How much should libraries rely on usage to justify their continued investment in a publication, database, or platform? Our Wednesday, August 9 (11:00 am EDT) webinar—the first of two next month on #metrics!—explores assessing usage in #ScholComms.
FREE for NISO members: https://www.niso.org/events/metrics-assessing-usage-part-one
If you’re a member of the information or #ScholComms community and passionate about #AI, (services, data, and ethics), check out our #NISOPlus23 Forum (October 3 in Washington, DC).
Registration discounted for NISO members: https://niso.plus/forum/
Our August 9 (11:00 am–12:30 pm EDT) webinar—the first of two next month on #metrics!—explores assessing usage in #ScholComms.
With speakers Jian Wang of Portland State University and John McDonald (EBSCO)—FREE for NISO members: https://www.niso.org/events/metrics-assessing-usage-part-one
We couldn’t have just one!
Join us next month for TWO webinars on metrics in #ScholComms, the first (Wednesday, August 9, 11:00 am EDT) on assessing usage, the second (August 16, 11:00 am EDT) asking what additional metrics are needed in this evolving landscape.
FREE for NISO members: https://niso.org/events/upcoming
Help us spread the word about our celebrations! 🥳
You can download this poster as a digital asset or a printer-friendly version and share it with your community🫶
Read more about how to access the posters here https://blog.doaj.org/2023/05/23/doaj-at-20-events-poster/
#doajat20 #openaccess #scholcomms #doaj #academicchatter
Save the date! On the 15th June, we're hosting the first of three events to mark our 20th anniversary🥳
Our first event will explore the theme 'Open'💬
More info about the event coming soon...🔍
#DOAJat20 #openaccess #scholarlycomms #DOAJ #AcademicChatter #scholcomms #libraries #librarians
#doajat20 #openaccess #scholarlycomms #doaj #academicchatter #scholcomms #libraries #librarians
#FORCE11 conference gets under way at 09:00 UTC with 3 days of open #scholcomms programming - see the schedule here: https://force11.org/conference/post/force11-program-2023/ - Conf kicks off with keynote: 'When Institutions Fail, People Get Busy: Putting Open Scholarly Data in the Hands of People Who Care' @LucyMontgomery_
Already leaking over into research publishing: #ChatGPT #scholcomms https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00107-z
Research Lead, @investinopen
$95-110k, remote
"Invest in Open Infrastructure is seeking a Research Lead to increase adoption, investment in, and the sustainability of open infrastructure in research and scholarship."
#openscience #openresearch #foss #datadon #scholcomms
📣 This year the Royal Society will award medals to teams.
"the Society is encouraging nominations of joint collaborations, groups or teams for almost all its medals to better represent how contemporary science is undertaken."
There are 24 medals and awards across science including communication and improving research culture.
You do not have to be a Fellow of the Royal Society to nominate or be nominated.
https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/nominations
#researchintegrity #researchculture #scholcomms #openscience
Great chats with colleagues on the #ucu picket line this morning, fighting against casualisation and for a fair pension. Not sure why I only just figured this out, but 90% of my current team started in #openresearch #scholcomms on fixed term contracts. How can that show that staff are valued? #ucurising
#ucurising #scholcomms #openresearch #ucu
RT @CarlyLightfoot@twitter.com
We're recruiting a Research Data Support Manager at St. George's, University of London!
Closes 7th Dec.
Contact me with any questions: clightfo@sgul.ac.uk
RTs appreciated!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CarlyLightfoot/status/1594663921444540416
Most memorable scientific paper I've read in years 😻
By Adam Mastroianni & Ethan Ludwin-Peery
#OpenAccess #OpenResearch #LibraryDon #ScholComms #doi:10.31234/osf.io/2uxwk
#openaccess #openresearch #librarydon #scholcomms #doi
@CentralAndWesternArchiveGLAM I agree, and thank gawd it's easily possible to curate a Follow list across servers too because no mattter if I join an AU-specific community, most of my professional #OA #scholcomms #researchpublishing networks remain international
#researchpublishing #scholcomms #oa
RT @MHuski@twitter.com
There were 34,072 active journals* on OJS from @pkp@twitter.com in 2021. Publishing researchers from more than 140 countries, adding 1.46m articles in more than 60 languages. Bibliodiversity is thriving beyond the paywalls.
Active = journals publishing =>5 articles in 2021.
#scholcomms
"Lessons Learned from Reevaluating Big Deals with Unsub" -- open access at Serials Review, by @sckottie
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00987913.2022.2132090
boosts welcome
#Libraries #ResearchLibraries #ScholComms #OpenAccess #LibraryTwitter #Unsub #OurResearch #BigDeals
#libraries #ResearchLibraries #scholcomms #openaccess #LibraryTwitter #unsub #ourresearch #bigdeals
as an institutional research #repository manager providing #scholcomms support services, should I consider myself part of research infrastructure? https://campusmorningmail.com.au/news/setting-the-right-rate-for-the-research-infrastructure-job/