The hardest part of this semester was trying to urge #students, amid the available #technologies, to really #read. Most friends worldwide are on mobile phones, preferring short posts, and not easily accessing links. I can therefore be thankful for the global readership of my #publications in these #research#repositories:
Japan's ResearchMap (和英), where I have filled in #Japanese as well as English information about publications (6,600+ downloads): https://researchmap.jp/waoe
"European repositories acquire, preserve & provide open access to tens or possibly hundreds of millions of valuable research outputs & represent critical, not-for-profit infrastructure in the European #OpenScience landscape…They are increasingly recognised as the main mechanism for collecting & providing access to a wide range of…research outputs."
"The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (#CARL), the Ontario Council of University Libraries (#OCUL), and University of Toronto Libraries are pleased to announce their…intent to develop…a robust and scalable multi-institutional national #repository service."
"In November, the US Repository Network (#USRN) will launch a pilot project aimed at improving the #discoverability of articles in #repositories. This pilot project involves the use of services from #CORE, a not-for-profit aggregator based at Open University in the UK."
"This year we’re celebrating the 15th anniversary of unanimous votes by faculty in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences and the Harvard Law School to adopt [#RightsRetention#OpenAccess policies]…#Repositories are also at the foundation of collaborative non-APC scholarly journal publishing models, as core infrastructure."
The #JobFairy has been busy -- I notice my previous job (sort of...) at Strathclyde has been advertised. It is a good opportunity to work with a good team and with some interesting #systems, projects, etc.
Hold the date! British Library #OAWeek event on Monday 30 October (hybrid): 'Open and Engaged 2023: Community over Commercialisation'. Programme will include a keynote from the great Monica Westin, from the @internetarchive. Details below!
At p. 5: "Concordia should…further the development of copyright support through an institutionally supported rights retention strategy, which can support green open access and diversify how research can be made openly accessible."
"[Our analysis] hints that the original function of institutional repositories, offering a channel for secondary publishing is vanishing, while a new function of aggregation of metadata & full texts is becoming of increasing importance."
New study: "About half of all preliminary behavioral interventions go unpublished, and those appearing in the published literature are not functionally different than those that go unpublished. Researchers conducting preliminary behavioral interventions should consider sharing unpublished findings on open-source platforms to maximize the fields’ ability to learn from their work." https://pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40814-023-01345-8