The
Bibsam Consortium is signing a Read & Publish agreement with Elsevier,
a global information analytics business specializing in science and health.
Under the deal, Swedish researchers will gain access to the publisher's 2000
journals once more. In addition, all Swedish research articles will be
published open access. The previous agreement with Elsevier was terminated in
2018. A new agreement is now in place that meets Bibsam’s requirements and
reflects fair value for both sides.
November 12, 2019 Taking the Temperature on Open Access Among UC Berkeley Faculty
Chan Li
Assessment Librarian, University of California Berkeley Library
Are Faculty Onboard with OA?
Recently, UC Berkeley Library signed the OA2020 Expression of
Interest, a campaign to push for open access by 2020, and decided to end its
Elsevier journal subscriptions. In response, Ithaka S+R conducted a survey to read Berkeley faculty’s attitudes on
OA, and whether they are aligned with the library’s choices. Results generally
point toward support for OA, though there were some variances in enthusiasm
dependent on department and faculty age. The main argument against OA seemed to
be the typical one—that subscription-based journals lend prestige and precious
grounds for tenure. [Ithaka S+R]
This week, UC Irvine became the first UC campus to launch the UC Presidential Open Access Policy implementation, enabling UC Irvine Health Science Clinical Professors and Librarians to join their Academic Senate colleagues in using the UC Publication Management System to make their scholarly articles freely available in eScholarship, UC’s open access repository and publishing platform.
Thanks to increasingly enthusiastic participation in the Academic Senate OA Policy, the global community, both academic and public, now have access to nearly 46,000 articles that would otherwise be locked behind publisher paywalls. Participation in the Presidential OA Policy builds on this momentum by extending UC’s OA policy participation to an additional 210,000 employees, substantially broadening the reach of UC research and scholarship, and granting UC the distinction of having the most extensive institutional OA policy in the country. UC’s OA policies collectively empower all UC employees to make their publications available to the public for free in eScholarship, regardless of where those articles are originally published or how restrictive the publishers’ default use policies might be.
We spoke with Mitchell Brown (UC Irvine Libraries Scholarly Communications Coordinator and Research Librarian for Chemistry, Earth System Science and Russian Studies) about UC Irvine’s roll-out and their success building interest in open access policy participation. Read more at the Office of Scholarly Communication blog.
This year, international Open Access Week is October 21-27. The theme, “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge,” was chosen to deepen conversations about being inclusive by design and to turn those conversations into action, according to Nick Shockey, Director of Programs & Engagement at SPARC. “We find ourselves at a critical moment. The decisions we make now—individually and collectively—will fundamentally shape the future for many years to come. As open becomes the default, all stakeholders must be intentional about designing these new, open systems to ensure that they are inclusive, equitable, and truly serve the needs of a diverse global community.”
The University of California Libraries have a wide variety of workshops, exhibits, and fun activities planned to celebrate – check them out!
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.
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.
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.
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."
Mitchell C. Brown, Research Librarian for Chemistry, Earth System Science and Russian Studies and Scholarly Communications Coordinator, University of California Irvine Libraries
I am a librarian at University of California Irvine. My title is Research Librarian for Chemistry, Earth System Science and Russian Studies and Scholarly Communications Coordinator. My education background includes a B.S. Physics (Carnegie-Mellon, 1988) and M.L.I.S. (University of Texas, Austin, 1994). I have worked at LSU-Baton Rouge and Princeton University prior to UC Irvine.
