Does adopting a strict data sharing policy affect submissions?
In a recent post for The Scholarly Kitchen, Tim Vines examines the theory that investing in data sharing makes a journal less, and not more, attractive to authors.
He crunches the data from 12 journals that adopted the Joint Data Archiving Policy between 2011 and 2014, discovering that strict data sharing policies appeared to have no consistently negative effect in his sample: journals that were growing continued to grow once the policy came in. He concludes that journal submissions are affected by a wide range of factors - chiefly Impact Factors - so the fear that journal data policies hurt submissions can be allayed.
Research Data Alliance EU launches Open Call for Ambassadors
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Europe Ambassadors programme is offering up to six grants of a maximum of €7,000, targeting 'distinguished and well-connected' experts in various fields.
Ambassadors will engage with data practitioners in their field of expertise, sharing RDA outputs and perspectives, and encouraging them to join the RDA community and to become contributors and adopters of RDA outputs. The relationships they build with the community and organisations they represent will help RDA develop its own groups and activities.
The programme is designed to help Ambassadors grow their network and collaborate with like-minded people and organisations, while increasing the impact of their work and developing their professional profile.
World Digital Preservation Day 2018: share your stories
World Digital Preservation Day (WDPD2018) takes place on 29 November, and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) hopes that data creators, curators and consumers from around the world will share stories of their own 'Digital Preservation Day' through social media.
They suggest taking photos, making videos and sharing updates about your own 'digital preservation day' using the social media platform of your choice and the hashtags #WDPD2018 and #DPA2018. If you are planning an event to celebrate the day, or intend to blog about it, they will share your plans and posts on the WDPD2018 page of their website.
Tell us what you do in Scholarly Communication and Research Support!
As part of a wider project to demystify the range of jobs available in scholarly communication, the OSC invites those who are working in scholarly communication and research support a chance to share their thoughts in the form of short vox pop video interviews.
Designed to be no more than two to three minutes in length, these videos would outline what your role is, the core tasks of your job and the skills you wish you had developed prior to working in this area. We will host these videos online and over time build up a useful resource for the scholarly communication and academic library communities. Videos can be filmed on phones, tablets or anything else you have to hand.
We are aiming to launch the first wave of vox pops during Open Access Week 2018 (22 – 28 October) but the contributions don’t need to be restricted to those working in Open Access roles. We welcome contributions from anyone who considers that they work in any aspect of scholarly communication or research support, whether this is in a library or a different environment.
To help you we have put together both a sample video and a list of questions, which you will find on our blog, Unlocking Research.
Open Access Week 2018
Open Access Week is just around the corner, and we are busy preparing a five-day programme of special blog posts, announcements and events. Follow @CamOpenAccess on Twitter to make sure you stay up-to-date as the big week approaches.
OA Week 2018 coincides with the University of Cambridge's Festival of Ideas, and booking is now open for our headline events which are run in conjunction with both celebrations. These free sessions are open to the public - we hope you can join us!
Learned Societies in the Open era: finding a way forward Tuesday 23 October, 6-7:30pm
Mill Lane Lecture Room 1, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX
Some learned societies are increasingly dependent on publishing revenues, yet as open access becomes the new normal, researchers and librarians alike are questioning expensive subscription and publishing deals.
Join representatives from learned societies in the arts and sciences, including the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Historical Society, in conversation with their members within the University of Cambridge to ask ‘what is a learned society in the 21st century?’ How can the societies sustain their place in the academic landscape and answer the challenges created by open access requirements?
Is Open Research really changing the world? Thursday 25 October, 6-7:30pm
Mill Lane Lecture Room 1, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX
Much research claims to benefit communities globally but are research outputs really available to everyone, even if they are made open access?
Join us on a world tour to discover what is possible when researchers and governments make their research outputs available openly. What kind of impact do they have outside the academy – and outside the global north? What more can we do to make these outputs useful to innovators and to those researching outside the academic sector?
Book your free place Paywall the Movie: a lunchtime screening for Open Access Week 2018 Friday 26 October, 12-2pm, Milstein Room, Cambridge University Library
Jason Schmitt's film, Paywall: the Business of Scholarship, was released this month, with a trailer featuring faces familiar from the world of academic publishing alongside Alexandra Elbakyan, the scientist behind Sci-Hub.
Schmitt's documentary questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, and examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher - a margin greater than that of some of the most profitable tech companies.
Bring along your lunch, enjoy some popcorn, and stay after the film to discuss the issues raised.
The film will start at 12.15pm and runs for 65 minutes - please arrive at 12 noon to unpack your lunch with the lights on!
CBU Open Science Workshop MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge
20 November
The 2nd Open Science workshop run by the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit will feature speakers from Cambridge and beyond, focusing on both the bigger picture and the practicalities of Open Science.
Call for papers: Computational Archival Science (CAS) Workshop at IEEE Big Data 2018
Seattle, WA, USA
12 December
The workshop will explore the conjunction (and its consequences) of emerging methods and technologies around big data with archival practice and new forms of analysis and historical, social, scientific, and cultural research engagement with archives. It aims to identify and evaluate current trends, requirements, and potential in these areas, to examine the new questions that they can provoke, and to help determine possible research agendas for the evolution of computational archival science in the coming years.
European Data Documentation Initiative User Conference
Berlin, Germany
4-5 December
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences. This conference will bring together DDI users and professionals from all over Europe and the world. Anyone interested in developing, applying, or using DDI is invited to attend and present; themes will include reusing and sharing metadata, data harmonization, open data and linked open data, and user needs, efficient infrastructures and improved quality
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