CFP for the Florida OER Summit 2019 Poster Session

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The Florida OER Summit Executive Advisory Committee is pleased to invite proposal submissions for the OER Summit 2019 Poster Session.  The 2019 summit will be held February 27th and 28th at the Sheraton Orlando North (600 North Lake Destiny Rd., Maitland, FL 32751) and is designed for attendees to learn how to implement the use of OER at their college or university.  Accepted posters will be featured during the evening reception of the first day.


Topics of interest for this year’s summit:

1.      How institutions implemented and organized OER through grants, partnerships, etc.

2.      Staff and Faculty OER training

3.      How to locate and organize library OER resources

4.      How to locate peer reviewed ancillaries

5.      Develop ancillary materials to track OER usage

6.      Key instructional design issues related to the development of OER courses

We encourage submissions to include handouts, resources, and a better understanding of how to implement OER within attendee’s institutions. Poster proposals will be due on January 11, 2019.  Submissions will be received online.

If you have any questions about the proposal process or summit please contact Rebel Cummings-Sauls, rsauls@flvc.org.  We are seeking vendors or organizations interested in sponsoring the 2019 Summit.

Consider registering early as we anticipate increased participation from last year.

UMN Libraries launches an OA journal, Public Health Review

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An impressive new open access journal offers publishing opportunities for students. The Public Health Review is a student-led, peer reviewed, open access public health journal that is published by the University of Minnesota Libraries.

All graduate students, undergraduate students with high-quality work, alumni, and professionals with a public health perspective are invited to submit content to this Journal that highlights or focuses on a public health topic or issue.

Common topics include: Health Policy, Public Health Practice, Public Health Medicine, Epidemiology, Biological statistics, Community Health, Environmental Health, Global Health, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, Toxicology, and Emergency Care.

2018 Editorial Board, From left to right Emily Nagel (Copy Editor), Kellen Schalter (Marketing Editor), Fadzai Manungo (Founding Co-Executive Editor), Amelia Harju (Founding Co-Executive Editor), Mariana Tuttle (Managing Editor), Allison Danish (Production Editor). Not pictured: Kelsey Schertz (Copy Editor).

Scalar Workshop at CSU Dominguez Hills, February 26, 2019 from 10AM-1:00PM

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CSU Dominguez Hills will be holding a Scalar workshop for interested librarians and faculty members. If you are unfamiliar with Scalar ( @anvcscalar ‏) it is a free, open source publishing platform for creating born-digital scholarship. Developed by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture at USC, Scalar is, as noted on their website, “designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.” An introduction to Scalar could be beneficial for any librarian supporting faculty in the creation of digital scholarship.

The workshop is free (parking excepted), and lunch will be served. Space is limited, and so if you are interested in attending, please contact Dana Ospina  @dsospina ) at your earliest convenience. Please feel free to forward to faculty on your campuses. Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions!

Scalar Workshop with Curtis Fletcher, Associate Director, Ahmanson Lab, Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, USC Libraries

  • February 26, 10AM-1:00PM
  • The University Library, CSU Dominguez Hills
  • Carson, CA 90747

Dana Ospina 

Digital Initiatives Librarian

University Library

CSU Dominguez Hills | Carson, CA 90747

MDPI´s Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) with the University of California, San Diego

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UC San Diego Library participates in the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) and recently signed on for the advanced program.
What does this mean for our authors?
The advanced program grants a 25% discount on the APC. With the 25% discount affiliated authors will save around 200 USD per published paper, on average.
Over 30 UC San Diego authors have taken advantage of this publishing discount in 2018 to date.

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Open Access Week 2018 at UC San Diego

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Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge for #openaccessweek

Open Access Week 2018 • October 22-28 | UC San Diego Library | @UCSDScholCom #openaccessweek

ORCiD CREATE-N-UPDATE-A-THON

Register, connect, and use your researcher ID in grants, data, publications and other academic activities. Sign-up or update your ORCiD – we’ll show you how, get a cookie, and the department with the most ORCiDs wins a prize!

Tuesday, October 23  • 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Table 1: Next to Club Med and Telemedicine
Table 2: Next to the Mandeville Coffee cart
Thursday, October 25  • 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Table 3: In front of RIMAC

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PUBLISHING DECISIONS: CHOOSING PUBLICATION PATHWAYS THAT WORK FOR YOU

Wednesday, Oct. 24 • Noon – 1 p.m. • Geisel Library, Seuss Room

Find out what the UC and the UC San Diego Library offer to ease and open up your publishing opportunities. Hear from Dan Morgan, Publisher . about the latest efforts to transition to open access publishing.

Lunch will be provided so registration is required (contact us)

October 25, 2018 at 3:00pm, in the Geisel Library Seuss Room – screening of Paywall: The Business of Scholarship, directed by @jason_schmitt Chair of COMM & Media at Clarkson University.

PAYWALL: THE BUSINESS OF SCHOLARSHIP FILM SCREENING

Thursday, Oct. 25  • 3 – 5 p.m. • Geisel Library, Seuss Room

Paywall is a documentary film that investigates the need for open access to research and science. Light refreshments will be served.

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Happy Peer Review Week Sept. 10-15, 2018

#diversity in Peer Review

It doth appear, you are a worthy judge
https://flic.kr/p/owhGGf

 – Scholars spend 68,500,000 hours/year performing peer review. The US federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour. Scholars deserve more than that, but take it as a starting point. That’s a gift to publishers of at least $496,625,000/year in free labor. + a few qualifications Suber posted here

Peer reviewers unmasked: largest global survey reveals trends

Scientists in emerging economies respond fastest to peer review invitations, but are invited least.

Free Webinar: Open Science as a Movement: Mozilla’s efforts to build community and open leadership in science

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#OpenScience as a Movement: Mozilla’s efforts to build community and open leadership in science with Stephanie Wright,@mozilla ‏

Register here  | Sponsored by @DataONEorg

Tuesday September 11th

9 am Pacific / 10 am Mountain / 11am Central / 12 noon Eastern

Our goal at Mozilla Science Lab is to maximize access to papers, data, code, and materials so anyone can read and contribute, while also building a community for researchers advocating from openness and collaboration. On the Open Leadership & Engagement team we achieve this by employing open-science events, training leaders, and developing education materials in an effort to make research more open and accessible and help science reach its full potential.

 

Stephanie Wright leads the Mozilla Science program on the Open Leadership & Engagement team of the Mozilla Foundation, funded by the Sloan Foundation, the Helmsley Charitable Trust, and the Siegel Family Endowment. Her team at Mozilla focuses on hosting events such as Working Open Workshops, the annual Global Sprint and Mozfest events, Open Leadership Trainings, developing educational resources such as the Open Data Training Program, and building a community of leaders through Mozilla Fellowships and other activities. Prior to Mozilla, Stephanie worked for the University of Washington where she developed and led the Libraries Research Data Services Unit, served as a Senior Data Science Fellow at the UW’s eSciences Institute, and co-authored the Librarian Outreach Kit as part of the Community Engagement & Outreach Working Group for DataONE.

Plan S

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A group of 10 European research funders, supported by the European Commission and the European Research Council released plans to mandate a move to full, immediate Open Access for all of their funded research articles by January 1, 2020. Citing the detrimental effects of paywalls on the progress of science, a new document, “Plan S,” calls for “research publications that are generated through research grants to be made fully and immediately open, and not monetized in any way.” SPARC announcement

2019-01-24 UPDATE 

Harvard Library and MIT Libraries provide recommendations for Plan S implementation

By MIT Libraries on January 16, 2019 in Scholarly communication

Why Society and Not-For-Profit Journals Are Worth Preserving: Better Economic and Continuing Value for the Community (2018-12-06) and related by Martin Paul Eve, How Learned Societies Could Flip to Open Access, With No Author-Facing Charges, Using a Consortial Model, (2018-01-21). also cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Societies_and_Open_Access_Research 

Plan S: “China Backs Bold Plan to Tear Down Journal Paywalls” (2018-12-05)

“Plan S: Impact on Society Publishers” Scholarly Kitchen (2018-12-05)

Towards a Plan S gap analysis? (2) Gold open access journals in WoS and DOAJ (2018-12-05) Follows Towards a Plan S gap analysis? (1) Open access potential across disciplines (2018-12-05)

Peter Suber: Thoughts on Plan S First see the plan itself: cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020

Martin Eve: Dial S for Strategy

Danny Kingsley: Relax everyone, Plan S is just the beginning of the discussion and Most Plan S principles are not contentious (2018-09-12)

Own work; Shaw, Henry: “Alphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages” (1845) FROM THE GOLDEN BIBLE, printed at Augsburg[1] https://archive.org/details/handbookofmediae00shawrich

The Career Path of UC San Diego Undergraduate Alumna of the Visual Arts, Lucy Mulroney

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Librarians tend to see librarianship attributes in every researcher, in every scholar, and in every profession. When we received a notice from the UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts that an alumna, Lucy Mulroney, has taken up the standard at Yale’s Beinecke Library, we rejoiced. Another scholar has seen the light and we welcome her into the fold … a bit late as we’re just now hearing that her career path has led her through a few academic libraries, one of which we hope was our own #Geisel Library.

@UcsdVis @UCSDalumni @ucsdlibrary 

Publishing Opportunity in Linguistics: L2 Journal from UC Berkeley

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So excited for this new series from the UC Office of Scholarly Communication series, Open MIc. Open Mic is a new, informal interview series with editors of open access journals.

L2 Journal editors on the rapidly growing field of applied linguistics, the challenges of transhumanism, and the power of open access.

In this Open Mic interview with UC Berkeley’s L2 Journal of applied linguistics, we spoke with founder, General Editor, and Professor of German Claire Kramsch; Managing Editor and French Department PhD student Emily Linares; and Mark Kaiser, Associate Director of the Berkeley Language Center, which sponsors the journal, and creator of the BLC Library of Foreign Language Film Clips. (The original sponsor of L2 Journal was the UC Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching.)

L2 Journal is an open access, fully refereed, interdisciplinary journal that aims to promote the research and the practice of language learning and teaching. The journal is published on the eScholarship platform, available free of charge (for readers and authors) on the internet. and supported by the Berkeley Language Center.