Editorial Board of Journal of Library Administration resigns over licensing terms

 
Author contributors objected to the the journal publisher requirement of $2,995 author page charges to make each article open access.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/4149752/library-journal-resigns-for-open-access-citing-aaron-swartz

"In a dramatic show of support for the open access movement, the editor-in-chief and entire editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration announced their resignation last week. In a letter to contributors, the board singled out a conflict with owners over the journal's licensing terms, which stripped authors of almost all claim to ownership of their work."

and from the Chronicle of Higher Education:

Journal’s Editorial Board Resigns in Protest of Publisher’s Policy Toward Authors 
by Jack New  Wired Campus (March 26, 2013)
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/journals-editorial-board-resigns-in-protest-of-publishers-policy-toward-authors/43149

(included a reaction form the journal publisher, Taylor & Francis Group)

Online Archive of University of California Irvine History

ANNOUNCING THE ONLINE ARCHIVE OF UCI HISTORY: http://ucispace.lib.uci.edu/handle/10575/5882

The Digital Scholarship Team and Special Collections & Archives proudly announce the opening of a digital archive of the history of the University of California, Irvine campus.

The Online Archive of UCI History is a digital archive created by the University of California, Irvine Libraries to preserve and make available for research core historical records of the university. Included are audio and video recordings, films, photographs and slides, and publications from 1959 forward. Currently, the Online Archive features:

• 30 oral histories of prominent faculty and staff
• 29 videos and films including the stunning NBC production "Birth of a Campus" (1964) and the funky promotional video "Wot ZOT?" (1974)
• digitized and full-text searchable back issues of the New University from 1968-1993
• over 2100 photographs and slides documenting the campus through 1970 including the popular Early Campus Albums.

This digital archive was created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of UC Irvine, but will continue to grow in the coming months and years. The Online Archive of UCI History is a central resource for anyone interested in the history of our unique campus. The site is fully searchable and browse-able by title, date, creator, and subject. Each collection and subcollection includes a summary of its contents, which will help guide researchers who might enter the Online Archive by browsing or through a web search.

Materials for the Online Archive of UCI History were selected in coordination with the University of California, Irvine 50th Anniversary Planning Committee's Historical Documentation Subcommittee, including chair Michelle Light, former Head of Special Collections, Archives and Digital Scholarship; Julia Lupton, English Professor; Bill Maurer, Research and Graduate Studies Associate Dean, School of Social Sciences; Keith Nelson, History Professor Emeritus; Spencer Olin, History Professor Emeritus; Craig Reem, Public Affairs and Communications Director, City of Irvine; and Zen Yieh, Marketing Account Executive, UC Irvine Extension.

This project would not be possible without the dedicated work of the following staff from the UCI Libraries: Michelle Light, former Head of Special Collections, Archives, and Digital Scholarship; Matthew McKinley, Digital Projects Specialist; Mark Vega, Programmer; Sylvia Irving, Graphic Designer; Shu Liu, Metadata and Digital Resources Librarian; Audra Eagle Yun, Acting Head of Special Collections and Archives; Alix Norton, Archives Assistant and Digitization Coordinator; Ron Matteson, Library Assistant; and multiple student assistants.

Office of Science and Technology Policy Statement on Public Access

White House Delivers New Open-Access Policy That Has Activists Cheering 
The Obama administration says federally financed research should be made freely available within 12 months of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. 

The Chronicle article above has the links to the policy itself as well as a number of statements in response. And here’s Peter Suber’s comparison of the policy to FASTR:

https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/8hzviMJeVHJ

Memorandum from John Holdren, director of Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf

Legislation Promoting Public Access to Federally Funded Research Introduced

February 14, 2013

TO:                  Directors of ARL Libraries

FROM:            Prue Adler

RE:                  Legislation Promoting Public Access to Federally Funded Research Introduced 

Summary: Today, members of the House and Senate introduced the “Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2013” or FASTR.  The bill, similar to the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), includes provisions that would enable digital reuse of publicly funded research and would ensure free, timely, online access to the published results of research funded by federal science and technology agencies.  Provisions in this bill constitute an important step forward that reflects both how research is conducted and growing community practice.  This is a request for you to contact your House and Senate delegations and ask that they co-sponsor FASTR. I will provide you with bill numbers once available, likely as soon as tomorrow. 

Background: FASTR would require those agencies with annual extramural research budgets of $100 million or more to provide the public with online access to research manuscripts (or final published articles under certain circumstances) stemming from such funding no later than six months after publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Within one year of enactment of FASTR, these agencies are to implement a public access policy and to the extent practicable, agencies should follow common procedures for the collection and deposition of research papers. The bill gives individual agencies flexibility in choosing the location of the digital repository to house this content, as long as the repositories meet conditions for interoperability, public accessibility and long-term preservation. An important change from past bills includes the need for agencies to provide, “ research papers…in formats and under terms that enable productive reuse, including computational analysis by state-of-the-art technologies.”

This is a request for you to contact members of your delegation and ask that they co-sponsor this legislation. If your Senator or Representative co-sponsored the legislation, please thank them!  Co-sponsors include: Sens. Cornyn (R-TX) and Wyden (D-OR) and Reps. Doyle (D-PA), Lofgren (D-CA) and Yoder (R-KS). Specific information about the legislation is included below. My thanks in advance for your assistance in garnering additional support for this legislation.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thank you!

Key provisions include: Every federal agency and department with an annual extramural research budget of $100 million or more will implement a public access policy that is consistent with and advances the federal purpose of the respective agency. Agencies would have one year from enactment of the legislation to develop implementation policies, which would be promulgated to affected researchers at the appropriate time. Each agency shall:

·     Require each researcher – funded totally or partially by the agency – to submit to the agency an electronic copy of the final, electronic manuscript that has been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

·     Ensure that the manuscript is preserved in a stable, digital repository maintained by that agency or in another suitable repository that permits free public access, interoperability, and long-term preservation.

·     Require that free, online access to each manuscript be available as soon as possible, and no later than six months after the article has been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

·       Provide research papers in formats and under terms that enable productive reuse, including computational analysis by state-of-the-art technologies.

·     Report to Congress each year on the effectiveness of the agency public access policy and examine whether such papers should be available via a “royalty-free copyright license that is available to the public and permits the reuse of those papers,” in effect by a CC-BY license.

This legislation applies to:

·     Any researcher employed by a federal agency with an annual research budget exceeding $100 million who publishes an article (will be public domain) based on the work done for the funding agency in a peer-reviewed journal.

·     Any researcher funded by a federal agency with an annual research budget exceeding $100 million who publishes an article based on the funded research in a peer-reviewed journal.

This legislation does not cover:

·     The public access policy does not apply to laboratory notes, preliminary data analyses, author notes, phone logs, research progress reports presented at professional meetings or other information used to produce the final manuscript.

·     The policy does not apply to classified research.  Research that results in works that generate revenue or royalties for the author (such as books), or patentable discoveries, are exempt to the extent necessary to protect copyright or a patent.

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UC Libraries Announce Open Access Publishing Fund Pilot

UC Libraries Announce Open Access Publishing Fund Pilot

January 31, 2013  |  Category:  Newsletter,Strategic & Project Planning,Systemwide Library Information  | Author: Ellen Meltzer

By Joanne Miller, Senior Analyst, Strategic and Project Planning

The UC Libraries are pleased to announce new campus-based open access fund pilots to support UC faculty members who wish to make their research findings immediately and freely available to the public. Funded in part by the California Digital Library, these new open access funds will help pay the article processing charges for UC authors who want to make their articles available via open access publishing.
About Open Access: Open Access (OA) literature is free, online, and available to anyone. An open-access article has limited copyright and licensing restrictions which means anyone, anywhere, with access to the Internet may read, download, copy, and distribute that article. The business models for some open access journals shifts the cost of publication from subscriptions to authors by charging the author an article processing fee. In many fields, particularly the sciences, that fee is then charged to a research grant. Recognizing that not all scholars have grant monies to draw on, the California Digital Library has collaborated with UC campus libraries to develop this pilot program.

Links to the UC campuses participating in the OA Publishing Fund pilot can be found on the Reshaping Scholarly Communication website.

For further questions, please contact your campus Scholarly Communication Officer.

Visualizing Library Collections Using HathiTrust Holidngs

Visualizing the Uniqueness, and Conformity, of Libraries

 "Tucked away in a presentation on the HathiTrust Digital Library are some fascinating visualizations of libraries by John Wilkin, the Executive Director of HathiTrust and an Associate University Librarian at the University of Michigan. Although I’ve been following the progress of HathiTrust closely, I missed these charts, and I want to highlight them as a novel method for revealing a library fingerprint or signature using shared metadata.

With access to the catalogs of HathiTrust member libraries, Wilkin ran some comparisons of book holdings. His ingenious idea was not only to count how many libraries held each particular work, but to create a visualization of each member library based on how widely each book in its collection is held by other libraries."

From Dan Cohen's Humanities Blog, read the piece at:http://www.dancohen.org/2012/12/13/visualizing-the-uniqueness-and-conformity-of-libraries/

Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL)

Stanford University Libraries announces the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries - SPIRL, an award that is intended to recognize and celebrate individual research libraries for sustained and significant innovation in any operational area.  Nominations with documentation may be made by institutions or individuals and are due by 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time on Tuesday 15 January 2013.  A full explanation of the intent and process for SPIRL may be found at http://library.stanford.edu/prizes/spirl It is expected that the first prize(s) will be announced in mid- to late-February 2013.

Judging criteria

Awards will be based on a single programmatic or project undertaking and/or a sustained culture and profile of encouraging effective and sustainable innovation; the effect of such efforts must have measurable impact on the library's own clientele as well as the potential for influencing the practices and/or standards of research librarianship generally. The notion of “innovation” need not be inherently about information technology, though it might be assumed that such technology will be employed as appropriate to achieve the programmatic ends of the institution. Nominations will be judged on the following:

• Evidence of the effects of the program(s) on the readers/users or staff of the nominated library;
• Nature of the innovation;
• Potential contribution(s) of the program to research and/or service practices in other domains outside of research librarianship;
• Sustainability of the program;
• Potential for replication or adaptation by other research libraries.