The publishing of open data is considered a key element for civic participation paving the way to the ‘public value’, a term which underpins the social contribution. A result of that can be seen through the popularity of data portals published all around the world by governments, public and private organizations. However, the diffusion of data portals raises concerns about discoverability and validity of these data sources, especially to what extent they contribute to open data and open science. The purpose of this work is to develop a framework to reveal open data publishing with the use of a freely available open science project called Common Crawl. The idea is to identify open data-related initiatives and to gather information about their availability, having in the framework’s essence an iterative and differential process. The main outcome is shown through a proposed model for the historical data repository which involves both use and creation of open science to branch new sort of research possibilities based on publishing of derived data.
which provides access to online content thereof (by digitizing paper or archiving electronic content of CD attached by author) and digital library for the blind (project Sound of pages) that disabled users have access to requested digitized works. Accessible http://alephnew.bibnat.ro: 8991/F; c) The Digital platform on Digitool system. It started in 2009. It is comprised of digital collections created by digitizing special collections of documents in the National Library of Romania, organized by themes or after events. Accessible at http://digitool.bibnat.ro/R. The databases have grown steadily and have become researching and learning tools for some categories of users. The systems provide open resources, learning and navigating tutorials and contribute to a creative society.
Scientific journals are the main form of recording and disseminating results of scientific research. After the advancement of digital media, their search, access, and navigation became easier and faster. This changes the way readers interact with the content. In this sense, the configuration of typography, an essential component of text-based publications, should facilitate the reading and understanding of the information presented. Thus, this research aimed to formalize an analysis process for the application of typography in papers on electronic scientific journals. Based on the literature review, an analysis structure was formulated. The analysis identified the fundamental principles of application of typography as: legibility, readability, spacing and font size and information hierarchy. Subsequently, four electronic papers from Brazilian scientific journals with different areas of knowledge were selected as objects of study. As a result, a potential application of typography for digital media was identified, but this potential is not fully explored by the editors of scientific journals nor by the literature dealing with the topic.
The paper discusses the current state of digitizing Islamic manuscript in Russia and the gradual building of the digital collection “Manuscripta Islamica Rossica”. It outlines some of the challenges and the benefits from providing digital access to these resources.
Since 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), European Union regulation, demands transparency from companies and imposes new restrictions on data transfers (Botchorishvili, 2017). The purpose of this article is to analyze the uses and representations of information and communication science students regarding the RGPD and to compare it with that of students in the education sciences. This article is in line with the research on the Privacy Paradox and brings new elements of explanation thanks to the confrontation between two populations of students. In this perspective, a questionnaire was sent out to information and communication students and education sciences students. 70 students provided answers to 32 questions. More than two-thirds of the respondents gave a correct definition of the GDPR. They also believed that personal data protection was a key matter. So much considered that individuals should know the reason behind data collection as well as its use. Information and Communication students are more numerous to be convinced than Education Sciences students that training individuals is necessary. Indeed, those studying information and communication are more prone, thanks to their curriculum, to understand the issues of personal data protection. Therefore, the students who a priori know the most are more aware of the need to improve their knowledge through training. In general students had a fairly comprehensive view of the risks when lacking data protection. However, students were very divided on data monetization : 15 believed it was legitimate while 23 had no opinion. Moreover, Information and Communication students are much more likely to think that monetizing data is legitimate (13 over 54) compared to 1 over 16 Education Science students.
The non-governmental non-for profit organisations have a long tradition of a voluntary association to promote a certain idea or goal. In this light, a professional association publisher may boost the visibility of its scholarly publication after identifying its audience. Art history as a discipline in the humanities should use the potentials of open access and open science to develop a new model of synthesising researches on the global level.
From the perspective of Sociology of literature, this paper sets the question of what happens with communication and reception issues in the context of e-publishing, considering the cultural situation of lacking critic methods and established values? Related to e-publishing, the precise question is: how to set the reliable system of filtering e-books on the net? The paper discusses the main obstacles in that process and analyzes a few individual attempts to set that kind of mechanism. Besides technical improvements which will be mainly discussed on the EIPub Forum, this paper aims to motivate us to point some theoretical issues considering the problem of evaluation and reception as part of literary communication.
relying on extensive research and receptiveness for global trends. The paper focuses on the period after 2015, when the business model was changed from a publicly funded project to a platform maintained in a partnership between a web publisher and journal owners, marked by extensive guidance and strict quality control. The results of the comparisons between the old and the new model and between SCIndeks and similar platforms indicate that such a model may be sustainable and even superior to the publicly funded model of journal publishing, at least in some socio-political and academic environments
My proposal offers to take account of developments in the digitisation of out-of-copyright textual material in East-Central Europe. Taking Western European digitisation as the norm and indicator of directions, my paper will argue that digitisation in East-Central Europe is behind, but there is an increasing awareness of the need to make large-scale investments. The Hungarian case argues that it the National Szechenyi Library is expected to lead the progress, and further research will provide comparative data about the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Based on project description information retrieved from the site of knowledge institutions, as well as policy documents communicated and held by professional bodies, I will attempt to assess the shortterm developments and point at the pitfalls of these projected developments.
In the last years here is an increasing need to ensure a more objective and transparent evaluation of scientific research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. This short paper explores some of the underlying issues and suggests a study using the suvey method based on a sample of 146 publications. The results of this study could contribute to the identification and describing distinctive types of edited books and conference proceedings according to their peer-review procedures, and thus to facilitate the recognition of their scholarly value and reliability.
This paper reports on a study of social media events relating to 28 Open Access (OA) monographs, published between 2014 and 2015. As with citations (Cronin 1981) social media events represent the frozen footprints of the journey that monographs take as they move through digital landscapes. The study captured mentions of the study-set of monographs via Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia and online blogs; as well as user ratings on Google Books, Amazon and Goodreads. Information relating to the ways in which the books were bookmarked and cited was captured via the online reference managing platform Mendeley. The benefits and limitations of different altmetrics approaches to capturing and analyzing this data are discussed. Practical suggestions for researchers interested in the application of Altmetrics approaches to studies of monographs are also provided.
The purpose of this paper is to set the scene for further twofold exploratory studies: first, in examining what type of game designs are suitable for digital libraries to motivate both producing and consuming library content in order to offer a personalised experience to using digital libraries, and second, in exploring how to leverage Semantic Web technologies to create personalised digital games (including VR and AR applications) for using digital libraries generated from various open and linked datasets. We are providing an overview of the Towards Semantic Digital Games for Semantic Digital Libraries development of games and semantic technologies as a basis for a better understanding of the role of games in current digital resources provision
National Library “Ivan Vazov” in Plovdiv is the second largest library in Bulgaria. It is established as the second national depository of Bulgarian printed output and has contributed significantly to the preservation of the national cultural and historical heritage. This article offers an overview of the library’s history and current developments in the field of automation and digitization.
The open access (OA) article processing charges (APC) project is a longitudinal study of the minority of fully OA journals (27% in 2016) that have APCs. The global average APC shows little change; in USD, 906 in 2010, 964 in 2016, 974 in 2017. The average masks currency differences and the impact of a growing market; new APC journals often start with an APC of 0. Traditional commercial scholarly publishers are entering the OA market: the largest OA journal publishers’ portfolios in 2017 were Springer, De Gruyter, Elsevier, and Wolters Kluwer Medknow. However, these are a small portion of OA journal publishing which is still marked by a very long tail and extensive involvement by very small, often university or society publishers. APC pricing shows a wide range and variability. The APC market can be described as volatile.
Open Access has matured for journals, but its uptake in the book market is still delayed, despite the fact that books continue to be the leading publishing format for social sciences and humanities. The 30-months EU-funded project HIRMEOS (High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science infrastructure) tackles the main obstacles of the full integration of five important digital platforms supporting open access monographs. The content of participating platforms will be enriched with tools that enable identification, authentication and interoperability (via DOI, ORCID, Fundref), and tools that enrich information and entity extraction (INRIA (N)ERD), the ability to annotate monographs (Hypothes.is), and gather usage and alternative metric data. This paper focuses on the development and implementation of Open Source Metrics Services that enable the collection of OA Metrics and Altmetrics from third-party platforms, and how the architecture of these tools will allow implementation in any external platform, particularly in start-up Open Access publishers.
Sustainability is an essential part of the work of publishers. Here, the view of an open access publisher, MDPI, is presented with regards to sustainability within publishing. MDPI’s understanding of sustainability is given and some of the concrete actions it leads to. These include supporting umbrella initiatives, exploring alternative business and editorial models, elements of open science, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of published content. Our aim is to demonstrate actions that could be taken by other publishers and to invite dialog with the broader research community for how a large open access publisher can contribute to a sustainable knowledge ecosystem.
Anglophone hegemony in knowledge production processes has been long acknowledged. Academic capitalism (Slaughter and Leslie, 2004) and its neoliberal rationalities, the dominant narratives within the colonial ventures, and a dominant and unreflective use of English in the production of textual knowledge have produced uneven structures in the academic publishing space, a homogenization of the concept of ‘international’ (Paasi 2005, 2015; Tietze and Dick, 2013; Peloquin, 2017). The contribution of the present research to this debate is the identification of points of hegemonic disruption in Latin America. We performed a case study on six articles written in Spanish and Portuguese of two Latin American Biotechnology journals with the purpose of identifying their spatial reference pattern. Findings show a high use of references in Spanish and Portuguese (54,31% and 36.49%, respectively. We interpret complex linguistic referencing patterns - this is citing in languages other than English - as an environment that opens meanings and enriches discussion. Moreover, we conceive Latin America as a space of hegemonic struggle against English homogenization in Science, and the SciELO platform as the infrastructure with the potential to (hopefully) transform the current academic status quo.
The current discourse around Open Science has tended to focus on the creation of new technological platforms and tools to facilitate sharing and reuse of a wide range of research outputs. There is an assumption that once these new tools are in place, researchers—and at times, members of the general public—will be able to participate in the creation of scientific knowledge in more accessible and efficient ways. While many of these new tools have indeed assisted in the ease of collaboration through online spaces and mechanisms, the narrowness of how infrastructure is imagined by open science practitioners tends to put the use of technology ahead of the issues that people are actually trying to solve and fails to acknowledge the systemic constraints that exist within and between some communities. Drawing on an analytical framework grounded in Black feminist intersectionality (Noble 2016), this paper highlights the need for more inclusive knowledge infrastructures, particularly in the context of sustainable development. Three case studies from the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet), are outlined in order to illustrate the importance of moving beyond a definition of infrastructure as merely a technical or physical entity. These cases, arising from research conducted in South Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean, demonstrate how more sustainable and nuanced forms of collaboration and participation may be enabled through broader understandings of knowledge infrastructures. This paper further argues that leveraging the feminist concept of intersectionality when conceptualizing the development of knowledge infrastructures could be one way to move from narrow assumptions about standardized knowledge “users” towards more inclusive reimaginings of how knowledges can be produced and shared via networked technologies.
