Tuesday, December 15, 2015

A social networking site is not an open access repository - CDL

The Office of Scholarly Communications at the California Digital Library compares eScholarship with ResearchGate and Academia.edu for hosting research publications.

A social networking site is not an open access repository  

(December 3, 2015)

“What’s the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?”

“I put my papers in ResearchGate, is that enough for the open access policy?

These and similar questions have been been common at open access events over the past couple of years. Authors want to better understand the differences between these platforms and when they should use one, the other, or some combination.

First, a brief primer on what each service has to offer:  <more>


Monday, December 7, 2015

Video now on YouTube: LAUC-B 2015 Conference "Open Access"

The LAUC-B Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce that recorded sessions from the 2015 LAUC-B Conference "Open Access: Reclaiming Scholarship for the Academy" are now available for streaming. The playlist is on YouTube:


The Librarians’ Association of the University of California is an official unit of the University. LAUC-B is the Berkeley chapter of this statewide association whose primary responsibility is to advise the University on professional and governance matters and to make recommendations concerning UC librarians’ rights, privileges and obligations and to promote full use of UC librarians’ professional abilities.

With the Academic Senate’s 2013 adoption of the UC Open Access Policy the University of California joined a growing number of universities and funding organizations promoting increased access to scholarly research. Please join the Librarians' Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division as we explore the application and implementation of open access (OA) policies across various academic disciplines, the role of OA repositories, how adoption of UC’s Open Access Policy has impacted individual campuses and OA advocates, and future OA trends. This Conference will be of particular interest to librarians, though anyone interested in open access and scholarly communication is welcome to register.

The Conference will feature keynotes by Michael Eisen and Randy Schekman, both UC Berkeley faculty members and longtime open access advocates, as well as a panel discussion, poster sessions, lightning talks and breakout sessions

The Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC), founded in 1967, is a statewide organization of all librarians employed at least half time by the University. The formal objectives of LAUC are: to advise the University on professional and governance matters, to make recommendations concerning the UC librarians' rights, privileges and obligations, and to promote full use of UC librarians' professional abilities.

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for November 2015

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for November 2015

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Previously Published Works

For this month your total requests = 9147 (views=6232, downloads=2915

Breakdown By Item

Top Ten Articles Viewed and Downloaded - November 2015

Item  Title Year ---- Number of Requests ---- Total Added to

Published Views Downloads Requests "My Items"
Effects of a combination of beta carotene and vitamin A on lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. 1996 89 22 111 0
Zombies--A Pop Culture Resource for Public Health Awareness 2013 83 26 109 0
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory 2011 25 38 63 0
End-of-Life care: guidelines for patient-centered communication. 2008 36 24 60 0
Safeguarding gene drive experiments in the laboratory 2015 32 27 59 0
Genetic influences on human brain morphology 2015 59 0 59 0
Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction 2012 30 29 59 0
Sinusoidal heart rate pattern: Reappraisal of its definition and clinical significance 2004 50 6 56 0
Organizational Routines as a Source of Continuous Change 2000 31 23 54 0
Science education. Changing the culture of science education at research universities. 2011 27 26 53 0




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More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.


Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

UC Presidential Open Access Policy - Webinar


Katie Fortney (CDL) and Catherine Mitchell (CDL) held a  conversation about the new UC Presidential Open Access Policy. They talked about who the policy covers, how it compares to the previous Senate OA Policies, and what some of the implications are for the publication management system.

There will be two sessions: one on Wednesday November 18 and one on Tuesday December 8.

November 18, 201 5 presentation
 https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/playback/Playback.do?id=aq8axs

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for October 2015

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for October 2015

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Previously Published Works

For this month your total requests = 8635 (views=5978, downloads=2657).

Breakdown By Item

Top Ten Articles Viewed and Downloaded - October 2015

Item Year ---- Number of Requests ---- Total Added to
Title Published Views Downloads Requests "My Items"
Effects of a combination of beta carotene and vitamin A on lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. 1996 108 25 133 0
Zombies--A Pop Culture Resource for Public Health Awareness 2013 83 20 103 0
Building the oral language skills of K-2 English Language learners through theater arts 2011 62 5 67 0
Science education. Changing the culture of science education at research universities. 2011 40 25 65 0
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory 2011 26 38 64 0
Generic Ghosts: Remaking the New ‘Asian Horror Film’ 2007 41 17 58 0
Energy, water, and broad-scale geographic patterns of species richness 2003 35 23 58 0
Systems integration for global sustainability 2015 25 31 56 0
Sinusoidal heart rate pattern: Reappraisal of its definition and clinical significance 2004 48 5 53 0
Organizational Routines as a Source of Continuous Change 2000 26 25 51 0
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More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.

Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

Friday, October 30, 2015

Announcing New UC3 Director - John Chodacki

John Chodacki Named Director of the University of California Curation Center at the California Digital Library

October 29, 2015  |  Category:  Digital Preservation (UC3),Newsletter,Press Releases,Staff News  |  Author: Ivy Anderson
The California Digital Library is delighted to announce the appointment of John Chodacki as the new Director of the University of California Curation Center (UC3) effective October 19th, 2015.

John comes to the CDL from the Public Library of Science (PLOS) where, as Product Director, he was responsible for long-range product strategy and led key organization-wide initiatives in taxonomy development, data policy, and article-level metrics. Prior to joining PLOS, John held product development positions at numerous publishing and technology firms, including O’Reilly Media, VIZ Media, Zinio, Creative Edge, and Safari Books Online.
As Director of UC3, John will work with UC campuses and the broader community to ensure that CDL’s digital curation services meet the emerging needs of the scholarly community, including digital preservation, data management, and reuse. In this role, he will engage with the University of California libraries and other key stakeholders to inform UC3’s goals and activities. In addition, John will represent CDL in the global research community (funders, libraries, archives, publishers, researchers) and define and prioritize new and improved services for UC3.

John is well-known and respected within the publishing and scholarly communication communities for his product and technology leadership. He currently serves on committees of several leading organizations including CrossRef, CASRAI, and COUNTER focused on tracking the reach and impact of research outputs.
“I’m thrilled that John has joined the CDL to lead our digital curation efforts,” said Ivy Anderson, Interim Executive Director of the CDL. “John’s extensive product management experience, his track record of innovation, and his strong connections within the scholarly communications sector will bring valuable perspective to the further development of UC3’s portfolio of curation services.”


John holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and African American Studies from Grinnell College, a Masters in Business Administration from San Francisco State University, and a Certificate in Web Development and Design from Boston University.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

KU/OAPEN Press Release: Google Scholar Indexes Open Access Books

 Google Scholar Indexes Open Access Books 

The length of monographs and their level of treatment pose unique challenges in a search environment. Monographs generally describe mature work unlike journal articles, which usually describe early stage work. As a result, it can be hard to achieve a successful search experience for restricted access monographs, according to Anurag Acharya of Google Scholar.

After asking Acharya (co-founder of Google Scholar) why Google Scholar did not index monographs, Frances Pinter of Knowledge Unlatched (KU) says, “I realized that such challenges fall by the wayside with Open Access books.”  

Pinter explained that the dataset of 28 books from the KU Pilot was likely to be too small for Google to try out on open books. “So I told Anurag Acharya about OAPEN’s platform and its nearly 2,500 Open Access books,” says Pinter.

OAPEN and Knowledge Unlatched are pleased to announce that Google Scholar is now able to index Open Access books hosted by OAPEN.

Please find October 28, 2015 full press release here: http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/press-release/

Best regards,
Christina

Christina Emery
Partnership Manager | Knowledge Unlatched


Winner: IFLA/Brill Award for Open Access 2014

Winner: Curtin University Award for Best Innovation in Education 2015

Monday, October 26, 2015

Announcing the University of California Presidential Open Access Policy - October 23, 2015

Today (October 23, 2015)  the University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide. Building on UC’s previously-adopted Academic Senate open access (OA) policies, this new policy enables the university system and associated national labs to provide unprecedented access to scholarly research authored by clinical faculty, lecturers, staff researchers, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students and librarians – just to name a few. Comprising ten campuses, five medical centers, three national laboratories and nearly 200,000 employees, the UC system is responsible for over 2% of the world’s total research publications. UC’s collective OA policies now cover more authors than any other institutional OA policy to date.

Presidential Open Access Policy  (Signed October 23, 2015)

Learn more about open access policies and their implementations at UC: uc-oa.info.

Announced 26 October 2015 : Groundbreaking University of California policy extends free access to all scholarly articles written by UC employees, Office of Scholarly Communications, California Digital Library

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

UC Press Publishes 1st Luminos Titles & Announces Member Libraries

University of California Press Publishes First Monographs in Luminos, Announces Inaugural Luminos Member Libraries   -   October 13, 2015

With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production, and marketing as our traditional publishing programs, Luminos is a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared.

October 13, 2015 (Oakland, CA)—Today, we are happy to announce the culmination of the launch phase of an important new concept in monograph publishing, with the first five scholarly monographs open to the world, many more titles to come, and the first of our inaugural Luminos Member Libraries ready to support the transformation of monograph publishing.

“As an author writing about mass violence in the global south, I was intrigued by the option of making my insights available to broad publics, including in countries where, for a variety of reasons, paper copies cannot be as easily ordered as in Europe or North America,”
notes Joachim Savelsberg, author of the new Luminos title Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur.

Authors have been eager to publish in the Luminos program not only because it guarantees the same standards of excellence as all of UC Press’s programs, but also because of the opportunity to bring their work to the larger, global audiences that open access provides. As co-author Manuel Pastor has stated regarding their decision to publish Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas in Luminos, rather than in a more traditional format, “we have long valued our role as public intellectuals who are willing and indeed, eager, to bring ideas into the messy real world and participate in the debates that change lives—and this model is perfectly suited to that sort of effort. Moreover, the central messages of our book—that equity and opportunity are key for sustainable growth, that cross-sector conversations can bring new common ground, and that data deliberations in knowledge communities can forge productive solutions—are all really reflected in the open-access model Luminos is helping to pioneer. It’s a perfect fit for us and we’re proud to be part of this launch.”

Institutions of higher education have long advocated for open access responses to changes in scholarly communication as well as to the challenges they face meeting the ever-expanding information needs of their students, researchers, and faculty. In response, Luminos helps broaden access to scholarly content, and injects some much-needed sustainability into monograph publishing by sharing cost burdens across stakeholders. For each title published, UC Press makes a significant financial contribution, which is augmented by membership funds from Luminos Member Libraries. Each author is then asked to secure a title publication fee to cover the remaining costs. Any additional revenue from Luminos Member Libraries, as well as funds from optional purchase of print editions, help support a waiver fund for future Luminos authors. Together, this shared financial support helps ensure a sustainable monograph publishing ecosystem for authors, readers, institutions, libraries, and UC Press.

UC Press is proud to have the dedicated support of inaugural Luminos Member Libraries including University of Texas at Austin; University of California, Los Angeles; and University of California, San Diego.
For information on Luminos Member Library benefits, or to become a Luminos Member Library, please visit http://www.luminosoa.org/site/for_libraries.

According to UCLA’s University Librarian, Virginia Steel,  “Market forces have made it increasingly difficult for faculty, particularly early career, to publish scholarly monographs. As one solution to that problem, the UCLA Library strongly supports Luminos, which expands options for authors and increases discoverability and readership of published research, while maintaining rigorous academic publishing standards.”

“As a non-profit publisher, partner with scholars, and part of the world’s greatest public research university, we are committed to maximizing the reach and impact of the scholarship we publish” said Alison Mudditt, Director of UC Press. “UC Press is a leader in exploring how this important and distinctive vehicle for communication in the humanities and social sciences can not only be preserved but also reinvigorated as we move towards open, digital models, and we are proud of the resounding support for Luminos we have seen from authors, faculty, and from librarians around the world.”

University of California Press is one of the most forward-thinking scholarly publishers in the nation. For more than 120 years, it has championed work that influences public discourse and challenges the status quo in multiple fields of study. At a time of dramatic change for publishing and scholarship, UC Press collaborates with scholars, librarians, authors, and students to stay ahead of today’s knowledge demands and shape the future of publishing.



For more information on Luminos, visit www.luminosoa.org or contact Lorraine Weston at lweston@ucpress.edu.

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for September 2015

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for September 2015

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Previously Published Works

For this month your total requests = 7434 (views=5249, downloads=2185).

Breakdown By Item

Top Ten Articles Viewed and Downloaded - September 2015

Item Year ---- Number of Requests ---- Total Added to
Title Published Views Downloads Requests "My Items"
Beyond Looking for My Penis: Reflections on Asian Gay Male Video Porn 1999 141 1 142 0
Effects of a combination of beta carotene and vitamin A on lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. 1996 87 14 101 0
Sinusoidal heart rate pattern: Reappraisal of its definition and clinical significance 2004 51 8 59 0
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory 2011 20 38 58 0
Science education. Changing the culture of science education at research universities. 2011 41 16 57 0
A Practice Theory Approach to Understanding the Interdependency of Nursing Practice and the Environment Implications for Nurse-Led Care Delivery Models 2015 20 35 55 0
Building the oral language skills of K-2 English Language learners through theater arts 2011 50 4 54 0
Zombies--A Pop Culture Resource for Public Health Awareness 2013 41 11 52 0
Flattening of the interventricular septum (D-shaped left ventricle) in addition to high right ventricular tracer uptake and increased right ventricular volume found on gated SPECT studies strongly correlates with right ventricular overload 2005 47 0 47 0
Tools for understanding and optimizing robotic gait training. 2014 31 13 44 0
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More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.


Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for August 2015

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for August 2015

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Previously Published Works

For this month your total requests = 5890 (views=4190, downloads=1700).

Breakdown By Item

Top Ten Articles Viewed and Downloaded - August 2015

Item Year ---- Number of Requests ---- Total Added to
Title Published Views Downloads Requests "My Items"
Beyond Looking for My Penis: Reflections on Asian Gay Male Video Porn 1999 135 2 137 0
Effects of a combination of beta carotene and vitamin A on lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. 1996 58 6 64 0
Sinusoidal heart rate pattern: Reappraisal of its definition and clinical significance 2004 52 6 58 0
Science education. Changing the culture of science education at research universities. 2011 35 22 57 0
Flattening of the interventricular septum (D-shaped left ventricle) in addition to high right ventricular tracer uptake and increased right ventricular volume found on gated SPECT studies strongly correlates with right ventricular overload 2005 56 1 57 0
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory 2011 21 28 49 0
Climate change: A crack in the natural-gas bridge 2014 38 2 40 0
Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction 2012 26 14 40 1
Building the oral language skills of K-2 English Language learners through theater arts 2011 33 6 39 0
Human embryonic stem cell-derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cell transplants remyelinate and restore locomotion after spinal cord injury 2005 35 4 39 0
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More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.


Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for July 2015

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for July 2015

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Previously Published Works

For this month your total requests = 5940 (views=4244, downloads=1696).

Breakdown By Item

Top Ten Articles Viewed and Downloaded - July 2015

ItemYear---- Number of Requests ----TotalAdded to
TitlePublishedViewsDownloadsRequests"My Items"
Beyond Looking for My Penis: Reflections on Asian Gay Male Video Porn199997121090
Effects of a combination of beta carotene and vitamin A on lung cancer and cardiovascular disease.19966215770
Science education. Changing the culture of science education at research universities.20113321540
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory20112232540
Enterprise Risk Management: Review, Critique, and Research Directions20153019490
Flattening of the interventricular septum (D-shaped left ventricle) in addition to high right ventricular tracer uptake and increased right ventricular volume found on gated SPECT studies strongly correlates with right ventricular overload2005401410
Human embryonic stem cell-derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cell transplants remyelinate and restore locomotion after spinal cord injury2005382400
Tools for understanding and optimizing robotic gait training.20142711380
Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction20122018380
Building the oral language skills of K-2 English Language learners through theater arts2011353380









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More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.


Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

MLA International Bibliography Launches ORCID App

The MLA International Bibliography is pleased to announce the launch of MLA BibLink, a new application that enables authors to associate their works listed in the bibliography with a unique author identification number from ORCID. MLA BibLink allows you to search the MLA Bibliography for your publications, including works you’ve published under variant names, and in one click link them to your ORCID identifier to create a digital record of your scholarship. If you’ve already created an ORCID profile, any alternative names you’ve included there will be prepopulated in an MLA BibLink search. Haven’t created an ORCID profile yet? You can register for one from the MLA BibLink welcome page (biblink.mla.org) and immediately start adding works.

Sincerely,
Barbara Chen
Director of Bibliographic Information Services and Editor, MLA International Bibliography

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