Scholarly Communications Digest

By: ahurford

Here are 10 items of interest from this week: Congress to Renew Open Textbook Pilot Grant Program with $7 Million Appropriation | SPARCFORCE2019 Conference Presentations | ZenodoHow to Advocate for the Research You’re Already Doing | Inside Higher EdInternational Elsevier dealsLeaked Dutch Contract with Elsevier Raises Significant Alarm Bells - SPARCElsevier deal with France disappoints…

Scholarly Communications Digest

By: ahurford

Here are 10 items of interest from this week" 2019 Scholarly Communications Research Grant Recipients Announced | ACRL Insider Book, “Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians,” Is Now Available | Creative Commons IRs in America: "Land of the Free" or "Free Online Access" | University of Nebraska - Lincoln/IATUL Seminar 2019  The Journal of Electronic…

SPARC Roadmap for Action - SPARC

By: SC@S

From SPARC: Preview: SPARC’s Roadmap for Action builds on our previously released Landscape Analysis, providing a set of individual and collective actions that institutions can consider taking to help ensure control of their data and data infrastructure. Recognizing that solutions to these complex issues are not “one size fits all,” this document offers a framework…

Elsevier CEO Kumsal Bayazit Debuts at Charleston - The Scholarly Kitchen

By: Roger C. Schonfeld

From in: Preview: On Thursday morning, Elsevier’s new CEO Kumsal Bayazit debuted in front of a librarian audience with a keynote address at the Charleston Conference. Bayazit stepped up to the podium amid high expectations. Her predecessor Ron Mobed retired earlier this year, as renewals with major accounts, including the University of California system, appeared…

The Writing on the Unpaywall | Library Babel Fish

By: Barbara Fister

From Barbara Fister in Library Babel Fish: Preview: Since it’s Open Access Week, I finally got around to reading a paper I’d bookmarked a few weeks back, “The Future of OA: A Large-Scale Analysis Projecting Open Access Publication and Readership.” Written by Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem, and Richard Orr, the wizards behind Our Research, a…

Differentiating Between Open Access and Open Educational Resources | VTechWorks

By: SC@S

From Anita Walz: Preview: Differentiating open access and open educational resource can be a challenge in some contexts. Excellent resources such as "How Open Is It?: A Guide for Evaluating the Openness of Journals" (CC BY) https://sparcopen.org/our-work/howopenisit created by SPARC, PLOS, and OASPA greatly aid us in understanding the relative openness of journals. However, visual…

SPARC Releases Connect OER Annual Report for 2018-2019 - SPARC

By: SC@S

From SPARC: Preview: SPARC is pleased to release our 2018-2019 Connect OER Annual Report, which offers insights about OER activities across North America. This year’s report examines the current state of OER activities featuring data from 132 institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Our intent is that these insights will help inform SPARC members, open…

OA in the Open: Community Needs and Perspectives | LIS Scholarship Archive Works |

By: SC@S

From Rebecca Kennison, Judy Ruttenberg, Yasmeen Shorish, and Liz Thompson in LIS Scholarship Archive Works: Abstract: The National Forum described here was proposed as a first step in surfacing community requirements and principles toward a collective open access (OA) collection development system. The Forum asked participants to envision a collective funding environment for libraries to…

Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public…

By: SC@S

From Karl Bode in Motherboard Tech by VICE: Preview: A coalition of archivists, activists, and libraries are working overtime to make it easier to identify the many books that are secretly in the public domain, digitize them, and make them freely available online to everyone. The people behind the effort are now hoping to upload…

A 21st Century Solution to the Serials Crisis: White paper | Scholastica

By: SC@S

From Scholastica: Preview: As the cost of academic journals continues to rise, institutions and individual scholars are increasingly at risk of losing access to leading research. Time is running out to break this dangerous cycle. This white paper brings together key literature and insights from 5 expert open access (OA) advocates to survey the journal…