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>

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:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx47q_V41hH5INhz1YZjX1odHddrRt341

LAUC-B website

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.

Open Access: Reclaiming Scholarship for the Academy (October 16, 2015)

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

LAUC Website

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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Christina Emery

Partnership Manager | Knowledge Unlatched

christina@knowledgeunlatched.org

www.knowledgeunlatched.org

Winner: IFLA/Brill Award for Open Access 2014

Winner: Curtin University Award for Best Innovation in Education 2015