Electronic Publishing and Open Access: Developing country perspectives
In this presentation, Ms Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd, Truro, UK, discusses how researchers, institutions, national economies and science and society can benefit from Open access. Also, it discusses how open access increases citations. According to this presentation, in the past five years there have been 219040 citations 104617 articles… Read More
Identifying, Accessing and Disseminating Scientific Information. A Biological Scientist’s Perspective.
This presentation by Dr Sarah Coulthurst from the Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge University, provides a biological scientist’s perspective on identifying, accessing and disseminating required scientific data. The information requirements of a researcher vary from day to day depending on personal preference, field, types of techniques used, career stage and project… Read More
South African research policy and practice in the digital age
This presentation was delivered by Dr Eve Gray, Consultant and OSI Fellow, South Africa, during the Workshop on Electronic Publishing and Open Access: A developing Country Perspective. It highlights with statistics the marginalisation of African knowledge, research and dissemination in South Africa including publishing and policy. Read More
Peer Review in the Google Age
In this presentation, Peggy Dominy and Jay Bhatt, Librarians at Hagerty Library, Drexel University, introduce the history of peer review. The paper further discusses current issues from a librarian’s perspective. Read More
Value Added Publishing
Providing a digitised journal backfile for online access in perpetuity is highly desired by libraries. There is a great demand on publishers to provide quality articles quickly and as economically and efficiently as possible. In this presentation, Cindy Brown, Production Manager, Journals, Wiley-Blackwell, describes in detail the company’s online early… Read More
New publishing models for scholarly communication and the Brazilian open access policy
This presentation by Sely M. S. Costa aims to provide a picture of the Brazilian initiatives with open access journals and conferences over the last four years using both Open Journal System (OJS) and Open Conference System (OCS) as their platform, respectively. Based on the study of the scholarly communication… Read More
Distilling Strategic Directions for Repositories from Faculty and Librarian Attitudes
Both faculty members and academic librarians express deeply conflicted views about the purpose of repositories, and engagement with repositories varies widely. To what purposes are repositories being put, and what purposes does the community have in mind for them? Is the repository movement just another fad, or is there potential… Read More
Making Research Data Accessible Suggestions from the Scientific Community
Confronted with unacceptable data quality problems, many scientists refuse to work further with recycled numbers. The value of data lies in their usefulness (ICSU-CODATA), but their use is only possible, when the data are easily accessible. Technical and organisational consequences arising from the restraints described above necessitate improvements in the… Read More
The institutional/disciplinary divide, a barrier to open access
Digital repositories are usually considered to mean a place where one deposits (hence repository) born-digital objects such as peer reviewed research manuscripts for the purpose of providing open access. In his presentation, Danny Kingsley says that most institutional repositories exist to serve institutional and funding bodies. Read More
Mandatory Open Access: Friend or Foe?
This presentation was made by Kent Holsinger at a public forum on the impact of recent developments in scholarly publishing. The event explored the newly passed NIH public access mandate which became law in December 2007. In his presentation, Kent Holsinger tries to balance what he sees as the pros… Read More
