Fact check: What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and Elsevier - August 2, 2019

Fact check: What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and Elsevier

By admin / August 2, 2019

The UC Negotiating Team 

Ivy Anderson, (Co-Chair), Associate Executive Director of the California Digital Library; Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (Co-Chair), University Librarian and Professor, School of Information and Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley; Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the California Digital Library; Richard A. Schneider, Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, UC San Francisco and Chair, Academic Senate University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication; Dennis J. Ventry, Jr., Professor of Law, UC Davis and Vice Chair, Academic Senate University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication

August 2, 2019

Whether you have received an email directly from Elsevier, or have been reading the news coverage since early July, you may have seen some of Elsevier’s claims regarding the journal contract dispute between the publisher and UC. Here’s a fact check from UC’s negotiating team.

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ORCiD will be required for NIH Funder Grants (K Awards - Training) starting October 2019.

NIH is requiring ORCiD for applicants to K Training Grants starting in October 2019 and all applications in January 2020.  The eRA system will flag to the absence of ORCiD and stop the application process.  

3. Moving Toward Requiring ORCID IDs for Trainees, Fellows and K Awardees and Appointees

Facilitators: Laurie Roman, Jennifer Sutton and Anastasiya Hardison

ORCID ID will be required for appointees to institutional training grants and other awards that make appointments through xTrain, beginning in October 2019.

Applicants for fellowships and individual K awards will be required to have ORCID IDs beginning with applications for due dates on and after January 25, 2020. eRA systems will validate that the ORCID ID is present in the personal profile of the PD/PI Commons ID included in the Credential field of the application. An error will be given if the ORCID ID is not present and the error must be cleared in order to successfully submit. To help raise awareness of this change, a warning will be given starting this fall and will be switched to an error in early January.    

Comments to consider…

• Could the ORCID ID be included in the Person Module web service so S2S development could include data calls for it? (Yes)
• Could the ORCID ID be included as a search variable and as part of the data returned when searching for a user via the Account Management System (AMS)? (Yes)
• Need to caution users from accidently creating additional instances of ORCID IDs. ORCID folks are aware of this potential issue and are looking at ways to reduce the ability of users to create multiple IDs.
• Since the ID is designed to be a unique identifier, there is some discussion starting about adding new data to the Person Profile. Something along the line of:
• Aliases
• Preferred Name(s)
• Previous Name(s)
• There is no target date yet set to require the ID for other types of applications, but it is general agreed that that is the direction the process is going.

Source:  eRA Commons Working Group (CWG) Meeting Notes Notes 05-21-19

University of California Irvine joins OA2020 - June 21, 2019

June 21, 2019

The University of California Irvine has joined  OA2020 as part of the growing community of institutions and research organizations around the world that are taking steps to drive the transformation of today’s scholarly journals to open access.

About OA2020

Excerpt from the Statement of Interest for OA2020:

Expression Of Interest In The Large-Scale Implementation Of Open Access To Scholarly Journals

"Building on the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities and on the progress that has been achieved so far, we are pursuing the large-scale implementation of free online access to, and largely unrestricted use and re-use of scholarly research articles."

"To gain the full benefits of OA and enable a smooth, swift and scholarly oriented transition, the existing corpus of scholarly journals should be converted from subscription to open access. Recent developments and studies indicate that this transition process can be realized within the framework of currently available resources.

With this statement, we express our interest in establishing an international initiative for the OA transformation of scholarly journals, and we agree upon the following key aspects:

• We aim to transform a majority of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to OA publishing in accordance with community-specific publication preferences. At the same time, we continue to support new and improved forms of OA publishing.
• We will pursue this transformation process by converting resources currently spent on journal subscriptions into funds to support sustainable OA business models. Accordingly, we intend to re-organize the underlying cash flows, to establish transparency with regard to costs and potential savings, and to adopt mechanisms to avoid undue publication barriers.
• We invite all parties involved in scholarly publishing, in particular universities, research institutions, funders, libraries, and publishers to collaborate on a swift and efficient transition for the benefit of scholarship and society at large."

Norway and Elsevier agreement - April 23, 2019

In Norway, New Model for Elsevier Agreement - Inside Higher Ed

www.insidehighered.com

Elsevier is expected to announce today a deal with Norway's universities under which all the research they publish will be freely available to all, The Financial Times reported. Under the deal the consortium of Norwegian universities will pay Elsevier for the articles their faculty members publish instead of for subscriptions. The deal comes amid growing opposition -- most notably from the University of California system -- to high journal subscription prices.

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Ithaka S+R Publishes 2018 Faculty Survey Results - April 20, 2019

Ithaka S+R Publishes 2018 Faculty Survey Results

At last week’s ACRL 2019 conference in Cleveland, Ithaka S+R published the results from its latest annual survey, which traces shifts in higher education faculty research, teaching, and publishing practices over time. Among this year’s findings: there is a growing gap between faculty attitudes regarding open access publishing and their practices. An increasing number of faculty report that they would be happy to see an open access model replace the traditional subscription models. Still, traditional incentives (circulation, impact factors) continue to rank above open access in researchers’ decisions about where to publish—particularly for early-career faculty. The full survey is available here

Announcement - April 12, 2019  

Blog: The Research, Teaching, and Publishing Practices of Faculty

US Faculty Survey 2018

Elsevier acquires Science-Metrix Inc., provider of research analytics services and data - December 19, 2018

Elsevier acquires Science-Metrix Inc., provider of research analytics services and data

New York, December 19, 2018

Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, has acquired Science-Metrix Inc., a research evaluation firm that provides science research evaluation and analytics to assess science and technology activities. Headquartered in Montréal, Canada, Science-Metrix is known for high-quality and independent bibliometric analysis and research evaluation.

“Science-Metrix was an early adopter of Elsevier’s abstract database Scopus and has worked closely with Elsevier for more than 10 years,” said Dr. Éric Archambault, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Science-Metrix. “I’m excited that now with Elsevier, we’ll be even stronger and better positioned to develop better performance measurement tools for our customers.”

Science-Metrix works for governmental, educational, nonprofit and private organizations that perform scientific research or deal with funding and management of science and technology. Its services enable evidence-based decision-making, strategic planning and outcome assessment processes for governments, international organizations, universities, scientific societies, publishers and technology companies.

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The UC Libraries release the Pathways to OA analysis - March 21, 2018

In order to make informed and data-driven decisions about which endeavors to pursue at scale, the UC Libraries prepared an analysis of the various approaches to or models for achieving open access, and the actionable strategies that exist to implement each approach. This analysis, compiled in the Pathways to OA documents, was endorsed by the UC Council of University Librarians (CoUL) on 27 February 2018. The Pathways to OA is intended to assist campus libraries and the California Digital Library with an individual, and where appropriate, collective decision-making about which OA strategies, possible next steps, or experiments to pursue in order to achieve a large-scale transition to OA.

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