The Right to Deposit

The Right To Deposit – Uniform Guidance to Ensure Author Compliance and Public Access” is a free webinar that will be held on April 16th from 11:00-1:30 pm PDT (2:00-3:30 EDT). It will explore the deposit rights environment authors will face under new, zero-embargo public access policies from federal funders, and the role institutions can play in supporting these rights. Authors and librarians at US higher education institutions are encouraged to attend to learn more about the details of these new policies and what their rights are; representatives and staff from funding agencies are also invited to learn more about the rights landscape from an author’s perspective.

This free webinar is organized by the University of California (UC) and Authors Alliance and is co-sponsored by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL), the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, and the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC). 

We hope you’ll join us! Please register for this event in advance using your employer provided e-mail address so we understand who you are.

Event description

The White House Office of Science and Technology Planning (OSTP) public access guidance (“the Nelson memo”) requires immediate deposit of federally-funded articles into an agency-designated repository for policy compliance. This requirement applies regardless of whether an author chooses to publish open access on a publisher’s website, or publishes under a subscription model. 

Most academic authors own the copyright in their work. In addition, many institutions make it easier for authors to see widespread dissemination and reuse of their work through open access policies and repositories. Yet during the publication process, authors encounter choices and contracts that at best create confusion, and at worst attempt to divorce authors from their rights and limit how their work can be distributed and used. At the end of the process, many feel uncertain about what rights to share their articles they have retained: a significant number will have lost benefits they started out with, including clarity around their ability to comply with federal policy and deposit their article in designated public repositories.

This event intends to illuminate the potential failure points along the author’s journey, and highlight the powerful role institutional and funder policy can play in protecting authors, thereby improving the rates at which authors deposit their works and comply with agency policies. Both institutional open access policies and the federal purpose license found in existing federal regulations represent tools to support the rights and responsibilities of authors. Rather than rely on the individual actions of authors to protect their rights one article at a time, policy can create an environment that broadly safeguards author’s rights.

Speakers

  • Günter Waibel, California Digital Library
  • Dave Hansen, Authors Alliance
  • Rich Schneider, UC San Francisco
  • Katie Fortney, California Digital Library
  • Katie Zimmerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Brandon Butler, University of Virginia
  • Sandra Enimil, Yale University
  • Maurice York, Big Ten Academic Alliance
  • additional speakers tbd

A full event agenda is available on the event website and UC Office of Scholarly Communication blog post on the event.

UC San Diego authors can find local support through the UCSD Library for deposit of federally-funded articles, compliance with federal public access policies for publications and data, UC Open Access Policies.

See guide for contacts https://ucsd.libguides.com/usfedfunder_publicaccesspolicies 

Secure Your Academic Legacy by Making Your Collected Scholarly Publications Openly Available Online

While this toolkit is designed with University of California authors in mind, it can be adapted for institutions with #openaccess institutional repositories like @eScholarship or open access policies like the UC’s OA Policies.

The toolkit was developed by a quartet of volunteers and stakeholders, including our illustrious UC San Diego colleagues; Linguistics professor and Department Chair, Eric Bacović and Earth and Marine Sciences Librarian, Amy Butros. Our highly esteemed partners at the California Digital Library/UCOP’s Alainna Wrigley and Katie Fortney rounded out the dedicated working group.

The UC OA policies have been helping authors make their work available online for over ten years, but what about publications that predate these policies? Authors with publication lists spanning many decades need additional tools to ensure that their collected works are publicly archived. They may have questions like “Where can I share these?” or “Is it a copyright problem to share them?” or even “I don’t have a copy, how do I find this?” 

Katie Fortney https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2023/09/make-your-collected-works-openly-available-in-escholarship/
UBC Library Digital Collections on the Flickr Commons https://flic.kr/p/BDkG5m

OAI – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication

OAI13 was held online 4-8 September, 2023. Video recordings and slides for all the sessions are freely available and can be used as teaching materials, find at https://oai.events.

Each day, a different Open Science topic was discussed:

  • The future of publishing
  • Research Infrastructures
  • Diamond Open Access
  • UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
  • Research evaluation in the age of Open Science
https://oai.events/

CFP for Digital Innovations and Research Integrity – Opportunities and Risks for Scholarly Publishing in the journal Learned Publishing

More information here. Topics relevant to this theme include, but are not limited to:

  • Alternate research outputs (such as datasets, data visualizations, GIS projects, digital humanities projects, and other multi-modal digital outputs)
  • Case studies on the use (and misuse) of digital innovations in scholarly publishing
  • Digital innovations impacting publishing workflows (e.g., automation, manuscript screening tools, image manipulation detection, peer review, production
  • Guidelines and best practice recommendations
  • Prevention and detection of research misconduct
  • Protection of the publication record
  • Role and ethics of AI and machine learning in scholarly publishing
  • Role of publishers to support best practice in research integrity

Schedule:

  • Submission deadline: September 15, 2023
  • Publication date: January 2024

This is a Wiley published hybrid Open Access journal, so if you are a University of California affiliated author, you can take advantage of the UC negotiated publisher agreements.

UC/Wiley Pilot OA agreement details

Publishing for Equity: A Panel Discussion on Anti-Oppressive Publishing

July 13, 2023 at 1pm PST, virtual panel organized by UCSF librarians, Anneliese Taylor and Ariel Deardorff.

Join us on July 13 for “Publishing for Equity: A Panel Discussion on Anti-Oppressive Publishing“, a webinar hosted by the UCSF Library addressing efforts to build a more inclusive and anti-oppressive publishing ecosystem. In this panel event, an esteemed group of speakers will describe the current state of biomedical research publishing and share their own efforts to make academic journals reflect the experiences and voices of the diverse populations producing knowledge.

Scholarly publishing has been criticized for perpetuating bias in several ways. Many scholars from marginalized identities, including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), women, LGBTQ, and disabled face challenges in getting their work accepted, published, and recognized due to inherent biases in the system. Publishers also privilege research conducted by researchers from the Global North and written in English, which results in the exclusion of diverse perspectives and epistemologies.

Our panelists, Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Dr. Joel Babdor, Dr. Jae Sevelius, and Charlotte Roh will share their perspectives on how to create a more equitable publishing landscape. Dr. Kanade Shinkai will serve as the moderator, guiding the discussion and audience engagement. Participants will have the opportunity to pose their questions to the panelists.

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OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) : Addressing Bias in Research Analytics

A conversation on the challenges of bias in research metrics and how libraries could respond.

IBM 704 mainframe at NACA in 1957. Public Domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_mainframe 

Today’s universities and scholars increasingly rely upon an array of indicators about research activities to support institutional decision making, competitive analysis and economic development, impact assessment, and individual and institutional reputation management. But increasing reliance on big data also brings the responsibility of asking questions about how biases may be baked into frequently used research metrics resources.

For instance:

  • What do researchers and institutional leaders need to know to use research analytics responsibly?
  • What is the role of the library?
  • Who can libraries partner with?
  • How can we support scholars who may be affected by bias?
  • And how can these biases negatively impact institutional climate?

We will explore these questions in this RLP event. Sheila Craft-Morgan will kick off out conversation by sharing her perspective as the research impact librarian at Ohio State, with extensive experience in institutional research. Allegra Swift will follow sharing about the Library’s collaboration with the Office of Compliance and Integrity and Research Ethics Programs at UC San Diego. We will then have ample time for discussion and sharing among all participants.

Participants are encouraged to come prepared to listen, contribute, and participate, including sharing about your own institutional efforts (even if these are still emerging). This is a rich opportunity for us to learn from each other and to find mutual support for efforts that challenge us all.
This discussion will not be recorded or shared after the fact, but we summarized the discussion in a blog post in the OCLC Research blog, Hanging Together, as part of their blog series on bibliometrics and research impact.

Dates (two sessions available)

Thursday, 16 February 2023 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST (UTC -5) (Europe/North American East Coast friendly time)
Thursday, 16 February 2023 | 6:00 – 7:00 pm EST (UTC -5) (North American West Coast/Asia Pacific friendly time)

All affiliates of OCLC Research Library Partnership organizations are invited to participate. Registration page.

New Memoir Published on eScholarship by Prominent Sio Emeritus Faculty

We’re thrilled to announce the publication of Charles Kennel’s autobiography, From the Cold War to Global Warming: A Scientific Odyssey.

Charles F. Kennel, between 1970 and 1985. SIO Photographic Laboratory Collection. SAC 44. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb66222247 . Photograph used with permission.

In November of 2021, a colleague in the library, Peter Mueller, had a chance to visit with Ellen and Charles Kennel and learned that during the Covid “lockdown,” Professor Kennel had taken the opportunity to write his memoirs. Peter suggested that he work with the UC San Diego Library’s Scholarly Communication to publish the autobiography on the UC’s open access institutional repository and publication platform, eScholarship. It was important to partner with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s embedded librarian and Subject Specialist for Earth and Marine Sciences, Amy Butros. Amy works tirelessly to build the OA collection of SIO research on eScholarship and has a deep knowledge of SIO’s history and the impact of its former director.

We guided the publication through image rights review and publication metadata best practices. Given the time-consuming nature of rights review, we hired a student, Xinbei Li, to help track down rights holders and locate openly licensed alternatives. Eight months into the project, Amy recommended that Dr. Kennel hire Tim DeBold, who had recently worked at SIO as Instructional Scheduling Coordinator and had begun to freelance in editorial services. Tim came on board to finalize the manuscript as a proofreader and copyeditor. In a little over a year after the introduction of the project, Amy did the final review and posted the final manuscript on eScholarship January 23, 2023!

Charles F. Kennel is an American plasma physicist who served as the Executive Vice Chancellor of UCLA, the Associate Administrator of NASA, the Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and is the inaugural Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge. This volume contains his autobiography, which not only covers Dr. Kennel’s own life but also offers perspectives on the history of science in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including the author’s work in space research, plasma physics, astrophysics, climate change science, and sustainability.

Description written by Timothy DeBold for Kennel, C. F. (2023). From the Cold War to Global Warming: A Scientific Odyssey. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6pj6c3rf

For more information on Dr. Kennel’s illustrious career and personal papers see the catalog of his archives in the UC San Diego Library Special Collections, Charles F. Kennel Papers, 1989-2012 (SMC 9).

Charlie Kennel and Ellen Lehman at Charlie Fest. Photos from the August 28-29, 2014 celebration of Charlie Kennel at Scripps Seaside Forum. Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Flickr.

Day 2 of 2022 Open Access Week – UCSD is OPEN FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE!

https://www.openaccessweek.org/theme

Today’s #OAWeek tweets highlight 7 #UCSD student works #OpenforClimateJustice . Find all UCSD dissertations https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsd_etd  & many graduate theses & UG research in @eScholarship. Any recent #UCSD student work on #climatejustice you’d like to highlight?

1/7 Quintanilla, O. (2020). Inafa’ maolek Restoring Balance through Resilience, Resistance, and Coral Reefs: A Study of Pacific Island Climate Justice and the Right to Nature. UC San Diego. ProQuest ID: Quintanilla_ucsd_0033D_19784. Merritt ID: ark:/13030/m5z662kv. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wn683wr 

  • 1/7 ⬆️ Integrating multiple fields & addressing various social perspectives, Olivia Quintanilla’s PhD dissertation in ethnics studies in UC San Diego discusses indigenous action to the climate justice issue of Pacific region coral reefs. #OAWeek #OpenforClimateJustice

2/7 Villanueva, M., Dimitrova, A., & Benmarhnia, T. (2022). The Impact of Climate Shocks and Women’s Empowerment on Child Undernutrition in Mozambique. UC San Diego: Undergraduate Research Hub. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/75s3g91b 

  • 2/7 ⬆️ This undergraduate paper published in the Challenger: A McNair Scholars Paper Series looks at how malnutrition in children in Mozambique is compounded by climate change. #OAWeek #OpenforClimateJustice 

3/7 Arab, P. (2021). The Environmental Justice Implications of Air Pollution Changes Following COVID-19 Stay at Home Policies in San Diego County. UC San Diego: Climate Science and Policy. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5ph8m7cz   

  • 3/7 In this Capstone project, master student Pargoal Arab from UCSD analyzes climate justice from an innovative angle–the implications of the air quality in San Diego County impacted by the COVID-19 policies. #OAWeek #OpenforClimateJustice ⬇️

4/7 In the eye of the storm, what do we witness? Through printmaking, UCSD master student Simona Mercedes Clausnitzer @sea_simona explores the social vulnerability and inequity brought by climate change in an artistic and inspiring way. #OAWeek #OpenforClimateJustice  ⬇️

  • Clausnitzer, S. (2020). En el Ojo del Huracán // In the Eye of the Storm: Conceptualizing Climate Justice through Printmaking. UC San Diego: Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24d8r7db 

5/7 Melanie Herrera, a master student of Scripps Institution of Oceanography of UCSD, assesses the years of wetland and blue carbon research to optimize strategies for local climate equity, inclusiveness, and justice. #OAWeek #OpenforClimateJustice ⬇️

  • Herrera, M. (2022). Catching Carbon: A Blue Carbon Assessment of San Diego Wetlands for Equitable Climate Action Planning. UC San Diego: Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gt456dq 

6/7 A health impact assessment of the Paris LEZ done by UC San DIego master student Erika Moreno reveals the social injustice that existed and also implicates the possible equity policies for facing it.#OAWeek #OpenforClimateJustice ⬇️

  • Moreno, E. (2020). Environmental Justice Implications for the Paris Low Emission Zone: A Health Impact Assessment. UC San Diego: Climate Science and Policy. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pb9m7hb 

7/7 UCSD graduate student Elizabeth Duran assesses the environmental implications of wildfire and wildfire PM2.5 in the case study of 2007 San Diego wildfire, revealing the relation between wildfire smoke and health inequalities in low SES communities. #OAWeek #OpenforClimateJustice ⬇️
Duran, E. (2021). The environmental justice implications of wildfire smoke: Exploring differential exposure and susceptibility of the 2007 san diego fire storm (Order No. 28862993). Available from Dissertations & Theses @ University of California; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I. (2620806317). Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/environmental-justice-implications-wildfire-smoke/docview/2620806317/se-2

2022 Open Access Week – UCSD is OPEN FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE!

International OA Week https://www.openaccessweek.org/theme/en

Happy Open Access Week 2022! This week our plan is to highlight UC San Diego research, scholarship, and art related to the theme, “Open for Climate Justice.” During #OAWeek, we’ll tweet about publications authored by a diverse range of authors and initiatives happening on our campus. At #UCSD, we have entire centers devoted to bringing about climate justice with everyone from undergraduates, faculty, and community partners working to “make our world a better place.”

The UC San Diego Center for Global Justice has devoted a research cluster to #climatejustice http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/climate-justice/. Check the CFP for an #OA Lecture Video & Digital #OATextbook Chapter to contribute to the 10 UC campus course, Bending the Curve & @eScholarship #OER on climate science, “Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions” 

The #UCSD Center for Global Justice’s founding director is our own political science professor, Fonna Forman. Dr. Forman has written chapters for the OER as well as participated in our #OAW event last year as part of a faculty and student panel on equitable & affordable course materials.

The Center on Global Justice is committed to research, advocacy and consultation on climate disruption and climate justice, working at top-down and bottom-up scales simultaneously to slow the warming, as well as to help vulnerable communities adapt to a warming climate.  New technologies, policies and financial tools must be paired with new social strategies, to produce meaningful change.

Through the UCSD Community Stations, we are committed to advancing new methods of climate education and participatory climate action in close partnership with underserved communities across the San Diego-Tijuana border region.

http://gjustice.ucsd.edu/climate-justice/

WORKSHOP SERIES : GLOBAL EQUITY IN OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING

OA2020 WORKSHOP SERIES ON PRACTICAL MECHANISMS AND ACTION PLANS TO REMOVE BARRIERS FOR READERS AND AUTHORS

Organizers of the workshop series.

Link to webpage and registration describing the event – registration deadline is 07 October 2022 but recording will be posted

Workshop 1 Viewpoints and contributions from Africa and Europe

This workshop will be an opportunity for those who fund and produce research, including scientists and scholars, research administrators, libraries and library consortia, university leadership, science councils and grant funders, and ministries of research and education, to better understand the current tensions in the scholarly communication landscape and explore immediate and long-term actions they each can take to ensure open access publishing is delivered in accordance with these principles:

  • Fees associated with open access publishing services should be fair, reasonable, transparent, and globally equitable;
  • Scholarly communication is part of the research process and, as such, costs for open access publishing services should ultimately be borne by research funders and institutions;
  • Spending on scientific publishing should enable global open access by both readers and authors.

The first in a global relay, this workshop will be held in European and African time zones. The outcomes will be integrated with those of two additional and incremental workshops in early 2023 featuring viewpoints and contributions from the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas, with the aim of defining and promoting global practices and action lines in pursuit of the principles above.

The suggestions and outcomes of all three workshops in the series will be openly disseminated here and will be further discussed with other stakeholders, including scholarly publishers, in a second phase of activity from mid-2023.