ORCID and CrossRef Collaborate to Accurately Attribute Authorship of Scholarly Content

Two not-for profit organizations, ORCID and CrossRef, have collaborated to solve the problem of ambiguous author names in scholarly content. ORCID began assigning unique identifiers to researchers in October. As part of the ORCID Registry, individuals can search the metadata from CrossRef, the largest organization assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to scholarly content, and add their works to their personal ORCID records. For more on this, see: http://subscription-agents.org/orcid-and-crossref-collaborate-accurately-attribute-authorship-scholarly-content

For more information on ORCID, or to register for your own ORCID ID, please see http://www.orcid.org.

High-impact open access journals

Librarians are sometimes asked to identify high-impact open access journals. That’s a hard question, in part because there’s not much consensus about how to measure journal impact. Andrew Bonamici takes a stab at answering the question. http://openaccess.uoregon.edu/2012/03/02/high-impact-open-access-journals/

Open Access Explained!

Right to Research Coalition launched a video in collaboration with PhD Comics. The video entitled “Open Access Explained!” provides a quick look at the many reasons why Open Access to research is important for students, researchers, and other stakeholders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1

Ten Years after Budapest Open Access Initiative New Recommendations Released

New guidelines for scholarly publishing have been released by the Budapest Open Access Initiative, to set the default to open for all publishing: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations

Databib

Databib, http://databib.org, is a tool for helping people to identify and locate online repositories of research data. Over 200 data repositories have been cataloged in Databib, with more being added every week. Users and bibliographers create and curate records that describe data repositories that users can browse and search.

Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?

U.S. News and World Report covers the open access debate: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/07/23/is-the-academic-publishing-industry-on-the-verge-of-disruption

UCSF Implements Policy to Make Research Papers Freely Accessible to Public

Health Sciences Campus Becomes Largest in Nation to Adopt Open-access Policy

The UCSF Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public, helping to reverse decades of practice on the part of medical and scientific journal publishers to restrict access to research results.


Full press release:
http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2012/05/12056/ucsf-implements-policy-make-research-papers-freely-accessible-public

Full text of policy and supporting documents
http://senate.ucsf.edu/2011-2012/j-lib-openaccess.html