Transcript Greensburg presentation 05-04-2015

Support for
research &
publication
Office of Scholarly
Communication and Publishing
University Library System
University of Pittsburgh
Let us help you
 Promote
your research
 Preserve your research
 Propel your research
 http://www.library.pitt.edu/oscp
What we do
 Support
for Open Access publishing and
dissemination
 Preserve and showcase research
 Demonstrate research impact
 Copyright and other intellectual property
guidance
What do we mean by
Open Access?
 Research
that is freely available on the
web (gratis)
 Research that may be reused, remixed in
order to foster further knowledge creation
(libre)
Open Access
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OA is compatible
with
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Peer review
Promotion and
tenure criteria
Copyright law
Revenue and profits
Any genre or format
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does not
Equal low quality
Constitute vanity
publishing
Violate copyright
Reduce author
choice or academic
freedom
OA and you
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researchers
Ease of sharing and using research
Increases and accelerates research impact
Extends the global reach of research
Furthers knowledge creation
Reduces or eliminates price/permission
barriers
Supports the public good
OA and *U*
 Research
visibility and impact =
institutional visibility and impact
 Demonstrates high level of research
conducted at the university
 Supports mission of service, disseminating
research results to the global academic
community
 Reduces overall costs for research support
Libraries [heart] OA
 Supports
the free access to information
 Supports reuse of research while still
protecting author rights
 May lower the cost of buying/subscribing
to scholarly publications
Journal publishing
 35+
journals in various disciplines
 International in scope, not just at Pitt
 Editorial operations conducted by
scholars
 Publisher provides an online publishing
platform
 Publisher provides guidance on best
practices
Examples
 Anthropology
and Aging
 Bolivian Studies Journal
 International Journal of Telerehabilitation
 Journal of French and Francophone
Philosophy
 Journal of World-Historical Information
 Radical Teacher
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http://www.library.pitt.edu/e-journals
Financial support for OA
 Open
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Access Author Fee Fund
Funds article processing charges (APC) for
truly OA journals of high quality
Funded memberships with certain OA
publishers (Hindawi, BioMed Central)
 No
limit on the times you can seek funding
 Schools of the health sciences not eligible at
this time
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http://www.library.pitt.edu/about-openaccess-author-fees-fund
D-Scholarship@Pitt
 An
online platform for dissemination of
research
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Showcases and shares faculty research
Ideal for gray literature, reports, preprints,
conference presentations
Pitt theses and dissertations stored here
Long-term preservation
Optimized for search engines
 http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu
Future developments
 Repository
for static research data
 Integration with ORCID iD system
 Possible automatic collection of faculty
research publication information
Available now—metrics!
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PlumX metrics available for every deposit in DScholarship@Pitt
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Including citation-only deposits
Shows usage, captures, citations, downloads,
social media use
Publicly available data (some propriety data
not available, e.g., Google Scholar, Web of
Sciences
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http://www.plumanalytics.com/metrics.html
Examples
 Are
badges useful in education?
(Education)
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/22973/
A
new large-bodied oviraptorosaurian
theropod dinosour (Geology)
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/20818/
 Characterization
(Chemistry)
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of extrastriatal D2
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/21706/
More examples
 Ideologies
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of a new mass literacy (English)
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/21706/
radical idiom (Music)
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/21260/
 Presidential
impeachment and the new
political instability in Latin America
(Political Science)
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/23084/
Other repositories
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PhilSci Archive
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Archive of European Integration
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http://minority-health.pitt.edu
Aphasiology Archive
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http://aei.pitt.edu
Minority Health & Health Equity Archive
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http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu
http://aphasiology.pitt.edu
Industry Studies Working Papers
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http://isapapers.pitt.edu
Research impact
 PlumX
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altmetrics service
Faculty, departmental, and school profiles
Plan to roll out to all Pitt faculty
http://plu.mx/pitt
 Support
for research impact analysis
(bibliometrics service)
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Information page:
 http://pitt.libguides.com/bibliometrics
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Other services in development
ORCID iD
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Unique, persistent identifier for researchers
ID number to help make your scholarship
easier to find and attribute
Distinguishes you from other researchers with
similar names
Save time, save keystrokes—Can be used
when submitting manuscripts and applying for
grants
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http://www.library.pitt.edu/orcid
Soon will launch web app for ORCID iD
registration and profile linking with Pitt
Copyright and IP guidance
 Copyright
law
 Fair
use
 Public performance
 Authors’ rights
 Guidance not advice
 When we don’t know, we can forward
your questions to the Office of General
Counsel for a legal opinion
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http://www.library.pitt.edu/copyright
Contact us
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Office of Scholarly Communication and
Publishing
http://www.library.pitt.edu/oscp
[email protected]
John Barnett
Scholarly Communications Librarian
[email protected]
4 May 2015; CC BY 4.0