Author Archives: Allegra Swift

About Allegra Swift

Allegra Swift is the UC San Diego Library’s Scholarly Communications Librarian. She spends her days infusing research and scholarship support with critlib, digital citizenship, and digital literacy ideals.

Open Access Week 2024 – Community over Commercialization

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UC San Diego authors publish #OA, in every way!

Check out these examples of open access publications by faculty, alumni, librarians, and students: data, research articles, journals, books, and book chapters, and conference presentations.

Adapted from Geisel Library CCBY 2.0 by Alejandro Mallea on Flickr

@Scripps_Ocean faculty and alumni authors publish OA

This highly cited #NASA funded paper and supporting research data by @Scripps_Ocean faculty and alumni authors is publicly available on multiple OA repositories including the UC’s OA IR eScholarship and UC San Diego’s data collections. #OAweek #openaccess

  • Adusumilli, S., Fricker, H., Medley, B., Padman, L., & Siegfried, M. (2020). Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves. Nature Geoscience, 13(9), 616-620. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0616-z Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zp1r90c 
  • Adusumilli, Susheel; Fricker, Helen A.; Medley, Brooke C.; Padman, Laurie; Siegfried, Matthew R. (2020). Data from: Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J04Q7SHT
  • Adusumilli S, Fricker HA, Medley B, Padman L, Siegfried MR. Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves. Nat Geosci. 2020 Sep;13(9):616-620. doi: 10.1038/s41561-020-0616-z. Epub 2020 Aug 10. PMID: 32952606; PMCID: PMC7500482.

Humanities scholars value open access publishing

Literature professor, Lisa Lampert-Weissig, was thankful for the “efforts of many talented and dedicated librarians” in ensuring she had access to source material for her recently published open access book, Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew.

https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/tx31qm53h#stats

Professor Lampert-Weissig brought the peer-reviewed society journal from print to online and open access. New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession is a forum by and for twenty-first-century medievalists and others interested in the Middle Ages. The current call for papers is focused on the topic of “access” and welcomes essays on topics related to both pedagogy and profession, broadly conceived, written from a wide range of contributors, including primary, secondary school teachers and independent scholars. The journal also aims to be geographically inclusive in order to provide a global perspective on these topics.

Medieval Studies cannot survive and thrive unless we create and support access. The pandemic and its aftermath not only underlined problems of access, but also provided us with some possible solutions. How can we, as a profession, ensure that students outside a few well-funded institutions have access to our field? How can we make our field more inclusive both within our own institutions and globally? What prevents students and faculty from studying the Middle Ages and how can these obstacles be challenged? What kinds of projects and collaborations can create and maintain access?

@ucsdlibrary librarians are OA authors and journal editors too!

  • Our World History and Cultures Librarian, Dr. Sonboldel, is the editor of the newly open access journal, Mela Notes. MELA Notes is the official journal of the Middle East Librarians’ Association, covering a wide range of contributions in the field of Middle Eastern Studies. The journal has been in publication since 1973.
  • See also this open access collection of research and scholarship produced by UC San Diego librarians and library staff https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsd_libraries

Undergraduate OA research journal and paper series sponsored by the Undergraduate Research Hub

The Undergraduate Research Hub (URH) empowers undergraduates seeking to become integrated in the UC San Diego research community with the skills to be successful in a post-baccalaureate career. URH’s cooperative staff creates an environment for students to engage in research and leverage resources to maintain long-term relationships through high impact practices. URH welcomes students from diverse backgrounds seeking to maximize their student experiences and future opportunities. https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsd_aep

Open access benefits authors and readers

Professor Lilly Irani’s interdisciplinary research crosses digital and geographic boundaries and is often supported by funders that require public access to the research publications. Dr. Irani makes it a practice to provide open access to all forms of her publications whenever possible and benefits as evidenced by high citation counts to her publications deposited in the University of California’s open access institutional repository and publishing platform, eScholarship.

Irani, L., & Silberman, M. (2013). Turkopticon. UC San Diego. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2470742 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10c125z3

Are you a UC San Diego author and have questions about #openaccess or want to make your publications more accessible and visible? Contact Scholarly Communications Services at the UC San Diego Library!

New open access agreement between the University of California and Taylor and Francis

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The University of California has announced September 19, 2024 that a new “publish and read” agreement with the publisher Taylor and Francis has been reached.

See the FAQ for details of the agreement, including workflows for UC affiliated corresponding authors. UC authors can contact their Scholarly Communication Librarians for any questions or help in navigating the agreement.

The Right to Deposit

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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