Behind the Fluff

Hi this is Lou Peck from the International Bunch and I’m going to talk to you about open research in under 60 seconds.

Open research is purely and simply opening up knowledge to the benefit of all - and the earlier on in the process we make the information accessible, the better. Also know as open science, there are five key areas of open research:

1. open access

The research community has made significant progress in open research adoption though there are still challenges for example time and effort taken to share outputs can put researchers at a competitive disadvantage, and concern about being scooped. 

Key stakeholders like funders and publishers are really embracing open research and have lots of great support available.

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Daniel Himmelstein, Biodata Scientist, University of Pennsylvanian, USA discusses Realtime Open Research and the future of publishers. He also has a little request for better metadata - something close to Lou's heart!

Thanks so much to Daniel for taking the time to speak to us.

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Hi this is Lou Peck and I’m going to talk to you about copyright in under 60 seconds.

As the author you are the first copyright owner of your work unless commissioned by your institution or funder.

For subscription journals you sign a publisher copyright transfer agreement (CTA) for all versions of that work. You MIGHT have additional rights like reusing parts of the article; distributing a limited free copy; and/or self-archiving in a repository.

For open access (OA) journals you, the institution or funder pay the publisher an Article Processing Charge (APC) and sign an open licence like Creative Commons – e.g. Attribution Only or CC BY. The publisher still edits, prints and distributes the article for commercial means but you retain the other rights.

For hybrid journals you will EITHER sign a CTA or pay the APC and sign an open licence.

Before submitting, check what is available to ensure you understand your rights.

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What is Library Publishing and how is it different from a University Press?

Hi this is Lou Peck from the International Bunch and I’m going to talk to you about library publishing in under 60 seconds.

Library publishing (also known as campus-based publishing) is where an academic library provides publishing services like electronic open access content.

Library publishing services can complement a university press and though both at the same institution may have different objectives, but they are mostly aligned under the institutions vision.

A library publishing service could concentrate on pioneering publishing innovatives e.g. open source publishing platform DPubS (Cornell University) and the press publishes books and journals, or the press could publish open access books and the library publishes peer-reviewed journals (University of Pittsburgh).

Check out SPARC and the Library Publishing Coalition for more in-depth information.

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Image taken from - https://www.hastac.org/news/library-publishing-coalition 

What is the problem with predatory publishers?

Hi, this is Claire Sewell from the Office of Scholarly Communication in Cambridge and I’m going to talk about the problem of predatory publishers. These are publishers which take advantage of a lack of knowledge about how Open Access works in order to dupe researchers into publishing with them. They do this by charging a fee to make work available but without providing the services this would normally cover like copyediting and peer review. This results in substandard work being published as legitimate research.

These publishers often solicit content directly from researchers which can be very flattering. Authors should always check potential publishers carefully to ensure that they provide the services they claim to and offer high quality research. Problems to watch out for include overly flattering emails offering to publish, peer review times which seem too good to be true and a poor quality website. If in doubt, researchers should use a website like Think. Check. Submit to help them assess the title.

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Have you heard about our #Donein60Seconds challenge?

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Learn more about altmetrics from Andy Tattersall, Information Specialist at The University of Sheffield.

Hi, this is Andy Tattersall from The School of Health and Related Research at The University of Sheffield and I’m going to talk about Altmetrics in under 60 seconds.

Altmetrics first appeared in 2010 and are in essence alternative indicators of scholarly interest. They provide additional information in addition to traditional metrics such as citations and impact factor scores. They can measure traditional and social media attention, Wikipedia and policy document citations, downloads, views and how many times an article has been saved to a reference management tool such as Mendeley.

Not only can they measure traditional outputs such as journal articles but other artefacts such as datasets, posters and figures, anything that has a trackable ID such as a Pubmed ID, ISBN or DOI. There are several platforms out there that track or make sense of such attention so its worth looking at Altmetric.com, Growkudos, ImpactStory, Figshare, Dimensions and Plum Analytics.

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Hear Founder Lou Peck cover her editorial 'Rogue Peer Review - a polysemy in the making' in Research Information - if you would like to read the piece in full, simply log in or register for Research Information where you will find lots of other interesting editorial pieces - http://bit.ly/2SRG8Dp

Hi this is Lou Peck from the International Bunch and I’m going to talk to you about Projekt DEAL in under 60 seconds.

Projekt DEAL represents nearly 700 academic institutions in Germany and announced in January 2019 a countrywide partnership with Wiley. This three year agreement gives Projekt DEAL access to Wiley’s academic content back to 1997 for an annual fee – and Projekt DEAL can publish articles open access in Wiley’s journals.

It encompasses three new initiatives:

1. A new flagship OA interdisciplinary journal

This is the first major transformative deal of its kind.

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Discover Founder Lou Peck talk about her experience of the recent RLUK and Arcadia Fund event and a summary of the discussions.