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Creation of an International Digital Library of Manuscripts: seamless access to data from heterogeneous resources (ENRICH Project)
No full textThe Czech Manuscriptorium Digital Library has been in operation since the year 2002. It aggregates data from various cultural institutions in the Czech Republic and also from abroad. The EU eContenPlus ENRICH project (Dec. 2007 - Nov. 2009) provides the opportunity to enhance the integration of data from a number of European institutions. Manuscriptorium offers seamless access to them indifferently of the geographical location of their physical storage under its uniform interface (http://www.manuscriptorium.eu). It supports both harvesting via OAI as well as production of Manuscriptorium compliant data from the beginning for those who wish to create their digital library as a Manuscriptorium component part without building it completely on their site. The Manuscriptorium team has accumulated a lot of experience in work with partners and users; therefore, its current and future development is trying to respond to their requirements through actions defined as personalization both for users/researchers and contributors
DULCINEA: Copyright Policies and Type of Access to Spanish Scientific Journals
No full textDULCINEA is a portal created as part of the objectives of a Spanish National Project entitled: Open access to scientific outputs in Spain:? Current status, open access advocacy and implementation of open access policies. The name of Dulcinea was given due to the relationship with SHERPA/ROMEO project (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/about.html), which analyses publisher copyright policies and self-archiving terms of most international journals, but in which databases Spanish Journals are underrepresented. The aim of Dulcinea is to identify the policies of publishers and Spanish journals towards open access archiving, and to analyze how these policies can affect the re-use of papers and their deposit in subject or institutional repositories. Currently Dulcinea\u27s database contains more than 250 records of Spanish journals, which include bibliographic data, access policies, self-archiving-policies according to their copyright licences and a classification of the journals following SHERPA/ROMEOO colour taxonomy
Metadata Usage Tendencies in Latin American Electronic Journals
No full textThe present study investigates the extent to which metadata tags are used in Latin American electronic journals, and whether these journals in fact provide basic information (abstracts, keywords, etc.) that could be tagged as metadata. The authors also studied multilingualism in the marked-up information and in the basic information, particularly the use of English (which can help bring the scientific production of Latin America to a wider audience). In total, 45% of the journals had metadata; the metatags keywords and description were the most commonly used. The inclusion of structured metadata from the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set in the journals was found to be very low, only 13%, and primarily existed in journals from Argentina, Costa Rica, and Brazil. The articles examined did not always include abstracts and keywords (84% and 77% respectively), but in the articles that did have them, English was frequently used (85% in abstracts and 91% in keywords). The <title> element was found to be used deficiently: Only 42% of full text OA articles had their actual title in the <title> tag, which can potentially affect visibility in a search engine results. In sum, the road to marked-up metadata in all journals is still long, and there are great inconsistencies in how metadata are employed and in their content. The authors conclude that there are signs that support and efforts to increase awareness of how metadata can easily be included in a journal?s web site may result in improved metadata and greater visibility
Scientific publications on Web 3.0
No full textThe advent of new technologies and paradigms is constantly changing the landscape of scientific publications. The use of online journals is rapidly rising and most researchers prefer online materials to print. The Internet has also given rise to open-access, online-only publications.? There are several advantages to such journals - most importantly, the articles published can become a starting point for online community-based discourse on the subject. Researchers, given the right web environment, can discuss the articles published online, and such collaboration on the World Wide Web is the hallmark of Web 2.0. Another emergent trend is Web 3.0, in which the web becomes the medium for data, information and knowledge exchange through the use of shared semantics. We have developed the Science Collaboration Framework (SCF), a lightweight software framework that scientific communities can use to create open-access, online, scientific publications. The software uses Web 3.0 technologies (social web, semantic web, text-mining) and thus allows interoperability with other Web 3.0 sites. The software allows communities to publish complex scientific articles, annotate them with controlled vocabularies or ontologies, register research interests of members and conduct discussion forums. The software can integrate with other knowledge repositories and the site knowledge is available as linked data. The software is modular, so different communities can install and enable different features as well as contribute modules back to the main framework; thus creating a software community as well. The first site based on our software, StemBook (www.stembook.org), an online open access peer-reviewed collection of invited review chapters covering a range of topics related to stem cell biology, went "live" in September 2008. Several other sites are under development, including a new web community for Parkinson\u27s disease researchers, PD Online, and a re-engineered version of the popular Alzheimer Disease research community Alzforum (www.alzforum.org).? The sites developed on the SCF platform are interoperable with each other and with other sites on the Semantic Web. In this new paradigm, there is a significant reduction in artificial barriers between research disciplines, and a much more dynamic and agile approach to information exchange
Increasing the visibility of local research: the Journals Online Project at INASP
No full textThe development of the Journals Online project at INASP is explained. The aim of the project is to increase the visibility of the research produced in developing and emerging countries. This has been achieved by creating websites on which the content of local journals is hosted. The visibility of the research was measured by recording the number of journals hosted, articles, full text articles and visitors. A questionnaire survey was conducted of changes in levels of indexing and qualitative comments from editors were assembled. It was found that the number of journals and articles on the websites was increasing and the number of article views was high, thus indicating that the research was being used by researchers from all over the world
Economic sustainability during transition: the case of scholarly publishing
No full textIn recent years, Open Access has received increased attention by scholars and practitioners as an alternative paradigm to traditional journals for the publication and diffusion of scholarly publishing. The steady increase in the number of successful Open Access journals shows that the model is a viable alternative in terms both of reputation and visibility; recent studies have also demonstrated its cost-effectiveness. However, the analysis of the sustainability of different models for scholarly publishing needs to take into consideration the existence of network externalities and information asymmetries, that generate two sided markets; the introduction of innovative business models needs to overcome the problem of reaching critical mass both on the readers\u27 and on the authors\u27 market. In this exploratory paper we seek to understand to what extent offering configuration contributes to double market development; we compared twelve peer reviewed scientific journals, selected from different academic disciplines. Within each group we selected a pure Open Access (OA) journal, a journal that converted from Toll Access (TA) to Open Access, a hybrid journal, and a pure traditional TA journal. We mapped the offering characteristics and we classified them in terms of accessibility for the reader, visibility for the author and benefits for researchers; we also added information on the pricing scheme of the journal. Results show a pre-eminence of OA titles in each of the three markets - as they took advantage of the possibilities offered by digitization technologies in a faster and cost effective way -, even though TA journals have been quick in keeping up with the innovative services offered by OA journals; on the other hand, many TA journals still enjoy significant first mover advantage and reputation rent which they can leverage to strengthen their offering. In the asymmetry of the scholarly communication market, competition on the author side is therefore likely to be very strong. The presence in the market of a variety of business models has benefited the research community, as services have increased; the refereeing process is becoming more transparent, high quality contributions have higher chances of being accessed by wider market segments. We did not find a significant correlation between business models and offering configuration, neither between price and offering configuration, nor IF and offering configuration; although wider access has determined an acceleration in the ability of OA journals to reach visibility. As the two business models are likely to be increasingly in direct competition due to scarce financial and reputational resources, we expect that publishers (both OA and TA) will look for specific offering configurations for the different research communities they are targeting. In this transition phase, universities are going to play a key role in orienting the development of offerings of different publishers
Incorporating Semantics and Metadata as Part of the Article Authoring Process
No full textThe ongoing shift in the delivery of publications, and in the consumption of content, from print to digital presents an opportunity to streamline the publishing workflow and to optimize the authoring process with digital content as the primary output, including the capture of semantics and metadata as part of authoring and the preservation of this data to the archival copy of the document.? In addition to the shift in how content is delivered and consumed, a significant development in the last few years has been the release of new versions of word processors with native file formats based on XML.? The use of XML in the authoring file format, combined with extensibility in its content model, will enable a greater level of content semantics and metadata to be expressed directly by authors.? The level of interoperability enabled by XML-based word processing file formats will make it possible to preserve the semantics and metadata as documents go through the submission and review process, make it through the publishing workflow and are ultimately archived, likely also in an XML based format.? This article describes the design considerations and possible benefits of the Article Authoring Add-in for Word 2007 to the scholarly publishing community, in particular for workflows focused on the production of documents for digital delivery and consumption, as well as for the XML based archival of publications.? The second Beta release of the add-in is available as a free download (http://research.microsoft.com/authoring), and it is currently being evaluated by the scholarly publishing community, with the involvement of publishers, archives, information repositories, and early adopters.? In addition to facilitating the creation of structured documents, and enabling semantics and metadata to be more easily captured during authoring, the add-in provides the ability to open and save files from Word 2007 into the XML format defined by the National Center for Biotechnology Information of the National Library of Medicine.? The add-in extends the file format used by Word 2007, as well as its user interface, to tailor the authoring experience for the different audiences involved in the publishing workflow.? As the add-in is adopted across multiple publications, authors will benefit from a consistent baseline experience, simplifying the authoring process and enabling a shift towards emphasising the expression of semantics over presentation by authors
Global annual volume of peer reviewed scholarly articles and the share available via different open access options
No full textA key parameter in any discussions about the academic peer reviewed journal system is the number of articles annually published. Several diverging estimates of this parameter have been proposed in the past, and have also influenced calculations of the average production price per article, the total costs of the journal system and the prevalence of Open Access publishing. With journals and articles increasingly being present on the web and indexed in a number of databases it has now become possible to quite accurately estimate the number of articles. We used the databases of ISI and Ulrich?s as our primary sources and estimate that the total number of articles published in 2006 by 23 750 journals was approximately 1 350 000. Using this number as denominator it was also possible to estimate the number of articles which are openly available on the web in primary OA journals (gold OA). This share turned out to be 4.6 % for the year 2006. In addition at least a further 3.5 % was available after an embargo period of usually one year, bringing the total share of gold OA to 8.1% Using a random sample of articles, we also tried to estimate the proportion of the articles published which are available as copies deposited in e-print repositories or homepages (green OA). Based on the article title a web search engine was used to search for a freely downloadable full-text version. For 11.3 % a usable copy was found. Combining these two figures we estimate that 19.4 % of the total yearly output can be accessed freely
Boost your capacity to manage Dspace
No full textThis workshop will provide attendees with the knowledge needed to manage a DSpace repository. It will cover essential administration and maintenance tasks but will not focus on the more technical details of installing and customizing the software. We will focus on DSpace version 1.4.2 but we will also introduce some of the changes and new features offered in version 1.5
Enhancing the sustainability of electronic access to ELPUB proceedings: means for long-term dissemination
No full textELPUB can look back on a track record of a steadily growing number of conference papers. From a longterm perspective, access to this body of knowledge is of great interest to the community. Beyond this, extended preoccupation with the collected scientific work in the area of digital publishing has to be mentioned. Naturally, the authors are particularly focussed on the individual paper itself and possible connections with related efforts. Typically, conferences amplify and enhance opportunities of ?gettingtogether?. A well-stocked repository may, however, serve in this respect as a fruitful complementary addition. In this contribution, the implementation of persistent identifiers on the existing ELPUB.scix.netbase is elaborated in detail. Furthermore, the authors present the result of efforts related to the harvesting of ELPUB-metadata and to the creation of a citation index. The paper concludes with an outlook on future plans