All Videos Tagged research (Open Access Week) - Open Access Week

Open Access Week 2015 - Open for Collaboration

2015-10-20T15:19:12.090Z

At the University of California, Merced our campus video production team has supported Open Access awareness with the library through producing videos highlighting the benefits of Open Access. This year's video encourages us to collaborate to make access to research publications open.

Open Data for Better Research

2015-10-16T13:20:59.908Z

The Open Science Platform produced a short video "Open Data for Better Research" to promote the openness of research data. The video presents experts' views on data sharing and reuse. It features Tim Smith (CERN), Mark Thorley (RCUK), Kevin Ashley (DCC) and Mark Parsons (RDA).

Scholarly/Scientific Impact Metrics in the Open Access Era

2010-11-16T02:37:33.363Z

The real merit of research is in its specific, substantive content. But if a contribution proves important and useful, it will be taken up, built upon and cited in subsequent research. Scientometrics attempts to estimate and quantify this research uptake and impact. The classical metric of research productivity had been publication counts ("publish or perish") and the prestige of their publication venues (refereed journals or scholarly monographs), based on their prior track records for quality and importance. Publication counts were soon supplemented by "journal impact factors" (average citation counts), and eventually also by individual article and author citation counts. In the online era, the potential metrics have extended further to include download counts, growth and decay rates for metrics, co-citation measures, and more elaborate a-priori formulas such as the "h-index" and its variants. Still prominently missing today, however, are three things: (1) book metrics, (2) a validation of the metrics, discipline by discipline, that tests and confirms their meaning and predictive power, especially in research assessment, and (3) a sufficiently large and open webwide database to allow the global research community to test, validate and monitor its metrics (which are currently collected systematically only by proprietary commercial databases). The Open Access (OA) movement (for providing free online access to all journal articles) is helping to generate the requisite OA database for articles by extending universities' and funders' "publish or perish" mandates to also require their authors to make their publications OA by depositing them in their institution's OA repository. OA not only makes it possible to harvest research impact metrics webwide, but it has also been shown to increase them (the "OA Impact Advantage"). I will describe the new OA metrics, the OA Advantage, how OA metrics can be tested and validated for use in research assessment.

Open Access publiceren met prof. André Aleman

2010-10-13T09:53:04.030Z

Prof. André Aleman (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands) talks about the articles he has published in an Open Access journal (PLoS ONE). He can check online to see how often his articles have been consulted, downloaded, and cited. That lets him keep track of whether researchers are interested in the topic. Dutch spoken

Open Access is good for reproducibility of research

2010-10-13T09:49:37.027Z

dr. P.M.E. (Pieter) van Gorp, assistant professor School of Industrial Engineering of Eindhoven University of Technology (in the Netherlands), tells about Open Access and the SHA...