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Exploring Open Access Ebook Usage
Full text linkThis white paper was prepared by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) as part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project, Understanding OA Ebook Usage: Toward a Common Framework. Primary authors are: Brian O’Leary (BISG) and Kevin Hawkins (University of North Texas). The project team, who contributed editing and improvements, include Charles Watkinson (University of Michigan), Lucy Montgomery (Curtin University/KU Research), Cameron Neylon (Curtin University/KU Research), and Katherine Skinner (Educopia Institute). Copyright for this white paper is held by BISG and licensed to the general public under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
The Open Practises E-Science Network (OPEN)
Full text linkA grant proposal submitted for support to fund a research network focussed on identifying and dealing with the practical issues of enabling open practise in research. The text of the proposal was written by a large number of people and coordinated by Cameron Neylon
ONIX Parser
No full textONIX Parser transforms ONIX files into JSON Lines format that can be read by BigQuery. Built with Java and JONIX.
Contributors
Conceptualization: Richard Hosking, James P. Diprose, Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon, and Tuan-Yow Chien.
Data curation: James P. Diprose and Tuan-Yow Chien.
Formal analysis: Richard Hosking and James P. Diprose.
Funding acquisition: Lucy Montgomery and Cameron Neylon.
Investigation: Richard Hosking.
Methodology: Richard Hosking, James P. Diprose, and Cameron Neylon.
Project administration: Richard Hosking.
Resources: Richard Hosking and James P. Diprose.
Software: Richard Hosking, James P. Diprose, and Tuan-Yow Chien.
Supervision: Richard Hosking, James P. Diprose, and Cameron Neylon.
Validation: Richard Hosking, James P. Diprose, Cameron Neylon, and Tuan-Yow Chien.
Writing - original draft: James P. Diprose and Tuan-Yow Chien
Alternative metrics in Africa: An Interview with Cameron Neylon
No full textThe Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) recently hosted Cameron Neylon on his first visit to South Africa for a week of activity and discussion around alternative metrics and research evaluation. Based at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, Neylon is a leading thinker in open science, open access and open data. He is one of the original authors of the Altmetrics manifesto, co-author of the Panton Principles for open data in science, and founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Open Research Computation. He visited UCT in his capacity as a member of the SCAP Advisory Panel and to participate in discussions around defining and measuring the impact of academic research – a core strand central to all SCAP activity. SCAP Research Lead Catherine Kell interviewed him briefly
In a globalised and networked world, what is the unique value a university can bring? Introducing Open Knowledge Institutions
No full textDigital ubiquity has disrupted the traditional university model. The internet has shifted the balance of a tension between control and disorder in knowledge production, with many of the opportunities the web brings leading directly to many of the challenges we now need to address. Lucy Montgomery and Cameron Neylon advocate for the idea of universities as Open Knowledge Institutions, which would support and provide spaces for the world’s creative diversity to contribute to a common stock of global knowledge. This means reinventing some of our ideas about what university is, or should be, while also recognising that this change has to be an evolution, not a revolution.</p
COKI Open Access Website
No full textCOKI Open Access Website is the Next.js based front end and Cloudflare Workers backend for the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative's Open Access Dashboard: open.coki.ac.
Data
To download the data, see the COKI Open Access Dataset.
Contributors
Conceptualization: James P. Diprose, Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon, and Richard Hosking.
Graphic design: Richard Regoni.
Data curation: James P. Diprose and Richard Hosking.
Formal analysis: James P. Diprose, Cameron Neylon, and Richard Hosking.
Funding acquisition: Lucy Montgomery and Cameron Neylon.
Investigation: James P. Diprose.
Methodology: James P. Diprose.
Project administration: Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon, and Kathryn R. Napier.
Resources: James P. Diprose.
Software: James P. Diprose and Aniek Roelofs.
Supervision: James P. Diprose, Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon, and Kathryn R. Napier.
Visualization: James P. Diprose, Cameron Neylon and Richard Regoni.
Writing - original draft: James P. Diprose, Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon, and Richard Hosking.
Writing - review & editing: Cameron Neylon, Kathryn R. Napier, Richard Hosking, Katie S. Wilson, and Tuan-Yow Chien.The Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) is a strategic initiative of the Research Office at Curtin, the Faculty of Humanities, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry and the Curtin Institute for Computation, with additional support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin
Observatory Platform
No full textThe Observatory Platform is an environment for fetching, processing and analysing data to understand how well universities operate as Open Knowledge Institutions.
The Observatory Platform is built with Apache Airflow. The workflows for the project can be seen in the Academic Observatory Workflows and OAeBU Workflows projects.
Contributors
Conceptualization: James P. Diprose, Richard Hosking, Aniek Roelofs, Lucy Montgomery, and Cameron Neylon.
Funding acquisition: Lucy Montgomery and Cameron Neylon.
Investigation: James P. Diprose, Richard Hosking, Aniek Roelofs, and Tuan-Yow Chien.
Methodology: James P. Diprose, Richard Hosking, Aniek Roelofs, and Tuan-Yow Chien.
Project administration: Richard Hosking, Lucy Montgomery, and Cameron Neylon.
Resources: James P. Diprose, Richard Hosking, and Aniek Roelofs.
Software: James P. Diprose, Richard Hosking, Aniek Roelofs, and Tuan-Yow Chien.
Supervision: James P. Diprose, Richard Hosking, Lucy Montgomery, and Cameron Neylon.
Validation: James P. Diprose, Richard Hosking, Aniek Roelofs, and Tuan-Yow Chien.
Writing - original draft: James P. Diprose, Richard Hosking, and Aniek Roelofs.
Writing - review & editing: James P. Diprose, Richard Hosking, and Aniek Roelofs
Resources to Support Open Scholarship: A Curated List
No full textThe range of resources available to researchers who want to engage in more open research practices is expanding rapidly. These resources are being created by communities that are passionate about open access, open science, open infrastructures, and research practices that reflect the values of research communities, and include diverse perspectives. Many are funded and hosted by well-recognised, international research organisations (like CERN); or philanthropic foundations (like Mellon). This list is made up of platforms and services that you don’t need to pay for, and which we use in our own research practice as co-leads of the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI). We may even contributed to the operation of some of the initiatives listed. As such, this list is not intended to be exhaustive. We hope that it will help you to feel confident about using open approaches in your work. Cameron Neylon and Lucy Montgomery. November 2023
21st-century scholarship and Wikipedia
Full text linkWikipedia, the world’s fifth most-used Web site, is a good illustration of the growing credibility of online resources. In his article in Ariadne earlier this year, “Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Academic Acceptance”, Brian Whalley described the debates around accuracy and review, in the context of geology. He concluded that ‘If Wikipedia is the first port of call, as it already seems to be, for information requirement traffic, then there is a commitment to build on Open Educational Resources (OERs) of various kinds and improve their quality.’ In a similar approach to the Geological Society event that Whalley describes, Sarah Fahmy of JISC worked with Wikimedia and the British Library on a World War One (WWI) Editathon. There is a rich discourse about the way that academics relate to Wikipedia
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Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future
Full text linkThe event looks forward. Scholarship (universities, research, teaching, publishing) has been slow to take up the opportunities of this digital century. This is an opportunity to identify and build the future
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