From: Ingegerd Rabow <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 16:17:24 +0000
Welcome to the May 2014 issue of ScieCom info. Nordic - Baltic Forum
for Scientific Communication.
NEWS
We are very pleased to have received new financial support from the
Nordic National Libraries for 2014. This enables us to continue to
provide our readers with information and reports on the developments
in scholarly communication in the Baltic and Nordic countries
COMING EVENTS
Helsinki, Finland: The conference "Open Repositories 2014" is arranged
in Helsinki 9-13.6.2014. More information on:
http://or2014.helsinki.fi/
Tromsø, Norway:
The 9th annual Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing will be held
26–27 November 2014 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø.
The Munin Conferences raise and debate questions within the theme of
scholarly publishing. The list of keynote speakers for this year’s
conference is as exciting as ever.
See: http://site.uit.no/muninconf/
ARTICLES
Žibutė Petrauskienė and Saulius Maskeliūnas from Vilnius University
describe the implementing of a national OA archive of research data -
MIDAS -and how it will provide virtual services for participants in
researchers and education. This is expected to lead to more efficient
research and higher quality. The various benefits and possibilities
are discussed, as well as the tools available. The aim of this
National Open Access Research Data Archive is to increase the global
visibility of Lithuanian science and facilitate international
cooperation.
[http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/10233/8623[
In her study “Open Access publishing in Lithuania: Mykolas Romeris
University publishing case study“ Natalija Popkova, a librarian at
Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) in Vilnius , analyses the 2013
results on readability and sales since the introduction of the eBooks
Portal at the university. MRU is the first Lithuanian university to
give open access to scientific journals, textbooks, and monographs.
The MRU eBooks Portal applies the Creative Commons 4.0 license.
An interesting feature is that they have used the DAISY format to
publish MRU eBooks, thus also making it available for the disabled.
[http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/10234/8624]
Our Icelandic editor Sólveig Thorsteinsdottir describes the “Open
Access to research articles published in Iceland in 2013 “. She
carefully compares the number of Icelandic publications in foreign
journals, as shown by searching in the Web of Science with the open
access availability, either Green, Hybrid or Gold, of the same
articles according to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
There has been a slow but steady growth of OA in Iceland. The total
number of all varieties of OA for all of Iceland is now approximately
30% and for Landspitali, the National University Hospital, 40%.
Figures split per OA variety show some interesting differences
[http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/10235/8625]
In his article “The past, present & future of Open Access“, Mikael
Laakso, researcher in Information Systems Science at Hanken School of
Economics in Helsinki, summarizes his recent doctoral thesis
“Measuring Open Access - Studies of Web-enabled Innovation in
Scientific Journal Publish, in which Mikael Laakso examines the Open
Access phenomenon from a quantitative perspective. He has looked at
the development of article publishing in scientific open access
journals as well as the number of articles uploaded on the Internet
and made available by authors themselves. His results show that there
has been a rapid and even aggressive change in the field of scientific
and scholarly publishing, but that there still remains a lot to be
done to promote openness in research, and especially when it comes to
the important factor of individual researchers taking an active
interest in the process of publishing.
[http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/10236/8626]
Our Danish editor Adrian Price at the Faculty of Science Library,
Frederiksberg, University of Copenhagen, presents a recently published
report from the Knowledge Exchange (KE) project in “Knowledge Exchange
working group on authority files”. The report explains the concept
“authority files”- controlled lists of data elements - and how they
are used in the information infrastructure. There is an increasing
need for quality controlled data as the amount of global information
grows. Authority files are very useful for repositories. Examples of
authority files are ISSN, ISBN, and the DOI (Digital Object
Identifier) for articles, and the ORCID system for identifying
authors, inventors, artists etc.
[http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/10237/8627]
Finally, Mikael K Elbæk, a systems librarian at the Technical
Information Center of Denmark, has written about the “Danish Open
Access Barometer.“
This was a project financed by DEFF with two related goals: to
investigate the OA-status of Danish research publications from 2011,
and to develop a prototype for a web-based Danish “Open Access
Barometer”. The main results of the OA investigation are presented
here, together with a general description of the OA Barometer. It was
found that the technical universities had the highest OA rate, led by
the IT University with more than half of all its publications OA. The
universities that performed less well tended to be biased towards the
humanities and social sciences. 57 % of all publications were found to
have OA potential, and for 21% the potential had been realized.
[http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/10238/8629]
We hope that you will have a good read.
Your comments and ideas are always most welcome.
Ingegerd Rabow
Editor-in-chief
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