Is PeerJ Membership Publishing Sustainable Discussions about open access publishing usually converge on two topical issues: 1) morality (fairness, justice, social welfare); or 2) sustainability. This post is about the latter. More specifically, this post is about PeerJ’s innovative membership publishing model. In my first post, I described how PeerJ reflects the Silicon Valley culture of publishing. In this post, I’ll attempt to unpack their business model, explore the details, and try to come to an understanding of how this model will play out in the marketplace. “Lifetime membership” is a term that is being used widely by the company and the media to describe the PeerJ business model, and yet I think the term is being used inappropriately here, at least in its full sense. If you choose not to perform at least one review every 12 months, then at our discretion your membership will lapse and you will need to pay $99 to reactivate your membership the next time you want to publish with PeerJ. Like this: Like Loading...
Altmetrics for Librarians: Pros and Cons While digital libraries, institutional repositories, journals and databases provide an open opportunity to download scholarly research, “alternative metrics” or altmetrics supply usage statistics, which can be very useful in determining an article’s popularity and its reading potential.[1] “We may be witnessing a tipping point in collaboration, faster access, and new opportunities.”[2] Almetrics allows librarians to provide their users with statistics regarding academic articles more quickly. Altmetrics can tell us how many times an article, website, software or blog has been viewed, downloaded, reused, shared, and cited.[3] It has been noted that there is correlation between the number of online views and downloads of an article and the number of times that article will be cited in future research.[4] The pros of altmetrics And altmetrics are designed to be easy to use. Altmetric tools, both open source and proprietary, provide economic incentives for use and greater data granularity.
EduQuiki - Open Educational Resources Get your brand new Wikispaces Classroom now and do "back to school" in style. guest| Join | Help | Sign In guest Join | Help | Sign In EduQuiki Home Turn off "Getting Started" Loading... Plum Analytics | Metrics Plum Analytics is building the next generation of research metrics for scholarly research. Metrics are captured and correlated at the group / collection level (e.g., lab, department, museum, journal, etc.) We categorize metrics into 5 separate types: Usage, Captures, Mentions, Social Media, and Citations. Examples of each type are: Usage - Downloads, views, book holdings, ILL, document delivery Captures - Favorites, bookmarks, saves, readers, groups, watchers Mentions - blog posts, news stories, Wikipedia articles, comments, reviews Social media - Tweets, +1's, likes, shares, ratings Citations - PubMed, Scopus, patents We gather metrics around what we call artifacts. articles blog posts book chapters books cases clinical trials conference papers datasets figures grants interviews letters media patents posters presentations source code theses / dissertations videos web pages We aggregate artifact and author level metrics into a researcher graph.
A world map of Open Educational Resources initiatives: Can the global OER community design and build it together? | EFQUEL Athabasca University would like to invite the international OER community to take part in one more online conversation. The objective of this conversation is to consider together whether the global OER community could design and build a world map of OER institutional initiatives. (download the invitation letter) Over the past decade, there have been more and more initiatives in more and more countries. It has become difficult to have a sense of the global OER landscape. Athabasca seeks to communicate with stakeholders, as they seek to connect with potential partners and to learn from the experience of others, to create a picture of the OER world – a global map of institutional and perhaps national initiatives as a starting point. Maps can be effective in communicating a message visually. As many remember, the former IIEP OER community showed enormous energy in its interaction. Practical info Join the international conversation organised by Athabasca University
Altmetrics – Alternative Metrics for Articles (think: impact 2.0) « Kresge Physical Sciences Library March 30, 2012 by Jane Quigley Altmetrics are metrics that attempt to capture the impact of scholarly publications as reflected in non-traditional media, – social media like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley. Traditional works of published scholarship (articles, journals, and scholarly monographs) have citation metrics such as impact factors that reflect their impact in specific, carefully defined venues – the number of times cited by other published articles, for example. The potential is huge and interest is growing, both as a complement to the well-established citation metrics (h-factor, impact factor) and as an exciting way to explore emerging ‘hot topics’ and fast-moving papers. Altmetrics are still in very early stages, and many challenges remain, including resolving multiple digital addresses for online items; lack of uniform standards in citing items like software and data; and the lack of open data sources for tracking impact information – downloads and hits. Read more: Like this:
About The Licenses Our public copyright licenses incorporate a unique and innovative “three-layer” design. Each license begins as a traditional legal tool, in the kind of language and text formats that most lawyers know and love. We call this the Legal Code layer of each license. But since most creators, educators, and scientists are not in fact lawyers, we also make the licenses available in a format that normal people can read — the Commons Deed (also known as the “human readable” version of the license). The final layer of the license design recognizes that software, from search engines to office productivity to music editing, plays an enormous role in the creation, copying, discovery, and distribution of works. Searching for open content is an important function enabled by our approach. Taken together, these three layers of licenses ensure that the spectrum of rights isn’t just a legal concept.
a manifesto – altmetrics.org License Compatibility From WikiEducator It seems only natural to assume that an OER with a Creative Commons license could be mixed with an OER with a different license. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Some licenses are incompatible with others. Probably the most prominent example is Wikipedia, which uses the GNU Free Documentation License, not being compatible with, say, WikiEducator, which uses Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. Because of the many different types of licenses available, and all the possible combinations, it is difficult to explain every possible license incompatibility. If I license incorrectly am I going to be sued? The short answer is: possibly. The long answer is: You should do your best to understand the terms of the license under which you use an OER. If you do your best to understand the license and are acting in good faith, it is unlikely that you will face immediate legal action for violating the terms of an OER license. What should I do? Notes Sources Creative Commons.
Cable on Free vs Open by david on November 9, 2012 Cable Green sent a frustrated email today to the Educause Openness Constituent Group. Here’s the key point: The Babson Survey Research Group has released a new report: Growing the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in U.S. I share his frustration. A word about each quadrant. On the Fence. 99% of content on the internet probably falls into this category. Old School. Open. No Man’s Land. As I’ve been saying, the real risk of the On the Fence MOOCs (aka xMOOCs) is that they confuse people about “open.” Being open is key to driving quality, and we need to help Chief Academic Officers who are desperately trying to improve student success get the message.