From: Ingegerd Rabow <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:34:13 +0000
Welcome to the October 2012 issue of ScieCom info. Nordic-Baltic Forum
for Scientific Communication.
NEWS:
• The Swedish Government has recently presented the new Research and
Innovation Bill for the coming four years. We are happy to note that
Open Access is discussed for the first time. The government regards
increased availability to scientific information as a prerequisite for
successful Swedish research and innovation. More in coming issues.
The government bill also contains an interesting discussion of
different ways to relate research performance to funding. See comment
by Hampus Rabow:
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5684/4930
• DOAJ is now launching the site in Spanish and Portuguese thanks to
translation made by Redalyc and the University of Porto (see poster in
Portuguese):
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=121022&uiLanguage=en
To learn more about DOAJ and the site, please have a look at this
tutorial video (2:35 min) made especially for Open Access week!
COMING EVENS
• The conference Open Access and Licences will be held at the
Technical University of Denmark 7-8 of November. The event is
organized by DOAN (Danish Open Access Network) and some of the topics
that will be covered are: Publishing Funds, Repository management and
Policy-making. More information about the conference here:
http://indico.conferences.dtu.dk/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=128
• The 7th Munin Conference on Scientific Publishing 2012 – New Trends
will be held 22–23 November 2012 at the University of Tromso, Norway.
The Munin conference is an annual conference on scientific publishing,
with an Open Access approach:
http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/ocs/index.php/Munin/MC7/index
• The 17th International Conference on Electronic Publishing -
“Mining the Digital Information Networks” will be held June 13-14,
2013 at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden. The main
theme will be extracting and processing data from digital publishing
and ways to use and reuse this information:
http://www.bth.se/elpub2013
ARTICLES:
As this week also happens to be Open Access Week we are happy to start
with two inspiring invitations: one of them to take action before it
is too late and the other to pay attention to possible predators
within the field of scientific communication.
• Disrupt or be disrupted. That is the message in ”Open Access – a
driver for dramatic changes for academic libraries” by Lars
Björnshauge, SPARC Europe. What will happen academic librareis when
the tipping point of 50% OA soon arrives and they fail to take the
necessary initiatives to adapt to their new environment?
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5674/4928
• In “Who are the predators?” Jan Erik Frantsvåg, University of
Tromsø, Norway, takes a closer look at Jeffrey Beall’s list of some
195 publishers of dubious quality and finds that those 'fake'
publishers are more of a problem for the reputation of OA than for the
purses of researchers. The real predators have to be found elsewhere:
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5672/4919
• The expected OA-developments in the European Commission are
presented by Mikkel Christoffersen, Nordbib manager, Copenhagen,
Denmark, in his article “ The European Commission's recommendation to
the member states on access to and preservation of scientific
information”.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5676/4923
• Ensuring the quality of institutional repositories is of vital
importance. Pablo Tapia , Malmö University Library, Sweden, describes
methods and results for their project “Data Quality Assurance of
Research Publications - the Case of Malmo University Institutional
Repository.”
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5680/4927
• Comparative measuring of the quality of repository publishing is
important for repository managers who want to know how their IRs
compare with others in various ranking systems. In ”Webometrics –
Ranking Web of Repositories. To count and not to count” Leif Longva ,
University of Tromsø, Norway, examines on of these systems:
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5675/4922
• Research quality is also the topic of our next item. Hampus Rabow,
Malmö University, Sweden, briefly comments on the discussion of the
use of performance indicators for research funding purposes in the
new Research and Innovation Bill from the Swedish Government:
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5684/4930
• In "Nordbib's final international conference and workshop :
Impressions from the organiser", Mikkel Christoffersen describes the
planning of and the thoughts behind the conference “Structural
Frameworks for Open, Digital Research : Strategy, Policy and
Infrastructure”, held in Copenhagen June 11-13 2012 . This conference
was both a celebration of the successful long-standing Nordbib
programme and a swan song:
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5677/4924
• Another type of conference is reviewed by Juho Lindman, Hanken
School of Economics, Helsinki, in “REVIEW:Open Kowledge Festival,
Helsinki”. At the annual Open Knowledge Festival people from various
fields meet in a creative mix of experts and enthusiasts. The theme
was Open Knowledge in Action with focus on the values behind open data
publications, and the economic value of opening up datasets:
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5673/4920
• The 41st annual LIBER conference took place in Tartu under the title
“Mobilising the knowledge economy for Europe”. Ludmilla Soot, Medical
Information Centre of Tartu University Hospital, reports in: “LIBER
conference in Tartu“. The main subject was cooperation between
research libraries, but more attention was given to the presentations
and seminars on mobile solutions, cloud services, and Open Access:
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5679/4926
• Ebba Ossiannilsson, Lund university, and Markus Schneider, Karlstad
University, present a Swedish OER-project: “OER-Open possibilities
for learning. A national initiative financed by the Internet
Infrastructure Foundation .SE”. The international OER movement is
strong, but developments in Sweden have been slower. Teachers at
HE-institutions need support and to be able to use the OER to their
best advantage:
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5678/4929
We hope that you will have a god read. Your comments and ideas are
always most welcome
Ingegerd Rabow
Editor-in-chief
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