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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!

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.

UCSD OER on East Asian History

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Schneewind, S. “An Outline History of East Asia to 1200” (2020). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9d699767 

  • Interview: Allegra swift
  • Interview transcript: Anna Gabrielle F. Isorena
  • Interview recording editing and textbook final formatting: Haneen Mohamed

A demon from The Chʼu SilkManuscript:TranslationandCommentary(Canberra: Department of Far Eastern History,Australian National University, 1973).

Professor Sarah Schneewind approached the library in the spring of 2019 seeking options for self-publishing a textbook for the UC San Diego undergraduate course HILD 10 East Asia: The Great Tradition: Early History and Cultures of China, Korea, and Japan. She felt that the textbook she had been using was not meeting her needs and students were upset about the high cost of the book. As the Scholarly Communication Librarian focused on supporting the dissemination and sustainability of the scholarship and research produced at UC San Diego, I was excited to be able to work with Sarah to find the best publishing solution to both meet her needs and produce a textbook that could be used by others, without cost or barriers to access. I met with Sarah and consulted with the Digital Scholarship Librarian, Erin Glass, and the subject specialist librarian, Xi Chen. We looked at options such as Lever Press/Manifold, GitBooks, Scalar, Pressbooks, and, eScholarship, the UC’s open access repository and publishing platform. 

UC scholar publications:

Ultimately, eScholarship won out. The platform presents a low-barrier to entry as far as technicality and cost. The only restriction to uploading a publication to eScholarship is that authors need to be employed by the UC. Journals published on the platform are an exception – there must be some connection to a UC campus, while authors submitting manuscripts can be from outside the UC. While it is simple to post a pdf, some textbooks produced on eScholarship, such as the climate science OA textbook – Bending the Curve, have a high production value and an entire team to produce the work. Sarah was creating this resource herself without technical support and her only criteria being complete creative control, no book publishing charge (BPC), and provided at no cost to her students.

The work was not without cost to produce however, and this is an important consideration if libraries are going to support the production of open educational resources (OER). Sarah successfully petitioned for course release to work on the book but it only covered a portion needed. She was able to pay a graduate student to work with me on locating images that were Creative Commons licensed or in the public domain. I also helped the student with template requests for getting permission from rights holders. I was able to employ an undergraduate to format the final pdf. I spent a lot of time giving guidance on discoverability and rights best practices. Sarah good-naturedly called my methods “bullying,” but I would describe myself as persistent 😉 . At any rate we’d agree that the effort was successful. As of this posting, the metrics are pretty impressive for only being online a couple of months. As Sarah said in the interview that I recorded (interview recording and transcript).

“Of course, my colleagues, just like me, have students who have no money, so they’re very happy to have an open access textbook that they can use. On my eScholarship statistics, I had 2,111 views or something on this textbook in the last month since you posted it. Again, I’m never going to attain that on anything that I write just based on my own actual research. I would say, overall, the response numerically has been very good.”

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9d699767#metrics

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!