Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban and Health Science Campus

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication seeks to share useful innovations, both in thought and in practice, with the aim of encouraging scholarly exchange and the subsequent benefits that are borne of scrutiny, experimentation and debate. As modes of scholarly communication, the technologies and economics of publishing and the roles of libraries evolve, it is our hope that the work shared in the journal will inform practices that strengthen librarianship and that increase access to the "common Stock of Knowledge."JLSC is particularly interested in the intersection of librarianship and publishing and the resulting role of libraries in both content dissemination and content creation. Related areas of interest include new methods for the dissemination of information and information exchange; the theory and practice of the organization, use and curation of information; and issues related to the review, credentialing, reputation and impact of scholarly work

The prices of open access publishing: the composition of APC across different fields of sciences

Modern media technologies paved the way to the open access movement. Instead of the traditional academic subscription and publishing model, which allowed few big publishers to charge excessive publishing fees, the open access model raises the hope for a fair system, where scientific content is freely accessible and thus the dissemination of research work becomes possible at little cost. However, previous literature pointed out that big publishers seem to be able to preserve their market power when going from the subscription-based model to the open access model. In this paper, we take a closer look at the differences across disciplines. The publication routines in Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences and Health Sciences differ to a substantial extent. On these grounds, we test whether there are also differences in the explanations for the article processing charges (APC) across these disciplines. For doing so, we combined various data sources such as the dataset of the “Directory of Open Access”, the “OpenAPC Initiative” and the “CiteScore Metrics”. Our regression results show that the differences across the four fields in terms of publication habits and endowment levels allow publishers to exploit their market power to different extents

Group coaching: The new ‘Wild West of coaching’?

Literature on group coaching is scarce, but growing evidence points to an area ripe for further exploration. Group coaching is scalable, cost-effective and arguably better suited to promoting collective understanding and thinking than one-to-one and team coaching. However, this is an area fraught with challenges. In the limited existing literature, group coaching is usually bundled with team coaching and there is no consensus on what group coaching is. This confusion is reflected in the wide, sometimes contradictory, approaches used in the limited number of empirical studies available. Despite that, emerging evidence points to the potential benefits of group coaching in a range of settings. This article explores the extant literature on group coaching and argues for a definition of group coaching that is firmly based on the group process. Finally, it makes the case for group coaching to be considered on its own merit to support the development of the theory, research and practice of this misunderstood coaching modality

Toward Easy Deposit: Lowering the Barriers of Green Open Access with Data Integration and Automation

This article describes the design and development of an interoperable application that supports green open access with long-term sustainability and improved user experience of article deposit. The lack of library resources and the unfriendly repository user interface are two significant barriers that hinder green open access. Tasked to implement the open access mandate, librarians at an American research university developed a comprehensive system called Easy Deposit 2 to automate the support workflow of green open access. Easy Deposit 2 is a web application that is able to harvest new publications, to source manuscripts on behalf of the library, and to facilitate self-archiving to a university’s institutional repository. The article deposit rate increased from 7.40% to 25.60% with the launch of Easy Deposit 2. The results show that a computer system can implement routine tasks to support green open access with success. Recent developments in digital repository provide new opportunities for innovation, such as Easy Deposit 2, in supporting open access. Academic librarians are vital in promoting “openness” in scholarly communication, such as transparency and diversity in the sharing of publication data

Дигитални репозиториjум Универзитета у Београду - Хемиjског факултета

У раду су представљени принципи функционисања Cherry дигиталног репозиториjума Хемиjског факултета и Иновационог центра, као и разлози због коjих jе одлучено да први институтски репозиториjум буде у DSpace софтверу отвореног кода. Размотрена су питања истраживача приликом уноса нових радова у Cherry и одговори библиотекара у току администраторске контроле података. Истраживачки део рада бави се статистичким подацима посећености репозиториjума заснованим на Google Analytics платформи и закључцима коjи воде до главног циља - повећања видљивости и потенциjалне цитираности научно-истраживачких резултата у саставу репозиториjума.Related to an English-language version of the following article: [https://cherry.chem.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4328

Is information-seeking behaviour of doctoral students changing?: a review of the literature (2010 – 2015)

The advent of the Internet and networked communications in the last 15 years has arguably considerably changed the information behaviours of doctoral students, including the discovery process. Information seeking includes initiating a search, constructing search strategies, locating and evaluating the identified sources. Current research on information-seeking behaviours is focusing on understanding how the Internet, social media and other technological and communication-based changes, including mobile technologies, have changed the way students seek information in order to understand the information behaviours of the students of tomorrow. This paper offers a review of the literature on information-seeking behaviours, with a particular focus on recent years (2010-15). It aims to determine whether notable changes in the information-seeking behaviour of doctoral students have emerged in recent years. The study shows that the information-seeking behaviours of doctoral students follow a steady trend, with some subtle changes, particularly in the (patchy) use of social media and networking sites. There appears to be more similarities than differences across disciplines in the information-seeking behaviours of doctoral students. Considerations to their information literacy skills are given to understand better the role supervisors and library staff can play to support the doctoral students population in the early stages of the research process

La vía verde del acceso abierto en Argentina: evolución y desarrollo de los repositorios en las universidades nacionales

Desde 2013, en Argentina, está vigente la ley 26.899 que establece el mandato de acceso abierto (AA) para la literatura científica y datos primarios resultado de investigaciones financiadas con fondos públicos, a través de repositorios digitales gestionados y sostenidos por las instituciones del sistema científico y tecnológico nacional. Este trabajo tiene por objetivos conocer la evolución y el estado actual de desarrollo de los repositorios que fueron creados en el ámbito de las universidades nacionales argentinas de gestión pública (UUNN), identificar los grupos involucrados en su gestión y analizar las actitudes de los investigadores argentinos respecto a los repositorios institucionales existentes. Para obtener datos descriptivos de la situación actual de los repositorios, se realizó entre febrero-mayo de 2019 un relevamiento de iniciativas de AA observando en forma directa los sitios web principales de las UUNN y de sus facultades, bibliotecas y áreas potencialmente vinculadas a iniciativas de publicaciones en AA, y se registraron los datos en una matriz ad hoc. Para obtener un panorama de las opiniones, intereses y prácticas de los investigadores, se llevó a cabo una revisión bibliográfica y un análisis de la literatura disponible. Entre las conclusiones se destacan: el impacto de la ley nacional en relación con el crecimiento del número de repositorios y su adhesión al SNRD, el liderazgo de las bibliotecas universitarias en su desarrollo y mantenimiento, la escasa existencia de repositorios de datos primarios, y el surgimiento de otro tipo de iniciativas no alineadas con los requisitos técnicos del AA que demuestran el interés de las comunidades por difundir en forma amplia su producción académica y científica.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació

La vía verde del acceso abierto en Argentina: evolución y desarrollo de los repositorios en las universidades nacionales

Desde 2013, en Argentina, está vigente la ley 26.899 que establece el mandato de acceso abierto (AA) para la literatura científica y datos primarios resultado de investigaciones financiadas con fondos públicos, a través de repositorios digitales gestionados y sostenidos por las instituciones del sistema científico y tecnológico nacional. Este trabajo tiene por objetivos conocer la evolución y el estado actual de desarrollo de los repositorios que fueron creados en el ámbito de las universidades nacionales argentinas de gestión pública (UUNN), identificar los grupos involucrados en su gestión y analizar las actitudes de los investigadores argentinos respecto a los repositorios institucionales existentes. Para obtener datos descriptivos de la situación actual de los repositorios, se realizó entre febrero-mayo de 2019 un relevamiento de iniciativas de AA observando en forma directa los sitios web principales de las UUNN y de sus facultades, bibliotecas y áreas potencialmente vinculadas a iniciativas de publicaciones en AA, y se registraron los datos en una matriz ad hoc. Para obtener un panorama de las opiniones, intereses y prácticas de los investigadores, se llevó a cabo una revisión bibliográfica y un análisis de la literatura disponible. Entre las conclusiones se destacan: el impacto de la ley nacional en relación con el crecimiento del número de repositorios y su adhesión al SNRD, el liderazgo de las bibliotecas universitarias en su desarrollo y mantenimiento, la escasa existencia de repositorios de datos primarios, y el surgimiento de otro tipo de iniciativas no alineadas con los requisitos técnicos del AA que demuestran el interés de las comunidades por difundir en forma amplia su producción académica y científica.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació