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 ScieCom info www.sciecom.org/sciecominfo