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The University of California Pay It Forward Open Access Publishing Research Project: An Interview with MacKenzie Smith
No full textThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Serials Librarian on Aug. 18, 2017, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2017.1321350In 2014, University of California- Davis University Library and the California Digital Library collaborated on an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded project to explore costs associated with moving scholarly journal subscriptions in the U.S. market to an entirely Article Processing Charge (APCs) business model, known also as “Gold Open Access.” We contacted MacKenzie Smith, one of the principal investigators, in order to get her reflections on the process of gathering the data, and to discuss some implications of the findings. The interview suggests that the “Pay It Forward” model could be successful over time, following a necessarily complex transition period
DSpace for e-print archives
Get PDFDSpaceTM (http://dspace.org/) is the new open source digital repository system from the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs designed to support the digital collections of academic research institutions, as well as the SPARC conception of Institutional Repositories for digital research material. The DSpace system has been described elsewhere in detail so the focus of this article is on its implementation at MIT for archiving e-prints and other artifacts of scholarly communication, and making these available to the public. The MIT Libraries are deeply concerned about the well-documented crisis in scholarly communication and are committed to working
towards innovative solutions. We share this concern with many of the MIT faculty and administration, several of who have been key supporters of the DSpace project and related
initiatives at the university. The MIT Libraries were a founding member of SPARC, and are a signatory of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). This article will describe how MIT Libraries have implemented DSpace to support these goals
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No full textPolitical Rights In Times Of Pandemic – A Code Of Conduct For City Governance
No full textThis paper discusses the implementation of a COVID-19 related Code of Conduct for local urban governments and argues that the code should consider a line-up of complementary political rights: Right to Political Participation and the related Access to information, as well as the Right to Health as the cornerstone of the Right to Life. The disconnect between day-to-day local policymaking and consideration for human rights appears inconsequential in the event of COVID-19 pandemic. Urban governments bear the in-depth understanding of the intricacies of their communities, which make them uniquely positioned to manage such a fast-moving and ever-changing emergency. Despite their vast and onerous responsibilities, they do so without the benefit of a human rights framework, which leaves local governments vulnerable to not only potential violations of political rights of the urban population but may also negatively impact the ability of public officials to effectively protect citizens in their response to the pandemic
Civil Rights in Times of Pandemic – A Code of Conduct for City Governance
No full textWe discuss the need for a Code of Conduct for local urban governments that should consider a line-up of interconnected civil rights: Access to Information but also the Right to Privacy and to Personal Liberty. Local governments have a key role in collecting, analysing, and sharing information, which have a strong impact on personal liberty and privacy. However, due to COVID-19 pandemic emergency, national governments can declare derogations to the right to “seek, receive, and impart information”. We deliberate the value of enshrining Access to Information as an absolute human right in order to prevent the spread of misinformation and ensure the accountability of multi-level governance structures. The same is true for the Right to Privacy, which is the other side of the same coin. Finally, national governments should recognize the unique needs of urbanized areas when it comes to personal liberty under present or future pandemics and establish consistent policies to support cities as duty-holders in a rights-based regime
The University of California Pay-It-Forward Open Access Publishing Research Project: An Interview with MacKenzie Smith
No full text"In 2014 , University of California- Davis University Library and the California Digital Library collaborated on an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded project to explore costs associated with moving scholarly journal subscriptions in the U.S. market to an entirely Article Processing Charge (APCs) business model , known also as ""Gold Open Access."" We contacted MacKenzie Smith , one of the principal investigators , in order to get her reflections on the process of gathering the data , and to discuss some implications of the findings. The interview suggests that the ""Pay It Forward€ model could be successful over time , following a necessarily complex transition period.
The University of California Pay-It-Forward Open Access Publishing Research Project: An Interview with MacKenzie Smith
No full textPublished as the column "Uncommon Conversations"In 2014, University of California- Davis University Library and the California Digital Library collaborated on an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded project to explore costs associated with moving scholarly journal subscriptions in the U.S. market to an entirely Article Processing Charge (APCs) business model, known also as “Gold Open Access.” We contacted MacKenzie Smith, one of the principal investigators, in order to get her reflections on the process of gathering the data, and to discuss some implications of the findings. The interview suggests that the “Pay It Forward” model could be successful over time, following a necessarily complex transition period
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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