[GOAL] Re: Open access researchers: let's cooperate
Heather, You could perhaps cooperate with Walt Crawford who has recently reviewed all DOAJ journals and collected APC info. Or connect with Wouter Gerritsma who compiled a list late last year http://wowter.net/2014/11/30/open-access-journal-article-processing-charges/. Best, Jeroen -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison Sent: donderdag 7 mei 2015 23:37 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Open access researchers: let's cooperate It's great to see lots of people conducting research on open access. There is no lack of work to do, so the more the merrier! In some areas there can be a lot of tedious manual work and/or development of complicated formulae to bring together different datasets. For example, my team plans to download DOAJ metadata on May 15 with an eye to updating our May 2014 sample of the minority of DOAJ journals charging APCs. This involves gathering APC-related information from at least 1,432 journals, and it would be ideal to include all of the journals charging APCs. If anyone else has similar plans, please let us know. Perhaps we could divide up the work and get more done with less time. Note that my team is currently focused exclusively on the fully OA journals listed in DOAJ. Hybrids and the journals on Beall's list are important too, but beyond scope for us for workload reasons. If a number of researchers are planning similar surveys, sharing plans and questions would give us all an opportunity to have more comparable data by using the same questions and minimizing the possibility of lowering response rates by sending out surveys with overlap. The Open Access Directory has sections for Research Questions and Research in Progress that we can use for sharing this information: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Research_in_progress I've posted an overview update of the research in progress by the Sustaining the Knowledge Commons team here: http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/07/forthcoming-research-and-an-invitation-to-cooperate/ In brief: Interviews and focus groups with small scholar-led journals that either are, or would like to be, open access, to determine resource requirements (this is the sector I see as likely to be both the most cost-effective and the best model to prioritize scholarship and the public interest. Early writing forthcoming soon. OA APCs: longitudinal studies including May 2014, May 2015, and the 2010 Bjork and Solomon study. OA APCs: subject and DOAJ publication count APC correlation (hypothesis: some types of APC charging journals will either start charging or increase prices as their content increases) OA APCs: impact factor correlation (hypothesis: some type of APC charging journals with increase costs disproportionately when they receive impact factors and/or increase in rankings. Effect may not be immediate). best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ heather.morri...@uottawa.ca ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
[GOAL] Kyoto University has adopted "Kyoto University Open Access Policy"
Dear Colleagues, On April 28, 2015, Kyoto University, Japan adopted "Kyoto University Open Access policy". This policy mandates faculty membe rs to publicize in principle their academic articles on the Internet by depositing them in "Kyoto University Research Inform ation Repository KURENAI". ■Kyoto University Open Access Policy http://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/uploads/oapolicy.pdf http://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/modules/content0/index.php?content_id=92 ■Kyoto University Research Information Repository KURENAI http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/?locale=en http://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/modules/content0/index.php?content_id=88 [Message from Director of Kyoto University Library Network] Assuring open access to published products of faculty research is expected to facilitate collaboration between researchers, thus empowering academic society to open up a new vista for innovation beyond the borders of disciplines. It also clarifies the responsibility of all of us, who are engaged in research and education, to be accountable to the society for what we are doing. The concept of open access has been spreading rapidly in the world. Specifically in Japan, the idea has been promote d mainly by part of researchers who are interested in the concept. Kyoto University, however, has now taken a new step forwa rd to adopt our open access policy, confirming our determination to promote open access throughout the university. KURENAI has, since its launch in 2006, accumulated Kyoto University faculty research on a voluntary basis. The database has now become one of the largest institutional repositories in Japan with full text data of more than 130,000. With "Kyoto Univ ersity Open Access Policy", Kyoto University will make a concerted effort to contribute to the development of research as a socially responsible academic institute, by making more and more faculty research open access in KURENAI. -- SUZUKI, Hideki Head of Technical Service Division Kyoto University Library, Japan ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
