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We are delighted that Andre's poster was selected for the Best Poster Award! He and Agustina saw incredible contributions during the week, and were grateful to all participants for their interest and engagement with #OrpheusDjango. They extend their thanks to the organisers for putting together a fantastic forum. |
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cOAlition S releases revised Plan S implementation guidance, start date now January 1, 2021
cOAlition S released revised implementation guidance on Plan S following public feedback exercise. “With effect from 2021, all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional and international research councils and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo.”
Research England awards £2.2m to project to improve and increase open access publishing
Research England has awarded £2.2 million to COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) from the Research England Development (RED) Fund, which supports innovation in research and knowledge exchange in higher education that offers significant public benefits. Research England’s Executive Chair, David Sweeney, said: "I am delighted that we are able to support this ambitious project in developing new and innovative open access publishing ecosystems. It will help us ensure that all publicly funded research is widely and freely accessible to everyone as soon as possible."
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Springer Nature encourages preprint sharing
Springer Nature journals have announced that they will adopt a unified policy that encourages preprint sharing and provides further details on preprint licensing, citation and communications with the media.
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PLOS Journals are now open for published peer review
Exciting news from PLOS highlighting their commitment for more open publication process. As of 22 May all PLOS journals will offer authors the option to publish their peer review history alongside their accepted manuscript.
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Artefactual becomes DPC Supporter and joins Digital Preservation Futures series of events
This month the Digital Preservation Coalition welcomed Artefactual to its international Supporter Program. The company behind Archivematica and AtoM, Artefactual Systems Inc. works together with cultural heritage organisations, providing their expertise and technology in the domains of digital archiving and digital preservation. With the goal of advancing the capacity of heritage institutions to preserve and provide access to the cultural assets of the world, Canada-based Artefactual develops free and open-source software and promotes open standards as the best means of enabling this goal.
RDA (Research Data Alliance) helps earth and space science take a big leap forward
Dozens of repositories, publishers, and communities have signed up to the Enabling FAIR Data Commitment Statement in the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences for depositing and sharing data. This is one result of an 18-month project led by the American Geophysical Union that was catalyzed by RDA and others that put many RDA Recommendations and Supporting Outputs into practice.
Negotiating with scholarly journal publishers: A toolkit from the University of California
The University of California’s (UC) 2018-19 journal contract negotiation with Elsevier has been widely followed. In response to ongoing demand for information, UC have created a negotiation toolkit to provide support and insight for institutions, particularly university librarians/directors and faculty in North America, interested in restructuring their publisher contracts for journal content.
University of Vienna and the Bibsam Consortium in Sweden sign agreements to participate in AIP Publishing’s “Read and Publish” pilot program
The Bibsam Consortium in Sweden has signed an agreement to participate in AIP Publishing’s “Read and Publish” pilot program. Bibsam is the first research library consortium to join the pilot. The University of Vienna has also signed, making it the first European academic institution to join the pilot.
The pilot, which will run until the end of 2019, enables authors affiliated with the twelve participating universities to publish open access articles in AIP Publishing’s hybrid journals without paying any article processing fees.
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The latest posts from the OSC blog
- In our latest blog, Maria Angelaki and Sacha Jones reflect on our Cambridge Data Champions and explore this year's strategies for the Programme.
- Dr Beatrice Gini, our new Training Coordinator, recently attended the inaugural Scholarly Communication Conference at the University of Kent and wrote her first blogpost for Unlocking Research titled Engagement, infrastructure and roles: themes at #ScholComm19.
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Blogs we've enjoyed
- Evaluating Open Access in a Consortial Context Gwen Evans, Guest post for The Scholarly Kitchen, 14 May.
- Are preprints paving the way to science in real time? Andrea Chiarelli, Knowledge Exchange, reposted in Jisc scholarly communications, 22 May.
- Landscape Analysis: A SPARC Report on the Changing Nature of the Academic Publishing Industry and the Implications for Institutions Robert Harington, The Scholarly Kitchen, 22 May.
- Researcher to Reader (R2R) Debate: Is Sci-Hub Good or Bad for Scholarly Communication? Anderson, R. The Scholarly Kitchen, 16 April.
- How will we judge scientists in 2030? Esther Plomp, Marta Teperek, Maria Cruz, Yan Wang, Yasemin Türkyilmaz-van der Velden, Open Working, 22 May.
- Are we being wilfully blind about the transformation that’s needed in scholarly publishing? Toby Green, The Startup, 24 May.
- Depositing and reporting of reagents: Accelerating open and reproducible science Angela Abitua & Joanne Kamens, Guest post for PLOS Blogs, 29 May.
- Plan S and the Transformation of Scholarly Communication: Are We Missing the Woods? Alison Mudditt, The Scholarly Kitchen, 3 June.
- What the history of copyright in academic publishing tells us about Open Research Aileen Fyfe, LSE Impact Blog, 3 June.
- Internal Contradictions with Open Access Books, Joseph Esposito, The Scholarly Kitchen, 4 June.
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A wealth of material to use and share freely
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- OSC Research Support resources - Following June's webinar on mirror journals you can explore the accompanying Handy Guide, presentation slides and transcript. Why not check other webinars whist you are on our website?
- Our Research Handy Guides go continental! Our Research Support Skills Coordinator, Claire Sewell was pleased to respond to a request from the libraries of Université Paris Diderot (Université de Paris) to adapt the series of Research Support Handy Guides in French, with all due credits. The guides are issued under a CC-BY 4 license, and Claire was happy to give the go-ahead and share her tips on how to edit the original document files.
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Recent articles of interest
- The Value of Peer Review: Perceptions for the Hematology Community Commissioned by the American Society of Hematology. (April 2019) American Society of Hematology
- Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations, McKiernan EC, Schimanski LA, Muñoz Nieves C, Matthias L, Niles MT, Alperin JP. (2019) PeerJ Preprints 7:e27638v2. doi:https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27638v2
- Three camps, one destination: the intersections of research data management, FAIR and Open, Higman, Rosie, Daniel Bangert, and Sarah Jones (2019) Insights 32 (1): 18. doi: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.468
- Plan U: Universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates, Sever R, Eisen M, Inglis J. (2019) PLoS Biol 17(6): e3000273. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000273
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SLA Europe conference
Newnham College, Cambridge 5-6 September
SLA Europe (Special Libraries Association) will be holding its first ever conference on 5-6 September 2019 in the picturesque surroundings of Newnham College, at the University of Cambridge. This promises to be an exciting event, and there will be something for all information professionals. Whether you wish to learn about current developments and good practice, make professional contacts across Europe, network with colleagues from other organisations or even have the opportunity of presenting your own ideas, there will be something for you. Early bird booking registration is now open with a 20% discount until 31 July.
Save the date: Open Monographs - a one day OSC symposium
St Catherine's College, Cambridge 02 October 2019
We are busy planning the programme for a full day's exploration of Open Monographs. Save the date to join us for lively discussion of ideologies, realities, controversies, policies, funding, experiences and much more.
Forthcoming Wednesday Webinars
Our next Wednesday Webinar, 17 July (12-1pm), will cover all the major developments of the last twelve months. Same time on 21 August our Wednesday Webinar will explore the Creative Commons licenses and on 19 September we will focus on Predatory Publishers. More information and booking details soon to appear in the OSC website.
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(Call for presentations and posters, deadline 24 June- Registration Open)
19-20 September
27 June (online webinar)
1 July, 11am CEST (online webinar)
4 July 2019, York
16 July, London
16-17 July, Alan Turing Institute, London
4–5 September, Cambridge
5-6 September, Newnham College, Cambridge
16-20 September, Amsterdam
24-26 September, Copenhagen
15-17 October, Edinburgh
12-14 December, NIT Rourkela, India
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