190 research outputs found
The Cost of Astronomy Publishing fees in astronomy: Is something rotten in the case of Denmark?
No full textUsing Scopus and national sources, I have investigated the evolution of the cost of publishing in Danish astronomy on a fine scale over a number of years. I find that the number of publications per year from Danish astronomers increased by a factor of four during 15 years: naturally, the corresponding potential cost of publishing must have increased similarly. The actual realized cost of publishing in core journals are investigated for a high profile Danish astronomy research institutions. I argue that the situation is highly unstable if the current cost scenario continues, and I speculate that Danish astronomy is risking a scholarly communication collapse due to the combination of increasing subscription cost, increased research output, and increased direct publishing costs related to Open Access and other page charges
Template for a "Research Footprint": An overview of a researcher's online academic presence
No full text<p>What do you look like as a researcher, when someone external to your institute looks you up online?</p>
<p>A "Research Footprint" provides a researcher with an immediate and visual overview of their online academic presence. We show what the researcher's metrics look like on the most widely used citation databases: Scopus, Web of Science (WoS) and Google Scholar. We limit the Research Footprint to the most basic personal metrics: Number of publications, number of open access publications, number of citations, times cited per year, and the h-index. We check whether the researcher has created and maintained the most important author identifiers: ORCID, ScopusID and ResearcherID (Publons), and linked them to our institutional repository based on PURE.</p>
<p>We collect all this data as a kicking off point for a 1-on-1 discussion with the researcher. In that discussion we go through the importance of Author Identifiers and check whether all their publications are properly claimed on Scopus, WoS and Google Scholar. Finally, we give them the tools to maintain their profiles on their own to ensure that when external parties look them up, they find an accurate representation of the researcher's publication data. </p>
<p>These are the template files we developed at the University of Southern Denmark to generate the Research Footprint. They include a Disclaimer and a GDPR statement. The publication data can be collected in the provided Excel file and then copied over to the Word file. </p>
4.1 Evidence that data sharing increases citation impact
No full textDemands for Data Management Plans are now common from both national, international and private research funders and agencies, and as infrastructures and policies are arising aiming at both archiving, structuring and distributing research data resulting from scholarly ventures within practically all fields of science. This is probably both a result of increased focus on issues related to Responsible Conduct of Research, as well as of the Open Science agenda. Also, as individual researchers and research are increasingly being evaluated and funded according to quantitative measures, e.g. bibliometrics and similar, it is evermore relevant to ask whether a Citation Advantage related to the activity of linking exists, i.e. whether sharing data leads to increased impact with respect to citations, similar to the postulated Citation Advantage related to Open Access.
In this paper we present evidence of the existence of a Citation Advantage related to linking to data, using the field of astronomy as a case. Using simple measures based on publication and citation data from NASA’s Astrophysics Data System, I find that the Citation Advantage presently amounts to certain peer reviewed research articles with links to research data receiving on the average significantly more citations per paper per year, than the corresponding research articles without links to data. The results presented here is a further development of a previously unpublished work (Dorch 2012, working paper). Additionally, similar studies by other authors show a cumulative effect after several years amounting to up to 20%. Hence, a Data Sharing Citation Advantage seems inevitable, lending further argument to the cause of Open Science as well as indications as to how libraries may develop research support services related to improving conditions for Open Science.</p
KUBIS Dataverse Network: A repository for primary data at the The Royal Library / Copenhagen University Library and Information Service
No full textSciecom Info 1 (2012) Drachen, Larsen, Dorch The KUBIS Dataverse Network (https://data.kb.dk/dvn) is a digital archive for scientific primary data for use by researchers at The University of Copenhagen. KUBIS Dataverse Network is available to researchers, departments and institutes at the University and research groups with an affiliation to the University of Copenhagen
RUb 50 år. Din guide til Den store Fusionsjungle: RUb's fusion med KB er ikke en enlig svale.
No full textAlle taler om de mange fusioner, men ingen har overblikket. Derfor denne liste. Stor tak til bl.a. Hans Kristian Mikkelsen (KB), Bertil F. Dorch (SDU), Mogens Kragsig Jensen (SDU) og Claus Vesterager Pedersen (DFFU)
The Cost of Astronomy
No full textUsing Scopus and national sources, I have investigated the evolution of the cost of publishing in Danish astronomy on fine scale over a number of years. I find that e.g. the number of publications per year from Danish astronomers increased by a factor of 4 during 15 years: naturally, the corresponding potential cost of publishing increased similarly. The actual realized cost of publishing in core journals are investigated for high profile Danish astronomy research institutions and compared to the corresponding library license expenditures for those particular core journals. It is illustrated that the situation is highly unstable if the current cost scenario continues, and I speculate that Danish astronomy is risking a catastrophic collaps due to the combination of increasing subscription cost, increased research output, and increased direct publishing costs related to Open Access and other page charges
Københavns Universitet On the Citation Advantage of linking to data Dorch, Bertil On the Citation Advantage of linking to data: Astrophysics
No full textAbstract This paper present some indications of the existence of a Citation Advantage related to linking to data, using astrophysics as a case. Using simple measures, I find that the Citation Advantage presently (at the least since 2009 and in The Astrophysical Journal) amounts to papers with links to data receiving on the average 50% more citations per paper per year, than the papers without links to data. A similar study by other authors should a cummulative effect after several years amounting to 20%. Hence, a Data Sharing Citation Advantage seems inevitable
Metrics without merits
No full textScholarly metrics and rewards are both part of the Open Science agenda, and next generation and open metrics are perceived as necessary for supporting transparency in research: E.g. the EC Expert Group on Altmetrics conclude that ‘next generation metrics should be underpinned by an open, transparent and liked data infrastructure’, and similarly LIBER has formed an Innovative Metrics Working Group to discuss the role and actions of libraries in this respect. In the context of Open Science metrics is often addressed as being related to rewarding a particular Open scholarly practise based on sophisticated evaluation and new metrics. However, experience shows that great care needs to be taken in order for new metrics not to introduce unwanted and unethical behaviour or to infringe freedom of research. To illustrate the potential danger of metrics actually working against the ideals of Open Science, I present the results of recent studies into the gaming incentives of metrics, and discuss possible pitfalls faced by libraries venturing into the business of developing and supplying metrics to research institutions.Presentation from ILIDE 2019: Innovative Library in Digital Era, Jasna, Slovakia April 8, 201
Extraction of 16th Century Calender Fragments
Get PDFThe extraction of the calendar fragments requires a careful dissolvement of the old bookbinder’s glue and a meticulous detachment of each calendar leaf. For documentation, each leaf is being photographed by the conservator of Odense City Museums. The 1580 book has an outer cover of parchment made from a reused and possibly medieval manuscript leaf. The inside of this parchment, containing writing, is being photographed as well. The calendar fragments are made from paper with woodcut illustrations. A well preserved title leaf makes it possible to easily identify the fragments, whereas other fragments may require extensive use of Big Data and other forms of analysis in order to be identified. Usually, the university library prefers not to remove the fragments from their “fragment carriers”. In order to read fragments that are only partially visible or invisible, x-ray technology may be deployed at the Cultural Heritage & Archaeometric Research Team, SDU. Upon finding medieval manuscript fragments in the university library’s special collections, scholars at the Centre for Medieval Literature are consulted. In most cases, digital pictures of the finds will circulate in the international community of medieval scholars. Thousands of 16th and 17th Century books are stored in the University Library of Southern Denmark. One out of five of these books is expected to contain medieval manuscript fragments or fragments of rare prints, e.g. incunabula
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