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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!

OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING: Opportunities for Authors

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UC San Diego Library’s 2021 Open Access Week Virtual Event

November. 3rd at 2:30-3:30 pm [PST]

Learn about open access publishing opportunities through the UC’s transformative agreements (open to UC authors) and other avenues open to all authors. 

The UC San Diego University Librarian, Erik Mitchell, will give an update on the UC Transformative Agreements and where we are in the process of increasing sustainable journal subscription access and OA publishing discounts or full-coverage for UC authors. 

Allegra Swift, UC San Diego Scholarly Communication Librarian, will discuss OA publishing avenues for authors whose chosen publishing venue or format is not covered by the UC agreements.

The event was recorded (see the Library’s YouTube channel) and transcripts and slides are shared here.

Questions? Contact Allegra Swift.

“It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.”

the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week

Unlatching @KUnlatched

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10 title(s) have now been unlatched over the last 7 days, please see below the breakdown by collection. The following titles are now available on the Open Research Library (search titles here).

  • KU Open Services
    • Biomaterialbanken – Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen
  • KU Select 2019: HSS Backlist Books
    • Becoming a European Homegrown Jihadist
    • Francophonie and the Orient
    • Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China
    • Medieval Saints and Modern Screens
    • Nazism and Neo-Nazism in Film and Media
    • Women in the Silent Cinema
  • KU Select 2019: HSS Frontlist Books
    • Frontier Tibet
    • Independent Filmmaking across borders in Contemporary Asia
    • Women and Power at the French Court, 1480-1565

In other KU news:

@ucsdlibrary contributes to @KUnlatched. Read #oa chapters and editions in LSP pubs by #ucsd linguists @ryanlepic, @emily_clemily, & the Dean of UCSD Social Sciences, Carol Padden!

Chapter 23 of On looking into words (and beyond): Structures, Relations, Analyses by Ryan Lepic and Carol Padden.
Theory and description in African Linguistics: Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics co-edited UCSD’s Emiliy Clem.

UCSD Faculty Publication, Digital Collection & Librarians’ Contributions

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Sent-down Youth Welcome CCAS Delegation from the UC San Diego Library Digital Collection, the Paul Pickowicz Collection. Used with permission from Dr. Pickowicz.

UC San Diego librarian and Subject Specialist for Chinese Studies, Xi Chen, wrote the preface for Professor Paul Pickowicz’s (UCSD History Dept.) new book titled A Sensational Encounter with High Socialist China. Published in October 2019 by City University of Hong Kong Press, this book incorporates around 100 photos from our Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars Digital Collection.

In the preface, Chen highlights the UC San Diego Library‘s role in contributing to this book project and several other library collections related to Prof Pickowicz’s research works. Huge thanks to UC San Diego Library colleagues (Cristela Garcia-Spitz, Rachel Lieu, Kirk Wang, Ryan Johnson, and Shi Deng) in the Digital Library Development Program and Metadata Services for making Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) collection live and known to scholars in the U.S. and around the world!

Open Access Tipping Point Public Forum Livestreaming!

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From the University of California’s Office of Scholarly Communication announcement:

The University of California (UC) will be hosting an Open Access Tipping Point Public Forum in Washington, DC on August 29th from 2:00-4:30 pm EDT. This free, interactive public event is intended to advance understanding of the value and opportunities associated with negotiating, participating in, and supporting transformative open access agreements for all stakeholders in the scholarly publishing community – publishers, societies, funders, libraries, and academic authors. We hope you’ll join us!

See the blog post for the livestreaming link and forum agenda.

The UCs & Elsevier

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Today (August 2, 2019), the UC negotiating team issued a fact-check of Elsevier’s claims in their multi-pronged messaging campaign.

Understand the reasons behind the UC’s efforts to ensure access to research generated at our campuses and practice fiscal responsibility for the research funding provided by taxpayer dollars. Open Statement: Why UC terminated journal negotiations with Elsevier (March 2019)

Have questions? Talk to your librarian!

#UCSD workshop on “predatory” publishing

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Good Publishing Practices and the Risks of Predatory Publishing workshop is brought to you (all UC San Diego faculty, staff and students) by the UC San Diego Library and the UC San Diego Research Compliance and Integrity Office (RCI) Research Compliance Hot Topics and Training Program.

In this session, you will be introduced to strategies and tools to avoid predatory publishers and conferences and to identify reputable publishing opportunities that are worth your time and resources. Questions? Contact scholcomm [at] ucsd [dot] edu

SLIDES

Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Time:  12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Location: Leichtag Auditorium, Room 107

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be available through the UC Learning Center.  Light refreshments will also be provided.

REGISTRATION (Register by August 19, 2019): 
To register, please click UC Learning Center for a direct link to the session registration.  Select Register in the dropdown menu.  Select Add and click Submit in the lower right corner of the page. You will receive an email registration confirmation. 

Image credit: Little Red Riding Hood by Luis Prado from the Noun Project

UC San Diego is a KU #openaccess Hero

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Image from page 200 of “Hill’s album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches… https://flic.kr/p/of2bGX

UC San Diego is the #10 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Hero when it comes to total usage of KU Books on OAPEN and JSTOR in 2018! See the @KUnlatched Heroes graphic which also includes other Top 10 data on titles, publishers, etc.

About Knowledge Unlatched (KU): Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is committed to free access to academic content for readers around the world. The online platform is the central point of contact for libraries worldwide to support open access models, publication collections of leading publishing houses and new OA initiatives.

Social sciences focus in scholarly communication

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Where are the social sciences on the scholarly communications continuum?

In the blog post, “If you use social media then you are not working” – How do social scientists perceive altmetrics and online forms of scholarly communication?, based on the authors’ (@stl90 , @Isabella83,c@warfair) co-written article, “When You Use Social Media You Are Not Working”: Barriers for the Use of Metrics in Social Sciences, the authors voiced concern that social scientists are missing opportunities to directly engage in the public discourse due to discipline culture.

Meanwhile, MIT visiting scholar and sociologist, Philip N Cohen, wrote a primer for Scholarly Communication in Sociology that “will offer useful guidance for your career – to help you succeed in a competitive, opaque, inefficient system with little accountability. Knowing how the scholarly communication system works will help you navigate it successfully for your career ends. However, I also aspire to help you see the bigger picture in your career, and become an engaged citizen within this system so that we may work together to improve it.”

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Female Rock Climber by Eric Foltz on flickr

Workflow is the new content or how to pay to access all that you do

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A great commentary by Mita Williams putting the commodification of scholarly communication workflow into perspective.

Disc Ploughs. Powerhouse Museum Collection on Flickr Commons https://flic.kr/p/4MB33q. No known copyright restrictions.






1. The Social Graph of Scholarly Communications is becoming more tightly bound into institutional metrics that have an increasing influence on institutional funding
2. The publishers of the Social Graph of Scholarship are beginning to enclose the Social Graph, excluding the infrastructure of libraries and other independent, non-profit organizations

Williams, M. (2019, March 3). If the map becomes the territory then we will be lost [Blog post]. retrieved from https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2019/03/03/if-the-map-becomes-the-territory-then-we-will-be-lost/