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November 2017

Springer Nature and PaperHive join forces


Springer Nature has launched a one-year pilot with PaperHive intending to increase university students’ engagement with academic literature by offering a collaborative reading experience, with in-document discussions and rich-media annotations on some books and textbooks.

This pilot will enable students and tutors to interact through the textbooks, asking questions, sharing opinions and solving text-specific exercises in the margins of the material.

Find out more about Springer Nature, PaperHive and this pilot project through the press release from Springer.

Courts strike another blow to Sci-Hub


Sci-Hub, a popular scientific research piracy website, has received another blow in the United States courts. In June, a New York federal judge fined Sci-Hub $15 million. In November a federal judge in Virginia fined Sci-Hub $4.8 million as the result of a lawsuit from the American Chemical Society.

This lawsuit also includes some new legal ammunition. The ACS have been granted the right to demand that search engines (including Google) not show Sci-Hub in search results.

Find out more at the Ars Technica website.

Behind the choice to publish OA


Writing on the UC Press blog, author Prof. Thomas Patteson outlines his reasoning behind publishing his award winning book ‘Instruments for New Music’ via the University of California Press’s Luminos open access book program. Prof. Patterson writes that much of his own scholarly work is indebted to open access resources, and considers potential benefits.

Read the post on the UC Press blog.
Dandelion will make you wise

In her entry for the 2017 OpenCon blog competition, Sara Bosshart writes optimistically on Authorea about how Open Access is an awful lot like dandelions. Bosshart discusses how Open Access enables researchers to find a host of papers on a subject that then inform their own research. Bosshart places particular emphasis on the global benefits of Open Access.

Read this and other entries to the competition on the OpenCon London 2017 collection.

On Wednesday 15 of November around 100 delegates converged on St Catharine’s College to attend the Engaging Researchers in Good Data Management event. Organised by the Office of Scholarly Communication in partnership with Jisc and SPARC Europe, this conference focused on different responses as to how to engage researchers with the important, but not always exciting, topic of managing data well.

Attendees and speakers came from across Europe and included non-University organisations, which meant a huge breadth of approaches were showcased and issues debated through 18 talks, a panel discussion and 5 focus group discussions. Not only was the event well attended in person but had a live streaming audience of 51!

The full livestream from the day is currently available on the University Library Youtube channel. Recordings of all the talks and edited versions of all livestreamed talks will be made available via the University Library YouTube channel shortly.
Unlocking Research

Dr Danny Kingsley and Maria Angelaki discuss the challenges of determining the date of publication for many papers.

A new blog platform was launched as part of the Cambridge Office of Scholarly Communication's Open Access Week celebrations - Open Research: Adventures from the front line. The most recent blog post, but Dr Danny Kingsley, details the first year of the Open Research Pilot Project.

News and comment from other Scholarly Communication blogs

  • Writing on the Open Knowledge International Blog, Danny Lammerhirt discusses the need for public data infrastructure of publishing costs.
  • Find out more about the London School of Economic’s ‘Request a Copy’ service facilitating access to embargoed research on the LSE Blog.
  • Henk Moed guest writes on the Bibliomagician blog about how research performance indicators can be used in an informed and responsible manner.

In this new recurring section you can find out all about the activities of the OSC team.

Dr Arthur Smith, Deputy Head of the Office of Scholarly Communication, will be speaking at The Digital Future on Thursday 30 November; an event taking place as part of International Digital Preservation Day.

Dr Danny Kingsley will be giving a kynote address at the London Info International 2017 conference.

On Monday 4 December, Dr Agustina Martínez García and Peter Sutton-Long of the Research Data Team are presenting a case study at the EThOS-DataCite UK workshop: PIDs for UK Theses event at the British Library.

Springer Nature has published a white paper reporting the results of the first major comparative analysis of the usage data for both Open Access and non-Open Access academic books. The report includes quantitative analysis, along with feedback from authors and funders discussing experiences, motivations and perceptions of Open Access book publishing.

While the research was only conducted with Springer Nature books (so further research would be very useful), results seemed to indicate significant benefits (e.g. citations, downloads, online mentions) for Open Access.

Find out more by reading the white paper online.

Writing on the Scholarly Kitchen, Rick Anderson discusses the challenges of public accessibility of research vs comprehensibility of research.

There are many areas of concern when it comes to public access to scholarly and scientific publications – how easy to find, access and read such materials; reusability of such material for members of the public, and; how accessible (i.e. comprehensible to a lay person) such material is.

This final area of concern is subject to much debate – to what extent is it possible (or desirable) to change the way scholarship is written and presented.

Find out more about this debate on the Scholarly Kitchen blog.

OpenCon Cam 2017


OpenCon Cam 2017 was held in mid-November as a satellite event to the main OpenCon event. OpenCon and its satellite events aim to promote and increase awareness in Open Access, Open Data and Open Education.

The theme of this year’s OpenCon Cam conference was “Open for Everyone” and included speakers from a variety of viewpoints who are all aiming to improve openness. For example, attendees heard about the open movement in Africa, grassroots campaigns by researchers about improving transparency in science and open source journalism.

The day also featured focus groups and crowdsourced solutions to the attendees open-related problems.

The talks can all be watched online on the OpenConCam YouTube channel.
Jobs & Opportunities
  • Panel Discussion and Networking: Blockchain for Scholarly Communication & Research, Digital Science
Blockchain is a revolutionary technology with the potential to fundamentally change industry including the publishing industry. Join Digital Science in London on the evening of Tuesday 28th November for a panel discussion and networking focusing on the potential of blockchain technology for scholarly communication and research. Hear from a panel of experts including Soenke Bartling, Eefke Smit, Joris van Rossum, Mark Hahnel (moderator), Eveline Klumpers.
 
Find out more and book your ticket via the event website.
  • Webinar series, OpenAire
OpenAIRE is organizing a series of 10 webinars for the next 8 months to empower their repositories network.

The intention is to approach different OpenAIRE services and tools for content providers and recent repository developments, concerning topics such as: OpenAIRE Dashboard for Content Providers, Scholix guidelines for data-literature integration, OpenAIRE guidelines, Metrics and OpenAIRE usage statistics service, Text and Data Mining, the role of repositories in Open Access funder policy compliance, and next generation repositories.

The next seminar will be Tuesday 5 December - Scholix guidelines for data-literature integration: opportunities for OpenAIRE compatible repositories (Presenter: Paolo Manghi, ISTI-CNR).

Find out more about upcoming seminars on the OpenAire website.
  • In Conversation with the Wellcome Trust, University of Cambridge
David Carr and Robert Kiley from the Wellcome Trust are coming to Cambridge to talk with researchers about the Trust’s policy on data, software and materials management and sharing, which was released in July 2017. They will give short talks about the extended requirements for sharing all research outputs and an update on how their policy on open research has been working. Afterwards you will have the opportunity to ask them any questions you might have.

This event will be taking place on Tuesday 5 December at the Gurdon Institute Tea Room. Find out more and book via the University of Cambridge Training website.
  • Open Access Publications Officer, St Mary's University, Twickenham
St Mary’s University is currently seeking a part-time Open Access Publications Officer to join the Library Services team. This role has responsibility for open access publishing support within the University and administers the St Mary’s Open Research Archive (publications repository).

The role also provides library support, guidance and training for researchers across the University in the field of Open Access publishing, and works in close partnership with the University’s Research Services team.

Find out more and apply by Friday 1 December via the St Mary's University website.
  • Research Associate, Data Science for Health, UCL
University College London are seeking a Research Associate to be based in the UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction working with the digital health group on three digital global health projects in Low and Middle Income Settings (LMIC): (1) the GASDA project – a gamified antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) decision support app for prescribing behaviour change, (2) the MANTRA project developing an app for women’s resilience in Nepal and (3) a gamified app for community engagement in Brazil.

The role will include research into data science and dashboard visualisation for healthcare professionals and decision makers in Nigeria, Nepal and Brazil and other LMIC and the development of a cross-platform app for a decision tree and gamification for sample infection control policies and guidelines.
 
Find out more and apply by Sunday 10 December on the UCL website.
  • PhD studentship: Development of Data Collection Tools with Non-Literate Participants, UCL
UCL Department of Geography and the Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) group invite applications for a PhD studentship from European Research Council (ERC) funded project: ECSAnVis (Extreme Citizen Science: Analysis & Visualisation) aimed at a developer.

Find out more and apply by Thursday 15 Feb 2018 via the UCL website.
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