Scholarly Communications
Recognition.
The Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) recognizes individuals who have used, applied, or remixed scientific research — published through Open Access — to make a difference in science, medicine, business, technology or society as a whole.
For more information: http://asap.plos.org
Timeline:
May 1, 2013 - ASAP Program Launch
May 1 - June 15, 2013 - Nominations Accepted
August 2013 - Finalists Notified
October 21, 2013 - Award Winners Announced
The Royal Society of Chemistry recently launched the Gold for Gold initiative to encourage faculty who publish in RSC journals to make their articles open access. This program offers voucher codes that enable Merced researchers to publish their paper in RSC journals free of charge without paying the normal open access article publication fees.
Publishing open access makes your work easier to find, read and disseminate. We hope faculty will consider taking advantage of this opportunity. Voucher codes are available on a first-come first-served basis and must be used before 12/31/13.
For more information on how to apply for a voucher, please visit the RSC Voucher Web Page.
Questions? Contact Susan Mikkelsen 209-658-1832.
Beginning Tuesday, January 15, 2013, the UC Merced Library will launch a pilot fund to support open access publishing costs. Along with all other UC campus libraries, we are partnering with the California Digital Library (CDL), to assist scholars who do not have other grant funds available to pay for open access publishing fees. The primary goals of the program are to support UC researchers interested in reshaping the current models of scholarly publishing and to foster greater dissemination of the scholarly output of the university. In addition, we hope to educate and encourage scholars about the importance of controlling their own copyright.
The pilot program will be in effect through December 2013, but funds are limited. We encourage authors to submit applications early.
To learn more about open access publishing and how to apply for funding, please visit our Open Access Fund web page.
The UC Merced Library is hosting several events in celebration of Open Access Week 2012:
Monday Oct. 22, 2012
KL 260 (GONELLA ROOM)
1:00pm - 2:30pm
WEB CAST - WORLD BANK OPEN KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY/SPARC
Speakers:
- Michael Carroll, Professor of Law, American University and founding Board Member, Creative Commons
- Matt Cooper, President, The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students
- Maricel Kann, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland and member, PubMed Central National Advisory Committee, NIH.
- Carlos Rossel, Publisher, The World Bank
- Neil Thakur, Special Assistant to the Deputy Director, Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Wednesday Oct. 24, 2012
KL 260 (GONELLA ROOM)
12:00pm - 1:00pm
WORKSHOP: RESOURCES FOR OPEN DATA PRESENTER, SUSAN BORDA, DIGITAL CURATION LIBRARIAN, UC MERCED
Presentation overview:
- Open data
- Open data repositories such as FigShare and Dryad
- Open source science tools: "The OpenScience PROJECT" and ROpenSci
- Open notebook science
Friday Oct. 26, 2012
KL 260 (GONELLA ROOM)
12:00pm - 1:00pm
FACULTY PANEL DISCUSSION : OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
UC Merced faculty Miriam Barlow, Peggy O'Day, Mike Dawson, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, and Interim University Librarian Donald Barclay, will discuss open access publishing considerations for faculty and graduate students and the current issues in scholarly publishing. Find out what these early adopters of open access publishing have to say on this important topic.
Lunch will be provided.
Faculty and graduate students are invited to attend a library-hosted webcast to kick off Open Access Week 2012, Set the Default to Open Access. The webcast is sponsored by the World Bank which recently launched the World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR), and SPARC the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.
Featured Speakers:
- Michael Carroll, Professor of Law, American University and founding Board Member, Creative Commons
- Matt Cooper, President, The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students
- Maricel Kann, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland and member, PubMed Central National Advisory Committee, NIH.
- Carlos Rossel, Publisher, The World Bank
- Neil Thakur, Special Assistant to the Deputy Director, Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The 90-minute panel will be moderated by Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC, with ample time for questions from audience members.
Date: Monday, Oct. 22, 2012
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Location: KL-260
UC Merced scholars are joining the Open Access publishing movement and discovering the benefits of making their research freely available online. As part of Open Access Week programming, the library will host a panel discussion featuring several UC Merced faculty who have published in open access journals. We invite all interested faculty to join us to learn more about this new paradigm in scholarly communications.
Date: Friday October 26, 2012
Time: Noon - 1:00 pm
Location: KL 260 (Gonella Room)
Panel: Peggy O'Day, Mike Dawson, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, Miriam Barlow, Donald Barclay
Lunch will be provided
California college students frustrated with the high cost of textbooks got some good news recently, when Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation for a proposal to create a website where textbooks are available for free. The development of affordable open source textbooks for targeted courses would help students attending California Community Colleges, California State Universities, and University of California campuses.
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As part of the Graduate Student Lyceum Series of workshops, The UC Merced Library will host a session during the first week of April focused on Academic Publishing.
This workshop will focus on what graduate students should consider when submitting research for publication. Journal impact factors as well as other considerations in the publishing process will be covered in this session, as well as benefits of open access models and the ability to maintain rights to your work.
Date: Wednesday, April 4th
Time: 11am to noon
Location: KL371
Presenters: Emily Lin & Susan Mikkelsen, UC Merced Librarians
The debate over open access to federally funded research rages on. The Obama administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy will soon submit a report to Congress on how to deal with the contentious issues of how government-financed scientific research should be disseminated in the digital age.
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In a related turn of events, publishing giant Elsevier has withdrawn it's support for the Research Works Act, a bill that was already essentialy DOA in Congress.
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