“Article-level metrics” — figures documenting how many times an online article in a scholarly journal has been viewed, downloaded, cited in other articles, mentioned in blogs, or bookmarked — give a more accurate view of the impact and influence of an article than the journal impact factor, according to Richard Smith, a board member of Public Library of Science.
An open letter was released today, signed by presidents of fifty-seven liberal arts colleges, supporting the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009. Further details are available in an article in Inside Higher Ed.
Open Humanities Press, in conjunction with the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office, has announced the forthcoming open-access series in critical and cultural theory: New Metaphysics, Critical Climate Change, Global Conversations, Unidentified Theoretical Objects, and Liquid Books. Edited by senior members of the press’s editorial board, all will be available in full-text digital editions as well as reasonably priced paperbacks.
PhD Comics examines the process of publishing articles in scientific journals in an amusing but accurate series of strips. Check out the one on the rivalry between the journals Nature and Science.
The University of Oregon’s Department of Romance Languages voted unanimously Wednesday to institute an Open Access Mandate, making it the first humanities department to do this. The announcement of the mandate states all tenure-track faculty submit postprints to the University of Oregon’s institutional repository Scholar’s Bank and that all URLS of self-archived postprints be included in review and promotion materials. In addition, Romance Languages faculty are to grant to the university a Creative Commons “Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United State” license.
The faculty at MIT recently approved a university-wide open-access policy that grants the university “nonexclusive permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles for the purpose of open dissemination.” The articles will be made available to the public in an open-access repository.
A recent study released by the Publishing Research Consortium shows that publishers allow authors to do more than authors think with their own articles. The paper examines the results of two major surveys to provide an analysis of what authors say they want, what they think their agreements allow, and what publishers’ agreements actually allow.
UC’s California Digital Library has completed successful negotiations with Springer to launch a pilot open access arrangement as part of its 2008 Springer journals license. This will allow all articles by UC-affiliated authors to be issued under Springer’s “Open Choice” model without additional author fees. The articles will be accessible via SpringerLink and will be published under the terms of a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial license. Planning is also underway for automatic deposit of these articles into the UC eScholarship Repository.
Faculty members are encouraged to continue to negotiate the terms of all author agreements to enable them to retain educational use rights so that they can use their own scholarship on course Web sites, in course reserves, and in course packs. The UCLA Library will present a lunchtime workshop for faculty on negotiating to keep their copyright on Wednesday, February 25; admission is free, but advance registration is required.
Users on all University of California campuses now have access to Journal Citation Reports (JCR) through a consortial license. JCR offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world’s leading journals through quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles’ cited references, it helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Science and social sciences editions are available.
Open Humanities Press recently announced three new journals are now a part of their open-access offerings. The new titles include Fast Capitalism (published since 2004), Postcolonial Text (published since 2000), and Image [&] Narrative (published since 2005).
Open Humanities Press is “an international open access publishing collective whose mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought freely available worldwide.”
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