Center for Digital Scholarship

When:  Wednesday, April 17, 3:30 – 5:00pm
Where:  Watson 455

This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for a discussion on contemporary scholarly publishing issues. Focusing on the practical needs of editors of scholarly journals, but open to all interested parties, topics for this session include:

1) Journal usage metrics: Using Google Analytics to track usage of OJS journals
2) The challenges ahead for the scholarly journal, as explored in the special issue of Amodern: http://amodern.net/.
3) Given these challenges, what future do you envision for your scholarly journal, and what will it take to help you get there?

Presenters:
Stuart Day, Editor, Latin American Theatre Review
Wade Garrison, Digital Humanities Librarian
Brian Rosenblum, Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian

Please RSVP wadeg@ku.edu

Sign the White House petition: http://wh.gov.6TH

The Obama Administration is actively considering taking action to open up the results of research funded by taxpayer dollars, by making scientific articles freely available online.

As of May 30, more than 21,000 people have signed a petition (wh.gov/6TH) on the White House “We the People” website that calls for Public Access to all Federally Funded Research. If the petition garners 25,000 signatures by June 19, it will be reviewed by White House staff, and considered for action. We’re more than three-quarters of the way to the goal!

Consider signing the petition today, and encourage your colleagues, friends and family to do the same. You are eligible to sign if you are at least 13 years old, and have a valid email address.

Want to learn more? Here’s a great one-minute YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FoYxzPZDuw

Congratulations to the authors of the 10 most popular items in KU ScholarWorks during February, 2012! The top 10 listing is now available on the KU ScholarWorks web site.

Congratulations to the authors of the 10 most popular items in KU ScholarWorks during February, 2012! The top 10 listing is now available on the KU ScholarWorks web site.

Congratulations to the authors of the 10 most popular items in KU ScholarWorks during January, 2012! The top 10 listing is now available on the KU ScholarWorks web site.

The proposed Research Works Act (RWA) works against open access to taxpayer-funded research.

On the heels of the White House’s Office of Science & Technology Policy’s Request for Information–issued in December 2011 and completed January 12, 2012–two Congressmen who have received several donations from a large commercial publisher sponsored this bill in Congress seeking to essentially outlaw public access policies like that of the National Institutes of Health. Please read the Alliance for Taxpayer Access’s information at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/action/action_access/12-0106.shtml and see the collection of resources compiled by the Harvard Open Access Project, Harvard Law School at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Notes_on_the_Research_Works_Act .

There are a couple of opportunities to register your opposition to the RWA:

1. In order for the White House to take action, 25,000 signatures are needed on the petition at whitehouse.gov by February 22, 2012. Please go to http://bit.ly/yFtntP and sign!   You will need a whitehouse.gov account in order to do this.  Registration is quick and easy.
2. There is a second petition you can sign to show your opposition to the RWA:  http://www.thepetitionsite.com/207/support-the-open-access-movement-stop-the-research-works-act/

In October, KU Libraries hosted a week of events for KU faculty, graduate students, and others who wanted to learn how open access to scholarship affects them as authors, scholars and citizens.

Please see http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/handle/1808/8330 for video highlights, handouts, and presentations from the events scheduled during Open Access Week, including The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Alternative Perspectives to the Commercialization of Knowledge, a panel discussion featuring three national experts on open access and scholarly publishing.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has issued a Request for Information (RFI), asking individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on approaches for broad public access and long-term stewardship of peer-reviewed scholarly publications that result from federally funded scientific research.

For more information, see the KU Call to Action page.

How you can help: Respond to the RFI by January 12, 2012

You can assist this effort by responding to the RFI. The deadline for submissions is January 12, 2012. The eight questions and submission instructions are posted here: http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/11/04/2011-28623/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-resulting-from. Submissions should be sent via email to publicaccess@ostp.gov.

Thank you for your commitment to public access and the advancement of these crucial policies.

KU ScholarWorks reached a milestone in the month of November: There have now been over 1 million views and 1 million downloads of KU ScholarWorks items.

Also, congratulations to the authors of the 10 most popular items in KU ScholarWorks during November, 2011, including four dissertations! The top 10 listing is now available on the KU ScholarWorks web site.

KU Libraries will host a week of events for KU faculty, graduate students, and others who want to learn how open access to scholarship affects them as authors and scholars and citizens.  Please see http://www.lib.ku.edu/openaccess/OAweek2011.shtml for details about the events scheduled during Open Access Week, including a panel discussion featuring three experts on open access and scholarly publishing: