The York Digital Journals Project: Strategies for Institutional Open Journal Systems Implementations

"Suggestions for startup including policy considerations and service models are discussed. Ideas for advertising and networking are explored as well as the question of project sustainability."

(source: College & Research Libraries / via DigitalKoans, 18/09/09)

Une idée à suivre, celle de créer et gérer "nos" propres revues scientifiques. Un nouveau paradigme, certes, pour beaucoup d'auteurs et de chercheurs, mais probablement un des seuls moyens de contourner les exigences financières des éditeurs...

Collègues gestionnaires de périodiques, ceci peut vous intéresser:

The Transfer Project est une initiative de UKSG qui vise à répertorier les annonces concernant les transferts de revues d'un éditeur à un autre.

Il y a une liste de discussion et un blog.

(via liste lib-license, 04/10/09)

Universal Open Access Mandates By Universities Moot The Problem of Uncontrolled Journal Price Inflation Caused By Inelastic Demand

"Stuart Shieber, architect of Harvard's OA Mandate, asks: "Do we continue the status quo, which involves only supporting a business model known to be subject to uncontrolled inflationary spirals, or do we experiment with new mechanisms that have the potential to be economically sound and far more open to boot?"
"The answer is simple: The only reason the uncontrolled inflation of journal subscription costs is a problem at all (and also the reason the upward spiral continues uncontrolled) is the world's universities' inelastic demand and need for access to one another's peer-reviewed journal articles.""

(source: Open Access Archivangelism, 01/09/09)

What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization

"[...] For journals that are principally accessed in digital form, preservation is the primary remaining role of the print original. This study analyzes the rationales for retaining some copies of scholarly journals in print format, determining that actual ongoing community needs for print materials in the face of high quality and well-preserved digitization are significant but not unlimited. [...]"

Un rapport Ithaka (via liste lib-license, 30/09/09) qui aborde notamment la question de la conservation (éventuelle) de la version papier des revues (et de quels types de revues)...

Qu'ont en commun les 5 institutions (prestigieuses) suivantes: Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley?

Elles vont financer des revues en libre accès:

"The institutions [...] signed a compact agreeing to the “timely establishment” of mechanisms for providing financial support for free open-access journals."

(source: The Chronicle of Higher Education/The Wired Campus, 14/09/09)

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Màj 18/09/09: voir le site consacré à cette initiative - intitulée Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE)

Digital Curation Blog signale ce dossier spécial paru dans Nature: Data Sharing.

"Sharing data is good. But sharing your own data? That can get complicated. As two research communities who held meetings in May on the issue report their proposals to promote data sharing in biology, a special issue of Nature examines the cultural and technical hurdles that can get in the way of good intentions."

• Editorial

• Feature

• Opinion
  • Prepublication data sharing: Rapid release of prepublication data has served the field of genomics well. Attendees at a workshop in Toronto recommend extending the practice to other biological data sets.
  • Post-publication sharing of data and tools: Despite existing guidelines on access to data and bioresources, good practice is not widespread. A meeting of mouse researchers in Rome proposes ways to promote a culture of sharing.

• Elsewhere in Nature

... dans le cadre de l'évaluation bibliométrique de la recherche universitaire en Australie.

C'est par ici.

Cette liste de revues est en cours de finalisation: à la fin de cette année, elle comprendra un classement (pondération par revue), ainsi qu'un lien avec les disciplines.

+ info

(source: A. Sale / liste JISC-Repositories, 02/09/09)

Analysis of PubGet — An Expedited Fulltext Service for Life Science Journal Articles

"In June, a new service that speeds access to life sciences literature reached a milestone. Called PubGet, it is a service that reduces the number of clicks to the full text of an article, and the milestone was activating the 50th institution using its service. Using its own proprietary “pathing engine”, it links directly to the full text on the publisher’s website. PubGet does this by understanding the link structure for each journal of each publisher and constructing the link to the full-text based on information from the citation. The PubGet service focuses on the life sciences journals indexed in PubMed — hence the play on names: PubMed to PubGet."

(source: Disruptive Library Technology Jester, 05/08/09)

Le marché de l’édition scientifique est-il compétitif ?

"Quatre économistes de l’ULB ont examiné les caractéristiques du marché de l’édition scientifique et effectué une analyse économétrique sur plus de 2600 revues, dans le cadre d’une étude pour la DG Recherche de la Commission européenne. Les résultats sont édifiants [...]"

(source: BlogusOperandi, 19/08/09)

... à la crise de l'édition scientifique?

"Mais pourquoi les bibliothèques s’émeuvent-elles des pratiques commerciales d’éditeurs (ou d’agrégateurs) dont les produits satisfont un grand nombre de nos chercheurs ?"

Lire ce billet: Crise de la publication scientifique : rappel des faits !

(source: BlogusOperandi, 12/08/09)